I asked you to escape, but you became a soldier in World War II

Chapter 106 Ambush of the German Transport Convoy

Since there was no problem with the identities of Lin Chen and others, Lennon took them to a very ordinary wooden house and took out three black hoods from his pocket.

"Three Red Army officers, for the sake of confidentiality, since you want to see our captain, I will have to bear with it."

Lin Chen understood that there must be some secrets that he could not see, but it was normal. If there were no special means, this guerrilla group would have been wiped out by the German security division long ago.

The three men obediently put on black hoods. If you didn't know, you would think they were going to be hanged.

Fortunately, Andre led them very carefully, letting everyone hold hands and walk forward.

Lin Chen followed Andrei, followed by Kirilenko and Sergei.
It felt like I passed through a small door, then turned left and right, and even had to go underground. I probably walked through a sewer for a while, and in the end I actually had to crawl. Lin Chen's heart was beating fast. Could it be that someone from his own country came to give him guidance?
Fortunately, it finally arrived.
Lennon took off their masks, and Lin Chen looked at what was in front of him in disbelief. This was a huge basement!

There are actually related ventilation equipment. Because we are underground, we don’t feel stuffy at all.

The only drawback is that it is quite humid, but even so, the level of earthwork here is already impressive.

A Russian man started shouting at the entrance, "Uncle Lennon, where are the Red Army soldiers you mentioned?"

As they got closer, they both thought the other looked familiar.
"Dravic?"

"Are you the captain of Hanta?"

Everyone shouted almost at the same time.

After all this time, it turns out you know each other?

Uncle Lennon scratched his head embarrassedly.

"This is the captain of Hanta. He even tried to persuade us to surrender. Haha!"

Lennon and several other guerrillas were even more confused after hearing what he said. However, as Dravic slowly told the story, everyone began to admire the wit and bravery of Lin Chen and others.

"By the way, where is Hanta? This guy said he would come back and get drunk with me! Haha." As he laughed, he realized that the atmosphere was a little wrong. With the help of the dim light in the basement, several of them actually had red eyes.

"What happened?" Although he already had the answer in his mind, he still couldn't believe that this good brother who had escaped from the German army with him was gone.

After Lin Chen told him exactly how Hanta died, Dravich punched the wall hard, ignoring the blood flowing from his fist, and said viciously, "Zaka, you damned scum, I will make you pay with blood!"

After he calmed down, he began to tell everyone about the other guy who had rebelled, Demirich.

Although they paid a heavy price, they still managed to kill him in the end.

Dravitch wanted to tell everyone that if there was a rebellion, they would come to clean up the mess no matter where in the world they were.

Unexpectedly, there was still a traitor.

And this time the harm is greater and the losses are greater.

They lost more than eighty members, which was really a serious blow.

"You haven't eaten yet? Come on, I'll take you to eat something!"

Dravich also felt that it was a bit embarrassing to have so many traitors in his team, so he had to quickly change the subject.

It was already two o'clock in the afternoon, but during wartime there were no set meal times. It was good enough to have something to eat.

The food served to Lin Chen and the other three was very simple, consisting of just four pieces of very hard bread and four plates of wild vegetable porridge.

"Captain 'Ghost', excuse me for making fun of you. In recent months, the German army has been frantically encircling and suppressing our guerrilla zone, and production has been severely damaged, so we can't offer you anything good." Dravich only knew Lin Chen's code name, and learned from Hanta that they were carrying out a secret mission and could not reveal their real names, so he didn't intend to ask.

"Dravic, you're too polite. Why aren't you eating?" Lin Chen felt something was not right.

Because even Andre didn't start eating, although he was swallowing hard, and the light in his eyes was the same as Uncle Lennon's, a look of extreme desire for food.

Dragic even walked out quietly.

"Andrei, are you hiding something from me?" Lin Chen put down the plate and spoon, and Sergei and Kirilenko followed suit.

Andre hesitated to speak, and Uncle Lennon sighed.

Lin Chen stood up and walked to the kitchen in their basement to take a look, only to find it was empty.

"To be honest, we have been out of food for a few days, and now we only have this much stock." Uncle Lennon said the truth with shame.

"How come we have no food?" As soon as Lin Chen asked, he felt that his question was unnecessary.

Sure enough, Lennon explained to Lin Chen and others with a serious face,
"The German army carried out encirclement and suppression against us on a regular basis. They were unable to defeat us, so they resorted to siege. All the food in the surrounding villages was cut off or destroyed, leaving us no food supplies at all."

"But when we drove in just now, there were no roadblocks along the way?" Sergei was a little puzzled.

