I lay on my stomach in the icy snow, observing the situation with a telescope. The fog was too big, and dozens of meters away was a vast white patch, and I couldn't see anything clearly.

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," Aggie, who was lying next to me, stabbed me and asked in a low voice, "Do you see anything?" ”

I put down my binoculars, shook my head and said, "It's too foggy to see anything clearly." ”

"Do you need me to bring someone over to see it?" He asked for my opinion.

"No need to do more," I said, shaking my head again, "they're coming in our direction anyway, and we'll find out who they're coming soon." ”

Footsteps were getting closer, but no one could be heard. I raised my binoculars again to observe the situation, but unfortunately I could only see a group of figures swaying in the fog, and I couldn't see who they were. So I handed the binoculars to Aggie next to me and asked him to see who was coming.

As soon as he watched it for a while, he excitedly told me, "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, it's my own people." With that, he put down his binoculars and got up from the snow.

"Wait!" I immediately stopped him, knowing that this is an enemy-occupied area, how can our troops march here with swagger? Seeing him lying on the snow again, I asked uneasily: "Did you see clearly just now, can you be sure that it is our army's troops?" ”

"That's right, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel." Aggie replied with unusual certainty: "Although the fog is too big, I can't see clearly." But I could clearly see that the few people walking in front were wearing long gray army coats, the same clothes you wore some time ago. ”

"This is behind enemy lines, so be vigilant at all times," I felt a little suspicious when he said this, and quickly explained to him: "Later, when they come, you can bring someone to contact their commander." ”

"Yes." Aggie replied to me very cheerfully, but this time he didn't stand up, but still honestly lay on the snow, continuing to hold the binoculars to observe the situation.

"Huh?!" Aggie suddenly let out a low exclamation. I looked at him with some surprise and couldn't help but ask worriedly: "You can't have seen the Germans in our ranks, right?" ”

"There really are Germans!" He said and handed me the binoculars. In the binoculars, a group of our soldiers in gray military overcoats, with their heads bowed, mechanically moving forward, in front of the queue, is a single motorcycle, the soldiers on bicycles wear steel helmets and windshields, wearing long military overcoats, anyone who looks at it can immediately recognize this is the dress of the German army.

What's going on? I continued to observe the situation, and as more and more of our soldiers came into my sight, I actually saw several Germans with weapons walking to the left and right of the line. O my God! Seeing all this, it dawned on me that this was a captured soldier of our army, and he was being escorted by the Germans to their rear.

"Aggie," I put down my binoculars, turned my head, looked at Aggie, who was silent, and ordered, "This is the captured soldiers of our army, and the Germans are escorting them to the prisoner of war camp." Let the comrades be ready, if necessary, ready to fight a battle with these Germans. ”

"Understood," Aggie agreed, and prostrate away.

"Come here." I whispered at the sniper.

With my shouts, the sniper crawled to my side without saying a word, eyes on me, waiting for my orders.

"Hold the gun here," I said, gesturing to a bush next to me, "as soon as I say fire, you shoot right away, understand?" ”

"Understood, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel." The sniper answered me very dryly.

"Excuse me, what's your name?" I was embarrassed to ask, "I remember you said it, but I forgot." ”

"My name is Agumint." As he spoke, he had set up the scoped Mosin Nagant rifle in the bushes.

The troops walking on the forest trail had completely entered my line of sight, so clear that I could see everything without a telescope. There were about 100 people in the whole army, and almost all the captured soldiers were wearing gray military coats, some of them wore steel helmets, some wore cotton hats, and some even went bareheaded, but they all had dejected expressions. I counted the number of German soldiers escorting them, except for the two on motorcycles in the front and back of the group, and only five soldiers with submachine guns in the middle. Seeing all this, I couldn't help frowning, more than a hundred Soviet prisoners of war, the Germans actually sent seven soldiers to escort them?

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," Aji asked me in a low voice, "what do we do now?" ”

"Hit!" I replied unusually crisply. There were only seven Germans, and there were thirteen of us, and this ambush was a sure victory. "As soon as the sniper's guns rang out, everyone immediately opened fire, and the target was of their choice."

"Yes!" Aggie agreed, and then crawled to deliver my orders to the warriors.

"Agumint," I whispered to the sniper not far away, "knock out the German soldiers on motorbikes at the back of the line." ”

"Smack!" As soon as I finished speaking, Agumint's gun rang out. I saw through the binoculars that the German soldier on a motorcycle at the back of the line had a mist of blood on his head, leaned back, and then fell heavily on the snow with the man and the cart.

The sound of the guns was an order, and all the weapons opened fire together, and after a series of shots, another German soldier on a motorcycle, and the three soldiers on the side of our ambush were all knocked out. The remaining two German soldiers, because on the other side of the queue, our captured fighters were in the middle, and we could not shoot. After the gunshots rang out, the two of them hid in the middle of the group and fired back in the direction of our ambush.

I was furious to see the captured soldiers standing there with blank expressions, allowing the Germans to shoot us from among them. After all, this is an enemy-occupied area, and an ambush battle cannot be turned into an encounter, and it must be resolved quickly. So I stood up and shouted at the stupid soldiers, "Get down!" Get down! It's all about ......."

Before I could finish shouting, I fell to the ground with a man behind me, and at the same time, several bullets hit the place where I had been standing, raising a barrage of snowflakes. I turned my head to see that it was Aji who threw me to the ground, and I smiled at him gratefully and said, "Thank you, Aji, you just saved my life." ”

The captured soldiers came to their senses when they heard my shouts, and they fell to the ground en masse, revealing the German soldiers who had been hiding among them. For a sniper, it was a better target to hit, and after two shots, the remaining two German soldiers fell under Agumint's guns without any suspense.

Seeing that all the German soldiers had been killed, I got up from hiding with the soldiers and walked over to the captured soldiers.

"Assemble!" Aggie stood on the side of the road, shouting orders at the soldiers who had just gotten up from the ground. At his command, the warriors quickly formed a neat four-column formation.

"What part of you are from?" I walked to the front of the queue and asked loudly.

Perhaps because I didn't have a rank on my camouflage suit, no one answered my question.

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel asked you, why didn't you answer?" Aggie couldn't look past it, and stepped forward to relieve me.

"Comrade Colonel Report," replied a soldier with the rank of corporal, who walked out of the ranks, "we were originally from the Fifth Army, the troops were surrounded, most of the soldiers were killed, and the rest of us were captured when we ran out of ammunition and food." ”

"Alright," I interrupted, dissatisfied, "I'm not asking you why you're being captured. Not to mention the humiliating fact that more than 100 of you were escorted away by seven German soldiers, why didn't you resist when the German devils hid among you and shot at us just now? Hearing me say this, the warriors bowed their heads in shame and did not dare to answer.

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," Aggie asked me next to me, "what are we going to do next?" ”

"Gélia," I shouted to the back.

"Here!" The sergeant ran over in agreement, stood up in front of me, and respectfully asked, "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, do you have any instructions?" ”

"I appoint you commander of this force and bring them back to our positions. Is there a problem? "Although I am not satisfied with the performance of these fighters just now, but now that there are not enough troops on the position, it is still necessary for them to go back and strengthen the defensive line.

Sergeant Gelia looked at the neatly lined line in front of him and hesitated for a moment before answering me: "No problem, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel. I promise to complete the task. ”