Chapter 13: The Culling (Revision)
During the night, bullets were fired from both sides of the road, and the dark red trajectory of each bullet formed a web of fire. The armored car in front had been blown aside, and the carriage behind it was also on fire, illuminating the figures of the French soldiers on the road.
On the road, the soldiers in gray military uniforms were on their knees, firing desperately into the woods hiding in front of the carriage. But the situation was clearly extremely unfavorable, for the battle was shot out of the dense forest on both sides, and in the middle of the road was a completely unobstructed area shrouded in death.
"Damn, this is war!"
Tang Yunyang was nervous for a moment, speaking of which, his training was much better than that of these French soldiers, but in terms of actual combat experience, he was a little worse than these French soldiers in World War I, but this did not prevent him from analyzing the current situation.
The fire on both sides of the woods was apparently focused on the armored vehicle carrying the prisoner of war officer.
"They're here to rob the German officer! It's good that they didn't bring machine guns! ”
As a carriage that struck mines, Tang Yunyang and they were not cared for by the ambushers, and the French soldiers who resisted in the middle of the road were the objects of the other party's attention.
"This resistance will not last long under the blow between the two fires! You'll have to try to clear the enemy forces in one direction first! ”
The escort of the French soldiers, about two platoons of troops. Although they were ambushed, they were able to maintain their morale for the time being, and one by one, under the command of the officer, desperately resisted with the rifles in their hands, as if they were indifferent to the comrades who were hit next to them.
Tang Yunyang sighed, retracted his head, took out the "box cannon" hanging on his waist, pulled his rifle on the side, and threw it to Mike. Man.
"You hide here and don't move, wait for me to come back!"
While whispering an order, Tang Yunyang hooked his finger at the French soldier, and the two of them bent down and ran into the dense forest on the side of the road.
"You bastard, are you going to leave me behind?"
As soon as Tang Yunyang abandoned himself and ran into the dark woods on the side, Jack Qian lowered his voice behind him and scolded angrily. After scolding, Mike. Lang quietly poked his head out and looked out, and he found that the situation was getting worse and worse!
The French soldiers in the middle of the road, under the light of the blazing artillery of the vehicles that were hit, were in a very disadvantageous two-sided attack. Not to mention the counterattack, it was already remarkable that they were able to stop the German soldiers in the forest from rushing out with intensive fire.
In the woodlands on both sides of the road, the number of casualties increased amid the sound of "boom" shooting and the explosion of constantly throwing grenades.
Accompanied by the cool breeze of the night, the strong smell of smoke, oil, and blood on the road ahead made Mike. Lang was sick to his stomach.
"Oh my God, I'm crazy!"
Mike. Lang complained to himself, and the rifle in his hand was quietly resting on the wreckage of the carriage, but he was not in a hurry to fire, the gun was purely for self-defense.
In fact, the Germans, knowing that the officers of the reconnaissance unit had been captured, immediately planned this rescue plan. Because the German officer had part of the battle plan for the Battle of Verdun, which was about to begin. If it fell into the hands of the French army, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Therefore, there was a rescue plan, and the infiltrated German officers and soldiers were only about 30 people. Now they are ambushing the convoy on both sides of the road, either to rescue the officer or to kill him in case the secrets are leaked.
This is just a problem that is usually encountered in the work of secrecy in war.
Tang Yunyang, who rushed into the grass on the side, carried a Mauser pistol in his hand, quietly detoured behind the German soldiers who were shooting vigorously, hid behind a tree and gasped for a few moments, trying to calm his nervous heartbeat. Then he poked his head out and looked into the dark woods.
Through the light generated by the shooting and the explosion, Tang Yunyang observed that just in front of him, several black shadows were shooting at the French soldiers on the road, and it could be seen that these guys were all veterans of activities behind enemy lines.
They hide in the dark grass of the woods, not only do they change places with a single shot, but they more often use grenades, weapons that are not easily exposed at night.
The surviving soldiers struggled to run and lie down amid the grenades and the constant sound of fire, and the soldiers who were hit fell unhindered on the road, or covered their wounds and screamed.
Although the situation is getting worse, the French soldiers are still not at the point of surrender, and although the French soldiers are not as elite as the German soldiers, their bravery is still good.
"Damn, I have to thank you that there is no submachine gun yet, otherwise the battle would have been settled for so long!"
Tang Yunyang pressed the rifle that the French soldier had just raised, made a gesture to him asking him to cover for himself, then inserted the pistol into his arms and quietly crawled towards the place in front of him.
There were seven or eight German soldiers in front of Tang Yunyang, and the three of them lined up in front, constantly straightening up half of their bodies and attacking the French troops on the road with grenades. The latter few hid behind the trees, rifles in their hands beckoning to the French soldiers who resisted.
"Sneak close to your prey......"
Tang Yunyang leaned down, took the Mauser pistol into his arms, and pulled out the bayonet of the 1898 Mauser rifle. In the grass, he approached the nearest German soldier.
He could even feel his heart beating violently because of his clinging to the ground, and even made him a little afraid that these seasoned German soldiers would not hear his heartbeat.
The German soldier, who had just finished shooting, shook the bolt of his gun and ran short through the dark woods to another tree. In the heat of the battle, he didn't notice that Tang Yunyang was already lurking near him.
Suddenly, the footsteps of the successive national soldiers who had just moved the shooting position suddenly rose up with Tang Yunyang's body. As Dan's hand covered his mouth, the bayonet in his right hand had already pierced into his lower back.
The bodies of the two men fell into the grass together, and the sound of them falling in the midst of gunfire and explosions was not noticed by the other German soldiers.
"Kill one!"
Tang Yunyang's nervous heart was bursting with joy for no reason. Although he had never experienced actual combat, it proved that his training had not been completely forgotten.
He quietly observed and listened to the movements of the four Germans in front of him, and at the same time groped around the Germans he killed.
"Hey, hey! Baby, you're looking for it! ”
Tang Yunyang touched the smooth wooden handles of the two grenades, and then the French soldier behind him also followed. Tang Yunyang handed him a grenade and made a gesture to him, asking him to obey his orders and throw the grenade before using his rifle.
"Boom, boom"
Smoke of explosions rose from the dark woods.