Two Hundred and Forty-Two Small Villages Compete

Boroll originally wanted to use grenades to kill the Dutch soldiers in the church, but seeing the noisy anti-aircraft artillery emplacement, Boroll changed his mind. He turned his head and whispered to the soldiers beside him: "I'll rush in and solve the problem." Dutch soldiers here, you go and move the machine gun position, come here and find me. (Starter) understand?"

"Sir? Are you going in alone?" The soldier frowned and said, "I don't know how many Dutch soldiers are here. It's too dangerous for you to go in alone."

"Our troops are insufficient. If the Dutch on the anti-aircraft artillery position know that we have taken their back, they are likely to pose a threat to us." Boroll explained: "If we don't use grenades to get rid of here , the Dutch over there may not know that we have called."

Nodding his head, the soldier returned to the place where they started, and Bolor opened the door of the church carefully, and found more than 20 pairs of eyes staring at him in horror.

The atmosphere was a little awkward, indescribably weird. Boller pointed a ten-shot rifle at a room full of Dutchmen. These people are old people and children, all staring at Boroll who came in, a little boy struggled to shout, but his grandma covered his mouth.

Bolor raised his feet and walked forward. These people avoided his gun. He didn't speak, and those people didn't make a sound. Just like that, Boroll passed through these people and came to the Next to the stairs.

He glanced back at these old people and children, and confirmed that these people did not intend to come up to fight, so he raised his gun and pointed it up the stairs, and walked up the stairs slowly. The old stairs creaked, but it was not harsh because of the gunfire outside.

Climbing up the steps step by step, Boroll finally came to the second floor. The scene in front of him made him heave a sigh of relief, because there were two Dutch soldiers lying on the floor, obviously they had been dead for a long time. The machine gun took one man directly in the jaw, and the other had his bad luck following along with him leaning against a hole-ridden plank wall.

He put down the muzzle of his gun and walked over to take a closer look at the two dead Dutch soldiers. The scene was too bloody and made his stomach churn, but he still pushed the muzzle of the gun against the corpses lying on the ground to confirm the situation Are the two dead or not? He found a chair and sat down at the table, glanced at the broken teacup and the half-cut coffeepot.

Apparently the two were just sitting here quite comfortably, as he was now - ready to drink coffee and go about their normal day. Borol lit a cigarette, put it in his mouth, took a puff and exhaled the smoke, followed by grabbing the half piece of bread left on the table, put it under his nose and sniffed it, unceremoniously I ate it.

When he was halfway through eating, Baloo came up. Obviously this place has been fully controlled by the German army, and soon they will face an anti-aircraft artillery position about a hundred meters away.

There were also a dozen Dutch soldiers in that position.

"The following are the residents of this village. They hid in the church in order to avoid the air attack." Ballu pointed to the downstairs and said, "There is about a row of Dutch defenders in the village. We eliminated seven of them, and the remaining More than 20 down."

While speaking, the deputy squad leader came in with two soldiers, one with gauze wrapped around his face, like a revived mummy, and the other a platoon medical soldier with a white identification mark wrapped around his arm, There is a conspicuous red cross on it.

"The opponent's strength doesn't seem to be enough. They have assigned a lot of people to set up defensive positions around the village. There was a machine gun team of 5 people at the entrance of the village just now, and there are 2 people standing guard here..." Boroll looked on the table. Several torn books showed a floor plan of a village: "They had about 12 men operating that anti-aircraft gun, and there was a heavy machine gun there as a cover."

As he spoke, he pointed to the outskirts of the village: "They should still have two machine guns here and here, and they won't be enough to pose a threat to us for a while... The critical question now is, maybe that damn high The guns can be fired flat, and once they do that, we're done."

"Then what should we do?" the deputy monitor asked, staring at the books on the table.

"Here, set up a machine gun position, and suppress their machine guns in one breath." Boroll pointed to one of the books and said, "It's in this house not far from them, and leave there immediately after firing for 20 seconds. Go back to the commanding heights here, and fire again on the roof."

Then he pointed to the gap between the other two books: "There is a small alley here. If you are lucky, the Dutch should not have deployed defenses here. We can go through and destroy this Dutch army. This high "shot" Behind the artillery position is a beautiful house, and the Dutch commander is probably in the house. Take the anti-aircraft artillery position and go inside to check it out."

"This is the only way to do it. There is no news from the platoon leader, so we can only act alone here." The deputy squad leader nodded and said.

