Dense forests, freezing rain, slippery moss, enemies appearing out of nowhere, overly nervous teammates and corpses of American soldiers everywhere.
This was the first impression left on Wei Ran by the Hürtgen Forest in 1944, but compared to these, the M9 bazooka rocket launcher he held in his hand made him even more uneasy.
Because he knew that whenever there were German snipers hiding around him, he and Hunter, the soldier holding the bar machine gun, would definitely be the first to be attacked.
It is precisely for this reason that he is looking for hiding spots and possible enemies at almost every step.
"Captain Wright, where are our enemies?"
At the front of this team of only nine people, a soldier holding a Garand rifle couldn't help but ask.
"Don't worry about where they are."
Another soldier closest to him whispered back, "They're in this forest, we'll see them all the time."
"Everyone be vigilant and stay quiet!" Corporal Wright, who was in charge of leading the team, reminded in a low voice, "Everyone pay attention to your feet and surroundings, and..."
"boom!"
A sudden explosion directly in front interrupted everyone's conversation, and immediately after, they heard screams coming from directly in front, and what seemed to be the voice of the sergeant named Timov calling for medics.
"Go up and help!"
Before Corporal Wright finished speaking, he was already the first to rush over. Seeing this, the people behind him naturally wanted to follow.
As the distance between the two sides narrowed, Wei Ran finally saw that right in front, one of the legs of the soldier named Kevin had been blown off. At this time, he was being killed amidst the shrill screams.
The soldier named Buck dragged him back, while the sergeant named Timov looked around with his gun raised vigilantly.
"There is a minefield ahead!" Timov immediately reminded loudly when he saw Wei Ran and others arriving.
However, before the medical soldiers came over, everyone in the dense forest heard the unique whistle of the mortar!
"Get down!" The corporal, who seemed to be named Wright, reminded the surrounding soldiers in a hoarse voice.
Almost as soon as he heard the whistle sound, Wei Ran rushed behind a pine tree that was thicker than his waist that he had spotted long ago. He threw the rocket launcher away and curled up.
"boom!"
A deafening explosion came from the canopy above his head. Immediately afterwards, Wei Ran heard the sound of shrapnel passing through the canopy at high speed and being embedded in the trunk, as well as screams coming from almost all directions around him.
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"Hide behind the tree! Hide behind the tree! Stick to the trunk!" Wei Ran and Sergeant Timov shouted indiscriminately.
However, before the soldiers who were subconsciously lying on the ground looking for cover could stand up, a series of whistles came from above their heads, and in a very short time, the whistles turned into dense air explosions, mixed with them,
It sounds like a woodpecker tapping on a tree trunk.
Along with these explosions, the surrounding screams also became one, but the screams did not last long and became less and less.
Finally, the two-minute bombardment came to an end, and the forest with no end in sight regained its tranquility. Only the pine needles were left, falling from the top of the head, falling on the helmet net, and on the shoulders.
Falling on the wounds torn open by shrapnel.
"Light! Is Wright still alive?" A moment later, Timov's voice came from the front.
"Buck!"
"Still alive!" Buck from the investigation team immediately responded, "Kevin died, and his neck was cut open by shrapnel."
"Jack! Jack! Nathan! Dibbitt! Henry!"
Timov counted the names one by one, but Wei Ran took this opportunity to take off the thin boots on his feet that were not warm, carefully wrapped his feet in thick and soft foot wraps, and then stepped on the
A pair of German army boots.
When he kicked aside the boots he was wearing, Captain Timov happened to call his name.
"Yes, I'm fine."
Wei Ran quickly responded, and at the same time, from Tibet
He came out from behind the pine tree and bent down to pick up the rocket launcher that he had just thrown aside. Fortunately, the rocket launcher did not suffer any damage.
"Where did you get those boots?" Captain Timov was so startled that he almost lifted the M3 submachine gun in his hand.
"I just picked it up there," Wei Ran said nonsensically, pointing behind him, "It's still warmer than our boots."
"It looks very warm," Buck said with envy.
"Hunter, is Hunter still alive?" Captain Timov named the last name. "Still alive."
The soldier holding the bar in his arms responded quickly, "Captain Timov, there are only five of us left, do we want to withdraw?"
"Keep going"
While Captain Timov was speaking, he had already cooperated with Buck to pull the dog tags from the neck of the fallen soldier, pulled one off and stuffed it into the mouth of the fallen soldier.
"This is sending you to death," Hunter muttered dissatisfiedly, but still walked out of the hiding spot holding his weapon.
Looking around, Wei Ran discovered that in this 12-person team, 7 people were directly killed in the round of shelling. Among the remaining five people, one was hit in the butt by shrapnel.
