Chapter 1194 Fireworks in the camp

Hearing Sokov and Lunev's conversation in code words, Khokhlov asked in surprise: "Comrade Commander, can you tell me what you plan to do by taking advantage of the enemy's loss of contact with their superiors?" ?"

   Sokov didn't speak, just smiled lightly. And Lunev chimed in and said: "Comrade Colonel, since the enemy doesn't know that their vanguard troops have been wiped out, they can take advantage of this and let our troops disguise themselves as German troops to harass their camps."

  Khokhlov was taken aback by Lunev's words: "Comrade Military Commissar, what did you say, let our people pretend to be Germans, but attack their camp?"

   Lunev nodded and asked, "Yeah, is there something wrong?"

   "If there are too many people, it is easy to be exposed." Khokhlov said with some concerns: "But if the number is small, there is a possibility of being wiped out by the enemy."

"Comrade Colonel, have you forgotten our new rockets?" Sokov said with a smile: "As long as we know the location of the enemy's camp, we can attack them from a long distance. Not only can we cause heavy losses to them, It also keeps our casualties to a minimum."

Although Khokhlov has seen the power of the new rockets during the exercise, but now it is actual combat, he still dare not take it lightly: "Comrade commander, can using the new rockets to attack the enemy's camp really work? ?”

"In the past few months, the small troops I sent to the enemy's rear have used rockets to attack the enemy's key targets many times, and have achieved great results." Sokov said confidently: "Comrade Colonel, Immediately arrange manpower and prepare to attack the enemy's camp in the dark."

   "Comrade Commander, if our sneak attack squad is discovered by the enemy, how will they get away?"

"Didn't you capture a few German armored personnel carriers?" Seeing that Khokhlov was still worrying about the sky, Sokov was really dumbfounded, but he still patiently explained to the other party: "Sneak attacking the enemy's squad, take the captured The armored personnel carrier is going to the vicinity of the enemy's camp. Once the attack is completed, the armored personnel carrier will be transferred immediately. Even if the enemy is aware of it, it may not be easy to catch up with them."

   Khokhlov thought about it carefully, and it seems that this is really the case. The troops set up firing positions a few kilometers away from the enemy's camp, and moved immediately after completing the attack with rockets. Even if the enemy is aware of the location of the squad, by the time they get there, the squad will have disappeared without a trace.

   "Comrade Commander," the confident Khokhlov said hastily, "I'll mobilize manpower and form a small team to attack the enemy's camp at night."

"Wait a minute, Comrade Colonel." Seeing that Khokhlov was about to arrange manpower in a hurry, Sokov told him again: "I have a few more things to add: First, in the squad that took part in the operation, It is necessary to have a few more soldiers who understand German, so that even if they encounter enemy inquiries on the road, they can easily deal with it; the second is to find out the enemy's contact information, so as to locate the enemy's camp in the shortest time. "

   "Don't worry, Comrade Commander." Khokhlov waited for Sokov to finish speaking, and immediately assured him: "I will definitely arrange the tasks properly, and I will definitely not live up to your trust."

The squad sent to the enemy's rear, under the command of Captain Zelia, has a total of 36 soldiers, including two radio operators. They will be divided into four armored vehicles, carrying fifty new rockets, and head to the enemy's camp Perform night raid missions nearby.

It gets dark late in summer, so Gelia chose the departure time at 10:40, so that they drove on the road for about 20 minutes, and the sky would be dark, and the enemy's reconnaissance planes could not be dispatched, which made their actions difficult. Not easy to detect.

  Through the contact information obtained from the captives, the squad got in touch with the large German troops that fell more than ten kilometers away through the captured radio station, and knew their specific location. After figuring out the location of the enemy, the team under the command of Gelia quickly drove towards the enemy's camp in an armored vehicle.

   When they were seven or eight kilometers away from the camp, they encountered a patrol team composed of five three-wheeled motorcycles. The leader was a second lieutenant of the German Army. With the help of the bright moonlight, he saw several armored vehicles approaching in the distance, and quickly ordered all the motorcycles to stop by the roadside. After the motorcycle stopped, he got out of the sidecar, stood in the middle of the road, and raised his white-gloved right hand to signal the approaching armored vehicle to stop.

