Returning to the shelter with three temporarily retracted night soldiers, handing over the Mauser sniper rifle and the vigilance mission to Wolfrum, Lynn leaned back in the hot chair:

"Three of you don't have to be restrained! Can you tell us about your previous battles? ”

Among the three, Soldier Brell has the highest military rank, responsible for carrying infrared night vision equipment, and he is also the one who spoke to Lynn before.

Putting down his heavy equipment, Brell sat down directly against the wall and replied: "We were given the task of helping the friendly forces hold the barricades in the 6th block, where we stayed all morning, while the Soviet troops appeared about an hour earlier and launched an attack on the barricades!" ”

"6th block? Cheng? An hour ago? ”

Lynn thought about it, after breaking through the outer defense line, the Soviet army did not attack the northern part of the city first, but went around to the south of the city along the already damaged road, which was really cunning!

Brell then briefly described the course of the battle: "The enemy launched a group charge with more than twenty tanks, and the infantry was not numerous, and they broke through the barricades in one breath. We tried to resist, but it didn't work. In addition to Sergeant Zweig, another of our companions was also killed. At first, we wanted to retreat in the direction of the city center, but we ran into Soviet tanks and soldiers on the way, so we had to run to the south of the city! ”

Lynn nodded and said in a sympathetic tone: "It's a pity, the neighborhood south of the city was captured by the Soviet army early, and the road out of the city is now in the hands of the enemy, they have deployed tanks and machine guns, we can only wait for dark to try our luck!" ”

Brell and his two companions were surprised and disappointed to hear the news, but they eventually accepted the reality calmly.

Seeing that Eva, who had fallen asleep earlier, had already gotten up, Lynn introduced: "By the way, this is a senior war correspondent from the Propaganda Department, and our combat team has been ordered to escort her back to the safe area in the rear!" If you wish, you can join us until the end of this mission! ”

What else can these three soldiers who have taken Lynn's command say?

Next, everyone chatted without a word, the situation was bad, and there was not enough food to fill their stomachs, the mood of the soldiers was not high, and Eva was silent for a long time, neither asking Lynn, nor burying her head in sorting out the book, but sitting sullenly in a daze, or falling asleep for a while. At a quarter past five, Wolfrum came down with his rifle in hand, and he told him that the fighting in Lynn was very fragmented, and that there were not many German troops left that were still holding out, and that the Soviets had already taken Oranienburg.

Although this battle will not change much before dark, Lynn knows that there must be a lot of troops trying to break through tonight, and the Soviets must be extra vigilant.

It was finally dark, but Lynn was not in a hurry to lead the deployment and set off, but alone brought infrared night vision equipment to the position where it was lurking during the day.

The Soviets had built a simple defensive position with sandbags and machine guns at the corner of the street, and they looked like they were of average strength, but there were many soldiers lurking in the nearby ruins, and a small group of tanks were on standby in the distance.

Obviously, this is a well-laid pocket, a trap.

There was still no starlight or moonlight that night.

Just after 7 o'clock, gunshots rang out again in the somewhat silent city, and soon there were bursts of explosions. It seems that the night elites lurking in basements, bomb shelters and other bunkers are on the move.

Like a leopard waiting for its prey, Lynn waited calmly.

Gradually, the gunshots and explosions increased, and although each was not particularly intense, it still sounded like the whole city was fighting.

Lynn was still staring at the street entrance, as the fighting in the city continued to expand, Soviet tanks, cars and whole teams of infantry passed by one after another, but the Soviet soldiers who had been lurking around did not leave.

Could it be that staring at the street corner for an afternoon will become an insurmountable obstacle? Lynn was a little reluctant, but she had to think rationally about other routes. Following the operational sketch in my mind, I guessed the distance of different paths and the probability of success with mental arithmetic, but the final conclusion was very depressing: whether it was a bypass from the east and west of the city, or a breakthrough from the south of the city, it must be intercepted by the Soviet army, and due to the effective distance limitation of the infantry infrared night vision device, it may not be possible to avoid the Soviet tanks in time along the way, so any road is extremely dangerous!

This is not so much a risky breakout as a hopeless gamble.

