Nineteenth Century Medical Guide

Chapter 266 262. Two Abandons
Aleister's judgment was not wrong, the main road to the west had always been excluded from their escape route by Mendelstein.

The main reason is that the west is close to Gablenz, and the route is not suitable for escape.The cavalry team was short of manpower, and had lost a lot of people in the blocking battle, and only about 40 people arrived in the town. Only 8 of the 3 wounded soldiers can return to the team now, and the others need to rest.

When choosing, you need to make trade-offs.

At least 35 of the 15 people need to be responsible for preparing food, which is the top priority when food is cut off, while the remaining 20 soldiers need to be responsible for the three exits.

Originally, the west side was not considered, but Mendelstein chose to empathize with Aleister's previous analysis, but he did not further predict the opponent's prediction.He chose a more secure approach. The ratio of the number of people at the east, north, and west exits was 5:12:3, and the north gate was his key target of prevention.

The reason is not only that the north gate is the best place to escape, but also because the other party chose the north when they abandoned their car on the gravel road three days ago and fled.

Judging from the manpower distribution, Mendelstein concluded that they would go to the north gate. The 12 may not seem like many people, but after three days of observation, doctors accounted for the majority of those who stayed in the church, and not many were capable of fighting.

A team of 12, relying on the height of the second floor of the residential building and the advantages of weapons in hand, can completely prevent the opponent from moving.If handled properly, it is not impossible to quickly eliminate the opponent's armed forces.

Of course, since it is a pre-judgment, there is a possibility of mistakes. The key is whether there is a back-up after the mistake.

If the opponent chooses the other two exits, according to the previous arrangement, as soon as there is gunfire, the other three places need to be supported as soon as possible, and people must stay in the town.Now the number of people in the north and south is the largest, no matter whether they are going east or west, they can be in place quickly.

Before 6 o'clock in the morning, before dawn, the guards of the church were removed, and the three guards were in place one after another.

In charge of the west is a squad leader, Lena, and two young soldiers.

Reiner is considered a veteran. He has been a soldier in Mendelstein's hands since he was the squad leader, and he has rich experience in reconnaissance.And those two young soldiers were recruits who only joined the army in July. They fought a few battles afterward, but their actions were still very immature. It was a typical example of one old and two new.

Just 10 minutes before the gunshots sounded, Leiner guessed that someone was coming to his side.

"Come on, cheer up, someone is here."

"Are you really here?!" The two recruits who were still yawning just now were shocked, and the cat looked at the main intersections in the distance from the window, "...that's not right, squad leader, there is no one outside."

"Stupid or not, what's the use of making preparations when someone really arrives on the road?" Reiner pointed to the distance, "Look over there, do you understand?"

"Over there? What?"

"Birds!" Reiner sighed, "It's the direction of the church that can startle so many birds in the early morning. Someone must be here!"

The two soldiers quickly stuffed the bullets into the barrels, lowered the curtains on both sides, and only exposed a slit to observe the movement outside the street.A few minutes later, a face appeared in the alley on the corner of the street, and after a while, three figures rushed out from the corner.

"It's coming! It's really coming this time!"

The recruit was very excited and reported the situation to Lena beside him.This time, it was Reiner who was calm. He just glanced outside and said, "No hurry, those three are just here to find the way, wait a minute."

"Wait? Everyone has come out!"

"There are more than 20 of them, what's the rush?" Leiner sat on the ground and began to prepare bullets, "Just watch, and put the barrel back! Don't let people find our position when we shoot later!"

This is just a normal warning.

After all, I only have two people in my hands, and the recruits are inexperienced, so I need to clearly tell them how to better hide their position.No matter how many times he asked Reiner, he would choose to say that, but he would never have thought that it was this routine warning that made the already clear situation confusing.

The sudden gunshots pierced the sky, shocking everyone in the guards.

In an instant, Dries was shot and was on the verge of death, and Smith was isolated on the road, and could only rely on his experience to hide by a tree.

At the same time, the sudden gunshot also startled Reiner.Originally, there were only three people here, and it was more for monitoring and delaying time.You shouldn't shoot unless you have to, at least not right now.

