Saving Private

On the train to Kimon, Lieutenant Stephen found that his soldiers were not talking and laughing as they used to. They were either sitting in the corner of the carriage with their eyes closed, or they were wiping their weapons. Nuel carefully taught the few soldiers who had never used machine guns how to load, aim and shoot. Although everyone's faces were calm, they were actually heavy.

When there were occasional sparse shell explosions in the distance, Stephen and the others could already see the thick smoke rising from Quimon City. The closer you get to Kimon, the more intense the sound of rifles and machine guns.

The carriage where Stephen was in was originally used for loading coal. There was no roof on it. The wall of the carriage was less than one person high. Soldiers put their rifles on the carriage wall, and the whole carriage was filled with rattling bullets.

"Everyone pay attention to the surroundings!" The shouts of the officers gave orders from the front carriage, although the soldiers in this carriage heard them, Lieutenant Stephen repeated it loudly. Everyone's spirits became tenser and tenser until there was a loud whistle in the woods and the figure of a few Russian cavalries, the German soldiers finally broke out, they all pulled the trigger in their hands, rifles and machine guns desperately fired at the woods. , The bullet shell fell on the floor of the carriage and there was a string of crisp crashing sounds, but there was no human figure there.

"Stop shooting! Stop shooting!" Amidst the shouts of the officers, the soldiers finally stopped.

"Damn! That's just the Russian scout cavalry!" Looking at the bullet shells all over the floor, Stephen shook his head helplessly. These soldiers who had only participated in a few battles often seemed not calm enough.

After this, several groups of Russian scout cavalry appeared near the train, and when the train slowly stopped, they all disappeared without a trace.

Here, the soldiers can already see the roofs that Keimon lost.

"Get out of the car! Get out of the car!" An order came from the front, and Stephen led his soldiers to climb out of the car, but they were stunned by the scene in front of them.

On the flat ground in front of the train, there were corpses of German soldiers in gray uniforms everywhere, and some underground railways in front of them had been blown up several meters. The rails on both sides of the gap bend outwards, and in the middle is a big black hole. German artillery, machine guns, and ammunition boxes were scattered everywhere. The dead German soldiers had different postures, some lying on the ground, some lying on the ground, and some leaning on other things, but they basically had one or many deep stab wounds on their bodies. Some people's eyes are still wide open.

"There are still people alive there!" a soldier cried. Following the direction of his fingers, people saw two blood-stained soldiers sitting beside a horse-free carriage, only they blinked occasionally. The difference between them and the surrounding corpses can only be found on the eyelids.

The soldiers coming off the train slowly surrounded them with guns in their hands. "Get out of the way!" A hoarse voice came from not far away, and the soldiers stepped out of a passage. The 305 regiment commander Neubart and other officers appeared in front of everyone. When Neubart approached the two soldiers, several medical soldiers were bandaging them. "What happened here?" The two soldiers looked up. With fear in his eyes, one of the older soldiers said in an extremely frustrated tone: "We are soldiers of the 407 regiment of the Walbeck division. We have been stationed south of Kemun since this morning and built there. Trenches are the main defensive position. At about 3 in the afternoon, the Russian cavalry surrounded Kimon, but they did not immediately attack. About half an hour later, the Russian infantry began to attack from the east of Kimon, our commander Wall Colonel Baker commanded 6 regiments to fight against the Russian army in the east, but they were quickly defeated. Then we received the order to break through to the south. Our regiment set out from the position as the vanguard and walked south along the railway. When we got here, countless Russian cavalry suddenly came up from all directions. We were caught off guard, and now we are the only two of us left in our regiment!" Everyone in the field was stunned, and it took a long time for Neubart to speak. Asked: "What about your teacher?"

"He has left the city of Kimon with the remaining troops. He should now be in the position built before our regiment. The Russian cavalry who attacked us then went there!" The

regimental commander motioned to the soldiers behind to help them to the train, and then Let the signaller report the situation here to the headquarters, and then gather the battalion and company commanders in the regiment.

"The current situation is that the Walbeck division may not be able to break through with their own strength, we must go to meet them!" Before receiving instructions from the superior, Neubart made such a decision.

"But the Russian cavalry..."

The other officers felt lingering over the scene just now. One regiment was eaten by the Russians. He is now also a regiment, and the 306 regiment is still on the next train.

