Sokov saw a lieutenant wearing a pilot's hat limping over with the support of two soldiers. He hurriedly approached him and asked at the same time: "Comrade Lieutenant, are you from the Front Army Headquarters?" Staff officer?"
The staff officer saw that the question he was asking was a captain. With the help of two soldiers, he straightened up and replied: "Yes, I am Lieutenant Fei Daoqi, the combat staff officer of the front army headquarters."
"Hello, Lieutenant Fedoch." Sokov stretched out his hand to the other party and said friendly: "I am Captain Sokov, the commander of the Istria Battalion. I am here to look for you on orders from my superiors." After he looked Fei Daoqi up and down, he frowned and asked, "Is your leg injured?"
"That's right." Fei Daoqi said with a wry smile, "When the plane made an emergency landing, I injured my leg."
"Comrade Battalion Commander," just as Sokov was asking Xiangfei Daochi to learn about the plane crash, he suddenly heard Zheliya shouting from the side: "The Germans are coming up."
The enemies besieging Grisa's reconnaissance team came from the north and south. The enemy attacking from the north had been defeated after being suddenly attacked by Sokov and others; while the enemy from the south was unscathed. They heard the intensive gunshots here and knew something was wrong with the friendly forces, so they sped up. The footsteps are coming this way.
Seeing that the Germans outnumbered him, Sokov quickly ordered Grisa: "Grisa, Lieutenant Fedoch is injured in his leg. You and your reconnaissance team will retreat first with him. You go four to five hundred meters northwest." meters, you can find Asiya and the two sleds, ask her to briefly treat the lieutenant’s injuries, and then you can leave quickly on the sled.”
Grisa had been getting along with Sokov for a long time, and knew that he didn't like anyone to bargain with him after giving an order, so he simply agreed, led his men, and helped Lieutenant Fedoch towards the location where the sled was parked. And go.
Looking at Grisa's leaving figure, Sokov felt a little puzzled: In yesterday's telegram, he didn't say that there were only two people left in the reconnaissance team, but why is it now full of people?
However, Sokov soon put this matter behind him. He raised his binoculars to observe the slowly approaching German soldiers, thinking silently: the enemy's total strength on both sides was almost sixty, but he only had A dozen people can only use stepped resistance to consume their effective strength and strive to lead the troops to retreat.
Thinking of this, Sokov said to Zheliya: "Sergeant Zheliya, take a machine gun, two sharpshooters and two submachine gunners, and establish a backup position two hundred meters behind us. Wait for me You provide us with covering fire while we retreat. Do you understand?"
"Understood!" Zheliya agreed, and rushed to the location designated by Sokov with five soldiers to set up defenses.
"Comrades," Sokov ordered the remaining soldiers after Zheliya and the others left: "Machine guns and submachine guns will shoot at the charging infantry, and sharpshooters will be responsible for eliminating their commanders or machine gunners. Do you understand? "
"Understood!" the surrounding soldiers replied loudly.
Lying in the snow behind the bushes, Sokov watched the German troops form a sparse skirmish line, holding weapons and bending over, and cautiously moving towards his position. He was deeply afraid that some soldiers would lose their composure and shoot when the enemy was still two or three hundred meters away, so he whispered to the soldiers next to him: "Pass this down, no one is allowed to shoot without my order." .The sound of my gun was the signal. As soon as I heard the sound of my gun, everyone immediately opened fire."
The German army set up two machine guns two hundred meters away from the Soviet army, pointing directly at Sokov and his hiding place. Sokov calmly looked at the German soldiers who were slowly approaching while dodging under the cover of trees.
. One hundred meters, ninety meters, eighty meters...seeing the Germans getting closer and closer, but Sokov has not yet given the order to fire, etc., the soldiers were a little restless, and they all turned their attention to Sokov. Cove. Oleg reminded Sokov in a low voice: "Comrade Battalion Commander, the enemy is only sixty meters away from us."
"Wait a moment," Sokov said, staring at a German second lieutenant walking at the front, "wait until they get closer."
When the Germans were still more than thirty meters away, Sokov felt it was time to fire, so he decisively pulled the trigger on the German second lieutenant and fired a short burst. At the moment when the bullet came out of the chamber, the German second lieutenant, who kept making evasive movements, ducked behind a tree, causing all the bullets fired by Sokov to miss.
Seeing that his bullet did not hit the target, Sokov angrily cursed: "Hell!" Just as he was about to shoot again, he saw the second lieutenant who had just poked his head out from behind the tree, and a bloody arrow suddenly shot out of his head. Then he fell crookedly into the snow. Then, there was a loud sound of gunfire around Sokov, and the fierce gunfire echoed in the forest. The German soldiers at the front fell one after another in the snow, and the remaining people hid behind the trees in panic, heading towards where the Soviet troops were. Position for blind shooting.
The German machine guns opened fire in the distance, and the machine gunners tried to suppress the Soviet troops with firepower, covering their companions and continuing to rush forward. But unfortunately, what they encountered was not the Soviet army they were familiar with. The opponent did not engage in meaningless shooting with them, but used sharpshooters to kill them one by one.
The machine gunner was shot in the head, his body was shaken, and he lay motionless on the machine gun. The deputy shooter quickly removed his body, lay down in the shooting position, and pulled the trigger desperately. But just after firing a few bullets, he was also hit by bullets flying from a distance, and fell silently next to the shooter.
The German machine guns were mute, and seeing their companions around them constantly falling to the Soviet guns, the remaining soldiers felt extremely frightened. After firing a few shots at random, they turned around and ran back. . Seeing that the enemy had escaped, Sokov did not order the soldiers to chase him. Instead, he stood up and used the submachine gun in his hand to shoot at the backs of the fleeing enemies.
Seeing that the German army was retreating, Oleg excitedly proposed to Sokov: "Comrade Battalion Commander, the enemy has escaped, let's catch up and kill them without leaving a single piece of armor behind!"
"No, we can't pursue." Even though more than thirty German soldiers fell under the gun, Sokov was not arrogant enough to believe that he could easily eliminate the remaining enemies with just a dozen of his men. . If the battle cannot be resolved in a short time, and nearby enemies are ushered in, it will be difficult to escape. After calmly analyzing the current situation, he decisively ordered: "Withdraw, immediately withdraw to the reserve position."
Looking at the defeated German troops fleeing further and further away, Oleg sighed regretfully and shouted to the soldiers beside him: "Withdraw!"
When the troops led by Sokov and Oleg had just retreated to the reserve position established by Zhelia, everyone suddenly heard the whistling of mortar shells in the air. A moment later, the area where they had fought was shrouded in German artillery fire.
Looking at the fireball rising in the distance and hearing the deafening explosion, Oleg was trembling in his heart. He glanced at Sokov next to him gratefully, and thought happily: "The battalion commander is still wise. If he hadn't ordered us to withdraw, now it would be us who would be hit by German shells."
