Chapter 8 Promotion in the Line of Fire
The gasoline engine of the 222 tank buzzed in a low voice, and they rushed back quickly with Li Mo, and when they had just left the Blue Bridge, they encountered an enemy air attack, Li Mo had to let the 222 tank go into the woods to hide for a while, until the enemy plane flew away, Li Mo and his party climbed onto the 222 tank and continued to run.
But when Li Mo and the others walked out of the woods for only a few minutes, they saw a large group of government troops rushing towards them, probably fleeing towards their location, those routs had thrown away everything that hindered their escape, weapons and other things were long gone, and even the water bottles on their bodies were discarded. The chaotic rout of the army was about five or six hundred people.
"Squad leader, what should I do, so many routs?"
Vincent looked at the group of routs that were pouring in, and he was so surprised that he didn't know how to close his mouth when he opened his mouth, and he didn't know that the half of the paper cigarette in his mouth had fallen.
"Smack", Li Mo slapped Vincent's steel helmet, "Hurry up...... Grab the hill on the side of the road...... Pedaling ......"
Li Mo took the lead in jumping off the Mercedes-Benz 222 tank, and then quickly curled his body into a ball, and inertia drove Li Mo to roll seven or eight times in a row before stopping, Li Mo quickly stood up and quickly charged towards the hill on the side of the road.
This hill is more than 30 meters away from the road, the height is about 30 meters, and the slope is relatively gentle, it is already good to have this geographical advantage, at this time the situation is urgent, Li Mo has a lot of care there, desperately running to the hill, and his soldiers also jumped down from the tank and ran with Li Mo.
And the 222 tank also stopped, adjusted the direction of the artillery, Wittman also saw the rout of the government army from the periscope, for an excellent tank commander, Wittman knew what he should do at this time, that is, stop on the road, block the road of these routs, and then with the support of Li Mo and them, annihilate all these routs.
"Guys, wait a minute, hit me hard, I'll go up there and operate the general-purpose machine gun."
Weitman climbed to the top of the tank after giving orders to the brothers in the tank, and then lifted the lid on the top of the 222 tank, and there was an external MG34 general-purpose machine gun on the top of the No. 2 tank, with 500 rounds of ammunition, and the firepower was very fierce.
Excellent low-level commanders lead by example, often play an extremely important role, Germany in World War I, because of the "Versailles Treaty" restrictions, only have 100,000 troops, Germany in response to this situation on the implementation of a universal non-commissioned officer system, these non-commissioned officers are the elite of the soldiers, they can serve as platoon commanders and company commanders after the baptism of war, because they have rich combat experience, excellent tactics, the soldiers they lead can burst out of incomparable combat effectiveness, The German army swept the world in World War II to show how successful this non-commissioned officer system was in Germany, and now all countries in the world have borrowed from the German non-commissioned officer system, including our country.
With a distance of more than thirty meters, one minute was enough, and Li Mo and the remaining nine soldiers who could fight rushed to the Tushan Bao like a whirlwind, and then quickly lay down, and the weapons in their hands were aimed at the government troops who had fled.
"Hit ...... Click...... Bang bang...... Ahh!!!hhhhh ”
Li Mo saw that when the rout army was more than fifty meters away from Tushanbao, he opened fire suddenly, Li Mo's gunfire ordered, and the rest of the people followed with fierce shooting, MG34's terrifying rate of fire was simply a nightmare for these fleeing soldiers, and countless government troops were shot into a few blood holes in their bodies before they understood what was going on, and then fell on the road like a dry branch.
"Ah......hh It's the German army!! …… Click......"
The rout in front was cut down like wheat, and the rout in the back was also a soldier after all, and when they saw that the form was wrong, they hurriedly lay down on the spot to avoid machine gun fire. This basic tactical move of theirs saved their lives, and the hundreds of fleeing government soldiers all lay motionless on the road, and none of them fought back against Li Mo. A soldier who has lost his command and has no will to fight can only be a lamb to the slaughter, Li Mo saw that the fire was almost over, and hurriedly shouted in broken Spanish:
"Surrender or kill...... Surrender without killing ......"
Every soldier in the German army had a combat manual with a variety of shouts in Spanish, which were very easy to learn, just like writing Chinese characters with similar pronunciations to the English word under the word, and the same was true of the German shouting.
"We surrender...... Don't hit ......"
"Our army accepts your surrender." After Li Mo finished shouting outside, he turned his head and ordered to his subordinates:
"Stop shooting...... The machine guns were on alert, and the others followed me to capture the prisoners. ”
Since these defeated troops without fighting spirit were about to surrender, Li Mo was not an indiscriminate killer, so he immediately put on a magazine and rushed out, and Weitman also drove the 222 tank to approach slowly. The surrender went very smoothly, not a single government soldier fired a cold gun, and the soldiers who lost the will to fight could only be lambs, and after counting Li Mo, they captured more than 300 prisoners and killed more than 50 people.
Li Mo didn't dare to stay here too much, and after simply forming a team of prisoners, he escorted the prisoners to rush back, although Li Mo and them were only ten people, but there was the deterrence of 222 tanks, and there was no prisoner who dared not obey the command, and all the government troops were also dejected and took heavy steps.
Li Mo observed carefully, these prisoners were all authentic Spanish soldiers, and the Spanish soldiers' will to fight was indeed not very tenacious. But the Spanish government also had a formidable force, the International Column, which was called upon by the Comintern led by the Soviet Union, and the proletariat of all countries stood on the side of the Spanish Republic and set off a mass movement in solidarity with the Spanish people, the highest expression of which was the formation of the famous International Column. Anti-fascists from 54 countries, including workers, peasants, clerks, students, and intellectuals, braved the risk of being pursued by their reactionary governments, and made the trek to Spain, with a total strength of about 50,000. (Author's note: the international column is immortal)
When the volunteer soldiers of the International Column enlisted, they all signed an oath that ended with the following: "I come here voluntarily to save the freedom of Spain and the whole world, and I will give my last drop of blood if needed". In the Battle of Madrid and other major battles, they fulfilled their oath, showed extraordinary military qualities, fearless fighting spirit. Just like the recruitment slogan of the international column -- "Turn Spain into the grave of European fascists," these people with fanatical beliefs have a very tenacious will to fight and a very strong fighting force.
Now although Franco's rebel army has surrounded the gateway city of Madrid, the capital of Spain, there are 30,000 international columns in Brunet, and Li Mo knows that the next city street battle is absolutely cruel and bloody.
After Li Mo escorted the prisoners for more than an hour, he met the German troops who came to meet them, and this important information that Li Mo and they had blown up the Blue Bridge was immediately reported to Major General Speller, the commander of the Condor Legion, and Major General Speerer immediately put down his work and drove to see Li Mo, the bold sergeant squad leader.
The first thing Splayer said when he saw Li Mo was ridiculed:
"The brat of the Krupp family is really a bold man, even Goering's fiancée is a person who steals, what else is there not to do!! Not bad, not bad. ”
Li Mo really had no way to answer this question, so he could only stand in place awkwardly and remain motionless, and then smirk "hehe".
"Ondet, although you kid made great achievements in the first battle, but your unorganized and undisciplined behavior is contrary to the rigorous style of our German army, so your merit is greatly discounted, but I cannot but commend your heroic deeds, I now appoint you as a second lieutenant, replacing the sacrificed Larry as platoon commander."
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