"I have already sent a report to the 306th regiment. They will be here on the train. Our task is to make a passage from behind the Russian cavalry, and then follow the retreat of the Volbeck division! Now, let the soldiers unload the rapid-fire guns from the train. , The artillery stayed behind to prepare for fire support. When the Walbeck division withdrew, they were allowed to sit in the carriages with cannons, and then we would blow up the cannons, understand?"

There are a total of 5 carriages on the back of this train Twenty 77mm rapid-fire guns were installed. Those carriages used to hold soldiers could only hold a few hundred people, but there was no objection. Perhaps those who returned alive were still dissatisfied with those carriages.

"Okay, let's set off in 5 minutes! Each company must take care of each other, and pay special attention to protecting the machine gunner!" The commander looked at his watch and said at 4:05.

When Stephen ran back to the company, all his soldiers were silent, and it seemed that they already knew what had happened.

"Everyone lined up! One row, one row, two rows, one row three, and the machine gunner stood in the middle of the queue. Don't panic once you find the Russian cavalry. Listen to my orders, understand?"

"Understood!" The soldiers lined up with a heavy hearts. Good queue, they quickly joined the queue next to the queue marching north.

It was only more than 3 miles from the place where the train stopped to Quimon. Before long, they saw the southern part of Quimon from a distance. A large number of Russian cavalry suddenly approached the German position there. When the German machine guns rang, they quickly retreated beyond the bullet range. The place. At this time, the east, west, and north sides of Jimen City were basically quiet. Only the streets to the south are lit up with fire and smoke from time to time.

After continuing forward for half a mile, Neubart stopped the team in an open area with no trees within 500 meters. The communicators ran back and forth to deliver orders.

"The cannon in the backfired at the Russian cavalry for 5 minutes!"

"The others

lined up to resist the cavalry attack!" Stephen commanded his more than one hundred soldiers to line up in two rows, with the front row of soldiers lying on the ground. The second row of soldiers and machine gunners squatted and prepared to shoot. The entire regiment was lined up more than 200 meters wide, with 5 heavy machine guns on each side to strengthen defense.

The Russian cavalry in the distance had already spotted them. They stopped harassing the remnants of the Walbeck division and began to line up an offensive formation less than a mile away from the 305th regiment. At the rear right of their formation, a group of cavalry dragged a dozen small-caliber artillery and a few ammunition carts to a halt. The cavalry dismounted and turned their muzzle to the German infantry. Other cavalry drew heavy machine guns to the front of the artillery. At a distance of more than ten meters, more than 20 machine guns lined up there.

Soon, the German artillery fire. Cannonballs whizzed past the heads of the infantrymen, smashing large fireballs around the formation of the Russian cavalry. The Russian warhorses began to prance madly, and the Russian cavalry had to dodge the shells while comforting their horses. The cavalry formation that was about to be completed soon became chaotic again. A few frightened horses rushed towards the German infantry with their masters, and the German machine guns quickly calmed them down.

At this time, the Russian cavalry's artillery also began to fire. Although the artillery shells did not directly fall in the middle of the infantry and were less powerful than the German artillery, many German infantrymen were still shot. Both sides are outside the opponent's machine gun range. No one can deliberately avoid the shells, and the two sides maintain their own line in the baptism of the other's artillery fire.

Stephen, like all German soldiers, had forgotten the tension, and a piece of shrapnel could end everything. But the Russian cavalry on the opposite side also experienced the same test. The Russians were unwilling to rush to each other from the front, and the Germans were even more unwilling. Finally, the Russian cavalry began to outflank the two wings of the German infantry. Although the frontal Russian cavalry was much reduced, the remnant of the Walbeck division still did not take any action.

"The first and second companies strengthen the left-wing, and the 7th and 8th companies strengthen the right-wing. Don't let the Russians get close!" The German infantry began to move in an orderly manner, and the horizontal formation quickly became a rectangle with one side missing.

There were a lot fewer people around Stephen, and he immediately commanded his soldiers to fill the gap left by the company that had been transferred to the flank. The originally neatly dense queues became sparse. When the Russian cavalry went beyond the range of the German two-wing machine guns, the frontal Russian cavalry suddenly launched a charge. Nearly 10,000 indifferent cavalry and the horses under their hips formed three huge black waves, preparing to move the center of the flat ground. The German army swallowed.

