Hearing Sokov and Lunev's conversation in a code-like manner, Khokhlov asked in surprise: "Comrade Commander, can you tell me what article do you plan to take advantage of the loss of contact between the enemy and the superior?"
Sokov didn't speak, but just smiled faintly. And Lunev said, "Comrade Colonel, since the enemy does not know that their vanguard troops have been destroyed, then we can use this to disguise our troops as German troops and raid their camps."
Khokhlov was startled by Lunev's words: "Military Commissioner, what did you say, let our people pretend to be Germans and attack their camp?"
Lunev nodded and asked back, "Yes, is there something wrong?"
"There are too many people, it is easy to be exposed." Khokhlov said with some concern: "But if the number is too small, it is possible to be annihilated by the enemy."
"Comrade Colonel, have you forgotten our new rocket?" Sokov said with a smile: "As long as we know the location of the enemy camp, we can completely strike them at a long-range attack. It can not only cause them major losses, but also minimize our casualties."
Although Khokhlov had seen the power of new rockets during the exercise, he still did not dare to take it lightly: "Comrade Commander, can it really work if you use new rockets to attack the enemy's camp?"
"In the past few months, I have sent small troops behind enemy lines to attack the enemy's key targets many times and achieved great results." Sokov said confidently: "Comrade Colonel, arrange manpower immediately and prepare to sneak attack the enemy's camp while the night is dark."
"Comrade Commander, if our team that carried out a sneak attack was discovered by the enemy, how should they get out?"
"Didn't you seize a few German armored personnel carriers?" Sokov was really amused when he saw that Khokhlov was still worried, but he still explained to the other party patiently: "Surprising the enemy's squad, taking the captured armored personnel carrier to the enemy's camp. Once the attack is completed, he will immediately move in the armored personnel carrier. Even if the enemy notices it, it may not be easy to catch up with them."
Khokhlov thought about it carefully and it seemed that this was the case. The troops established a launching position a few kilometers away from the enemy's camp, and immediately moved after completing the attack with rockets. Even if the enemy noticed the location of the squad and waited for them to arrive, the squad would have disappeared without a trace.
"Comrade Commander," said Khokhlov, who had confidence, quickly: "I will draw personnel and form a small team to attack the enemy camp at night."
"Wait a minute, comrade Colonel." Seeing that Khokhlov was about to prepare to arrange personnel, Sokov reminded him: "I have a few more points to add: First, there must be more German-speaking soldiers in the small team participating in the operation, so that even if you encounter enemy investigations on the road, you can easily deal with them; second, you must understand the enemy's contact information so that you can lock in the enemy's camp in the shortest time."
"Don't worry, Comrade Commander." After Sokov finished speaking, he immediately assured him: "I will definitely arrange the task properly and will never let your trust down."
The squad sent behind the enemy, commanded by Captain Geria, had a total of thirty-six soldiers, including two radio operators. They would be in four armored vehicles and carried fifty new rockets to carry out night attacks near the enemy's camp.
It was darker in summer, so Geria chose to set off at 10:40, so that they could get dark after driving on the road for about twenty minutes, and the enemy's reconnaissance planes could not be deployed, making their actions difficult to be noticed.
Through the contact information obtained from the prisoners, the team contacted the German troops who were more than ten kilometers away through the captured radio station, and found out their specific location. After figuring out the enemy's location, the team commanded by Geria quickly drove to the enemy's camp in armored vehicles.
When they were seven or eight kilometers away from the camp, they encountered a patrol team composed of five tricycles. The leader was a German lieutenant. With the help of the bright moonlight, he saw several armored vehicles coming from the distance and quickly ordered all motorcycles to park on the side of the road. After the motorcycle stopped, he came out of the standby, stood in the middle of the road, raised his right hand with white gloves, and signaled to stop the approaching armored vehicle.
Seeing the German army blocking the road ahead, the soldiers sitting next to Geria couldn't help but feel a little panicked, and asked in a low voice: "Captain, have we been discovered by the enemy?"
"No. If they had seen through our identities, they would have fired long ago." Geria saw that most of the German soldiers were still sitting in the stands, and even the soldiers operating machine guns looked lazy, as if they had no doubt about the identity of their squad, so she said boldly: "Let the German-speaking soldiers deal with him."
The armored vehicle stopped a few meters away from the German lieutenant. A soldier wearing the rank of sergeant stood up and looked at the German lieutenant standing on the road, and asked, "Sir Lieutenant, is there anything wrong?"
"Which part of you are?" the lieutenant asked with his hands behind his back, "Where are you going now?"
"We are from the Third Company of the First Battalion of the Third Grenadier Regiment of the Imperial Division, and the platoon leader Lieutenant Phillips." The sergeant quickly replied respectfully: "Because the ammunition and fuel are almost exhausted, we are preparing to return to the regiment headquarters to replenish it."
"Where did you come from?" the lieutenant asked.
“Shumakovo area.”
"Shumakovo area?" After repeating the place name, the lieutenant asked again: "Where is there a Russian defense line?"
"Yes, Mr. Lieutenant, there is a newly built defensive position for the Russians." The sergeant said: "We platoon launched two attacks on the Russians' positions, but unfortunately it was not successful. Not only were the two tanks that fought in concert were destroyed, but even Lieutenant Phillips was injured."
The reason why the sergeant mentioned the two tanks that cooperated in combat was because the armored vehicles they were riding were full of bullet marks, and there were even many places that were blackened by gunpowder smoke. If they didn't say that, it would easily arouse the suspicion of the German lieutenant.
After hearing what the lieutenant said, the lieutenant circled around their armored vehicles, touched the bullet marks on them with his hands and the position blackened by the smoke of gunpowder. He felt that what the lieutenant was saying was the truth. So he retreated to the side of the road, waved at the armored vehicles, and signaled that they could pass.
