Leon led 14 men towards the village three kilometers away marked on the map, all along the way were all wounded German soldiers and medical personnel who retreated, judging by the high proportion of wounded soldiers, most of them were the main attacking troops who retreated first and were defeated.
"Is there anyone who hasn't been hurt yet? If you can run, you need a few people here! A senior officer stood on a rock and shouted into the crowd.
When Leon heard this, he quickly lowered his head and accelerated the speed of walking forward, silently saying in his heart, at this time to pull Zhuangding here, there is nothing good about ten ****, I still go quickly, you can't see me, you can't see me.
But God obviously did not give Leon a chance to go, "Hey, that sergeant, stop, yes, it's you", the officer saw Leon at a glance, and continued: "I order you to bring your men over!"
Leon had to sigh, led a dozen people around him to the officer, and asked as he went: "Sir, what's the matter?"
The officer saw that Leon was followed by more than a dozen people, his originally frowned brows stretched slightly, and asked: "Your unit number and your name!"
Lyon replied loudly: "Acting platoon commander of the first platoon of the third company of the third battalion of the 16th regiment of the 6th Army, Leon Andrés, sir.
The officer then said: "Very good! I am Lieutenant Colonel John of the 6th Army Headquarters, and now you need to command your men plus these 44 fools on the side to go to a village four kilometers to the south, where the field hospital of the military department was bitten by a group of Frenchmen, and I want you to unite with the guard company there to cover the retreat of the field hospital! The officer said as he pointed to a listless group of people beside him.
Leon exclaimed, "But sir, I'm just a sergeant, and the troops don't have heavy firepower." The officer frowned when he heard this, walked to the retreating crowd, pulled an ensign who was being helped to walk forward, and then tore off his collar badge and epaulettes, quickly returned to Leon, stuffed the epaulettes into Leon's hand, and said: "Man, you are now the commander of the second lieutenant company, the fourth company of the third battalion of the sixteenth infantry regiment!" All abandoned weapons on the way from here to the military hospital belong to you, is there any problem? "
Leon secretly sighed that the troops were already chaotic and could be promoted to rank at will, and seeing that the officer was resolute, he knew that it might be tragic to think of excuses to refuse again, so he immediately replied that there was no problem, and then quickly ran towards the direction pointed by Lieutenant Colonel John with the troops pieced together.
Leon thought while running, the unit he is carrying now is just a group of stragglers, and he should first reorganize the troops and then collect heavy weapons, otherwise if there are many French at that time, he will not be able to block their attack at all, and I don't want to just live and die again.
Having made up his mind, Leon said to the troops: "Stop and rest!" Then he pulled a few soldiers who had followed him to the side and asked, "What are the names of the guys?" Introduce yourself. "
"Report sir, my name is Hans"
"Jonas, sir."
"Hankel"
"Peter, sir."
Leon smiled at them and said, "Very well, you will each take 10 people and form a class, Hans you are the first class, Jonas the second class, Hankel third class, Peter fourth class, I take the fifth class, and then work with me to find out if there are any heavy weapons and ammunition nearby, I don't want to send them to death."
"Company commander, you are right, we have to arm ourselves!" Jonas agreed.
"Well, then go and choose someone." Leon said and walked towards the troops.
It has to be said that for the Germanic peoples, discipline is like carved into their bones, although this unit was temporarily put together, but still no one has the intention of escaping. The troops were quickly reorganized and headed towards the nearest abandoned position.
Soon, Lyon's party reached an apparently hastily abandoned position, two dark MG08/15 light machine guns were randomly thrown next to sandbags, and the heavy machine guns not far away were apparently damaged by man.
"Company commander, come and take a look! Here's the good stuff! Hans excitedly called not far away, and Leon ran over when he heard this, only to see a small gun lying quietly in a hidden trench, the French M1916 infantry gun, 37mm caliber, and two boxes of 12 shells next to it, which was a good thing, apparently the people who captured it forgot about it
"Oh Hans, well done!" Leon smiled and patted Hans on the shoulder, and then said to a few soldiers beside him: "Bring it and those shells, then bring the two light machine guns you just found, bring more bullets, we have to hurry!" After taking the lead in carrying a box of shells, the other soldiers hurriedly collected ammunition, picked up machine guns, and four or five soldiers pushed and pulled to fiddle with the infantry gun, and a group of people quickly advanced towards the destination.
