Heroic sniper Natasha, with her back against the wall, her face filled with joy of victory, even though the battle is not over yet.
"Igor! Igor! I did it! My current record has finally reached 400. I think I am already the best female sniper in the entire country. Oh no! Maybe I have a better record than all the male snipers.
Be high!”
Looking at her excited look, Igor shook his head and was not infected by her excitement at all.
"My dear, you'd better calm down first. Your work in this battle has been completed. Don't think about fighting anymore."
"But, I have surpassed Pavlyuchenko, and my record has reached 400. Am I going to hide cowardly? Aren't my comrades still fighting on the front line?"
Seeing that Igor kept his mouth shut and said nothing, Natasha continued to yell: "We fought a war with the Finns a few years ago. One of them had a sniper named Simon Haye. Although he was an enemy, he was also
Kill 500 of our troops. Since my record is already 400, I should continue to work hard. The world's number one sniper must be a Soviet citizen, and I think I am the latest person to take on this goal!
"
"Enough!" Igor yelled suddenly: "Natasha! Before you want to surpass that Finn, you must first learn to save your own life. You think you are invulnerable because you are a veteran. After a few days of fighting, your adventure
Too many moves. Now obey my orders! Stand at attention!"
"you……"
"Soldier! Execute the order! I tell you, this is the power given to me by the commander. Obviously your restless mentality is no longer suitable for continuing to fight. Now give me your rifle."
Natasha never expected that she would be disarmed.
She leaned her back against the wall and pouted her mouth in embarrassment.
"Damn it, you actually disarmed me. I still want to kill the enemy! I still want to perform meritorious deeds!" The girl thought in her heart and couldn't help but look at the gun case in her waist.
"That's right! The commander said that sniping is an act, and it can also be done with a pistol. But... no! If I draw a gun and join the battle, Igor will definitely strangle me by the neck..."
After a mental struggle, Natasha did nothing, as if a child who had made a mistake was just obeying the orders of her parents.
Igor just ordered Natasha to stand still and forced her to calm down by forcing her to stand still.
The location where the two of them are located is actually very safe. Most of Kovpak's frontal assault troops are cleaning the battlefield in the urban area here.
The battle is not over yet, but the enemies have moved their positions one after another, obviously escaping in the direction of the bridge. Since the terrain in the area where the bridge is located is relatively narrow, ordering the troops to attack with all their strength will only cause excessive concentration of troops. As it turns out, the enemies have planted bombs again,
Our side will suffer heavy losses.
Kovpak believed in Balzen very much. Besides, one of the duties of that unit was to undertake critical assaults. Balzen and the one hundred men under his command were real veterans, so there was no reason why they could not succeed if they cut off the enemy's retreat.
Therefore, Kovpak was not on the front line. In order to avoid being shot in the dark, he took off his black leather jacket and held a rifle in his hand, just like an ordinary soldier.
He commanded the search in the rear, because this battle was the last planned attack, and his orders were quite special.
"Brothers! Search all the rooms and take away everything you think is valuable, leaving only the furniture that cannot be moved."
This order seemed to require the soldiers to act like locusts, and eventually gnawed away at the big tree until only the lonely trunk was left.
The order has been issued, and the soldiers in the rear are taking action. They want to search for the hidden enemy remnants. After confirming that the house is invincible, they immediately start a "moving operation."
Many of the houses the soldiers searched were enemy and puppet barracks, and many were obviously civilian residences. In a difficult environment, any piece of cloth was precious, and daily necessities such as tableware were hard to come by.
Kovpak's military management was naturally much weaker than that of Yang Mingzhi. For example, he allowed the soldiers to keep the loot as their own, so that the entire "relocation operation" was more like banditry.
They searched for forks, spoons, razors and even combs in the houses, and some soldiers even fought with each other for these trophies.
There are also some boring guys who put the women's clothes they found on their own rain-soaked clothes and deliberately put on some poses to make the onlookers laugh.
Igor saw some soldiers coming out of the house. They were really full of food, and their faces were filled with the joy of the harvest.
He sighed slightly: "These people, after all, do not belong to our troops..."
"Natasha? Have you calmed down?"
"Да."
"Come with me now."
Natasha was still a little depressed, her big eyes always staring at Igor's back, and her gun was always carried on his back.
