After the truck drove far away, Aino looked at the intersection more than 30 meters away and saw a fortification made of sandbags. Two machine gunners stood in the sandbag fortifications, looking at the place and chatting quietly. In the middle of the road, there were several wooden fences with barbed wire, leaving only a place for personnel to pass. Behind them were seven or eight German soldiers, who occasionally checked the personnel passing through the barricade fortifications and asked them to show their documents.
Aino leaned closer to Grissa and whispered: "Comrade Lieutenant, the driver just asked me when I would leave the town. I was worried that he would leak our whereabouts to the SS, so he lied to him that today's patrol mission had been completed and there was no need to leave the town again."
"You did it right, comrade Corporal." Grissa praised Aino and reminded the soldiers who surrounded him: "Comrades, we have come to the middle of the enemy. In order to avoid exposing our identities, except for Corporal Aino, the rest of the comrades should not speak, and use gestures to communicate if there is anything."
"I understand!" the soldiers replied neatly in a low voice.
"Start!" Grissa said in a low voice: "Continue to patrols disguised as Germans, find ways to search for the targets we are going to attack through the barricades in front."
In order to make the reconnaissance team look more like the German patrol, he also whispered to Aino: "Comrade Corporal, you are now a German lieutenant. Remember to walk with your hands behind your back, lower your hat brim, and raise your chin to look arrogant. Later, you will find a way to distract the German soldiers and allow us to enter the town smoothly."
Aino followed Grissa's instructions and immediately put the style of the German lieutenant. He swaggered to the barricade fortification, pointed at the two machine gunners through the sandbag, and said bluntly: "Private, are you on duty here, or are you here for vacation?"
The two machine gunners did not expect that the second lieutenant who had just come from outside the town would question himself in public, and quickly straightened his body and replied: "Report to Mr. Lieutenant, we are on duty."
"On duty?" Aino sneered and said, "But I think you are chatting. If the Russians rushed to you at this time, you would probably not be able to come back."
The soldiers on duty at the intersection originally saw a second lieutenant coming over with a patrol team and were about to investigate, but the other party took the initiative and criticized the machine gunner for not being serious about duty. The responsible sergeant hurriedly walked to Aino and smiled at him and said, "Mr. Lieutenant, they are all in their own positions. Even if they are chatting, it will not affect their duty..."
"What did you say?" Aino interrupted him without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, and took out a small notebook from his pocket and asked in a pretentious manner: "What's your name? Which unit is it? I want to report your behavior to my superiors so that they know how our soldiers neglect their duties when they are on duty..."
The soldiers who were on duty at the intersection saw a strange lieutenant scolding his sergeant and machine gunner, and they didn't bother to check Grissa and their documents, and they all stretched their necks to watch the fun. Seeing that no one was checking, Grissa and the others quickly took the opportunity to pass the barricade and continued to walk along the street.
Aino saw Grissa and the others had passed the barricade successfully, and after recording the names of the sergeant and the machine gunner, he closed the book and pretended to be serious and said to them: "Go back immediately, report your behavior to your superiors today, and let him detain you for two days. I will ask about this matter again when the right time." After that, he ignored the stupid sergeant and the machine gunner, staggered across the barricade with his hands behind his back to chase the reconnaissance team in front.
Grissa walked at the front of the entire group. He looked around while walking. With his years of experience in the army and the keen observation of a soldier, Grissa found that the town had become a huge military camp. In addition to barricades, sandbags were also piled on windows of many buildings on the side of the road, and machine guns were installed. When attacked, three-dimensional cross-fire could be formed to block the streets. Seeing this, Grissa couldn't help but think in his heart: I really didn't expect that the enemy's defense in the town would be so strict. If there were no new rockets, they could only rely on troops to attack. If they wanted to take down the town, at least a regiment of troops would be needed.
The more we walked forward, the more German soldiers we encountered, and even two real patrol teams were encountered. Fortunately, the other party regarded Grissa and the others as real patrol teams. Not only did they not come to investigate, but they also waved to this side.
The reconnaissance team was approaching the church square in the center of the town, but was blocked by the roadblocks in front. In addition to barricades and machine gun fire points, the SS were actually the ones in charge of guarding this area. Behind them, several tanks were parked, and the black muzzles pointed to the direction Grissa and the others came.
Seeing that the SS was guarding the intersection ahead, Grissa knew that he could not move forward any further, otherwise he would be able to see through his identity. He quickly coughed softly and signaled that Eno should not move forward. Eno, who understood it, quickly stopped and raised his hand to signal everyone to stop.
After the team stopped, Aino took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, shook one out and held it in his mouth. Grissa quickly took out a match to light it for him. At the same time, he said in a low voice: "Comrade Corporal, pay attention to the situation in the church square!"
