The commanders and fighters of the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Polish Division, which had crossed the Sibug River, were advancing on foot along a road full of craters in the direction of Lublin.

The battalion commander, Major Nassar, was a native of Lublin, and from the moment the troops crossed the Sibg River, he was in a constant state of excitement, because in a few days at most he would be able to see his hometown, which he had been absent from for five years, and even if it was destroyed by the Germans, he still wanted to return there in the shortest possible time.

After about two hours of advancing troops, the outline of a village came into Nassar's field of vision, and he raised his binoculars to look there and saw that it was an intact village, which had not been burned by the Germans.

Nassar hurriedly ordered the troops to stop advancing and go into the nearby woods to hide, and then he called the reconnaissance platoon commander, Second Lieutenant Kanas, and instructed him: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, you take a few soldiers and go to the village in front to reconnoiter and see if there are any villagers and Germans." ”

"Yes, Comrade Battalion Commander." Kanas agreed, and with five warriors, he headed in the direction of the village.

To the southeast of the village, next to the forest, there was a potato field, owned by Brauniash, a young old man in his fifties. He was harvesting potatoes in the field with a big basket. Suddenly, he heard footsteps in the woods next to him, and he couldn't help but mutter, "Damn the Germans, you'll snatch my potatoes later." ”

After waiting for a while, he didn't see anyone walking up to him and snatching away the big basket of half-filled potatoes. He couldn't help but stand up, looked around curiously, and muttered to himself, "Could it be that I misheard it just now?" ”

It was here that he suddenly noticed a soldier emerging from behind a tree, and the two looked at each other, and the soldier put his erected index finger to his lips and made a silent motion.

Brauniash nodded mechanically, and as he bent down to continue harvesting his potatoes, he suddenly thought of the soldier he had just seen, and he couldn't help but shudder. He quickly straightened up and looked at the soldier, only to see that he was wearing a four-cornered flat-topped military hat that he hadn't seen for many years, and there was a familiar eagle emblem in front of the hat.

He ran towards the soldier, and was so excited that he almost tripped over the big basket he had placed on the ground. He ran to the soldier, reached out to touch the cockade of the other man, and said excitedly: "God, I am not mistaken, you are wearing a Polish military uniform. ”

"Yes, sir." Kanas grabbed Brauniash's hand, nodded at him, and said, "We're fighting back." ”

After listening to Kanas's words, Brauniash hesitated for a long time before he asked excitedly: "Mr. Officer, are you back to fight the Germans?" ”

"That's right, sir, we're here to fight the Germans." Kanas said, looking warily in the direction of the village, and then he asked tentatively, "Are there any Germans in the village?" ”

"Yes, there have been Germans in the village since 1939." Brauniash nodded and said, "There are quite a few of them." ”

Hearing Brauniash say this, Kanas immediately instinctively asked: "How many people do they have, and what kind of equipment do they have?" ”

"There were 41 people, among whom were two officers with large-brimmed hats." Brauniash is well aware of numbers, but when it comes to weapons, he's a bit of an amateur: "They all have guns in their hands. ”

"What kind of gun?" Kanas realized that there might be a problem with his question, so he hurriedly changed his way and continued to ask: "Are there German tanks and armored vehicles in the village?" ”

Brauniash pointed to the rifle in the hand of one of the scouts next to him and said, "A lot of soldiers use this kind of gun. ”

"What about this gun?" Kanas raised his captured German submachine gun and asked: "Do the Germans have more in their hands?" ”

Brauniash frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "It seems that there are only four or five people." ”

After some detailed cross-examination, Kanas finally figured out the situation in the village, there were 41 German troops, two of whom were officers, they each had two short guns, four or five submachine guns, one machine gun, and the rest were rifles, no tanks or armored vehicles, only two carriages.

Nassar, after receiving information from Kanas and them, decided to immediately attack the Germans in the village. However, before the attack, in order to avoid unnecessary losses to the villagers, he asked Brauniash to go back and inform the others, so that they could find a safe place to hide first, and then come out after the troops had eliminated the Germans and liberated the village.

The Germans in this village, who had lost contact with their superiors due to radio problems, did not know that the main forces of the Polish army had successfully crossed the Sibg River, so they did not add sentry posts around the village, as usual.

After ordering his troops to surround the village, Nassar first asked Kanas to lead the men to deal with the sentry at the entrance of the village, and then asked the troops to enter the village from four directions at the same time.

Shortly after the troops entered the village, they were spotted by German machine gunners. He immediately pulled the trigger and fired fiercely at the Polish soldiers who rushed towards him. The dozen or so fighters who rushed to the front immediately fell in a pool of blood, and the remaining fighters hurriedly found a place to hide and fired back at the enemy's machine guns.

The sudden sound of gunfire alarmed the other enemies in the village, and they rushed out of their houses and engaged in a fierce battle with the Polish troops who had stormed the village.

Although the Germans put up a stubborn resistance, due to their limited strength and the fact that there was no dangerous terrain in the village to defend, 35 German soldiers were killed in only half an hour of fighting, and the remaining 6 officers and soldiers hurriedly laid down their weapons and surrendered to the Polish soldiers who surrounded them from all sides.

Soon after the battle, the villagers, who were hiding in the village's warehouses and firewood houses, left their hiding places and came out to welcome their soldiers. They took out tables and chairs from their homes and placed them in the open space outside the house, and brought out their treasured food and wine to entertain the briefings that had liberated them from the Germans.

In the face of such warm hospitality from the villagers, the battalion commander Nassar, while thanking them, instructed the operator: "Send a report to the regiment commander that our battalion has exchanged fire with the Germans in a village. After a fierce battle, we eliminated the enemy in the village, killed 35 people and captured 6 people. At the same time, please ask for the next combat mission. ”