Chapter 1384 Save the last bullet for yourself

  Although Sokov found that he had no external injuries, he didn't dare to move easily. He didn't know if he had suffered internal injuries. If he moved vigorously, his life might be in danger. Therefore, he felt that the best choice in front of him was to lie on the ground and wait for the search forces to meet him.

   "Comrade Second Lieutenant," Sokov asked the pilot beside him after lying on the grass for a while, "Do you know where we are now?"

  The pilot thought for a while and replied: "Comrade General, when the plane made an emergency landing, I took a rough look at the surrounding terrain, which is about ten kilometers southwest of your headquarters."

  Hearing what the pilot said, Sokov immediately thought that the troops stationed southwest of the headquarters were Colonel Chuvashov's 98th Guards Division. It stands to reason that the commanders and fighters on the ground should have seen what happened in the air just now. According to the usual practice, they should immediately send people to search for the crashed plane.

  But before he left, he told Sameko to ask Chuvashov and others to go to the headquarters to collect the military flag belonging to their division. Since the division commander is not in the army, the time to send the search team will definitely be delayed.

   Sokov looked at his watch and found that it was already one o'clock in the afternoon, and there were only three hours left before the attack began. Although he is not in the headquarters, as long as Sameko is there, the offensive plan can proceed as scheduled. At this moment, he felt extremely regretful in his heart. He was lying in the wilderness, and he didn't know when someone would come to rescue him. He couldn't know the progress of the battle in time.

   While thinking wildly, the pilot suddenly sat up with his arms propped up and said to Sokov in a low voice: "Comrade General, did you hear anything?"

  The place where the plane made an emergency landing was in a forest glade. Sokov listened for a moment, then turned to the pilot and said, "Comrade Second Lieutenant, I didn't hear anything except the sound of the wind blowing through the forest."

   "It's not the wind," the pilot shook his head and said, "Comrade General, listen carefully."

Sokov concentrated his mind and listened quietly to the movement around him. In addition to the sound of the wind blowing through the forest, he also heard the slight crackling sound of the burning wreckage of the plane not far away. Just as he was about to tell the pilot, except Except for the sound of the wind and the sound of burning planes, I really didn't see any other time. I suddenly heard a sound in the distant forest, which seemed to be the sound of people's feet stepping on dead branches.

   "Comrade Second Lieutenant," Sokov happily said to the pilot upon hearing this voice, "It should be a search and rescue team sent by a nearby army to look for us."

   "That's not quite right, Comrade General." But the pilot still shook his head and said, "Your troops are stationed in the northeast, but the sound of footsteps in the forest comes from the forest in the southwest..."

  From the words of the pilot, Sokov thought of a situation he least wanted to see: "Is it a German?"

  The pilot nodded slightly, smiled wryly and replied, "I think it should be German."

Seeing that the pilot also thought it was a German, Sokov's heart beat faster. He pulled out the Tokarev pistol on his waist, checked it quickly, and then looked vigilantly at the direction from which the sound came. Instinctively prepared for battle.

   "Comrade General, how is your marksmanship?" The pilot asked Sokov with a wry smile, "Listen, there are quite a few Germans. We may not be able to repel their attack with our two pistols."

   "It's a pity that I didn't bring an assault rifle with me when I came out today." Sokov said angrily, "Otherwise, even if there are dozens or twenty German soldiers, I can easily deal with them."

   "I only have five bullets in my gun." The pilot ignored Sukov's words and asked himself, "How many bullets are in your gun?"

   "Eight rounds." Sokov looked at the pilot, wondering a little bit, this Tokarev pistol has a capacity of eight rounds, why is there only five rounds in the pilot's chamber?

The pilot saw Sokov's doubts and explained to him: "Comrade General, the Tokarev pistol we wear is very difficult to use, so even if it is fired, it will not replenish the bullets in time. Really. I didn't expect to encounter such a thing today, if I replenished the bullets in time, then at least one or two more enemies could be wiped out, so even if I die, I won't have any regrets."

"Comrade Second Lieutenant, don't worry." Sokov comforted the pilot and said, "My troops are nearby. When they see a plane crashing, they will definitely send people to search and rescue. As long as the search and rescue troops can arrive in time, then it will count as coming." No matter how many enemies there are, don’t worry.”

