There is only one change tonight, and I will make up for it tomorrow, sorry!

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2:30 a.m.

Just as the Soviets intensified their attack on Holm, a hole was carefully knocked in the sloped ice of the lower reaches of the Lovati River, and seeing that there was no movement outside, the hole grew bigger and bigger, and several German soldiers came out of it.

After the German soldiers got out of the hole, they were assigned to the area around the cave entrance, and each of them was responsible for checking in one direction, and only after making sure that they were not discovered by the enemy did they send a safety signal to the hole.

Then there were groups of German soldiers who emerged from the hole and took refuge in the snow.

This unit was the first battalion of the stragglers led by Qin Chuan and Gerhard.

The reason for the raid was chosen from here was that the Lovady River made a bend here, and the German soldiers used to call this area "Hairpin Bay".

Because of this bend, the German soldiers appeared behind the west bank of the Lovati River as soon as they got out of the hole, which also meant that they could bypass the Soviet attack head-on and reduce the chance of colliding with the Soviets.

Seeing that the people were almost there, Qin Chuan waved his hand, and the German soldiers got up from the snow and rushed towards the west bank of Holm.

The disadvantage of sneak attacks in the snow is that stepping on the snow will make a "gurgling" sound, if one or two people are nothing, but the noise of many people and feet is somewhat obvious, fortunately the gunfire and artillery sound from the battlefield on the east coast to a certain extent masked this noise.

At the entrance to the town, several Soviet sentries gathered together to smoke and chat while making a fire, which was unimaginable for the Germans, who were not even allowed to smoke at night, while the Soviets were so free.

But that's normal.

The main thing is that the artillery of the two is disproportionate: the Soviets have an absolute superiority in artillery, and there are plenty of shells, they can fire a few or even dozens of shells at any point of fire in the German-controlled zone.

On the contrary, the German army was not so arrogant, which allowed the Soviet army to rest assured that they could light a fire in the field to keep warm.

Of course, there are also various reasons such as the poor quality of the Soviet army, poor military discipline, and the temperature is too low, and there is no place to protect from the cold in the field.

But in any case, this provided a lot of convenience for the German army.

With a wave of his hand, several German scouts quietly surrounded him from different directions.

It should be said that there are still many skills in the work of the scouts, for example, now, the matter in front of them seems simple, which is to kill the three scouts around the fire.

But when you think about it, it's not that simple at all.

The first is the question of how to get close to the target silently without being detected, which is relatively easy to do in ordinary terrain, such as Qin Chuan who stole a chicken under the noses of the German guards before.

But this is difficult to achieve in the snow because, as mentioned before, feet or hands make sounds when they step on the snow.

Their method is to make several pairs of shoes the size of a washbasin...... The shoe is made of bamboo, which is very lightweight, a bit like a diver's fins.

Needless to say, the Scout wears such shoes on his hands and feet and crawls forward on the ground to increase his contact area with the ground in stages, so the Scout actually walks on the snow without making a noise by stepping through knee-high snow. This allowed them to get silently close to the Soviet sentries.

Secondly, there is the question of how to unify the time to launch an offensive against the Soviet army.

The Scouts' approach is to estimate how long it will take to arrive, and then add a little time and space, and wait for the first to arrive, and then suddenly burst out when the time comes.

Finally, there is the question of killing skills.

Compared to the previous two, this is the easiest part for the Scouts...... The requirement for them is that they only see the target they are responsible for, and when the time comes, they rush forward, cover the target's mouth with one hand, and stab the general from behind with the other hand into the target's heart or lung, and then everything is over.

The German scouts did a good job, they cleanly eliminated the three Soviet sentries, then dragged them to the snow next to them and buried them as fast as they could, and then pretended to be three sentries and roasted the fire around the fire.

If you hadn't paid attention, you would have thought it was three sentries still chatting from a distance. No one noticed that groups of German soldiers had sneaked into the west bank of Holm from the fire.

After entering the town, everything was simpler, the Soviet troops in the town were basically not vigilant, and when they saw a group of soldiers coming from a distance, they took it for granted that they were their own people, so no one cared.

The front was a tannery, but it was now apparently used by the Soviets as a field hospital, as evidenced by the constant movement of Soviet sanitary women carrying the wounded on stretchers and wearing boat caps and white red crosses.

Gerhard and Qin Chuan glanced at each other.

Both sides saw the embarrassment in each other's eyes...... The wounded and the paramedics, in principle, can already be considered something outside of war, especially among them, women.

Of course, in the case of other countries such as Britain and the United States, the medical corps was still protected by the Geneva Conventions, but the Soviet Union's refusal to join it made this invalid.

But Gerhard and Qin Chuan knew in their hearts that the wounded and medical soldiers of the Soviet Union were not "outside the war" or "without danger", and they would pick up their guns at any time and shoot the Germans in the back.

So Qin Chuan gritted his teeth and ordered: "Advance, destroy them!" ”

"Yes, Captain!" Gerhard answered and gave the order to the soldiers.

It wasn't until the German soldiers approached that a few Soviet female soldiers saw the guns in the hands of the Germans, and they couldn't help but scream and turned their heads and ran.

But it was too late, and the German soldiers pulled the trigger and fired a volley of bullets...... One by one, the meditators and the wounded lay in pools of blood, and some tried to raise their guns to shoot back, but before he could touch the gun, several bullets knocked him to the ground.

A group of soldiers quickly rushed to the entrance of the field hospital and leaned to the sides, pulled a few grenades and threw them in......

There were frightened screams of the wounded Soviet soldiers and the sanitary soldiers, but no one could help them, and after a few "booms", a cloud of smoke exploded in the hospital, and the glass of several windows was shattered and shot everywhere.

The German soldiers did not hesitate, turned around with their guns in their hands and rushed in, followed by gunshots, screams and screams...... The war is so cruel, if you want to blame, you should blame the Soviet army for letting the German army take advantage of the loophole.

Qin Chuan couldn't bear to see what was going on, so he left a small force to continue to attack the field hospital, told a few people to pay attention to the seized medicines, especially morphine, and then continued to attack in other directions with the main force.