Inside the cabin lay the torso of a corpse, two arms severed at the shoulders, and two thighs amputated at the root of the legs, revealing bloody wounds and Bai Sensen's bones.

Blood gushed from the wounds in the limbs, pooled into a stream, rushed to the floor of the carriage, rushed to the back door of the cabin, dripped onto the floor at the back of the carriage, and soon stained a canvas the size of a basin.

The bloodstained uniform indicated the identity of the corpse scout, and the loss of limbs was not all the scout's pain.

His lips were open, his face was distorted, and all that was left was his bloody eyes, all of which were indictments of the inhuman treatment he had suffered.

"His teeth have been knocked out, not a single one remains, his tongue has been cut out, both eyes have been gouged out, and he is likely to be alive when the Soviets tortured him." Said the commander of the reconnaissance battalion.

Lieutenant General Huibiqi asked, "Where did you find him?" ”

"The edge of the forest in the south of the town. Last night, I sent men to reconnoiter the movements of the enemy in the forest, only to find that they were torturing our wounded, and then threw the dead wounded out of the forest, which was the worst death among the corpses, so I secretly carried the corpse back. ”

Chen Dao and Lieutenant General Hui Biqi glanced at each other, and they both saw the anger ignited in each other's eyes.

Lieutenant General Hui Biqi raised his hand and stretched out two fingers, and said to the staff officers beside him: "Two things, the first thing is to find a way to retrieve the remains of the scouts, and we must not let them be brutalized in the wilderness. The second thing is revenge, we must retaliate, and I said yesterday that if the enemy dares to do anything out of the ordinary with our wounded, you can retaliate with ten times more cruelty. Today. This command of mine is still valid. If the gendarmerie and the military tribunal are to be held accountable after the fact. I'll take all the responsibility, and you can just let it go. ”

The commander of the reconnaissance battalion stepped forward and saluted Lieutenant General Huibiqi.

"I will immediately organize people to retrieve the bodies of my comrades."

Chen Dao said with a cold face: "My suggestion is not to take prisoners of the Soviet troops in the town and forest in front, and not to accept their surrender, only in this way can they know what fear and regret are." ”

Sending off the reconnaissance battalion commander, Lieutenant General Chen Dao and Lieutenant General Hui Biqi returned to the headquarters, and the two re-studied the battle plan against the map.

Chen Dao said: "Give me a little time, I want to contact the Second Air Force." Now that I have seen the tragedy happen. I hope to contribute a little bit to the fight against the Russians. ”

"What are you going to do?" Lieutenant General Hui Biqi asked.

"I'm going to make them skinless, and I'm going to make their mom not recognize them as they are." A blood-colored light flashed in Chen Dao's eyes.

By the time the convoy of the reconnaissance battalion returned with the bodies of their comrades, there was already an extra group of strange people in the village, dressed in military uniforms without ranks, with cameras in their hands, even video cameras, whose "weapons" in their hands indicated their identity as war correspondents.

Under Chen Dao's reminder, the war correspondents only took pictures of the corpses with solemn faces, but did not interview the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion. Because the Scouts' cold gaze and the evil aura around them told them that it was unwise to interview them at this time. It is even more inappropriate to ask them how they feel about witnessing the tragic death of their comrades.

When the war correspondents were taking pictures of the dead bodies, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion proposed to send someone to find a grave for his comrades, and Lieutenant General Huibiqi said: "Go ahead, find them a good place." ”

The reconnaissance battalion was divided into half a company of troops to bury the bodies of their comrades, and the commander of the reconnaissance battalion, Chen Dao had already learned that his surname was Krugel. Major Krugel volunteered to take the lead in the ensuing battle.

After receiving orders from Lieutenant General Chen Dao and Hui Biqi, Major Krugel led his men on another expedition, and then divided into two routes, lurking near the birch forest in the town of Balan and the birch forest south of the town.

After waiting patiently for nearly an hour, Krugel and his men heard a faint roar of engines in the western sky, and turned their heads to see a faint black dot in the western sky.

"Smoke launcher ready." Krugel shouted over the radio.