  The pilot looked towards the forest in the northeast direction, and then said with a wry smile: "Comrade General, the enemy will probably come faster than our people. I will save the last bullet for myself."

  The footsteps became more and more clear, and soon a dozen people walked out of the forest in the southwest direction. From their clothes and the weapons in their hands, Sokov instantly recognized them as Germans.

Seeing the German soldiers approaching cautiously in scattered formation with their guns in hand, Sokov felt desperate. He knew very well that with the two pistols in his hands and the pilot's, he wanted to repel the approaching soldiers. More than a dozen German soldiers are simply a fantasy.

  He thought desperately in his heart: It's over, it's all over now. Once the battle started, he would soon turn into a corpse, and he would never see his subordinates again, and he would never see Asiya who was far away in Moscow again.

Seeing the enemy getting closer and closer, Sokov's heartbeat became faster and faster. He raised his pistol and aimed at a soldier walking in the front, preparing to wait for the enemy to get closer before shooting, trying to make sure that the bullets were not in vain. In this way, even if he dies, he can pull a lot of German soldiers back.

   Before the German search team approached the burning plane, Sukov was startled by the sudden sound of gunfire. He turned his head and glared at the pilot, and said sharply, "Comrade Second Lieutenant, the enemy is still out of effective range. If you shoot now, you are wasting our precious bullets."

   "I'm sorry, Comrade General." The pilot who was criticized by Sokov said apologetically, "I was too nervous, please forgive me."

  The sudden sound of gunfire made the German soldiers confused for a while, but after all, they were well-trained, so they immediately fell down on the spot, lying on the ground and shooting back in the direction of the bullets. For a moment, dense bullets hit Sokov's vicinity, and the soil and grass clippings stirred up by the fierce battle scattered all over him.

  Sokov lay tightly on the ground, not daring to move, lest he be hit by enemy bullets. Seeing that Sokov was lying motionless on the ground, the pilot followed suit and did not shoot indiscriminately.

After the German soldiers in the distance shot for a while, they found no movement here, thinking that the Soviet pilot who fired the shot had been shot to death, so two soldiers got up from the ground, bent over, and walked towards this side carefully. .

  Looking at the two German soldiers approaching, the pilot asked Sokov anxiously: "Comrade General, the enemy is coming, shall we shoot now?"

   "Wait a little longer," Sokov knew that the pilot had no experience in ground combat, so he took this opportunity to teach him: "Our bullets are limited, wait for the enemy to get closer, so that we can hit the target more accurately."

"Comrade General, are you going to lie down like this all the time?" After all, the pilot has no ground combat experience, and he has never seen German soldiers at such a close distance. Seeing that the two German soldiers were only ten meters away from the plane, Couldn't help but fired again. Of course, with his marksmanship, the bullet went somewhere.

  The German soldiers, who were already highly nervous, fell to the ground when they heard the gunshots, and with the submachine gun in their hands, they shot wildly at the position where the two of Sokov were.

  Among the dense gunfire, Sokov suddenly heard the pilot behind him grunt, and quickly turned his head to ask, "Comrade Second Lieutenant, what's wrong with you?"

   "I was shot in the leg." The pilot gritted his teeth and said, "But it doesn't matter, it doesn't seem to hurt the bone."

Knowing that the pilot's injuries were not serious, Sokov breathed a sigh of relief, and reminded him at the same time: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, the shooting accuracy of a pistol is not as good as that of a rifle. You have to wait for the enemy to approach before you can hit the target." .Before I shoot, you must not shoot again. We don’t have many bullets. If we shoot them all in one go, we will be captured by the Germans. Do you understand?”

"Understood, Comrade General." The pilot said with a wry smile, "I still have three bullets in my gun, that is to say, I can still fire two shots. This time, I will definitely not shoot first before you shoot. "

  The German soldiers fired for a while, and found that Sokov and the others were not moving, thinking that they were shot to death by them this time. This time, everyone stood up and walked towards Sokov and the others with their guns in hand.

Seeing that the two German soldiers who had just explored the way had already walked to the burning plane, the pilot was about to ask Sokov when he could shoot, but he heard Sokov shouting: "Shoot!" Just after landing, Sokov raised his pistol and pulled the trigger on the two German soldiers.