"My dear, you don't have to go to the front line." As soon as he finished speaking, several loud noises suddenly came from the distance. "It seems that Balzen started shelling again because of the enemy's fortress."
"What does this have to do with me?"
"Of course it doesn't matter. But you have received medical training and have even performed surgeries yourself. There are no reliable military doctors among Kovpak's people. Maybe you can make a cameo now."
"All right."
"Attention!" Igor suddenly stopped, squatted down, and grabbed the submachine gun hanging on his chest.
"What happened in front?"
"Yes!" Igor quickly unloaded the rifle, handed it back to Natasha, and said, "The battle is really not something I want to pause just when I want. If there is a situation ahead, prepare to fight!"
It turned out that the two of them were walking in a dilapidated street full of rubble, and they thought they would encounter friendly troops who were busy looking for loot.
Suddenly, two people emerged from the room - a man and a woman.
The appearance of these two people instantly attracted the attention of the surrounding soldiers, and their guns were pointed at them.
Natasha's eyes were sharp. She could clearly see that the disheveled woman's arms had been tied up. What was even more shocking was that she had a grenade attached to her body. Another grenade was attached to the drawstring.
The hemp rope was held by the man behind him, wearing black clothes and a black hat, with an armband on his right arm.
"Igor, that woman is a hostage?!"
"Yes! What I saw was that a puppet army kidnapped a civilian."
"Do you want me to shoot that traitor to our great motherland?"
"No! If you kill him, you may have torn off the rope. Let's not be impulsive and touch him first."
When the two arrived only 40 meters away from the scene of the incident, they could clearly hear the roar of the puppet soldiers: "You let me live, otherwise I will kill this woman! Make way for me and let me
escape!"
However, the soldiers surrounding the two men made no move to retreat. They did not even hide their guns, but kept holding them as if they were ready to shoot at any time, without caring about the safety of the hostages.
Natasha could clearly see that the hostage was a young woman. As for such a person here, she guessed what kind of person this woman was.
She muttered fiercely: "I think that woman is also a traitor. She serves the German army."
"Silly girl, who would take the initiative to serve the enemy? That woman was forced to do so."
"But doesn't she have the courage to fight? Sell her soul to survive?"
"Stop talking about this." Igor ordered sternly: "Aim at the traitor's hand. Break his arm and the hostage will be saved."
"Okay!" Natasha immediately lay down on the rubble, holding the rifle with the bricks that could be seen everywhere, her cheek against the butt of the gun, and her right eye staring at the crosshair...
The two sides continued to confront each other, and the desperate puppet soldiers continued to scream when they saw that the Soviet army had no intention of letting him go.
This group of guerrillas is also a group of Slavs. Regarding the hostages, they first regard killing the traitors as their first priority.
The woman suddenly shouted: "Shoot quickly, don't worry about killing me! They killed the whole town and left a few of us women as slaves."
Suddenly, a soldier asked in a high voice: "Silly woman! Do you really want to die?"
"I don't want to die! But who would marry a woman who has been defiled by them!"
As she spoke, the woman's face was already full of tears.
Or she saw the rubble and gray-black stumps all over the ground, or she was desperate. Her tied hands actually grabbed the grenade cord, and yanked hard, causing the grenade in her chest to burn violently.
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No one expected that things would develop like this, and the woman chose to commit suicide!
"Danger!" Igor quickly got down and held down Natasha's head.
From the corner of her eyes, Natasha saw clearly what happened next. She saw the hostage carrying a smoking grenade and rushing towards the shocked puppet soldier. After a violent explosion, both of them died together.
Both the hostages and the traitors were dead. The soldiers who had escaped the explosion stood up one after another. They continued to search as if nothing had happened. Only a few soldiers used engineering shovels to bury the hostage's fragmented bodies in a sudden attack...
"Haha, they are already numb." Igor stood up and pulled up Natasha, who was shocked.
"Honey, how are you doing?"
"Not bad. Just..."
"Don't think too much, keep holding on to your weapons and guard all the buildings and rooms. I was wrong, this place is by no means absolutely safe. We have to go to the back of the battlefield, only there is absolutely safe!"
The battle continued, and the battlefield almost surrounded the bridgehead.
It turned out that Balzen did not expect that after he organized a mortar bombardment, the German city defenses basically collapsed, so it was reasonable for the army to pursue the victory. The frontal offensive troops went smoothly, and the remaining enemies had to withdraw near the wooden bridge.
