The reconnaissance detachment led by Zhu Zhendong finally reached the Suhinich area after a long journey. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info They soon found that in the forest a few kilometers ahead, a large number of German tanks and artillery were gathered. Outside the tanks and cannons was a snow-covered trench with swaying steel helmets.

Zhu Zhendong whispered to the telegraph operator: "Comrade telegrapher, send a telegram to the division headquarters, saying that we have discovered a tank assembly area and an artillery position of the German army, and send the coordinates back. ”

Shortly after the telegram was sent back, Leviakin's call back arrived. The telegram simply ordered them to quickly figure out the exact number of German tanks and artillery.

Seeing such an order, Zhu Zhendong couldn't help but smile bitterly, he turned his head to Li Muzi next to him and said, "Muzi, the division commander is really difficult for a strong man. We are so far from the enemy, and their tanks and artillery are in the woods, how can we count them clearly? ”

Li Muzi took the telescope in Zhu Zhendong's hand, looked at the forest in the distance for a while, and then said: "To find out the number of enemy tanks and artillery, I think we have to get closer." ”

"How close?" Zhu Zhendong pointed to the forest in the distance, and said angrily: "The forest where we are and the forest where the German army is located, in the middle is an open land that is several kilometers long, as soon as we leave the forest, we will be discovered by the Germans." ”

"But the superiors have already issued an order, let's find out the quantity of the other party's technical equipment as soon as possible." Li Muzi thought for a moment, and then suggested: "It seems that we can only bypass it from other directions." ”

When Zhu Zhendong heard Li Muzi say this, he immediately raised his forehead and said: "In this way, we will have to walk at least ten or twenty kilometers before we can go around the side of the German army." ”

"No way, no matter how far you go, you have to go around." Li Muzi also said helplessly: "After all, this is an order given to us by our superiors, and we can only implement it unconditionally." ”

Zhu Zhendong nodded, and once again instructed the telegrapher: "Telegrapher, send a report to the division headquarters, saying that because the frontal defense of the German army is too tight, we cannot approach it for the time being, and we need to detour from other directions." The latest reconnaissance information will be available later today or during the day tomorrow. ”

Seeing that the operator was sending the report, Li Muzi asked, "Platoon commander, will we leave now?" ”

"The comrades have been walking all night and are already very tired." Zhu Zhendong saw that his subordinates were resting with their backs to the big tree at the moment, so he said thoughtfully: "Let everyone rest for a while first, eat some dry food and then leave." ”

Li Muzi took Zhu Zhendong's binoculars and stayed alone at the edge of the forest, continuing to observe the German positions in the distance, while Zhu Zhendong and the soldiers sat in the snow to eat. Because the weather was so cold, the bread everyone brought was hardened, so we had to bite a piece and hold it in our mouths, and wait for it to be soft before swallowing. The hot water in the kettle, after a long cold night, had already frozen into ice, and the soldiers had to grab the snow on the ground and stuff it into their mouths.

At this moment, Li Muzi, who was not far away, suddenly screamed "ah", Zhu Zhendong thought something was wrong, and hurriedly grabbed the submachine gun placed beside him, and rushed over. He threw himself down to Li Muzi's side and asked anxiously, "Deputy platoon leader, what's wrong?" ”

"Platoon commander, hurry up and see." Li Muzi couldn't help but stuff the telescope in his hand to Zhu Zhendong, and then said anxiously: "Look at the steel helmets in those trenches." ”

Zhu Zhendong raised the telescope and looked into the distance, looked at the steel helmets that came out of the trenches, and found that there was nothing abnormal, so he put down the telescope and asked Li Muzi puzzledly: "Muzi, I didn't find anything wrong." ”

"Platoon commander, look closely." Li Muzi pointed to the front and said, "Just now we saw that those steel helmets were swinging non-stop, but now that the wind is not blowing, those steel helmets are not moving." ”

Zhu Zhendong didn't understand what Li Muzi wanted to express, so he frowned and asked, "My deputy platoon commander, what do you want to say, you have confused me." ”

"That's right, Comrade Platoon Commander." Li Muzi continued to point to the front and said: "I have carefully observed, as long as the wind is blowing outside, those steel helmets will swing from side to side, as long as the wind stops, so that the steel helmets will also be still." ”

"So what?"

"Don't you understand this, my comrade platoon commander." Seeing that he had already said this, but Lao Zhu still looked dazed, Mu Zi was so anxious that he stomped his feet, and he couldn't help but raise his voice and said: "Even if those steel helmets are constantly swinging, they are always in a fixed small range, which means that the person wearing the steel helmet may not be a German at all, maybe it is a scarecrow or a wooden stick or something." ”

"What, the Germans in the trenches are scarecrows or sticks. That's outrageous, isn't it? Zhu Zhendong raised the telescope again, carefully observed the steel helmets that emerged from the trenches, and found that it was really like what Li Muzi said, when there was wind, they swayed in a small area; As soon as the wind stopped, the steel helmet also stopped swinging.

Zhu Zhendong put down the binoculars and said to himself: "It seems that we have to send someone to check it." ”

"Platoon commander, give me two people, and I'll go over and check it out myself to see what the Germans are up to." Li Muzi took the initiative to ask.