Although they can survive, they obviously have no way to participate in the operation. But here, they are not even two hundred meters away from the camp they just left.
At this moment, the medical soldier who had been called before the bombardment finally arrived belatedly. However, this medical soldier was also injured. One of his shoulders had been dyed dark red by the blood that leaked out, and one side of his shoulder was stained dark red.
While running this way, he also inserted a tube of morphine around his own wound.
"Let me help you"
Wei Ran handed Buck the rocket launcher he was holding without any explanation, squatted next to the wounded man and helped tear off the clothes around the wound, and at the same time walked on the wounded man's legs to help keep him from moving.
"Orlando" the medic had already taken off a medical kit and opened it as he spoke. "Victor"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! While Wei Ran responded, he took out a stick of morphine from the opponent's medical bag and stuck it around the wound. Then he slapped the opponent's hand away and picked up a handful.
Hemostatic forceps were used to directly pull out the shrapnel still stuck in the wound and throw it away.
Slapping the opponent's hand away again, Wei Ran picked up the sewing tool and began the rough suturing work.
"You know how to sew?" Orlando, who had his palms slapped away twice in a row, asked in surprise. "I'm a tailor."
Wei Ran responded jokingly, and after cutting the sutures, he asked, "Do you want me to repair your shoulder?"
"give it to you"
Orlando had extra trust in Wei Ran. He grabbed a bag of sulfa powder from the medical bag, tore it open, and sprinkled it on the wounded man's sutured wound in the same rough way. At the same time, Wei Ran had already begun to help him.
The wound on the shoulder was debrided.
While the two of them were busy, Timov and Buck had each picked up a Garand rifle, hiding behind the pine trees and observing the surroundings vigilantly. The soldier named Hunter had also taken cover.
Behind a pine tree, the unqualified machine gun was set up.
"stretcher!"
Orlando shouted in the direction behind him at the top of his lungs, and at the same time he and Wei Ran left the wounded who had finished bandaging.
"Your craftsmanship is not bad!"
Orlando looked at his wounds, reached out and took off the other medical bag from his waist and handed it to Wei Ran, "Keep it for use.
"Thank you." Wei Ran said politely, but he kept helping the other party bandage the wound where a small piece of flesh was cut off by the shrapnel, and then he took the medical bag.
"Why didn't I realize you had this skill before?"
Captain Timov didn't ask Wei Ran until the injured soldier was carried away on a stretcher.
"My family used to run a clinic." Wei Ran made an excuse nonchalantly while fixing the medical bag on his waist.
"I actually know a little bit," Buck grinned and said jokingly, "I'm from Montana, and I castrate all my cows and horses myself. To tell you the truth, those things are really big!"
"Wait until we catch
Maybe I can try your skills as a German guy later."
Hunter took out a pack of cigarettes from the jacket pocket of the body of his companion and put it into his pocket. He seemed to want to use a joke to dilute the sadness on his companion's hand, but at the same time he said extremely seriously, "If you ask me, I should put it in
Castrate all men in this country."
"boom!"
Before Hunter could finish his words, a crisp gunshot was heard from the forest directly in front of him. In this crisp gunshot, a ball of blood mist immediately spattered from Hunter's neck. He himself
His body stiffened and he fell straight onto the pine needles on the ground.
"Enemy attack!"
While Timov was shouting, he and Buck had already pulled the trigger in the direction of the gunshot. Wei Ran, who was just about to pick up the rocket launcher again, also rolled forward and hid behind the pine tree.
"Ding!"
Amidst the intensive gunfire, Wei Ran saw with his own eyes that the rocket launcher he had not had time to pick up was hit by a bullet on the back half of the barrel, leaving an impact mark the size of a peanut.
Wei Ran subconsciously retracted the hand he was about to extend, and Wei Ran instantly felt a layer of cold sweat break out on his forehead. If he hadn't reacted quickly enough, the gunshot would have hit his neck!
"Suppression by fire! We need suppression by fire!" Buck shouted loudly, but what he got in return was intense firepower that suppressed him so much that he didn't even dare to show up.
The adventurous probe glanced at the German firepower point across a minefield from them. When Wei Ran looked back, he couldn't help but grin. He had to admit that the firepower point was really hidden. If the opponent's machine gun hadn't started firing, they wouldn't have been able to do it.
It was impossible to discover that behind the crown of the fallen pine tree there was a firepower point.
Looking back, Wei Ran stood up, stood on tiptoes and pulled down a broken branch above his head, and then used it to pull back the rocket launcher that had just been hit with difficulty.