On the wooden bridge, four machine gun bunkers were suppressing the Soviet attack, and a total of five machine guns were shooting wildly.
The environment near the bridgehead was relatively cramped, and the Kovpak people once entered a "battle addiction," which meant that the soldiers were carried away by the fury during the attack and entered a state of selflessness.
More than twenty excited soldiers were mercilessly shot down by German machine guns. Seeing this tragic situation, the follow-up troops suddenly woke up!
Both sides used their respective weapons to shoot at the German bridgehead. Due to the powerful firepower, Balzen did not dare to act rashly.
"Damn! The enemy's firepower is actually so strong! Are their elites deployed here?!"
During the fierce battle, Balzen felt that his attack went smoothly, which was entirely due to the German army's adjustment of deployment. However, they defended the bridge, so the bridge must be too necessary.
Just thinking about it for a moment, Balzen also felt that this wooden bridge was important. Currently, the Pripet River is wide and fast, and a suitable bridge must be found to cross the river. Looking around, there is only one wooden bridge in Turov.
If the troops want to attack the north, the nearest route is to pass through the wooden bridge here.
"Could it be that the Germans thought we were going north to blow up the railway? Then we were going to attack Pinsk? It's really troublesome for you."
In any case, the bridge must be captured.
At the same time, the German company commander who was lucky enough to survive Natasha's sniper took his twenty soldiers and defended the bridge. In fact, the explosives had already been laid. If they wanted to explode, they could do it now.
But he abided by the division commander's order to die. Huddled behind the sandbag, he continued to encourage his fighting men: "Keep shooting and kill as many enemies as possible. When the light is on you, you retreat along the bridge. I will stay and blow up the bridge."
"
However, no one intended to escape, and the last German soldiers fell into an inextricable "battle addiction." They were also carried away by rage and became completely fighting machines.
Balzen intended to use an RPG to destroy the bridgehead, but he fired two consecutive bombs, which passed over the target's head and fell into the river in the distance, exploding violently.
"Damn, that's a long way away!"
Balzen was planning to continue to move over and continue the bombardment when the distance was enough. At this time, he attacked the Soviet army behind Turov in a roundabout way and entered the city to fight.
Almost all of the puppet troops defending the southwest of the town were deployed in areas with relatively low combat intensity precisely because of their low combat effectiveness.
However, the strength of the garrison was stretched thin. How could the more than 80 puppet troops, almost all equipped with rifles, withstand the fierce attack of nearly 2,000 men from the second brigade under Kovpak?
The puppet troops also collapsed at the first touch. They were fighting and running, but they were hit by bullets and grenade fragments one after another.
A large number of puppet soldiers also raised their hands and shouted for mercy in Belarusian.
They pinned their lives and fortunes on the mercy of the Soviet army, even though they knew the attackers were guerrillas.
Falling into the hands of the guerrillas would basically mean death. Even so, they decided to surrender. What if the other party would show mercy?
Something unexpected by the puppet army actually happened. The guerrillas did not shoot them dead, but controlled them one by one and twisted them together.
"Don't shoot the prisoners of war immediately! We will capture them all, interrogate the guilty among them, and then punish them!"
Therefore, the order given by Popdrinko, the captain of the Second Battalion, was definitely not out of mercy.
The reason was just that when the commander led his troops to make a detour, they happened to discover the massacre scene. The rain washed away the gray corpses, including men, women, and even children. Knowing all this, all the soldiers were tortured mentally.
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Popdelenko left some men to bury the bodies while the rest of the troops continued the attack. He did not know who had killed the civilians, so he decided to interrogate the enemies in the town.
His troops achieved great success. When a considerable number of enemies surrendered, the soldiers were willing to turn them one by one to a street corner, where they were closely guarded by a group of soldiers.
Even though the battle is not over yet, the interrogation has already begun.
The roundabout troops successfully joined forces with the frontal troops. Currently, the only German position remaining is a corner of the bridgehead.
The German company commander discovered that all the telephone lines in the town were cut off, and he could no longer contact the troops on the west side of the town. The only men he could control were the twenty soldiers at the bridge, and that was all.
He didn't complain or get excited, he simply extended the muzzle of his gun out of the sandbag and poured bullets from his submachine gun towards the approximate location of the Soviet army in order to block the attack for a longer period of time. (To be continued)