"Made, who fired the gun?!"

The recruit who escaped the fire stood there stupidly, not knowing what to say for a while.

Reiner leaned against the window, fanned away the smoke produced by the explosion of the gunpowder, raised the gun in his hand, and fired another shot at the position where he had just shot.Another recruit next to him also understood and shot along with him.

After three shots were fired, the two of them drew back and dodged to both sides.

Lena put on a face, suppressed his voice, and asked again: "Who told you to shoot???"

"When I retracted the gun, I accidentally pressed it"

"Didn't you practice guns when you were in the army? Can this go off?" Leiner was so angry that his lungs were about to explode, but he still got up and secretly opened a corner of the curtain to look out the window. For a moment, "Do you know the consequences of such a shot?"

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"Do you know why we are here?"

Another recruit interjected, "Stop them?"

"Is it useful to stop it?" Reiner said, "How big is the town of Otaka? How many of us? What if they run away? How can we catch them? Don't you want to stay here all the time? You need to know the town The surrounding area is only a fence, although it is very high, it is not barbed wire after all. It really drove them into a hurry, and they can spend some time climbing over the wall to get out one by one."

According to the approach of the several squad leaders in charge of the intersection, they should wait for all the people to show up, block them on the side of a road with no other forks, and then wait for support.

Prussian soldiers are not medical teams, they only have guns in their hands, and they are much faster.It took less than 10 minutes to sprint at full speed from the two exits of the north and the south. As soon as the support arrived, these people would be the turtles in the urn, and there was no way to escape.

Now this sudden shot hit the opponent with a crooked shot, which seemed to be a good thing.But if you put aside this human life and look at the whole situation, Reiner's side must be at a loss.

Smith's position is not far from the corner, about 30-40 meters.If it wasn't for the two additional shots later, making the opponent think that there are many people here, maybe the opponent has already dragged the wounded soldiers back to the position just now.

After all, all three of them need to reload and aim. It is almost impossible to shoot each other in just ten seconds.

Once everyone evacuated from this main road, their whereabouts would be completely out of control.

It's okay if it's just out of control. The key problem is that the gunshots just now have attracted soldiers from the north and south. If they thought of this, Leiner would be so angry that he slapped the wall.But it's useless to be angry now, you must immediately stabilize the opposite side to prevent them from escaping.

He took out a newspaper from the bookcase behind him, rolled it into a loudspeaker tube, and then lifted the curtain and shouted: "Our commander knows that you are the Austrian escort, escorting officers and doctors to escape from the front line. Now four We have sealed all the exits, you cannot escape, the only thing you can do is to surrender!"

After finishing a sentence, before the other party could react, he retracted his head.

This is a very risky move. If the other party is eager for rewards, exposing the position is likely to wipe out the three-person team.But now Leiner can't think of any other way. He definitely can't fight them. With the three guns in their hands, there are only a dozen bullets per minute. Counting the shooting deviation, it may not be able to stop them.

All he can do now is pure verbal intimidation.

"Why is there no response?" Leiner looked at the two team members, thought for a moment, and raised the newspaper tube just now, "No one shot either."

"See what's going on?"

"Those two people are still there, they haven't left."

Leiner nodded, and decided to add a few sticks of firewood to that paragraph, to make the fire more intense: "Your Sixth Army has suffered a disastrous defeat, and our main division is heading here. As long as you surrender, our captain promises to give you preferential treatment!"

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After shouting loudly, the street was still quiet.Smith dragged Dries, who was shot just now, and was still hiding by the tree, and the guards were still hiding in the dark corner of the corner and stood still.The situation was the same as when the shot was fired just now, but it always gave Reiner a strange feeling.

"not good!"

He stood up suddenly, raised his gun and aimed at the tree first, and then quickly aimed the gun at the corner
There is no movement!

Just as he was about to take the two recruits out of the house to bite the group just now, Smith, who had been hiding by the tree, cried bitterly: "Captain, captain, wake up! Captain knew this before, we surrendered back then How nice it is!"

Lena was overjoyed when he heard that.

