To the north of the village of Warang, Colonel Kuba anxiously walked up and down the high ground, occasionally picking up a telescope to observe the progress of the battle.

To the north and west of the village of Valang, the soldiers of the 40th Infantry Regiment were taking advantage of the terrain to fire at the defenders, and the battle was in a stalemate.

Only to the east, the Polish infantry, supported by 37-mm anti-tank guns and 75-mm infantry guns, had advanced to a distance of 100 meters from the defenders, but the distance of 100 meters was as far away as heaven and hell.

Colonel Kuba clearly saw through the binoculars that the Polish troops on the east side of the village organized two charges and tried to rush through the distance of 100 meters, but they were crushed when they reached 50 meters or even only 30 meters, and the corpses of the Polish soldiers covered the grass on the east side of the village.

After analyzing the battle situation, Colonel Kuba made the decision to throw two companies of the reserve into the east side of the village, breaking through the defenders' defenses in one fell swoop.

In the village of Warang, Chen Dao and two paratroopers who did not leave him hid around the corner of a khaki bungalow, and they knocked down two tables as cover to shoot at the Polish infantry on the east side of the village.

A herald ran behind Chen Dao under the cover of the house and said: "Major, the Poles have increased their troops to the east of the village, about two companies of troops, and the battalion commander has decided to send a signal according to the original plan. ”

As if to testify for the herald, as soon as the herald's voice fell, two green flares rose into the air in a courtyard in the northwest corner of the village of Valang.

"I know, twenty minutes at most, reinforcements will arrive, and we'll hold out for another twenty minutes." Chen Dao raised his head and glanced at the two dazzling flares before shouting.

The two paratroopers who followed Chen Dao also heard the herald's words, and the two glanced at each other and clamped Chen Dao with a tacit understanding.

"Major, the Poles have launched a general attack, and we retreat."

"Where to retreat?" Chen Dao asked.

"The church." The two of them pulled Chen Dao and ran, and they didn't stop until they reached the church.

After Chen Dao was let go by the two, he looked at the interior of the church, where a cross more than two meters high was erected in the middle of the church, and in front of the cross was a small pulpit used by pastors for preaching, and five rows of long chairs were placed side by side in front of the pulpit all the way to the main entrance of the church.

Chen Dao quickly found a staircase in the corner of the wall to the right of the podium, and ran over with two paratroopers to see that it was indeed a spiral staircase leading to the church bell tower.

On the top of the bell tower of the church, Chen Dao was discovered by the two observation posts inside as soon as he showed his head, and when they saw that it was Chen Dao, the two saluted Chen Dao one after another.

After returning the salute, Chen Dao threw himself to the window of the bell tower and condescendingly took in the battlefield situation.

The north and west sides of the village were at loggerheads, and the Polish troops on the east side of the village, reinforced by two infantry companies, formed three or four skirmish lines, and rushed up to the defenders east of the village like a tidal wave.

Under the onslaught of the Polish troops, the paratroopers were responsible for defending the infantry company to the east of the village and the heavy machine gun company that rushed to support the pressure doubled.

Under the bombardment of Polish 37-mm anti-aircraft guns and 75-mm infantry guns, the German firing points on the east side of the village were destroyed one by one, and the Polish infantry attacked more and more fiercely, and they organized another charge and tried to storm the village of Valan.

Fifty meters and thirty meters, when the Polish troops were about to rush into the paratrooper position, and the riflemen of the paratroopers had already inserted bayonets into their rifles, the sound of ・・・・・・more than a dozen submachine guns firing one after another overwhelmed the shouts of the Polish infantry charge.

The MP38 submachine guns using 9mm pistol rounds could only guarantee accuracy at a distance of 50 meters, which did not come in handy in previous counter-fires, and the charge of the Polish infantry put these MP38 submachine guns into use, and their dense fire formed a wall of fire at a distance of 50 meters, and the Polish soldiers who hit the wall of fire spasmed and fell to the ground like an electric shock, and the corpses were scattered all over the ground.

The Polish infantry did not show weakness, and the heavy machine gun company in charge of covering quickly turned the target to the place where the defenders' submachine gunners appeared, and the bullets rained down like hailstones, so that the Germans could not raise their heads.

"Open fire to support the east." Chen Dao shouted and took the lead in standing by the window and began to shoot, and the other four paratroopers in the bell tower also opened fire to support the defense of the east of the village.

The Polish infantry in the charge ran fast, which invisibly increased the difficulty of Chen Dao's shooting, and he fired five shots in a row and only hit one target.

