Under the slightly bright sky and in the thick fog, destroyer trucks had started their engines one after another, lining up to pass through the gaps in the barbed wire fence, rolling over the slippery soil and driving into the damp and cold forest.
Behind the destroyer were not only the infantrymen who were fighting together, but also Wei Ran and Timov who had been up almost all night and just put on new combat uniforms.
This was an exclusive mission for the Rangers that Timov and the major fought hard for in the two hours before dawn - to lead the way!
According to Timov's words, he is confident that he can guide a group of main infantry troops along the route they fled last night, avoid the German minefields, find the two chain dogs they encountered along the way, and then follow the chain dogs' direction.
The ruts of the half-track motorcycle continued to avoid the minefield and attack the No. 3 Fortress.
Obviously, such a temptation made the major choose to give some trust to Timov and Wei Ran. But although the job of leading the way was simple, the road was not easy.
Although this dense forest cannot stop the heavily armed infantry, it can easily block the destroyer vehicles used as support. Therefore, after setting off, the two groups of people who were supposed to cooperate with the infantry and tanks immediately separated and divided into two teams to attack on different routes.
Route rushed to the battlefield.
Fortunately, after all, they were tasked with leading the way. Before setting off, Timov and Wei Ran were assigned a walkie-talkie that had a limited communication range but was completely adequate.
In the dense forest shrouded in thick fog, Wei Ran and Timov kept a distance of five meters from each other. Following the traces they walked yesterday, they led the soldiers behind them towards the abandoned trench where the chain dog was killed.
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While passing by the dead tree that Wei Ran had burned down a few hours ago, he also saw broken corpses all over the ground. In just one night, these broken corpses wearing youth league uniforms had been completely frozen for a long time.
A layer of frost.
"They look about the same age as Host," Timov leaned over and whispered, with a hint of regret in his tone.
"yes…"
Wei Ran agreed absently, paused briefly and then changed the subject and asked, "Why do you want to participate in this battle? Don't we need to go back?"
"With those destroyers providing feints to attract firepower, this attack shouldn't be particularly dangerous." Timov responded nonchalantly.
"You want to find Mr. Letts?"
Wei Ran paused and added an additional reminder, "Have you forgotten what the two German chain dogs said? They said that Mr. Letts had been sent to Heights 400."
"But Sophie also said that Mr. Letts is the quartermaster of that fortress."
Timov obviously has his own opinion, "Unless the Germans in that fortress don't want to win the battle, they will definitely find a way to get their quartermaster back as soon as possible. You have to know that a fortress can be without a commander.
But there must be no quartermaster."
"you mean…"
"We have all started to advance towards their fortress. I think Mr. Letts has returned to that fortress." Timov guessed with certainty, "Even if he has not gone back, he must be on the way."
"Why didn't you mention Mr. Letts and Sophie to the Major just now?" Wei Ran lowered his voice and continued to ask deliberately.
In the chat that lasted for more than two hours before dawn, Smurf never mentioned anything that happened in the castle ruins. He only said that he found a mill in the forest and hid there for a while, and then met the two chains again.
Just a dog.
Of course, he could guess Timov's thoughts, but now that he had time and opportunity, he naturally didn't mind confirming his guess.
"We still don't know if Sophie and the others have escaped to Belgium alive." In the thick fog with visibility no more than ten meters, Timov explained almost close to Wei Ran's ear, "The major will definitely not mind if you bring it up at this time.
Informing the Belgian side to arrest people, whether they are resistance organizations or spies, will be a great achievement for the major.
But what about Sophie and the others? Whether those children are treated as a resistance organization or spies, it will not be easy for them."
"Isn't it more than that?" Wei Ran deliberately deceived.
"All right"
Timov finally spread his hands, took out the picture of Captain Letts from his pocket and shook it, "I admit that I may have fallen in love with Sophie. But this has nothing to do with what I want to do. I can use my
My mother swears."
"Whatever you say," Wei Ran spread his hands after confirming his guess, "Next, let's..."
"Boom!" Before he could finish his words, a clear sound of shelling came from the distance!
"88mm gun!"
"It's over there with the destroyer!"
Wei Ran and Timov made their own judgments in no particular order.
"We need to speed up!"
Timov turned towards the microphone of the walkie-talkie and sent out a signal to speed up in code. Then he and Wei Ran separated again and accelerated their pace.
Under the leadership of the two of them, this infantry unit, which was the main offensive force, pierced toward the direction of Fortress No. 3 like a sharp knife.