"Machine gun shooting! The others are preparing grenades!" Stephen became extremely calm at this time. There was at least 5,000 Russian cavalry in front of them, and their charge width far exceeded the width of their own side. The fierce machine guns The fire caused a huge depression in the middle of the frontal cavalry phalanx, but the cavalry at both ends got closer and closer. After an untidy salvo, the infantry threw the grenade out.

In the flames of a large explosion, the Russian cavalry in front suddenly fell down a lot. The shrapnel revolved and penetrated into the body of the horse and the knight, and blood immediately poured out from the breach. It was impossible to tell whether it was horse blood or human blood on the ground. When the horse behind stepped past, the dust was no longer splashed, and the ground became shallow. Light bloody mud.

The Russian cavalry was close, their wings were closed, and thousands of cavalry surrounded the more than 1,000 German infantry regiments.

300 meters!

200 meters!

100 meters!

Finally, the first horse leaped over the German infantry's head, and the German soldiers saw not only bloody horseshoes but also cold blades.

From time to time, Russian cavalry rushed through the barrage, but the German soldiers tried their best to maintain their formation. Their numb hands kept repeating the action of loading and shooting. The sub-machine gunners loaded the bullet belts with the machine guns at the fastest speed. A large number of Russian cavalry were abruptly blocked a hundred meters away. Finally, the corpses of the cavalry and horses on the ground became the biggest obstacle to the impact speed of the cavalry. There is no chance to get up.

The Russian cavalry who jumped into the German army did not become heroes. When their horses landed, there were always a dozen bayonets stabbed obliquely, and a dozen of the horses that fell behind the German infantry were all stuck with several broken bayonets. , The Russian cavalry who fell to the ground had no time to wave their swords to resist and left with their mounts.

Stephen continued to pull his Luger pistol, and while the other party's body swallowed his bullets, he often had to accept several other bullets or even dozens of other bullets.

No one knows when the Russians stopped the attack. In short, the Russians retreated. Looking around, from more than 1,000 meters to several tens of meters, the corpses of horses and people are spread into a center with an inner ring that is less than 100 meters thick.

The soldiers of the 305th Regiment moved forward quickly. As long as there is a German soldier alive there, they will be successful! Gradually, they could already see soldiers from Division Walbeck waving at them on the ground, and everyone's footsteps were getting faster and faster. When they finally got there, they didn't know whether they should be relieved or sad. There were hundreds of soldiers of the Walbeck division lying or sitting in a few trenches, but most of them were wounded, and there were still a few soldiers. Continue to withdraw from the city of Kimon.

"Where is Colonel Walbeck?" Neubart cried, and the other soldiers followed him in search of Walbeck. Under the guidance of the wounded soldiers, they found Colonel Walbeck, who was indifferent, in a corner.

"Colonel, how many people are there in your division? Are there any troops in the city?" Neubart walked up to him and saluted him. Seeing that he didn't respond, he repeated it loudly.

"No more! The rest is almost here!" In the face of such a major blow, UU reading www. uukanshu.com Walbeck has become dull-eyed.

"Well, let's retreat quickly!" Neubart said as he set up Walbeck and left. The other soldiers of the 305 regiment also helped the wounded in the trenches and began to retreat towards the train.

In the distance, the remaining Russian cavalry looked coldly at these embarrassed German soldiers. Their commander was about to order a chase. An officer on a white horse stopped him.

"His Royal Highness?" The commander looked at the young grand prince who was only in his early 30s with a bit of surprise. He climbed up to the position of commander of the guards not only on his distinguished status but the Russian army's first victory against the Germans since the beginning of the war. A victory can prove one or two. You know, the German army they were facing wiped out two Russian armies with one enemy and two all-out troops less than two weeks ago.

"Let them go! They are brave and worthy of respect, and more importantly, they will become my captives sooner or later!" The young officer gave a chilling look.

Master Walbeck is saved! With only more than 700 people left, the 305 regiments returned to the train with the remnants of the Walbeck division with less than 1,000 people, and everyone's mind was blank. In the sound of an explosion, the train slowly drove south, leaving behind the quiet Keimeng and tens of thousands of German soldiers buried there.