I led my troops through the forest in the direction of the fiercest gunfire.

In a short time, we approached the edge of the forest, from which we could already see with the naked eye the smoke of gunfire, shrapnel flying everywhere, and the sound of artillery shocking the sky! The black smoke and waves of air from the explosion were like a scorching thick fog, enveloping the area of battle for a long time.

I told my troops to stop where they were, and then I went to the edge of the forest by myself, standing beside a birch tree, holding up my binoculars and observing the battle in the distance.

I don't know what the Voloclomsk bus station looked like, but I saw only a piece of ruins through the telescope. Except for a roofless two-story building that still stands tenaciously above the horizon, and a few nearby half-man-high walls that have not yet collapsed, the rest of the place is littered with smoking rubble. There were many dark craters around the rubble pile, and there were many corpses lying around the craters, and it was easy to identify from their uniforms that they were the corpses of the Germans, probably destroyed by our soldiers during the attack.

In the window of the two-story building, you can vaguely see a lot of figures shooting outward, which should be the soldiers of our army who are resisting stubbornly. Between the building and the rubble, there were a number of burned buses that were reduced to frames, and the Germans relied on these vehicles as cover to carefully attack the building. Perhaps because of the heavy firepower of our troops, the German attack did not work, and after throwing a pile of corpses in front of the building, the remaining soldiers had to retreat and hide behind the cars, and they were lying on the rubble and firing at our soldiers in the building.

"Comrade commander," Velstorff's voice sounded next to me, "it looks like it's our men fighting, and we should go and help them." ”

I put down my binoculars and turned my head to see that he was standing next to me, also holding a telescope and observing the enemy. Looking to the side, it was not only him, but other company commanders and deputy company commanders were here. Originally, I was the only one in the team to have a telescope, but since the troops returned from the munitions warehouse, almost every company platoon commander has a telescope around his neck, except for a few captured from the Germans, the rest should be in the warehouse.

I raised my binoculars again and looked at it, measured the distance between us and our destination with the scale on the lens, and then shook my head with some regret and said, "We are almost three hundred meters away from the station. In normal times, at this distance, the soldiers can rush through it in a maximum of minutes with a single charge. However, the snow on this section of the road was too deep for the soldiers to charge at a rate that would be affected, and if the Germans discovered it, they would simply turn their guns and easily wipe out our troops in the snow. ”

"Look! Tanks of the German army. Pavlov, who had not spoken, suddenly screamed.

I quickly raised my binoculars and looked nervously in the direction of the station, Pavlov was right, there was really a German tank coming from a distance, it seemed that it was supposed to provide fire support for those German soldiers. Perhaps because they saw their tanks coming, several German soldiers who were originally lying on the rubble suddenly gained confidence, and immediately jumped up impatiently, and rushed into the building with their weapons in hand. As soon as he ran two steps, he was knocked down by the crossfire composed of the windows on the first and second floors of our army.

The German tanks stopped behind the rubble, and the turrets slowly turned half a circle, aiming at the building and firing fiercely. A shell hit the wall between the two windows on the ground floor. With the explosion of the shells, the masonry on the wall suddenly splattered, and the fire of the two windows near the explosion point was interrupted at once. When the smoke cleared, a circular pit appeared on the wall, but the wall was not pierced by the shells. Seeing that the wall was not pierced by the German shells, I couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, admiring Lao Maozi from the bottom of my heart, when they built the building, they really guaranteed quality and quantity, did not cut corners at all, and actually built a high-quality project that could not even be pierced by shells.

Just as I was feeling the emotion of this trustworthy project, the German tank fired another shot, and hit the position just now, but this time it was not as lucky as the last time, and the wall was directly blown open a large hole for two people to be parallel. The Germans, who were hiding behind the bus, saw that the shells had blown the breakthrough open, so they rushed out of their hiding places and rushed towards the hole.

This new attack of the Germans was repulsed without any suspense by the crossfire of our soldiers, except for those who hid quickly, the rest were knocked down. However, one of the German soldiers rushed more violently, and after being shot several times, he actually fell through the hole by virtue of the inertia of rushing forward.

Less than a minute after the German soldier fell in, more than a dozen of our soldiers with rifles poured out of the hole, shouting and attacking the German soldiers hiding behind the car. Tank shells exploded in the crowd, killing the few fighters in the middle. Several fighters in front fired only one shot and were knocked to the ground by heavy German fire. The soldiers who rushed out of the hole saw that the situation was not right, and quickly turned around and ran back, but unfortunately it was already a step too late, and the bullets fired by the Germans found their last destination on their bodies.

A comical counterattack fell apart like this, and I watched in amazement at the stupidity of the defenders, and cursed in my heart that it was an idiot who had carried out such a short assault on a whim.

The German tank took a few steps back, stopped, and with a puff of black smoke rising from behind the car, the tank suddenly accelerated and rushed up the pile of rubble towards the building of the station.

"Not good!" Lukin next to him shouted.

"What's the matter?" I put down my binoculars and looked at Lukin dissatisfied, thinking what was there to make such a fuss about.

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel!" He walked up to me, pointed to the station in the distance, and said, "The fascist tanks are trying to rush over and crash into the building, and if they break through the walls in a few places, the building will collapse and bury all the defenders alive." ”

I didn't speak, and I raised my binoculars again to look at the station, thinking that heaven and man were at war, should I go to the rescue or not? Compared with such a long impact distance, in addition to the soldiers in the middle will pay a huge price, after rushing over, this German tank is also a great threat to us.

Just thinking about it, I suddenly felt that my vision began to blur a little, and the warring parties who could see it clearly became a little faint.

"Great, it's snowing!" I don't know who shouted excitedly next to him.

I looked away from the binoculars, and sure enough, the sky really started to snow, and the snow flakes like shredded pieces of paper were scattered one after another, and the more dense they were, and the visibility quickly dropped to within a few meters. The weather in Russia is so abnormal, it is often sunny one minute ago, and snowflakes the next minute later. Seeing such heavy snowfall, I was ecstatic: God help me, I don't have to worry about being discovered by the Germans when the troops approach the station.

I immediately summoned everyone and loudly assigned them tasks: "The first and second companies are outflanking from the left and right, and the guard platoon and artillery company are attacking me from the front. You tell the soldiers to be smart when fighting, it is not enough to have courage, but also to learn to use tactics correctly, flesh and blood alone will not be able to stop the enemy's bullets, so don't be stupid and rush forward in the enemy's fire, that will only allow the enemy to use us as a target to shoot us out......"

"Comrade Commander! How do we attack? The short sergeant who had spoken yesterday stood up and asked loudly.

"That's a good question! You all have to remember that we have good equipment now, and each squad is equipped with machine guns. So when attacking, attack in squads. In the event of an interception by enemy fire, first suppress it with a machine gun, and then destroy him with a grenade. When encountering a difficult fire point, the artillery will blow him up with artillery. I paused, looked at the commanders gathered in front of me, and continued: "In this battle, I don't ask you to fight quickly, as long as you can destroy the enemy at the least cost, it doesn't matter if you fight slowly. At the end of the battle, if we have one more soldier, we will have more hope to hold our position. Do you get it? ”

"Got it!" Everyone answered me in unison.

"Good! Return to your own troops and lead your troops to attack! Remember, we were taking advantage of the heavy snow to approach the station, and we were launching a sneak attack on the enemy rather than a strong attack, so the troops were not allowed to make any noise until they had approached the Germans. Do you understand? ”

"Understood!" Everyone agreed.