Five Hundred and Thirteen Ruins

Driving at night is dangerous, as anyone who has driven a car knows. But what if you drive a car at night to fight a battle? Is it more dangerous? The No. 115 tank took the lead, followed by Rennes' No. 113 tank, and then Marcus's No. 112 tank was in the rear. The first tank covered four armored personnel carriers and seven trucks and marched slowly towards their target. .

Soon they advanced a few kilometers along the rugged road to the outskirts of the ruined town. The German infantry began to set up mortars next to the tanks, which was their support weapon.

After a brief allocation, the German infantry began to form its own battle formation. Two platoons of a company were responsible for entering the town from one side, and then sweeping nearby buildings to establish an offensive support point. After this support point is established, almost 100 German troops on the front will start to attack again.

After getting ready, the German soldiers began to approach the houses near the town. These soldiers jumped over the fence, rushed across the potholed lawn, and ran towards their target under the faint moonlight. They bent over and carried their guns, from time to time Also move two steps laterally.

Soon these soldiers approached the building, their backs leaning against the cold wall, gasping for breath from the violent running. However, it can be seen that the eyes of each of these soldiers are full of joy, because the process of approaching these targets is so simple for them.

The fighting and storming that had been prepared were useless. The Soviet defenders here did not seem to have been strengthened. These inexperienced opponents seemed to be sleeping at this moment, and did not notice that the German soldiers had approached so close. at a distance.

A German soldier walked around the house behind him with his rifle in hand. The building was obviously not destroyed by the bombing and was quite well preserved. He cautiously approached the gate, and under the cover of his comrades-in-arms, rushed into the seemingly deserted room.

An old man was sitting in the owner's seat of the living room, looking at the German soldiers who came in. The two sides stood there in a daze. After a stalemate for about a few seconds, the old man spoke first: "Those Russians have already escaped. They're all Ukrainians."

"Those Russians withdrew?" The German soldier who rushed into the house was taken aback, then put down his weapon: "When did they withdraw?"

The old man's answer was also very straightforward, without any concealment: "After your plane bombed, the original company here withdrew. They left in a hurry, and there was no explosives to damage the bridge in the town."

The bridges have been saved, and it seems that today's luck is really good, and everyone is obviously relieved. The first German soldier who entered the house picked up his rifle, looked at the poor and desolate house, and did not continue to ask any questions.

The Ukrainians here are oppressed by the Russians very bleakly,

No wonder they didn't even hate the Germans who had just bombed here, because in their eyes, it seemed that the Germans had come to liberate them.

"Platoon leader! This old man said that the Soviet Red Army retreated." Behind him, another German soldier turned his head and said to the German officer who followed behind.

"You still have you! Take a few soldiers and check every area here." The platoon leader immediately arranged for soldiers to check the entire town. Then I found another soldier and asked him to go out to find the radio station he was carrying, and tell the friendly troops waiting for the results outside that there were no enemies here.

Soon a dozen German soldiers entered the town from the front. After deploying some cover along the road, several German soldiers approached the center of the town. After confirming that there were no Soviet troops, German trucks and armored vehicles entered the small town. The square in the center of the town stopped around the fountain in the middle.

It didn't take long for the German army to thoroughly check the town and found that there were indeed no Soviet troops here. Then in the middle of the night, the German army set up their own defensive positions and arranged a ring of fortifications around them. They spent the middle of the night digging a few trenches, and then ushered in the morning sun of the next day.

No one expected that a well-prepared and risky attack would turn into a march without any danger. Early the next morning, the German army began to prepare breakfast for themselves. It could be seen that everyone, whether it was tank troops or infantry, was delighted that there was no fighting last night.

"Good morning!" Coming out of the tent, Alice rubbed her eyes and greeted Ren who was gargling.

After spitting out the mouthwash, Ren yawned and replied, "Morning!"

It’s not that they didn’t want to sleep in the building last night. Unfortunately, there are so many grenadiers without tents. The tank soldiers with relatively good conditions have to give priority to the vacant houses vacated by a limited number of locals to those who are tired. Grenadiers who stayed up most of the night.

