In the face of such a huge German convoy, I didn't dare to act rashly, so I could only lie on the snow honestly, and I didn't even dare to get out of the atmosphere. After all, we are lurking too close to the road, and if someone stands on the side of the road and observes the forest, it is not difficult to spot the series of footprints we left on the snow.

Without warning, a command car stopped on the side of the road, and the door opened with a thud. My heart suddenly rose to my throat, and I wondered if we had been discovered. I put my finger on the trigger, and if I noticed something was wrong, I didn't hesitate to shoot.

Out of the car stepped a German officer wearing a large-brimmed hat and a red collar badge. He casually looked left and right, then jumped straight onto the snow, lit a cigarette, crossed his hands at his waist, turned his back to where we were lurking, and stood on the side of the road watching the endless stream of vehicles pass in front of him.

Although I was never familiar with the ranks of the German army, I immediately recognized him as a general. From where he stood, it was an excellent target, not to mention a sniper, even an ordinary soldier could knock him out with a single shot. I tried my best to suppress the urge to shoot, and at the same time secretly prayed in my heart that no one of the team members would shoot at the general with itchy hands. There is a huge disparity between the enemy and the enemy in front of us, and once a fight starts, it is a typical pebble hitting a stone, not to mention the German tanks, even if they just fire at us from the machine guns on armored vehicles, they can easily and happily wipe us out cleanly. The total annihilation of the guards of Stalin's stand-in is the best example of the past. Moreover, if you can't complete the reconnaissance mission assigned by your superiors, even if you can get away with killing a German general, it will not help you in the future war.

A soldier wearing a boat-shaped hat suddenly appeared out of the door, and he said something loudly to the general, who quickly threw the unfinished cigarette in his hand into the snow, stepped into the car in a few steps, and slammed the door shut. In a few moments, the command vehicle merged into the advancing traffic. Watching the command vehicle disappear from my sight, I couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, and secretly raised my hand to wipe the cold sweat from my forehead.

This huge German convoy took a full hour to pass. With the mobilization of mechanized troops of this scale, it is estimated that the Germans intend to launch a large-scale offensive in certain sections of our defensive line, and this important information must be promptly reported to the army group headquarters when the camp is set up at night.

I stood up and was just about to tell the team to move on, when suddenly I felt a chill on the tip of my nose, and I couldn't help but reach out and touch it, it turned out that it started to snow at some point, and it was a snowflake falling on my nose.

"It's snowing, it's great!" Aji, who was standing next to him, said excitedly. "This snow is good, although it has added difficulties to our movements, but it has brought concealment to our operations, and we are now marching in the forest with a swagger, without worrying about being discovered by the Germans." Although he has a point, it seems to me that snow is not a good thing at this time, because it will be colder and the road we will have to walk more difficult.

The snow was falling heavier and heavier, and the northwest wind was blowing violently, and goose-feather snowflakes were fluttering on our faces, making it impossible to open our eyes and making it more difficult for us to walk in the forest. The village, which could have been reached in half an hour, walked for more than an hour, and did not even see a shadow.

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," Aggie cried out in my ear, "if we go on like this, we will easily get lost, so let's stop and rest." ”

"Okay." I said yes, and then raised my voice and shouted at everyone, "Stop moving forward and rest in place." ”

At my command, the team stopped. Everyone was staring at me, waiting for my next order.

"Saska, Leondev," Aggie commanded me from the side, "Hurry up and build a snow wall so that we can take shelter from the blizzard temporarily." ”

"Yes." The two fighters agreed, removed the sapper shovels they were carrying on their backs, and began to dig snow in place.

It didn't take much time to build a semi-circular half-man-high wall of snow, and everyone squatted behind the wall, although the snowflakes still kept falling on us, but the northwest wind had blocked the wall, and we could have waited here until the snow stopped.

After another half an hour, the snow gradually lightened, and the visibility was much stronger than before. Aji leaned into my ear again and said, "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I will first take a few soldiers to the front to reconnoiter and reconnoitre, and only after you can completely stop the snow will I bring the rest of the people over." All right? ”

I looked at the group of "snowmen" squatting around me, then stood up, dusted off the snow on my body, looked around with a telescope, and saw that all around me was white, and the scenery was almost the same, and it was easy to get lost in the forest if I walked blindly. But it was not an option to stay like this, and it was impossible for us to spend the night in the snow, so I nodded in agreement with his proposal, and said, "Okay, you should first take a few warriors and go to the front to explore the way, and see if you can find a place to camp tonight." ”

"Understood." Aggie agreed, and led Saska, Leondev, and Agumint, with the help of a compass, to walk through the snow.

After Aggie walked away with the pathfinder team, the snow slowly stopped. I asked Orlov, the operator who was squatting next to me: "Can you send a telegram to the army group headquarters?" ”

Orlov adjusted the machine for a moment, and then replied with great difficulty: "It doesn't seem to work, the temperature is too low, and the radio does not work." ”

"Comrade Commander," Sergeant Lukin, who had been silent all the way, suddenly spoke, "the snow has stopped, and we can move on." ”

Hearing what he said, I was a little embarrassed and said, "But Sergeant Aggie has not yet returned, and if we leave now, I am afraid that they will not find us when they come back." ”

"It doesn't matter, Comrade Commander." Sapochuk said to Lukin beside him: "Aji, they haven't been walking for long, the heavy snow shouldn't have buried their footprints, we should be able to find them if we follow their footprints." ”

After listening to his words, I turned to look at Lukin in front of me and asked, "Do you think so too?" ”

"Yes, exactly." Lukin replied in the affirmative.

If everyone wanted to keep going, there was no need to stay here, so I threw the submachine gun hanging on my chest behind my back. With a wave of his hand, he said, "Let's go." "Then a few of us walked in the footsteps left by Aggie's pathfinder team.

After walking for about ten minutes, there was a sudden rush of gunfire ahead. My heart tightened, could it be that Aji and the Germans had encountered? So he urged everyone to speed up the march and hurried to the place where the guns were fired.

After running a short distance, we came to the edge of the forest. There was a small village outside the forest, because the sky was already a little dark, and the distance was relatively far away, I only saw a few figures shaking at the edge of the village, and I couldn't see who it was. I took off my submachine gun, put it in my hand, bent over and continued to charge forward.

"It's Comrade Commander." Agmint's voice was heard from ahead.

"It's me." Although I heard the voices of my own people, I still did not dare to let my guard down, and still strode forward with my submachine gun in hand.

When I got closer, I saw the figure I had just seen, in addition to Aguminte, there were also two people, Saskat and Leondev. There were five or six German corpses lying on the ground, and it seemed that they had been fighting with these German soldiers just now. I looked left and right, but I didn't see Aji, and I couldn't help but ask worriedly, "Why are you three of you, where is Sergeant Aji?" ”