Could it be that the person who shot just now was the captain of the other side's guard?
Leiner knew very well that this kind of small unit was separated from the main force for a long time, and people's hearts were easily scattered, so a commander with charisma was very much needed.As long as the captain falls, they will most likely become a mess.

"The bullet just now was just a warning. If you don't surrender again, you will bear the consequences." He calculated the time for support, raised the newspaper tube again, and shouted, "I'll give you another five minutes to think about it."

After saying this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, very satisfied with his on-the-spot judgment.

Of course, Reiner was not simple, he was not completely immersed in this kind of joy, and he made a replay of what happened just now.

This is actually the same as an exam. When I first got it, I found that I couldn’t understand a few questions, but I was inspired by doing it, and wrote the answer eloquently.But the harsh reality is that self-confidence often collapses suddenly at the final inspection stage.

And the problem is in the shouting.

In the next 5 minutes, he gradually found that he seemed to have missed the opportunity to make up for the chaos after the cold shot.The opponent's large army hiding at the corner may have left from the beginning.

The person hiding behind the tree in front of him is just one abandoned child, oh no, it should be two.

"Follow me! Quick!!!"

Leiner threw away the newspaper tube, got up, raised his gun and rushed downstairs.The two recruits were also unambiguous, and they got up and took their guns very quickly.But when the old squad leader just opened the door and wanted to go after Aleister, there was another gunshot. The bullet hit his ear and directly hit the forehead of a recruit behind him.

"Made! Emilov!"

Reiner slammed the door shut, turned and hid by the wall.As for the recruit who had been with him for less than three months, his right eye was completely shattered at this time, and a bullet hit his head, and his face was covered with blood.

"I'm sorry, Prussians, we chose not to surrender." Smith across the street leaned against a tree, immediately reloaded his rifle, then continued to turn and crouch, aiming the gun at the door, "Come out if you have the ability, Come one and I'll hit one."

From the moment Reiner closed the door, he knew he had lost.

Not only let the person escape, but was blocked in the house by the other party instead.There was only one person on the other side. If he had been more decisive just now, neither of them would have been affected by Amilov's shooting, and they would have rushed forward, and they should have been able to kill him before the other side reloaded.

But now that the door is closed, the opponent has enough time to reload. The doors and windows of the house are all facing this direction, and if they want to go out, they will face the attack of the next bullet.

The one who used to fight the blocker became the assaulter, while the one who used to rush forward played the blocker.

Offensive and defensive changes.

Unlike Reiner, Aleister on the other side was very decisive. After seeing Dries was shot and judged that his side could not support, he decisively chose to leave.This kind of decisiveness is not entirely a reaction on the spot, nor is he cold-blooded, but relies on the escape plan that has been made before.

"Meeting each other" has always been in Aleister's calculations.

If it's just persuasion, they may also be able to make a fuss about the surgical team and French journalists.But if there is a firefight, what the entire guard team has to do is still the same as the original block, the large troops escape first, and the scout post in front tries to delay the time as much as possible.

The escape route was also planned beforehand.

As long as he finds two north and south exits to support the fastest road to the west, he can arrange an escape route that avoids the opponent's sight. At this time, it will be much safer to choose the east or north.

"Follow me, this way." Aleister stood on the side of the road, directing the team to retreat, and said in a low voice, "Take your steps lightly and don't talk!"

"Why doesn't Smith come back?"

"If he comes back, won't our intentions be exposed? And who will stop those enemies?"

"There aren't many people on the other side?"

"You mean to rush out directly?"

"Correct."

"There are at least three people on the other side, at least, and they are holding fast-loading rifles." Aleister said, "You saw the shot just now, and it hit the neck accurately during the action. If you want to rush out like this, I'm afraid no one will I can run to the entrance of the town alive."

Although Smith was disrespectful to himself, it was not too serious.

After all, Karvey is a doctor, and seeing him face the enemy alone makes him feel uncomfortable.

"He violated military discipline by pointing a gun at you just now. Seriously speaking, this is tantamount to treason." Aleister looked at Carvey with a cold face, "If you think he shouldn't die, then please follow him quickly." Get in line, and we'll get out of here together."

(End of this chapter)