Drawing firepower from the destroyer and under the cover of thick fog, Timov and Weiran ran all the way to the abandoned trench and found the two abandoned half-track motorcycles and the frozen or roasted motorcycles.
Ripe dog carcass.
Without any pause at all, Timov guided the team behind him and continued to move forward along the ruts of the two half-track motorcycles.
At 7:15 in the morning, as the looming outline of Fortress No. 3 emerged in the thick fog, Timov immediately used a walkie-talkie to inform the large troops behind him of the situation. He himself and Wei Ran who were following him also
He immediately hid his figure.
At 7:30, according to the major's original plan, the destroyers and the infantry cooperating with them launched a fierce feint attack some distance away from them, focusing on attacking a German position.
Even with the cover of thick fog, Weiran and Timov, who were closest to the position, could still barely see. Not long after the battle began, there were groups of people riding motorcycles, half-track motorcycles or even bicycles.
The young soldiers rushed towards the battlefield.
After Timov passed this important news to the main force at the rear, the two quietly retreated a distance.
"hold on"
Timov whispered, "When these reinforcements arrive over there and join the battlefield, our side may start to launch an attack."
"Now it depends on whether Captain Letts is in the fortress or not," Wei Ran responded in a low voice.
"Definitely there"
Timov seemed to be particularly confident about this matter, "As you said, the shelling just now was from those 88mm cannons of Sauerkraut."
After speaking, Timov pointed to the walkie-talkie again, "I just heard that the shelling caused a lot of damage to the feint attack troops, and it was very accurate."
"Artillery observer" Wei Ran immediately understood what the other party meant, "Artillery observer sent from Heights 400?"
"What else?" Timov asked in a low voice.
"The artillery observers are here, which means that the opponent's fortress has already foreseen the attack." Wei Ran paused, "Since the artillery observers can be sent here, there is no reason not to let the quartermaster come back."
"That's it!"
Timov nodded and said very seriously, "Although it is just a guess, I guess that the quartermaster Mr. Letts must be back. Victor, a good man who took risks to save so many children should not die in such a ghost place.
"
"You are truly a saint."
Wei Ran teased her in a low voice and said no more, "Saint? What a fart saint," despite Timov's high-sounding words. In fact, he just fell in love with someone else's daughter.
To put it more harshly, as long as Bo finds a way to save his future father-in-law this time, when the war is over, will Sophie still be able to run away?
Of course, just like Timov's excuse, a good man like Letz who worked hard to save so many children during the war should not be buried with the dying empire.
While waiting quietly, the only sounds left in the dense forest were the rolling thick fog and the sound of firefights coming from a distance.
At eight o'clock in the morning, Timov put the walkie-talkie to his ear and listened, then picked up his submachine gun. In less than a minute, a
An American soldier came over under the cover of thick fog.
"boom!"
Seeing that there was only less than a hundred meters away from the fortress and the connected trench line, a gunshot was suddenly heard from the opposite side. At the same time that the gunshot reached his ears, a group of people walking at the front
A cloud of blood mist burst out from the chest of the soldier, and then he fell to the ground on his back with a general cry!
"Da da da!"
Seeing that the situation was exposed, a soldier with a BAR machine gun opened fire first. The surrounding soldiers with various weapons also immediately quickened their pace and rushed like crazy towards the area with almost no people just a few dozen meters away.
Trenches!
But soon, fiery snakes emerged from all over the reinforced concrete fortress hidden in the thick fog. They easily knocked down the American soldiers rushing towards the trenches and at the same time covered those who ran out of the fortress.
Those young soldiers!
Behind Wei Ran and others, the mortar crews who had been prepared for a long time also began to show off their power, hitting the mortar shells one after another near the entrance and exit of the fortress. Some of them were even carrying Bazooka.
The soldiers aimed at the firepower points on the fortress and fired rockets at them as if they were free.
Even with the powerful fire cover, Wei Ran could no longer care about where Timov had gone, nor did he have time to care about his life or death.
After escaping the machine gun fire that almost hit him with a flying dive that was neither good-looking nor comfortable, Wei Ran had no time to get up and fell into the trench filled with pine needles like a donkey.
After all, he had served as the quartermaster's assistant in this fortress, and he knew very well that the trenches behind the battle line usually only had a few observation posts at most.
In other words, the fight now is who can occupy this trench first. If American soldiers occupy this trench first, the Germans will be blocked in the fortress and wait to die.
If the Germans first occupied the trenches they had carefully prepared for the war, the American soldiers who had worked so hard to get here would have no choice but to be driven back!