After a short inspection to confirm that it was still working, Weiran didn't dare to show his head at all. He just poked the launch port out of the pine tree where he was hiding, pointed it in the general direction, and immediately pulled the trigger!
"call out!"
With the flames and smoke spurting out backwards, the rocket fired by the Weiran rushed through the minefield impatiently, but in the end it just hit the back of a pine tree, which was still more than ten meters away from the direction of the fire fortress.
distance.
"This crap thing is really not easy to use."
Wei Ran muttered a curse and threw the launch tube far away towards another tree beside him.
Before the rocket launcher landed, the German machine guns were already chasing after him, but Wei Ran jumped hard in the opposite direction. The moment he landed, he grabbed the bar machine gun that Hunter had thrown aside before he died, and fired again.
He rolled and hid behind another pine tree only five meters away from Timov.
"Ta-ta-ta!" Wei Ran didn't even have time to get up, so he aimed at the German firepower point and pulled the trigger.
"Well done!"
While Timov was praising Wei Ran, he and Buck actually jumped out of the bunker with submachine guns in hand, aiming at the machine gun fire point and started firing.
At the same time, a similarly under-organized team came from a distance to provide support to them.
As these people joined in, the firepower suddenly became intensive, and the machine gun firepower point hiding behind the pine tree crown finally stopped appearing. Even the sniper who had never been found seemed to have stopped moving.
"No! Disperse! Disperse! Mortar! Hide behind the tree! Don't lie down on the spot!"
Captain Timov was the first to react, shouting for the helpers who came over to cease fire and retreat, while gesturing towards Wei Ran and Buck.
Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately stopped shooting without thinking. He didn't even bother to take away the BAR machine gun that had been empty of bullets. He just bent down and picked up the M3 submachine gun that was still stained with Kevin's blood.
As soon as the three of them moved, the incomplete team that came to help also reacted and immediately started to retreat according to Timov's reminder!
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It was precisely at this time that the sniper who had obviously disappeared pulled the trigger again. In the crisp sound of gunfire, a sniper carrying a weapon like a flaming gun
Before the soldier with the rocket launcher could turn around, he fell to the ground clutching his gunshot neck.
Less than five seconds later, from the canopy of trees overhead, the unique whistle of a mortar was heard again!
"grass!"
Wei Ran cursed secretly, and immediately hid behind a pine tree, squatting down and curling up, wishing he could hide himself completely inside the steel helmet.
Amidst the sparse explosions of mortar shells, screams and curses were heard all around again, and despairing pine needles once again floated overhead. But this time, this was not as intense as the intensive shelling just now, but it continued.
It's been a long time, and it seems like it won't stop until every one of them is killed.
As everyone waited in agony, after five full minutes, the forest, filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke and blood, finally became completely quiet—if you ignore the screams. "Retreat! Return to the camp first!"
In the forest, Timov shouted loudly, and immediately, six or seven surviving soldiers eagerly left the bunker, covering each other and began to retreat toward the camp.
But Wei Ran, who was about to get up and follow him, noticed that behind another pine tree not far away from him, Timov was gesturing towards him, and in his hand, he actually held the gun.
The bazooka that originally belonged to him!
Seeing this, Wei Ran slowly made an OK gesture towards the other party, dipped his hand from the wound of the corpse next to him, and smeared the blood on his face and clothes.
Gradually, only he, Captain Timov, and the soldier Buck, who was lying on his back on a puddle with a submachine gun, were left in the forest.
At the same time, among the soldiers who retreated first, a corporal quietly called his companions, motioning them to stop and hide behind the thick pine trees.
As everyone waited patiently, the forest became completely quiet, and soon, a wolfdog with shiny fur ran over from directly ahead.
After a while, the dog came close to Wei Ran, touched Wei Ran's hand with its big wet nose, and then licked the back of his hand.
However, what he didn't expect was that this bastard thing actually raised one leg and peed on his thigh. Then he shook his hair vigorously and sniffed Timo who was not far away.
Captain Husband then ran away in the direction from which it came.
After a while, a team of five people walked over cautiously.
Thanks to the good position he had just chosen, Wei Ran could clearly see that two of the five people were holding MP40 submachine guns in their hands, while the remaining three were carrying engineer shovels with rifles hanging around their waists.
Holding a roll of rope, he was busy rearranging the minefield.
However, the locations where they laid mines were under the still-warm corpses, in the minefields they had just inspected, and even in the discarded rocket launcher tubes!
Squinting his eyes slightly, Wei Ran glanced at the two Germans who were holding weapons and standing sentry while searching for loot, and then glanced at Timov not far away.
