My own war game

Chapter 130 The Best Combination

The two men finally passed through the woods the next day and met Soviet troops on the banks of the Dnieper River.

"Sergeant from the 4th Guards Regiment? You came from Zhitomir?" The Soviet lieutenant in charge of the inspection flipped through He Chi's ID and a wary expression appeared on his face.

"That's right, what's wrong?" He Chi didn't understand what he meant, but he felt the atmosphere around him becoming tense.

"Guards, put down their weapons." The lieutenant signaled to the two soldiers beside him.

Someone came to grab the gun from the little girl, but Tanya dodged like a civet cat.

Boom!Boom!
The other two soldiers were knocked away, and He Chi pulled Tanya behind him. "Mr. Lieutenant, what does this mean?"

"Zhitomir fell the day before yesterday. How did you cross the blockade with a half-grown child?" the lieutenant asked in the tone of interrogating a prisoner.

"We came here through the jungle."

"You haven't seen any Germans?"

"I see. Here they are." The Oriental man threw a bunch of small things out of his sleeve. Someone looked at them and found that they were epaulettes of five Germans, including a sergeant.

"We met a squad of Germans on the way and killed them before coming here."

Killing five people at once? And with a half-grown child? Everyone around looked at him with suspicion, and the lieutenant also began to examine the Oriental man.

"Even if you have these things, this is an emergency and we need to identify them." The lieutenant hesitated for a moment and said, "Well, I won't take your weapons. You can help in the kitchen first. After this battle, I will report to the political commissar to verify your identity."

He Chi originally wanted to negotiate with the other party, but he didn't expect that Tanya's eyes lit up when she heard the word "kitchen". She pulled the corner of the Oriental man's clothes, indicating that the other party should agree.

The two of them lived in the field kitchen.

He Chi always remembered the sparkling look in Tanya's eyes when she saw the hill of black bread.
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Kyiv, Dnieper River, Soviet blocking position.

Eight Stuka bombers screamed in the sky and dropped bombs repeatedly at the Soviet positions.

Probably two Yak-1 fighters circled around yesterday, and since then no more Soviet aircraft have been seen in this area.

The Soviet Air Force, which had experienced an early defeat, was at its weakest. There were less than 150 Soviet Air Force aircraft in the entire Kiev area, and less than 70 of them could take off and fight. There was no way to stop the German Air Force, which was several times larger than its own.

The Germans now have air superiority.

The two 37mm anti-aircraft guns and a number of 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns on the position were the only anti-aircraft weapons of the Soviet army. The soldiers on the ground tried their best to pour ammunition into the sky.

The results were minimal, with one Stuka being damaged, and this was the only success achieved by the anti-aircraft forces.

The Soviet army was facing the vanguard of Manstein's First Panzer Army. The enemy's infantry, under the cover of light tanks and armored vehicles, was attacking the positions of two defending regiments.

"Reload! Reload quickly! The Germans are coming!"

An eight-man anti-tank team is working on a ZiS-3 anti-tank gun

A shell was pushed into the magazine of the ZiS-3 anti-tank gun, and the muzzle was aimed at the Type tank that was rumbling towards it from the opposite side.

"Ready!" The leader of the anti-tank team raised his hand.

Boom!!! A mortar shell landed next to the gun crew, killing more than half of the eight-man team, and the anti-tank gun went silent.

These Soviet troops were withdrawn from the front line and had not received effective reinforcement. They were understaffed and lacked equipment. There were only a few anti-tank guns on the defensive positions of the two regiments.

Due to the inequality of equipment, the German artillery specifically attacked the Soviet artillery positions. Now the infantry could only rely on anti-tank rifles and Molotov cocktails to fight the Germans.

In the German position, a group of artillery observers were staring at the opposite position. "Target visible, 300 meters northwest, Russian anti-tank group!"

"Adjust fifty meters to the left!"

puff!
A bullet came from nowhere and penetrated the observer's head directly, and the observer fell straight to the ground.

puff!puff!puff!
Two observers and a light machine gunner on the position died one after another, all of them falling to the ground after being shot in the head.

"Sniper! There's a sniper!" a soldier shouted. People on the position were in a panic. Because they couldn't see where the enemy was shooting from, everyone subconsciously hid themselves.

The firepower in this area suddenly weakened, giving the Soviets a chance to catch their breath. The anti-tank team attacked and then moved their position.

The German side also had special shooters. One of them poked his head out of the trench with a Walther 41 (G41) sniper rifle with a scope and aimed at the retreating anti-tank group.

The sniper looked at the Soviet soldier in the crosshairs, his finger already on the trigger.

puff!
A bullet flew over and hit his shoulder, rendering the sniper incapable of combat.

Where is it?! Where is the Soviet sniper?! The German observer desperately looked for traces of reflections from the lenses on the opposite side of the battlefield, but found nothing.

300 meters away, an extremely strange sniper team was lying next to a basket of potatoes.

"300 meters to the left front, there is a communication antenna. Below and to the right, there are five people. There is a sniper alone, and he has a piece of tarpaulin on his body." The rangefinder, who did not have any telescope in his hand, reported the position of the shooter on the opposite side.

"Yeah." The girl holding the rifle, with a dried sweet potato in her mouth, pulled the trigger of a Mosin-Ganna rifle without any scope.

Bang! ! After the gunshot, the guy on the opposite side fell to the side.

"It seems to be a little crooked, but it's not fatal." He Chi said on the side.

"Oh." Tanya retracted her hand that was reaching for the small bag beside her.

Kill an enemy and eat a dried sweet potato. This was what the two of them had agreed on before, and she had to keep her promise.

The lieutenant standing by was looking at this in confusion. Originally due to a shortage of manpower, he had pulled the logistics personnel into the battle line as well. He did not expect that he would actually discover a pair of monsters.

It was already exaggerated enough to observe the enemy's hiding position with the naked eye at 300 meters, but that skinny girl could actually hit the enemy at this distance without using a scope.

The bag of dried sweet potatoes had been eaten half by the girl.

The battle lasted until dark, the Soviet army barely held their position, and the lieutenant saw the two men again.

"You can leave the kitchen tomorrow." This was the first sentence the lieutenant said after they met.

"Aren't you going to look for the political commissar?" Tanya was actually a little reluctant.

"There's no need to look for the political commissar anymore. You have already proved that you are definitely not German spies. You can withdraw back to the city with the troops tomorrow," said the lieutenant.

Are you kidding? Would the Germans use the lives of two squads to send a spy in?

"Retreat to the city? Don't we want to defend this place anymore?" He Chi asked in some surprise. They had defended the city so hard during the day, but they just wanted to retreat at night.

"We're not going to defend this place anymore. We'll all retreat tomorrow." The lieutenant sighed and looked back to the east.

On July 7, Guderian adopted a tactic of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west, using surprise troops to organize a forced crossing at three weakly defended locations on the Desna River, a tributary of the Dnieper River. The Soviet army was caught off guard, and after confirming that they could not stop the First Panzer Army, the defenders withdrew to Kiev.

(End of this chapter)