Chapter 623 Candlestick

Qin Chuan led the third company to the other side with the sound of "crunching" of military boots stepping on the gravel on the railway.

There were corpses of Soviet soldiers everywhere. From those corpses, it can be seen that their equipment was very simple, with almost nothing except a rifle and a few bullets... This is not surprising. A large number of Soviet troops were captured during the German attack and suffered casualties in the Battle of Moscow, so many troops were urgently mobilized.

On the other hand, the Soviet industry moved eastward, so it was difficult to replenish the necessary equipment for these urgently mobilized troops.

Qin Chuan believed that if it were not for the certain industrial capacity of Transcaucasia, these soldiers might not even have rifles.

"First and second companies continue to attack!" Qin Chuan ordered: "Third company clear the house!"

"Yes, major!"

Several captains responded and each led their troops forward.

Not far away, several soldiers from the third company threw a grenade into the building, and then rushed in with guns.

After a burst of gunfire, the commander of the third company reported to Qin Chuan: "Major, the room has been cleared!"

"Yes!" Qin Chuan nodded, and walked in with several guards and the commander of the third company. He needed a place as a headquarters to coordinate with other troops and command his subordinates to fight.

Before he stepped into the door, he was greeted by a strong smell of gunpowder and blood, but this was nothing to Qin Chuan. He strode in without hesitation.

Several soldiers dragged the body aside, and the guards covered the gaps between the windows and doors with black cloth, and then turned on the flashlight and put the map and radio...

At this moment, a man suddenly jumped up from the dark ground and "teng" pounced on Qin Chuan. Qin Chuan habitually blocked it. A bright military bayonet was in front of him, only a few centimeters away from his eyes. Qin Chuan could even feel the chill from the military bayonet. The strong smell of alcohol sprayed by the other party's violent breathing almost made Qin Chuan vomit.

The German officers and soldiers shouted and wanted to come up to help, but the Soviet soldier was obviously an expert. He rolled on the floor with all his strength, making it impossible for the Germans to distinguish between the enemy and us.

At that moment, Qin Chuan suddenly realized that he could only rely on himself.

But Qin Chuan had nothing on him... In fact, Qin Chuan had a Walther pistol on his waist, but he couldn't free his hands to use it because Qin Chuan couldn't support it for so long with one hand.

When he was in distress, Qin Chuan saw a candlestick on the table on the left with the help of the flashlight while rolling, so he used a little force to change the direction of the roll...

With a "bang", the two hit the table leg, and the candlestick fell to the ground under the vibration of the table.

Qin Chuan didn't think much, stretched out his hand to grab the candlestick and stabbed the other party with half of the candle on it...

With a scream, Qin Chuan felt that the strength in his hand was a little weaker, but Qin Chuan didn't dare to take it lightly. He still grabbed the candlestick and stabbed the other party again and again until the other party's hand holding the bayonet had completely lost strength.

Qin Chuan stood up from the ground panting, holding a candlestick in his hand. The candle had already broken into pieces, and the tip used to insert the candle was constantly bleeding.

Looking at the stunned officers and soldiers around him, Qin Chuan casually threw the candlestick to the side, making a "clang clang clang" sound.

"Major!" The captain of the third company hurriedly came up and said nervously: "Sorry, it's my fault. I didn't find it..."

"Now is not the time to pursue responsibility, Captain!" Qin Chuan interrupted him: "Continue your work, don't make this mistake again next time!"

"Yes, Major!" The captain of the third company stepped forward to answer.

The captain of the third company is a captain named Fogleman, who is also the youngest of Qin Chuan's company commanders. After graduating from the military academy, he was assigned to the first infantry regiment as a company commander.

In a way, Qin Chuan doesn't like those who become officers right after graduating from military academies, because such officers don't have much combat experience. On the other hand, all German military academies were closed after World War I (because of the Treaty of Versailles), and were not opened until after 1935. As a result, the military knowledge that can be taught to students is very limited, and may even be backward World War I knowledge. For example, the teaching materials for training snipers that Qin Chuan saw before.

But fortunately, at least so far, Captain Fogelman has not seen these, except for occasional small mistakes... but this small mistake almost killed Qin Chuan.

What Qin Chuan didn't know was that the focus of this matter was not these at all, but Qin Chuan's unimaginable sharpness of thinking.

So much so that when the guards spread the news, they sighed:

"Do you think... the major deliberately bumped into the table to get the candlestick?"

"No, that's impossible. You have to know that it was a life-and-death moment. A bayonet in front of him could kill him at any time, but he would think of knocking down the candlestick and using it as his weapon?"

"Whether you believe it or not, we saw it with our own eyes!" The guard replied: "The major changed the direction of the roll, knocked down the candlestick, and then grabbed the candlestick and stabbed it into the eyes of the Bolshevik... The whole action was done in one go without any pause!"

"Yes!" said another guard, "I think the major did it on purpose. None of us reacted at the time. In addition, the light in the room was very dim. If the major did not do it on purpose, he would not have known that the candlestick that fell from the table could be used as a weapon! So there is only one possibility... He saw the candlestick in advance and did it consciously!"

"Unbelievable!" The German soldiers who heard this were stunned.

This is not a question of killing a few people, but a question of being able to seize any opportunity at the critical moment of life and death, or even creating opportunities for yourself when there is no opportunity.

The German soldiers believed that they could not seize or create this opportunity to survive in that situation.

Qin Chuan did not know how he did it. Perhaps, this is a survival instinct.

The next battle was completely under the control of the German army. The three battalions of the First Infantry Regiment attacked the railway station warehouse from three directions.

The two regiments of Soviet soldiers who were resting in several abandoned warehouses were blocked in the warehouse and could not escape. In the end, they could only raise their hands and surrender.

On the other hand, the supplies seized in the warehouses once again enriched the German army's armaments... Mainly the 1st Mountain Division needed to replenish ammunition, because Manstein had contacted the air force in Kerch. In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the 1st Infantry Regiment, they mainly airdropped MP43 ammunition when airdropping supplies.