However, at this time, the firepower of the fortress enveloped the American soldiers, making their follow-up soldiers advance extremely slowly. The fire suppression and empty troops of the American soldiers made it impossible for the Germans to occupy the trenches that had been prepared in front of their home.
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However, Wei Ran couldn't care less. Before he could stand up, a member of the German labor corps who also rushed into the trench raised the crude submachine gun in his hand towards him!
"boom!"
Wei Ran was the first to take out the gorgeous 1911 pistol from the metal book that should not appear on the battlefield, and pulled the trigger at the opponent. It was not until the young enemy fell that Wei Ran suddenly remembered that he seemed to have been
We shared the withheld wine with each other in the canteen of the fortress!
"I knew I wouldn't run so fast."
Wei Ran frowned and cursed secretly, climbed up as quickly as possible, raised the submachine gun in his hand, and started to advance along the trench towards the fortress.
"Da da da!"
A single shot knocked down an enemy wearing a Youth League uniform, but Wei Ran suddenly squatted down and swooped into a traffic trench again, narrowly escaping the machine gun fire point facing the trench.
The fire snake!
He took off his helmet and held his head against it with a submachine gun. Before he could react, the machine gun that seemed to be aimed specifically at him fired a series of bursts of fire, knocking the helmet away!
"Victor!"
Just at this moment, Timov shouted loudly from the traffic trench on the opposite side, "Attract his attention! I'll blow him up!"
"receive!"
Wei Ran looked around, gritted his teeth and pulled over the body of the familiar labor troupe member he had just knocked down with his own hands, held one of his shoulders and poked his head.
"Ta-ta-ta!" The machine gun that was really staring at him opened fire again and blew off the labor corps helmet!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Taking advantage of the machine gun fire that mistakenly thought it hit one of his own, Wei Ran had already let go of the mutilated body that was still warm but had been hit by the machine gun.
, threw the two grenades out.
Before the grenade exploded, the machine gun started again
He fired even more crazily - even if he had to penetrate the body of the labor corps member to hit the satellite!
"MG42 is a good gun"
Wei Ran, who was huddled in the traffic trench, murmured to himself and threw out a long-handled grenade that he had just pulled out from the waist of the corpse. At the same time, he continued to mutter, "It's a pity that he is a quick shooter."
Before he finished speaking, the machine gun that had been staring at him misfired without warning!
At the same time, the grenade thrown by the Weiran also exploded in the trench. Immediately after the explosion, Timov, who had been prepared for a long time, also jumped out of the trench and rushed to the side of the machine gun fire point as quickly as possible.
superior!
Almost at the same time that he threw a prepared grenade down the hole of the gun, Wei Ran had already reached out of the corner with his submachine gun with one hand, pointed it at the German soldiers who were about to shoot at Timov, and pulled the trigger.
trigger!
In the unique shooting rhythm of the M3 submachine gun, those young men who subconsciously stopped while shooting because they were too young and lacked experience immediately fell down!
"boom!"
Just when Wei Ran emptied a magazine, the grenade Timov stuffed into the gun hole also exploded. However, he did not leave in a hurry. Instead, he threw away the second grenade he had held in his hand in advance.
After entering, we followed the wall of the fortress and walked around to the front!
"boom!"
There was another explosion from inside the fortress, and a machine gun aimed at the American soldiers completely misfired with the grenade Timov inserted.
At the same time, Wei Ran had already followed the trench to the edge of the first bombed machine gun fire point. After stuffing a long-handled grenade into it, he collected the grenades along the way and accelerated his pace.
Following Timov!
With the cooperation of the two of them, three consecutive machine gun fire points were blown up one after another. As the suppressive firepower weakened, more and more American soldiers successfully jumped into the trenches and began to attack the empty fortress from the side.
!
Finally, when a soldier carrying a flamethrower successfully ran over and stuffed the flamethrower into a blown-out gun hole, the battle for the fortress finally came to an end early.
The choking smoke rising from the air, the suffocating feeling caused by the thin oxygen, and the scorching heat reaching thousands of degrees.
When the most terrifying aspect of the war was unabashedly imposed on this seemingly solid fortress, those German soldiers who were too young, and those veterans who were over fifty and had already seen many things clearly, also made wise choices.
surrender.
When the exchange of fire completely stopped, young men with weapons in their hands, as well as a few veterans with gray hair and beards, also lined up and walked out of the fortress under the supervision of machine guns.
Beside the smokey entrance, Timov, who had a wound accidentally scratched on his thigh by a stray bullet, was holding a G43 rifle he picked up from nowhere with one hand, holding the photo of Captain Letts.
