Hearing that an enemy sentry was discovered ahead, the carriage immediately became quiet. Tavlin leaned close to Golia's ear and whispered: "Comrade Battalion Commander, since there is only one sentry, let's kill him."
"No," Golia rejected Tavlin's proposal without hesitation: "There is only one sentry in our field of vision. Who knows if there is a hidden sentry somewhere nearby. Once the target is exposed, our
The mission has failed." After saying this to Tavlin, he ordered the driver, "Keep driving forward!"
The German sentry standing in the middle of the road saw an armored vehicle approaching his position, and quickly raised his right hand to signal to stop. Golia quickly ordered the driver in a low voice: "Driver, stop the car and see if he wants to stop."
do what?"
As soon as the driver parked the armored vehicle, the German sentry came over with a gun in hand. He came to the side of the armored vehicle, looked up at the commanders and fighters in the vehicle, and asked loudly: "Which unit are you from, and where are you going?"
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Goria pushed Tavlin with his hand and signaled him to deal with the German soldier. Tavlin, who was wearing the uniform of a German second lieutenant, stood up, held the carriage with his hand and lowered his head and said: "We are from the 100th Jäger Division.
On a special mission."
Perhaps it had been a long time since he had encountered a surprise attack by the Soviet army in disguise. The German sentry was less vigilant. When Tavlin said this, he waved his way and let him go without even checking his ID.
As the armored vehicle continued to move forward, Taflin suddenly discovered that there were sandbag fortifications on both sides of the road, with machine guns mounted on them. The shooter's hand was on the trigger, and his eyes followed the movement of the armored vehicle. Seeing this scene
, Tavlin couldn't help but be frightened into a cold sweat. He thought to himself: It's really suspenseful. If the battalion commander really listened to his advice and killed the sentry, the machine guns hidden on both sides of the road might have been directed at him.
The armored vehicle fired wildly.
After the two machine gun fortifications were out of sight, Tavlin raised his hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said to Goliath with lingering fear: "Comrade Battalion Commander, fortunately you were able to keep your composure and didn't let us kill that guy."
German soldiers, otherwise they would have been at war with the enemy by now."
"Comrades," Golia saw that he had entered the German defense line at this moment. He felt that he needed to say a few words, so he lowered his voice and said: "We have gone deep behind the enemy lines. We must remain vigilant at all times to avoid exposure to ensure that the troops handed over to us by our superiors
Our mission can be completed successfully. Do you understand?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a deliberately lowered voice sounded next to him: "I understand, Comrade Battalion Commander."
The German regiment command post was located in a small village with only fifty households. When it was still four or five kilometers away from the village, Golia ordered the driver to slow down, stood in the carriage, raised his telescope and looked into the distance.
Go. With the illumination of the moonlight, he could clearly see the bright lights in the center of the village in the distance, which should be the location of the German army's headquarters.
"Comrade Battalion Commander," Tavlin saw Golia holding the telescope and looking non-stop, and couldn't help but curiously asked: "Comrade Battalion Commander, have you seen clearly where the enemy's headquarters is?"
Golia continued to observe and said: "I only saw a few wooden houses in the middle of the village that were brightly lit, but I couldn't tell which one was the headquarters."
Just when Golya felt embarrassed, Minishki, the artillery soldier responsible for launching rockets, suddenly said: "Comrade Battalion Commander, can you let me come and take a look?"
"Where can you find the enemy's headquarters?" Although Golya expressed doubts about Minishki's statement, considering that he would need to destroy the enemy's headquarters later, he would be needed to aim and launch, so he put his hand
He handed him the telescope inside: "Okay, Comrade Minishki, you come and try it."
Minishki took the telescope from Golya's hand, looked at the village in the distance for a short time, and then said: "Comrade Battalion Commander, I have found the location of the German headquarters."
"What, you found it so quickly?" Golia asked in surprise: "I saw five or six wooden houses with lights on, and you were able to find them so quickly?"
"Yes, Comrade Battalion Commander." Minishki said in a positive tone: "It is very easy to find the enemy's headquarters. You only need to see which wooden house has an antenna on the roof and whether there is a sentry standing guard at the door."
"Based on these two points alone, I'm afraid it would be difficult to prove that the German commander was in that room." Golia was skeptical of Minishki's statement: "If the enemy has a separate communication room, there will be an antenna on the roof.
, there will also be sentries posted at the door."
"Except for the two points I just mentioned," Minishki continued without putting down the telescope: "I saw a motorcycle with a sidecar parked in front of the wooden house on the left, and a man with a big
After the officer in the brimmed hat got off the sidecar and before entering the wooden house, he was interrogated by the sentry at the door."
After Minishki's explanation, Golya immediately concluded that the room must be where the German commander was. He asked tentatively: "Minishki, are you sure you can hit the target at such a distance?
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"Comrade Battalion Commander, if we had more rockets, I would be sure to destroy the target at such a long distance." Minishki put down the telescope and frowned and said, "But we only have four rockets. If we want to
To destroy the target, you must get closer to the village."
The reason Golya wanted Minishki to destroy the target four or five kilometers away was because he found that there were many German patrols near the village. He was worried that if they were too close to the village, it would be difficult to escape if the enemy discovered them. At this moment, he heard
When Minishki said this, he had to reconsider Sokov's order and fire rockets at the enemy's headquarters a kilometer or two away from the village.
Thinking of this, Golia said to the driver: "Continue driving towards the village. When you are one or two kilometers away, find a hidden place to stop the car. Do you understand?"
"I understand, comrade battalion commander," the driver replied.
The armored vehicle drove forward for some distance and stopped in a small forest on the roadside. The driver said to Golia: "Comrade Battalion Commander, if you drive further, there will be no cover and it will be easy to be discovered by the enemy."
"Minishki," Golya said to Minishki when he saw that the distance was almost there, "We will set up a launch site here."
Everyone got down from the carriage, found a flat place, and helped set up the two launch tubes on a special tripod. After setting up the launch tubes, Minishki came to be responsible for determining the target and waiting for the target to be aimed at a distance.
Behind the wooden house, soldiers helped load the rockets into the launch tubes.
Seeing that Minishki was ready to launch, Golya suddenly waved his hand down and shouted: "Launch!"
After hearing Golya's order, Minishki pressed the launch button, and the two rockets left the launch tube and roared towards the small village in the distance.