   Seeing the German army blocking the way ahead, the soldier sitting next to Zelia couldn't help feeling a little flustered, so he asked softly, "Comrade Captain, have we been discovered by the enemy?"

"No. If they had seen through our identities, they would have opened fire long ago." Zelia saw that most of the German soldiers were still sitting in sidecars, and even the soldiers operating the machine guns looked lazy. He seemed to have no doubts about the identity of his squad, so he boldly said: "Let the soldiers who understand German deal with him."

  The armored vehicle stopped a few meters away from the second lieutenant of the German army. A soldier wearing the rank of sergeant stood up and looked at the second lieutenant of the German army standing on the road, and asked, "Mr. second lieutenant, what's the matter?"

   "Which part are you from?" The second lieutenant asked arrogantly with his hands behind his back, "Where are you going now?"

"We are the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Grenadier Regiment of the Imperial Division, led by the platoon leader, Second Lieutenant Phillips." The sergeant quickly replied respectfully: "Because the ammunition and fuel are almost consumed, we are preparing to return to the regiment." Department to supplement."

   "Where did you come from?" The second lieutenant then asked.

   "Shumakovo region."

   "Shumakovo area?" The second lieutenant repeated the place name and asked again: "Is there a Russian line of defense?"

"Yes, Mr. Second Lieutenant, there is a newly built defensive position by the Russians." The sergeant said: "Our platoon launched two attacks on the Russian positions, but unfortunately we did not succeed. Two of our tanks were destroyed, and even Lieutenant Phillips was wounded."

The reason why the sergeant mentioned the two tanks in the coordinated operation was because the armored vehicle they were riding on was full of bullet marks, and even many places were blackened by gunpowder smoke. suspicion.

  After hearing what the sergeant said, the second lieutenant walked around their armored vehicle, touched the bullet marks on it, and the parts blackened by gunpowder smoke, and felt that what the sergeant said should be the truth. He retreated to the side of the road and waved to the armored vehicle, indicating that they could pass.

  As the armored vehicles passed by the patrol team one by one, Zelia raised his heart in his throat and finally put it back in his stomach. He took his hand away from the trigger, raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and muttered to himself: "If it wasn't for worrying about exposing the target, with just a dozen of you, I would have ordered the soldiers to open fire and beat you to ashes. Yes. You are lucky this time, but if I meet you again next time, I will never let you go lightly."

  The convoy came to a forest about three kilometers away from the German camp. Gelia ordered the car to be parked in the forest, and asked the soldiers to get out of the car for activities, and seize the time to eat and drink.

  A Soviet lieutenant accompanying Zelia’s order said puzzledly, “Comrade Captain, we are only two or three kilometers away from the German camp, why didn’t we attack them immediately?”

"Comrade Lieutenant," Gelia explained to him, looking at the lieutenant from another regiment, "it's still too early, and many enemies haven't rested yet. If we attack at this moment, we will survive the first attack." The enemies who come down will immediately disperse to find a suitable hidden position, and then our attack effect will be greatly reduced."

After Gelia's explanation, the lieutenant immediately understood his intention: "I understand, Comrade Captain. You plan to wait for the Germans to fall asleep before attacking them. When the sleeping enemy is suddenly attacked, The reaction speed is much slower than usual, and if we cannot make evasive actions in time, we can eliminate more enemies."

   The soldiers who had figured out Zelia's intentions dispersed immediately. Some stood beside the armored vehicles to eat and drink, some leaned against the trees and closed their eyes to rest, and some soldiers gathered mushrooms in the forest. Gelia did not stop the soldiers from doing this, but reminded them: "Be careful when picking mushrooms, and don't pick poisonous mushrooms."

"Don't worry, Comrade Captain." A soldier who was squatting in the grass and prying mushrooms with a dagger immediately responded when he heard Zelia's words: "I go to the forest every summer to pick mushrooms, what? They are poisonous mushrooms, and I can tell the difference between edible mushrooms even if I am blindfolded."

  The team rested in the forest until about three o'clock in the morning, and Zelia ordered everyone to get in the car and continue to rush to the German camp.