As the armored vehicles drove past the patrol one after another, Geria's heart finally put it back in her stomach. He left the trigger, raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and muttered to himself: "If it weren't for the concern that the target was exposed, with just a dozen of you, I would have ordered the soldiers to open fire and beat you to ashes. This time you are lucky, but if you meet you again next time, I will never spare you."
The convoy arrived at a forest about three kilometers away from the German camp. Geria ordered the car to park in the forest, and asked the soldiers to get out of the car and move, and seize the time to eat and drink some water.
A Soviet lieutenant who accompanied Geria said in confusion: "Captain, we are only two or three kilometers away from the German camp, why not attack them immediately?"
"Comrade Lieutenant," Geria looked at the lieutenant from other regiments and explained to him: "It's too early and many enemies have not yet rested. If we launch an attack at this moment, the enemies who survived the first attack will immediately disperse and find a suitable hidden position, and then our attack effect will be greatly reduced."
After Geria explained this, the lieutenant immediately understood his intention: "I understand, comrade Captain. You are planning to wait until the Germans are asleep before attacking them. When the enemy in the sleep is suddenly attacked, the reaction speed is much slower than usual. If we cannot make timely avoidance actions, we can eliminate more enemies."
The soldiers who had figured out Geria's intentions immediately dispersed. Some stood beside the armored vehicles and ate and drank water, some leaned against the trees and closed their eyes to rest, and some were collecting mushrooms in the forest. Geria did not stop the soldiers' actions, but reminded them: "Be careful when picking mushrooms, don't pick poisonous mushrooms."
"Don't worry, comrade Captain." A warrior squatting in the grass and prying mushrooms with a dagger, immediately responded when he heard Geria's words: "I go to the forest to pick mushrooms every summer. What are poisonous mushrooms and edible mushrooms? Even if I blindfold them, I can distinguish them."
The team rested in the forest until about three o'clock in the morning. Geria ordered everyone to get in the car and continue to rush to the German camp.
According to the prior plan, the team should have established a launch position two kilometers away from the German camp. However, Geria felt that the two kilometers would affect the shooting accuracy of the new rockets, so he took his own initiative to shorten the launch distance to one kilometer.
When the commanders and soldiers saw the brightly lit camp one kilometer away, they were a little nervous. They only had more than 30 people, and there were at least two or three thousand enemies on the other side. Once their whereabouts were exposed, they would probably not be able to escape.
As the trepidation of the commanders and fighters, Geria was extremely calm. In order to give the enemy a heavy blow in the first round of attacks, he decided to use twelve tubes to cover fire in a certain area of ​​the camp. When the launcher reported to him: "Captain, the rocket has been loaded, please instruct!"
"emission!"
When the twelve rockets dragged their long flame tails and flew to the enemy's camp, Geria didn't bother to check the results of the battle and ordered the soldiers: "Continue to load and prepare to launch again!"
The second rocket was just loaded, and the first rocket was fired and had already landed in the camp on the ground and exploded. For a moment, there were fire and burning smoke everywhere, and countless broken limbs, broken arms and weapon parts flew into the air.
The German officers and soldiers who were sleeping in the tent heard a shocking explosion outside, and they didn't understand that they were attacked by the Soviet army. The experienced veterans didn't even bother to wear clothes. They grabbed the weapons they placed beside them and rushed outside the tent.
But when they rushed outside the tent, they were a little stunned. They saw fires everywhere and smoke everywhere. Their comrades were running around like headless flies. Before these German soldiers made a decision, the second rocket arrived again, and the new area was blown into a sea of ​​fire, and countless German officers and soldiers were wiped out in the explosion.
After two rounds of attacks by twenty-four rockets, the German camp was in a mess, with wreckage of weapons and equipment destroyed by rockets and broken corpses of personnel.
Geria, who used a telescope to observe the results of the battle, saw that the attack worked and most of the enemy's camp was trapped in the sea of ​​fire, so he changed his mind temporarily. He ordered the launcher: "The third attack was cancelled, and the things were immediately put on the armored vehicle, and everyone was ready to transfer."
The launcher faithfully carried out Geria's order, moved the rockets onto the armored vehicles, and began to remove the set-up launch cylinders. Seeing this, the lieutenant questioned again: "Comrade Captain, the enemy's camp has not been eliminated yet, and we should continue to attack with rockets."
"Comrade Lieutenant," Geria temporarily changed his mind 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 was estimated that there was only one infantry battalion stationed here at most, and there was no need to consume precious rockets here. He said to the lieutenant: "According to my observation, this is just an infantry camp of the German army, with no tanks, armored vehicles, or even trucks, and it is not worth all the rockets we consume."
After Geria finished speaking, the lieutenant asked him for instructions: "Comrade Captain, what should we do next?"
"Transfer now." Geria said decisively: "Come around to see if you can find other German camps."
If Sokov heard Geria's words here, he would definitely scold him. The movements made here must have alarmed the nearby enemies. If you want to sneak attack the enemy's camp quietly with rockets, it is basically impossible. The most important thing you should do at the moment is to withdraw your defense zone immediately.
Geria would not think so much. Now he was determined to eliminate more Germans, so he took several armored vehicles around, hoping to accidentally discover a certain German camp and use the same trick again. But their luck was not good. After wandering around for several hours, he still did not find a new camp. Seeing that the sky began to brighten, Geria knew to continue to stay. Once it was dawn, it might be discovered by the enemy, so he issued an order to retreat to the soldiers.
As he approached his own defense zone, the armored convoy encountered the German motorcycle patrol again. Geria had just swore in his heart that if he met this patrol again, he would kill them resolutely. Since the enemy is coming to die again, how could he miss such a good opportunity?
Chapter completed!