When the black dots in the distance flashed into fighter planes, Krugel shouted to the radio again: "Everyone, pay attention, retreat as soon as the smoke rises, and you must stay away from the bombing site, the farther away the better, and not be accidentally injured by the air force." ”

The scouts faithfully carried out Krugel's orders, and immediately retreated in their vehicles after the mortar fired smoke grenades, only the green smoke covering the forest and the town indicated that they had arrived.

When the group approached the town of Balan, the Soviet troops in the town had already prepared, quadruple anti-aircraft machine guns, 37 mm anti-aircraft guns and 85 mm anti-aircraft guns fired rows of gun shells, intending to intercept the killers from the air, and clouds of gray-black gunpowder smoke burst out in the sky.

Ignoring the blocking of ground fire, the ME-110 fighter took advantage of its speed advantage to throw off the slower bomber and launch the attack first.

Sixteen ME-110 fighters burst out of the clouds and descended like giant eagles in the face of heavy artillery fire from the ground, flying over the town of Balan, dropping countless AB-23 spreaders.

The AB-23 spreader disintegrated in the air and dropped countless SD-2 "Devil's Egg" bombs, which flew to the ground like a swarm of vampire bats, catching the eyes of Soviet soldiers on the ground.

Before the Soviet soldiers could find cover, swarms of demon eggs exploded one by one, and deadly shrapnel and steel pillars flew to the ground and shot into the bodies of Soviet soldiers on the ground.

In the trenches, in the foxholes, next to the running positions of the anti-aircraft guns, there were Soviet soldiers spraying blood all over their bodies, the yellow soil and green grass were sprinkled with blood, and countless seriously wounded soldiers rolled to the ground, rolling in all directions, shouting for help.

was attacked by the devil's egg like a washing ground, and the Soviet army's aired fire on the ground instantly weakened.

After paying the price of one shot down and two fighters damaged, the ME-110 fighter group completed its mission, pulled back into the air, returned the task of the protagonist of the battlefield to the bombers, and turned itself into a spectator, watching the bomber group's performance nearby.

The real killer was the attack of thirty-six JU-88 medium bombers. Drop the giant bomb that will determine the outcome of the battlefield.

In a crisp explosion. From the belly of each giant bomb flew out 3 smaller bombs with a parachute.

The bomb resembles a cylindrical beer keg. A slender metal rod sticks out from underneath and descends fluttering down under a parachute.

When the giant bomb landed, it emitted a series of strange explosions, which were much quieter than the usual bomb explosions.

And as the explosion sounded, a large white mist suddenly rose from the forests in Balan Town and the south of the town.

The ground was enveloped in clouds of white mist, and before the Soviet soldiers in Balan and the forests south of the town could figure out what the white fog was doing, small bombs followed.

Suddenly. A thunderous roar sounded in the town of Balan and the forests south of the town, like the roar of Zeus, the god-king.

The Great Earthquake trembled, and the ground glittered with fire, and the blazing flames rose into the sky, engulfing the town of Balan and the nearby forests in an instant.

Houses are collapsing, trees are burning, and the screams of Soviet soldiers in trenches, bunkers and rooms are endless......

About a kilometre away, Major Krugel and his men were stunned, all shocked by the incredible power of the bomb.

As a reconnaissance battalion of a veteran armored division, it was not the first time they had seen the Air Force bombing ground targets. There is also a basic understanding of the power of various types of bombs in the Air Force.

In their understanding, thirty-six bombers would never be able to make such a big scene. The flames from the explosion engulfed almost the entire town of Balan and the nearby birch forest.

Could it be a special incendiary bomb made by the Air Force? After seeing the flames and billowing smoke rising from the birch forest, Major Krugel and his men had a common idea.

No wonder His Excellency Governor Rosen repeatedly told himself to stay away from such bombs.

Farther behind Major Krugel's headquarters, Chen Dao also looked in the direction of Balan Town in amazement.

If he hadn't seen the power of a cloudburst bomb, he would have dropped a nuclear warhead almost before in the town of Balan by the Second Air Force.

The hard-working development of the cloudburst bomb finally came in handy, and he originally planned to use this secret weapon in street battles in Leningrad or Moscow, but it turned out to be used in the palm-sized place of Balan, which is really a kind of regret to kill chickens with a knife.

After the bombers finished dropping their bombs, they regained their altitude, circled around the battlefield and turned away.

