Chapter 470: Retreat
The 1st Corps once again repelled the Soviet offensive.
During the break in the battle, Kuhn said to Dominic: "You're right, Sergeant, they are never-ending as you say, and we never seem to be able to finish them!" ”
"What's worse is that we're running out of ammunition!" The baker shouted, "But they didn't send us ammunition!" ”
"You know!" "They're more concerned about their troops, so ......," Dominic said.
Dominic's words couldn't help but make everyone's hearts "chuckle", which means ...... The First Corps was a forgotten unit on the Eastern Front.
"Captain, is that so?" Werner asked.
"What?" Qin Chuan pretended to be confused.
"Dominic said it!" Werner explained: "We are a new addition to the force and we will probably be forgotten by them!
"I don't think so!" Qin Chuan replied: "Because I also gave them a few slices of bread, at least the few guys who swallowed the bread must still remember me!" ”
The soldiers couldn't help but burst into laughter, but there was some bitterness in the laughter.
There was a whistling sound of cannonballs in the sky, and then the cannonballs exploded around with a "boom", and several dead trees fell weakly under the roar of cannonballs.
After a few minutes, the artillery stopped, and Qin Chuan crawled out of the snowdrift, and couldn't help frowning when he saw that the Soviet army had not launched an attack.
In the next second, he ran to a cave dozens of meters behind him with his rifle, and the front of the command headquarters slid into the slope of the hole.
"Captain, the situation is alright!" Colonel Slane asked when he saw that it was Qin Chuan.
"Colonel!" Qin Chuan said: "I think we have to retreat!" ”
"But we didn't get the order to retreat!" Colonel Slain was a little helpless.
"If we continue to stay here, we're going to die!" Qin Chuan said.
"Why?" Colonel Slane asked.
Qin Chuan replied: "The enemy did not charge after a burst of artillery bombardment just now...... It's unusual! ”
Colonel Slain couldn't help but nod when he heard this, the Soviets only fired a mortar before and launched a charge, but this time the howitzer did not charge, which is indeed a little strange.
"This means that their artillery has come up!" Qin Chuan replied: "It's still being assembled, I guess...... They wanted to test if our fortifications were strong enough, or if we had artillery coordination! ”
Colonel Slain looked at Qin Chuan with a surprised face when he heard this: "If our fortifications are strong enough, they can only charge." Otherwise, they will gather more shells and artillery to blow us to pieces?! ”
"Yes!" Qin Chuan said: "They have obviously got the results they wanted!" ”
So Colonel Slain no longer hesitated, and immediately ordered: "Retreat, retreat immediately!" ”
Of course, the retreat of the First Infantry Corps was not a haste to disperse...... A scattered retreat is not called retreat, but "retreat", which will definitely be a tragedy on the battlefield, because the enemy's skiers, tanks, shells, etc., will quickly follow from behind, and the German soldiers will also show their backs in front of the enemy.
The first step was to fire a volley of shells at the opposite side...... Ammunition at this time was precious to the Germans, but they had to do it anyway.
The shells were fired at the same time as a few smoke bombs, and at this time the large force withdrew from the position, but there were still a few small detachments left to fire a few shots at the trenches to confuse the enemy.
After a while, the small troops carefully withdrew from their positions...... When a small unit withdraws, even if it is discovered by the Soviet troops, it does not arouse suspicion, and it is normal for a few people to retreat from the front line.
Qin Chuan guessed correctly, as soon as the first corps withdrew from its position, there were bursts of fierce bombardment in the rear.
"Quick!" Colonel Slane commanded loudly, "We must enter the woods before they can react!" ”
Colonel Slein was right, because there was an open space in front of the woods, and the Germans could easily be pursued by the Soviets who arrived later.
It wasn't a big deal, because the woods were just two kilometers away, and it would only be a matter of ten minutes in North Africa.
But here is snow, the snow is knee-thick, and more importantly, you don't know what's covered under the snow, it could be a pit, it could be a raised rock, so everyone was a foot deep and a shallow foot, like a gorilla, clumsily moving through the snow.
The artillery fire in the rear stopped after ten minutes, followed by another roar...... The Soviet fools apparently thought that the Germans were on the other side of the river, so they charged again.
But this was nothing to cheer for the First Steps, as they still had half the distance to get into the forest.
"Second Company!" Qin Chuan replied and looked at it, and shouted: "Hide in place!" ”
Without saying a word, he lay down in the snow and buried himself.
The soldiers of the second company immediately understood Qin Chuan's meaning, and they all relied on their own camouflage to do a good job of concealment, and even soldiers from other companies took the initiative to use the snow to help the flawed soldiers of the second company to do a good job of camouflage when they passed by.
Qin Chuan, who was lying in the snow, only felt a piercing cold around him, and even if he was wearing gloves on his hands, he was still frozen and almost unconscious, which made Qin Chuan feel a little insecure, because it would make him lose his sensitivity to force when he pulled the trigger, which meant that his reaction became sluggish.
But Qin Chuan knew that this was still secondary, and more importantly, a certain part of the rifle would not fail to sound because it was frozen...... So Qin Chuan could only use his hands to protect the bolt and try to maintain its temperature.
On the battlefield, the rifle is often your own life.
After a while, the sound of skiing was heard ahead.
Qin Chuan guessed correctly, the first to catch up was indeed the skiers, if the first group of skiers was entangled by this team of skiers and could not enter the forest smoothly, then the consequences would be unimaginable.
However, these Soviet skiers obviously did not expect that there would be people hiding in this piece of white snow, and there were quite a few of them.
One by one, they rushed down the slope as fast as they could, and some even held their submachine guns in the direction of the retreating First Infantry Corps as they slid down...... The Bobosha submachine gun, the Soviet army's melee artifact, many German troops in World War II preferred to throw away their MP40 and replace it with it, not only because of its large ammunition capacity, but also because of its reassuring safety in freezing temperatures.
However, they will soon pay the price for their carelessness.