Seeing that he was about to be surrounded by German soldiers several times his own size, Wei Ran looked around, took advantage of the cover of his hiding spot and retreated a few meters, and then crawled to the edge of another pine tree through a naturally formed depression.
later.
Putting the semi-automatic rifle back into its metal book, Wei Ran took off the submachine gun from his shoulder, leaned out from behind the pine tree, pointed it at the soldiers who were still firing at their previous hiding spot, and pulled the trigger.
This was different from the intensive firepower of the rifle, which not only swept up the two German soldiers, but also attracted most of the firepower, and the remaining half subconsciously fell to the ground or hid behind the pine trees.
Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, Danila dragged the somewhat panicked Nurse Llano down, quickly changed her position, and then opened fire one after another, knocking down two German soldiers who were suppressing Wei Ran.
But even though they cooperated with each other, the remaining enemies quickly divided into two groups, each hiding behind the pine trees. For a while, Wei Ran and the other three could not find a chance to fire.
At this point, the exchange of fire between the two sides has entered a stalemate stage, but this is not a good thing for Wei Ran and others. Once the delay is too long and the other party receives reinforcements, they will not be able to hold on for long.
However, at the edge of the battlefield that the three of them could not see, Revry and artillery observer Andre, who had already left, circled back to the battlefield.
"Andre, if we rush over and throw a few grenades, we will definitely help them!" Revry whispered.
"How many people can a grenade kill?"
Andre handed the telescope in his hand to the former, raised his finger and pointed in the direction and said, "Did you see those two half-track motorcycles? Let's go over and use the machine guns on them to suppress the Germans."
Revry glanced at the two motorcycles that were still carrying corpses and rampaging through the forest, and then at the two German soldiers who were chasing the two motorcycles. After returning the binoculars to Andre, he was about to
Run forward.
"Wait first"
Andre grabbed Reveli and said, "Don't worry, let the two Germans catch up with the motorcycle first. Their backs will definitely be turned to us when they open fire. It will be much safer for us to go over by then."
"But..."
"Danila and the others are not fools"
Andre didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking before he continued, "There are only two German soldiers, and they are each chasing a motorcycle. So don't worry, they can only fire where they are, and there is no way they can drive the motorcycle back to the battlefield."
Just as Andre predicted, in less than two minutes, the two German soldiers had caught up with the motorcycle running uncontrollably at the edge of the battlefield.
After the two of them pushed their companion's body aside, they directly controlled the machine gun mounted on the spot and began to suppress the hiding spots of Wei Ran, Danila and others.
The firepower, which was more ferocious than that of a submachine gun, immediately put the three guardsmen in a more dangerous situation. With the suppression of these two machine guns, the remaining German soldiers were able to come out of their hiding spots and quickly close the distance between the two sides.
Seeing this, Andre immediately took off the radio he had been carrying on his shoulder, picked up his submachine gun and rushed toward the two half-track motorcycles with Reverie.
Thanks to the huge noise cover when the machine gun fired, the two of them were less than 10 meters away from the two soldiers manipulating the machine gun, and the other party still did not notice them.
Without hesitation at all, Andre raised the submachine gun in his hand and fired two bursts, easily dispatching the two machine gunners.
The moment the machine gun fire stopped, the German soldiers who were only fifty or sixty meters away from Wei Ran and others immediately hid behind the pine trees. Some soldiers even pulled out the wooden handle grenades fastened to their belts.
However, when Revry and Andre stepped on the corpses of the German soldiers, jumped onto the half-track motorcycle, and pulled the triggers of the two machine guns one after another, dense bullets immediately penetrated the bodies of the German soldiers from the sides.
, and then rolled out of the body and dug into the trunk of the pine tree where they were hiding.
Wei Ran and Danila, who were always paying attention to the battlefield, felt the pressure drop suddenly. At the same time, they immediately emerged from their hiding spots, rounded their arms and threw a lemon grenade they had prepared long ago in the distance!
