The first thing the troops hit after advancing was the Soviet artillery...... Due to the rapid pace of the German advance, coupled with the fact that the artillery was firing shells one after another at the German-occupied territory, and the sound of the artillery muffled the gunfire coming from the direction of the field hospital, the Soviet artillery did not even notice anything unusual.

It wasn't until one of the gunners was knocked to the ground by a bullet that the Soviet artillerymen stopped their movements and looked behind them in shock, and when they realized that the troops behind them were the enemy, their first reaction was to reach for their guns.

But it was too late, and the German soldiers did not hesitate to pull the trigger, and the Soviet artillery fell to the ground one by one.

One of the Soviet artillerymen was wounded in the leg, but he still did not give up running and dragged his wounded leg limping in the opposite direction...... But this was clearly useless, and a German soldier caught up with him and shot him in the head with a rifle only half a meter or so apart.

So it was a good thing to have artillery, which made the Soviets on the west bank realize that they had been attacked almost only when the German soldiers arrived in front of them, and this continued until the end of the battle.

In the same way, Matevich and Petronorev did not notice anything unusual, and they were still in the headquarters analyzing the battle situation on the map, calculating the escape route of the German army after breaking through and where the Soviets should intercept it.

At this time, there was a sudden panic outside, and just when Matevich and Petronorev were feeling strange, a guard covered in blood pushed open the door and shouted: "Comrade commissar, the enemy is coming, retreat quickly!" ”

Matevich and Petronorev both looked at each other and realized that they had been fooled, the Germans had no intention of breaking through at all, it was not a cover to divert their attention, their real purpose was actually to raid the rear of the Soviet army.

"Retreat!" Matevich said.

He knew that there could be no hesitation at this time, because he knew in his heart that the Soviet army on the west bank of the Lovati River was too weak to hold back the Germans even for a moment.

"But what about the papers?" Petronorev hurriedly pinned himself with an armed belt.

"Leave it alone!" Matvich blew out the kerosene lamp and said: "It's too late to destroy, hopefully nothing useful will be left for the Germans!" ”

With that, he opened the back door and escaped.

Matevich was very smart, he chose to flee in the direction of the Lovati River, which is also the direction of the front line, he knew that the Germans' goal was the west bank of Holm, and he also knew that the Germans would inevitably lay a heavy ambush at the exit of the town, so the safest was the front line.

Matevich was right, so he and Petronorev escaped safely from the Germans, and the other officers ...... A large number of colonels, lieutenants, and regimental and battalion commissars fell to the German guns, and there was even a major general who stopped here on the way to Holm, and that was the commander of the 31st Infantry Brigade.

However, Qin Chuan did not think that he could provide any useful information, on the one hand, because the Soviet army's combat intentions were already obvious at this time, and on the other hand, the Soviet army's command system was very chaotic, and sometimes even the senior generals did not know what role they played in the battle, they only knew to advance according to the order and destroy the enemy when they encountered it.

In addition to this, Qin Chuan and other commandos also captured an arsenal.

Of course, the Germans would not blow up this arsenal easily, they first took mines from the arsenal and laid them in and around the town as quickly as possible...... At this time, the most commonly used mine in the Soviet Union was a square wooden-shelled mine.

This should be said to be another initiative of the Soviets, first of all, the wooden shell mine is very simple to make and the cost is also very low, that is, two wooden boxes are upside down together. This advantage was obviously very important to the Soviet Union, because the industrial capacity of the Soviets at this time was greatly damaged by the invasion of the German army, so there was a shortage of materials, and the cost of obtaining wooden shell mines was almost negligible.

The second is that because this kind of mine uses wood, ordinary metal mine detectors are basically ineffective against it, which can make it have a good effect on blocking the enemy.

The Germans had enough of these mines when they attacked the Soviet Union, and because they were rectangular, the Germans called them "little coffins".

Now, just use them on the Soviets.

At the same time as the mines were laid, the Germans replenished a lot of ammunition from their arsenals...... The most numerous of these were pistol cartridges and grenades, and many soldiers in the German army used Bobosha submachine guns, which needed to be replenished with ammunition.

In the end, it was the ammunition depot that was sprayed with explosives to blow it up.

It took only 35 minutes before and after the battle for the Germans to retreat from the west bank of Holm, leaving only blood, corpses and rubble on the west bank.

To the pain of the arriving Soviets, although they already knew that there were no Germans in the town, they still had to deal with the potential presence of mines everywhere, and even worse, they were their own and undetectable.

Matevich watched the advancing Soviet soldiers being blown down in the mines one after another and screaming, and a sense of powerlessness arose in his heart.

"Where did they come from?" Petronolev couldn't help but complain: "It's reinforcements from the Germans? How come the troops on our periphery didn't notice it at all? ”

"No, they're not reinforcements!" Matvich opened the corpse of a German soldier who had been dragged in front of him by the Soviet soldier and said, "Look at the boots on their feet...... It's our leather boots, and the rags and ......shredded paper in our padded jackets."

(Note: The boots and padded jackets of the Soviet army are better than those of the German army, and the German soldiers do not dare to wear the padded jackets of the Soviet army due to the identification problem, but often take off the boots from the dead body and put them on.) ）

"Are they Germans on the East Coast?" Petronorev was a little incredulous.

"Yes!" "They're those Germans on the East Coast, they're coming out of the tunnels," Matevich said. We thought we were going to defeat them, but now it seems ...... They are far from being beaten! ”

"I don't think so!" Petronorev said angrily: "We have captured the defense line of the Lovati River, and their sneak attack will not change anything, as long as we ......"

Before he could finish speaking, there was an explosion one after another on the Lovady River line, and Petronorev looked back to see that the slopes they had piled up on the Lovady River line had been blown to pieces, including the bridge-building vehicles that could allow tanks to pass.

"Withdraw the troops!" Matevich said helplessly: "Otherwise, they will be surrounded and annihilated again like last time!" ”