Red Moscow

  Chapter 116 Retreating the Enemy

Sokov saw a lieutenant wearing an aviator's cap limping over with the support of two soldiers. He hurried forward and asked, "Comrade Lieutenant, are you from the Front Army Command?" Is it your staff?"

   When the staff officer saw the question asked himself, it was a captain. With the help of two soldiers, he straightened his body and replied: "Yes, I am Lieutenant Fei Daoqi, the combat staff officer of the Front Army Command."

"Hello, Lieutenant Fedoqi." Sokov stretched out his hand to the other party, and said friendly: "I am Captain Sokov, the battalion commander of the Istria Battalion. I came to look for you under the order of my superiors." After he looked Fedoqi up and down, he frowned and asked, "Your leg is injured?"

   "That's right." Fedoqi said with a wry smile, "During the forced landing, the plane broke his leg."

   "Comrade Battalion Commander," just as Sokov asked Fedoqi about the plane crash, he suddenly heard Zelia shouting: "The Germans are coming up."

  The enemies who besieged the Griza scouting team came from the north and the south. The enemy attacking from the north has been defeated after being suddenly attacked by Sokov and the others; while the enemy in the south is unscathed. They heard the intensive gunfire here and knew that something happened to the friendly army, so they accelerated Footsteps are coming this way.

Seeing that the German army outnumbered him, Sokov hurriedly told Grisa: "Grisa, Lieutenant Feduch has a leg injury. You and your reconnaissance team lead him to withdraw first. You go northwest for four to five hundred meters, you can find Asia and the two sleds, let her treat the lieutenant's injuries briefly, and then you can leave quickly on the sleds."

Grisa and Sokov had spent a lot of time together, knowing that he didn't like people to bargain with him after the order was given, so he agreed very simply, and led his subordinates to help Lieutenant Fedoqi towards the position where the sled was parked. and go.

  Looking at the back of Griza leaving, Sokov felt a little puzzled: In yesterday's telegram, he didn't say that there were only two people left in the reconnaissance team, but why is it full now?

However, Sokov quickly put this matter behind him. He raised his binoculars to observe the slowly approaching German soldiers, and thought silently: the total strength of the enemy's troops on both sides is about sixty, and there are only 60 soldiers on his side. More than a dozen people can only use the method of step-by-step resistance to consume their vital strength and try to lead the troops to retreat completely.

Thinking of this, Sokov said to Zhelya: "Sergeant Zhelya, take a machine gun, two sharpshooters and two submachine gunners, and set up a backup position two hundred meters behind us. Wait for me You provide us with cover fire while leading the retreat. Understand?"

   "Understood!" Zelia agreed, and took five soldiers to the place designated by Sukov to set up defenses.

"Comrades," Sokov gave orders to the remaining soldiers after Zelya and the others left: "Machine guns and submachine guns will shoot at the charging infantry, and sharpshooters will be responsible for destroying their commanders or machine gunners. Do you understand? "

   "Understood!" The soldiers around replied loudly.

  Sokov lay prone in the snow behind the bushes, watching the German army form a sparse line of skirmishers, holding weapons, bending over, and carefully moving towards his position. He was deeply afraid that some soldiers would lose their composure and shoot when the enemy was still two or three hundred meters away, so he whispered to the soldiers next to him: "Pass down, no one is allowed to shoot without my order." .The sound of my gun was the signal, and as soon as they heard my gun go off, everyone opened fire."

  The German army set up two machine guns at a distance of 200 meters from the Soviet army, and the guns pointed directly at Sokov's hiding place. Sokov calmly looked at the German soldiers approaching slowly under the cover of trees

  . One hundred meters, ninety meters, eighty meters... Seeing that the Germans were getting closer and closer, Sokov did not give the order to open fire and so on. The soldiers were a little impatient, and they turned their attention to Soko. husband. Oleg reminded Sokov in a low voice: "Comrade battalion commander, the enemy is only sixty meters away from us."

   "Wait a little longer," Sokov stared at a German second lieutenant walking in the front, and said, "Wait for them to get closer."

  When the Germans were still more than 30 meters away, Sokov felt that he could fire, so he decisively pulled the trigger on the German second lieutenant and fired a short burst. At the moment when the bullet was ejected, the second lieutenant of the German army, who kept doing evasive actions, dodged behind a tree, causing all the bullets fired by Sokov to miss.

Seeing that his bullet missed the target, Sokov cursed angrily: "Damn!" Just as he was about to shoot again, he saw the second lieutenant who had just poked his head out from behind a tree, suddenly a **** arrow shot out from his head. Then he fell crookedly into the snow. Then, there was loud gunfire around Sokov, and the fierce gunfire echoed in the forest. The German soldiers at the front fell one after another in the snow, and the rest of them hid behind the trees in a panic, and headed towards the Soviet army. location for blind shooting.

  The German machine guns fired in the distance, and the machine gunners tried to suppress the Soviet army with firepower, covering their companions and continuing to move forward. But unfortunately, what they encountered was not the Soviet army they were familiar with. The other party did not engage in pointless shooting with them, but used sharpshooters to kill them one by one.

  The machine gunner was shot in the head, his body shook, and he lay motionless on the machine gun. The deputy shooter hastily removed his body, lying on the shooting position himself, desperately pulling the trigger. But just after firing a few bullets, he was also hit by a bullet flying from a distance, and fell beside the shooter without saying a word.

The machine guns of the German army were dumb, and seeing their comrades around them constantly falling under the muzzles of the Soviet army, the remaining soldiers felt extremely frightened, and after firing a few shots indiscriminately, they turned around and ran back . Seeing that the enemy had fled, Sokov didn't order the soldiers to chase after him. Instead, he stood up and shot at the backs of the fleeing enemies with the submachine gun in his hand.

  Seeing that the German army was retreating, Oleg excitedly suggested to Sokov: "Comrade battalion commander, the enemy has escaped. Let's catch up and kill them all!"

"No, I can't pursue." Regardless of the fact that more than 30 German soldiers fell at gunpoint, Sokov has not arrogantly thought that the rest of the enemy can be easily wiped out with only a dozen of his men. . If the battle cannot be resolved in a short time, and the nearby enemies are ushered in, it will be difficult to escape. After calmly analyzing the current situation, he ordered decisively: "Retreat, immediately retreat to the backup position."

  Looking at the defeated German soldiers fleeing farther and farther, Oleg sighed regretfully, and said loudly to the soldiers beside him: "Withdraw!"

  When the troops led by Sokov and Oleg had just retreated to the reserve position established by Zelia, everyone suddenly heard the whistling sound of mortar shells in the air. Moments later, the area where they had fought was enveloped by German artillery fire.

  Looking at the fireball rising in the distance and hearing the deafening explosion, Oleg was trembling in his heart. He glanced gratefully at Sokov next to him, and thought happily: "The battalion commander is still wise. If he doesn't order us to withdraw, it's our turn to be shot by the Germans now."

  (end of this chapter)