"boom!"
After two explosions that were almost close to each other, the German soldiers who had almost surrounded them just now changed roles and became the surrounded party.
After Wei Ran, Danila and Nurse Llano, with the help of Revry and Andre, eliminated the last two German soldiers, the two parties finally gathered together again.
Danila asked complainingly while loading bullets for the semi-automatic rifle in her hand, "Didn't I tell you to run away quickly? Why are you back again?"
"If we don't come back, you will be caught by the Germans. Who will protect me then?"
Andre responded naturally, "Besides, with just the three of you, without our help, do you really think you can deal with so many Germans?"
Nurse Lanno waved her hand, "Stop talking about this now, we'd better get out of here quickly."
"Collect their weapons first. They won't be used for long." Postman Reverie said quickly, "With so many weapons, they may be useful in the future."
"Then hurry up!" After Danila finished speaking, she bent down and took out an MP40 submachine gun from a German corpse.
"Revli, where is our horse-drawn sledge?" Wei Ran asked while picking weapons and ammunition from a corpse.
"I tied it far away, let's bring it back now!" Revery said, carrying a Mauser rifle with remaining blood stains on his shoulder, and ran away and disappeared.
"Speaking of which, where did these Germans come from?" Danila muttered while collecting the captured weapons.
“It doesn’t matter where it comes from.”
Nurse Llano said while taking off the kettle from the belt of a German corpse, "What's more important now is how we can escape from their pursuit. The surrounding areas are all German territory."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "I'll worry about this later. I'll carry the radio back first." Andre said and walked to the hiding spot in the distance.
After the three guardsmen collected all the weapons, ammunition, food and drink from the corpses of the German soldiers around them, Reveli also shouted and ran back with the horse-drawn sledge.
"What to do with the two half-track motorcycles?" Andre asked after putting an MG34 general-purpose machine gun with residual blood stains on the sledge.
"Find a place to hide it, or blow it up directly." Danila said without thinking, "Of course, you can also hide it and hide a grenade inside."
"Then hide it and put a few grenades in it."
While Andre was speaking, he had skillfully opened the engine hood, stuffed several wooden-handled grenades that had been seized not long ago everywhere, and then carefully tied the fuse of one of the grenades to the transmission belt.
.
Danila followed suit, and after the two set up the booby traps, they immediately got on the sledge and climbed over the distant slope as quickly as possible to escape the scene of the firefight.
We cautiously climbed over the slope and passed through dense bushes. When an open space of only five or six hundred square meters suddenly appeared in front of us, a woman's voice sounded from behind a pine tree not far away.
"Come out! We have put down our guns." Reverie responded and quickly shouted to the draft horse to stop.
Almost immediately, a girl who had been rescued in the mine walked out from behind a thick pine tree.
This girl's dress is quite interesting. She is wearing a set of loose clothes, a German helmet on her head, and what she holds in her hand is a Bobosha submachine gun.
"Why are you here?"
Revry asked in confusion, "Where's Mitya? And Gioia, is he back?"
"Mjia is taking care of Gioia. He is injured." The girl named Yuna pointed to the forest clearing behind her worriedly. "Gioia was shot. He escaped last night."
"Let's go take a look!" After Refri said that, he immediately shook the reins and controlled the sledge to run the last few dozen meters.
In the center of this small open space, there is a semi-underground shack made of logs. The area of this shack is slightly larger than the one Wei Ran and others saw when they first met Qiao Ya.
, there is even a small window on the roof, and the sunlight above the head just shines on this window, which is less than one meter square.
Everyone rushed into the shack that was warmed and bright by the sun, and immediately saw Qiao Ya lying on the wooden bed, while another girl, Mi Jia, was half-kneeling by the bed, wiping Qiao Ya's forehead with a wet towel.
and palms.
Without waiting for anyone to ask, the girl named Mi Jia took the initiative and said, "He was shot in the thigh and started to have a fever this morning."