"That's because the German army is going to make a big move soon, so they have withdrawn most of their forces to Belgorod. But even so, we can't attack out. You may not know that our people are so hungry that they can't even walk." Dravich walked in from outside, holding a plate of "food" that was so thin that you could see a person's shadow in it.

"This is not a solution. We must take the initiative!"

"How to attack?" Dravich was puzzled.

"Uncle Lennon, go get the bag of food from the back of our car. I suggest that those who are able to fight eat until they are 80% full, and the others just barely hold on. We need to find a German supply point and launch a surprise attack!"

He laughed heartily, "We have no guns or cannons, but the enemy made them for us! We have no food or clothes, but the enemy provided them to us!"

Dravich repeated Lin Chen's words in his mind over and over again, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

With the help of Lin Chen and others, the village finally saw the sight of chimney smoke. Although people didn't have enough to eat, at least they had some real food.

Everyone understands that after they are full, they have to go out and grab food, otherwise they will still be hungry!

Dravich and his men were very familiar with this area and pointed out the nearest place, a small town about 15 kilometers away. It was a supply point for the German army, but the defense was very tight, and it was said that there was a company of troops stationed there.

Hearing the strength of a company, Lin Chen couldn't help but frown. Although the number of people was about the same, the German weapons were undoubtedly much better. Moreover, the German army here was highly mechanized and reinforcements were possible at any time. It was almost a pipe dream to take them down.

"Since they are a supply point, don't they transport supplies outside? Don't they transport supplies from outside?"

Lin Chen's two questions made Dravich a little confused, and he didn't understand for a while. This is often the case that those who are involved are often confused, while those who are not involved can see things clearly. Sometimes when people are in a fixed state of mind, it is easy for them to get into a dead end and cannot get out. However, Lin Chen's two questions directly woke Dravich up.

"You mean, we set an ambush?"

"Haha, yes, why do we have to attack the enemy? Does the German transport team have more than a company-level force to defend it?" Lin Chen smiled slyly.

A German transport team was escorted by a squad of German soldiers. These German soldiers were basically exempted soldiers. Their task was very easy, which was to escort three trucks of food and one truck of weapons and ammunition to the supply point mentioned by Dravich.

These are the weekly necessities for that supply point. Logically, there shouldn't be so few people escorting these supplies, but Dravich and his men have never actively attacked the supply line, and with the war imminent, the manpower on the logistics supply line is increasingly stretched.

So the few of them were completely unprepared and just asked the Soviet driver to speed up.

"Corporal, there's a checkpoint ahead!"

The sharp-eyed German private shouted immediately, and the corporal who was snoring loudly in the carriage opened his hazy eyes unhappily and wiped his drool with his hand.

"where?"

"There, right in front!"

He looked in the direction the private pointed, and his eyes suddenly widened.

"Damn it, it's the SS! Be smart, these guys are more troublesome than the military police."

The carriage approached and a lieutenant officer stepped out. Although there were not many people at the checkpoint, the officer's body was covered with traces of gunpowder and smoke, and it was obvious that he was an elite soldier who had experienced many battles.

"Documents! Check them!"

The corporal quickly jumped off the carriage and saluted, "Mr. Lieutenant, we are a convoy delivering supplies to the forward base. This is our proof!"

The lieutenant was Lin Chen in disguise. He took it and looked at it seriously, then looked at the supplies in the convoy.

He ordered in pure German, "We are waiting for reinforcements to arrive and attack the guerrillas. So we must ensure that this road is open. As you can see, our manpower has been severely reduced after the battle, so we can only ask you to help us guard this place."

The corporal was immediately unhappy when he heard this. "Mr. Lieutenant, our mission is to transport supplies. Guarding the checkpoint is not within our scope of responsibility. Unless there is an order from our troops, we will not be able to obey."

This is exactly what Lin Chen wanted. He pretended to be in a difficult situation and said, "Since you have a mission, I can't help you. How about you help us with some work? We have been standing guard here for most of the day."

The corporal then "suddenly realized" that they wanted to conscript young men.

No wonder there is a checkpoint here. It seems that the whole damn reinforcements thing is bullshit.

"Mr. Lieutenant, we have a mission." The corporal hesitated.

"Stop talking nonsense. Our combat troops are very tired. What's wrong with you helping us a little? Corporal, this is an order! An order!" Lin Chen acted like an officer.

Although the corporal was very unhappy, he had no choice but to fool around a bit as the other party was much higher in rank than him. He would definitely file a complaint against him when he got back!
He asked all the soldiers to get off the vehicles and line up, because they were going to do the work and naturally did not need to bring weapons.

