After dark, the first German engineers appeared near Nangang. They were ordered to open a road in the minefield so that the troops stationed in Nangang could pass.
Sokov stood in the observation center in Beigang, looking at the German engineers who were vaguely visible in the minefield with a telescope. Belkin, be curiously asked: "Comrade Brigade Commander, tell me, will the German engineers be killed by mines in such a dark night?"
"I think it shouldn't be. Didn't you see that every engineer carries a flashlight?" Sokov pointed to the light ball that appeared in the minefield and said to Belkin: "They used the flashlight to confirm that there was a lightning at some point, and immediately extinguished the flashlight. If there were only one or two engineers, they used this method to find mines, and the sentry on our duty would not be easy to find. But today the Germans were a little anxious and actually dispatched no less than one platoon of engineers to clear mines in the minefield. This movement was a bit loud."
"Comrade Brigade Commander," said Brisky, the fourth battalion commander standing beside him, "We have mortars on our position. If we fire in the minefield, at least half of the enemies can be wiped out."
"If we fire the gun now, we will not only scare the enemy away." Sokov shook his head and objected to Brisky's proposal: "And the mines in the minefield will be detonated during shelling. After we repel the enemy, we will need to spend time to rebuild the mines. This will not be worth the cost."
It took the German engineers about an hour to barely open two passages in the minefield. They had been waiting for a company outside and immediately advanced quickly along the passage to Nangang. They arrived at the foot of Nangang and stopped moving forward. A German captain raised a flashlight covered in red cloth and swayed towards the top of the mountain.
After a while, a red highlight appeared on the top of the mountain, which was shaking constantly. Seeing that the contact code was met, the German captain whispered: "Send it down and quickly seize the position on the hill!"
"Pause down and quickly seize the position on the hills!"
"Pause down,..."
The captain's order was passed down by word of mouth to every soldier. Although the information obtained said that the Soviet army had given up this position, the German officers and soldiers did not dare to take it lightly. They hugged their waists, put the butt on their abdomen, and approached the above position carefully.
When they were more than ten meters away from the trench, the German captain ordered the troops to stop again. He squatted in a crater and shook the flashlight in the direction of the trench. After a while, a shaking red flashlight appeared in the trench, and a voice asked, "Is it from the 295th Infantry Division?"
The captain stopped shaking the flashlight and asked, "Who are you?"
"I am Corporal Ernst of the Special Operations Team." A voice came from the trench again: "You haven't answered me yet, are you from the 295th Infantry Division?"
The captain stood up and replied in the direction of the trench, "Yes, we are from the 295th Infantry Division, we are ordered to take over the Nangang position. I am Captain Stephen, the commander of the vanguard company."
"Sir Captain, I'm out and tell your people not to shoot."
When the captain heard Ernst's voice, he hurriedly shouted behind him: "It's his own people, no one is allowed to shoot." After he ordered all this, he shouted to the trench again: "Come out, Corporal Ernst."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw three figures coming out of the trench. Because the light was too dark, he couldn't see the other person's face clearly. He quickly took off the red envelope covered on the flashlight and shone it at the other person, and found that the three soldiers wearing Soviet uniforms were coming towards him. He hurriedly pointed the pistol at the visitor and shouted sternly: "Stop, if you don't stop, I will shoot!"
In the quiet night, Captain Stephen's voice seemed particularly loud. When the soldiers who had just lowered their guns, they hurriedly raised their guns and aimed at the three people coming when they heard the captain's words.
"Captain Stephen," the familiar voice came again, "I am Corporal Ernst, what's wrong with you? Why are you pointing at me with a gun?"
Stephen heard the person who was talking to him was the sound that had just come from the trench, but he did not put down the gun in his hand, and continued to point at the other party and asked, "Why are you wearing Russian uniforms?"
"What's strange about this, Captain Stephen," Ernst said disapprovingly: "Since we are a special operation team deep in the rear of the enemy, and in order to conceal our identities, what's so great about wearing the Russian uniform?"
Ernst's words dispelled Stephen's doubts. He thought about it carefully and seemed to be right. Going deep into the enemy to carry out missions, wearing the enemy's military uniform is a means of hiding identity. He quickly ordered the soldiers to put down their guns, then walked forward alone, shook hands with Ernst and the other two, and said, "Thank you for your hard work!"
Ernst looked at the shadows ahead and asked Stephen: "Sir Captain, how many people have you come?"
"A company," Stephen thought that Ernst was coming to pick him up, so he did not hide it: "The battalion and two other companies are still behind. They will wait until we occupy the position before coming over. Corporal, let's talk about the situation here."
Ens nodded in a characteristic way and said to Stephen: "Fortifications are built on the other three sides of Nangang except the east. However, the Russians built a line of defense at the foot of the mountain in the east. Originally, it was built to prevent our army from seizing the dock from the waterway and tracing the back road of Nangang. If they found that our army occupied Nangang, they might launch a counterattack immediately. Captain, although I have no right to give you an order, I still recommend that you send someone to the east of the mountain to build the fortifications."
Stephen agreed with Ernst's statement. While ordering the communications troops to report to the battalion, he said that his company had entered the Nangang position in Mamayevgang; while commanding people to rush to the east of the hill to repair fortifications.
Sokov, in the Beigang Observatory, also saw the German troops boarding Nangang. When he found that the enemy occupying the position had only about 200 people, he was greatly disappointed. He thought to himself: What's going on? Why is there only one company of troops? Didn't the Germans say they wanted to dispatch a battalion? Did the Germans discover their intentions and intentionally send only one company to test themselves?
Berkin only saw a dark figure climbing to Nangang, and he couldn't wait to ask: "Comrade Brigade Commander, the enemy has taken the bait. Can we notify the troops in Nangang to prepare to attack?"
"Don't worry, my political commissar." Sokov shook his head in response to Belkin's proposal and said, "At present, there is only one enemy company on the hill. Let's wait a little longer to see if there are any enemies entering the surface positions of Nangang."