Chapter 816 Carrying hope
"Russians, Russians are coming!"
"Support, we have suffered heavy casualties! Where is Team 1!? We need support!"
"Bullets! Who has bullets? Give them to me!"
Fully automatic weapons such as submachine guns and machine guns are indeed very useful in narrow tunnels and can exert good combat power.
But the similar reason that a bitch meets a rapist also applies to war. The tunnel warfare that should have been full of automatic weapons unfortunately encountered a flamethrower, which is an unreasonable thing.
The flamethrower, a war demon created by humans, can be said to be one of the most brutal and inhumane individual weapons in the history of human warfare. Dealing with flamethrowers in open terrain is already a headache. Now facing the flamethrower's tyranny in this narrow underground tunnel, how bad the situation faced by the German army is simply imaginable.
The ruthless flames galloped over a length of more than 30 meters, burning the German soldiers in the tunnel corridor into firemen running around and wailing constantly.
Those who were burned to death on the spot were finally relieved, and those who were not completely burned to death but were on fire had to continue to endure the pain. The remaining German soldiers who were not on fire but watched their teammates being burned to death were not much better. The huge mental and inner pressure almost crushed them alive!
"I can't stand it! I can't stand it anymore! This is hell. We are sending ourselves to die, not fighting! I'm going to surrender to the Russians. It's too worthless to die like this!"
The burst of the dam began with the small crack at the beginning. Whether what happened afterwards would deteriorate to an irreversible degree depends on whether someone can stand up in time to block the crack.
Fortunately, although the German army is in a crisis at the moment, there are still people who can stand up and turn the tide at the critical moment.
Bang——
The young armored grenadier who put down the MP40 submachine gun in his hand had just run a short distance when a gunshot from behind forcibly interrupted his footsteps before he could land again.
The German soldier who was shot in the chest from behind didn't even have the strength to struggle to look at the wound. He immediately struggled forward and fell to the ground. He fell to the ground face-first and only struggled a few times before he died. A large amount of blood gushed out of the wound and quickly formed a pool of blood. The other German soldiers who witnessed this terrible scene were terrified.
"I did what the Russians would definitely do for them! Do you think the Russians will let us go if we surrender like this? If you know the correct answer, you should know what to do next!"
Although the words are simple, the truth is very profound.
Being selected to join the commando team to do this is almost certainly a bloody job with no return. These nearly 100 German soldiers may not all be die-hard fanatics of the Führer, but at least they are determined to go there without return and have no intention of leaving alive from the beginning.
As for the coward who was frightened and dropped his weapon to run to the Russians to surrender, to put it bluntly, it was just that his psychological endurance was not up to standard, and the determination he made before setting off was crushed by the inhumane flamethrower.
If he was really a coward from the beginning, he would not have come to do this semi-voluntary life-threatening job.
The remaining dozen or so German veterans who responded in silence naturally knew that even if they surrendered immediately, the group of Russians with flames in their hands would definitely not treat them well and let them go.
In other words, the group of Russians on the opposite side had no intention of letting them go at all, and all the ideas of surrender were just limited to illusory fantasies.
Otherwise, according to the current battle situation, the Russians should have persuaded them to surrender long ago. Until now, they have not said a word and are only focused on advancing forward and rushing forward. Even a fool can see whether they intend to leave any survivors.
"What should we do? Fight the Russians?!"
A German veteran who had used up all the magazines of his MP40 submachine gun and took out the last spare magazine from the gear on his chest asked a question with some sadness. The real psychological situation of mixed feelings and not knowing what to do made him really not know what to do at the moment.
"It's death anyway! Rather than dying as a prisoner in the hands of the Russians, I would rather die in battle. I believe the Führer will treat and take good care of my family! He promised!"
"Maybe we can fight out from the back door, and one team after another may have succeeded!"
Those who fanatically believed in the Führer planned to fight to the death, while those who still held a glimmer of hope in their hearts did not give up the last hope.
In the end, those who did not want to die eventually occupied the majority. The remnants of the German army, who had little ammunition left, fought and retreated, and retreated towards the direction of the combat command hall where Chuikov was, that is, the direction of the attack of the first team assigned the main attack task.
Putting all the eggs in one basket is not a smart thing to do. However, the German army has no choice but to put all the remaining hope on their teammates and hope for a miracle.
Unfortunately, the goddess of victory did not stand on the side of the Germans this time.
Malashenko, who has more than 400 people under his command, naturally cannot order all the troops to rush into the tunnel at once and drill hard. This is a low-level tactical mistake that only a fool would make.
Chuikov, who retreated from the back door, had just walked halfway with his men when he ran into the second unit led by Captain Karamov, the commander-in-chief of the army, who had come around from the back door tunnel of the group army headquarters.
This second force separated by Malashenko has a small number of people, only more than 100 and less than 200, and its personnel are mostly composed of non-combatants, such as mechanics and repairmen of the field maintenance battalion. , plus some civilian staff in Malashenko's regiment headquarters, and even a few survivors of the Workers' Armed Forces who picked up the guy for the first time, it can be called a variety of things.
However, no matter how small the number, no matter how complicated the composition of the personnel, there were more than 100 armed soldiers. The German assault team, which consisted of only more than 20 people and less than 30 people, chased Chuikov all the way to the rear and not far away. After being caught off guard and suddenly bumping into a fire ambush point deliberately set by Captain Karamov and his men, and being shot to death nine people at once, they had no choice but to give in on the spot and start retreating.
Ironically, the idea of the first assault team and the idea of the large force behind are actually the same to some extent.
"As long as we can fight with the large army, we will definitely be able to get out! Their battle situation will definitely be much better than ours!"
