The soldiers of the reconnaissance company were dressed in black-gray linen, which was very close to the color of the soil. The ice and snow www.biquge.info the pen and fun pavilion are gone, and the new camouflage makes them lie on the ground, and at first glance they are just mounds.

Balzen sent a telegram to the division headquarters reporting an encounter with the German corpse collectors on the battlefield.

Yevlov's order was simple - keep an eye on them.

The soldiers of the reconnaissance company have been informed about the news that the German 707th Division has changed its guard again. In the previous battles, the overall performance of the German 707th Division was not good. But in the battle of Kuta Town, their defenses were indeed tenacious. Some people had participated in that battle and knew very well how the enemy's combat effectiveness was stronger than that of the 715th Division.

The warriors lay on the ground, quietly watching the enemy's every move. I saw that these German soldiers simply removed the corpses and piled them on the car like a pile of wood.

The enemy is transporting corpses in trucks instead of mule-horse carts. Their trucks are plentiful? Fuel is just as abundant?

The commander of the second platoon, who had led people to make up and investigate, asked again this time: "Sir, wouldn't it be beautiful for us to open one of the enemy's tents at night, grab a tongue, and warm up the enemy's current situation?" ”

In the past, this method was very easy to use, and military orders dictated it, and it was not allowed to take the initiative to provoke. Balzen shook his head and refused: "The enemy will inevitably increase vigilance when he finds that there are fewer people, and we still think of them smarter." The enemy can use the truck in a grand manner, and it is estimated that the enemy's equipment is better. After a few months of recuperation, our defeated men should be smarter. ”

Fall down twice in one place, unless you're an idiot! Balzen knows the importance of vigilance, and the closer you get to the road, the more careful you must be.

Balzen made the decision, and since the truck had been rutted in the soft ground, he continued northward following the tracks.

In order to avoid exposure, everyone hid in the forest during the day to watch and rest, and in the dead of night, continued to walk north in the faint moonlight.

This was a battlefield, and everyone in the reconnaissance company had been here, and it was a maximum of twenty kilometers north to the road. Theoretically, you can walk in fast and arrive in one night!

The whole company continued to advance in a triangular formation, with the soldiers loaded and ready for battle at all times.

One hundred and forty men marched under the cover of night, the soil obscured the footsteps of the people, and no one exchanged ears, and in the silence of the night there was only the sound of the wind and the chirping of owls.

At the forefront were five spearheads, their eyes were excellent, and they finally spotted an anomaly in the distance at the edge of the forest.

The Spearhead hurried over and said alertly, "We see a light in the distance, although it is dim, and we can conclude that it is not natural light." ”

"It's the enemy smoking." Balzen said casually.

"That's right! Soon it may be, because the light is very dim and the color is yellow. ”

The half-crouching Barzen smiled, beckoned a few soldiers to come, and spread out a huge linen cloth and draped it over his body. A few people propped up the improvised tent, and flashlights lit up the map. Balzen marked the new location, which was already too close to the road.

He called the platoon commanders again and ordered, "You are divided into four groups in a platoon. Everyone builds their positions and prepares to meet the enemy. ”

The reconnaissance company moved quickly, and a fan-shaped temporary blocking position had been established on the periphery of the woods, although Balzen did not believe in a large German attack. He also ordered a few soldiers who were good at climbing to set up an observation post on the red pine, and by the way, brought the antenna with them in order to establish communication with the division headquarters.

Everything went according to plan, until dawn the sky turned blue.

The warrior who tied himself to the top of the tree gradually saw the silhouette in the distance, where it had changed its appearance.

Balzen slept for a while, he was woken up by the soldiers, as if the enemy was attacking, and he subconsciously drew his pistol.

"Company commander! Don't be nervous! The enemy hasn't been killed yet! "The pistol was held down, and the soldier said and pointed to the north." The enemy really exists, they are building fortifications! ”

"And this?!" Balzen immediately regained his senses, and he came to the foremost observation post, where the swaying figure was seven hundred meters away from him, according to the ruler on the telescope!

Before becoming an "expert in guerrilla warfare", Balzen was naturally a veteran of conventional warfare. On how to build infantry fortifications and establish firing points, he still has experience.

At this moment, what was unfolding in front of him was indeed the system of fortifications being built, and when he looked more closely, he easily discovered the horror in it.

"My God, is the enemy going to build a permanent point of fire? I see that they use concrete! Balzen realized that the problem was complicated and immediately ordered to contact the division headquarters.

So what did the reconnaissance company commander see?

It turned out that the 707th Division had changed its countermeasures, and there was currently no order to take the initiative to attack, and the core order of its division commander Herzman was to guard the lines of communication. The reopening of the Mozili-Gomel road to traffic and the absence of partisan presence and sabotage in the vicinity is a top priority.

The enemy was hiding in the swamps in the south, which were already full of mud, and a full-scale attack was unrealistic. To this end, it is imperative to establish a sound system of fortifications.

The unit discovered by Balzen was an infantry regiment belonging to the 707th Division, and an additional engineer battalion was sent due to engineering needs.

In terms of the ability to dig trenches, the Germans did a very good job. In the trench warfare of World War I, the German army was also the first obscene, with an excellent trench system and machine gun preparation, and 60,000 people were killed on the first day of the British attack on the Marne!

Balzen's notebook kept a detailed record of the enemy's defenses, which became clearer and clearer as the sun rose.

When the day dawned, a large number of people in white vests came out and began to work with tools.

"The temperature is still low, and these Germans are not afraid of the cold? Or is it too much exercise, sweating and raining hot one by one? Of course, Balzen believed that not long after the end of the battle, their positions were already very well built.

Scouts at the top of the trees sketch out the German deployment, and the enemy's crooked trenches stretch for a long time. The enemy is not building trenches like the Great Wall, they are building bunker clusters.

The trench repair seems to be chaotic, but in fact it is fully supplied. Tents were set up at some of the nodes, probably where the defenders rested. Theoretically, they would also dig underground and build some man-raid shelters to avoid shelling.

There are artillery positions, machine gun positions, arranged in multi-layer trenches, crossfire. In addition to machine-gun forts made of wood and sandbags, there are also those that are clearly made of concrete and stone.

Barbed wire was also erected around the perimeter of the trenches, and Balzen estimated that there must have been some minefields on the periphery of his position. Because he saw that some Germans with steel helmets were moving around the periphery of their positions, not as if they were digging the ground, but burying something.

All the observed intelligence was recorded, and the key content written in the notebook was transmitted to the division headquarters with electromagnetic waves!

This was really an explosive discovery, and Yevlov, who was the first to learn the information, could have realized what the Germans meant, no matter how stupid he was.

Standing in the telegraph room, he was sleepy-eyed because he got up early, and he had no sleepiness, holding the papers and laughing.

"It seems that the Germans are really afraid, obviously the troops are pressed over, but they are building defensive positions, and even concrete is used, this is afraid that we will continue to launch a large-scale military operation north?!"

The stakes were very high, and Yevlov urgently needed the assistance of a think tank, so with this important information, he simply ran directly to Yang Mingzhi's house and pulled the guy out of bed.