Pressing hard left a white mark.

"This is where we are now"

As Vinya spoke, he drew another line not far away. After some rough measurements, he said, "This is the edge of the forest, next to a road. It was also the battlefield where we fought the Germans before, and

The straight-line distance between our current locations is only about three kilometers."

After these words were spoken, even Sasha and Alyosha realized Commissar Vinia's plan.

"Political Commissar, on which road do you want to set up an ambush?" Alyosha finally couldn't help but ask.

"This road connects to the village of Polpino that Platoon Commander Taras and others want to attack by surprise."

Political Commissar Vinia explained, "I just asked, they plan to attack the patrol outside the village tomorrow afternoon.

Once fighting breaks out over there, we will also start to ambush the Germans passing by on that road, and we will definitely be able to help them share some firepower."

Having said this, Vinia drew a circle around the diatomaceous earth shack where they had previously hidden and explained, "The distance between these two points is far enough. After the ambush, we will escape immediately. This way

Our hiding place in winter will also be much safer."

"Where's the machine gun?"

Alyosha asked, "Commissar, what about the machine gun? We won't be able to run fast with this big guy."

"Just leave it here"

Vinia said, "Sasha, you should lead the mule back as fast as possible and bring everyone except Father Dofero and our weapons. We will ambush you nearby."

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Before Sasha finished speaking, she had already stood up, and without saying a word, she took the two mules and started to walk back.

"etc"

Vinia stopped the other party, pointed to the machine gun next to him and said, "Remember to ask Father Doferro to help make a sledge that can drag it. Also remember to bring engineers to shovel it."

"I see!"

Sasha responded, climbed onto the back of a mule, shouted to the two mules and walked back.

"The next step is for the three of us," Vinia put away the map and said, "Let's go to the edge of the forest to see what's going on there."

"Is this machine gun placed here?" Alyosha asked. There are not only machine guns here, but also so much ammunition.

"Just get something to cover it with."

Vinya said, bent down to pick up the cloak that Wei Ran used as a floor mat, looked at it, and casually covered it on the machine gun. Following Wei Ran and Alyosha, they cut down pine branches from a distance to cover the machine gun.

On top.

After haphazardly hiding the machine gun, Vinia took out a pocket watch-style compass and looked at it, then walked out of the forest with Wei Ran and Alyosha.

Except for Alyosha, who carried a German submachine gun on his back, the only individual melee weapons in this group of three were the pistol on Vinia's waist, and the revolver hidden in a metal book by Wei Ran.

Fortunately, when preparing weapons for Taras and others yesterday, Wei Ran found nearly 30 rounds of countersunk bullets used in the Nagant revolver in the shack. Therefore, apart from reloading, which would be more time-consuming, it would not be a serious problem.

He didn't even have the strength to fight back.

They walked cautiously in the forest. Just as they finished the long and winding three kilometers and were about to walk out of the forest, the three of them smelled the slightly strong smell of corpses one after another. They were walking at the front.

Alyosha's shoulders were also held down by political commissar Wei Ran and Venia almost at the same time.

"What's wrong?" Alyosha took a step back and asked nervously.

"I'll do it," Wei Ran whispered under Alyosha's blank gaze.

"Be careful," Vinya responded, signaling Alyosha, who was at a loss, to step back some distance.

Standing at the spot where Alyosha was standing and walking less than half a meter forward, Wei Ran squatted down again, carefully pulled out the bush, and let his eyes follow the tight fishing line at the root of the bush that was covered with morning dew.

Start moving.

Soon, he found an M39 egg-shaped grenade in the crown of a low pine tree nearby. The portable key ring on the butt of the grenade was passed through a rope and tied to the branch of the pine tree.

There was even an extra tower of dry pine attached for camouflage.

And the tight fishing line is tightly entangled with the gray cover fixed on the fuse. The gray cover means that its fuse time is a full 10 seconds, which also implies that this is probably

The second blast of this booby trap.

Sure enough, he soon found another oval-shaped grenade in another waist-high bush not far away. This grenade was fixed in exactly the same way, but its fuse cover represented an instant explosion.

red.

Perhaps also to cover up the conspicuous red color, which is only the size of a fingernail, there are also birch leaves on the cover that are twisted together with the petioles on both sides.

After careful observation, Wei Ran took out his paratrooper knife and cut the fishing line, then untied both grenades, tightened the fuse caps and put them into his pocket.

However, even if the hidden dangers were eliminated, he was not in a hurry to move on. Instead, he checked carefully, then took a cautious step, and continued walking to the edge of the forest, which was only 20 meters away, while looking for more

of explosives.

Soon, as he stopped again and again, he also defused more explosives.