Wei Ran came over and untied the coarse cloth wrapping the wound, and then breathed a sigh of relief. There was already some redness and swelling around the charred bullet hole, and the black blood around the bullet hole was flowing extremely slowly.
"The bullet should still be inside," nurse Lano said at the side, "it should be inflamed."
"Indeed." Wei Ran nodded, "Show me your medical kit."
Hearing this, Lano immediately took off the medical bag on his shoulder and opened it. Although there were not many instruments and medicines in the medical bag, it was barely enough to support this minor operation.
Without wasting any time, Nurse Wei Ran and La Nuo asked the irrelevant people out of the shack, and then cooperated with each other to open the wound on Qiao Ya's thigh, successfully completing this minor operation, which was not a major one.
After carefully suturing the wound, Wei Ran made an excuse to push Nurse Lano away to get his backpack from the sledge. He quickly took out the medical kit in the metal book, took a few penicillin and morphine and put them into his pocket, and then immediately took them back.
Got the medical kit.
After giving Qiao Ya an injection of penicillin, Wei Ran put away the injection bottle and completed the final bandaging work in a leisurely manner.
Before Lano came back, Wei Ran picked up the bullet he had taken out from Gioia's wound not long ago and looked at it carefully through the sunlight shining through the window above his head.
Although the front half of this bullet has been deformed, through the tail of the rear half, it can still be vaguely identified as a 9 mm pistol bullet.
The biggest suspect for firing this bullet is undoubtedly the MP40 submachine gun equipped by German soldiers. In other words, did Gioia also encounter German soldiers in the past few days? So the patrol they just encountered was actually
Are you here to chase Joya?
After thinking for a moment, Wei Ran took the bullet and left the shack, went to the girl named Yuna and asked her carefully.
It was through Yuna that everyone learned that after they separated from Gioia, the latter not only led the two girls to ambush the German patrol with animal traps, but also led them in the wrong direction.
No wonder they didn't encounter a patrol when they ambush the German artillery position for so long. It turned out that Gioia helped them attract the firepower! Wei Ran and others looked at each other, and for a moment they didn't know what to say. If it weren't for Gioia, they might not have had anything to say.
There was no time to call for artillery, and the German patrols were chasing rabbits all over the mountains and plains, busy escaping for their lives.
According to another girl, Mi Jia, Gioia once told what happened to him after he came back. After he led the German patrol deep into the forest, he planned to come back, but unexpectedly encountered a German patrol soldier who had strayed away.
.
The gunshot wound on his leg was caused by the panicked German soldier who used a submachine gun. Correspondingly, Gioia also used the Bobosha sent to him by Weiran to kill the soldier. In Mijia's words, since
After Gioia came back with a gunshot wound, he kept showing off about it.
"I'm afraid we have to change places," Danila and Weiran said almost in no particular order.
"We really need to change places." Artillery observer Andre nodded in agreement. "I just eliminated one of their patrols. I'm afraid other Germans will catch up soon."
"But where are we going to escape?" the girl named Yuna asked blankly.
"Of course there is a place to escape"
Revry gave the answer confidently. Seeing everyone looking at him, he immediately explained, "There are at least a dozen of these shacks in this forest. They are all built by rangers and hunters.
Yes, as long as Joya wakes up, he will definitely be able to take us to a more secluded place."
"You don't know?" the girl named Mi Jia asked.
"I'm not Joya"
Revry spread his hands, "Gioya knows every tree in this forest, but I can't. I will only come over to eat meat when he catches prey, and help him sell the hides.
"
"So the only problem now is how to get rid of the German patrol behind you?" Danila said and looked at Andre.
The latter thought for a while and said helplessly, "The best way I can think of is to find an excuse to ask the artillery on our position to loosen the soil around here, or simply fire a round of incendiary bombs."
"That will burn us too"
Daniella shook her head helplessly, and turned to Revry and asked, "Is there a river near here? We need to find a river to cover up our traces and smell."
