Chapter 518: Infiltration

In fact, the safety hazard of prisoners should have been discovered a long time ago, because the school used to hold prisoners has been shelled several times, the walls are badly damaged, and some places are only sealed with wooden planks, and there have been several incidents of prisoners fleeing en masse before.

The reason why it has not been brought up for discussion until now is partly because the fighting on the front line is very tense and the German soldiers have no time to take care of the rear, and more importantly, because Major General Hartmann has been holding on to the death and not reporting to Colonel Slein.

Rear Admiral Hartman's mentality is understandable.

The first is that it was psychologically difficult for him to accept the command of Colonel Slain...... Major General has a higher rank than Colonel, and the police force itself is superior, which has always made Major General Hartman unwilling. But reality forced him to bow his head, and Major General Hartmann also knew that if it was a regular battle, it was indeed Colonel Slain who was more suitable to command, and if he forcibly seized the command, not only would he not get support, but even if he succeeded, it might kill everyone, including himself.

Secondly, it is Major General Hartman who has an inferiority complex.

As Colonel Slein had said before, the Wehrmacht was fighting the vicious Soviet army on the front line, while the police force was only in the rear to maintain law and order, and other tasks, but it still made mistakes again and again, and even let dozens of Soviet soldiers hide among the people and carry out assassination operations against German officers.

As soon as he thought of this, Major General Hartmann couldn't help but wipe a handful of sweat secretly...... You must know that the object of the Soviet assassination is the "legendary sergeant".

Major General Hartmann, who was the commander of the security division, of course knew what kind of influence the "legendary sergeant" had in the rear, and if the Soviets succeeded in the assassination, he would be held responsible...... Then he, a major general, was afraid that he would not be able to eat and walked away.

Major General Hartmann, who was leisurely sipping wine by the fire, was glad that none of this had happened, and that the "legendary sergeant" had saved his own life and Major General Hartman's life.

Thinking of this, Major General Hartmann couldn't help but sigh secretly, he found out from the Soviet people that the assassination team sent by the Soviets was a specially trained elite, Hartman didn't understand how this "legendary sergeant" single-handedly defeated the assassination team and survived in that situation.

From this, it can be seen that this "legendary sergeant" does have two hands, not only in strategy, but also in the quality of individual soldiers and reaction speed.

"General!" It was the adjutant who pushed the door in and reported, "Captain Flick wants to see you!" ”

Hartman let out an absent-minded "um", and then suddenly remembered that "Captain Frick" was the "legendary sergeant", so he hurriedly turned around and asked, "You mean Captain Frick?" ”

"Yes!" The adjutant nodded: "That's him!" ”

"Let him in!" Major General Hartman said, and stopped the adjutant the next second: "No, no, I think it's more appropriate for me to meet him personally!" ”

The moon was clear and the stars were sparse that night, and the Soviets uncharacteristically did not attack Holm, but the front line was not easy at all, because the German soldiers found many Soviet soldiers lurking on the front line...... Hiding on the front line was one of the tactics of the Soviet army, which was primarily intended to be able to shorten the route of advance when charging and increase the suddenness of the battle.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, as several red flares rose into the air, there was a sudden burst of gunfire on the defensive line, and the Soviets launched a fierce attack on Holm from all sides, with at least one tank battalion on each side of the east and west directions, and one after another of infantry.

Unlike usual, this time the Soviets did not prepare for artillery fire.

Of course, there was a deep meaning in this, and Pukaev was worried that the smoke and dust from the bombardment after the artillery fire was prepared would reduce the visibility of Holm and make it difficult for the glider to find a suitable landing site.

"Where is the glider?" Pukaev asked the staff officer beside him.

"Twenty kilometers away!" The staff officer replied: "I was preparing to get off the hook!" ”

"Shoot the shells!" Pukaev ordered.

"Yes!"

Flares were fired at Holm.

From the Germans' point of view, these flares may have been for the Soviet attack, but in fact, the real intention was that the Soviet army indicated the direction of gliders and transport planes, and even at this time the Soviet attack was to attract the attention of the German army.

"They determine the location!" The staff officer reported: "The goal is clear! ”

Pukaev nodded, then raised his binoculars and turned his gaze to Holm.

For Holm, Pukaev had mixed feelings, and before that, he never imagined that such a small town would become a big problem for his entire army group or even an army group.

So war is a very strange thing, and it is only after the outbreak of war that some places really show its value.

"Glider unhooked!" The staff officer continued to report: "Twelve kilometers away! ”

"Keep firing flares!" Pukaev ordered: "Air defense forces act!" ”

"Yes!"

Piercing anti-aircraft sirens sounded soon on the periphery, as well as columns of searchlights and the sound of anti-aircraft guns.

Of course, this is just what the Soviet air defense forces are doing...... This was often the case before German gliders reinforced Holm, and Pukaev was telling the Germans in another way that German gliders were approaching them.

To be honest, Pukaev's plan has been done quite meticulously, which is very rare for a Soviet general who always attacks with simple and crude tactics, but what Pukaev does not realize is ...... He's up against the best of the best, so all he does is doomed to fail.

"Five kilometers!"

"Two kilometers!"

……

With the shouts of the staff officers, gliders appeared over Holm, and in order to be able to fool the Germans, the underside of the wings of these gliders was sprayed with the word "10,000" like a German glider.

Then, one by one, the gliders swooped down and descended towards Holm.

"Artillery cover!" Pukaev ordered.

At this time, the purpose of the artillery was to suppress the German army, and at the same time, the smoke from the explosion could also provide cover for the Soviet airborne troops who had infiltrated Holm, and then the flares also fell silent at this time, and the surroundings suddenly fell into darkness, only the light that was lit up during the artillery bombardment was like lightning.

Pukaev lowered his binoculars and looked relieved...... At least so far, everything is going well.

Pukaev was right, even Qin Chuan didn't expect that the Soviet army would use gliders to infiltrate Holm, so this time it was indeed a surprise to the German army.

However, Qin Chuan always believed that the goal of the Soviet army was the prisoner camp, and the rest was just a trick.