Looking at the troops approaching on the road, the German captain who was on guard felt that it seemed inappropriate to let them pass through with such a swagger without asking the other party's number, so he called the sentry to come out of the guard position and walked slowly towards Felip.

When the two sides were only a dozen paces apart, the German captain raised his hand and motioned for Fripp to stop. Kochetov was startled by the actions of the German captain, and he asked Felip in a low voice: "Comrade Captain, has the enemy seen through us?" ”

Perip shook his head slightly, and replied in a low voice: "No, if he had seen through us, he might have opened fire on us a long time ago, it should be a routine interrogation." With that, he stopped, turned to the troops following him, raised his right hand in the air, and shouted in German: "Stop!" ”

Although there were only a handful of soldiers in the team who knew German, everyone understood what was going on when they saw Fripp's expression. So as soon as his order was given, all the warriors stopped.

Fripp walked over to the German captain and asked with a smile, "Mr. Captain, do you have any advice?" ”

The captain looked at Peripe, who was walking towards him, crossed his hand to his waist, and said to Perip in a businesslike manner: "Mr. Captain, which unit are you from, and where are you going?" ”

After listening to the other party's question, Fripp replied with a smile: "Mr. Captain, we are the Soviet Red Army, and we are here to destroy you fascist invaders. With that, he pulled out his pistol with lightning speed and fired two shots at the German captain in the chest. Seeing the captain fall on his back, he turned his gun around and fired a shot into the forehead of the sentry who was pulling the bolt.

The sound of gunfire was an order, and the queue that had been standing in the middle of the road immediately dispersed, and the fighters rushed to the enemy's artillery positions in battle formation, and at the same time pulled the trigger of the submachine gun in their hands.

The German infantry, who was in charge of guarding the artillery positions, were stunned by this sudden attack, and under the intensive strafing of Soviet soldiers, they were knocked down in pieces. Occasionally, a few reacted quickly, and began to return fire with their weapons, and before they fired two shots, they were beaten into a sieve by the dense bullets, and then fell to the ground unwillingly. Although the number of German infantry was twice as large as that of the Soviet army, in the case of mental calculation or unintentionality, no matter how many of them were, they were still the targets of slaughter. In less than three minutes, the infantry on guard all fell in a pool of blood.

The German artillery was originally armed, but after breaking into the Soviet border, the fighting was so smooth that they became arrogant. In addition, there were infantry on guard in the position, so the guns were placed at a great distance from the gun position. Now that the heavily armed infantry has been wiped out, their bare-handed artillery is even more vulnerable.

When there was no longer a single German officer or soldier standing on the artillery position, Fripp shouted loudly: "All platoons hurry up and clean up the battlefield and bring all the weapons they can use." Then he instructed Kochetov, who had just run over, "Second lieutenant, call your artillerymen over, and when the shells on the position are gone, we will blow up and move the artillery." ”

"Understood!" After Kochetov loudly agreed, he began to order several artillerymen in the guard company to go into action.

Among these artillerymen, there were gunners, loaders and observers, who quickly adjusted the firing scale of the cannon and loaded the shells. Since the number of cannons far outnumbered the number of artillery, many ordinary soldiers also temporarily played the role of gunners. Now everyone was ready to stop, and they could only open fire when Felip gave the order.

However, they waited for a long time, and Fripp did not give the order to open fire. Kochetov was a little out of breath, he walked up to Felip's side and asked in a low voice: "Comrade Captain, why haven't you fired yet?" We can't stay here too long, and if we are discovered by the enemy, it will be difficult for us to get out. ”

"Comrade Ensign, do you know where we should be shelling?" Seeing that Kochetov shook his head blankly, indicating that he didn't know, Felip said angrily: "Since we don't know where the enemy is, isn't it a waste of shells to fire now?" So now we can only wait, and when the enemy attacks our positions, we will open fire again to intercept and fire, killing and wounding a large number of the enemy's living forces. ”

After Kochetov waited for Felip to finish speaking, he nodded in agreement, and then took the initiative to propose: "Comrade Captain, for the sake of safety, I think we should send a guard post and serve as a guard in the vicinity, so that when the German army approaches, we can detect it in advance and be ready for all battles." ”

"You're right, Comrade Second Lieutenant." Perip was also a flexible man, and when he heard Kochetov say this, he immediately realized his negligence and ordered him: "You will arrange for the soldiers in charge of the guard." ”

Although Felip, who occupied the artillery position, and Rokossovsky, who was holding on to the frontal position, were anxiously waiting for the German second offensive to launch, the German army was slow to move. It was not that the Germans were not ready to attack, but that the German chief of staff had received a report from the Panzer regiments interspersed in the forest that they had approached the flank of the Soviet defense zone and would soon be able to attack. Hearing this, the German division commander decisively postponed the attack, preparing to wait for the attack of the armored regiment to start before launching another frontal attack.

The German tanks rumbled along the rudimentary road in the forest towards the positions of the 1st Battalion of the 327th Regiment. Although the motorcyclists in front of them had cleared everyone they saw on the road, whether stragglers or fleeing refugees, the roar of huge tank motors revealed their whereabouts.

Shortly after Captain Leskov returned to the battalion headquarters, he received a call from the observation post near the edge of the forest, who said anxiously: "Comrade Captain, there is a huge roar of tank motors in the forest, and it seems that a huge force is coming towards us. ”

Leskov was taken aback by this report, and he hurriedly ordered: "Send scouts immediately to the forest to find out what is happening and what troops it seems." ”

After hanging up the phone at the Observatory, he called Puerto Prigola again. Hearing the major's voice, he hurriedly said: "Report to Comrade Acting Division Commander, from the forest came the roar of tank motors, as if a huge armored force was coming towards our position. ”

"Comrade Captain," Hearing Leskov say this, Major Podo Prigora not only did not arouse the necessary alarm, but said lightly: "Maybe it is our tank units that have retreated from the border, you don't make a fuss, the Germans will not be able to discover our road in the forest." ”

However, Comrade Acting Division Commander ...... "Leskov, who realized the seriousness of the problem, wanted to justify a few words, but the phone was directly hung up by Major Pudo Prigola."

Seeing Leskov holding the microphone in a daze, his political deputy battalion commander asked with concern: "Comrade battalion commander, what should we do?" If it's really a German tank, we don't have anti-tank weapons, we can't stop them! ”

“******！” Leskov, who looked anxious, suddenly thought of the hundreds of ****** that had just been filled, and immediately ordered his deputy: "Comrade Political Deputy Division Commander, you immediately organize manpower to send the freshly filled ****** to the trenches, hoping that these things will block the tanks of the Germans." ”

When the political deputy division commander left, Leskov picked up the phone again and said to the operator: "I'm Captain Leskov, please pick me up General Rokossovsky." Yes, I have something important to report to him, please hurry up and help me get on the phone. (To be continued.) )