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The surrounded ambush was in a five-story residential building, surrounded by soldiers of the Guards, and the two sides were constantly firing at each other through the wall.

When Sandy arrived, he saw that some of his soldiers had been shot and carried down.

He glanced at the company commander dissatisfied, and said, "I should just ask you to surround me, right?" Why are you on the offensive all the time? Although no artillery was used, what if the other side escaped in advance? ”

The company commander immediately explained: "Sir, we are just exchanging fire with the other side in a small fire, on the one hand, to determine whether the other party is still there, and on the other hand, we also want to attract the attention of the other party and not let him leave. You see, most of our men are hiding, and the other side will only think that our troops are about the same as theirs. ”

"It's not safe." Sandy said, pulling out his binoculars and looking at the small building, "Let's get moving." The tanks were ordered to rush forward quickly, with the infantry following closely behind. As soon as the tanks smashed the door open, the infantry rushed in and blocked all possible access to the sewers! ”

"Yes, sir!"

As soon as the order to storm was given, three Riemannus Ruth tanks were seen at full power, and the engines roared loudly, rushing from the other side of the street like battering rams! In this process, soldiers of the defense army constantly ran behind the tank, using the tank as a cover, and approached the small building!

"Boom! Boom! Boom! "With three loud bangs, three Riemann Ruth tanks crashed through the door and wall of the small building, opening three huge passages in the building!

Without waiting for the three tanks to reverse and exit. Nearly a hundred soldiers who followed them rushed into the corridor through the gap in the side!

Immediately, fierce gunfire rang out in the corridor! It's guarded here, too!

Although the defenders occupied a relatively advantageous position in the corridor, they could not resist the superiority of the attackers in numbers and equipment. But only for a minute or two. The attacking infantry took the first floor and went up the stairs.

"Good, good start." Satisfied, Sandy asked, "Are the defenders on the first floor alive?" Or are they all killed? ”

"Sir," replied the company commander. "Two of them lived, but they were too badly wounded. Our military doctors have rushed to the rescue. But it is not known whether those two people will survive. ”

Sandy laughed, "Then we can only hope that the guy upstairs will have a good outcome." ”

"Up! Above! Above! "The commander in charge of the capture of the building was a platoon commander of the Wehrmacht, and when the infantry captured the staircase, he kept ordering the soldiers to rush upward, with shell armor. Several infantrymen rushed forward with the opponent's bullets.

As he spoke, several round orbs rolled down the stairs and landed at the feet of several soldiers.

One of the soldiers took one look, then threw himself to the side in terror, shouting: "Be careful! Grenade! ”

Before anyone else could react, the grenades exploded!

When the fire and smoke cleared, at least four soldiers fell. The most critical thing is that the actions of the attacking troops were delayed.

When no more grenades fell from the upper floors, the other infantry downstairs continued to attack upwards!

They climbed the stairs quickly while they struck. While constantly shooting upstairs in an attempt to suppress the other party. But in the face of their attack, the defenders upstairs did not react at this time, and just let them go up the stairs safely and smoothly.

"What's wrong?" Wait until there are no more gunshots upstairs. The noise of the soldiers gradually died down, and the platoon commander also went upstairs. But to his surprise, he didn't see a single defender, not a single living person, not even a corpse. And the Wehrmacht soldiers who had gone upstairs first were running around like headless flies. …

"Sir," one squad leader replied to him. "There's no one up there, not a single figure!"

"No one?" The platoon commander glared angrily. stared at the squad leader and said viciously, "What are you kidding!" Nobody, who threw the grenade just now! Who fired the gun! ”

"It's true! Sir! The squad leader said aggrievedly, and pointed to the soldiers who were scurrying around behind him, "Everyone is searching, including the rooftop, but nothing has been found!" ”

"Then we can't be the hell!" The platoon commander was a little frustrated, but he didn't say anything more, and reported the situation here.

Soon, Sandy came here with someone, and while he looked at it, he said to the commander of the second company: "There are still a lot of bullet casings on the ground here, which means that someone must have exchanged fire with us here before." And these traces prove that there are people here. But where did all those people go? ”

The company commander said with some excitement: "We must have surrounded this place, and we held the first floor at the beginning, so it was impossible for them to run away!" ”

"Then tell me where those people are?" Sandy replied unhappily, "Instead of having time to talk to me about this, you might as well find out the reason for those people's disappearance!" ”

In the end, it was a soldier of good luck who found out why.

