Before I could express my opinion, Shaikin had already rushed out with a gun in hand. Immediately there was a gunshot outside, followed by a dense stream of gunfire, noisy shouts, and the sound of stumbling footsteps getting closer.

Judging by the footsteps coming from outside, there were quite a few German troops outside. When I heard a few footsteps running out of the cave and disappearing, my heart was cold, and my heart was broken, could it be that the Germans found us hiding here? If they wanted to kill us, they didn't have to come in at all, they just threw a grenade into the hole, or shot a few bullets, and it would be enough to get me and Oleg to God.

I turned my head to look at Oleg, and in the dim light I saw him holding the pistol in both hands, pointing at the hole, and it seemed that whenever a moving object appeared in our field of vision, he shot mercilessly.

Before anyone could appear at the entrance of the cave, I heard the German soldiers outside roaring, and then a violent explosion came from outside, and the flash of light that accompanied the explosion brightened the cave for a moment, and then plunged into darkness again. Outside the cave there was a dull sound of a human body falling to the ground, followed by a few words of crying from the German soldiers, and then I heard a few footsteps leaving the cave and running off into the distance.

Hearing the departure of the enemy outside the cave, my heart, which had been beating sharply, gradually returned to normal, wiped the sweat from my forehead, I turned my head to look at Oleg, and saw that he was not much better than me, and he was lying there with his back against the wall, gasping for breath. Seeing that I was looking at him, he smiled embarrassedly and said curtly: "Comrade division commander, that grenade just now." It must have been thrown by Sergeant Shaikin. Thankfully, he had drawn the enemy elsewhere. Otherwise we are in danger. ”

He listened intently to the movement outside. Hearing the sound of gunfire and grenade explosions fading away, he took two deep breaths and said to me: "Comrade division commander, while there is no enemy outside the cave, let's hurry up and move." Seeing that I nodded in the same way, he immediately crawled out on his hands and feet.

When I saw him crawl out of the hole, I wanted to climb out with him, but suddenly I saw him crawling back in a wolf. With a dejected face, he said, "Hell, there's a team of German soldiers outside." ”

Hearing him say this, my heart, which I had put in my stomach, hung in my throat again, and my heart said: It's over, am I really going to be blocked by the enemy in this hole today? It's a pity that I didn't bring a submachine gun with me when I set off today, otherwise, with my marksmanship, in the encounter just now. At least you can kill a few more enemies. As long as I was in the trenches at the time, I held on for a minute to buy the nearby fighters a moment to react. They would have been able to figure out what had happened, and they would not have been ignorant when they came out of hiding after hearing Oleg's shouts, and died in vain at the guns of the German detachment before they could figure out what was going on.

As I got closer, my heart beat faster and faster, and although I couldn't tell the exact number, I could probably guess that there were twenty or thirty people on the other side. I thought to myself: if the other party hadn't discovered our hiding place, he might have escaped; If they found this anti-artillery hole and came in to search for it, Oleg and I would have to obediently tie our hands and arrest him. As for resistance, I didn't think at all, we only had a pistol held by Oleg, and if we shot back, someone outside would shoot me and turn me into a hornet's nest.

When the group came to the outside of the cave, they ordered to stop, and then the German, which I hated to the extreme, came in from outside, and I secretly prayed in my heart that they would leave quickly, and go ahead in search of their companions, or that our reinforcements might come quickly, so that Oleg and I could be rescued from this dangerous place, and it was really a bad feeling to sit and wait for death.

Oleg suddenly leaned close to my ear and said in a low but resolute voice: "Comrade division commander, it seems that the enemy has discovered this hole, and maybe the next moment they will rush in, or throw grenades or fire submachine guns inside. Let me take the risk and rush out, kill a few German soldiers, and lure the rest somewhere else, so you can get out safely. ”

"No, no!" I resolutely put a stop to Oleg's ridiculous thoughts, and even if he managed to rush out, he would not necessarily be able to lure all the enemies away. As long as there is an enemy outside, I will have to stay in the cave until our troops arrive. I smiled coldly and said to him without moving: "Lieutenant Colonel Oleg, don't take such a risk, maybe you will be killed by the enemy's indiscriminate shooting before you can shoot when you rush out." Now we can only gamble on our luck to see if we will be discovered by the enemy first or rescued by ourselves. ”

After saying this, I really hesitated in my heart, did I really sit here and wait to be taken prisoner by the Germans? As if he had read through my thoughts, Oleg whispered again: "Comrade division commander, are you willing to stay here as a prisoner?" ”

Originally, I was afraid that if I talked too much, I would be heard by the Germans outside the cave, so I didn't want to talk anymore, but I didn't expect to hear Oleg say this, I was suddenly confused, and I said angrily and desperately: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, what do you think? Do you have anything else to build other than rushing out and letting the enemy beat you and me into a honeycomb? ”

Oleg shook his head and said no more, and the cave fell silent.

"Is this from your battalion?" Suddenly, a woman's voice came from outside.

After a while, a man replied, "No, it's very raw, it's definitely not from our battalion." ”

"Confirm again." The woman continued.