   After two gunshots, two German soldiers fell to the ground, and then Sokov ran towards the corpses of the German soldiers on hands and feet. He carefully pulled out a submachine gun from the dead body, pulled out the magazine to look at it, then reloaded it again, then hid behind the dead body of the German soldiers, and shot at the German soldiers who were approaching in scattered formation.

  The German soldiers thought that the pilots only had pistols, and they didn't care about their enemies at all. As a result, they were shot by Sokov, and four or five soldiers were knocked down. The remaining soldiers were so frightened that they had to lie on the ground and shoot back at Sokov.

  After firing a magazine, Sokov grabbed another submachine gun and fired at the German soldiers lying on the ground in the distance. Turning around inadvertently, seeing the pilot crawling to his side at some point, he asked loudly while shooting, "Comrade Second Lieutenant, can you change the magazine?"

   "Yes, Comrade General." The pilot quickly replied: "Although my marksmanship is not good, I will change the magazine."

   "Take off the clips on the Germans and replace them with that submachine gun." Sokov said to the pilot: "With these clips, I believe we can support the arrival of reinforcements."

In this way, when Sokov fired at the German army, the pilot replaced another submachine gun with a magazine; when Sokov finished firing the submachine gun in his hand, the pilot handed him the submachine gun with the magazine replaced. Make sure that the firepower is not interrupted. The German soldiers in the distance felt very aggrieved. Although there were only two people on the other side, they suppressed themselves so that they could not move by relying on a submachine gun with constant firepower.

  When Sokov took over the submachine gun with a reloaded magazine from the pilot for the third time, he suddenly heard the roar of the engine of the armored vehicle from the direction of the forest behind him. Sokov trembled all over, and thought horribly, "Could it be that the enemy came up from behind us?"

   Turning around, I saw three German armored personnel carriers rushing out of the forest, full of Soviet soldiers wearing steel helmets. The armored vehicles drove to a place more than 30 meters away from the forest and lined up. The machine gunners used the vehicle-mounted machine guns to suppress the German army lying on the ground in the distance with intensive firepower, while the soldiers on the vehicle jumped out of the vehicle and quickly formed a combat team. shape, trot over.

   "Comrade Second Lieutenant," seeing this scene, Sokov excitedly said to the pilot: "Our reinforcements have arrived!" After speaking, he picked up his submachine gun and fired wildly at the enemy in the distance.

  The Soviet troops who came for reinforcements were not only three armored vehicles, but also a dozen or so three-wheeled motorcycles, which were also full of soldiers. Behind the motorcycles, groups of infantry rushed out of the forest with loud shouts.

  The German soldiers who were suppressed by the firepower, saw that the Soviet army, which was much larger than themselves, came to reinforce them, so they just continued to fight. Immediately, several soldiers got up from the ground, turned around and ran back. They hoped to run into the forest earlier, so that they could escape the fate of being killed or captured.

  But they forgot that this is an open space with no shelter and no barriers. As long as they stand up, they are a living target. Therefore, these soldiers were beaten into sieves by random guns not long after they ran.

  The remaining German soldiers saw their comrades died under random gunfire, so they dared to get up and run away, so they could only continue to lie on the ground. When the Soviet commanders rushed in front of them, they threw away their weapons, stood up and surrendered with their hands raised high.

Seeing that the enemies had put down their weapons and surrendered, Sokov got up from the ground, took a few steps forward with his gun in hand, and wanted to see if all the enemies had been captured, but he heard someone shouting loudly from behind: " Comrade Commander, Comrade Commander!"

  Sokov turned his head and saw that it was Samoilov sitting in the sidecar of a three-wheeled motorcycle, coming towards him.

  The motorcycle stopped five or six meters away from Sokov. Samoilov jumped out of the sidecar and rushed towards Sokov, asking loudly: "Comrade Commander, are you all right?"

  Sokov shook his head, "I'm fine." But just as he finished speaking, the pain that had been ignored during the battle spread all over his body again because of his mental relaxation. His body shook, and then fell backwards.

Fortunately, Samoilov rushed over to support Sokov in time, and then turned his head and shouted hoarsely: "Military doctor, military doctor, come here quickly." Samoilov's shout and heard the news rushed The military doctor who came made the scene a mess.

   "Comrade Lieutenant," the military doctor rushed to Sokov with a small suitcase, and said to Samoilov who was supporting him, "Quickly let Comrade Commander lie down, and I will check his body."

  (end of this chapter)