Chapter 561: Nervous Misfire

Lumberjack Gates and gunmen in the forest are crazy! The workers threw down their axes, unloaded the wood, and fled as fast as they could, as if the most dangerous thing existed in the forest. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 infoThis fear spread directly to the gunmen, the Germans and the puppet soldiers, who carried their rifles and fled in the direction of the crowd, that is, the German positions, and fled frantically.

"It's now! Asanov, remember our pact! In the early hours of March 25, we will be waiting at the location you marked on the map! ā€

Balzen shoved the man, and the entire reconnaissance company tactically retreated, and Asanov fled from the forest, blending into the fleeing crowd.

But the crowd's escape was not secure.

The German soldiers who were on the defensive side of the position, they were so nervous that they took the fleeing crowd as the enemy of the Ulla charge. Perhaps because these prisoners of war were still wearing Soviet winter cotton clothes.

Some of them were shot and fell to the ground, so everyone fell to the ground.

The German units on this section of the line were a regiment attached to the 707th Division. Its regimental commander, Lothaheim, was originally in the built semi-crypt-style front-line command post, leisurely drinking black tea.

The sudden sound of gunfire destroyed all the tranquility. The abrupt sound of no gunfire alerted him, and then the machine-gun fire made him unable to hold back, and he rushed out of the headquarters directly with his entourage.

I saw that his soldiers were wasting bullets in a dashing manner, and the riflemen also entered the predetermined position one after another, "In real combat, my soldiers are so decisive, it's a good thing!" He was complacent about the fact that his men could quickly get into a fighting state, but on second thought, at this time, the Soviet partisans were really attacking in a big way?! Why is the whole world mostly the "roar" of German weapons? What about enemy attacks? What about the sound of bullets cutting through the air?!

He hurried to the forefront trenches, where a lot of periscopes were arranged.

In the footage, he saw a group of people lying on the ground, but the trees in the distance were quiet. Suddenly, he had a new perspective on his soldiers. "Hell yes! Those people can't be our lumberjacks, and our overseers! My machine gunners are shooting their own people! ā€

The order to raise fire was quickly conveyed, but the soldiers had already poured a large number of bullets in the direction of the forest!

At this time, among the group of people lying on their stomachs, someone raised a white cloth, and when the world returned to calm for a while, only the bold people slowly stood up and walked in the direction of the position.

What else can Lothastan say? With an angry face, he ordered: "All the company commanders of the regiment urgently assemble and come to the regiment headquarters, I want to know what happened just now!" ā€

It is said that this "crazy counterattack" against the forest also worries Balzen, as if the reconnaissance company is really exposed! He ordered the troops to speed up their evacuation, and this run was five kilometers south.

Balzen had two more "lumberjacks" on hand, and asked for some more information from the mouths of the two of them. These statements are not much different from what Asanov said, and some details have been added, and there are more Ukrainian women than the enemy's front.

"Those people must be prostitutes, a bunch of fascist prostitutes." Balzen asserted.

Those women should not be at the forefront of the war, for whatever reason, since they performed special services for the Germans, they had to pay for it, say, to die in the war.

After gathering all sorts of information, a nimble soldier climbed to the top of a pine tree with an antenna, thus erecting a new "red pine signal tower".

From here, the electrical signal was sent in the direction of the ruins of Homnich, where a Soviet squad was stationed, like "telephone operators", who acted as a relay station to relay information from the front line to the headquarters of the 284th Division in the shortest possible time.

This information has distilled a vocabulary of key words, but it is still verbose. When the telegraph operator finally finished typing out the code, it was a great relief.

Balzen also breathed a sigh of relief, and said to the corrected fighters: "Comrades, it is very unfortunate that there is an exchange of fire. Now we can only hope that the Germans will think that everything is due to the escape of prisoners of war, and that they will be a little stupid and will not increase the pressure on us and intensify the search. It is also hoped that those prisoners of war will escape. ā€

To tell the truth, five hundred prisoners of war returned to the Soviet army, that is, a whole battalion of combat infantry! Units such as the Anatoly Battalion, which was later formed, many of whom were rescued prisoners of war, were trained to greatly improve their combat effectiveness.

But those 500 people were going to start an uprising, and it was not a few days before the plan was carried out! Balzen couldn't help but worry, this time there was a sudden burst of gunfire, would the Germans strengthen their defenses? No! They will, so that the escape plans of the prisoners of war will definitely be disturbed!

The reconnaissance company has no more choices, and in terms of feelings, everyone naturally hopes that their compatriots can escape death. It is impossible to provide military assistance to it, no matter how powerful the reconnaissance company is, there are more than a hundred people, and there are indeed thousands of German troops on the opposite side, as well as heavy artillery and machine guns!

The information was transmitted to the division headquarters in 1510, and Balzen ordered the troops to go into hibernation and remain in such a state until they received a call back from the division headquarters.

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On the other hand, the guns of the Germans no longer poured fire, and the regimental commander Lothaheim ordered a platoon of soldiers to go out of the position.

The prisoners of war faced the corpses on the ground, and they still had lingering palpitations when they thought about what had just happened. Even if it's not now, it's not now, the best way to get down in the rain of bullets is to lie down.

However, there were still some prisoners of war who did not follow the Dabu troops in the direction of the German positions in the confusion, and the opportunity to be freed was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and at least 30 of them fled into the forest.

The rest were completely unclear, and instinctively ran with the crowd, only to be attacked indiscriminately by bullets.

A platoon of German soldiers went to check the situation, and the situation was not optimistic. Because of the casualties of more than a dozen soldiers of the Eastern Battalion and German soldiers, there were also more than 20 prisoners of war.

Their condition is very bad, because the injuries are all from the general-purpose machine gun fire of perverted fire, and the MG34 with a tripod has no recoil, and for a dense fleeing crowd, it is like a wheat field passing by a harvester!

Lothaheim soon received a report from the platoon commander. "We had fifteen casualties, three soldiers killed, two wounded, eight Polish battalion soldiers killed and two wounded. Twenty-five prisoners of war were killed or wounded. ā€

He is still acceptable to this result, after all, this is the front line, and it is completely understandable that he was injured by mistake. Now he only wanted to know the reason for the incident, and when the evacuated overseers were interrogated, almost all of them were explaining that it was all an incident of prisoners of war rioting and taking advantage of the opportunity to escape!

The fact that the soldiers found the bodies of the slain in the forest, and that thirty of the living and dead prisoners of war were missing, after a celebration, largely confirmed this statement.

The wounded prisoners of war were hastily killed after the inventory was completed, after all, Lothaheim did not want to waste time on this.

That evening he had already obtained the basic investigation report of the incident, and with regard to the exchange of fire that had occurred in this corner of the front, he had to give the division headquarters a reasonable conclusion.

Putting down the document and taking a sip of black tea, he asked the deputy regiment commander: "It seems that this is not a provocation by the guerrillas, and I have to step up the supervision of the prisoners of war!" Let them have axes in their hands, and this crazy bunch will have a chance to slash our soldiers! What do you think? Hausen Fried? ā€

"Maybe you're right, but you also have to listen to the staff officer." The pair of commanders and deputies set their sights on their regimental chief of staff, Haldeman.