USSR 1941

  Chapter 49 Reconnaissance

  When Shulka first entered the forest, he only felt the darkness, and it took him a while to get used to it, and he could see something vaguely.

   Shulka became nervous for no reason, because even if the enemy was standing beside him, he couldn't tell the difference.

But Shulka soon discovered that this worry was unnecessary, because there was a faint light in the depths of the forest... Although the light was very vague, it was still very obvious in the dark forest. To a certain extent, it also distinguishes between ourselves and the enemy.

   "Germans!" said Pukarev in a low voice, and he recognized the whispered conversation in German.

   "Can we go back?" Long Legs asked.

   It seems that Shulka is not the only one who is afraid.

   "No, Abramvich!" Pukarev replied: "We must at least find out what kind of arms they are and how many people there are!"

  Pukarev is right, reconnaissance should not be superfluous. Otherwise, how should they report back?

  Report Major, Germans in the forest?

  So a group of people spread out and crawled forward cautiously.

   Shulka felt a little bad on the road, because there were traces of tank tracks, and he also found several trees that had been pushed down...

   "Tank!" Shulka whispered to Pukarev.

  Pukarev nodded and gestured to Shulka to stop talking. They were already very close to the target.

Suddenly, the sound of a match being struck was heard in front of them, and the faces of two German sentries were illuminated by the flames. They gathered together and lit a cigarette... This saved Pukarev and his party, otherwise they would not have known that there was a fire in this position. Sentinel lurks.

  Then things were relatively simple: the two German sentries were talking and puffing, the flames from the cigarette butts exposed their positions, and Shulka could even see a little light reflected from their helmets.

  Then, a few Soviet soldiers jumped up from the darkness and pushed them down to the ground. Several military thorns stabbed them indiscriminately.

  Afterwards, the soldiers realized that this was not what Pukarev hoped for. Pukarev hoped to catch a live one, so that they could really retreat and ask the captives to understand the situation.

  From this point of view, the soldiers were obviously not professional enough, which made Pukarev sigh in annoyance, and ordered the soldiers to move on.

  In order not to be discovered by the enemy, the soldiers advanced very slowly, and it took a full ten minutes to climb to the destination.

   At this moment, they breathed a sigh of relief... There were more than a dozen cars parked in the forest, and more than 20 car soldiers gathered together and lay down under the trees to rest.

Shulka thought that they should be the logistics troops who had traveled all the way here, because the vanguard was right ahead and did not need supplies for the time being, so they hid in the forest to rest, and two of them were wearing cloth masks Write a diary with a flashlight...the light comes from the flashlight.

   There are more than 20 people, and they are also logistics troops.

  Pukarev didn't think much, he stood up suddenly with his submachine gun in his hand, and shouted: "Hands up, you bastards! Don't shoot, catch alive..."

The latter sentence was shouted to his subordinates. Pukarev was worried that the Soviet soldiers who were in a state of high tension would shoot and wipe out all these enemies... They needed to capture a few prisoners to ask about the situation, and they did not dare to expose them easily. own position, because no one is sure whether there are other enemies nearby.

  The German soldiers who were suddenly surrounded were all stunned. One turned over and wanted to get a gun, but was quickly knocked down by the **** of a gun from a Soviet soldier who came out of the darkness.

   "Be honest!" Pukarev ordered: "Hands up!"

Although the Germans could not understand Russian, they could still understand the warning, so they raised their hands one after another... Although the German army was very brave in combat, it was not the case with the logistics troops who had not received much professional training, let alone in this situation They have no chance at all.

   Soon, Major Gavrilov and others who received the notification also led the troops into the forest.

   "Good job!" Major Gavrilov praised Pukarev, and then asked people to remove the supplies in the rear compartment of the car for inspection.

  The results of the inspection were disappointing. They were all ammunition and gasoline... This should be said to be normal. These are what the frontline needs most, especially the mechanized troops walking ahead.

  The problem is that these things are garbage to Soviet soldiers.

   "How nice it would be if they had a cart of food!" Commissar Fuming said, "Then we can go back to the swamp and move on!"

   "Gasoline and grenades are still useful!" Lieutenant Venyakov said: "And explosives..."

Major Gavrilov didn’t care about these things. He gestured awkwardly with the German soldiers, because no one in the Soviet army could speak German and none of the captives could speak Russian, so the interrogation was very difficult, even with a gun. Touching the captive's head didn't help either.

  Shuerka was quick to think, and asked in English: "Does any of you speak English?"

   This not only surprised the German prisoners, but even Major Gavrilov and others cast doubtful eyes on Shulka... This made Shulka realize that he should find an excuse for this.

  The German prisoners hesitated for a while, and then a second lieutenant nodded and replied in English: "Yes, I can speak English!"

   So the interrogation can proceed normally, but this is not a good thing.

because…

   "The front is an armored battalion belonging to the 13th Armored Division of the 1st Armored Group!" Shulka reported: "They have at least thirty-five tanks!"

   "Thirty-five tanks..."

  Everyone gasped after hearing this number.

  The Soviet army only had 500 people. Even if they seized the German gasoline, grenades, and explosives, and they still attacked from the rear, I am afraid that they would not be able to play any role.

   "Also!" Shulka then reported: "Their follow-up troops are rushing all the way here, and they may arrive in half an hour!"

Shulka believes this is true, because this is the German blitzkrieg...In order to catch the enemy by surprise before they are ready, the German troops usually rush forward day and night, tank soldiers, automobile soldiers, etc. It is common to not sleep for days and nights.

   This is one of the reasons why these auto soldiers hid in the forest to rest and were captured by Shulka and others.

   "Great!" Venyakov laughed at himself: "We have fallen into the enemy's encirclement again!"

   "I think the situation is much better now than before!" Major Gavrilov said: "At least we are close to our own troops, and all we have to do... is to cross the enemy's line!"

  Although it is easy to say, everyone knows that it will be different in practice, and it can even be said that there is no chance.

  (end of this chapter)