Chapter 168

As the order was given, the detachment immediately spread out in a scattered formation, and the soldiers, one by one carrying weapons, rushed to the direction of the gunshot, following captain starcha. The rocket launcher was carried on the right shoulder by a burly soldier with a box of shells under his left armpit. Although the load was not light, he ran very fast and almost always ran in the middle of the whole team.

In my heart, I was sighing at the strength of this soldier. Ramis, who had been standing beside me with a gun, suddenly asked me, "Comrade division, what shall we do?"

"What to do?" I took a puzzled look at him and replied in a very natural tone, "what else can I do? Keep up with them." With that, I followed up with my gun.

It's only 200 meters away from the edge of the forest, but the thick snow has greatly affected my running speed. When I pant out of the forest, the soldiers have already caught fire with the German infantry coming under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles. Without saying a word, I fell on the snow, aimed at the figure in front of me and pulled the trigger.

As soon as I hit half the shuttle, I suddenly heard a strange sound coming. Then a dazzling fire came out not far away. Behind the fire, there was a long white tail smoke. I couldn't help but stop shooting, staring at the flight path of the fire. I saw the fire with long white smoke, in the twilight draw a dazzling beautiful arc, and then straight into the German offensive line. As I watched, the firelight hit a German tank. There was a puff of smoke coming out of the tank. At the same time, a huge fireball rose into the sky, and then a loud explosion was heard. It turned out that the rocket launched by our army accurately hit the German tank.

I looked up to see what the German tanks were like. Without waiting for me to see clearly, someone rushed to me and crushed me on the snow. Caught off guard, I thrust my face into the snow. Fortunately, the snow is relatively deep, otherwise, such a big impact on the ground, certainly broke the appearance.

I raised my head with difficulty. Just as I wanted to scold this reckless guy, I heard a strange sound of "chuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchu.

When everything calmed down, I saw a loaded rocket launcher thrown on the snow, two soldiers who had been beaten by bullets lying in the pool of blood, motionless and dead. Seeing all this, I can't help but feel creepy. What kind of weapon does the German use? How powerful is it?

"Comrade division," as soon as the man on my back began to speak, I immediately recognized that it was Ramis. He moved his body a little, and then said, "this is the mg42 general machine gun of the German army. It has fast firing speed and strong lethality. If anyone is unfortunately hit, he will be shot several times in an instant, and the possibility of survival is very small. A few days ago, on the way of our division's transfer, the 1075 regiment met with the German men equipped with this kind of machine gun. As a result, almost a battalion of soldiers fell under the muzzle of the gun. "

"What?" I'm not a military fan. I don't know what remarkable achievements this kind of machine gun had in World War II. However, when I heard that so many of my subordinates were killed at the muzzle of the gun, I was infuriated. I looked up at the position of the German army and found that the machine gun was mounted on an armored vehicle. The shooter had turned the muzzle to strafe other areas of our army.

I turned to look at the rocket launcher on the snow not far away, put down my submachine gun, took a deep breath, and then rolled to the side. As there were no obstacles such as shrubs in the middle of the snow, I only rolled a few circles and got to the side of the rocket launcher.

I put the rocket launcher over my shoulder, but without getting up, I fell on the ground, pointed it in the direction of the armored car, and pulled the trigger. The rocket dragged a long white smoke to the German line, and I didn't care to check the results. I threw the rocket to the side, and then quickly rolled to my position.

Just rolled back to the original position, there was a violent explosion. I didn't know that I was blind. I hit the armored car accurately when I met a dead mouse.

"Good job, sir." Lying on the side of the snow, Ramis sincerely praised me.

Without waiting for me to be modest, there were continuous explosions and bursts of screams in front of me. When I looked up, it turned out that the ammunition in the armored car was killed, which made the German soldiers beside the car cry.

"Brothers, follow me With captain starcha's voice, more than a dozen soldiers in white camouflage clothes stood nearby and rushed towards the enemy with weapons.

