Red Moscow.

  Chapter 94 A close call

The soldier leading the team just raised his head and wanted to call other comrades to rush forward with him, when he was hit by the bullets fired at the same time. A 7.92mm Mauser rifle bullet easily penetrated the steel helmet he was wearing , drilled in from the forehead, and flew out from the back of the head with a line of blood. The huge momentum of the bullet made his head **** backwards, and the posture of raising his head lasted for a moment before he plunged forward into the snow.

In the distance, Pavel saw a company of soldiers leading the team die, and the way forward of the soldiers was blocked by dense bullets. He knew that if he continued to fight like this, the whole army would be easily wiped out, so he blew his whistle vigorously and used The whistle sounded to inform the soldiers of the first company and the second company to withdraw immediately.

   The first to hear the whistle was the soldiers of the company closest to Pavel. Hearing the order to retreat, the two surviving fighters retreated hurriedly. One of them asked Pavel loudly: "Comrade Corporal, our mission has not been completed, why should we withdraw?"

   "The enemy's fire blockade is too tight. Even if you are all dead, you will not be able to rush through." Pavel said in a low voice: "As soon as the soldiers of the second company withdraw, we will retreat."

  After listening to Pavel's words, the soldier couldn't help asking in surprise: "But our task has not been completed, what should we do if the superior blames us?"

"Don't worry about this." When Pavel blew the whistle to inform the first company and the second company to retreat, he had already secretly made up his mind: "If the superior wants to blame me, I will bear all the responsibilities. Even if it is a court-martial , I will be shot, I admit it.” Then he ordered the machine gunner next to him, “Use firepower to cover the soldiers of the second company and withdraw.”

  When the soldiers of the machine gun company heard Pavel's order, they immediately shifted the direction of the machine guns, and the two machine guns formed a crossfire, strafing the charge formation of the German infantry, covering Christopher and his retreat.

  Under the cover of machine guns, Christopher successfully retreated with three soldiers. He lay beside Pavel, and while shooting at the rushing German army, he asked loudly, "Comrade Corporal, why haven't you blown up the cannon yet?"

"It's probably impossible to blow up." Pavel raised his gun and knocked down a German soldier who was rushing towards him in the distance, and explained to Christopher: "The defense of the artillery position is too tight, and a company of soldiers cannot rush up. Our actions It has been exposed, and a large number of enemies are rushing towards us. If they stay longer, the entire army will be wiped out. Christopher, I will cover, and you take the comrades of the first company and the second company to retreat first!"

   "Comrade Corporal," Christopher said unwillingly when he heard Pavel ordering himself to retreat, "You should lead people to retreat first, and I will stay and cover."

   "This is an order!" Pavel ordered Christopher in a stern tone, "Quick retreat!"

   "Yes!" Christopher agreed, and then said loudly: "Soldiers of the first and second companies, follow me!"

  After the infantry and artillery of the German army merged into one place, they used several machine guns to suppress the firepower of the machine gun company, while the infantry formed a sparse formation, leaping forward in a short distance, rushing towards the broken Pavel and the others. Pavel and the others only had two machine guns, four submachine guns, and two rifles. It was obviously impossible to completely seal off the front that was hundreds of meters wide, so they could only attack the enemies who rushed to the front first.

When Pavel heard that the machine gun that was firing beside him suddenly stopped moving, he quickly took advantage of the opportunity to change the magazine, and quickly turned his head to take a look. He saw that the machine gun shooter was already lying on the machine gunner. It should have been shot by German bullets. Hit. The deputy shooter pushed his body away, adjusted the angle, and fired at the enemy again.

  The two machine guns of the machine gun company caused seventy or eighty casualties to the German army in just ten minutes. In order to eliminate this threat, the German commander not only arranged for a sniper to deal with them; he also concentrated all the machine guns and suppressed them.

The deputy shooter had just finished firing a chain, and was waiting for the ammunition hand next to him to help change the chain, when a string of machine gun bullets flew in and opened the sky cover, and red and white things splashed on the faces of Pavel and the ammo hand . After changing the ammunition belt, the ammunitionist wiped his face, gritted his teeth, and fired frantically at the rushing German soldiers.

  Bavel held the submachine gun expressionlessly, and kept shooting short bursts, knocking down the enemies who rushed up one after another. Although the bullets fired by the enemy kept hitting the snow around him, splashing countless snow powder, but he didn't move his position, just kept shooting.

When the machine gun fire around him stopped again, Pavel found that the ammunitionist had also been killed by German bullets, and only two seriously wounded people were left alive. Said to operate the machine gun. Pavel threw the empty submachine gun on the snow, rolled sideways, pushed away the body of the ammunition man, drew out the machine gun, rearranged its position, and fired at the Germans again.

  He had just knocked down two German soldiers who rushed to less than ten meters away from him, when he suddenly felt a heat on the right side of his face, and then felt that his eyes were black, and fell beside the machine gun. His coma lasted only about ten seconds. The severe pain from his face woke him up. He raised his hand to touch his face and found that his hand was full of blood.

  He tried to keep shooting, but couldn't lift his head. He reached for a hand grenade stuck in the belt, gently unscrewed the cover, put his little finger on the ring, and was ready to pull the string when the Germans rushed over and die with them.

  Seeing that the shooting of the Soviet army stopped suddenly, the Germans slowed down and walked cautiously towards Pavel's position with their guns in hand. Hearing the sound of the German's footsteps getting closer, Pavel exerted a little force with his fingers, which made the string of the grenade tense, and he pulled the string as soon as the German came to him.

   But at this moment, he suddenly remembered the sound of intensive machine gun fire. Those German soldiers who had already approached him were shot one after another amidst the sound of gunfire, and fell down in the snow with a thump. "What's the matter with this gunshot? Where did so many machine guns come from? Could it be that our reinforcements have arrived?" This was Pavel's last feeling before he lost consciousness.

  The German soldiers were beaten, but they soon discovered that this powerful machine gun fire came from the north. The German commander thought to himself: What the **** is going on? Did the Russians on the high ground come down? Also, how do they have so many MG34 machine guns? Before he could make any decision, he heard the sound of "Ulla" in the distance, muffled by the sound of machine gun fire.

   "Not good, the large Russian troops are coming up!" The German commander immediately had this idea when he heard the sound of "Ulla", and he quickly ordered: "Retreat, retreat quickly!"

  (end of this chapter)