Pressing a new five-round magazine on the rifle in his hand, Chen Dao began the second round of shooting.

At the east end of the village, the commander of a 37-mm gun of the Polish army slapped twice on the shoulder of the sightman, and then pointed to the village of Waran: "There are Germans in the bell tower of that church, kill them." ”

The sightman then aimed the muzzle of the gun at the church bell tower with the flickering figures, and after confirming the target, the gunner stuffed a grenade shining with golden light into the chamber of the gun, and then opened fire, and the moment the 37mm gun fired, an 81mm mortar-shell fell, and with a "boom" sound, the four gunners immediately flew flesh and blood, and the 37mm anti-tank gun also fell to the side.

On that plane tree in the village of Warang, the commander of the 81-mm mortar put down his binoculars and shouted happily, "Hit the target." After that, he picked up the binoculars and looked for the next victim・・・・・・

On the bell tower of the church, Chen Dao, who fell to the ground, was dragged down the bell tower.

The shell from the 37-mm anti-aircraft gun hit the upper edge of the window of the bell tower, killing one of the paratroopers in the bell tower on the spot and slightly wounding one.

A flying piece of broken brick the size of a pigeon's egg hit Chen Dao's steel helmet, and Chen Dao fell to the ground in the black as if he had been hit with a stick, and the two paratroopers who were responsible for protecting him were frightened and quickly dragged Chen Dao down the bell tower.

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To the north of the village of Valan, Colonel Kuba smiled, under the combined suppression of machine guns and artillery, the fire of the defenders east of the village became weaker and weaker, and the Polish infantry finally took the opportunity to rush into the German position and prepare to fight bayonets, but the Germans were very courageless to retreat to the village along the communication trench.

"These bastards who don't dare to fight bayonets." Colonel Coopa sneered disdainfully.

Colonel Coopa, who fought in the First World War, was a faithful believer in the adage that "a cannon is a bad seed, and a bayonet is a hero", and in his eyes, only the infantry who dared to see the red with the bayonet was a true warrior.

Do they think they'll be fine if they retreat into the village? Want to fight in the streets? In a village of about 200 houses, how long can the defenders, who are overwhelmingly inferior in numbers, hold out even if they fight in the streets?

Just as Colonel Kuba was thinking about what to do with the prisoners of war at the end of the battle, a sudden change occurred, and the Polish infantry who were charging towards the village in the east of the village fell one by one like wheat swept by a sickle, and the formation was also confused, and many Polish infantry stopped charging and turned to the southeast of the village in panic, as if there was a man-eating tiger hiding there.

Colonel Kuba hurriedly turned his telescope to the southeast of the village, and finally found the culprit, there were many German troops charging in the grass there, and the Polish troops in the east of the village were in a mess with the enemy, and there were faint signs of collapse.

It must have been the enemy summoned by those two flares, it was a trap, Colonel Kuba understood it all at this time.

At first, when he saw two flares flying out of the village, he thought that he had been ambushed, when a group of German planes happened to be flying through the sky, Colonel Kuba was in despair, thinking that the flares were indicating the target to the German planes, but who knew that the planes flew north unmoved, without stopping, and Colonel Koopa was relieved.

Seeing those charging Germans, Colonel Kuba finally understood that those two flares were not summoning the Luftwaffe at all, but ambushes.

"Tell the reconnaissance company to attack, and the troops from the east side of the village will be withdrawn." Colonel Kuba reacted quickly, knowing that the offensive on the east side of the village had failed, and that any further persistence would cause the whole regiment to collapse.

The reconnaissance company quickly engaged in the battle to the east of the village, covering the retreat of its comrades, and the Polish infantry north and west of the village of Valang also received the order to retreat, and gradually retreated in an orderly and gradual manner, gradually disengaging from contact with the Germans and withdrawing safely.

Only the Polish infantry on the east side of the village, who withdrew from the battlefield in response to the reconnaissance company, saw that the situation was not good, and the gunners of the anti-tank company and the infantry artillery platoon fled with the infantry, throwing all the artillery to the Germans.

Behind the high ground, Colonel Kuba looked gloomily at the demoralized infantry who had withdrawn from the battlefield one after another, and then ordered: "Let the battalions report the casualties immediately, and let the reconnaissance company be on guard to prevent the German from pursuing." ”

In the end, Colonel Kuba did not wait for the German pursuit, but waited for the news that shocked him, a German ** officer and two soldiers walked along the road towards the 40th Infantry Regiment with a white flag.

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PS: There is one more chapter before 9pm.