As the people waiting patiently in ambush, the time passed by minute by second. On the road more than a hundred meters away, various military vehicles or mules and horses drove past from time to time.

Various types of artillery.

In the distance beyond everyone's sight, the faint rumble of artillery fire and the freezing rain that started to fall before noon undoubtedly made the wait even more unbearable.

In the cold and damp machine gun position, Wei Ran took out the Soviet cloak under the cover of his backpack and asked Yeremei, who was shivering from the cold, to hide in with him.

"A few... sneeze!"

Yeremei covered his mouth tightly and sneezed, sniffed and asked again, "What time is it?"

"Four-thirty" Wei Ran took out his flyback watch from his pocket, glanced at it, and whispered the answer.

Standing up on his knees and looking out from the gap in the bushes, Yeremey sat down again and hid under his stretched cloak and said angrily, "Those Germans are still warming themselves by the fire. They really know how to enjoy it."

"Keep it patient, they will enjoy it later."

Wei Ran, who was also frozen and had goosebumps all over his body, murmured something in a low voice, but at the same time, he did not delay using his bayonet to cut open the canned meat allocated to him and Yeremey.

"Are you hungry?" Yeremei couldn't help but swallowed as he looked at the condensation of fat in the can. This thing was so delicious when it was hot, but it looked so unappetizing after it cooled down and solidified.

“Warm and warm”

As Wei Ran spoke, he had used a bayonet to cut off a strip of cloth from the hem of his coat, soaked it in a can and filled it with grease, then lit it and placed it on the "fireplace" dug out of the wall, which was only the size of a steel helmet.

inside.

"You really have a way!"

Yeremei sighed in admiration, turned around with Wei Ran in tacit agreement, and wrapped his cloak and body around the small fireplace from three sides, sucking in the weak warmth released by the small flame with difficulty.

At the same time, Vinia in the trench next door also skillfully folded a written letter into a triangle, then sandwiched it in his notepad, and then put it all into the lunch box along with the notepad and pen.

, and finally stuffed it into the backpack.

Less than a hundred meters away, in a small safe area on the side of the wreckage of the BT7 tank where no explosives had been buried by the guards, David and Fras also dug out a safe place in the freezing rain.

For the position of the heavy machine gun, several sandbags were made from the clothes taken from the stinking corpses and piled in front of the machine gun shield.

In the position of Sasha and Alyosha, the two young men were relatively more comfortable due to the cover of the tank wreckage above their heads and the surrounding soil. They even spent most of the day conducting deep inspections of the bunker.

They dug and expanded, and lit a white candle as thick as a wrist. While keeping warm, they also heated the cans and cold water in the kettle that were distributed to them in the morning.

At five o'clock in the evening, Wei Ran and Yeremei filled their bellies with the boiled potatoes distributed in the morning and the meat cans that were barely opened by simple candles. The latter also crawled to the trench where political commissar Viniya was in charge, and got out of his arms.

He took out the 11 anti-tank bullets, wiped them one last time with a greasy rag, and filled one of them into the chamber of the anti-tank gun that Vinia was in charge of.

Similarly, after Wei Ran turned around and peed, he loaded the bullet chain on the machine gun he was in charge of and got ready to fire.

At 5:15, Vinia slowly poked the muzzle of the anti-tank gun out of the bushes and aimed at a No. 2 tank at the fork in the road with its side armor pointed at him.

However, he did not rush to shoot. Instead, he waited patiently, waiting for a truck full of soldiers to pass through the intersection and drive towards the front line. He watched the vehicle finally completely disappear in the slightly dim field of vision.

Disappeared without a trace.

"boom!"

When Political Commissar Vinia pulled the trigger, Wei Ran also subconsciously glanced at the flyback watch at hand - 5:21 pm.

"Da da da da!"

Just as Yeremei skillfully helped Commissar Vinya stuff the second bullet into the gun chamber, Fras, who was in the middle position, also immediately controlled the heavy machine gun and opened fire, covering those who were still surrounding the bonfire.

Chatting tank crew members!

Amidst the roar of the heavy machine gun, Sasha, who was also prepared, pulled the trigger on another No. 2 tank.

After he fired this bullet, Alyosha next to him helped him load the second bullet, and even did not forget to put a lit cigarette to his mouth.

At the same time, Yeremey also lit two cigarettes, even loading the third bullet, and gave one to Vinya.

The two anti-tank guns were the first to go quiet after each fired a bullet. Then, the heavy machine gun in the middle position also stopped after firing the remaining half of the ammunition chain into the machine gun tower of the No. 1 tank.

.

In this sudden attack, no matter whether the bullets fired by the two anti-tank guns damaged the tanks or not, there was no need to worry about the other side's counterattack.

Because that astonishingly powerful heavy machine gun had torn the tank crew members who were no more than a hundred meters away, as well as the bonfire that had been burning for almost a whole day and was particularly envied by everyone, into messy pieces all over the ground.

Even the weak machine gun tower of the No. 1 tank and the layer of sandbags attached outside were smoked by the heavy machine gun at such a close distance.

"Victor, keep an eye on the tank."

After finishing speaking, political commissar Vinia from the next position had already aimed his gun in the other direction of this fork in the road - just like what his companions in the other two positions were doing.

