Chapter 478 Group Army

Qin Chuan suddenly stood up from the snow, pointed his gun at a Soviet skier who was rushing in front of him and pulled the trigger.

With a "bang" sound, the bullet hit the opponent's forehead. The Soviet soldier raised his head and fell straight on the snow, but still slid to Qin Chuan's side due to inertia.

Another Soviet soldier realized the danger. He wanted to stop and take the gun, but he couldn't stop. He still rushed towards Qin Chuan at high speed and was knocked to the ground by Qin Chuan's gun butt.

A skier holding a PPSh submachine gun pointed the muzzle at Qin Chuan. Qin Chuan hurriedly grabbed the Soviet soldier's body and turned it over, and at the same time his head shrank... "Hua Hua Hua" a row of dense bullets hit the body, and the snowflakes around him also flew everywhere.

The PPSh submachine gun uses pistol bullets. Although the firing rate is fast and the bullets are dense, the penetration is not good, which also allows Qin Chuan to escape.

Then, the soldiers of the second company stood up from the snow one after another at that moment. Gunfire rang out, and the Soviet skiers fell down one by one with screams. The assault gunners were especially powerful. A string of bullets from their MP40s "da da da" knocked a group of skiers to the ground in a few seconds.

Skiing is indeed fast, but because the feet are unstable and you have to hold the ski poles, it is often difficult to raise the gun and shoot. Even if you can barely shoot, it is difficult to grasp the target. So the difference was immediately determined. After a few minutes, the more than 100 Soviet skiers who caught up were cleanly solved.

"Take off their ski equipment!" Qin Chuan ordered, "It will be useful!"

"Yes, Captain!" The soldiers took off the ski poles from the bodies of the Soviet soldiers as quickly as possible. Werner and several other submachine gunners also picked up a PPSh submachine gun and confiscated several magazines and drums in one go... The Germans were running out of ammunition, especially the submachine gunners, who were in a more severe ammunition crisis. Now they had to pick up enemy equipment to use.

Seeing that the Soviet army was catching up from behind, Qin Chuan hurriedly ordered a retreat. Behind him, rows of mortar shells and machine gun bullets were chasing. Snow blocks were blown up into the sky and then turned into snow powder and fell down, just like snow.

Fortunately, the Germans organized mortars at the edge of the forest to suppress the Soviet army, which allowed the second company to enter the jungle safely.

"Good job!" Bazel was waiting in the forest area. When he saw Qin Chuan, he ordered: "Continue to retreat westward. The colonel is waiting there!"

"Yes, Major!" Qin Chuan responded and continued to walk deeper into the jungle with the soldiers.

Everyone was out of breath. Compared with marching in the desert, marching in the snow was less hot and thirsty, but without a thick cotton jacket, it would not be difficult to move because of the snow layer, which would consume a lot of physical energy of the soldiers.

"I... I'm already missing the desert!" Werner panted while running.

"Me too!" The baker was also panting: "Including the mosquitoes there!"

"Please!" Dominic said: "When you go to the desert, you will miss this place again!"

The soldiers couldn't help laughing. Seeing their comrades waiting in front of them, they sat down to rest. Some simply lay on the ground, stretched their hands and feet, and breathed the air greedily.

Qin Chuan stumbled to Colonel Slaine and called out, "Colonel!"

Colonel Slaine, who was looking at the map, nodded, then frowned and said to Qin Chuan, "Those idiots, they never believed that there were so many Soviets here!"

"So..."

"They still let us hold on!" Colonel Slaine replied, "But they agreed to airdrop supplies to us!"

"They will find out!" Qin Chuan said, "If they really airdrop supplies to us!"

Colonel Slaine nodded in agreement. After all, the Soviets did not disguise themselves. It was afternoon again. It was easy for the plane to find Soviet tanks, artillery and a large number of infantry when it flew here.

Colonel Slaine and Qin Chuan were right. Soon when the transport plane airdropped supplies to the First Infantry Regiment, the pilots indeed found a large number of Soviet troops, but the result was not what they thought...

The person who carried out this airdrop mission was an Air Force second lieutenant. Today was the tenth time he took off with his subordinates to carry out airdrops for friendly forces.

But when he flew over the target location, he was shocked by what he saw. The place he could see was densely packed with Soviet troops, and there were bursts of gunfire near the forest.

The subordinate asked the lieutenant: "Are we airdropping supplies to our own people or the Soviets? The friendly forces may have been annihilated by the Soviets!"

"Don't worry about it!" The lieutenant replied: "What if they are still alive and urgently need this batch of supplies?"

The lieutenant hurriedly dropped the supplies and reported the situation to the headquarters.

Treskov hurriedly took the telegram into Kruger's office.

Kruger was talking to Hoth, the commander of the Third Panzer Army. He was about to ask Treskov to wait, but he didn't expect Treskov to cut off Kruger's phone.

"I think you should look at this more, Marshal!" Treskov handed over the telegram.

Kruger took the telegram and looked at it. His face turned pale. Then he looked at Treskov in disbelief and asked, "The First Infantry Regiment?"

"Yes!" Treskov nodded, "The First Infantry Regiment!"

Then Colonel Slaine soon received a call from Kruger himself.

"Sorry, Colonel!" Kruger said, "Our intelligence was wrong and we didn't realize the seriousness of the problem!"

"Uh-huh!" Colonel Slain said, "So, we can retreat? Give us a retreat plan, Marshal! You know, we know nothing about this place!"

"No, Colonel!" Kruger replied, "I don't think you can retreat!"

"What do you mean?" Colonel Slain asked.

"Listen to me..." Kruger said, "You are not facing a division, but an army!"

Colonel Slain was so surprised when he heard this that he almost dropped the microphone.

"An army?" Colonel Slain asked back, "And we only have one regiment, and you just let us drop an infantry regiment on the front of an army?!"

"Sorry, Colonel!" Kruger replied, "We didn't expect the Soviets to gather so many troops here and launch a surprise attack, and you just happened to be on their offensive route!"

"Oh, great!" Colonel Slain said, "What an interesting coincidence! So, Marshal, tell me why we can't retreat!"