Despite her despair, Lynn remained calm. He waited, waited patiently, an hour passed, and the German troops trapped in the city, although their strength and weapons were weak, they still relied on their familiarity with the city, using infrared night vision equipment to deal with the Soviet army-if it were not for the arrival of Eva, Lynn and his team should have shown their skills at this time, but witnessing the daytime battle, Lynn had given up hope of using the city to contain and consume the Soviet army. Berlin may be a big enough stage.

The sound of gunfire explosions was like that of a stubborn fighter in the ring, despite his bruises and weakness, he tried his best to dodge while looking for an opportunity to fight back.

Towards midnight, people finally began to challenge the Soviet interception line in Lynn's sight.

Lynn was not sure if any of them were equipped with infrared night vision equipment, and there was no way to help them choose a safer route to break out, so all Lynn could do was to fire at the hiding places of the Soviet soldiers in advance when the battle was inevitable, so as to disrupt the deployment of the opponent and remind her soldiers to be careful of ambushes.

A spark was enough to ignite a barrel of explosives, and a fierce battle broke out, and although the German soldiers fought stubbornly on the ruins and buildings, at the critical moment, the Soviets suddenly turned on the vehicle-mounted searchlights deployed in the distance, and fired flares, and almost the entire block was illuminated. The Soviet machine guns, mortars, tanks, and the infantry who were fighting back on the spot weaved a terrible net of fire, and the German soldiers who tried to break through not only failed to do so, but instead left a large number of corpses and retreated in panic, with far more than half of the casualties!

The corpses all over the ground made Lynn's heart extremely heavy, and the sudden appearance of Soviet searchlights made him even more frightened than ever - they were the natural enemies of the "vampire" commandos!

There was no bell at midnight, and as time passed, the German troops in the city were like exhausted fighters, and although they were still fighting, they were far from the fighting spirit and strength of the first half of the night.

Lynn crept back to her hiding place, and it was evident that the soldiers were both worried and anxious, and Eva was no exception.

The path of surrender to the Soviets was not an option, and Lynn, who was always clear about this, still made a decision:

"I'm leading, Your Highness Blair, be cautious in your actions, especially when it comes to sound! At the critical moment, you must not hesitate! ”

After that, Lynn asked for two anti-tank grenades from Wolfrum, resolutely inserted them on his belt, checked and adjusted all the equipment, swept his eyes over everyone one by one, and nodded: "Let's go!" ”

The group left the shelter in silence, and in this cold night, only a little warmth remained here.

Dangerous intersections must be avoided, Lynn and the seven soldiers and the female war reporter first walked about a kilometer north, and then turned east for a while, only to see the road ahead, Lynn observed several people lurking on the side of the road through infrared night vision devices.

Maybe it was Soviet soldiers, but it could also be German soldiers who also wanted to break out of the city, which could not be discerned in the night vision goggles, and those people were separated by several meters from each other, which was quite difficult to control. Lynn's heart was crossed, and he led the team back and forth to the north for a while, and seeing that another intersection was ahead, he raised his hand to signal everyone to stop - they must cross the road on this section!

I turned on the infrared night vision device and observed, but there was no one on this side of the road, but I could faintly see the heat source in the ruins on the opposite side.

This complex environment simply challenges the bottom line of Lynn's patience.

The young commander did not rush across the road recklessly, nor did he give up, but he led his group cautiously to the next street and stopped next to a completely collapsed building on the side of the road. After a while, the sound of gunfire from a distance gradually moved closer to this side, presumably another German breakthrough force. Lynn noticed that there were quite a few people moving in the ruins near the street entrance. If you didn't have night vision devices, you wouldn't be able to see these guys who have changed their lurking positions, but now...... Hum!

"Prepare for battle!" Lynn lowered his voice, and in order to prevent the Soviets from using searchlights again, he told Tanze and Wofrum: "Shoot the searchlights when you see them, and try not to leave any of them!" ”

As for Brewer, the user of the second set of night vision devices is naturally an important firepower output in night battles, but Lynn can't see his expression in the dark, and he doesn't know what his combat skills are, so he hopes to be a good helper.

(To be continued)