Walking through long alleys, through houses, into short alleys, around churches, and over ruins, the whole city trembled under the fierce sound of gunfire, and Soviet warplanes tirelessly roared overhead, occasionally dropping powerful bombs. The group was like walking through a maze, and it turned out that Lynn's sense of direction was quite good.

With Tanze's rifle in hand, he finally saw the destination of the trip, the 11th block, in the sniper scope.

It once housed the largest theatre in Oranienburg, with a well-groomed gravel path and a moonlit vegetation, but now only ruins and debris remain.

The most eye-catching place, at the intersection, Huo Ran parked two T-34s of the Soviet Army, seemingly parked at random, but the muzzles of the black holes were vigilantly guarding each side.

Lynn was surprised and disappointed, but not confused.

The earth is round, and the defense line and the city can also be seen as an irregular circle, as long as the outer circle is broken, the powerful Soviet tanks can circle the city twice, which is half a day's work.

In fact, it is not difficult to judge the current situation, the Soviet army that broke through the outer defense line has basically surrounded Oranienburg, if you choose to hold on, even if you use the night to fight a beautiful street battle, the end result is nothing more than death and surrender.

The fall of Berlin is a matter of time, let alone a tiny Oranienburg.

As commander of the 167th Night Combat Group, Lynn was prepared to extend the content of the instructions from above: "Escort a senior comrade war correspondent to the designated location, and if it is not possible to meet the receiving vehicle, escort the comrade to Berlin by all means." ”

Going to Berlin seemed to be just a few more days of respite than staying here, but the headquarters of the "Vampire" commandos had also been relocated to Berlin, and Bach, Diglio, and Motchig were all on Lynn's list of plans - it would sound ridiculous to use a small SS corporal to plot these colonels and lieutenants, but no matter how capable they were, how could they judge the development of the situation as accurately and long-term as Lynn?

If you want to get out of the city, you have to go through the block in front of you first.

Lynn put down his gun, turned to the war correspondent, and said: "Comrade Eva, I have to regret to inform you: the armored vehicles that were supposed to be used to send you to Berlin have now become the prey of Soviet tanks!" ”

The journey was hard, and he once went to death, but in the end it was in vain, and those big eyes revealed deep disappointment.

Lynn then turned to the four soldiers under him: "Ladies and gentlemen, the task assigned to us by our superiors is to escort Comrade Eva, even if there is no answering vehicle, we should resolutely carry out this order, but...... The road ahead has been blocked by the Soviets, and we will probably have to wait here until it gets dark, and then pass through the Soviet-occupied zone at night! ”

This is not an order, but an inform, an inquiry.

"Totally subject to your decision!"

Wolfrum's first statement was crucial, followed by Tanze and Tschmel, and Graf followed suit, as always.

"Good!" Lynn nodded in satisfaction, he wanted to see such a concerted situation.

"It's more than 20 kilometres from here to Berlin, and if we're lucky, we'll be able to get help from friendly forces halfway, but we might have to walk on both feet!"

Although he said this to the soldiers, Lynn also wanted to prepare the female war reporter psychologically: 20 kilometers is nothing for a soldier, and it is a little far for a woman with no special physical training.

Eva has no objection to returning to Berlin. She was silent for a moment, and then suddenly said in a very low tone, "I'm sorry I've dragged you down!" ”

This surprised Lynn, so much so that he didn't know what to respond to for a while. Seeing this, Vofrum, who was standing next to him, took the initiative to comfort him: "Heh, how can it be said to be a drag? You come to interview us, record our combat experience, and of course we are obliged to return you to safety! Besides, this is also an order from the superiors! ”

Lynn turned around and saw her big blinking eyes and couldn't hold back her tears.

"If any of you get hurt protecting me, I'm going to be very upset!" She said with a gloomy expression.

Belch...... Is this still the female reporter who seemed decisive and strong? Lynn knew that women were fickle, but she didn't expect that such a complex family name and emotions could be collected in a person.

Unfortunately, Lynn has never known how to comfort women. So, let's let Wolfrum explain:

"Aren't we all okay?"

At this time, the young Tanze also interjected: "Yes, it is our duty to fight, not to mention that we still have a magical commander like Sergeant Gargo?" ”

"Our Gargo sergeant is omnipotent!" Titchmel whispered.

Naturally, Graff would not have excluded himself on such occasions: "Don't worry, we have the best commander in the whole world!" ”

So, everyone turned their admiring eyes to Lynn.

It's good to have everyone's trust and support, but now is not the time to be complacent. Lynn looked down at his watch, even if it was dark at 6 o'clock, he would have to wait for more than six hours, so he ordered: "Gordon, you and Anton go and find a safe hiding place for everyone first, from now on, we will take turns to keep guard until dark!" ”

At a time when the city is full of crumbling houses and ruins, it's not hard to find a place to hide. Wolfrum quickly found a large room half underground, half above ground, with a lot of furniture and miscellaneous items, and very attentively moved two old sofas for Eva to make a bed. Lynn didn't bother to curry favor with the female war reporter, so he put down his heavy infrared night vision gear, looked around, pulled a few gray rags from the corner, and used them to wrap the barrel, handguard and sniper goggles of Tanze's sniper rifle, which was a concealment technique learned from the movie - there may not be Soviet snipers around, but it is always right to be cautious.

