Chapter 816 Carrying Hope

"Russians, Russians are coming!"

"Support, we have suffered heavy casualties! Where is Team 1!? We need support!"

"Bullets! Who has bullets? Give them to me!"

Fully automatic weapons such as submachine guns and machine guns are indeed very useful in narrow tunnels and can exert good combat power.

But the similar reason that a bitch meets a rapist also applies to war. The tunnel warfare that should have been full of automatic weapons unfortunately encountered a flamethrower, which is an unreasonable thing.

The flamethrower, a war demon created by humans, can be said to be one of the most brutal and inhumane individual weapons in the history of human warfare. Dealing with flamethrowers in open terrain is already a headache. Now facing the flamethrower's tyranny in this narrow underground tunnel, how bad the situation faced by the German army is simply imaginable.

The ruthless flames galloped over a length of more than 30 meters, burning the German soldiers in the tunnel corridor into firemen running around and wailing.

Those who were burned to death on the spot were finally relieved, and those who were not completely burned to death but were on fire had to continue to suffer. The remaining German soldiers who were not on fire but watched their teammates being burned to death were not much better. The huge mental and inner pressure almost crushed them alive!

"I can't stand it! I can't stand it anymore! This is hell. We are sending ourselves to die, not fighting! I'm going to surrender to the Russians. It's too worthless to die like this!"

The bursting of the dam began with the small crack at the beginning. Whether what happened afterwards would get out of control and deteriorate to an irreversible level depends on whether someone can stand up in time to plug the crack.

Fortunately, although the German army is in a critical situation at the moment, there are still people who can stand up and turn the tide at the critical moment.

Bang——

The young armored grenadier who dropped the MP40 submachine gun in his hand had just run a short distance when a gunshot from behind forcibly interrupted his footsteps before he could land again.

The German soldier who was shot in the chest from behind did not even have the strength to struggle to look at the wound, and immediately struggled forward and fell to the ground. He fell to the ground face-first and only struggled a few times before he died. A large amount of blood gushed out of the wound and quickly formed a pool of blood. The other German soldiers who witnessed this terrible scene were so frightened.

"I did what the Russians would definitely do for us! Do you think the Russians will let us go if we surrender like this? If you know the correct answer, you should know what to do next!"

Although the words are simple, the truth is very profound.

Being selected to join the commando team for this mission is almost certainly a one-way, bloody job. These nearly 100 German soldiers may not all be die-hard fanatics of the Führer, but at least they are determined to go there and never return, and have never planned to leave alive from the beginning.

As for the coward who was frightened and dropped his weapon to surrender to the Russians, to put it bluntly, it was just that his psychological endurance was not up to standard, and his determination before departure was crushed by the inhumane flamethrower.

If he was really a coward from the beginning, then this guy would not have come to do this semi-voluntary life-threatening job.

The remaining dozen or so German veterans who responded in silence naturally knew that even if they surrendered now, the group of Russians with flames in their hands would definitely not treat them well and let them go.

Or, the group of Russians on the opposite side had no intention of letting them go, and all the ideas of surrender were just limited to illusory fantasies.

Otherwise, according to the current battle situation, the Russians should have persuaded them to surrender long ago. Until now, they have not said a word and are only focused on advancing and charging forward. Even a fool can see that they do not intend to leave any survivors.

"What should we do? Fight with the Russians?!"

A German veteran who had used up the magazine of his MP40 submachine gun and took out the last spare magazine from the equipment on his chest asked a question with some sadness. The real psychological situation of mixed feelings and not knowing what to do made him really not know what to do at the moment.

"It's death anyway! Rather than dying as a prisoner in the hands of the Russians, I would rather die in battle. I believe that the Führer will treat and take good care of my family! He promised!"

"Maybe we can fight out from the back door, and the teams may have succeeded!"

Those who fanatically believe in the Führer intend to fight to the end, while those who still hold a glimmer of hope in their hearts do not give up the last hope.

After all, the majority of people did not want to die. The remnants of the German army, which had little ammunition left, fought and retreated towards the direction of the combat command hall where Chuikov was, which was the direction of the attack team assigned the main attack mission.

Putting all the eggs in one basket is not a smart thing to do. However, the German army had no choice at the moment and could only entrust the last remaining hope to their teammates and hope for a miracle.

Unfortunately, the goddess of victory did not stand on the side of the Germans this time.

Malashenko, who had more than 400 people under his command, naturally could not order all the troops to rush into the tunnel at once and drill hard. This was a low-level tactical mistake that only a fool would make.

Just as Chuikov and his men were halfway through the retreat from the back door, they ran into the second unit led by Captain Karamov, the chief eunuch, who had come in from the back door tunnel of the army headquarters.

This second unit separated by Malashenko had a small number of people, only a little over a hundred and less than two hundred, and most of the personnel were non-combatants, such as mechanics and repairmen from the field maintenance battalion, plus some civilian staff in Malashenko's regiment headquarters, and even a few survivors of the workers' armed team who picked up weapons for the first time. It was a variety of people.

However, no matter how small the number of people was and how complex the personnel composition was, it was true that there were more than a hundred armed soldiers. The German assault team of only more than 20 people and less than 30 people chased Chuikov all the way. Not far away, they were caught off guard and suddenly ran into the fire ambush point deliberately set up by Captain Karamov and his men. After being shot dead by random guns, they had no choice but to admit defeat on the spot and began to retreat.

Ironically, the idea of ​​the assault team 1 and the idea of ​​the large force behind them are actually the same to some extent.

"As long as we can meet up with the large force, we will definitely be able to fight our way out! Their battle situation must be much better than ours!"