The decisive battle against the Third Reich

A patch of disproportionate black spots soon appeared on the pure white snow. They were densely packed and staggering. They climbed down from the river bank at the other end, crossed the river for more than a hundred meters, and then swarmed over here in groups. River bank.

Although the soldiers of the First Infantry Regiment had experienced the North African battlefield, they were still frightened by this group of defeated troops. Because they had never seen such large-scale frostbite, nor had they seen wounded soldiers like this... Many of them wrapped themselves and their injuries with sacks, rags, and any other textiles they could find. Making them look less like an army and more like a refugee.

In Qin Chuan's eyes, "zombie" may be more appropriate to describe these defeated soldiers: their eyes were dull, and even when they saw the First Infantry Regiment coming to meet them, they were not surprised at all, and the injured were limping. , some of their hands are still hanging on their necks. If it weren't for the hot steam spitting out of their mouths from time to time, it would be hard to tell that they are still alive.

"Put away your food!" The order came quickly: "Don't give food to anyone!"

Although this is a bit cruel, Qin Chuan has to admit that it is right. There are too many people in the defeated army in front of him. Even if the First Infantry Regiment contributes all the food, it will just fill their teeth. .

As a result, the First Infantry Regiment also lost supplies and would soon lose its combat effectiveness. What's worse is that the food may cause chaos in the rout... You can never imagine what a starving man would do after seeing the food. How will they react? They will compete with each other for these limited food, and even fight to the death.

"Keep walking..." Colonel Slain raised a small speaker and shouted loudly to the opposite side: "You will be safe after passing here, move quickly!"

Colonel Slaine is worried that the troops' firing range will be blocked by his own people... People who come off the battlefield will have such sensitivity. Sometimes they don't know any theory or tactics, but whenever an unfavorable situation arises Sometimes you will feel uneasy, as if you have a sore spot or a handle in the other person's hand.

But Colonel Slain's shouting did not make the soldiers move faster. They were exhausted, or it could be said that they were moving as fast as they could.

However, Qin Chuan soon discovered that they could actually go faster...

Suddenly there were several whistling sounds in the sky, and the shadows of several planes flew across the sky. Everyone couldn't help but look up. Before they could distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, there was a burst of machine gun fire, and bullets poured down and shot out. A string of snowflakes. At the end of the snowflakes is a group of defeated soldiers who were shot and fell. The blood looked particularly dazzling against the white background.

"Enemy plane!" shouted Colonel Sline. "Run!"

In fact, there was no need for Colonel Slaine to shout at this moment. The broken soldiers were speeding up and rushing toward the defense line... The newly frozen river was bare with not even a dead tree. It was obviously a good place for enemy fighter planes to swoop in and shoot.

Then another fighter plane dived down and dropped a bomb the moment the fuselage was raised.

With a "boom", snowflakes and ice cubes flew everywhere in the smoke, and the defeated soldiers running dozens of meters around were knocked to the ground firmly.

Qinchuan noticed that they were two Yak-1 fighter jets, which were currently the best in the Soviet Union and one of the few fighter jets that could compete with the German BF109.

(Note: In the early days of the Soviet-German War, the Soviet Union’s old-fashioned fighter planes were no match for the Germans. Only the Yak 1 and MiG 3 were barely capable of fighting)

The soldiers of the 1st Infantry Regiment immediately set up their machine guns and fired at the two Soviet fighters.

The two Soviet fighter planes that strafed and bombed at low altitude obviously did not expect that the rout had the ability to counterattack. One of them was hit by a machine gun on the spot and emitted black smoke.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the two fighter planes turned around and fled the area.

But Colonel Slain did not relax because he knew that the Soviet pilots would soon report the situation here to the Soviet pursuing troops, and then a large number of Soviet troops would rush here...

This made Colonel Slaine anxious, and he shouted an order to the medical soldiers and stretcher bearers who went to help the wounded: "Drive these people out of our position, they will kill us!"

As a result, the medical soldiers and stretcher-bearers soon became the commanders of the broken troops, loudly urging the broken troops to speed up.

But Colonel Slain was wrong about this. The coordination of the Soviet army was far less good than that of the British and American armies.

On the one hand, this is because the communication equipment of the Soviet army is backward. Many of their fighter planes even have to launch signal flares to communicate with each other, and the troops on land have to use flying pigeons and correspondents to convey orders.

On the other hand, in such snow and temperature, it is difficult for mechanized troops, even Soviet cars and tanks, to move forward normally, so the enemy's response is far from as fast as expected.

Of course, the reaction speed of our own troops will also decrease exponentially. The First Infantry Regiment will soon be able to deeply understand this.

As a result, the defeated troops passed the river where the First Infantry Regiment was stationed without any danger, leaving only a string of footprints in front of the position and dozens of corpses of the defeated troops who were killed by fighter planes or bombed.

The stretcher soldiers went up to try to carry back the corpses of the defeated soldiers, but found that it was impossible because the blood had frozen the corpses with the ice in the river. All they could do was to break off the identity tags on the corpses. bring back.

"This place is completely different from North Africa!" Kuhn couldn't help but whispered next to Qin Chuan.

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied.

There is no doubt about this. Almost everyone knows that the Soviet battlefield is different from North Africa, but at the same time... almost everyone did not expect that the difference would be so big. This gave the elite division of the First Infantry Regiment a chance to become a new one. The feeling of a newbie and a rookie.

"We should have someone adapting!" Kuhn said worriedly: "We have at least a week to learn the basic knowledge of the desert before we enter the desert, but here... we were thrown directly from the plane, and no one told us What to pay attention to in the ice and snow! "

"They don't have this time!" Qin Chuan flexed his almost frozen fingers and said, "Or it can be said that we don't have this time. You have also seen those defeated troops. If it weren't for us... they would soon Overtaken by the Soviets!"

Kuhn nodded in agreement.

At this time, the sentry on the other side of the river waved a small red flag to warn this side, and then ran back from the other side on both hands and feet.

Qin Chuan knew what this meant... The enemy is coming, the Soviets!