With Tanze's sniper rifle in hand, Lynn announced that she was the first to go out to sentry.

Stepping on the collapsed wall, he climbed the three-story building with only the small half of the building on the left, and chose the most dilapidated windowsill on the second floor as a temporary observation post. At this time, the whole city was full of smoke, and several buildings near the central square were burning, and the sound of gunfire and explosions could be heard in all directions. The battle on the periphery didn't seem to be over yet, and the sniper scope could still see the flickering fire of the cannonballs exploding in the distance, and the pillars of smoke rising from the ground looked like the huge pillars of an invisible temple...... Looking back at the 11th block in the southern part of the city, Lynn finally saw two destroyed half-track armored vehicles in a corner, surrounded by several corpses of German soldiers, who had been contacted by the command to take Eva to Berlin.

Accepting this harsh reality, Lynn continued to wait and see. The T-34 that had been parked at the intersection had already driven away, but there were still traces of Soviet soldiers moving nearby, and it seemed that they were preparing to set up a cordon at the intersection to gradually stabilize the occupied area in the city.

Glancing over every area around her, Lynn put away her rifle and leaned against the corner to squint for a moment. There was so much that happened in just half a day that the poor head was a little overwhelmed. Medals, promotions, and unexpected female journalists, but the Soviets broke through the defense line and entered the city this morning, how did everything come together?

Even when his eyes were closed, Lynn did not dare to be careless, but paid close attention to the sounds around him, getting up every ten minutes to observe the near situation, and half an hour to use the rifle scope to check the distance round. At two o'clock in the afternoon, a particularly fierce burst of gunfire suddenly sounded in the direction of the city center, and only frequent flashes and thick smoke could be seen in the scope, and after about 20 minutes, the gunfire gradually stopped.

Hiss...... The city center was occupied by Soviet troops?

Lynn's heart was no longer surprised, but almost hopeless loss. Prior to this, he felt that the Wehrmacht and SS troops stationed at Oranienburg had built a large number of barricades and transformed many buildings and ruins into defensive points, and that with the "elite anti-tank demolition group", "elite infantry sniper group" and "elite night battle group", with the barricades, buildings and ruins of the city, the outer defense line should have been broken through by the Soviets for another three or four days. But now it's only lasted half a day!

Soon, the fierce gunfire of the battle shifted to the east of the city, and the southern perimeter of the city was also full of explosions. The more this is the case, the more anxious Lynn's mood becomes, is he going to become a turtle in an urn soon, or is he already ...... Seeing a few figures shaking in the ruins of the back alley, Lynn quickly picked up his sniper rifle, lest the Soviets would begin to send a small team to sweep the nets to eliminate the remnants of the German army hiding in all corners of the city. However, the Soviets did not seem to be moving so fast, and in the scope appeared the familiar steel helmet with large ear brims, a group of three people, one of whom was holding an MP44 equipped with an infrared searchlight and telescope, and what appeared to be a square box on his back.

Although it was the attire of the night battle troops, now that there were Russians everywhere, Lynn did not dare to be careless. He cautiously looked around to make sure that there were no other people nearby, so he took the Mauser 98k on his back, climbed down lightly, and quietly ambushed them in their path. After all three people had walked over, they jumped out with two guns in their hands: "All are not allowed to move!" ”

Hearing this sentence in German, which sounded a little out of tune, probably thinking that it had been ambushed by the Russians, the three soldiers froze fiercely.

Lynn pulled off the hammer and asked sharply, "Which group are you from?" Who is the commander? ”

The one with the infrared night vision equipment on his back replied: "The 152nd Night Combat Group, Commander Hans. Sergeant Zweig, Sergeant is now dead, and I will take over the battle team temporarily! ”

Originally, there were 50 groups in the entire battle group, that is, 50 commanders, and Lynn knew only seven or eight, but he knew that the 152nd battle group was indeed staying in Oranienburg, so he said, "Okay, turn around!" ”

After the three soldiers were facing him, Lynn looked up and down for a moment, and felt that there was no problem, before resetting the hammer on the shell gun and introducing himself: "I am Lynn the commander of the 167 Night Battle Group. Gargo, according to the rules of the battlefield, you are in charge of me for the time being! ”

Although they were taken aback by Lynn just now, the three soldiers did not have a hostile attitude towards it, but were a little relieved. The leader with infrared night vision equipment made their attitude and position clear one by one:

"SS Soldier Breel. Bloom takes your command! ”

"Ss Soldier Bill. Chimmmelman at your command! ”

"SS Private Conrad. Verleger at your command! ”

(To be continued)