Seeing that the other party was ready, he no longer hesitated. While one of the two men holding submachine guns was bending over to take something out of the pocket of a corpse, he sat up suddenly and aimed
They pulled the trigger!
"Da da da!"
Compared with the rate of fire of Bobosha or MP40, the M3 submachine gun is indeed much slower, but it can still easily knock down the man holding the submachine gun, and by the way, add some metal to the German who just took out a pack of cigarettes.
element.
Before the two men fell to the ground, Wei Ran suddenly jumped back and started rolling, narrowly dodging a bullet fired from an unknown place further away.
Almost at the same time that he hit the two men, Buck, who was further away from him, also sat up, pointed at the three men who were laying mines, and pulled the trigger.
A little later than a second at most, Captain Timov, who was carrying the rocket launcher, also pulled the trigger!
"Whoops!" As soon as the rocket flew out of the launch tube, Timov let go and hid behind the pine tree.
"boom!"
After a dull explosion, three people, including Wei Ran, jumped out of their hiding spot, guns blazing.
They unanimously pulled the trigger in the direction where the sniper might be.
In less than 20 seconds, the soldiers who had just withdrawn also ran back under the leadership of the corporal, and also poured intensive firepower on them.
These people took over the suppression work. Timov took a rocket from Wei Ran's hand and loaded it. He and another soldier who also carried the bazooka fired the rockets in no particular order.
"boom!"
Amidst the almost overlapping explosions, Buck had already taken the lead. Holding his submachine gun, he successfully bypassed the minefield along the path that the three Germans who laid the mines had just walked!
"Safety!"
While barking, Buck had already taken out a grenade, swung his arm and threw it towards the German machine gun fire point he had discovered earlier.
"boom!"
At the same time as the grenade exploded, Wei Ran and Timov were already running along the path that the other side had risked their lives in no particular order. The three of them covered each other and rushed towards the German machine gun fortress.
However, when Wei Ran ventured over the lying pine tree, he discovered that there was indeed a trench that was not that big.
Even the trench was reinforced with logs, a roof was added, and sandbags were used as a bunker. However, there were no German corpses in it at all.
They didn't even find mortars or artillery shells. Instead, they found a well-hidden accompanying wire at the entrance of the bunker!
Reaching out to stop Buck, Wei Ran observed carefully, and then carefully dug out a compression mine made from a beast trap and a grenade in the soil at the other end of the accompanying line.
This was not over yet. After some research, he carefully stepped over the hairline and along the line, he pulled out two long-handled grenades with rough workmanship from the gaps in the rafters above his head.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Only then did he tear off the tripwire, wrap it around the grenade and put it aside.
"Find that damn sniper" Timov issued a new order with a gloomy face.
Putting the removed long-handled grenade on the table, Wei Ran picked up the weapon again, and together with Buck, followed Timov and jumped out of the simple trench. They covered each other as quickly as possible and headed towards the rocket that had just been hit.
ran in the direction.
Unfortunately, until they found the location where the rocket exploded, the only thing they found was a corpse wearing a German helmet but a U.S. military uniform.
"I know him, he's from Company A." Buck said with a sullen face and gritted teeth, "He still owes me $20 in gambling money."
"I can bet you an extra $20," Timov said with an equally gloomy face, "There must be a landmine under his body."
"Don't let me catch them!"
Buck gritted his teeth, changed the subject and asked, "Captain, what should we do now? It seems that there are only three of us in our team..."
Go back first, I want to discuss it with Vice Captain Tom of Class E."
Captain Timov said as he walked back, "If they are willing to help, we will go after the mortar team."
Buck and Wei Ran, who looked indifferent, looked at each other and followed Timov in the direction they came from.
While Captain Timov went to the E-class people to discuss the battle plan, Wei Ran also took a gun and walked to the corpses of the Germans he had just killed and observed them one by one.
I don't know whether it was expected or not, but the three Germans responsible for laying mines were all old men over fifty years old. One of them even had a big red 9-box gun hanging on his waist.
The two men on guard duty with submachine guns looked about 16 or 17 years old. They were even wearing the uniforms of the youth group that Wei Ran was extremely familiar with.
There are young and old, but what about those who escaped?
Wei Ran once again looked at the trench that he had captured at a huge cost. He was now extremely certain that the machine gun fire team that had suppressed them had probably already retreated before these five people came out.
"The more I look at it, the more it looks like a trap..."
After calming down, Wei Ran muttered secretly, if this was not a trap, those Germans would have no need at all.
Abandon this position. If it wasn't a trap, mortar shells would have been dropped from above with whistles. But since it was a trap... it's broken!
Wei Ran subconsciously looked in the direction of the camp where he came from. At this time, thick smoke was already billowing from that direction!
