"Come back, you fools, come back quickly." Kalugin saw his men scrambling out of the trenches and running towards the Germans in the distance. He immediately realized that this was Soko
Seeing his husband's trick, he shouted to his subordinates desperately: "Don't run around. If you run out like this, you will die!"
Although Kalugin's voice was almost hoarse from shouting, the soldiers under him ran towards the Germans without looking back after climbing out of the trench. No one paid him any attention. The idea of these soldiers was very simple.
As long as he escaped back to the Germans, his life would be saved.
Since sending the Eastern Battalion to infiltrate the Soviet positions was a top-secret task, not many people knew about it except for a few German officers. These oncoming German soldiers suddenly saw a group of enemies jumping out of the trenches in front of them.
He instinctively stops and shoots in a standing, semi-crouching or lying position.
The soldiers of the Eastern Battalion who thought they had escaped never dreamed that the Germans would actually shoot at them. When many of them fell down, their last thought was: Why did they shoot at us! However,
, no one will tell them the answer, they can only leave this world with regrets.
Seeing the soldiers of the Eastern Battalion who escaped from the trenches all fell under the gunfire of the Germans, Samoylov felt very happy. He withdrew the pistol that was on Kalugin's head and pushed the opponent hard.
He said disdainfully: "Now, get out of our position quickly."
Kalugin crawled out of the trench on his hands and knees and ran towards the German army on the opposite side. In order to prevent him from becoming an unjust death like his subordinates, he waved his hands desperately while running, and said in his mouth
He shouted loudly: "Don't shoot, don't shoot, we are our own people, our own people!"
When he shouted, he forgot that he was shouting in Russian, but none of the ordinary German soldiers on the opposite side could understand what he was shouting. A German soldier holding a rifle shouted at him:
"Stop. If you don't stop, I will shoot."
The German soldiers did not understand Russian. Although Kalugin was a member of the Eastern Battalion, he also did not understand German and continued to shout and run towards the Germans. When the German soldiers saw that Kalugin did not listen to his warning, he continued to run towards them.
He ran forward and pulled the trigger without hesitation. The first shot missed, and the second shot hit Kalugin in the abdomen.
Kalugin, who was running, suddenly paused, then covered his abdomen with both hands, staggered forward a few steps with a painful expression, turned around in a circle at any time, and slowly fell to the ground.
After a few twitches, there was no more movement.
When Samoylov saw the enemy walking towards the position again, he shouted: "Three rows, prepare to fight!" In fact, even if he didn't shout, the soldiers in the third row were already ready to fight.
Waiting for his order, you can fire at the German troops who enter the range.
Standing on the hill, Yakov saw that all the soldiers of the Eastern Battalion fell to the gunfire of the Germans in just a few minutes. He couldn't help but slap Sokov on the shoulder with excitement.
Said: "Misha, your idea is really great. You let the soldiers of the Eastern Battalion run towards the Germans, making them think they could escape; but the Germans saw a group of soldiers wearing our military uniforms.
When the soldiers rushed out of the trenches, they did not realize that these people were carrying weapons instead of holding them in their hands. They would instinctively regard these people as enemies and shoot."
"Yakov, the Germans will soon realize that they killed the wrong person." Sokov pouted at the German officers and soldiers in the distance and said, "Look, someone is already checking the corpses."
After easily eliminating dozens of "Soviet soldiers" who rushed out, the German battalion commander realized that something was wrong, so he ordered the troops to temporarily stop advancing and sent one of his most trusted corporals to take five soldiers to inspect the bodies.
. Several German soldiers responsible for examining the corpses came to the middle of the pile of corpses and searched for the documents in the corpse's pockets, trying to figure out which part they belonged to.
One of the German soldiers casually picked up the Mosin Nagant rifle on the ground, pulled the bolt and saw that there was no bullet in the chamber. He felt something was wrong, so he quickly picked up another Mosin Nagant and pulled it open again.
He opened the gun bolt and found that there was still no bullet. He quickly shouted to his companion: "Damn it, something seems wrong."
After hearing this, the corporal leading the team asked: "What happened?"
The German soldier replied: "Corporal, look, there are no bullets in these guns. How could the Russians charge at us with rifles without bullets?"
Upon hearing this, the corporal felt an ominous feeling in his heart, and quickly ordered the other soldiers: "Look at the other guns, are there no bullets in them?"
Upon hearing the corporal's order, the soldiers also picked up their rifles and pulled the bolts to check. Soon, they all reported to the corporal: "Corporal, there are no bullets in the guns I checked."