Now that their numbers have been strengthened, and both wounded soldiers have returned to the ranks, so that they have 9 soldiers, the difference in numbers does not seem to be so obvious. Boroll arranged their basic tactics. A G43 rifleman covered the mg42 machine gun, fired first in front of the Dutch anti-aircraft artillery position, and immediately moved the position after a while. The rest of the people followed him to form an assault team, sneaked from the alley, approached the Dutch anti-aircraft gun position and wiped out all the enemy troops inside.

"Let's start setting up." After Boroll assigned the task, everyone started to act. Everyone gathered the grenades to the assault team, and then went to their own assault locations. As for these terrified Dutch civilians, leave them to The only medical soldier who has no assigned tasks is under custody, and there is a time limit for custody. Once a firefight occurs, the medical soldiers will rush to the direction of the assault team.

Boroll led the men to the designated attack position. They could see the Dutch anti-aircraft guns over there firing violently at the sky through the alley. Fortunately, these Dutchmen did not know that one of their machine gun positions had already been fired. Killed by German paratroopers, they still focused on shooting in the sky.

Soon, the unique sound of German machine guns sounded, and the Dutch position was beaten to dust. The Dutch soldiers began to fight back violently, but they didn't mean to use anti-aircraft guns. They probably thought that their machine gun positions could completely suppress the Germans.

"Attack!" As soon as the words fell, Boroll led his men forward quickly. They quickly approached the Polish position with their guns in hand. At a very close position, Boroll threw away the remaining guns in his hand. The only grenade.

Behind him, the two paratroopers also threw grenades at the Dutch position, but one grenade hit the wall on one side because of the narrow alley, and instead of rolling into the Dutch trench, it fell halfway.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" Three explosions sounded, and Boroll jumped into the trench of the Dutch defenders in the dust. He pulled the trigger, and the G43 made a nice "boom". A wounded Dutch soldier was punched with two holes in his chest and fell to one side with a scream. Borol pointed his gun at a Dutch soldier on the other side, but the G43 rifle jammed.

Steel-cased bullets can reduce the use of copper that is lacking in Germany to make ammunition, but it brings a rather pitiful problem, that is, the flexibility of steel-cased bullets is not as good as copper-cased bullets. The action of extracting the shell is easy to get stuck, causing the gun to malfunction. In addition to the daily maintenance that must be more careful, it also requires the courage to endure the jamming.

Boroll hurriedly threw away the rifle in his hand, drew the p-38 pistol from his waist, and fired three shots at the Dutch soldier. And behind him, two German paratroopers also rushed out of the alley, holding mp-44 assault rifles and firing violently.

More than a dozen Dutch soldiers soon fell in a pool of blood, and even one was killed by a German machine gun in the distance while jumping out of the trench to escape. Only then did they discover that not far from the trench lay the bodies of seven German soldiers.

"My God." Bolor recognized the bodies, one of which was his platoon leader, the commander in charge of leading them to capture the town. Their parachutes were thrown aside, apparently because they had dropped too close to the Dutch position. A man fell to his death directly on the ground because the parachute was punched with a big hole, like a tomato thrown from the balcony of the seventh floor.

Now Boroll finally knows why they took out the Dutch machine guns on the outside, and the people inside didn't notice it. It turned out that they had just dealt with the problem at hand and hadn't had time to check the situation around them.

A German paratrooper with an mp-44 kicked open the door of the beautiful house behind the anti-aircraft gun emplacement. It seemed that he was eager to capture a few Dutch commanders, but then he paid for his recklessness After paying the price, with a clear gunshot, the German paratrooper was shot in the chest and fell straight to the door.

The Dutch soldiers inside shouted and seemed to want to negotiate with the German paratroopers. But Borol and other paratroopers didn't have the patience to negotiate with the murderer who had just killed a German, and they aimed the Bofors 40mm rapid-fire anti-aircraft gun at this beautiful house , fired ten rounds in one go.

The house was turned into ruins by anti-aircraft guns, and there were three people wearing Dutch military officer uniforms inside, one of them still holding a pistol in his hand. The German paratroopers threw another grenade into the ruins, which is considered revenge for their comrades.

After a while, a Dutch soldier holding a white flag walked into the village. He surrendered on behalf of the remaining Dutch people. Ten minutes later, Boroll received his first batch of prisoners, a total of 11 people as much.

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