Hoffman calculated the distance and angle between his position and the approaching Poles, and once again determined that it was almost time to move.

He glanced at four o'clock and eight o'clock in the back of the side, and after making sure that both teams were in place, he nodded and withdrew his gaze.

Just as Hoffman was about to pull the trigger first, drawing the attention of the Poles, his fingers froze on the trigger. Ahead, a Polish ensign who led the team was suddenly shot in the chest and fell headlong to the ground.

Sniper! This was Hoffman's first impression.

Hoffman's second reaction was that this was a German sniper, and he was helping himself snipe Polish officers. This means that reinforcements have arrived!

Before Hoffman could come to his senses, the sniper shot another Polish soldier in the chest, kicking off his bloody game of point and kill.

Immediately afterward, the Polish soldiers began to disperse in a panic. Although they were panicked, their judgment was very correct, if they stayed put, they would have to be reimbursed here in a short time.

Although they were still more than a hundred meters away, Hoffman seemed to have heard the wheezing of the group of Polish soldiers and felt the fear in their hearts. A carefully hidden sniper is definitely not something they can deal with. Although Hoffman did not have snipers in his company, he had heard of how terrifying several sniper squads in the 30th Division were.

It is said that the reason why several main positions have been able to hold until now is that the rear sniper squads continue to snipe the grassroots commanders of the Polish army and shake the will of the Polish soldiers. Moreover, these snipers are not only well-trained sharpshooters, but also fast gunners, and I heard that as long as they are there, the attacking Poles will continue to suffer losses, and after sniping Polish officers, they will continue to kill whoever they see rushing in front, and in a short time they can kill every Polish "warrior" who runs fast.

Hoffman was a little puzzled, how could the division headquarters send valuable snipers to this highland that played a restraining role?!

Not far away, the scattered Polish soldiers had unconsciously begun to move in the direction of the back, getting farther and farther away from this side. This is not to blame them, after all, the leading officer has already been killed, and there is no one to take command. And there are already seventh corpses on the ground one after another, and a new corpse will be added in less than 5 seconds on average!

"Shoot!" Seeing that the Poles were beginning to show signs of retreat, Hoffman hurriedly gave the order. He was very sure that with a dozen or so people like him, with the cooperation of snipers, there was no problem at all in beating the reservoir dogs, and if he was lucky, he could even eat the Polish army of this platoon in one go.

"Bang, bang, bang......" The soldiers, led by Hoffman, opened fire one after another, kicking up a cloud of dust around the Poles.

"Aim point! Don't shoot blindly! Hoffman yelled. At this time, he no longer needed to hide himself, because the Polish soldiers, who had been superior in numbers, had already begun to flee, and no one even stopped to shoot back.

As Hoffman shouted, the two soldiers with the best marksmanship on either side began to slow down their shots and adjust their crosshairs.

"Plop....... Thump. Two Polish soldiers outside were shot in the chest and fell to the ground. Immediately afterwards, several other Polish soldiers could not escape the shooting of the sniper from a distance, and were killed one by one.

The remaining seven or eight Polish soldiers, although they were not hit, but were also shot in different positions under the fire of a company of other soldiers, and staggered to the ground.

Moments later, the Polish soldiers who had fallen to the ground were shot one by one, ending their painful convulsions. After all, there is no capacity to receive prisoners on this high ground, and even when the position will be lost, Hoffman and they are not sure. Therefore, the current German army can only eliminate every Polish soldier, lest the Poles take the high ground and let these prisoners join the later attack.

"Hello, Lieutenant." After destroying this group of Polish troops, Leon, who rushed to the rescue, appeared in front of Hoffman with his 7th Company leading him with a smile on his face.

Seeing the neatly dressed Leon and the troops waiting for a company behind him, Hoffman's brain was instantly congested, and he saluted excitedly: "The first battalion and one company of the second regiment of the 30th division of the 8th Group Army were ordered to hold their positions and wait for reinforcements, and now request the delivery of positions." ”

"Delivery positions?" Leon shook his head with a smile, looked at Hoffman and the soldiers behind him, and explained, "Lieutenant, you may be mistaken. Our company is not here to take over positions, I have other tasks. ”

Leon's words made Hoffman's face turn white instantly, and he asked in a hesitant manner: "We only have a total of 11 people in front of us now, and there are 3 seriously injured people left." If you don't stay and guard the intact company, do you have to let us continue to guard it? ”

No wonder Hoffman questioned that, after all, the people brought by Lyon were still wearing neat uniforms. On the other hand, Hoffman's company, all of the people left behind were wearing tattered clothes, and many of them still had coagulated dirty blood stains on them.

On one side is a company with only one squad left, and on the other side there are seven companies with more than 200 people and a complete establishment. There was nothing wrong with the Seventh Company taking over the position from the First Company in Hoffman's eyes.

Leon sighed and patiently explained to Hoffman, who was already red-eyed, "Lieutenant, I mean that there is no need to defend this high ground anymore. Neither my men nor yours have to stay, for the main position of No. 1 that needs cover here has been lost. ”

Hold your ground and fight to the death! It does sound exciting, and it looks extremely powerful. However, this sacrifice is not necessary in all cases. The positions are dead, but the tactical targets are alive. Now that the main position has been lost, this high ground has lost its original meaning and has become a meaningless target.

Originally, Lyon's troops were going to rush to the main position with the men led by Commander Hans, but when they arrived, the main position happened to change hands. The remnants of the German army on the position, under the help of the men and horses brought by Hans, withdrew from the broken position in some confusion.

On the way to retreat, Lieutenant Lyon, after hearing that there was still a resisting German unit on the high ground, had already decided to bring people to support. Naturally, the division headquarters would not risk Leon for this, but Major General Hans finally decided to leave Leon with a sniper as a backup, so that Leon could use snipers as much as possible to solve unnecessary casualties.

After glancing again at the direction in which the Poles had just fled, Leon took out his watch and checked the time, turned his head and said solemnly: "We are running out of time, we have to leave quickly." Now that the main position has been lost, it will not be long before the Poles are free to take it. We must hurry up and move with your seriously wounded immediately. ”

"Bruce!" Leon yelled at his ranks.

"Here!" Bruce, who heard the roll call, immediately stepped forward.

"Your platoon is in charge of the rear. I'll leave the sniper for you, is there a problem keeping watch on this high ground for 10 minutes? Leon said solemnly.

"No problem!" Bruce snapped and saluted with his legs together.

Although the platoon did not necessarily have to exchange fire with the Polish troops, it was possible to end the alert and leave immediately as soon as the 10 minutes were up. But in the current situation, it is not impossible for the troops to be completely annihilated after the break. Everything depends on whether the Polish army will attack in the next 10 minutes, and whether it will pursue the Germans desperately.

Thus, for the first time since the war between Germany and Poland, there was a retreat of the German army. The aim was to deploy a street battle in the rear, not far behind, in the city of Lodz.

And according to the order of Major General Hans, the remnants of the 30th Division will start a final battle with the Polish army in the city of Lodz until the last soldier is exhausted!