"Okay, I'll send two of you, but you'll have to run this distance just to be on the safe side." After Zhu Zhendong finished speaking, he shouted at the soldiers who were resting not far away: "Chen Xiaopaw, Tang Sanshui, you two come over for a while." ”

Hearing Zhu Zhendong's shout, Chen Xiaopu and Tang Sanshui ran to him with weapons and squatted down, and asked in a low voice, "Platoon commander, what are your instructions?" ”

Zhu Zhendong pointed to the German position in the distance and said to the two: "You follow the deputy platoon commander to the opposite side to reconnoiter and find out the enemy's situation." ”

"Straight by?" Seeing that Li Muzi was preparing to take himself to the opposite German position from the front, Chen Xiaopu couldn't help but become a little nervous: "I'm worried that as soon as we leave this forest, we will be discovered by the enemy on the opposite side, and then we will be targeted by them." ”

Hearing Chen Xiaopaw's words, Zhu Zhendong turned his face and said dissatisfiedly: "If you are afraid of death, just open your mouth, and I will send someone else." ”

Chen Xiaopaw couldn't help but be annoyed when he heard the platoon commander say this, he stood up suddenly, and said angrily: "We have never been greedy for life and afraid of death. ”

"Okay, since you're not afraid of death, I'll let you continue this mission." Seeing that Chen Xiaopaw was still a little nervous, Zhu Zhendong hurriedly comforted him and said: "Don't worry, you will crawl forward later, and approach the enemy's position little by little, it will not be so easy to be discovered." ”

After Li Muzi left with the two fighters, the operator ran over and reported: "Comrade platoon commander, I just received a telegram from the division headquarters saying that the unit is about to change guards. ”

"What, the troops are going to change their guards?" When Zhu Zhendong heard the news, he was immediately shocked, he grabbed the placket of the telegraph operator's shirt, and asked excitedly: "If the troops change guards, who should we report to if we have detected the information?" ”

Because Zhu Zhendong was squeezing too hard, the operator was a little out of breath and began to cough violently. Lao Zhu realized that because he was too excited, he almost strangled the telegraph operator to death, and quickly let go of his hand, apologized, and then asked: "Then who should we report the detected information to in the future?" ”

After taking a few breaths, the operator replied: "In two days, the 11th Guards Infantry Division will change the guard, and then we can report to them the information we have reconnoitred." ”

After the operator left, Lao Zhu lay down in the snow again and continued to raise his binoculars to look at the forest opposite. He first looked at the tanks and artillery in the forest, and there was not a single active figure in sight except for these technical equipment. And those steel helmets that emerged from the trenches remained stationary the rest of the time, except for shaking twice when the wind was blowing.

The more Zhu Zhendong observed, the more he felt that Li Muzi's words were reasonable, maybe there was no one in the German trenches at all, maybe it was just a few wooden sticks supporting a few steel helmets. But after thinking about it, I felt that it was impossible, after all, there were so many technical equipment in the forest opposite, and the Germans were not stupid, how could they not even send a sentry, maybe someone else was lying in ambush there, waiting for us to take the bait.

Because the forest where the detachment was located was several kilometers away from the forest where the Germans had placed tanks and artillery, and Li Muzi and his team were crawling in the snow, the speed of moving forward was very slow. After almost an hour, they hadn't climbed half the distance.

At this moment, Li Muzi, who was crawling on the snow, suddenly stood up, bent down and ran forward. Seeing Li Muzi's move, Zhu Zhendong was suddenly taken aback, as if he heard the sound of German tank guns being discharged and machine guns, and hurriedly closed his eyes, so as not to see the scene of his comrades dying in front of him.

But after a long time, he did not hear either the explosion of shells or the sound of machine-gun fire. Zhu Zhendong opened his eyes and looked ahead, only to see that even Tang Sanshui and Chen Xiaopaw also stood up, bent down and ran forward like Li Muzi.

"Hell, what the hell." Seeing that the three of them were rapidly approaching the opposite forest, and the German position did not react at all, Zhu Zhendong couldn't help but say to himself: "Is there really no Germans on the opposite position?" ”

The answer was revealed half an hour later, and Zhu Zhendong saw Li Muzi rushing to the trench, looking down inside, and then without hesitation, he crossed the trench and rushed towards the forest. And Tang Sanshui and Chen Xiaopai, who were following behind, stood next to the trench in a daze.

Li Muzi, who entered the forest, quickly ran out, he raised his hands high above his head and waved them desperately, as if to beckon Zhu Zhendong and them to hurry up.

When Zhu Zhendong arrived at the forest opposite with the rest of the soldiers, he couldn't help but be stunned by what he saw, the long trench was covered with snow, and the steel helmets supported by a dozen wooden sticks were swinging in the wind. When he entered the forest and looked at the German tanks and artillery, his nose was almost crooked, what kind of tanks and cannons were this, but they were just a bunch of wooden models, and if they didn't look closely, they really couldn't find flaws, and it was estimated that the Germans were specially used to confuse the Soviet Air Force.

"Platoon commander, you saw it." Li Muzi walked up to him with a submachine gun and said: "This is a fake position set up by the Germans, specially used to confuse reconnaissance planes. We should immediately report this information, lest the higher authorities send the air force to bomb this false position and waste ammunition in vain. ”

"The operator." Zhu Zhendong, who was full of evil fire, nodded, and then called the telegraph operator over and said to him: "Comrade telegrapher, send a telegram to the division headquarters, saying that the German tanks and artillery assembly places we reported last time were wrong, and there are only wooden models arranged by the German army here, and there is no technical equipment at all. ”