I wanted to rush up with them, but I saw that there were only seven or eight figures shaking beside the burning tanks and armored vehicles. The captain was able to cope with them, so he stopped after a few steps. Ramis, who is responsible for protecting my safety, asked strangely, "Comrade division, why don't you rush?"

I looked at the captain and their battle with the German army, and I answered lightly, "no, these German guys, Captain, they can easily get rid of them." In fact, I was saying in my heart that the battle was almost over. If I rushed forward rashly and was killed by a stray bullet, I would be wronged enough. It would be safer to stand here and watch the battle.

There was no suspense in the battle. After the detachment rushed up, the German soldiers who had not been knocked down raised their hands and surrendered one after another.

I was about to go with Ramis when I saw captain starcha coming with the messenger in a hurry. A few steps away from me, he cried anxiously: "Comrade commander, no, something's wrong!"

Listening to him shouting like this, my heart could not help sinking and said in secret: is there something wrong with rokosovsky? He quickly stepped forward, grabbed the clothes on his shoulder and asked nervously, "what's the matter? What's the matter? "

The captain bowed his head and answered in a low voice: "I just received a report from the parachute that several destroyed black cars were found on the roadside, and most of the commanders in the cars were killed."

Although I was worried, I still kept a little sober. I heard that most of the commanders died, not all of them. So I was lucky to ask: "so where is the commander who was rescued?"

"Parachute, they are rescuing. They should be able to save lives."

"Take me to have a look!" I grabbed his clothes and couldn't help but want to lead him.

The captain carefully removed my hand from his clothes, and then said, "follow me!"

Following the captain, they walked about a few hundred meters to the edge of the village. When I saw a group of people coming from the opposite side, I instinctively raised the gun. When the captain saw my action, he quickly grasped the muzzle of the gun, gently pulled it aside, and kindly reminded me, "Comrade commander, please don't be nervous. It's your own man."

After we joined the group of soldiers, an officer came out from the other side and reported the situation to the captain, while I was looking around to see where the destroyed car was. Maybe it was blocked by the surrounding buildings. I didn't see anything.

Looking from east to west, Captain starcha brought the commander to me and said, "this is my company commander. He is in charge of the area near peshki village."

After listening to the captain's introduction of his identity, the commander came forward to salute me. When he was about to report his position, rank and name according to the regulations, I impolitely interrupted him: "Comrade commander, I want to ask you, isn't there a tank with a regiment and a unit stationed in the village? Where did they go when the battle happened? "

The commander's eyes turned to the captain next to him. Seeing that he nodded, he answered me: "originally, there were troops transferred from the reserve in the village, but they left early this morning. It seems that the defense line in some place is tight and they need reinforcement; As for the tank unit, after lunch, except for the one left on guard, all the others left. Later, I heard a soldier say that these tanks seem to be going to other places to replenish fuel. "

I heard him say fraught with grim possibilities. It's really not a good idea to calculate the weather. It's hard for Stalin to send a regiment of troops here. I didn't expect it to be late. It was just before the enemy moved to attack that Rokossovski was a lot of less. But I still took a chance and asked, "I heard that you saved several commanders. Where are they now?"

"I've put them in a house nearby." The commander glanced at the captain next to me again, then took his side and politely said to me, "Comrade commander, please follow me. I'll take you to see them."

The residence for the commander of the 16th army is not far away. It's only 20 or 30 meters away. I saw two soldiers standing guard at the gate. When we walked past, the soldiers immediately stood at attention and saluted. I didn't care to return the gift. I pushed the door open and went in. In the dimly lit room, there was a large wooden table, surrounded by seven or eight dejected officers. I went in, did not wait to see the face clearly, anxiously asked aloud: "who is the commander of the highest rank?"

"Rita!" A familiar voice suddenly appeared“ Is that you? "

It sounded familiar, like the voice of Colonel marinin, chief of staff of the group army. I hastened to ask, "Colonel marinin?"

"It's me, Rita." Marinin got up from the table, grabbed me by the shoulder with both hands, shook me hard and said, "something's wrong, something's wrong!"