"Corporal, there are no bullets in the guns I picked up here."
After hearing the report from his subordinates, the corporal was full of doubts. He quickly ran back to the battalion commander with an empty gun and reported respectfully: "Mr. Major, the situation seems a little wrong. We just eliminated him."
There are no bullets in the weapons used by these Russians." After that, he handed over the Mosin Nagant in his hand.
The German battalion commander took the Mosin Lagan rifle, pulled the bolt and took a look, and found that there was indeed no bullet in the chamber. He got closer and smelled it. There was no smell of gunpowder, indicating that the gun had never been used. He looked at it
The corporal asked: "Corporal, are there no bullets in all the guns?"
"Yes, Mr. Major." The corporal replied truthfully: "We checked more than twenty Mosin-Nagant rifles and found that there were no bullets in all the chambers."
"Strange, what is going on?" The German battalion commander said to himself: "Have the Russians run out of ammunition, so that they have to let the soldiers come up with empty guns to fight us?"
"I don't think so." The corporal said cautiously: "Mr. Major, look, there are many people on the position over there. If they really have to charge us because they have run out of ammunition, then
We won’t send just this few people. This is not common sense at all.”
"You make sense." The German battalion commander nodded and said: "There must be some reason for them to charge with these empty guns. Unfortunately, there is no one in our camp who understands Russian. Otherwise, we can listen to the Russians
What are they shouting about?"
As soon as the German battalion commander finished speaking, a possibility suddenly occurred to him. He hurriedly called the radio operator who was following him and ordered him: "Contact the regiment headquarters immediately to eliminate a group of German forces.
news and report to them.”
Ten minutes later, the call back from the regiment headquarters arrived. After the German battalion commander read the above content, he couldn't help being dumbfounded. He said to the corporal standing in front of him with a bit of laughter: "Comrade corporal, I think we may
We hit the wrong people, these people who were just wiped out were not Russians."
"Not Russians?" When the corporal heard this, he couldn't help but asked confusedly: "But, Mr. Major, they wear Russian military uniforms and carry Russian standard weapons. How could they not be Russians?"
"Corporal, I just received a call from the regiment headquarters." The German battalion commander explained to the corporal: "They said they sent a small unit from the Eastern Battalion to pretend to be Russians and sneak into the Russian defense line, waiting until we launch an attack.
, cooperate with us inside and outside to achieve the goal of seizing the Russian position."
"What, we just killed all our own people?" The corporal was frightened by what the German battalion commander said: "What should we do if our superiors want to pursue us?"
"What else can we do?" the German battalion commander said with a grimace: "If my superiors want to pursue the case, I will bear all the responsibilities."
Seeing that the battalion commander took the initiative to take on all responsibilities, the German corporal breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at the prepared Soviet commanders and soldiers in the trenches in the distance, knowing that he had to fight without the cover of artillery fire and tanks.
It was obviously impossible to seize such a position, so he asked again: "Mr. Major, will our attack continue?"
The German battalion commander had the same idea as the corporal. He felt that it was impossible for the troops to seize the Russian position without the cover of tanks and artillery, so he decisively ordered: "The offensive operation is cancelled, and everyone returns to where they were."
The starting point of the attack.”
When the German soldiers saw the Soviet troops a few hundred meters away, they were already ready for battle. However, without the support of tanks and artillery, if they wanted to seize such a position, they had little hope of success. Therefore, they heard that the battalion
Despite the retreat order given by the commander, if they dared to stop anywhere, they retreated backwards with their guns in hand.
Sokov originally thought that the German soldiers would continue to attack, but there were too few troops in the area defended by the third row and might not be able to block the enemy. He was considering whether to transfer some troops from the guard camp to strengthen the area defended by the third row. At this moment, he saw from
The enemy attacking from the south actually began to retreat. Although I couldn't guess what the German commander was thinking, it was a good thing for him that the enemy did not attack. As long as there was no war, more effective forces could be saved to participate in the breakout.
Combat.
Looking at the German troops retreating like an ebb tide, Yakov couldn't help but say with emotion: "It's a pity that we don't have artillery on our position, otherwise a few blasts of artillery fire would cause a lot of casualties to the attacking enemy."
"Don't add unnecessary trouble." Regarding Yakov's statement, Sokov did not agree: "Even if we have artillery on our position, we cannot shoot at the enemy. Our field fortifications are too simple. If we attract German artillery fire,
We will pay a huge price for revenge. If everyone dies, what kind of troops will we use to break out?"