USSR 1941

It didn't take long for Shulka to realize that it was completely unnecessary to worry about the recruits' accidental injuries, because there would be much more "accidental injuries" in this battle than imagined...

The gunfire continued to advance towards the trenches, and groups of Soviet deserters fled across the trenches in groups.

Then Shulka felt the danger: it was night, and if this continued, the German army would follow the Soviet deserters and capture the trenches without any effort.

"Comrade Lieutenant!" Shulka looked in Davydov's direction.

Second Lieutenant Davydov also felt this, he gritted his teeth, and then replied: "Ready for battle, waiting for orders!"

"Yes, prepare for battle and wait for the order!" Shulka passed the order down, and the veteran waited for several squad leaders to pass down the order again.

Of course, the squad leader had to do more than that, they also had to drag the frightened recruits out of the trenches and make them raise their guns.

Three hundred meters.

A few flares slowly rose into the air, illuminating the position ahead.

This distance can already fire... As I said before, due to the light range, the Soviet army is actually more suitable for firing from 300 meters away.

But this time the Soviet army was unable to start the fight. The reason was very simple. The area in front of their eyes was full of Soviet deserters, and the bullets had to go through them first.

Two hundred meters.

Shulka even felt that the Germans did this on purpose, because they could obviously knock down all the Soviet deserters with machine guns, but they didn't do it... They followed the Soviet army with bayonets in their hands. The deserters pushed forward from behind, and from time to time shot a few shots or threw a few grenades at the deserters' backs.

One hundred meters.

That is the location of the anti-tank trenches. If the Soviet deserters are smart enough, they should use the anti-tank trenches as a line of defense to counterattack, even if they only counterattack for a while, they can survive.

But they have lost the ability to think in extreme fear, they only know to escape and only know that they are farther away from the German army.

As a result, the deserters crossed the anti-tank trenches and continued to attack the trenches behind them.

They thought the trenches ahead were the way to survive, they thought they would be safe as long as they crossed over, and they thought their own people would not shoot them.

but……

The deserters never thought about it at all. If this continues, the Soviet defense lines will only collapse one after another. No sober commander will let it develop like this.

"Fire!" Major Gavrilov shouted.

All of a sudden, intensive gunfire rang out, and bullets flew out of the soldiers' guns, knocking down groups of Soviet deserters rushing to the trenches in pieces.

There were screams one after another, the injured Soviet deserters shouted and cursed loudly, and some people shouted:

"Don't shoot, your own!"

"Are you crazy? We are our own people!"

...

The smart ones know to get down at this time, although it will not be of any use, because the German army will turn this area into a real battlefield.

Shulka was also pulling the trigger to shoot, though he didn't want to.

The reason was simple: he was a platoon leader, and his thirty or so subordinates followed him everywhere, especially the recruits, who could not accuse them of disobeying orders if Shulka was soft-hearted.

At this time, a Soviet deserter crawled in from the front of the trench with both hands and feet. Shulka was taken aback. He habitually aimed his rifle at his head, but the next second he realized that he needed to It was the person who blocked the gun that was shot.

Shulka was about to turn his gun, but was caught by the deserter.

"No, don't shoot!" The deserter begged Shulka almost crying: "They are my own people, my comrades-in-arms, please, let them not shoot..."

Shulka hesitated, but quickly broke free from the deserter's shackles.

"Go away!" Shulka ordered loudly.

But the deserter still refused to give up, so Shulka gave him a gun butt to knock him out.

Shulka couldn't imagine what he was like at that moment, and looking back after the battle, he could hardly believe that he would have done it.

But thinking about it seriously, Shulka thinks that if this happens again, I'm afraid he will still do it.

Because if you don't do this, it is very likely that you will lose your life in the next moment.

Therefore, Shulka gritted his teeth, aimed at the fleeing Soviet soldiers and kept pulling the trigger.

One, two, three...

It wasn't until he knocked down the fifth that he saw the German soldier's helmet and his black holed muzzle.

This made Shulka relieved.

"Bang!" With a gunshot, Shulka knocked down a German soldier to the ground.

The German soldier's bayonet was covered with blood, even bleeding down. It was obvious that several of his men had already lost their lives.

"Bang!" There was another gunshot, and another German soldier fell down.

I don't know why, every time Shulka knocked down an enemy, he felt more comfortable, as if he was paying off the debt or taking revenge for the Soviet deserter he killed just now.

But then Shulka found it a little funny, this is a war, a life-and-death war, if there are a few lives under his command, he deserves to die, then Shulka himself will not be spared.

"Bang!" This time Shulka killed a German officer.

Due to lighting problems, Shulka failed to recognize his rank, and he was directing the troops to change formation and launch a charge... Shulka knew that killing such a frontline commander would often slow down the German army's reaction.

Sure enough, the German army separated a certain distance from the Soviet deserters at this time, which also gave some surviving Soviet deserters the opportunity to escape back to the line of defense.

The German offensive also slowed down, especially when they found an anti-tank trench in front of them... The German army pays attention to the coordination of multiple arms in the charge. If the tanks cannot advance, they will hardly send infantry to charge indiscriminately.

German commanders knew that excellent soldiers were a kind of wealth, so they rarely made unnecessary sacrifices on the battlefield.

Shulka sat back in the trench, and then remembered the deserter he had just knocked out. Turning his head, he found that he had woken up and was crying while looking at the battlefield.

"You'd better keep your head back!" said Shulka, "or it won't be the butt but the German bullet that hit it!"

"Go away!" the deserter shouted at Shulka: "You bastards, cold-blooded animals, traitors... How can you shoot your own people..."

"We have no choice!" the veteran interrupted him.

"No, of course you have!" The deserter retorted: "You can wait for the Germans to approach before you fight, why can't you let us pass!"

"You can't get through!" Shulka replied: "A little further away, the Germans will throw rows of grenades into our trenches, and then we will have to die with your comrades!"