It wasn't long before the wound on my shoulder healed, but I couldn't stand the old man's shaking. So I grabbed his hand and asked with concern, "what's the matter? Chief of staff, don't worry. Speak slowly. "

He replied with a cry: "when we were moving, we were attacked by German tanks and the motorcade was scattered. Fortunately, we met the airborne soldiers, who destroyed the enemy's tanks, destroyed the infantry, and saved several of us. But when I went to look for it, I found that the commander's car had been destroyed. "

"You mean the commander has been killed?" I asked this question carefully. We should know that rokosovsky is an important figure. If he died at this time, the whole history of the patriotic war will change greatly.

"We only found the bodies of the guard and the driver in the car, not the commander. I don't know whether he was captured or escaped to the woods. "

"Comrade chief of staff," I heard that rokosovsky's body had not been found, so I felt more secure. I quickly comforted him and said, "don't worry. All the enemies who have come here should be eliminated, and the possibility that the commander has been captured can be ruled out. According to my guess, he should have seen the danger, abandoned his car and fled to the forest. " After that, I turned and asked captain starcha, "Comrade battalion commander, how many people do you still have?" The captain cried and said, "there were more than 150 people, but more than 60 soldiers were killed in the battle just now, and there were more than a dozen wounded. Only about 70 people could be used." There are only over 70 people. There are really few people to search such a large forest outside the village, but they can't transfer people from other places in a hurry. Just when I was in a dilemma, the walkie talkie brought by the captain suddenly rang. The signalman had a chat with the other party, and then handed the headset and microphone to the captain. The captain listened for a moment, and then told me, "Comrade commander, a convoy has come to the north of the village. The soldiers in charge of the guard have come forward to check. Are they our own troops?" Before he could speak, marinin cut in and asked, "is it the army that used to guard the village?"“ No, comrade colonel The captain gave him a negative answer. Then he looked at me and said, "they said they were from 1077 regiment of the eighth division of the guards. They were ordered to protect you from going back to the division headquarters." How could they know I was here? I turned my puzzled eyes to Ramis. Seeing that I had noticed him, Ramis stepped forward and explained to me in a low voice, "I'm afraid you might be in danger, so when grissa left just now, I motioned him to go back and bring someone to protect you." After hearing that, I understood why grissa and I had such strange facial expressions when they drove away. But now I need people. The arrival of these soldiers can solve my big problems. So I told captain starcha, "Comrade captain, let your soldiers bring the convoy here." Kung Fu is not big, I heard the sound of a car coming, then said: "the car is coming, I'll go and have a look." Just out of the door, a motorcade came slowly and stopped a few steps away from me. I looked at it carefully. Except for the jeep in front, there were seven trucks with awning in the back. After the car stopped, two people jumped from the jeep and ran towards us. Although it was dark, I could see that one of them was grissa, who broke up an hour ago, and the other was a major. They came to me and stood at attention to salute. Grissa said, "Comrade division commander, driver grissa reports to you. On the order of general leviagin and political commissar, I will bring troops to meet you at the division headquarters."“ I'll talk about going back to the division headquarters later, "and I turned to the major. Seeing that I was staring at myself, the major was a little nervous. He quickly reported to me, "Comrade division commander, major of the first battalion of the 1077th infantry regiment..." before he finished, I interrupted him and asked seriously, "Comrade major, how many people have you brought?" The major didn't expect me to be so open-minded. After a pause, he replied, "there are 193 people in the whole battalion." A battalion? I can't help sighing again. The cruelty of the battle can be seen from the severe casualties. But I soon stabilized my mood and gave him an order: "Comrade major, general rokosovsky, commander of the group army, is missing. You immediately order the soldiers to get out of the car and work in groups of five to search in the forest outside the village."“ Yes He promised to turn around and run“ Wait a minute, "I stopped him and told him," search carefully, live to see people, even if the commander died, we should carry his body back. Do you understand? "“ got it. Sir, please rest assured that I will complete the task. " Then he saluted, turned and ran to the motorcade. Soon his voice rang from the other side of the motorcade: "the whole battalion has it. Follow my orders and get off!"