As soon as the soldier leading the team raised his head and wanted to call other comrades to rush forward with him, he was hit by bullets fired at him at the same time. A 792mm Mauser rifle bullet easily penetrated the steel helmet he was wearing. , got in from the forehead, and flew out from the back of the head with a blood line. The huge momentum of the bullet caused his head to jerk back. He held his head high for a moment, then plunged forward into the snow.
In the distance, Pavel saw the sacrifice of a company of soldiers, and the path forward of the soldiers was blocked by dense bullets. He knew that if he continued to fight like this, the entire army would easily be wiped out, so he quickly blew his whistle and used The whistle sounded to notify the soldiers of the first and second companies to withdraw immediately.
The first to hear the whistle was the soldiers of the company closest to Pavel. Upon hearing the order to retreat, the two surviving soldiers hurriedly rolled and crawled back. One of them asked Pavel loudly: "Comrade Corporal, our mission has not been completed yet, why should we withdraw?"
"The enemy's fire blockade is too tight. Even if you are all dead, you can't rush through." Pavel said angrily: "As soon as the soldiers of the second company withdraw, we will retreat."
After hearing what Pavel said, the soldier couldn't help but asked in surprise: "But our mission has not been completed yet. What should we do if our superiors blame us?"
"Don't worry about this." When Pavel blew the whistle to notify the first and second companies to retreat, he had already secretly made up his mind: "If the superiors want to blame, I will bear all the responsibilities. Even if it means going to a military court. , I will admit that I will be shot." Then he ordered the machine gunner next to him, "Use firepower to cover the soldiers of the second company to withdraw."
After hearing Pavel's order, the soldiers in the machine gun company immediately changed the direction of the machine gun fire. The two machine guns formed a crossfire, strafing the German infantry's charge formation, covering Christopher and his companions' retreat.
With the help of machine gun cover, Christopher successfully retreated with three soldiers. He lay down next to Pavel, and while shooting at the approaching German troops, he asked loudly: "Comrade Corporal, why haven't you blown up the cannon yet?"
"It probably can't be exploded." After Pavel raised his gun and knocked down a German soldier who was charging from a distance, he explained to Christopher: "The artillery position is too tightly defended and a company of soldiers cannot rush up. Our actions It has been exposed, and a large number of enemies are rushing towards us. If we stay any longer, the entire army will be destroyed. Christopher, I will cover you, and you can retreat first with the comrades of the first and second companies!"
"Comrade Corporal," Christopher said with some reluctance when he heard Pavel ordering him to retreat: "It's better that you lead the people to retreat first, and I will stay to cover you."
"This is an order!" Pavel ordered Christopher in a stern tone, "Quickly retreat!"
"Yes!" Christopher agreed, and then said loudly: "Soldiers from the first and second companies, withdraw with me!"
After the German infantry and artillery merged into one place, they used several machine guns to suppress the cannon battery. The infantry spread out a sparse formation, leaping forward in a short distance, and rushed towards Pavel and the others who were behind. Pavel and the others only had two machine guns, four submachine guns, and two rifles. It was obviously impossible to completely block a front that was hundreds of meters wide, so they could only attack the enemies at the front first.
Pavel heard that a machine gun that was shooting next to him suddenly stopped moving. He quickly took advantage of the opportunity to change the magazine and quickly turned around and saw that the machine gunner was already lying on the machine gunner. He must have been hit by the German bullets. Hit. The deputy shooter pushed his body away, adjusted the angle, and started shooting at the enemy again.
The two machine guns of the machine gun battery caused seventy or eighty casualties to the German army in just ten minutes. In order to eliminate this threat, the German commander not only arranged a sniper to deal with them, but also concentrated all machine guns to suppress them and shoot at them.
The deputy shooter had just finished shooting an ammunition chain and was waiting for the ammunition handler next to him to change the ammunition chain. Then a string of flying machine gun bullets opened the sky cover, and the red and white stuff splashed on the faces of Pavel and the ammunition handler. . After the ammunition hand changed the ammunition chain, he wiped his face, gritted his teeth, and fired wildly at the rushing German soldiers.
Pavel held his submachine gun expressionlessly and kept firing short bursts, knocking down the enemies who rushed up one after another. Although the bullets fired by the enemy kept hitting the snow around him, splashing countless snow powder, he did not move, he just kept shooting.
When the machine gun fire around him stopped again, Pavel found that the ammunition hand had also been killed by German bullets, and there were only two seriously injured people alive around him. They were lying on the snow and could not move at all, let alone He said he was going to operate the machine gun. Pavel threw the empty submachine gun onto the snow, rolled sideways, pushed away the ammunition hand's body, pulled out the machine gun, repositioned it, and started shooting at the Germans again.
He had just knocked down two German soldiers who had rushed less than ten meters away from him, when he suddenly felt a heat on the right side of his face, and then his eyesight went dark, and he fell next to the machine gun. His coma lasted only about ten seconds. The severe pain from his face made him wake up. He raised his hand and touched his face and found that his hand was covered with blood.
He wanted to keep shooting, but he couldn't lift his head. He reached out and touched a grenade stuck on his belt, gently unscrewed the cap, put his little finger on the ring, and prepared to pull the string when the Germans rushed over and die with them.
Seeing that the Soviet shooting suddenly stopped, the Germans slowed down and cautiously walked towards Pavel's position with their guns in hand. Listening to the footsteps of the Germans getting closer and closer, Pavel exerted a little force on his fingers to tighten the string of the grenade. He only waited for the Germans to come to him and immediately pulled the string.
But at this moment, he suddenly remembered the sound of intensive machine gun fire. The German soldiers who had been approaching him were shot one after another in the sound of gunfire, and fell down in the snow. "What's going on with this gunfire? Where did so many machine guns come from? Could it be that our reinforcements have arrived?" This was Pavel's last feeling before he lost consciousness.
The German soldiers were blinded, but they soon discovered that this powerful machine gun fire came from the north. The German commander thought to himself: What on earth is going on? Have the Russians on the highlands come down? Also, how come they have so many G34 machine guns? Before he could make any decision, he heard the sound of "Ula" muffled by the sound of machine gun fire from the distance.
"No, the Russian army is coming!" When the German commander heard the sound of "Ula", he immediately had this idea. He quickly ordered: "Retreat, retreat quickly!"