Aino nodded softly, stood up straight, pretending to be careless, and looked towards the church square dozens of meters away. He saw green ammunition boxes piled up like a hill. The Germans might think that this place would not be attacked, and they were not even disguised, and they were piled directly on the open space of the square. From time to time, cars drove into the square from other directions and saw a car coming. The soldiers responsible for loading and unloading immediately stepped forward and unloaded ammunition from the fully loaded ammunition truck; or they put the ammunition on the ground and brought them to the empty truck that came to pull ammunition.
After confirming the enemy's ammunition storage location, Anno's mouth showed a sneer, and he whispered to Grissa: "Comrade Lieutenant, the enemy's ammunition is stored in the open air. As long as the new rocket we fired has a target, it can completely destroy this ammunition reservoir."
Although I had seen that the German ammunition was stored in open air, how much ammunition was stored here could not be seen clearly due to angle problems. Therefore, Grissa was silent for a moment and said to Aino in a low voice: "We go to other directions in the town to find ways to figure out how much ammunition the German army had stored in the square."
In response to Grissa's order, Aino nodded, threw the unsmoked cigarettes on the ground, crushed them with his toes, and then led the reconnaissance team into a nearby alley, preparing to walk around the square to figure out how large the enemy's open ammunition depot is.
They walked through the buildings around the square, trying to find a high place to see how much ammunition the Germans had piled up on the square. Then after walking around the town for a long time, Grissa found that he had thought the problem too simply. The SS, who was responsible for guarding the open ammunition depot, had guards in the buildings that could clearly see the whole picture of the square. When Grissa and the others approached, they immediately waved their hands to leave.
Seeing that it was impossible to observe the situation in the square, Aino asked Grissa for advice: "Comrade Lieutenant, what should we do next? Should we continue to circle around the square?"
Grissa shook his head and said, "The SS is too careful around the square, so we can't get close to the square at all. If we continue to move, it may arouse the enemy's suspicion. I think it's better to find a way to leave here first."
Since he decided to return to the hidden place, the group turned around and walked back. When Aino saw that there were no enemies nearby, he murmured in a low voice: "Comrade Lieutenant, if I had known, I would have asked the German driver to wait for us. It would be much easier to leave the town like this."
"Even if the German driver was willing to carry us, he could not take his car anymore." Grissa reminded Aino: "That car is used to get supplies, and it must be full of goods when returning. There are so many of us who can't get there."
"That's true." After hearing what Grissa said, Aino felt that this was indeed the case. He nodded and then asked Grissa: "Comrade Lieutenant, how can we go back? It's almost ten kilometers from the town to the place where we hide. When we walk back, it's probably dark. After we go back, we don't even have time to rest, so we have to come back and attack the enemy's ammunition depot."
Grissa looked at the German officers and soldiers walking on both sides of the street, wondering in his heart whether he should go somewhere to get a car, get some documents, and then drive the car and leave the town in a swagger?
Just as Grissa was in trouble, several trucks stopped beside the reconnaissance team. A familiar voice came from the bridge of the first car: "Hey, lieutenant, what are you doing?"
Aino looked up and found that it was the convoy that transported ammunition. The person who asked about the German lieutenant sitting in the bridge. At this moment, the carriage was empty, and the ammunition had probably been unloaded in the open ammunition depot in the square. He quickly approached the car and said to the lieutenant with a smile: "Mr. Lieutenant, we are ordered to go outside the city to carry out the mission. The road we have to go a little far. The soldiers stopped to rest and prepared to continue to set off."
"Where do you go?" Perhaps because you had fought side by side with the guerrillas, the lieutenant was very friendly to Aino, the fake German lieutenant. "What can I do to serve you?"
"It's the place where we were attacked today." Hearing the lieutenant say this, Ainor suddenly had an idea and decided to use the other party's help to leave the town as soon as possible: "If your convoy can take us a section, it would be great."
When he heard that Aino and his friends were going to the attack site to carry out their mission, the German lieutenant said carelessly: "All acquaintances, don't be polite, get in the car." As he said that, he raised his hand and pushed the corporal sitting by the door, "Corporate, go to the car behind and make a mistake for the lieutenant."
"No need, Mr. Lieutenant." Aino quickly raised his hand to stop the corporal. He held the car door and raised his head to the lieutenant and said, "I'd better sit in the car with my soldiers." The reason why Aino said this was because he was considering that if he sat with the German lieutenant, if he kept asking himself questions, he might get into trouble. If the German corporal was sitting in the carriage with Grissa and others who didn't understand German, he would have a chance to see the flaw in five minutes. It is precisely because of this that he strongly demanded to sit in the carriage.
When the German corporal heard Aino say this, he quickly turned his head and looked at his commander to see how he made a decision. The German lieutenant saw that Aino was going to sit in the back car with his subordinates, he hesitated for a moment and agreed to his request.
Chapter completed!