Among these explosives, there are both oval M39 grenades, the Germans' beloved garlic hammer M24, and even the F1 lemon grenades and anti-humanity RGD33 grenades equipped by the Soviet Red Army. Even in this short time, it is only more than 20 meters.

Within a short distance, he also saw two wooden box mines dug out.

But these explosives were nothing compared to what he encountered at the real edge of the forest.

Just looking at the three "cockroach whiskers" that were condensed with morning dew sticking out from the fallen leaves and the two hair pulling wires that were also condensed with dew on both sides, he knew that he had encountered an opponent that no demining soldier wanted to encounter -

The S-shaped mine, which American soldiers call "Bounce Betty"!

What’s even more deceptive is that the landmine in front of me still uses a crazy three-parallel fuse!

This so-called three-parallel fuze, in short, means that there are three fuze interfaces that can trigger landmine explosions. For example, the one in front of you is set as a companion, and the one in the middle with three cockroach whisker sensors is a pressure

hair.

No matter which one is hit, the mine buried in the humus layer and covered with fallen leaves will jump up and bite people in the crotch.

But what was even more crazier than the current mine was that he could roughly guess from the trip wires filled with morning dew that there were at least two other mines of the same type around him!

What can prove his guess is that less than fifty meters away from the forest, on the wreckage of a destroyed Soviet BT7 tank, there are several iron mines specially equipped with this kind of mines, each of which can hold three mines.

Box.

That is, about a hundred meters behind the wreckage of the tank, there is a road. He can even see that there is a sidecar motorcycle and several mules and half-track motorcycles on the road.

They were moving forward with artillery fire. A little further away, he also saw a No. 1 tank parked on the roadside with sandbags piled around it to serve as a fixed bunker and two camouflaged and reinforced No. 2 tanks.

On both sides of these three tanks are completely destroyed anti-tank cones. In front of the tanks, not only are there a table and a machine gun fortress made of sandbags, but there is also a person who is not sure who is directing traffic.

Still a chain dog showing off its power.

Of course, between everything outside the forest and Wei Ran and the three of them, there is still a barbed wire fence of unknown length.

And on the trees where these barbed wire fences are fixed, there are still many smelly or burnt corpses hanging. Most of these corpses are wearing Soviet clothes, but there are also some wearing civilian clothes, and on their necks,

Most of them also have some warning words to intimidate those brave men who try to attack the highway.

"It's a challenge..."

Wei Ran, who was muttering to himself, glanced at Vinia and the others who were about twenty or thirty meters away behind him, knowing that if they didn't open a safe passage, it would be impossible for them to sneak attack the enemies on that road.

After thinking for a while, he took out a few oval grenades from his bag, removed the carrying key rings from their tails, then took out the wire cutters from the metal book, and cut them into arcs.

of thin wire.

Gritting his teeth, Wei Ran carefully lay down in front of the first mine, and with absolutely gentle movements, he took away the fallen leaves used as camouflage one by one, and then carefully inserted the safety pin he had just made into his hair.

In the small hole on the fuse that has been sealed by soil.

It wasn't until the thin wire crossed the small hole in the fuse and emerged from the other end that he relaxed a little and started digging carefully from the side with his bayonet.

Fortunately, perhaps out of self-confidence, there was no additional disgusting ambush beneath this mine that was not buried deep enough.

But even so, he still did not dare to rashly cut off the other two trip wires that could also trigger the explosion. Instead, he followed the trip wires carefully and vigilantly and found another mine of the same style.

Repeating the same trick, Weiran pinned the pressure-sensitive fuse of this mine. Weiran found a third mine of the same style along another accompanying wire, and also solved an elastic device made of flexible branches halfway.

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This is the disgusting thing about this set of booby traps. If he had just cut off any of the accompanying wires, this elastic device would immediately pull the trip wire of another mine.

It wasn't until the third mine was eliminated and it was confirmed that one of its trip wires was only tied to the root of a shrub and that there was no ambush directly below it that Wei Ran began the drastic dismantling work.

Finally, when he dug out all three landmines out of danger, it was already 10:30 in the morning, and the fog in the forest had already completely dissipated.

After taking a look at the stinking corpses hanging around, Wei Ran did not rush to let Vinya and Alyosha behind him come over. Instead, he used wire cutters to cut a gap in the barbed wire fence and carefully worked alone.

Climbed out.

After crawling on his hands and knees to the edge of the wreckage of the tank, Wei Ran finally understood why the Germans had laid barbed wire and mines here.

Just over a hundred meters away, the three tanks were guarding a three-way intersection. One of the road signs with a corpse on it pointed in the direction that read "To Bryansk" in Russian and later in German respectively.

But at the other two intersections, because the road signs faced away from him, he had no idea what was written.

"Transportation hub..."
Chapter completed!