Hearing the order given by Perip in such a stern tone, the artillery fighters did not dare to disobey his order anymore, and hurriedly asked several fighters in a platoon to join hands and turn a gun around. After reloading and adjusting the parameters of the shot, the artillery soldier again cautiously asked: "Comrade Captain, did you really open fire?" ”

"Didn't you hear my orders?" Perip yelled at him, "Shoot now!" ”

The artillery soldier stood up, raised his right hand high, and shouted to the soldier who was temporarily acting as a gunner, "Ready-" and then waved his hand downward, "Fire!" ”

The fire flashed, and the shells whistled out of the chamber. A moment later, a fire rose in the grass where Kochetov and them were ambushing. Seeing that the cannon did not kill the enemy, Fripp was a little anxious, and he scolded at the artillery soldiers: "How did you aim, how did you hit the shells to the place where your own people were ambushed?" ”

The artillery soldier did not say a word, he quickly took aim again, and after directing the other soldiers to load the shells, he gave the order to fire the cannon again.

As luck would have it, the shell landed next to an armored car and exploded, and the flying shrapnel immediately tore through the thin armor of the car and caused the ammunition inside the car to detonate. Several soldiers, covered in fire, stumbled out of the car and were shot to the ground before they had run a few steps.

Seeing that the enemy's armored vehicles were destroyed, no one was welcome, because they saw the gloomy face of Felip and could only continue to reload and shoot. After firing seven or eight shells in a row, the remaining two armored vehicles were finally destroyed as well. The remaining German soldiers, seeing that the armoured vehicles they relied on were all reimbursed, knew that there was no point in fighting any longer, so they retreated along the road.

Seeing the enemy retreating in an uproar, Felip was relieved. He pointed to a soldier not far away with his hand and ordered: "Comrade soldier, go over and see if there are any survivors in the second lieutenant and them." ”

"Yes!" The warrior agreed, and somewhat reluctantly walked towards the ambush position in the distance. As he walked, he muttered in a low voice: "There were so many shells just now, even if our people were not killed by the Germans, they would have been killed by the shells." ”

"How many shells are left?" After Fripp and the other fighters searching for survivors left, he turned around and asked the artillery fighters in a loud voice: "How long will it take to be all gone?" ”

"And a hundred shells," replied one of the artillery fighters in a hoarse voice, "in two or three minutes at most, and they will all be gone." ”

After hearing this, Perip shouted loudly: "Hurry up and run out of shells, and then blow them all up." ”

With his order, a platoon of fighters, with only a few artillerymen, smashed the remaining shells on the position to the German column in the middle of the battlefield.

"Let's do it, blow up the cannon!" With a shout, Fripp shoved a stringed grenade into the hot barrel. The surrounding fighters did the same, shoved the smoke-emitting grenade into the barrel of the gun, and then ran to safety.

After a series of explosions, all the two dozen artillery pieces on the position were reimbursed. Fripp was still not at ease, so he carefully checked it again, and saw that all the barrels were blown up, so he shouted: "Withdraw!" ”

He hadn't run far before he saw the soldier he had just dispatched, carrying a man on his back, staggering over from the ambush site, and hurriedly shouted: "Stop! ”

When the soldiers heard this order, they stopped one after another, and looked at him in amazement, wondering why he had suddenly stopped his troops. Perip pointed in the direction of the ambush site and said loudly: "Ensign, there are still survivors there, the first and second squads will enter the forest first, and the three hundred will follow me to save people." ”

At his command, the small force immediately split into two parts, one of which quickly ran towards the forest; The other part followed Fripp towards the warrior who was carrying the man on his back.

When Fripu was still twenty meters away from the soldier who was carrying the wounded on his back, he asked loudly: "Comrade soldier, are there still survivors in the second and third platoons?" ”

The warrior raised his head, looked at Philip, who was not far from him, shook his head with difficulty, and said breathlessly, "Except for the second lieutenant, the rest of the warriors have died. ”

Felip made a gesture, and immediately two warriors rushed out behind him, and went over to take Kochetov on the warrior's back. Felip walked up to Kochetov's side and asked with concern: "Ensign, comrade ensign, how are you?" ”

Kochetov heard Felip's voice, opened his eyes with great effort, and asked with a forced smile: "Comrade Captain, have all the enemy's artillery been blown up?" ”

"Blown up, all blown up. When we had all the shells, we blew them all up. Philip said with some guilt: "If you hadn't led people to desperately block the Germans, I guess they would have rushed over a long time ago." ”

"Comrade Captain, it is not advisable to stay here for a long time, so let's move quickly." Kochetov finished these words with difficulty, tilted his head, and fainted.

"Second Lieutenant, Comrade Second Lieutenant." Felip shouted a few times, and seeing that Kochetov showed no signs of waking up, he hurriedly ordered the fighters who were carrying him on their backs: "Comrade warrior, first carry him into the forest, and then carry him on a stretcher, understand?" ”

"Understood." The warrior replied briefly.

"Comrade Captain," just then, a fighter came running over and reported to him: "There are several enemy armored vehicles coming towards us, let's move quickly." ”

Perip raised his binoculars and looked in the direction of the soldier's finger, only to see five armored personnel carriers full of soldiers, rushing towards him at a rapid pace. Perip knew in his heart that it must be that after the German army was shelled, he found that there was something wrong with the artillery position here, so he sent someone to check. Analyzed according to the speed of the armored vehicle, it will only take two or three minutes at most to rush in front of you. At such a time, Fripp did not hesitate to shout: "Immediately withdraw to the forest, as long as we enter the forest, the enemy has no way to take us." ”

When the soldiers heard this order from Flip, they immediately spread out and rushed towards the forest, knowing that as long as they could enter the forest smoothly, they would have a chance to get rid of the German pursuers.

When the last fighter rushed into the forest, the German armored vehicles also rushed to the edge of the forest. As soon as the car stopped, the German soldiers in the car jumped down with a hula and, under the command of the officer, formed a scattered formation with their weapons, and strode towards the forest, preparing to pursue and kill the Soviet soldiers who had just fled into the forest. (To be continued.) )