The soldier who led the team raised his head and wanted to invite other comrades to rush forward with him, he was hit by the bullets shot towards him at the same time. A 7.92mm Mauser rifle bullet easily penetrated the steel helmet he was wearing, drilled in from his forehead, and flew out from the back of his head with a bloodline. The huge impact of the bullet made his head suddenly raise his head back, and his head raised continued for a moment, and then he plunged into the snow head forward.
Bavel in the distance saw the soldiers who led the team died, and the way the soldiers advanced was blocked by dense bullets. He knew that if he continued to fight like this, it would be easy for the entire army to be destroyed, so he quickly blew the whistle hard and notified the first company with the whistle. The soldiers of the second company immediately retreated.
The first person to hear the whistle was the soldier closest to Bavel. Hearing the order to retreat, the two surviving soldiers hurriedly rolled and crawled back. One of them asked loudly at Bavel: "Comrade Corporal, our mission has not been completed yet, why should we withdraw?"
"The enemy's firepower blockade is too tight. Even if you all die, you can't rush over." Bavel said in a muffled voice: "When the warriors of the Second Company retreat, we will retreat."
After hearing Bavel's words, the soldier couldn't help but ask in surprise: "But our mission has not been completed yet. What should we do if our superiors blame him?"
"Don't worry about this." Bavelle made up his mind when he blew the whistle and informed the 1st Company that the 2nd Company had retreated: "If the superiors want to blame, I will bear all the responsibility. Even if he goes to the military court and wants to be shot, I will admit it." Then he ordered the machine gunner next to him, "to use firepower to cover the 2nd Company's soldiers to withdraw."
When the soldiers of the machine gun team heard Bavel's order, they immediately let the machine guns change their shooting direction. The two machine guns formed cross-fire power and fired the German infantry's storm-forming formation to cover Christopher and the others to retreat.
With the help of machine guns, Christopher successfully retreated with three soldiers. He lay beside Bavel, and while shooting at the rushing German army, he asked loudly: "Comrade Corporal, why haven't you blow up the cannons yet?"
"I guess it can't be blown up." After Bavel raised his gun and knocked down a German soldier who was rushing towards him in the distance, he explained to Christopher: "The defense of the artillery positions is too tight, and the soldiers of the first company cannot rush forward. Our actions have been exposed, and a large number of enemies are rushing towards us. If you stay, the entire army will be destroyed. Christopher, I cover you, take the comrades of the second company first!"
"Comrade Corporal," Christopher said unwillingly when he heard Bavel order him to retreat: "You should take the people to retreat first, I will stay for cover."
"This is an order!" Bavel ordered Christopher in a stern tone, "Get out quickly!"
"Yes!" Christopher agreed, and then said loudly: "First Company, the soldiers of the Second Company, retreat with me!"
After the German infantry and artillery merged into one place, they used several machine guns to suppress the machine gun company, while the infantry launched a sparse formation and rushed towards Baville and the others who were behind the rear with a short leap. Baville and the others had only two machine guns, four submachine guns and two rifles. It was obviously impossible to completely block the front hundreds of meters wide, so they could only attack the enemies who rushed in the front first.
When Bavel heard that a machine gun was shooting beside him suddenly stopped moving, he quickly took advantage of the opportunity to change the magazine and turned his head quickly to look at it. He saw that the machine gun shooter was already lying on the machine gunner, and he must have been hit by the German bullet. The deputy shooter pushed his body away, adjusted the angle, and then shot at the enemy.
The two machine guns of the machine gun company 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 the machine guns and suppressed and fired at them.
The deputy shooter had just finished shooting a chain of ammunition and was waiting for the ammunition hand next to him to help change the chain, but a string of flying machine gun bullets opened the cover of the spirit. The red and white objects splashed onto the faces of Bavel and the ammunition hand. After the ammunition hand changed the chain of ammunition hand, he wiped his face, gritted his teeth, and fired frantically at the German soldiers rushing towards him.
Bavel held the submachine gun with an expressionless face and kept firing short shots, knocking down one enemy after another. Although the bullets fired by the enemy continued to hit the snow beside him, splashing countless snow powder, he did not move, but was just shooting continuously.
When the sound of machine gun shooting around him stopped again, Bavel found that the ammunition hand was also killed by the German bullets, and there were only two seriously injured people living beside him. They were lying on the snow and could not move at all, let alone operating the machine gun. Bavel threw the empty submachine gun into the snow, rolled on his side, pushed away the ammunition hand's body, pulled out the machine gun, put it back in place, and shot at the German again.
He had just knocked down two German soldiers who had rushed less than ten meters away from him, and suddenly felt a heat on his right face. Then he felt that his eyes were black and fell next to the machine gun. His coma lasted only for more than ten seconds. The severe pain from his face made him wake up. He raised his hand and touched his face, and found that his hands were covered with blood.
He wanted to continue shooting, but his head could not be raised. He reached out and touched a grenade inserted on the belt, gently unscrewed the lid, put his little finger on the pull ring, and prepared to pull the strings when the Germans rushed over and die with them.
Seeing that the Soviet army's shooting suddenly stopped, the Germans slowed down and walked cautiously towards Bavel and their positions with guns. Listening to the sound of German footsteps getting closer, Bavel's fingers used a little force to make the strings of the grenade tighten. He just waited for the Germans to come to their side and then pulled the strings immediately.
But at this moment, I suddenly remembered the dense sound of machine gun strafing. The German soldiers who had already approached him were shot in the gunshots and fell into the snow. "What's going on with this gunshot? Where did so many machine guns come from? Could it be that our reinforcements arrived?" This was the last feeling before Bavel lost consciousness.
The German soldiers were stunned, but they soon discovered that the powerful machine gun firepower was from the north. The German commander thought to himself: What's going on? Did the Russians on the high ground come down? Also, how could they have so many MG34 machine guns? Before he could make any decision, he heard the "Ula" sound that was lowered by the machine gun fire from a distance.
Chapter completed!