Episode 22 Raid on the Castle

After taking down the Soviet sentry with a silenced pistol, the leader of the bear team immediately turned off the flashlight, because he must have broken into the Soviet army's warning range now, and there must be other Soviet sentries nearby, and it is likely that they also saw the flashlight here. Then you have to leave this place before the other party comes to check. Two members of the team carried the body of the Soviet soldier and threw it down the hillside. The hill was already steep, and the corpse kept tumbling and sliding all the way down.

The leader estimated that he was now relatively close to the castle. He led his team to climb up the mountain, trying to distance himself from the bottom of the mountain to reduce the possibility of encountering Soviet patrols. Climbing to a slightly gentle place, the leader asked everyone to rest, and then asked one of the team members to climb the pine tree and look down to see if they could find the castle.

One of the team members unloaded their equipment and climbed up in three or two clicks like apes. Soon, he climbed down again.

"Captain," he whispered, gasping as he put his gear back on his back, "it's here...... The castle is just below. Directly below. ”

There was a sense of excitement around the team members, and the team leader also nodded, raised his wrist to look at the luminous watch, it was already 4:08, and it was already eight minutes past the scheduled time. The Wolves on the other side may have arrived, waiting for them on the radio.

The team leader asked the radioman to turn on the radio and tune into the agreed channel.

Sure enough, the voice of the suppressed voice kept coming from the headphones:

"The gray wolf calls the black bear, the gray wolf calls the black bear, please reply, over. …… The gray wolf calls the black bear, the gray wolf calls the black bear, please reply, over. ”

The radio officer of the Bears also lowered his voice and replied in a low voice:

"Black bear received, black bear received, I'm in place, are you in place, over."

The voice came out of the headphones again:

"The gray wolf received it, and I'm already in place, over."

The radioman looked up at the leader, waiting for his orders. The leader of the bear team took the headphones and put them to his ear, and then took the microphone and said:

"It's 4:09 a.m., and it starts at 4:20 p.m. End of this call, over. ”

"The gray wolf understands, it's over."

The team leader handed the headset and microphone to the radioman, who turned off the radio and re-memorized it. Immediately afterwards, the leader of the bear team whispered an order, ordering the whole team to enter the battle state, and began to approach the castle below, and took place according to the predetermined position.

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For the next ten minutes, both teams were moving down the hill to get closer to their respective targets. At this time, it has entered a combat state, that is, once it encounters the Soviet sentry, it will be able to start fighting.

The bears moved to a distance of only a few tens of meters from the castle. It was still a hillside, and it was steep, so it was difficult to get closer to the castle without alarming the Soviets. The Bears placed two fire support points here, one for mortars and one for machine guns, which were arranged separately. Their task was to be condescending, providing fire support.

The leader squatted behind a bush and held a small pine tree in his left hand to prevent himself from slipping. He looked at the castle below with a telescope. On the terrace at the top of the castle, a 37-mm anti-aircraft gun was erected, and two Soviet soldiers smoked and walked around. Every window of the castle has thick curtains drawn so that it is impossible to see if there are lights inside. This should be the light control of the Soviet army, afraid of the air attack by the Ming army's aircraft. The three corners of the castle, with at least three machine-gun points, are all backed by tall stone walls with their backs to the castle, and the front is surrounded by sandbags. It is estimated that the fourth corner, which is invisible, also has a machine-gun point. This arrangement of four-corner machine gun points, simple, but effective. No matter which direction the attacker is attacking, they will have to face fire from as few as two machine guns and as many as three machine guns.

Outside this machine-gun protective ring, there was at least a platoon of Soviet soldiers, patrolling back and forth. The tiny red dots of cigarette butts swayed in the dark. The occasional conversation of Soviet soldiers could already be heard.

Behind the castle, a road runs along the shore of the lake and disappears into the darkness. Presumably it was the way to the nearby Soviet barracks. However, aerial reconnaissance revealed no obvious structures other than castles. Then the Soviet barracks may be a log cabin in the woods. The distance may be only a few tens of meters, or it may be hundreds of meters. But certainly not too far. Because to defend the castle. I guess somewhere on that road leads to the castle, there must be a checkpoint or something, and there must be a machine-gun point. However, it should not be much of a threat to the commandos.

After everything was arranged, the leader of the bear team looked at his watch, and it was already 4:20. Now, it's ready to go. With a wave of his hand, he grabbed the automatic rifle, crouched down, and led his team to the castle. All the commandos also slowly touched it with a beating heart and surging blood. They knew that after many days of training, they would see the real thing in a few minutes.

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Mortar group halfway up the hill.

"Ready-" the gunner grabbed a flare and placed it in the muzzle, shouting the password, "Release!" ”

"Tom!!"

The muzzle of the cannon screamed, the fire flashed, and the flare flew into the sky, and exploded with a "bang".

The body of the projectile under the small parachute was constantly spraying magnesium light, and the castle below, along with half of the lake, was illuminated as if it were daylight. The Soviet troops around the castle were suddenly exposed to the snow, tilting their heads and dumbfounded. After a few seconds, they reacted and began screaming, holding their heads in search of concealment.

The mortar group on the slope of the mountain, the observer skillfully reported a string of data, and then the gunner filled another shell into the barrel, and there was a crisp sound of "tom", followed by a sharp whistling in the air-

"When !!"

In the midst of the loud bang, a large cloud of fire and black smoke rose next to the castle, only a few meters away from a machine-gun point.

But this first shot was only a test shot, and the observer immediately corrected the shooting elements, and immediately after that, the second cannon was ejected.

Two seconds later, the Soviet machine-gun point in the first corner of the castle was blown into the sky.

At this moment, the machine gun point set up by the bear team on the slope of the hill also began to roar, with the dazzling flash and the shrill gunfire like tearing cloth, a line of fire whip "whipped" at another Soviet machine gun point, and in the blink of an eye, several Soviet gunners at that machine gun point were shot and killed before they could react. Even the sleeve of the Maxim heavy machine gun had a few holes, and water flowed out like a spring.

The third machine gun point reacted, and several Soviet gunners began to move the heavy machine gun, trying to turn it to the side of the hill, but the bullets from the Ming woodpecker machine gun had already smashed their heads and faces, and several Soviet gunners were shot and fell to the ground. Immediately afterwards, a mortar shell also exploded next to this machine gun point, igniting the bullet box at once. Suddenly, a large box of machine-gun bullets exploded "crackling", countless bullets were fired in all directions, and several running Soviet soldiers were injured by stray bullets.

At this time, the Wolves on the opposite side also started. In the firelight, the fourteen-grid villa appeared and disappeared from time to time.

At this moment, the members of the bear team, who were still lurking in the woods, took out gas masks from their backpacks and put them on, and then each took out a grenade, unscrewed the lid and prepared it.

The mortar group on the hillside, at this time, took out shells with yellow warheads and filled them into the barrels.

With a few crisp sounds, several tear gas canisters flew into the sky and exploded around the castle in the blink of an eye. Suddenly, a radius of several hundred square meters fell into a cloud of white fog. The Soviet soldiers covered their eyes, tears and snot, coughed incessantly, and supported each other in an attempt to escape from it all. At this time, the woodpecker machine gun fired as hard as it could, and the bullets rushed into the fog like water. And the commandos lurking in the woods also pulled out the grenades and threw them.