"There is a creek more than a hundred meters away." Reverie gestured with his hands, "but it is only so wide."
"That's not enough"
Daniela shook her head, "Well, let's leave here now. By the way, we can plant some tripping mines nearby. When Gioia wakes up, ask him if there is anything he can do."
Hearing this, Revry and Andre immediately got into the shack, moved out Gioia, who had not yet regained consciousness, and prepared to put him on the sledge.
“Can’t use sledge”
Wei Ran, who had been silent just now, said, "The traces it left are too obvious. I suspect that the patrol that just encountered them followed the marks left by Gioia's sledge."
"On a stretcher?"
Seeing Wei Ran's nod, Revli immediately signaled Andre to help temporarily put Gioia on the sledge, while he got back into the shack, and soon came out with an ax and went straight into the forest.
While Refuli was making the stretcher, Wei Ran and others, with the help of the two girls, carefully packed some useful things into bundles and tied them to the horse. They also used the hand grenades they had just captured.
, a large number of accompanying mines were arranged inside and outside the shack.
After they finished all this work, Refri also made a stretcher using two wooden sticks, hemp rope and a blanket. The two girls also took the initiative to carry the stretcher.
Under the leadership of Revli, everyone led the heavy draft horses and the round-bellied female donkey and continued to move deeper into the forest.
At the end of the team, Wei Ran and Danila, who was once a hunter, each relied on their own skills to clean up the traces left by their journey.
"Victor, where did you learn this?" Daniella asked as she sprinkled a few fallen leaves on the bushes she passed.
"I learned it from a forestry farm," Wei Ran said nonchalantly, "I used to be the veterinarian at that forestry farm."
"I used to be a hunter"
Daniela sighed with nostalgia, "My favorite thing to do in the past was to go looking for hibernating brown bears with Lano in the winter. Those big, meaty guys not only provided expensive bear skins, but also bear fat.
It can also be sold for a big price, and even the bear meat will not be wasted. The meat of one bear is enough for my family and Llano to eat for a week."
"Why are you thinking about joining the army?" Wei Ran asked confusedly.
"The men recruiting for the military passed by my door that day, and then I joined."
Daniela said matter-of-factly, "Why does such a thing need a reason?"
"Lano must have a reason to join the army, right?" Wei Ran asked without raising his head, as if all his attention was focused on eliminating the traces left by everyone.
"She never received my letters. Then she signed up for nursing school. After a few months of training, she was sent to the battlefield."
Daniella sighed, "I didn't expect to meet Lano here, let alone that this silly girl would come to the front line to look for me."
"It must have taken a lot of effort and hard work for her to be assigned to be near you from the nursing training school."
As Wei Ran spoke, he pulled a lump of donkey dung and eggs into a sack, and at the same time covered the conspicuous horse hoof prints with a handful of fallen leaves.
"Just like this time she insisted on following me to death." Daniela shook her head helplessly, "She can always convince others easily, and she will not be convinced by anyone easily."
Wei Ran said with half ridicule and half blessing, "I can foresee that you will definitely be very happy in your future life."
"Let's survive this mission first."
Danila stood up after saying this, lifted a corner of her cloak, showed a sunflower-shaped gold brooch pinned to the inside, and whispered, "This is the wedding gift I prepared for her. If this
If she survives for the first time, I must personally help her put it on during our wedding. If you are alive then, you must help me take pictures."
"No problem!" Wei Ran was stunned for a moment after seeing the brooch, and then promised, "I'll help you publish that photo in the newspaper, no problem!"
"Then it's settled!" After showing off her brooch, Daniela quickly refastened the buttons on her cloak, cleaning up the traces while changing the topic to something else.
As the two chatted, everyone walked further and further away. When the sun set and the fog enveloped the forest again, Gioia, who was lying on the stretcher, finally woke up and successfully helped them point out the nearest hunter's cabin.
s position.
