Chapter 1433: Trying Out the Ma'en River (First Update, Please Subscribe)

Night is the best cover for attacking troops!

For the 13th Regiment of the Expeditionary Force, from the moment they received the order to attack, they immediately took advantage of the gaps torn and expanded by the assault troops and advanced rapidly towards the target.

In order to speed up the attack, the soldiers of the 13th Regiment, like other expeditionary troops, were all lightly equipped. They even only carried three days' worth of rations - three pounds of compressed biscuits. Even so, the biscuits had to be divided into five days' worth.

All they had left were rifles and grenades. Then they attacked.

After infiltrating along the gaps in the German defense, they discovered a heavily defended German stronghold late at night on May 6.

"Sir, a German stronghold has been discovered ahead!"

"What kind of base is it?"

"It's just a manor, but it looks unusual. Not only is it heavily guarded, but we also noticed that it has a lot of telephone lines."

"Telephone lines? Lots of them?"

"No less than ten. We checked the surrounding woods and found ten telephone lines, all leading to the manor. There were cars coming in and out of the manor from time to time!"

Battalion Commander Li Xuexian's eyes lit up.

Telephone lines, access to the estate, cars coming in and out. What does it all come together to?

"Maybe there's a big fish here!"

Licking his lips, a strange look appeared in Li Xuexian's eyes.

"The first company will be the reserve, the third company will infiltrate from the left wing, and the second company will infiltrate from the woods on the right wing! We must annihilate the enemy completely!"

As soon as they received the order, officers and soldiers from the two companies immediately approached the stronghold quietly along the two wings of the manor. The so-called stronghold was a manor of a French nobleman. The manor was surrounded not only by shrub hedges, but also by forests for hunting by the nobles. On the road leading to the outside world, there were sandbag fortifications with two machine guns mounted on them. The Maxim heavy machine guns glowed with a cold luster under the moonlight. Several German soldiers were patrolling back and forth around the fortifications.

Lin Guowei, who was walking with a submachine gun in hand and hunched over, made a gesture to the soldiers behind him.

That's to remind them to keep the noise down!

In order to approach the manor quietly, compared to the complete defense on the front, the defense in other parts of the manor was not so tight.

Soldiers with guns quietly approached the manor under the cover of dusk. Perhaps because this was the rear, the German soldiers defending the manor never thought that the enemy could infiltrate their rear from the front-line troops.

Precisely because this place is located in a relatively safe area behind enemy lines, most of the German soldiers guarding the manor did not maintain due vigilance, so that when Lin Guowei led a platoon of soldiers to enter the manor from the flank through the fence wall, the German defenders in the manor did not notice their presence at all.

In the brightly lit palace-like building, officers were running back and forth, and a few German soldiers were chatting outside the window. At this time, no one realized that danger had come.

Outside the palace, when several German soldiers were taking a break to chat, several soldiers emerged from the shadows and suddenly turned into demons in the dark night. They pounced on them, covered their mouths, and directly cut their necks with bayonets.

Capturing prisoners and eliminating sentries are compulsory courses in vanguard training.

After the German sentry outside the palace was eliminated, a heavy grenade was taken out from his back. This thing that looks like a big hammer has always been the favorite of the Imperial Army. This type of grenade has a huge amount of explosives. Unlike ordinary grenades that rely on fragments to kill, this grenade uses the violent impact and shock caused by the explosion of 1 to 2 kilograms of explosives to kill the enemy.

Over the past twenty years, imperial soldiers have used it time and again to destroy enemy fortifications and blow groups of enemies into the sky - after it explodes, even if the enemies within a radius of twenty to thirty meters are not killed, they will be temporarily disabled by the strong explosion.

Unscrewing the grenade cap, Lin Guowei stared at the German officers running in the hall. Those officers were either discussing in front of the map or looking through the military intelligence they had just received. The sound of ringing telephones and people talking filled the air.

There are actually quite a few generals!

Big fish!

The fish is so big!

In his excitement, Lin Guowei looked at his watch and counted silently in his mind as he pulled the fuse of the grenade.

"one two three……"

The moment he counted to four seconds, suddenly a 2.5-kilogram grenade was thrown out of his hand and flew in a parabola towards the tall glass window. It took only about 1.5 seconds from the grenade being thrown out to the explosion. The grenade almost shattered the glass window. Before the German officers in the room could figure out what was going on, the grenade suddenly exploded.

The violent explosion instantly engulfed everything in the room. Although this room was a spacious banquet hall, the violent explosion still destroyed everything in the room. At the moment of the explosion, the soldiers who had infiltrated the manor immediately launched an attack on the nearby German fortifications.

For a moment, the sounds of grenade explosions and gunshots rang out inside and outside the manor.

“Quick, quick…”

When Lin Guowei led his soldiers into the house, the German soldiers in the room were already dead or wounded, with only a few lucky ones struggling in a pool of blood.

The soldiers holding rifles rushed over without thinking and swiftly ended their lives with bayonets. At this moment, a shout came from outside.

It's German!

Seeing the German soldiers rushing over, Lin Guowei and the soldiers rushed out of the door that was blown open by the shock wave of the explosion with guns in hand. The sound of gunfire rang out in the corridor. During the attack, the soldiers threw grenades from time to time. In the explosion of the grenades, the German resistance was almost not worth mentioning.

In fact, many German soldiers had not reacted until they rushed to the second floor. They never thought that they would be attacked here.

Not to mention them, even Pabel, the commander of the Fifth Army, was awakened by the explosion in his sleep. His first reaction was that the headquarters was under artillery fire - the power of the explosion of 2 kilograms of explosives was even not inferior to that of a large-caliber artillery shell.

When Pabie heard the gunshots outside the door, his military instinct drove him to take his gun and walk out of the room. When the door opened, he saw the adjutant fall down. When he raised his gun, several Ming soldiers came into his sight.

The moment the door opened, Lin Guowei saw an old German man. Although he was wearing pajamas, the weapon in his hand exposed his identity. His face was full of confusion and doubt.

“Beep…”

Crisp gunshots rang out in the corridor, and the soldiers around Lin Guowei pulled the trigger at the Germans who ran out.

When Pabel was shot and fell, the commander of the Fifth Army never understood until his death how it all happened.

Sometimes, accidents always happen on the battlefield, but sometimes the influence of accidents is greater.

Ten minutes later, the stunned German defenders surrendered one after another, and the battle was over in less than 20 minutes. It was not until this time that Li Xuexian learned from the prisoners that this "stronghold" was not a stronghold at all, but the headquarters of the Fifth Army Group!

"Where's their commander?"

The answer to this question is also very simple. Just two words.

“Dead!”

(End of this chapter)