"Where's that hole?" Sandy arrived just in time to see the soldiers remove a mural from a wall on the fourth floor, revealing a large hole in the back. One soldier was still lighting up, sticking his head into the big hole and looking up and down.

"How?" Sandy asked.

The soldier who had put his head out to inquire replied, "Sir, this wall is hollow and leads up and down, and it should have been a garbage passage, but it was later sealed. I think that's where the guards left it. ”

"Do you know where this passage leads? If it leads to the ground, then our brothers outside should be able to find out. ”

"I don't know, we're going to go down and have a look." As the soldier spoke, someone brought a rope and tied it around his waist and that of several others.

"If the defenders were evacuated from here, then how did they get down?" Looking at the soldiers with ropes tied to their bodies, Sandy suddenly asked.

The soldier who had just stretched out his head to look at it replied to him: "I saw it just now, and there is half a charred rope in it, and it should have been burned by the other party after evacuating with that thing." ”

"Who's got flares on them? Throw one down, and let's see what's down there. ”

When the flare fell, what people could see was a puddle of water.

"It goes straight down to the sewer, and I thought it smelled because there was garbage down there." After just one glance, Sandy retracted his head and turned to the company commander, "Send a platoon down and see if you can catch them." But don't go too far, we don't know what the structure looks like underneath. If it's a maze, it's troublesome. ”

"Yes, sir."

Again in vain, Sandy returned to the battalion headquarters in a fit of rage.

Castor already knew the situation there, and when he saw him come back, he comforted him first: "Don't worry, at least we already know that the other party is just playing hide and seek with us." ”

"But what is the purpose of this?" Sandy said puzzledly, "They do this except to keep us on our toes all the time and make us more mentally exhausted!" So far, although there have been many exchanges of fire, our losses in troops are less than a hundred, and most of them are only wounded. ”

"At least they held us back for a while." "According to the plan, we should have reached the target city square by this time, but right now, we are still hundreds of meters away from that place. You see, the other side didn't use much force to achieve this effect. ”…

"What should we do now? Ignore those guys and just rush all the way through? ”

"Of course not, we don't know if that's going to fall into any trap." Castor glanced at the map, "I've reported intelligence here to the top, and the second battalion has been sent to reinforce our flank. We will attack from two directions. ”

"Attack?" Sandy's voice rose a notch, "We don't even know where the enemy's main forces are, who are we attacking?" ”

"Intelligence shows that here and here," Castor explained to Sandy, pointing to downtown locations and nearby locations, "these two places are the downtown plaza and the music square, and we have detected signs of a large number of people in both places." According to the above analysis, there are at least 3,000 people in both places. ”

There was some excitement in Sandeton: "Great, finally caught their main force!" At least there were the most people we've seen since we entered town! To tell you the truth, I've seen enough of this kind of war where I can't see the enemy for half a day! ”

Seeing that Sandy was too excited, Casto poured cold water on him: "Don't be too happy, man. Maybe it's just civilians there. ”

But Sandy didn't care: "That's fine!" At least with popularity, we might be able to get the information we need from those people. ”

Castor patted the map and made a sound: "It's useless to talk about this now, let's see how we get there." ”

"Doesn't our road lead straight to the city center?" Sandy stretched out his hand and drew on the map, "The closest straight line between the two points." ”

"But if it's still like the previous forward efficiency, it's not good to take this road." Casto nodded next to the main road, "Let's take this path." The main way was given to the men of the second battalion. ”

"Why are we taking the path? Those roads are not as easy to follow as the main road, and there may be more ambushes! ”

"Look at it," Casto said noncommittally to Sandy's words, pointing directly to the north of the city, "According to the previous information, the main forces of the other side are concentrated here, on the other side of the city. In other words, they can't have too many troops left in the city. In these two squares, more than 2,000 people were found, so in other areas, the number of people will not be too many. And since we have found hundreds of men around the main road, there will be fewer people elsewhere, because they have no more troops to deploy. In other words, unless the opponent abandons the defense of the main road and allows us to drive straight in, then we will not encounter too many enemies if we take the small road. (To be continued)