The Soviets had very few troops left behind in the forest positions, after all, no one would have expected that the Germans would suddenly appear while they were empty. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, the Germans were bolder than ever, and their route into the forest was an arc, and the wide skirmish line increased the search area. Originally, these soldiers were still very worried, if the enemy had more troops, would they not suffer a loss in fighting with their own forces? When the division commander Herzman found out the situation, he immediately telegraphed the German troops entering the forest that the so-called Soviets had a maximum of one regiment.

Even with one regiment, the strength is twice as strong as these two battalions. But Herzman told them clearly: "Most of the Soviet troops have been blown to ashes by our heavy artillery, and they may have only a small number of them fleeing into the forest, and you have only one mission, to annihilate them all." ”

Suddenly, the warriors were no longer worried, and it seemed as if their road ahead was no longer dangerous.

In the face of the new situation, the battalion commander Cleburn also relaxed his vigilance.

"Brothers, keep your eyes open, we are hunters now, and when you find those Russians, shoot immediately! However, to shoot non-lethal places, we have to take a few more prisoners. ”

He was so confident, perhaps because he was too young, after all, the officers and men of this infantry battalion were all new troops. Most of these people knew that their enemies had inflicted heavy casualties on their 707th Division, but they had not experienced it firsthand, and they did not know the horrors of being an enemy of them.

The two infantry battalions were in the same state of mind, and because they had searched for a period of time without yielding results, they did not even find any wild animals in the forest, as if the Soviets had been killed by artillery fire.

Just when Cliburn was depressed and worried that he might be in vain, his scouts returned to report that they had spotted fortifications directly in front of the troops.

"Fortifications? Who would build this in the forest? Cliburn thought about it for a moment, and the only ones who could do this were the Soviets.

Suddenly, the rather young commander perked up, and the scattered warriors gathered in one after another.

After a simple organization, Cliburn ordered a report to his regimental commander, Bach, and soon the astonishing discovery reached the ears of the anxiously waiting Herzman.

"It's wonderful! I've finally found you! He finally laughed at the fact that his position had been breached, and in any case the Soviets' camp had been discovered, and he was afraid that some prisoners would be captured by occupying it. What exactly the Soviets are going to do in such a forest is completely exposed!

Herzman immediately ordered the two battalions that were conducting the search to attack immediately, but the original order was adjusted.

Cliburn wore a headset and listened to the division commander's most direct order: "You must take the enemy's camp, where there are probably many people left behind, and take the prisoners and bring them back." ”

With this order, Cliburn was actively preparing for the attack, but through the scout's report, it seemed that a machine gun fortress had been built there, and it would be a needless sacrifice to attack his own attacking troops. However, the order came suddenly, and it was no longer necessary to arrange the troops, and the order should be implemented now.

Cliburn resolutely fulfilled the commander's order, raised his submachine gun and said to his soldiers: "Brothers, our opportunity for meritorious service is now. Follow me now! ”

The warriors shouted sieghail, and the assembled troops reformed into skirmishers and began to attack.

Perhaps it was the roar before the attack that cheered up the resting Soviet personnel left behind. They all noticed the muffled noise in the distance, the battle must have reached a very fierce level, but it was very safe here, and the enemy's heavy artillery could not hit it. The warriors heard the call from the forest, and instinctively thought it was the return of Desheng's troops.

Just as the remaining troops greeted their comrades with the joy of victory, they were mercilessly hit by bullets.

Countless bullets turned into barrages, and all those who stood up and waved at the approaching figures were shot one after another. Only then did anyone notice that those were not comrades-in-arms, but Germans!

"The enemy is attacking! Against! Against! A soldier yelled at a dozen lightly wounded men.

Now, these soldiers, who boasted that they were not left in the line of fire with minor injuries, have finally fulfilled their promise.

The resistance battle took place at the time when it should not have happened, because Balzen took most of the machine guns with him when he set out, and the weapons left behind were basically rifles, and with only such weapons, with a mere 100 men or scattered troops, how to hold the position.

The Soviets were small and scattered in their original formation, and they scattered the three settlements according to their original formation, and Clayborn's battalion attacked the northeasternmost one. Only twenty-five Soviet troops remained here, most of whom were wounded.

Even if the fighters mobilized the lightly wounded, they were doomed to be unable to complete the attack.

Comrades died one after another, and the remaining ten men had to withdraw from their positions and evacuate to the southwest, because there was still a few machine guns where the ammunition depot was located.

This was the first time Cleburn had fought against his old enemy, the Soviet 284th Division, and dozens of people had already been hit by just the poorly equipped wounded. He even saw with his own eyes that a soldier was shot by the enemy in front of him, and a large cloud of red and white supplies erupted from the back of his head, and everything was over for this soldier.

The enemy's precision guns made him nervous, and it was better to destroy such an enemy as soon as possible.

When his people had already stormed a fortress of the Soviet army, they were blown over by a sudden explosion, and even worse, many people were in an accident at the explosion point, but they fell down and wailed with their limbs.

"What the hell! What kind of weapon are these madmen using!? "Cliburn only scolds. What are you really most afraid of, this charge against that handful of enemies, you have to pay a big price?

He raised his left fist and encouraged the attacking warriors: "Don't be afraid, the enemy is a trapped beast." Whoever catches the captive first, I'll give him the first credit! ”

In the scuffle, many people heard his encouragement, anyway, the soldiers were obviously braver, and Clayburn believed that this was a response to his own encouragement, or it could be purely the killing of the group of young men under his command.

The Soviet front was only a kilometer long, and when Cliburn attacked, on the other side of the position, another German infantry battalion caught up.

There was an additional burst of gunfire, which caused the two German troops who did not meet each other to immediately misunderstand.

The battalion commander Lindell had to order his subordinates: "Brothers, the enemy's reinforcements must have arrived, and we will destroy as many as they come!" The whole battalion is attacking on all fronts! ”

The Soviet troops who remained behind had already paid a huge price in casualties, and some were captured.

Cliburn finally caught a wounded soldier at great cost, and the gauze on his head and arm said it all. It was at this time, with the dense gunfire coming from the other side, that he instinctively thought that the Soviet reinforcements had arrived.

The two German armies fought more and more in order to quickly defeat the "enemy reinforcements", which caused great pain to the surviving Soviet soldiers caught in the middle. In times of desperation, there is no way to continue to hold the ground.

The two wounded volunteered to stay, and they carried the captured MG34 to suppress the enemy and cover the retreat of the remaining forty people.

Perhaps, the Germans were focused on occupying Soviet positions, and did not pay enough attention to the fleeing enemy, and they only divided a small group of men to pursue.

When the two fighters who were covering the evacuation of their comrades and attracted firepower were killed, the curtain came down on this unknown blocking battle in the forest.

It was not until Balzen, who was counterattacking on all fronts, met those who had escaped, that it was not known what was happening there in the position.

"What the hell! Not only did they spank us, they took away our stools! Balzen cursed viciously.