The team walked through knee-deep snow, crossed ravines and icy creeks, and passed through snow-filled bushes. They walked for two full hours and finally approached the edge of the forest.
"Comrade Lieutenant," Pavel, who was walking at the front of the team, stopped, took off his helmet, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeves, and said to Lin Hua: "Go west for about two hundred meters and you will reach the Germans.
Outpost."
Knowing that the German outpost was two hundred meters away, Lin Hua couldn't help but turn his head and glance at the marching soldiers. The crunching sound they made when stepping on the snow sounded so earth-shattering.
His heart couldn't help but raise to his throat. He thought that the footsteps of the soldiers would not be heard by the enemy at the outpost, right?
Pavel noticed Lin Hua's nervousness and quickly comforted him: "Comrade Lieutenant, don't worry. This is a forest. Even if the soldiers' footsteps reach the outpost, they will be inaudible. The Germans will not listen."
You can see our movement."
"Stop the troops!" Lin Hua raised his hand to signal the troops to stop. Seeing that all the soldiers were panting from exhaustion, he quickly ordered: "Everyone rest where you are! Seryosha, Christopher, Ole
Ge, come to me."
After the three old men came to him, Lin Hua said to them: "Comrades, there is an enemy outpost to the west of us, and there are five Germans inside. Your task is to follow Corporal Pavel to clear it out.
Drop this outpost and find a way to capture one or two prisoners. Remember, never shoot unless absolutely necessary."
Seryosha waited for Lin Hua to finish speaking, and immediately said with a smile: "Don't worry, Misha, since we are going for a sneak attack, we can take down the German outpost even without guns."
Oleg said with concern: "Lieutenant Sokov, there are five enemies in the post. And we, with only four people, do not have an advantage in numbers, can we succeed?"
"Comrade soldier, what do you have to worry about?" Hearing what Oleg said, Pavel on the side said disapprovingly: "Since it is a sneak attack, the number of people cannot be too many, otherwise the enemy will be discovered before they even approach the outpost.
.Don’t worry, we will definitely succeed.”
Lin Hua glanced at the soldiers resting next to the tree and said to Pavel: "Comrade Corporal, I will wait for you here for an hour. When the time is up, if you have not returned, I will let Kovnin serve as the
Guide, take us to the dam."
"Don't worry, Comrade Lieutenant." Pavel replied with a serious expression: "I will be able to complete the mission in less than an hour." After saying that, he raised his hand and saluted Lin Hua, and led the three soldiers towards the German army.
Walk in the direction of the outpost.
After Pavel and the others left, Lin Hua came to sit next to the tree where Asiya was resting. Asiya looked at Lin Hua who was a little uneasy and asked: "Did they go to the German outpost?" p>
Even though Lin Hua was extremely calm when assigning tasks, he was feeling uneasy at the moment. He was deeply afraid that when Pavel and the others approached the post, their footsteps on the snow would alert the German soldiers on guard.
Sentinel. Because he was so absent-minded, he actually didn’t hear Asiya’s question.
Asiya grabbed his arm, shook it gently a few times, and asked: "Misha, what are you thinking about, why don't you answer my question?"
Lin Hua looked at Asiya blankly and asked, "What did you just ask me?"
Asiya repeated the question just now, and finally asked: "Can they succeed?"
"Don't worry, Asiya, they can succeed." Lin Hua forced a smile and said to Asiya: "You will help us interrogate the prisoners later."
Although the deadline given by Lin Hua to Pavel and the others was one hour, unexpectedly, just half an hour later, Oleg ran back and excitedly reported to Lin Hua: "Comrade Company Commander, it's solved.
Solved. We have taken down the German outpost."
"What, the German outpost has been captured?" When Lin Hua heard Oleg say this, he immediately jumped up from the ground, grabbed the other party's collar, and said excitedly: "You mean, you have captured the Germans."
Outpost?"
"Yes, Comrade Company Commander." Oleg nodded vigorously: "We also captured four German soldiers. Now Corporal Pavel asked me to invite you to come over and interrogate these prisoners."
As he led the troops toward the outpost, Lin Hua then asked Oleg: "Do we have any casualties?"
"No, Comrade Company Commander, there are not a single casualty." Oleg answered Lin Hua's question with some pride and began to describe the process of their capture of the post: "When Corporal Pavel led the three of us to the vicinity of the enemy's post
, there was only one German soldier standing guard outside the outpost. Perhaps because the weather was too cold, he sat in a corner of the wooden house wrapped in a blanket. He didn't notice us until we were still a few steps away from him. Before the German soldiers could
When he reacted, Seryosha rushed over and cut his throat with a knife, preventing him from warning his companions in the room."
When Asiya heard this, she couldn't help but interjected and asked: "Then what?"
Oleg narrowed his eyes and glanced at Asya, and then said: "Then Corporal Pavel led us to break in the door and broke into the room. The four German soldiers sitting by the stove to warm themselves still didn't understand what was going on.
Whatever happened, he became our prisoner."
When Lin Hua led his troops to the outpost, Pavel was standing outside the door waiting for him. Lin Hua quickly stepped forward, held the opponent's hand, and said approvingly: "Well done, Comrade Corporal, you are doing well."
Like that. After the battle is over, I will definitely ask for credit for you."
Pavel grinned and said to Lin Hua: "Comrade Lieutenant, the prisoners are in the house, let's go in."
Lin Hua and Asiya followed Bavel into the wooden house and found that it turned out to be a ranger's cabin. After the German army occupied this place, they renovated it and dug several shooting holes in the wooden walls. If
If you resort to forceful attack, you will definitely have to pay a high price.
The four captured German soldiers were huddled in a corner of the room, guarded by Seryosha and Christopher holding submachine guns. Lin Hua saw that they were all wearing white shirts and could not see their military ranks, so he asked:
"Which of you is in charge?"
After hearing Asiya's reaction, the four German soldiers were silent for a moment, and then one of them stood up, straightened his body and chirped at Lin Hua.
After Asiya waited for the other party to finish speaking, she approached Lin Hua and whispered: "He said he was the person in charge of the post, German Corporal Ernst."
"Bring him out." Lin Hua pointed at the other party, indicating to Pavel and the others to bring out Corporal Ernst. Then he turned around and walked to the table, sat down with his back against the stove, and prepared to start interrogating the prisoners.