"Company commander, why are you here?" Mika asked curiously.
"It was old Ino who pulled me back," Captain Korpi explained. "He helped deliver ammunition supplies almost all night long."
"Dad Ino, you didn't rest?" Mika couldn't help but raise his voice a little louder, "Your..."
"Shut up"
Hunter Ino couldn't help but push back Mika's words, "Once the Soviets are beaten away, they will have plenty of time to rest."
Mika was about to say something when Wei Ran touched his elbow lightly, changed the subject before the other party could speak, and asked, "Captain Korpi, can you tell us about the situation on the battlefield in detail?"
"The torn enclosure is located near the lake on the south side."
Captain Korpi explained loudly, "We originally thought they were going to join Suao Musalmi's troops, but several cars took advantage of that moment to rush out of Suao Musalmi and run due east, and they ran together.
Yes, as well as the two vehicles in the encirclement we are responsible for."
"Should we block the torn encirclement or chase those cars?" asked the old hunter Ino.
"You three, go chase the car!" Captain Korpi warned additionally, "The flag of the 163rd Division in the encirclement is missing. Maybe their division commander has escaped."
"no problem!"
Ino responded, shaking the reins vigorously to speed up the sled slightly. After sending the Finnish soldiers behind him to the battlefield, the three of them immediately bid farewell to Captain Korpi and walked along the remaining remains in the snow.
The tire marks caught up with him.
"Victor, do you have that kerosene lamp with you?" Ino asked as he waited for the sled to pass through the battlefield and immediately slowed down.
"Yes, there!" Wei Ran immediately responded in the affirmative.
"Light it up"
The old hunter Ino unexpectedly stopped the sleigh completely, "Mika, you are responsible for keeping an eye on the left side to see if there are any sudden footprints. Victor, you are responsible for keeping an eye on the right side."
"Isn't this too risky?" Although Wei Ran said this, he still used the cover of his backpack to take out the kerosene gas lamp and light it, and under the former's command, hung it on the armrest on the side of the sleigh.
The dazzling icy blue light immediately clearly illuminated the ruts they were following, but at the same time it also exposed the three people sitting in the sleigh.
Before the reindeer started running, the old hunter Ino explained slowly, "If the Soviets want to escape from Finland alive, the most they can do is hijack our sleigh, and there is a high probability that they will not shoot at us."
Wei Ran and Mika glanced at each other, and in unison they both tightened their grip on the submachine guns hidden in the wolfskin blanket.
The sleigh ran forward on the ice for nearly five kilometers. Along the way, they not only encountered Finnish soldiers chasing after them on skis, but also encountered a GAZ M1 car stuck on the ice.
But when they were about to reach the encirclement of the 662nd Regiment of the 163rd Division of the Soviet Union, the ruts they were chasing split apart without any warning. Except for the two tracks that were still heading east along the ice, there were also separate tracks.
There are two heading towards due north and due south respectively.
"Which way to run?" Mika was in trouble and asked the old hunter Ino who was in charge of driving.
"to the north"
After thinking for a moment, the old hunter Enoch shook the reins vigorously, "There are our people in the east, and the Soviets going in that direction will definitely not be able to escape. Although there are only Civil Guards in the south, if they run south, they will only get farther and farther away from the Soviet Union.
.So we go north. Only in this direction can we return to the Soviet Union as quickly as possible!"
Wei Ran opened his mouth, but did not say anything after all. If he was sure that Commander Zelentsov of the 163rd Division had really gone south, he would not have to risk his life to return to this war.
In the howling cold wind blowing in the face, the sleigh pulled by two reindeer ran faster and faster, and the icy blue light emitted by the kerosene gas lamp hanging on the sleigh also echoed the green aurora overhead in the dark night.
conspicuous.
Amid the intense vigilance of the three people, the two reindeer ran for an hour, and finally an invisible shadow appeared in front of them.
"Attention," Ino warned in a low voice. He took out the Ruger P08 pistol from his waist and hid it in his wide sleeves. Then he shook the reins and sped up slightly.
Upon hearing this, Wei Ran immediately raised his submachine gun, ready to strike at any enemy that might appear.
As the distance got closer and closer, the distance between the two became closer and closer. Finally, they finally saw clearly that the black shadow was indeed a car, a GAZ M1 car produced in the Soviet Union!
Looking sideways at the series of scattered footprints leading to the forest on the shore, the old hunter Ino lowered his voice and said, "Mika, you use your skis to go around from the right. Victor and I continue walking along the lake shore.
, find a way to lure them out and capture them alive."
After hearing this, Mika jumped off the sleigh without hesitation, strapped on his skis, and rushed into the forest following the footprints.
"Victor, go put bells on them." As the old hunter Ino spoke, he reached out and took out two copper bells the size of a pear from a small box on the edge of the sled.
When Wei Ran took the bell, the former took off his white camouflage clothes and said, "Hide yourself with a wolfskin blanket later."
"Is this possible?" Wei Ran asked as he avoided the reindeer heads that kept stretching toward his arms and helped them put on their copper bells.
"Who would shoot at Santa's sleigh?" Ino joked with a smile, "Don't worry, as long as they still want to escape to the Soviet Union alive, they won't shoot us to death."
"I hope so..."
Wei Ran pulled out his mittens from the mouth of a reindeer, lay down on the sleigh, and covered himself with a thick wolf skin blanket.
Amidst the pleasant tinkling of the bells, the sleigh, which was deliberately slowed down under the control of Ino, ran for more than a hundred meters toward the center of the lake, moving slowly in a direction parallel to the shore.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! When the cold wind carried the crisp sound of bells into the forest, Mika, who was carrying a submachine gun, also speeded up slightly, following the undisguised steps on the ground.
The footprints followed him.
Not long after, the sound of conversation that he couldn't understand at all came from the front. When Mika heard the sound, he immediately squatted down and used his ski poles to gradually close the distance between the two parties under the cover of the surrounding cedars.
When he walked around two pine trees growing side by side, he immediately saw the edge of the forest not far away. There was a Soviet soldier holding a telescope and looking at the slow-moving sleigh on the lake. Beside him, there were five people lying side by side.
A trembling Soviet Red Army soldier holding a gun.
This was not over yet. Behind the six of them, a Soviet soldier dressed in a blue hat was wading through the snow, shivering and pulling branches he could find from all around, trying to light a bonfire with matches.
With the faint light before the match went out each time, Mika, who was hiding not far from him, could clearly see that his thighs were completely frozen, and the frozen trouser legs were covered with thick
snow and fallen leaves.
If nothing else, this unlucky guy must have accidentally fallen into the water when the car got stuck in the ice. If he didn't take off his pants quickly and light a fire to warm himself up, it would only take an hour at most, even if he didn't freeze to death.
, his two legs are also useless.
Without rushing to shoot, Mika waited patiently for three of the other soldiers to run out of the forest and onto the lake with weapons in hand. Then he carefully untied the skis tied to his shoes, slowly lay on them, and then pulled out his other weapons.
With the Finnish hunting knife and Nagant revolver at his waist, he lightly kicked the pine tree where he was originally hiding. Like a moving mass of snow, he slid silently towards the man who finally held the flagpole under the flagpole.
