Burning Moscow

65. Investigation behind enemy lines (2)

I was lying in the cold snow, watching the situation with a telescope. The fog was too thick, and there was a vast expanse of whiteness tens of meters away, and nothing could be seen clearly.

“Comrade Lieutenant Colonel,” Aji, who was lying next to me, stabbed me and asked in a low voice, “Did you see anything?”

I put down the binoculars, shook my head and said: “The fog is too much, I can’t see everything clearly.”

“Do you need me to take someone over to see?” He asked for my opinion.

“No need to do this,” I shook my head again and said, “Anyway, they are coming in our direction. We will soon find out who is coming.”

The sound of footsteps is getting closer, but no one can be heard. I raised the telescope again to observe the situation. Unfortunately, I could only see a group of people shaking in the fog, and I couldn’t see who they were. So I handed the binoculars to Aji, who was next to him, to show him who came.

He just watched it for a while, and he told me excitedly: “Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, it’s his own.” After putting down the telescope, he got up from the snow.

“Wait a minute!” I immediately stopped him. You know, this is an enemy-occupied area. How could our troops march here sternly? Seeing him lying on the snowy ground again, I asked uneasy: “Did you see clearly just now? Are you sure it is our army?”

“Yes, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel.” Aji replied very positively, “Although it is too foggy to see clearly. But I can see clearly that the few people walking in front are wearing long gray military coats, and you The clothes I wore some time ago are the same.”

“This is behind the enemy lines. Be vigilant at any time.” Hearing what he said, I felt a little suspicious, so I quickly explained to him: “After they come, you will take someone to contact their commander.”

“Yes.” Aji answered me very readily, but this time he didn’t stand up, he lay down on the snow and continued to hold his binoculars to observe the situation.

“Huh?!” Aji suddenly exclaimed in a low voice. I looked at him in surprise, and couldn’t help asking worriedly: “You didn’t see Germans in our army, did you?”

“There are really Germans!” He said, handing me the telescope. In the telescope, a group of our soldiers in grey military coats lowered their heads and moved forward mechanically. At the front of the queue was a single motorcycle. The soldiers on bicycles wore steel helmets and windshield glasses. Anyone who looks at the long military coat can immediately recognize that it is the dress of the German army.

what happened? I continued to observe the situation. As more and more soldiers of our army came into my sight, I actually saw a few Germans with weapons walking on the left and right of the team. Oh my God! Seeing all this, I suddenly realized that this was a captured soldier of our army, who was being escorted by the German army towards their back.

“Aji,” I put down my binoculars, turned my head, looked at Aji who was silent next to him, and ordered: “These are the captured soldiers of our army. The Germans are taking them to the prisoner-of-war camp. Let the comrades do it. Be prepared, if necessary, be prepared to fight these Germans.”

“Understood,” Aji promised and left on his knees.

“Come here,” I whispered to the sniper.

Following my shout, the sniper crawled to my side silently, looking at me, waiting for my command.

“Hold the gun here,” I pointed to a bush next to me, and said, “As soon as I say fire, you will shoot right away, understand?”

“Understood, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel.” The sniper answered me very simply.

“Excuse me, what’s your name?” I asked embarrassedly: “I remember you used to say it, but I forgot.”

“My name is Agumint.” He said that he had placed the Mosin Nagan rifle with a scope in the bushes.

The troops walking on the forest trail have completely entered my line of sight, so clearly that they can see everything without a telescope. There were about a hundred people in the whole army. The captured soldiers almost wore gray military coats. Some of them wore steel helmets, some wore cotton caps, and some even had their heads bare. Dejected expression. I repeatedly counted the number of German soldiers escorting them. Except for the two riding motorcycles at the front and rear of the team, there were only five soldiers with submachine guns in the middle. Seeing all this, I couldn’t help frowning. There were more than a hundred Soviet prisoners of war, but the Germans actually sent seven soldiers to **** them?

“Comrade Lieutenant Colonel,” Aggie did not know when he climbed back again, and asked me in a low voice, “What shall we do now?”

“Hit!” I replied to him very simply. There are seven German talents, and 13 of us, with mental arithmetic and unintentional, this ambush is sure to win. “As soon as the sniper’s gunshot sounded, everyone immediately opened fire, and the target was chosen.”

“Yes!” Aji promised, and then crawled to convey my order to the soldiers.

“Agument,” I whispered to the sniper not far away, “Destroy the German soldiers riding motorcycles behind the team.”

“Pop!” As soon as my voice fell, Aguminte’s gun rang. I saw through the binoculars that the German soldier riding a motorcycle at the back of the team exploded with a cloud of blood mist, his body leaned back, and the man and his car fell heavily on the snow.

The gunshot is the order. All the weapons fired together. After a series of gunshots, another German soldier on a motorcycle and the three soldiers who were nearing our ambush were knocked out. The remaining two German soldiers, because on the other side of the queue, our captured soldiers were blocked in the middle, we could not shoot. After the gunshots, the two hid in the middle of the team and fired back in the direction of our ambush.

Seeing the captured soldiers stood there with a dull expression, and letting the German soldiers shoot at us hiding among them, I made my teeth tickled with anger. After all, this is an enemy-occupied area, and the ambush cannot be turned into an encounter, and it must be quickly resolved. So I stood up recklessly and shouted at the silly soldiers: “Get down! Get down! Get down! Get down…”

Before I finished shouting, a person behind me fell to the ground. At the same time, a few bullets hit the place where I was standing just now, raising a series of snowflakes. I turned my head and saw that it turned out that Aji threw me to the ground. I smiled at him gratefully and said, “Thank you, Aji, you just saved my life.”

The captured soldiers listened to my shout, and then they came back to their senses and lay on the ground collectively, revealing the German soldiers who had been hidden among them. For the sniper, this was an unattainable target. After two gunshots, the remaining two German soldiers fell under Agument’s gun without any suspense.

Seeing that all the German soldiers were killed, I took the soldiers and stood up from the hidden place, and walked over to the captured soldiers.

“Assemble!” Aji stood on the side of the road and shouted orders at the soldiers who had just gotten up from the ground. Under his command, the soldiers quickly formed a neat formation of four.

“Which part of you are you?” I walked to the front of the queue and asked aloud Maybe it was because my camouflage suit had no military rank. No one answered me for my question.

“Comrade Lieutenant Colonel asked you, why didn’t he answer?” Aji couldn’t see it, and stepped forward to relieve me.

“Report to Comrade Lieutenant Colonel,” a soldier with the rank of corporal came out of the queue and replied: “We were originally from the Fifth Army. The troops were encircled. Most of the soldiers died, and the rest of us were there. Only when there is no ammunition and food will be captured.”

“Okay,” I interrupted him, and said dissatisfied: “I didn’t ask why you were captured. Not to mention the shame that more than one hundred of you were escorted away by seven German soldiers. Just now the German devils were hiding. When shooting at us among you, why didn’t you resist?” Hearing what I said, the soldiers bowed their heads in shame and dared not answer.

“Comrade Lieutenant Colonel,” Aji asked me next to him, “What shall we do next?”

“Gelia,” I shouted at the back.

“Here!” The sergeant promised to run over, stood up and saluted in front of me, and asked respectfully: “Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, do you have any instructions?”

“I appoint you as the commander of this army and bring them back to our army’s position. Is there a problem?” Although I am very dissatisfied with the performance of these fighters just now, the strength of the troops on the battlefield is insufficient. It is still necessary to go back to enrich the line of defense.

Sergeant Relia looked at the neatly standing queue in front, hesitated for a moment, and replied: “No problem, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel. I promise to complete the task.”