When he heard that the enemy sentry was found in front of him, the carriage immediately became quiet. Tavlin approached Goria's ear and whispered: "Comrade Battalion Commander, since there is only one sentry, why not kill him."
"No," Goria denied Tafflin's proposal without hesitation: "There is only one sentinel in our sight. Who knows where and whether there are secret whistles nearby. Once the target is exposed, our mission will fail." After saying this to Tafflin, he ordered the driver, "Continue to drive forward!"
The German sentry standing in the middle of the road saw an armored vehicle heading towards his position, and quickly raised his right hand to signal to stop. Goria quickly ordered the driver in a low voice: "Driver, stop the car and see what he is going to do?"
As soon as the driver stopped the armored vehicle, the German sentry came over with a gun. He came to the side of the armored vehicle, looked up at the commanders and fighters in the vehicle, and asked loudly: "Which part of you are from? Are you going to the place?"
Goria pushed Taflin with his hand and signaled him to deal with the German soldier. Taflin, wearing the German lieutenant uniform, stood up, held the carriage with his head down and said, "We are from the 100th Hunter Division and are carrying out a special mission."
Maybe it was a long time since the Soviet army had a sneak attack. The German sentry was relatively low in vigilance. Hearing Taflin say this, he waved his hand and let it go without even checking his ID.
As the armored vehicle continued to move forward, Tavlin suddenly found a sandbag fortification on both sides of the road, with machine guns on it. The shooter's hand was placed on the trigger, and his eyes moved with the movement of the armored vehicle. Seeing this scene, Tavlin couldn't help but be scared and sweated. He thought to himself: It's so lingering. If the battalion commander really listened to his opinion and killed the sentry, the machine gun hidden on both sides of the road might have been shooting wildly at the armored vehicle.
After not seeing the two machine gun fortifications, Tavlin raised his hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said to Goria with lingering fear: "Comrade Battalion Commander, fortunately you were calm and did not let us kill that German soldier, otherwise you would have had a fire with the enemy now."
"Comrades," Goria saw that he had entered the German defense line at this moment, and felt that he needed to say a few words, so he lowered his voice and said, "We have gone deep behind enemy lines. We must always be vigilant to avoid exposure to ensure that the tasks assigned to us by our superiors can be completed smoothly. Do you understand?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a deliberate voice sounded around him: "I understand, Comrade Battalion Commander."
The German regiment command post was set up in a small village with only fifty families. When it was four or five kilometers away from the village, Goria ordered the driver to slow down, stand in the carriage, raise his telescope and look into the distance. With the help of the moonlight, he clearly saw that the center of the village in the distance was brightly lit, which should be the location of the German command.
"Comrade Battalion Commander," Tavlin couldn't help but ask curiously when he saw Goria holding up a telescope, "Comrade Battalion Commander, have you seen clearly where the enemy's command is?"
While continuing to observe, Goria said, "I only saw a few wooden houses in the middle of the village were brightly lit, but I couldn't see which one was the command center."
Just when Goria felt embarrassed, Minishki, an artillery soldier who was on the rocket launch mission, suddenly said: "Comrade Battalion Commander, can I come and have a look?"
"Can you find out where the enemy's command is?" Although Goriya was suspicious of Minishki's statement, considering that he would aim and launch later, he handed him the telescope in his hand: "Okay, Comrade Minishki, come and try it."
Minishki took the telescope from Goria's hand, looked at the village in the distance for a short time, and said, "Comrade Battalion Commander, I have found the location of the German Command."
"What, you found it so soon?" Goria asked in surprise: "I saw five or six wooden houses with lights on, and you could find it so soon?"
"Yes, comrade battalion commander," Minishki said in a affirmative tone: "It is very easy to find the enemy's command. You only need to see which wooden house has an antenna on the roof and whether there are sentries standing guard at the door."
"It is probably difficult to prove that the German commander is in that room just by these two points." Goria was skeptical of Minishki's statement: "If the enemy had a separate communication room, there would be an antenna on the roof, and sentries would be arranged at the door to stand guard."
"Apart from the two points I just said," Minishki continued without putting down his telescope, "I saw a motorcycle with a standby parked in front of the wooden house on the left. After an officer with a large brimmed hat got off the standby, he was checked by the sentry at the door before entering the wooden house."
After Minishki explained, Goria immediately determined that the room must be where the German commander was. He asked tentatively: "Minishki, are you sure you hit the target at such a distance?"
"Comrade Battalion Commander, if we have more rockets and at such a distance, I will be sure to destroy the target." Minishki put down his telescope and frowned and said, "But we only have four rockets. If we want to destroy the target, we must be closer to the village."
The reason why Goriya wanted Minishki to destroy the target four or five kilometers away was because he found that there were many German patrols near the village, worried that it would be difficult to get out of the village once it was discovered by the enemy. Hearing Minishki say this, he had to reconsider Sokov's order and fire rockets at the enemy's command one or two kilometers away from the village.
Thinking of this, Goria said to the driver: "Continue to drive towards the village. When it is one or two kilometers away, find a hidden place to stop the car. Do you understand?"
"I understand, Comrade Battalion Commander." The driver replied.
The armored vehicle drove forward for a distance and stopped in a small wood on the side of the road. The driver said to Goria: "Comrade Battalion Commander, if you drive forward, there will be no cover and it will be easily discovered by the enemy."
"Minishki," Goria saw that the distance was almost the same, so he asked Minishki: "We are here to establish a launch position."
Everyone got out of the carriage, found a flat position, and helped to put the two launch tubes on a special tripod. After erecting the launch tubes, Minishki came to determine the target. After aiming at the wooden house in the distance, soldiers helped to load the rocket into the launch tube.
Seeing that Minishki was ready for launch, Goria waved his hand down and shouted: "Start!"
Chapter completed!