They had only slept for more than two hours now, so most of them were still asleep. The early morning in April was still a bit cold. Alice felt the cold and shivered involuntarily.

Ren saw Alice clenching her arms and trembling, and wanted to walk over, but found that he really didn't have anything like a coat to hand to Alice, so he couldn't help but smiled wryly, so he had to give up. Then he saw a motorcycle coming from a distance, which seemed to be a reconnaissance unit directly under the battalion headquarters.

Soon the motorcycles in the distance gradually approached, and a German soldier came to Rennes with the roar of the engine: "Sir! The Soviet troops were found 5 kilometers away. There are about 300 people. It should be a battalion. There may be other Soviet troops behind, we dare not approach."

"Have you reported to the battalion headquarters?" Ren frowned and asked this comrade who came to "report the funeral" early in the morning. You said you found something wrong? For example, if you find a group of pigs, a mountain, or a truckload of gold coins, do you have to find the last enemy army?

"It has been reported to the battalion headquarters, but I am worried that the nearby troops did not turn on the radio, so I am responsible for delivering this important news!" The soldier on the motorcycle replied.

Ren sighed, asked the soldier to mark the opponent's marching line on the map, and roughly estimated the contact time, then let the soldier continue to remind other troops to stay alert. Alice desperately found two company commanders near the town and told them the amazing news.

"It can't be the collapse of the Soviet Union, right? This kind of thing doesn't necessarily mean that the other party came to retake the town." A company commander said with a fluke mentality. He just didn't want his troops to face a tough battle, and he wasn't really naive enough to think that the other side was just here to surrender.

Ren shook his head, pointed to the location on the map and said: "The troop found by the scouting troop here is neat and there is no sign of disintegration. And it is said that every soldier is equipped with a weapon, which is obviously unusual. army."

"Are there any tanks?" Staring at the area pointed by Rennes on the map, another German company commander asked: "They are coming straight from the west, there is woodland and a small open space there, if they have tanks, we will Trouble."

"Leave the issue of tanks to us." Ren thought for a while and said, "I will snipe at the tank units that the opponent may have in the forest. But we also need cover. Arranging a squad of troops for us is the minimum requirement. "

The two company commanders nodded together, and then promised: "We will pick some good soldiers and send them to you, with two machine guns and an anti-tank team."

Ren was also unambiguous, and immediately took Alice back to his tank, woke up Bruce and Bowman who were still sleeping, found Andre who was walking by the river, and began to prepare for the tank battle.

It didn't take long for the whole town to become busy. More than 50 German troops began to enter their defensive positions in the west. They deepened some trenches and buried the few landmines they carried in the open space ahead. Fired two shells to adjust the angle and coordinates of the mortar.

These soldiers couldn't be more familiar with the pre-war preparations. In their eyes, complicated and trivial things are clear and simple. They wipe down the guns and lubricate them in places to keep these murderous weapons in better condition. They checked the bayonet and put it in the most convenient position, so that it could be used immediately in a crisis.

Ammunition boxes were distributed to units, opened and scraped by soldiers. The grenades were stacked neatly beside them, and in the open space not far away, several smokers gathered together, cherishing the good time of the last cigarette before the war.

Ren took his first tank and a squad of infantry into the edge of the woodland, where they chose a better position and set up their sniper positions. The tanks were arranged in an angular shape, aiming the 88mm cannons at the possible positions of Soviet tanks.

They also found some camouflage and piled some dirt and twigs in front of the tank for cover. These German tanks themselves were painted with a simple camouflage, so now they are more integrated with the surrounding environment as a whole.

And the infantry squad was arranged on the high slope behind the tank, and was responsible for dealing with the Soviet infantry and tanks that came around. Of course, they were only responsible for covering and reminding, and it was impossible to really block the Soviet tanks that circled behind.

Soon Ren used a telescope to discover the advancing Soviet troops. The densely packed soldiers had begun to slowly spread out. The reconnaissance troops obviously said that the number of this enemy army was reduced. Roughly speaking, there were at least 500 of them.