Lieutenant General Huibiqi decisively gave the order to attack, with twenty-four E-40 tanks taking the lead, and more than ninety No. 4 tanks following behind, which was all the tank strength that the Ninth Panzer Division could draw on after a long journey.

All the tanks formed into a wedge formation, followed by a greater number of SDKFZ251 armored vehicles, and the attack group rushed mightily towards the Soviet line in the town of Balan.

Soviet troops in the town of Balan suffered heavy losses in the ferocious air strikes, both in personnel and in equipment.

What's more, they faced an avenger who looked at death as if they were at home, and the steel torrents of the 9th Panzer Division followed behind the barrage fired by the artillery regiment, murderously breaking through enemy minefields, followed by fragile anti-tank trenches and barbed wire.

Brave the sparse defensive fire of the enemy's anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns, the tank group managed to rush into the town of Balan with only one charge, and the infantry jumped out of the armored vehicles, crossed the tanks, and divided into battle groups to shuttle through the devastated town of Balan.

It was only in the close-quarters that the German soldiers realized first-hand that the previous air raids had opened a door to hell.

In the town of Balan, almost all the buildings are in ruins.

The bodies of the Soviet soldiers were covered with burn marks, their uniforms were gone, and their flesh and blood were charred.

Some of the corpses were well preserved and intact, with no signs of shrapnel, but their faces were distorted and they collapsed in the rubble.

They had their mouths wide open, and their mouths were full of dust.

The worst to die were the soldiers hidden in the underground bunkers, their throats were covered with blood, and they had been scratched by their fingers, and the murderers were none other than themselves.

The German soldiers did not have much time to think about how much these Soviet soldiers had suffered, except to feel relieved.

Another battle ensued, and amid the shouts and gunfire, a group of aircraft from the east caught the attention of the German soldiers.

Il-2 attack planes flew into the battlefield in groups, followed by escort fighters, who rushed into the battlefield at a height close to the treetops, roaring and dropping bombs over the heads of the Germans, and then causing a German counterattack.

On the Dongfeng self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, the 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun roared to protect its comrades from the Soviet "crows".

The infantry also set up MG-42 machine guns to fire into the air and harass the bombs dropped by enemy aircraft.

Not far behind, the ME-109 fighters of the Second Air Force took the initiative to lower their altitude, shuttled through the billowing smoke rising from the ground, chased and strafed each other with Soviet fighters, and pulled the flames of war from the ground to the sky.

The Soviet swarm was followed by Soviet tanks and infantry, which rushed along the fields on both sides of the road towards the town of Balan, only to crash into the muzzles of the German steel torrent.

The 503rd Heavy Armored Battalion undoubtedly played the role of a mainstay, and the muzzles of the powerful 88mm tanks, whether KV-1 or T-34, were all turned into the ghosts of the war.

Tank No. 4, under the cover of the E-40 tank, followed behind to hunt down the Soviet light tanks and the infantry that followed.

In the forest south of the town, Major Krugel led his scouts, ignoring the raging fire burning in the forest, and rushed into the depths of the birch forest with blood-red eyes, looking for the surviving murderers of his comrades.

Because of the thick smoke and obstruction, when they found out the presence of the surviving Soviet troops in the forest, it was too late to shoot, or they did not want to shoot, and the butts, bayonets and sapper shovels became their weapons to kill the enemy, and the flamethrowers borrowed from the engineer battalion ruthlessly grilled the Soviet soldiers.

The shouts of killing shook the woodland, corpses, seriously wounded, burned Soviet soldiers, and those killed and wounded in hand-to-hand combat were strewn all over the ground, and the anger made Major Krugel and his men red-eyed, and they faithfully carried out Chen Dao's order not to take prisoners and not accept surrender, and almost no Soviet soldiers were left behind, and the stumps and broken arms of the Soviet army were scattered all over the woodland.

After less than an hour of fighting, the birch forest was captured by Major Krugel and his men, and the defenders of the forest were completely wiped out, except for a few who fled quickly.

No Soviet soldiers were captured.

After four hours of fighting, the Germans repelled the Soviet counterattack, captured the town of Balan, and opened the gates to Orsha.

After four hours of fighting, the Germans repelled the Soviet counterattack, captured the town of Balan, and opened the gates to Orsha. (To be continued.) )