Chapter 678 Pilot

"The grid you are responsible for starts from No. 10 Street!" Major Stager, a battalion commander of the 60th Motorized Infantry Division who was changing guard with Qin Chuan, introduced to Qin Chuan: "It's right there... Oh, sorry. You may not recognize it as a street. It's right where the tank is!"

"I saw it!" Qin Chuan replied.

To be precise, it was not a tank, but the wreckage of a tank. A body was hanging upside down on the turret. The unlucky guy was obviously shot dead by the Soviets when he was trying to escape.

"The end point is that long building!" Major Stager pointed to a building on the other side and said: "We call it 'Folder'!"

"It's a very vivid name!" Qin Chuan said.

"That's all. Good luck!" Major Stager patted Qin Chuan on the shoulder.

"Wait!" Qin Chuan called out to Major Stagg, who seemed to be in a hurry to leave: "Major, you haven't told me the enemy's situation yet!"

Major Stagg turned around and shrugged helplessly and replied: "Sorry, Major, no one is sure about their situation. You just need to observe every hole in the wall opposite, including doors, windows and cracks, of course, those are where the enemy may appear!"

"In addition!" After walking a few steps, Major Stagg turned around again and added: "I have to remind you that it's almost night now!"

"Thank you, Major Stagg!" Qin Chuan looked helplessly at Major Stagg and his subordinates who were evacuating as if they had escaped from hell.

After a long while, Eberhard, looking at the ruins around him, asked, "Major, what should we do? There is no defense line here!"

Eberhard was right. If there was a defense line here, it would be the buildings and the ruins that collapsed on the ground, and these were intertwined with the buildings occupied by the Soviet army. There were even two buildings behind him that had just been occupied and had not been cleared in time. From time to time, there were still a few machine guns and grenade explosions inside.

Qin Chuan stared at the map and compared it with the surrounding environment, then drew a line on the map and ordered: "Based on this line, pull barbed wire and bury mines to block the position, and at the same time, take people to search every corner. Suspicious places or buildings should also pull barbed wire and lay mines!"

"Major!" Eberhard looked at the line and said, "But this line...we have to give up the three occupied buildings!"

"Do as I say!"

"Yes, Major!" Eberhard turned around and assigned the task.

Eberhard certainly had his reasons for not wanting to give up the three buildings. The Battle of Stalingrad had been advancing at a speed of several meters per day, which meant that the buildings were won by the blood and lives of German soldiers, and Qin Chuan gave them up to the Soviets with a wave of his hand.

Qin Chuan certainly didn't care about that. In Qin Chuan's eyes, a few buildings were nothing... There is a saying: "It doesn't matter what a city or a pond loses." From a historical perspective, the battle of Stalingrad was not about how much land and buildings were occupied, but about the loss of manpower and supplies.

Therefore, it was meaningless to occupy a few buildings, even though they were won by the blood and lives of German soldiers.

Barbed wire and mines were quickly laid, but it was not dark yet, so the soldiers planned to stay on the front line for a while and leave a few mines to give the Soviet army who were going to occupy these buildings at night some "surprises."

At this time, a Soviet wing plane swooped down from the sky towards the building where Qin Chuan and others were, followed by a burst of "da da da" machine gun sounds, and bullets "pa pa pa" flew through the wooden boards into the floor, and immediately two German soldiers screamed and fell in a pool of blood.

Obviously, the Soviets on the opposite side found that there were many German soldiers in this building, so they called in air firepower... This doesn't happen often. As mentioned before, the Soviet army did not have air superiority, and Soviet fighter planes rarely appeared in the sky.

But few does not mean no, Qin Chuan and others were lucky to encounter one as soon as they came up.

The German soldiers on the roof immediately used machine guns and MP43 to strafe the old fighter plane. Fortunately, several bullets hit the engine, and the wings were torn into pieces. The plane began to sway with black smoke while trying to escape, and then fell back to the ground.

Originally, Qin Chuan and others thought they would hear an explosion, but all they heard was a metal collision sound... The wounded Soviet fighter plane actually made a successful forced landing.

It is not known whether it was the pilot's luck or misfortune.

If it is lucky, it is difficult to make a normal landing in a place full of ruins and buildings, not to mention forced landing with injuries.

If it is unfortunate, they made an emergency landing in the area controlled by the German army, which means they were surrounded by the German army the moment they successfully made the forced landing.

Out of anger for the two comrades who died, Qin Chuan led a platoon of soldiers to the direction of the plane's forced landing as soon as possible.

When Qin Chuan and others arrived at the forced landing point, the baker had already led people to surround the pilot.

"Raise your hands!" The baker shouted in stiff Russian at the plane lying in front of the ruins: "Surrender!"

The baker wanted to say a few more words, but that was all the Russian he knew.

"Bang bang!" Several gunshots came from the opposite side in response.

The German soldiers also raised their guns to fight back, and then divided into several teams to cover each other and approach the plane.

But all this was unnecessary, because soon there was a gunshot from behind the plane, and then a body fell limply to the ground, with the upper part of the body above the shoulders exposed outside the wreckage of the plane, and a bloody hole on the temple, still leaking blood.

Obviously, he didn't want to be a prisoner of the German army.

"There's another one!" Qin Chuan raised his gun, because he noticed that the plane was a two-seater, and there was obviously another pilot.

But when Qin Chuan and his men carefully held their guns and approached the back of the plane, they were shocked to find that the other pilot was a girl, wearing the rank of second lieutenant, holding a Tokarev pistol in her hand, pale and breathing rapidly, with deep despair and fear in her eyes.

"Put down the gun!" Qin Chuan shouted, "We won't embarrass you!"

The second lieutenant girl didn't understand Qin Chuan's words, or didn't hear it at all, or she understood what Qin Chuan meant but refused to respond.

Then, the second lieutenant girl obviously made up her mind, suddenly raised the pistol to her head and pulled the trigger...

"Bang!" There was another body in front of Qin Chuan and others.

The baker stood up, shook his head in confusion, and slowly walked over to check the two bodies.

They didn't understand why the Soviets sent women to the battlefield and let them suffer such hardships.