Chapter 25: Dancing with Death (Part II)
"Beautiful! It's beautiful! Well done, Dietrich! ”
Readjust Elevation ......
"Adjusted!
"Ready-go!"
With a "pass, poof!" The long, shrill voice whistled again.
A mortar shell flying in mid-air, it is a body that spins and flies in mid-air, dancing happily in a semi-circle to the accompaniment of whistling. What is special is that once it hits the ground, the trigger at the tip of the cannonball is touched, interrupting the dance and erupting with the roar of death.
It must be mentioned that the shells of mortars are actually very large now, and they are not the kind that developed to the time of World War II. Today's mortar shells are loaded with marbles and bursting shrapnel, but one thing in common is that they are definitely not light.
"Great, another accurate hit!"
"Readjust!"
"Done!"
"Ready-go!"
Marcus. Ergen held a telescope to observe the landing point of the cannonball, and he watched as his hand suddenly trembled, and what he saw in the telescope was his direct superior.
"I see, it's Captain Rich! He is moving with his brothers in the direction of the retreat of the Entente generals! ”
"Where? Where is it??? ”
"Two o'clock, it's at two o'clock! The captain was so powerful that he could move so quickly in a prostrate position. ”
"Oh! They dodged so well that I wouldn't have been able to spot them if it hadn't been for your reminder. ”
These fighters who hit the target because of repeated shelling, they still knew that it was their direct commander because they found some characteristics, and they were very happy with the unexpected discovery. However, they did not have clairway to see how ugly Richie's camouflage-obscured face was.
"We fired the cannon without receiving the signal, the chief won't blame us, right?"
"......, a good soldier should seize the fighter and do the right thing, that's what General Moltke said."
"Huh? I know that he wrote books such as "On the Outline of Military Surveying and Mapping" and "On the Internal Relations and Social Conditions of Poland", "On the Turkish-Egyptian War in the Summer of 1839", etc., but did he ever say anything like that? ”
"Dietrich, do your duty!"
"Yes, Mr. Ergen."
This group of guys, they are happy that they have repeatedly achieved results, and they have the mind to joke. I don't know if it's a simple mind, or a limited vision, and I haven't thought about how to evacuate after being discovered.
Li Qi, who was crawling forward, supported the ground with one hand and half-squatted up, and he stopped when he was a comrade who was only discovered at close range, and the man hid too well, and the epaulettes that were exposed were a sergeant.
Li Qi did not lower his voice, and shouted "Sergeant!" with a moderate amount of voice. The scene was full of gunfire, and lowering the sound was simply redundant, but you can't find death and yell.
The sergeant had apparently spotted Richie as well, and he raised his right hand to indicate that he had heard.
Richie leaned over, and he lay down next to the sergeant and asked, "Which unit are you and how many men are under your command?" ”
"Guards Reserve ......," he looked a little nervous as he swallowed his saliva? Licking his dry and cracked lips, he said in a hoarse voice, "Captain, my name is Gothhard. Heinrich, originally part of the Self-Guards Reserve. and Wa~Er~Te. Feng. Major Brauchitsch was transferred to the Guards Special Operations Group ......", he looked a little hesitant, but he couldn't help but ask: "Captain, do you have water?" ”
[What? What the hell! Gothhard. Heinrich? Wa~er~ter. Feng. Brauchitsch? These two guys can't be the two people I know!? 】
Li Qi handed out his kettle with a strange face, he observed the surrounding environment and situation, and asked, "You are the only one here?" ”
Gothhard. Heinrich didn't have the ability to speak at all, he was like an unlucky guy who was trapped in the desert and suddenly encountered a water source, holding a kettle and pouring water into his stomach with "grunt, ......grunt".
Pretty much enough, Gothhard. Heinrich suddenly realized that he had drunk the unknown captain in front of him, and stammered with an apologetic face, "Not good...... Excuse me! ”
O water on the battlefield! It's definitely not much more precious than the water in the desert, but Gothhard. Heinrich was really thirsty, he had been lurking in the vicinity for more than five days, and in the extremely hot weather, his water had long been gone, and after being thirsty for more than a day, he suddenly had water to drink, and it was strange that he could not help but drink it all.
The depression in Richie's heart when he found that the water was drunk was indescribable, but he couldn't attack. Not because of Gothhard. Heinrich would later become a general of the Nazi Third Reich without a seizure, but he also wanted to know how many of them were close to the Gothard. Heinrich was in the same boat. Knowing this is very helpful for his actions now.
Soon, Litchie knew the answer, there was a Guards action group nearby, and the number of people who could be used as combat strength was thirteen.
The Guards team was supposed to have twenty men, but three of them were missing during the infiltration, and four of the seventeen suffered severe heat stroke. One of the missing three people was the leader of their group, a lieutenant.
"Well......" Richie learned that now Gothhard. Heinrich, the highest-ranking person in the group, said very seriously: "I now, according to the rules of the battlefield, ask your group to obey my orders for the time being, is it okay?" ”
"Until the immediate commander shows up, or gives orders in any form, my group is willing to cooperate with the captain." Gothhard. Heinrich said it reluctantly, and I don't know if it was because he drank up Rich's water that he reluctantly accepted it?
Richie doesn't care so much, get to know the Gothhard. The members of Heinrich's group said bluntly: "Do you see that Y-shaped slope?" He waited for Gothhard. Heinrich nodded, and then said, "Your snipers can go over there and take advantage of the fact that you have more sniper members and shoot any Allied officer who looks like a field commander." Assault Troopers with me? ”
Gothhard. Heinrich was visibly surprised: "The generals who do not attack them? ”
Li Qi patiently explained: "It is far more useful to kill their field officers now than to kill their generals!" ”
The person who will be able to mix with the commander-in-chief of the army group in the future is really not a stupid person, Gothard. Heinrich only hesitated for a moment and immediately reacted, he no longer had doubts because Li Qi looked young, and he readily promised to cooperate.
Quite rightly, the engagement on the scene was already a mess, and it was really more useful to kill officers who could effectively command the Allied forces on the ground than to kill generals who were accustomed to sitting in their offices and were fit to command behind the line of fire.
As Richie continued to lurk forward, he slowly joined up with the three members of his group, and he ordered one of them to find the three snipers in the group, and also gave the order to snipe the field commander.
The current situation on the battlefield is that the soldiers of the Entente countries are constantly moving towards the positions of those generals, and I don't know where the shells have been falling in the ranks of those generals, and one of them looks like a miracle.
Because the bullets kept flying, and the shells kept falling, the side of the Allied generals was already in chaos, and Li Qi successfully led people to use the terrain to lurk in a suitable position, and waited for the team of the Allied generals to collide with themselves.
[The scene is so chaotic, and they are in a hurry, as long as the snipers can successfully kill the field commander by name, no one will think that they should send the vanguard to the front. And that's my biggest chance! 】