Soon a black spot appeared on the white snow, densely and staggeringly crawling down the bank at the other end, crossing the river surface for more than a hundred meters, and then rushing over the bank in groups.

Although the soldiers of the First Infantry Corps had experienced the battlefields of North Africa, they were still frightened by this group of routs. Because they had never seen frostbite on such a large scale, and they had never seen a wounded soldier like this...... Many of them wrapped themselves and their wounds in sacks, rags, whatever fabric they could find, making them look less like an army and more like a homeless people.

In Qin Chuan's eyes, it may be more appropriate to use "zombies" to describe these routs: their eyes are blank, even if they see the first step of the army coming to meet them, there is no surprise, the injured people are limping, some hands are still hanging around their necks, if it is not for the hot steam spewing out from time to time in their mouths, it is really difficult to see that they are still a living thing.

"Put away your food!" The order soon came down one after another: "Don't give food to anyone!" ”

Although this is a bit cruel, Qin Chuan has to admit that this is right, there are too many people in this rout army in front of him, so many that even if the first army contributes all the food, it is just to stuff their teeth.

As a result, the First Legion will also lose supplies, and will soon be incapacitated, and worse, the food may cause chaos in the rout...... You can never imagine how hungry people react when they see food, fighting each other for this limited amount of food, even to the death.

"Keep ......walking," Colonel Slain shouted at the other side with a small trumpet, "You'll be safe through here, move fast!" ”

Colonel Slain was worried that the troops' firing range would keep them in the way...... People who come down from the battlefield have this sensitivity, they sometimes don't know any theory or tactics, but whenever an unfavorable situation arises, they feel uneasy, like a sore spot or a handle in the other side's hands.

But Colonel Slain's shouting did not make the routs faster, they were already exhausted, or they were walking as fast as they could.

However, it didn't take long for Qin Chuan to discover that they could actually walk faster......

There were suddenly a few whistling sounds in the sky, the shadows of several planes swept through the sky, and everyone couldn't help but look up, and before they could distinguish between the enemy and me, there was a burst of machine gun sounds, and the bullets poured down and shot a string of snowflakes, and at the end of the snowflakes was a group of routs who were shot and fell, and the blood was particularly dazzling against the white background.

"Enemy planes!" Colonel Slane shouted, "Run! ”

At this time, there was no need for Colonel Slain to shout, and the routs rushed to the side of the defense line at a faster pace...... The river was bare and without even a dead tree, and it was obviously a good place for enemy fighters to dive and shoot.

Then another fighter plane swooped down, dropping a bomb as soon as the fuselage was raised.

With a "boom", snowflakes and ice flew everywhere in the smoke, and the routs who were running within a radius of dozens of meters were all knocked to the ground solidly.

Qin Chuan noticed that they were two Yak-1 fighters, and it was also one of the few fighters in the Soviet Union that could compete with the German BF109.

(Note: At the beginning of the Soviet-German war, the old Soviet fighters were no match for the German army at all, and only the Yak-1 and MiG-3 barely had the strength to fight)

The soldiers of the First Infantry Corps immediately set up their machine guns and fired at the two Soviet fighters.

The two low-altitude strafing and bombing Soviet-style fighters obviously did not expect that there was still a counterattack capability in the rout, and one of them was hit by a machine gun on the spot and sent black smoke up.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the two fighters turned around and fled the area.

But Colonel Slain did not let up because of this, because he knew that the Soviet pilots would soon report the situation to the pursuing Soviet troops, and then a large number of Soviet troops would rush towards this side......

This made Colonel Slane anxious, and he shouted orders to the paramedics and stretchers who had gone to help the wounded: "Get these men out of front of our positions, they will kill us!" ”

As a result, the medics and stretcher bearers soon became the commanders of the rout, loudly urging the rout to speed up.

But Colonel Slein was wrong about this, and the coordination of the Soviet troops was far less than that of the British and American armies.

On the one hand, this is because the Soviet army's communications equipment is outdated, many of their warplanes even have to fire signal flares to communicate with each other, and the troops on land have to use flying pigeons and messengers to convey orders.

On the other hand, in such snow and temperature, it is difficult for mechanized troops, even Soviet cars and tanks, to advance normally, so the enemy's reaction is far from as fast as expected.

Of course, the reaction speed of your own troops will also decrease exponentially, and the first corps will soon be able to deeply understand this.

As a result, the rout passed through the river where the First Advance Corps was stationed without danger, leaving only a series of footprints in front of the position and dozens of corpses of the routed soldiers killed and blown up by fighter planes.

The stretcher bearers went up to carry the corpses of these routs back, but found that they could not do so, because the blood had frozen the corpses with the ice in the river, and all they could do was to break off the identity tags on the corpses and bring them back.

"It's a completely different thing from North Africa!" Kuhn couldn't help but whisper next to Qin Chuan.

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied.

There is no doubt about this, almost everyone knows that the Soviet battlefield is not the same as in North Africa, but at the same time...... Almost everyone didn't expect the difference to be so big, which made the elite division of the First Infantry Corps feel like they are new recruits and rookies again.

"We should have someone to get into!" Kuhn said worriedly, "We have at least a week to learn the basics of the desert when we enter the desert, but here we are...... But they were dropped straight off the plane, and no one told us what to pay attention to in the snow and ice! ”

"They don't have that time!" Qin Chuan moved his fingers that were about to freeze, and said, "Or it can also be said that we don't have this time, you also saw those routs, if it weren't for us...... They will soon be caught up by the Soviets! ”

Kuhn nodded in agreement.

At this moment, the sentry on the other side of the river waved a small red flag to warn this side, and then ran back from that side with his hands and feet.

Qin Chuan knew what this meant...... The enemy is coming, Soviets!