   Originally, according to the prior plan, the squad should establish a launch position two kilometers away from the German camp. However, Gelia felt that the position of two kilometers would affect the shooting accuracy of the new rockets, so he ordered the launch distance to be shortened to one kilometer on his own initiative.

  When the commanders and fighters saw the brightly lit camp one kilometer away, they felt somewhat uneasy. There were more than 30 of them, and the enemy on the opposite side had at least two to three thousand people. Once their whereabouts were exposed, they might not be able to escape.

  Equivalent to the apprehension of the commanders and fighters, Gelia was extremely calm. In order to deal a heavy blow to the enemy in the first attack, he decided to use twelve tubes to launch, so that he could cover a certain area of ​​the camp with firepower. When the launcher reported to him: "Comrade Captain, the rocket has been loaded, please instruct!"

   "Launch!"

  When the twelve rockets dragged their long flame tails and flew towards the enemy's camp, Zelia didn't bother to check the results of the battle, so he ordered the soldiers: "Keep loading and prepare to launch again!"

  The second wave of rockets has just been loaded, and the first wave of rockets fired has already landed in the camp on the ground and exploded. All of a sudden, flames and burning smoke were everywhere, and countless limbs and weapon parts flew into the air.

  The German officers and soldiers who were sleeping in the tent heard the earth-shattering explosion outside, and they didn't understand that they were attacked by the Soviet army. Those experienced veterans didn't even bother to put on their clothes. They grabbed the weapons beside them and rushed out of the tent.

   But when they rushed outside the tent, they were a little dumbfounded. They saw flames everywhere, thick smoke everywhere, and their comrades were running around like headless chickens. Before these German soldiers could make a decision, the second wave of rockets arrived again, and the new area was blown up into a sea of ​​flames. Countless German officers and soldiers were wiped out in the explosion.

  After two rounds of 24 rocket attacks, the German camp was already in a mess, with the wreckage of weapons and equipment destroyed by rockets and the broken and incomplete bodies of personnel everywhere.

Zelia, who observed the results of the battle with a telescope, saw that the attack worked, and most of the enemy's camp was engulfed in flames, so he temporarily changed his mind, and he ordered the launcher: "Cancel the third wave of attack, immediately put the things on the armored vehicle, and all do it together." Ready to transfer."

  The launcher faithfully carried out Zelia's order, loaded the rocket onto the armored vehicle, and began to dismantle the erected launch tube. Seeing this situation, the lieutenant questioned again: "Comrade captain, the enemy's camp has not been wiped out, we should continue to attack with rockets."

"Comrade Lieutenant," Gelia changed his mind temporarily and did not pour all the rockets into this camp because he found that there were no tanks and armored vehicles in the camp. It is estimated that there is only one infantry battalion stationed here at most, so there is no need Spend your precious rockets here. He said to the lieutenant: "According to my observation, this is just an infantry camp of the German army. There are no tanks, armored vehicles, or even trucks at all. It is not worth all the rockets we consume."

  The Lieutenant waited for Gelia to finish speaking, and asked him for instructions: "Comrade Captain, what should we do next?"

   "Transfer immediately." Zelia said decisively: "Look around and see if you can find other German camps."

If Sokov heard Zhelia here, he would definitely scold him. The commotion here must have alarmed the nearby enemies, and then he would use rockets to attack the enemy's camp silently. , is basically impossible. The most important thing to do now is to immediately withdraw your defense zone.

   How could Gelia think so much? He is now focused on destroying more Germans, so he wandered around with a few armored vehicles, hoping to accidentally discover a certain German camp and repeat the old trick. But they were unlucky, wandering around for several hours, still did not find a new camp. Seeing that the sky was starting to light up, Gelia knew to stay there. Once dawn dawned, the enemy might find out, so she gave the soldiers an order to retreat.

   When approaching its own defense zone, the armored convoy encountered the German motorcycle patrol again. Just now, Gelia swore in his heart that if he encountered this patrol team again, he would resolutely kill them. Now that the enemy is coming to die again, how could he let go of such a good opportunity.

  He quickly ordered someone to notify the soldiers behind by gestures, and when the motorcycle team passed by the armored vehicle, he immediately opened fire to wipe out this group of enemies cleanly and completely.

  (end of this chapter)