"good"

Wei Ran, who also lit a cigarette, responded, letting the muzzle of the machine gun cover the three tanks in the puff of smoke.

Less than ten minutes later, two trucks drove over from the direction of Bryansk. Although they were a little far away, Weiyan could still tell them apart at a glance. Both trucks were dragging a PAK38 anti-tank at the rear.

artillery.

Behind the two trucks, there was also a three-wheel motorcycle with a sidecar, and there seemed to be a soldier sitting on the sidecar who was smoking.

Without any command at all, the heavy machine guns in charge of David and Fras opened fire again, covering the two trucks that had just passed the row of anti-tank cones with a dense and powerful machine gun barrage.

After at most ten rounds of heavy machine gun bullets were ejected, Weiran also fired a long burst of fire at the sidecar motorcycle at the end, watching the motorcycle drive down the road in a beautiful arc and drive into the anti-tank cone.

in the wreckage and eventually rolled over.

After a stingy shot at the three-wheeled motorcycle, Wei Ran aimed his gun at the rear of the two trucks he had just stopped, and the heavy machine guns controlled by Flas and David stopped.

"Da da da!"

When two figures jumped out from the back of the first truck, Wei Ran fired a series of bursts of fire again, watching as the two men fell onto the road without moving.

After looking at the half-stretched bullet chain, Wei Ran took a puff of the cigarette held in the corner of his mouth, and waited patiently with his companions in the swirling smoke for new prey to arrive.

At 5:37, five trucks drove over from the direction of the front line.

Except for the first carriage of these five trucks, which contained a squad of soldiers, the following trucks were all covered with tarpaulins, so there was no way of knowing what was inside.

Apparently, the corpses lying on the road alerted the first truck, causing it to stop far away.

However, almost at the moment when the soldiers in the cargo compartment were huddled together uncontrollably due to the inertia caused by the emergency braking, the machine guns controlled by Fras and David also began to roar.

Even though the sky was dark, and even though he was a hundred meters away, Wei Ran, who had also aimed his machine gun at the convoy, could still roughly see the German soldiers standing on the leading truck in a steaming mass of blood mist.

It suddenly shrunk like wheat, and all the windows of the cab of the car were blown open by the heavy machine gun fire.

Almost as soon as the shell of the first heavy machine gun bullet hit the soil, two anti-tank rifles opened fire in sequence, hitting the cab and front of the last car one after another.

While they were reloading bullets, the heavy machine gun also began to move laterally backwards, sending a series of fatal short bursts to the other three vehicles sandwiched in the middle from the front to the rear.

But even with such close cooperation, Wei Ran still vaguely saw several figures jumping out of the car and hiding in the blind spot on the other side of the road.

After a moment of noise, the dead crossroads became calm again.

However, less than five minutes later, another half-track armored vehicle with dim lights on came from the direction of the battlefield. Behind this armored vehicle, there was a tank, a Panzer III tank!

"Da da da da!"

Without even waiting for the approach, the machine gun on the half-track armored vehicle began to fire suppressively in the direction of the edge of the forest. The Panzer III tank also turned its body on the road and aimed its hard frontal armor at the edge of the forest.

direction.

"boom!"

Sasha, who was relatively close, was the first to fire an anti-tank bullet at the tank. Immediately afterwards, Commissar Vinia also pulled the trigger at the Panzer III tank.

However, not only did these two bullets have no impact on the Panzer III tank, they actually caused the machine gun suppression of the half-track armored vehicle!

At this critical moment, the Deshka heavy machine gun opened fire, and the 12.7 mm caliber bullets hit the half-track armored vehicle directly, easily disabling its machine gun.

But this ferocious firepower immediately attracted the attention of the No. 3 tank, and its turret began to rotate without hesitation, aiming the artillery in the direction of the heavy machine gun.

At this critical moment, Wei Ran no longer cared about how to explain the secrets on his body. He pushed the machine gun aside and took out the anti-tank gun from the metal book and aimed it at the tank.

Different from the high-explosive bombs used in the last ambush, this time the magazine and chamber of this anti-tank gun are filled with amazingly powerful PzGr.40 high-speed armor-piercing bullets!

"boom!"

The first bullet fired hit a group of particularly conspicuous sparks on the still-rotating turret of the Panzer III tank!

Seeing that the tank's turret was still rotating, Wei Yan put one foot on the wall of the position, resisted the powerful recoil, and pulled the trigger again and again!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

After three consecutive high-speed armor-piercing rounds were fired, the turret of the Panzer III tank finally stopped rotating, and the tank began to retreat.

This was a rare opportunity, so Weiran lowered the muzzle of his gun slightly, continued to pull the trigger, and finally succeeded in keeping the tank behind when it was about to retreat to the other side of the road.

Before he could put away the inexplicable anti-tank gun, Yeremey from another position ventured to look over and shouted in surprise, "Victor! Where did you get..."

"boom!"

In the chaotic exchange of fire, before Yeremei could finish his words, a cloud of blood mist burst out from his left shoulder, and he fell into the trench shared with Vinia while screaming.

"Yeremei! How is your situation?!" Wei Ran shouted and asked.

"it's okay no problem!"

Yeremei responded painfully, and Wei Ran also picked up the machine gun again at the same time, looking for the person who had just fired a cold shot.
To be continued...