They went over and looked for the lame quartermaster almost one by one.
Next to him, Wei Ran, who had also been scratched by a stray bullet, was looking for anyone familiar.
However, until the last prisoner of war walked out of the fortress, neither the quartermaster Captain Letz nor the serious-faced veteran Jens was seen.
Pulling over a prisoner of war who looked familiar, Wei Ran asked in a low voice in German, "Have you seen Captain Leitz? Quartermaster Captain Leitz."
"No, I've never seen it." This member of the Youth League, who had clearly taken too many drugs and was still holding a submachine gun and pulling the trigger with both hands, replied in a daze.
Looking at each other with Timov, the two walked to the entrance of the fortress in silence, and followed the soldiers responsible for receiving them into the fortress.
Now that he returned here as an American soldier, Wei Ran only saw a mess. Not only were ammunition boxes of various sizes piled up in the garage, but also in the corridor.
When he found an injured member of the labor force and asked about it, Wei Ran frowned. According to the prisoner of war, they had received
According to the quartermaster's order, all these ammunition are to be sent to the garage, waiting to be loaded into trucks and sent to the front line.
However, when asked where the quartermaster Captain Letts had gone, the wounded man shook his head with a confused expression, and then raised his finger to point in the direction of the quartermaster's office.
Following his memory, he quickly ran to the quartermaster's office, but Wei Ran frowned. There was a fire in the quartermaster's office. As the door opened, billowing smoke immediately came out. Subconsciously,
Pushing Timov, who had limited legs and feet, to take a step back to avoid the exploding flames, Wei Ran bent down and looked inside, only to find that there was no one or corpse in the room at all.
On the contrary, he could see the source of the fire at a glance - the heater converted from an American oil stove placed next to the bed, and the bed board that had been burned to coke!
Who would burn down the quartermaster's office for no reason? Of course it was the quartermaster! Weiran and Timov immediately thought of it together!
"We need to go to the mill and have a look," Timov said close to Wei Ran's ear.
"Now?" Wei Ran asked back, and at the same time, he turned around and walked out.
"The battle here will be over soon."
Timov simply switched to German and said blatantly while limping out, "Next, this unit will advance towards the feint battlefield. Without the support of this fortress, the enemy over there will be gone at noon at most."
Can be eliminated."
After a pause, Timov continued, "After the fighting here is over, we can return to our position safely. If we come back early, we may be able to catch up with the final battle. At worst, we will leave with them.
It’s just that we got separated. Anyway, we have already been separated once.”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Let's bandage the wounds first," Wei Ran said pointedly, "Who cares about the two wounded?"
Timov grinned upon hearing this, "I think so too." They helped each other leave the fortress, and the two of them found a medical soldier to help them briefly treat their wounds.
Declining the other party's suggestion to help find a stretcher bearer, Weiran found a captured half-track motorcycle and took the initiative to take on the task of transporting the wounded.
When no one was paying attention to him, Wei Ran pretended to find a prisoner of war and asked for the direction of the mill, then increased the accelerator and quietly left the team under the cover of thick fog.
Following the route that Captain Letts took him to know well, he arrived at the mill. Far away, he saw an unmanned half-track motorcycle driving into the river without hesitation.
On the bridge not far away, there was a figure holding a cane. Standing on the bridge, he looked at the oncoming half-track motorcycle in astonishment.
When Wei Ran stopped the car, Captain Leitz, who had already taken off his military uniform, raised his hands with a wry smile and said calmly, "I surrender."
"Mr. Letts?" asked Timov, who also limped out of the car.
"You know me?" Letz looked at the American soldier Timov in astonishment. "I know Sophie." Before Timov finished speaking, Letz's face immediately became extremely gloomy.
"They have fled to Belgium"
Timov continued speaking as if no one was watching. At the same time, he took out the Aesop's Fables from his pocket. After opening it, he picked up the photo from inside and handed it to the other party. Then he tore the Aesop's Fables into two pieces.
Half, and handed half of it to the other party.
"On the back of the photo is a radio frequency that can contact her. This Aesop's fables is a code book."
As Timov spoke, he stuffed his other half back into his arms, "In addition, if you want to hide in the ruins of that castle, you'd better find a reasonable identity for yourself. We will occupy this place soon. You
Hidden here, you will always be found."
"Did you capture the fortress?" Captain Letts asked abruptly, "How do you know Sophie?"
Timov smiled after hearing this, "Why don't you try to contact Sophie to ask about this? Mr. Letts, I admire you for saving so many children in such a difficult situation. May God bless you and Sophie.
