Chapter 67

Fafnir was one of many German battle groups that retreated, and when the large force retreated, they served as a mobile force to cover the rear break, and when they retreated, the Soviet pursuit was very ferocious and caused them heavy losses.

Along the way, Fafnir and the other surviving tanks and infantry often had to stop to hold off the pursuing Soviets, and sometimes attack towns that had already been captured by Soviet detachments in front of them to open a way to escape. The most unfortunate thing was to attack the Soviet blocking positions while setting up positions to block the Soviet Red Army pursuing troops behind.

His tanks have been lost, and now Fafnir is fighting for his own survival as an infantryman. Two days ago he lost his loader, the lad was hit by a Russian grenade, yesterday his driver was wounded again - he was shot in the stomach by a Russian rifle and is now lying on the truck, he himself wears a steel helmet, holds a Mauser 98K in his hand, has a couple of M24s pinned to his waist, and has bullets in his satchel, as for the Luger pistol?

"Enemy attack!!It's the Russian partisans!" shouted an infantryman in front, accompanied by the sound of heavy fire. Russian partisans have sprung up everywhere in the German-occupied territories, especially in the retreat of the Battle of Moscow, becoming the most troublesome enemy for small forces like Favinir - they may not be able to cause much damage, but they can make you run extremely slowly, and at the end of the day, you will be caught up by the Russians.

The mortars and machine guns in the convoy opened heavy fire in the direction of the guerrillas, while the trucks and armored vehicles in the center carrying ammunition and wounded soldiers quickly evacuated along the road, and the tanks that could still move were pushed back and fired a few shells in the direction of the guerrillas, trying to disengage as quickly as possible. As a sergeant "infantryman", Fafnir naturally had his own subordinates, and he ordered his subordinates to disperse as soon as possible, and he used the "newtype" or "force" gold finger to shoot at the Russian partisans from a long distance with a Mauser rifle. He opened fire by feeling, and he couldn't see clearly from a distance, but he could feel every bullet hit, and soon the partisans retreated. The comrades-in-arms couldn't see the results of his shooting, and naturally they didn't feel how powerful they were, and everyone just celebrated and escaped more.

"Russian tanks !! infantry!, they're catching up!" was the report of the soldier in charge of the night guard. Although everyone wants to run as fast as possible, people are not machines, they need to rest, even tanks and armored vehicles must be repaired and maintained—otherwise tomorrow they will become pure infantry....... Fafnir They stopped at night at a Soviet collective farm, the soldiers took time to rest, and the tankmen worked overtime to overhaul the tanks and vehicles. But the Soviets had their advantage, and at night another Russian army caught up. One by one, the officers kicked the exhausted soldiers awake, and the tankers quickly jumped onto the tanks that had just been inspected and had not had time to be repaired. Fortunately, the village was probably swept away by the SS - the whole village was empty, so they did not have to worry about partisans coming out and stabbing them during the battle.

The Russians' T26 and T34 turned on the headlights and rushed up to cover the infantry behind. Fafnir saw that the number of Russian tanks was not large, and what he could see was 1 T34 and 3 T26, and the night vision of the infantry behind Fafnir was quite clear, about 200 people. Compare your own side: there are 2 No. 4E tanks, 1 No. 3 tank, and one No. 3 assault gun, all of which can still fight, and there are more than 100 infantry and 3 251 personnel carriers with machine guns, which can be said to be able to fight with the known strength of the Soviet Red Army.

Sure enough, the morale of the Soviet Red Army was now high, and the T34 led the infantry directly to the side of the village, while 3 T26s and about 50 infantry began to make a detour to try to outflank the other exit of the village, and at the same time they fired several flares into the sky, illuminating the village in the middle of the night, and it must have alerted the Soviet pursuing troops in other directions - there is prey here!

The top commander of the German troops, a lieutenant, consulted with several sergeants and ordered Tanks 4 and 3 to turn with all their strength to destroy the T26 and disperse the Soviet soldiers who were scattered behind, while the No. 3 assault gun used the terrain cover to hold the T34 attacking at the entrance of the village, and the infantry also mainly strengthened the entrance of the village, striving to use the terrain to inflict heavy damage on the Soviet infantry and try to destroy the T34.