Although they were exempt soldiers, the military quality of the German army was indeed very high.
The team was lined up very neatly, and then the corporal saluted, "Please assign the tasks, Mr. Lieutenant!"

Lin Chen nodded with great satisfaction, "Well, my mission is, you go to hell!"

He and the two German soldiers behind him suddenly changed their expressions, and bullets whizzed towards the bewildered German soldiers.

The sudden and close-range gunfire made them look horrible, and more than a dozen people died instantly.

Dravich and others who were lying in ambush in the distance were still preparing to come out to support, but they did not expect that Lin Chen and the other three would finish the job so efficiently. The drivers on the carriages were naturally frightened and stood there in a daze.

When Dravitch approached, he raised the MP38 submachine gun in his hand and fired several bursts of bullets.

Several drivers fell down.

"What are you doing? They are all Russians!" Kirilenko was a little puzzled by Dravich's behavior.

"They are Russians, but isn't Zhaka Russian? Isn't Demirich Russian? We don't know whether these drivers are pro-German or not. If we let them go, they will know our true colors. The lesson is too profound. We would rather kill the wrong ones than let them go!"

The familiar words made Lin Chen's heart skip a beat, but many similar experiences had made him mature a lot, and he definitely couldn't act like a saint at such a moment.

"Okay, let's clean up the battlefield and hurry back to the village!" Lin Chen called to Dravich, who was very satisfied with Lin Chen's support. In a war, it is inevitable that people will die. If they must settle accounts, let's blame the damn German bandits!

Most of the guerrillas under Dravich were of peasant origin and were good drivers.

Soon these mule and horse vehicles were diverted to the village.

Since the food and other things on the vehicles were very heavy, and the road they were traveling on was a small path, Lin Chen was very worried. Would such obvious wheel tracks attract large-scale retaliation from the German army?

However, Dravich was very conceited. He told Lin Chen that his village had been attacked by two well-equipped German companies, but in the end he returned empty-handed and instead lost dozens of people to them.

He believed that the German army could not cope with this underground combat mode at all. If the Soviet army could learn it, the German army would have been driven back to Berlin long ago.

Lin Chen was somewhat worried, because in the military academy of his previous life, his instructor had taught him the advantages and disadvantages of tunnel warfare. His own country was the pioneer in this kind of tactics back then!
There is no need to explain the advantages of tunnel warfare. It is elusive and can cause great pain to the enemy at the lowest cost. However, the biggest shortcoming of this tactic is that it requires very high supplies. If the German army is determined to blockade it, how can you persist without food or water?

Of course, according to Lin Chen's memory, the German army would eventually lose this most critical battle more than a month later and completely lose its ability to launch strategic offensives. The initiative on the Soviet-German battlefield changed hands from then on.

But can the guerrillas survive for more than a month?

Moreover, there is one more thing that is important in tunnel warfare, and that is the geographical location.

The best terrain for conducting tunnel warfare is one with no rivers nearby. This way, if the German army is flooded, it will be extremely difficult because without a water source, there is no way to keep the pumps running.

There was a big river surrounding the guerrilla village. If the German army flooded the village, the people in the tunnel would be in great misery.

After much consideration, he finally shared his concerns with Dravich. Unexpectedly, this experienced guerrilla leader became somewhat blindly optimistic because he had seized so much food and weapons.

He answered Lin Chen very confidently, "Don't worry, Captain Ghost. The German army is busy attacking now, so how can they have time to besiege us? And if they want to flood us, we have drainage ditches."

Lin Chen wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by Dravich, "With this batch of food, we can recover our strength. With these weapons and ammunition, we can repeat the same trick and ambush the German army a few more times. It can also be regarded as a powerful support for the front-line battle. I estimate that we will be liberated here soon. I have no doubt about the final victory!"

Since others have said so, I don't know what to say. I just hope that the thing I am most worried about will not happen.

When it was getting dark, they finally got back to the village. The old people and children were very happy to see so much spoils.

The long-lost smoke from cooking rose up again, and Lin Chen actually found a 98K sniper rifle among the seized weapons. The only regret was that it had a six-fold scope, but its accuracy was much better than that of the Mosin-Ganna.

The guerrillas were equipped with brand new German weapons. What made them most happy was that there was an 81mm Granatwerfer 34 mortar inside, which was the standard firepower for the German battalion level and had a range of up to 2 kilometers.

The only drawback is that there are only eight shells, but having such heavy firepower is great, so how can you be picky?

In addition, there were rifles, submachine guns, grenades, etc., but the MG42 general-purpose machine gun that Sergei had been longing for was not found.

"Snapped!"

"Da da da!"

The sound of fierce gunfire made everyone feel nervous.

(End of this chapter)