Episode 23 Bloody Castle

With the diffuse tear gas, the commandos of the bear team wore gas masks, held guns, and rushed down the hill with cats on their waists, and a platoon was on the periphery of the castle to clear the Soviet troops, but the battle had started for dozens of seconds, and the Soviet troops in the castle had already reacted, and at this moment the gate had been closed, and the Ming commandos hit it twice, and the heavy iron-clad oak gate did not move at all.

But this situation was also planned. A Demoman pulls a plastic ** from his bag, presses it against the door, and then plugs in the detonator and fuse while waving and shouting for the team to stay away. Several members of the surrounding team immediately dispersed, each shooting at the surrounding Soviets in a hidden place, covering the Demoman. The Demoman lights the fuse, then quickly runs away and falls down.

There was a small explosion, and the two large wooden doors of the castle turned and fell crookedly. But immediately a machine gun spewed tongues of fire inside, bullets whistled out, and one of the team members couldn't dodge, was shot and fell to the ground, struggling twice and not moving, blood spurting out of his chest like a spring.

The two commandos lined up on either side of the gate, each took out a grenade, looked at each other, nodded tacitly, and then pulled the fuse at the same time, and after two seconds, threw the two grenades in.

There were two loud bangs, and the firelight and smoke erupted from the castle doorway, and the machine guns inside were dumb. The two commandos immediately turned around, pointed their submachine guns at the door opening, and then withdrew at the same time, hiding on both sides of the door to change magazines. At this time, the other team members, who had been waiting on both sides, immediately jumped up from the ground and rushed into the castle with submachine guns.

The hall on the first floor of the castle was filled with smoke, and several Soviet corpses lay on the ground. A Maxim heavy machine gun was flipped to the ground, gurgling and bubbling in the water. The commandos who came in were all Thomson submachine guns, and they were specially trained in submachine gun indoor combat. At this time, rushing into the interior of the castle was like a fish in water, and the floor plan of the entire castle immediately appeared in my mind, as if I had returned to the training I had been training for many days.

There were fewer Soviet troops inside the castle than expected, and it seems that the Soviet defenders were mainly outside. The short battle on the outside just now annihilated dozens of Soviet troops, and there could be no more inside the castle. The immediate task now was not to find Guangwu, but to quickly clear the Soviets from the castle, and at the same time to go up to the top terrace of the castle and control the 37mm anti-aircraft gun.

The commandos attacked exactly according to the castle blueprint in their minds, attacking from the first floor, and dozens of people were just like in training, without improvised arrangements at all, and went directly to their respective mission areas. Every time you attack a floor, or an open area, such as a lobby, a large dining room, or a library, you will throw a tear gas canister first, and then rush in. After a while, almost the entire castle was filled with thick tear gas smoke. At the same time, gunfire erupted in various parts of the castle and grenade explosions.

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At this moment, the air defense alarm of the entire villa area also sounded, of course, this time it was not air defense, but "ground defense". At this time, the surrounding area of the castle was also cleared, and the machine gun group and mortar group left by the bear team on the hillside had also completed their first phase of mission, and now they had quickly moved down, drilled into the castle, and rushed to the upper floor under the cover of the commandos. Although the top floor has not yet been taken down at this time, the towers at the four corners have been taken down. The machine gun team carried the woodpecker machine gun and the ammunition box, dodging the flying bullets and debris in the middle of the corridors and pillars where the bullets were raining, and got into a side staircase with a very steep slope, and quickly climbed up.

It is a circular tower attached to the side of the castle. Climb to the top, and four tall and narrow stone window openings appear in front of you. The machine-gun crew determined the orientation and set the machine gun on one of the window openings. From here, you can just aim at the only road coming from the south.

They came at the right time. Several pairs of headlights can already be seen on the road, moving madly in this direction. It was Soviet reinforcements, at least several truckloads of soldiers. There may be more on foot.

The commando machine gun on the castle tower assembled the chain, aimed at the position of the distant headlights, and pulled the trigger. A string of tracer bullets marked the line of fire, drawing a beautiful arc in the night sky. The first pair of headlights in the distance made a sharp turn and stopped there, apparently crashing into a tree on the side of the road. The mountain road was so narrow that the first truck broke down, and several behind it were blocked there.

"Very good, very good!"

The shooter shouted excitedly as he continued to pull the trigger and shoot at the rest of the headlights, one after the other. In the light of the headlights, many Soviet soldiers could be seen jumping out of the car in a panic, holding guns and cats bending over their waists to find a place to hide. They became the best targets for the machine gunners, falling under bullets one by one.

It's an excellent machine-gun point, with a good open view, heavy stone walls, narrow windows, and almost like a pillbox. And on the battlefield, if you want to knock out such a point of fire, you either have to use heavy weapons, and you have to have a large enough caliber, or you have to drop bombs with aviation. But the Soviet army here did not have either. All they could do was spread out, as far away from the road as possible, and approached the castle in a roundabout way using the woods on the hill as cover. But on one side of the castle facing the water, on the other three sides there was an open area of at least ten meters, and the trees were all cut down, or by the Soviet troops. In order to prevent anyone from sneaking up on the castle. Now this has become a grave dug by the Soviets for themselves. The castle was surrounded by window openings, and the Ming commandos occupied several of the best positions in each direction, using automatic rifles as light machine guns to warn the Soviet troops from flanking around.

However, although the position of the Ming commando was favorable, it was difficult to hold out for a long time after all. Their automatic weapons consume bullets too quickly, and they, as commandos, are lightly armed and surprise attack, carrying not much ammunition, nor the constant supply of logistical ammunition that regular troops have. Time is everything for them now.

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With the explosion of a grenade above, a Soviet corpse spun and fell, falling into the lake below the castle. In a window hole near the lake, a commando with an automatic rifle monitors the lake. Seeing the corpse falling from above, he knew in his heart that the terrace on the top floor was probably taken down.

Sure enough, the top of the castle is now in the hands of the commandos. A grenade killed the two Soviet gunners above, one was blown directly into the lake, and the other was lying on the anti-aircraft gun in a blur, and was also dragged down by the commandos and thrown into the lake.

The four "gunner" commandos who climbed up quickly checked the twin machine guns, but fortunately, the grenade was not damaged. Two gunners loaded the cannonballs, and the other two quickly sat down, one shook the horizontal handle, one shook the vertical handle, and the two straight barrels quickly turned in direction, lowered, and aimed at the road far below.

"Bang Bang ............"

In the deafening loud noise and dazzling firelight, a string of 37-mm caliber shells flew straight past, and the Soviet vehicles reinforced on the road in the distance were suddenly in flames. At this time, the mortar crew also climbed up, they quickly set up the mortar, and according to the training, fired flares at a pre-calculated direction.

More than ten seconds later, more than 1,000 meters away, on the other side of the lake, a villa was illuminated in the magnesium light. The anti-aircraft guns above reflected the cold light of metal.

The observer quickly reported the shot, and then a cannonball flew out. This shot was very accurate, and the shells bloomed directly on the roof of that villa. The anti-aircraft gun was also engulfed in fire in a burst of shells.

Immediately afterwards, the mortar crew skillfully turned the muzzle of the gun to another calculated direction and fired another flare. Ten seconds later, another anti-aircraft gun on the top of the villa was illuminated.