Chapter 742: Prisoners

In addition to Qin Chuan, there are five other snipers occupying high ground to cover the assault team below and attack the target building.

Several assault teams advanced while clearing the enemies in the house along the way, while the Soviet guard company surrounded a two-story building and fought desperately.

If this battle is just an attack, then it may be difficult for the assault team to capture the Soviet commander as desired.

The reason is simple, the Soviet commander will also join the battle.

Then the German assault team will be in an awkward situation at this time... attack or not?

Attack, just like Qin Chuan accidentally killed an officer just now, it will inevitably kill the Soviet officers in the command center, which obviously cannot complete the task.

Don't attack, then you have to let the Soviet officers shoot at the German assault team as if they are invulnerable!

This will bring many dangers to the assault team, and the two sides will continue to consume like this and no one can do anything to each other. Even if the assault team finally breaks through the guard company's defense line and attacks the second floor... the Soviet commander is also likely to commit suicide collectively.

Of course, it is not necessarily a collective suicide. In many cases, the political commissar killed other officers and then committed suicide. The result is still a plan failure.

But of course, Qin Chuan's "rat-catching plan" will not be so simple.

It seems that the timing is almost right, that is, the Soviet guards are basically attracted to the downstairs... This is the first reaction of almost all guards in this era when they are attacked, because if you want to attack a building, you must occupy the first floor first and then the second floor.

So it goes without saying that important people will be placed on the second floor, and the first floor will be defended by guards. At most, a few personal guards will be arranged upstairs. In this way, important people can be protected and they can fight the enemy without hesitation because of worrying about the protection of the object.

And this is exactly what Qin Chuan needs...

"Implement Plan B!" Qin Chuan ordered.

"Yes, Major!" Eberhard raised the signal gun that had been prepared long ago, and fired two signal flares into the sky.

In the absence of a micro-walkie-talkie, signal flares are the best command tool. Otherwise, each assault team would have to carry a walkie-talkie and even prepare a spare one, which would not only seriously reduce the combat effectiveness of the assault team but also complicate the command, because at least several staff officers would be needed to assist in issuing orders to each assault team at the same time.

But if a flare is used... everyone will know what to do as soon as it is fired.

The risk of using a flare is that if the Soviets notice this and also fire a few flares into the sky, it may affect Qin Chuan's command.

However, the Soviet army, which was surrounded in the building and was fighting nervously, obviously had no time to consider this, so the German army immediately entered the next step.

After a few "bang bang" gunshots, the German soldiers used 50MM mortars to fire a batch of shells at the command building from several directions... To be precise, they were not shells but smoke bombs. More than a dozen mortars fired more than 50 smoke bombs one after another, and many of them directly hit the second floor through the windows. In an instant, the entire command building was shrouded in smoke. There were also a few coughs from time to time, and some people shouted in panic in Russian, as if they were worried that the Germans would use poison gas.

They were certainly not poison gas, but if the Soviets thought they were poison gas, it would seem to be more effective.

Two ropes were thrown down from the air, and two teams of commandos fell from the sky along the ropes, and then "bang" broke through the windows on the second floor and jumped in.

There were only a few "bang bang" gunshots in the smoke and a burst of Russian curses and cries for help, and then it became quiet.

The rope ladder was dropped from the helicopter. When the helicopter rose again a few minutes later, several people were seen hanging on the rope ladder, among which there were obviously two prisoners who were tied to the rope ladder with their hands and feet tied and struggling. Qin Chuan knew that the mission was successful.

"Plan C!" Qin Chuan ordered.

Three red flares rose into the sky. After the German assault team threw a few grenades or fired a few rockets at the building still shrouded in smoke, they disappeared into the darkness.

The assembly point is one and a half kilometers south of the village. One of the reasons why this open space was chosen as the assembly point is that there is a mountain between it and the village. Even if the Soviet army followed the German army, it could not use firepower to block the takeoff and landing of the helicopter... The armor of the helicopter is mainly at the bottom, so it is the most dangerous when taking off and landing. Rifles and light machine guns can easily penetrate its side armor and cause casualties or even damage or destroy the helicopter.

This is also one of the reasons why the assembly point cannot be simply set up next to the village... It is indeed time-saving and trouble-free next to the village. After the personnel evacuate the village, they can board the helicopter and leave immediately.

But doing so is obviously very dangerous, because as long as there is a light machine gun occupying a key point, helicopters can be shot down one after another.

So, Qin Chuan and others had to run along the road, laying mines in the rear to prevent the Soviet army from chasing them.

However, these seemed to be redundant, because the Soviet army that was beaten half-crippled in the village seemed to have not yet reacted to what was going on, so of course there would be no pursuers.

A few minutes later, everyone boarded the helicopter one by one at the assembly point.

Qin Chuan also took some time to untie the two captured prisoners from the rope ladder and then lifted them onto the helicopter.

Adelin looked at the two Soviet officers with the rank of major general who were thrown on and was stunned... The whole battle lasted only fifteen minutes, and these Germans actually beat the Soviets into a mess like a magic trick and captured two major generals from them.

The same reaction from Adelin and his subordinates also occurred. Although they witnessed the whole process, they still couldn't believe that it was all true... They had fought with the Soviets before, in the Crimea Peninsula.

Although they knew that the Soviets were not strong in combat, because they surrendered or were annihilated in large numbers under the siege of the Germans, they also knew from the battle process with the Soviets in the Crimea Peninsula that these opponents were not as easy to deal with as they imagined, at least they were evenly matched with the Romanian army.

Of course, this was the subjective opinion of the Romanian soldiers. In fact, the combat effectiveness of the Romanian army was not as good as that of the Soviet army. This was not a problem of quality, but a problem of combat determination and equipment.

(Note: More than 90% of the tanks equipped by the Romanian army were backward 38T light tanks from the Czech Republic)

However, what these Romanian soldiers, including Adelin, saw today could be said to have far exceeded their imagination... They felt that the Germans were playing games when they beat the Soviets. If it weren't for the real guns and bullets and the blood and screams on the battlefield, they would really think that this was a pre-arranged exercise.