Chapter 477 Retreat

The First Infantry Regiment once again repelled the Soviet attack.

During the interval of the battle, Kuhn said to Dominic: "You are right, Sergeant, they are endless just like you said, we seem to never be able to kill them all!"

"What's worse is that our ammunition is running out!" The baker shouted: "But they didn't send us any ammunition!"

"You know!" Dominic said: "They are more concerned about their own troops, so..."

Dominic's words made everyone's heart "click" for a while, which means... The First Infantry Regiment was a forgotten unit on the Eastern Front.

"Captain, is that so?" Werner asked.

"What?" Qin Chuan pretended to be confused.

"Dominic said!" Werner explained: "We are a new unit and may be forgotten by them!

"I don't think so!" Qin Chuan replied: "Because I gave them a few pieces of bread, at least the guys who swallowed the bread must still remember me! "

The soldiers couldn't help but burst into laughter, but there was a bit of bitterness in their laughter.

"Woo" There was a whistling sound of artillery shells in the sky, and then the shells exploded around with a "boom boom", and several dead trees fell down helplessly in the roar of the shells.

A few minutes later, the sound of artillery stopped, and Qin Chuan climbed out of the snow pile. Seeing that the Soviet army did not launch an attack, he frowned.

The next second, he ran to the command post in a cave a few dozen meters behind with a rifle and slid in along the slope of the cave entrance.

"Captain, is the situation okay!" Colonel Slaine asked when he saw Qin Chuan.

"Colonel!" Qin Chuan said: "I think we have to retreat!"

"But we didn't get the order to retreat!" Colonel Slaine was a little helpless.

"If we continue to stay here, it will only be a dead end!" Qin Chuan said.

"Why? "Colonel Slaine asked.

Qin Chuan replied: "The enemy did not charge after a round of artillery fire just now... This is very unusual!"

Colonel Slaine nodded when he heard this. The Soviet army had only charged after firing mortars before, but this time they fired howitzers but did not charge. It was indeed a bit strange.

"This shows that their artillery has come up!" Qin Chuan replied: "And they are still gathering. I guess... the artillery shells just now were to test whether our fortifications are strong enough, or to test whether we have artillery coordination!"

Colonel Slaine looked at Qin Chuan with surprise when he heard this: "If our fortifications are strong enough, they can only charge. Otherwise, they will gather more shells and artillery to blow us to pieces? ! "

"Yes!" Qin Chuan said: "They obviously got the result they wanted!"

So Colonel Slaine no longer hesitated and immediately ordered: "Retreat, retreat immediately! "

Of course, the retreat of the First Infantry Regiment was not a one-off retreat... A one-off retreat is not a retreat, but a "rout", which would definitely be a tragedy on the battlefield, because the enemy's skiers, tanks, shells, etc. would soon follow from behind, and the German soldiers would also expose their backs to the enemy.

The First Infantry Regiment fired a row of shells at the opposite side... The ammunition at this time was very precious to the German army, but they still had to do it.

While firing the shells, they also mixed in a few smoke bombs. At this time, the main force withdrew from the position, but there were still a few small teams left in the trenches to fire a few shots to confuse the enemy.

After a while, the small unit withdrew from the position again carefully... Even if the Soviet army discovered the small unit's withdrawal, it would not arouse suspicion. It was normal for a few people to retreat from the front line.

Qin Chuan guessed correctly. Just as the First Infantry Regiment withdrew from the position, there were bursts of fierce bombing in the rear.

"Quick! "Colonel Slain ordered loudly: "We must enter the woods before they react!"

Colonel Slain was right, because there was an open space before the woods, and the German army could easily be hunted down by the Soviet army that followed.

This was not a big problem, because the woods were only two kilometers away, and it would only take more than ten minutes in North Africa.

But this is snow, and the thickness of the snow is more than knee-deep. More importantly, you don't know what is covered under the snow. It may be a pit, or it may be a protruding stone. So everyone took one deep step and one shallow step, and moved forward clumsily in the snow like a gorilla.

The artillery fire in the rear stopped after ten minutes, and then there was another roar... Those Soviet fools obviously thought that the German army stayed on the other side of the river, so they launched a charge again.

But this was nothing to be thankful for for the First Infantry Regiment, because they still had half the distance to enter the forest.

"Second Company!" Qin Chuan answered and looked at it, then shouted: "Hide where you are! "

Without saying anything, he lay down in the snow and buried himself.

The soldiers of the second company immediately understood Qin Chuan's meaning, and followed his example to hide themselves with their own camouflage. Some soldiers from other companies even took the initiative to use the accumulated snow to help the soldiers of the second company who had flaws to camouflage themselves when they passed by.

Qin Chuan, who was lying in the snow, only felt bursts of piercing cold coming from all around. Even with gloves on his hands, he was still almost unconscious from the cold. This made Qin Chuan feel a little insecure, because it would make him lose his sensitivity to the force when pulling the trigger, which meant that his reaction became slow.

But Qin Chuan knew that this was secondary. What was more important was that a certain part of the rifle would not freeze and fail to fire... So Qin Chuan could only use both hands to protect the bolt part and try to keep it warm.

On the battlefield, a rifle is often your life.

After a while, the sound of skiing came from the front.

Qin Chuan guessed correctly. The first to catch up were indeed skiers. If the First Infantry Regiment was entangled by this team of skiers and could not enter the forest smoothly, the consequences would be disastrous.

However, these Soviet skiers obviously did not expect that there would be people hiding in this piece of white snow, and there were quite a few of them.

They rushed down the slope at the fastest speed, and some even slid down while holding submachine guns and shooting in the direction of the retreating First Infantry Regiment... PPSh submachine gun, the Soviet army's close combat weapon, many German soldiers in World War II would rather throw away their MP40 and replace it, not only because of its large ammunition capacity, but also because of its reassuring safety in severe cold temperatures.

However, they will soon pay the price for their carelessness.