However, before the postman Leifli, who was walking at the front, could change his direction, Andre, who had already turned on the radio as the sun set, suddenly stopped everyone, and at the same time, there was an incredible look on his face.
Dull color.
"What's wrong?" Daniela asked nervously.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "The news coming back from our positions is that the Germans may have added more artillery positions than the one we blew up in the morning," Andre said tremblingly.
, "Just before dark, another part of our position was bombed by German artillery."
"Which position?" Nurse Lano and Revely asked in unison.
"It's not the position that Valentin is in charge of, it's the position that is in charge of their right, the 673rd Regiment."
Andre swallowed and continued with a pale face, "Almost more than two hundred meters of trenches have been blown up, and now the Germans have launched an attack there."
Everyone let out a sigh of relief at first, and then tensed up their nerves.
It is undeniable that people are selfish. There are too many people they are familiar with in the position that Company Commander Valentin is in charge of. It is good news that the positions where these people are located have not been bombarded. But the section that was bombarded by German artillery
Once the position is completely torn apart and collapsed, more people they care about will have to bear the pain caused by the war.
"Andre, what can we do?" Daniela asked firmly, and even Nurse Lano, who was leaning in his arms, sat up straight and picked up the sniper rifle next to her again.
"Looking for other German artillery positions"
Andre turned off the radio and said decisively, "The Germans picked a good time. The fog is so heavy now. If we want to find their artillery positions, we may have to rely on us."
As he spoke, Andre opened the map he carried with him, and after searching it with a pencil, he circled an area and said, "According to the preliminary observations and calculations on the other side of the position, the German position should be here.
This area.”
"Where are we now?" Wei Ran was the first to ask.
Hearing this, everyone, including Andre, turned their attention to the postman Reverie.
The latter leaned over to the map to look at it, took the pencil from Andre's hand, pointed at a location on the map and said with certainty, "This is probably the location here."
"It's not too far," Andre muttered, turning to look at Gioia, who was still lying on a stretcher not far away.
“Don’t worry about us”
Gioia sat up with difficulty and said with a grin, "The Germans can't find us. It's not too far from the hunter's cabin. It won't take the three of us long to walk there."
"We must set off quickly," Andre urged with a frown, "We must find their artillery positions before dawn."
"Lano, you and Gioia go, he needs to be taken care of." Daniela said abruptly.
"Let the journalist comrade stay." Nurse Lano said without thinking.
Qiao Ya obviously didn't realize what it meant to stay to take care of him, so he said without thinking, "No, I don't..."
Before he could finish his words, Reverie gently poked his arm to tell him to shut up.
"Like Gioia said, he doesn't need care."
As he spoke, Lano stood up, took off the kettle from his waist and took a sip of the vodka inside. Then he handed it to Daniela. While the other party took the kettle, he turned to Andre and said, "Okay, let's
Let’s go now.”
Andre sighed helplessly, "To be honest, I don't want to get involved in the two of you, but you'd better decide as soon as possible. We don't have much time."
After saying that, Andre had simply stood up. After checking the direction with the compass on his wrist, he immediately took steps. Seeing this, Wei Ran patted Reveli on the shoulder and stood up to chase him.
Go up.
"I'm sorry, my friend," Refri said apologetically, "Now I have more important things to do. I can only rely on you, Yuna, and Mija. I hope... you can survive."
"Go, go." Gioia patted Reveli on the shoulder, "Bring the horse with you, you will definitely need it. The donkey is enough for us. We also hope you can survive."
"If I survive, I will go to the hunter's hut you mentioned to find you." After Reveli said that, he stood up and untied the draft horse, holding the reins and catching up with the man who was about to walk into the mist.
Wei Ran and Andre, who could no longer see his figure.
"Let's go too"
Lano looked at Danila, "We agreed before departure that if we survive, we will hold the wedding on Captain Valentin's position. If we don't survive, at least we can die together."
After a moment of silence, Daniela sighed, held Lano's hand and pulled him up, "Then let's live together or die together.