The battle was at a fever pitch from the very beginning, and the commanders of the Soviet offensive forces were still inexperienced - the aftermath of the Great Purge remained. In the first round of tank engagement, his 3 T26s were destroyed and wounded and withdrew from the battle, while the infantry was illuminated by the burning T26 and suffered huge casualties from the machine gun fire on the 251; the T34 in front was going well, and the German No. 3 assault gun was unlucky, and was hidden in the corner of a broken brick house in the village by the T34 when using the terrain cover to shoot, and could only kill and wound part of the Soviet infantry with grenades. When transferring positions, he was discovered by Soviet infantry and guided T34 to hit No. 3 assault gun, and Favinir saw the engine of No. 3 assault gun burning and catching fire, but fortunately the tankmen jumped out one by one. Fafnir half-knelt behind an earthen wall and fired 98Ks to provide cover for the No. 3 assault gunners who had escaped. He knocked down one Soviet soldier after another, reloading every five rounds and shifting his position after two magazines to avoid being covered by Soviet mortars. In front of him, there were more and more corpses of Soviet troops, and T34 also noticed this side and turned towards his hiding place. Faffnier quickly ran from house to house, occasionally turning around and aiming slightly at the exposed Soviet infantry or the T34's viewing window, T34's shells missed him, and T34's attention was drawn to the hateful fascist rabbit of Faffnier, forgetting about the rest of the German tanks.........

From a corner, a tank No. 4 that had been ambushed after destroying the T26 suddenly burst out, and an armor-piercing bullet hit the back of the T34's head, and the T34 suddenly stopped - no one jumped out...... Then No. 4 fired another grenade into the T34's turret at close range, and the explosion ripped the T34's turret out of the vehicle. And the Soviet infantry, suffering heavy casualties in front of the German infantry, who took advantage of the difficult terrain of the village, was forced to withdraw from the battle. The remaining German soldiers immediately gathered, abandoned the No. 3 assault gun, and quickly withdrew from the village.

After running more than 10 kilometers out of the city, the village was seen in the distance covered in flames and explosions, which were completely shattered by Russian shells.

Now that Fafnier had left Moscow for more than 120 kilometers, it seemed that with a little more effort he could escape into the control circle of the German army. On this day, while passing through a small town, a gunshot suddenly rang out, and a German soldier fell to the ground wounded, and when his companion tried to pull him, another bullet shot the German soldier who came to the rescue. "Snipers of the Russians!!Damn it!"

Fafnier sensed the direction of the shot immediately, he did not hesitate to stand and aim at a certain window, and with a hook of his fingers, the whole person moved slightly and a bullet was fired, he quickly pulled the bolt, and the second bullet shot out again. A Red Army soldier had just shot a fascist bandit at the window of a chapel 300 meters away, and before he could shrink into the wall, a 7.92 bullet hit him in the shoulder, and he was about to roll back when the second bullet passed through his skull............. Vasily Zaitsev, a young Soviet soldier who lost his life...... and his future legend. Fafnir did not stop firing, and the third round killed a Soviet soldier 500 meters away, who was standing outside a house and calmly fired a single shot, killing a Soviet soldier 600 meters away. By the time no more Soviet soldiers appeared, no less than six Soviet soldiers had fallen under his guns.

There were no more thrills along the way, and the small force returned to the German-controlled zone. Entering the control zone, they first saw men, women, and children hanging from trees and street lamps – the companions of the reception non-commissioned officers said they were guerrillas or guerrilla sympathizers.

Along the way, they saw a miserable sight in the field: a dozen or so stake trees on the snow-covered and frozen hard earth, on which people were pierced on the stakes. Sharp stakes pierced from under them, out of their mouths, the man was long dead and frozen, but his face was left with an extremely painful look.......... Fafnir saw his subordinates and comrades watching all this with disgust, and the non-commissioned officer whispered: "That was done by the SS members from Eastern Europe, and they said that they were the traditional punishment for traitors and guerrillas there." "One of them is still a teenager, and his face is distorted, but it can still be seen that he was a chubby Chaoyang boy before his death.

After the war, the Soviet government erected tombstones and small monuments. The inscription reads: "In memory of those who gave their lives for the anti-fascist war." Berega Maganovsky and his friends, young men fought against the fascist bandits for their homeland to the extreme!"