The three-kilometer journey was not long, and soon a village with sporadic gunfire from time to time appeared in front of everyone, and Leon whispered: "Hide, hide." Then Hans called to his side and said to him, "You take the second squad to guard the infantry guns, and come back when I greet you." Then whispered to the others: "Ready for battle!" Jonas, you two shifts go to the left, Peter, you lean to the right, Hankel, you go with us in the middle, everyone disperse! Pay attention to the spacing! Let's go! Then he lifted the Mauser rifle in his hand and slowly touched it forward.
After a while, more than thirty French soldiers appeared in front of the troops, Leon saw that there were not many people, so he waved his hand to Hansbane, who was hiding behind the artillery, to signal them to follow, and then turned around and raised the rifle, at this time a middle-aged French **** man just turned his head, and saw a young German ** man holding a rifle to himself, he opened his mouth in surprise and wanted to make a sound, but the muzzle of the rifle in the German soldier's hand flashed, and he felt that someone had smashed a hammer in the chest, and he could no longer make a sound.
"Kill!" Leon roared angrily, as if to accompany Leon, and the light machine guns around him began to fire "suddenly", "Rush!" The Germans, armed with rifles already loaded with bayonets, opened fire and rushed towards the sluggish French soldiers.
More than thirty French troops did not last long before being killed by the sneaking Germans.
Leon trembled his hands, trying to grasp the gun in his hand, this was the second time he had shot and the first time he had killed, and it was so close that he could clearly see the fear in the enemy's eyes
"Phew," Leon exhaled, sorted out his emotions, and lifted his legs to walk towards the soldier who was full of excitement.
"Hurry up, enter the village and meet the people of the field hospital." Leon ordered, then walked towards the village with slightly heavy steps.
"Oh! Praise God! Reinforcements! Reinforcements are coming! "As soon as I reached the entrance of the village, Leon heard a cheerful shout, and then a child about 17 years old popped out of the next house." Hello, Mr. Ensign! The soldier, who still had some pimples on his face, ran to Leon with a happy face, gave a standard Prussian military salute, and then continued: "Sir, you are finally here, I thought we were dead."
Leon smiled at him and said, "What about the rest of you? What about your sir? Take me to him. "
The kid scratched his head in embarrassment and said apologetically: "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm so excited, follow me." The field hospital was set up in a chapel in the middle of the village, and an elderly lieutenant colonel officer with a captain greeted Leon, saying as he went: "Hey! Man, thanks for coming over to save us, how many people did you bring? "
"Plus me 59." Leon replied with a salute.
"God! How did the idiots of the military department send less than 60 people over? Didn't I tell them that we were trapped by a whole 300-plus French army? The lieutenant colonel shouted in disappointment.
"Sir, don't you still have a guard company here?" Leon couldn't help but be a little puzzled
The lieutenant colonel patted his head, pointed to the captain officer on the side, and said: "This is the commander of the guard company, you can ask him about the situation yourself." After speaking, he bowed his head and turned to enter the church. "Man, I'm not in a good situation here, my troops have been reduced by more than half, there are only more than 70 people left, plus your people are also difficult to block the attacks of the French." The captain was also clearly a little disappointed. Leon frowned and said, "Mr. Captain, just now I came from behind and saw only a few dozen French troops sporadically, why didn't you break through?"
The captain sighed helplessly: "Most of the people in the field hospital were injured by poison gas bombs, and now the eyes can't see at all, and they can't break through."
Leon thought for a while and said, "In this way, I will take a squad to cover the retreat of these patients and medical personnel, let the invisible help the medical staff or our soldiers to go, I will leave the remaining four squads to you, you will stop the French here, and when we reach a safe place, you will retreat, okay?.
The captain nodded and said, "That's all it can be now, so hurry up and leave quickly with the non-combatants." When Leon heard this, he immediately shouted to the troops waiting outside: "Fifth shift, come in and help!" Then walk into the hospital.
Suddenly he found that a person lying on a hospital bed with gauze covered eyes was a little familiar, but he had not been in this world for a long time. Leon strangely walked up to the man and asked, "Hey, what's your name?"
The man heard someone next to him ask, so he smiled in the direction the voice came from: "My name is Adolf, Adolf Hitler.