"I can answer you with certainty, definitely not my subordinates." The man's tone replied firmly: "I can almost name the commanders and fighters in the battalion, and this person is definitely not my subordinate. ”

"What the hell are the two of them talking about, and why can I understand what they're saying?" I thought to myself, confused, and suddenly, I was shaken, and it dawned on me: they speak Russian, and they are their own people outside!

For the first moment, I almost crawled out of the way, but then it occurred to me that I had just heard someone outside speaking German, and these Russian-speaking people who were mixed with the Germans. Who is it?

I gently touched Oleg with my shoulder. Asked him in a low voice: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel." Do you hear people outside, just communicating in Russian? ”

Oleg didn't answer my question, but stared blankly outside, and then I heard his breathing become rapid. Just when I couldn't figure out the situation, he suddenly said loudly: "It's Velol, it's Villaur's political commissar!" Then he jumped to his feet, and because the roof of the cave was so low, his head in his big-brimmed hat slammed into the top. It hurt so much that he had to bend over. I was about to ask him if he was hurt, but he was leaning against the wall and shouting loudly, "Hey, is it Commissar Vellore outside?" ”

"Who?" The sound of pulling the bolt was accompanied by a woman's sharp questioning. After hearing the woman's voice clearly, I grinned silently, because I finally heard that the person talking outside was none other than Vellol, the political commissar of the Second Regiment.

"Yes, Comrade Commissar, I am Lieutenant Colonel Oleg." Oleg replied loudly.

It was Oleg's voice that could be heard clearly. There was silence outside for a moment, and then Vellol's voice was heard again. She asked with concern: "Comrade regiment commander, is the division commander here?" ”

"Yes, yes," Oleg replied excitedly, "Comrade Division Commander is by my side." After he finished shouting outside, he turned around and said to me excitedly, "Commander, it's all your own people outside, you can go out first." ”

As I approached the entrance of the cave, I saw seven or eight hands sticking out of the cave, all trying to pull me. I didn't bother to look closely, so I grabbed my two hands casually, and with their help, left the anti-artillery hole where I was hiding.

Seeing a large number of people standing in front of me, both those wearing German uniforms and our uniforms, immediately confused me. I pulled Velore over and asked her in a low voice, "What's the matter, where did so many German soldiers come from?" ”

Velore looked at me blankly and asked in surprise: "Ah, comrade division commander, have you forgotten that this detachment wearing the uniform of the German army is the small detachment you sent to reconnoiter behind enemy lines?" Then he pointed to the side with his hand, "That's the commander who led the team, former German second lieutenant Greitka, and Comrade Savchenko of the 1st battalion." ”

Gretka walked up to me, raised his hand and saluted, and said: "Comrade division commander, Second Lieutenant Gretka reports to you that the reconnaissance detachment has completed its mission and returned to our army's station, waiting for your orders, please instruct!" ”

At this moment, I did not bother to ask them what they had achieved in the reconnaissance, but pointed to the other side of the trench with my hand and commanded him: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, there is a small detachment of German troops disguised as our army, which is fighting with our soldiers in the trenches in front, and I order you to immediately lead your men to destroy them all." ”

"Yes!" Ensign Grettka replied loudly, beckoning his men to rush forward along the trenches, accompanied by the two warriors brought by Velol.

Oleg, with the help of Savchenko, crawled out of the hole. He walked up to us and said to Velore embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, Comrade Commissar, when you just came, I thought you were Germans, so I hid in the hole with the division commander again. ”

I looked down at the corpse lying not far away and asked Velore, "Has that body been searched?" ”

Velore nodded, and replied with a sad face, "I have searched it, and he doesn't have any identification documents on him." And judging by the dress, it is exactly the same as our army, not at all like some assault troops, with a towel tied to the arm, and I am curious how they can distinguish friend from foe in battle. ”

When I heard Vylor say that no identifying marks had been found on the enemy's corpse, I took a curious look at Savchenko's arm and saw that he had a white towel wrapped around his left arm, probably for our sentinels to identify when returning to position. I was about to ask him a few questions when I was distracted by the sound of heavy gunfire and explosions in the distance.

I looked at Vylore and the five or six soldiers around her, and asked curiously, "Comrade Vylol, can you send more troops to support Ensign Gretka and them?" ”

Without waiting for Vylore to answer, Savchenko had already preemptively said: "Comrade division commander, no need. Second Lieutenant Grettka's team was not weak in combat, and on the way to our mission, we quietly killed several groups of enemy patrols. Moreover, they are now wearing German uniforms, and if reinforcements are sent up now, it is easy to misunderstand. ”

As we spoke, the dense gunfire in front of us suddenly stopped. Oleg looked in that direction and asked in surprise: "What's going on, what's going on, why did the gunfire stop?" ”

However, no one present could answer his question, because no one could figure out what was going on in the trenches ahead.

Just as Velore ordered a soldier to check the battle ahead, he saw a soldier in our uniform running towards us. Maybe everyone was frightened by the Germans in our uniforms, so when they saw this soldier who suddenly appeared, everyone's first reaction was to find a place to hide, and pointed the weapons in their hands at the incoming person. (To be continued......)

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