"Company commander, why are you here?" Mika asked curiously.
"It was old Ino who pulled me back," Captain Korpi explained. "He helped deliver ammunition supplies almost all night long."
"Ino Dad, didn’t you rest?” Mika couldn’t help but raise his voice a little louder, “Your...”
“Shut up”
Hunter Ino couldn’t help but put Mi The words that stuck on his lips were pushed back, "Once the Soviets are beaten away, they will have time to rest."
Mika was about to say something when Wei Ran touched his elbow lightly and rushed in. Before the other party spoke, he changed the subject and asked, "Captain Korpi, can you tell us in detail the situation on the battlefield?"
"The torn encirclement was near the lake on the south side"
Captain Korpi explained loudly, "We originally thought they were going to join Suao Musalmi's troops, but several cars took advantage of that moment to rush out of Suao Musalmi and run due east. , running together, there are two cars in the encirclement we are responsible for. "Should we block the torn encirclement or chase those cars?" asked the old hunter Ino.
"You three, go chase the car!" Captain Korpi reminded additionally, "The flag of the 163rd Division in the encirclement is missing. Maybe their division commander has escaped."< /p>
"No problem!"
Ino responded, shaking the reins vigorously to speed up the sled slightly, and after sending the Finnish soldiers behind him to the battlefield , the three of them immediately bid farewell to Captain Korpi and pursued him along the remaining tire tracks in the snow.
"Victor, do you have the kerosene lamp with you?" Ino asked as he slowed down the sleigh immediately after it passed through the battlefield.
"Yes, there!" Wei Ran immediately responded in the affirmative.
"Light it up"
The old hunter Ino unexpectedly stopped the sleigh completely, "Mika, wait a minute and you are responsible for watching the left side to see if there is any sudden change." Victor, you are responsible for keeping an eye on the right side of the footprints that appear."
"Isn't this too risky?" Although Wei Ran said so, he still used the cover of his backpack to move. The kerosene gas lamp was taken out and lit, and under the command of the former, it was hung on the armrest on the side of the sleigh.
The dazzling icy blue light immediately clearly illuminated the ruts they were following, but at the same time it also exposed the three people sitting in the sleigh.
Before the reindeer started running, the old hunter Ino explained slowly, "If the Soviets want to escape from Finland alive, the most they can do is hijack our sleigh, and there is a high probability that they will not attack us. Gun."
Wei Ran and Mika glanced at each other, and both grasped the submachine guns hidden in the wolfskin blanket.
The sleigh ran forward on the ice for nearly five kilometers. Along the way, they not only encountered Finnish soldiers chasing after them on skis, but also encountered a car stuck on the ice. GaSri Lanka M1 car.
But when they were about to reach the encirclement of the 662nd Regiment of the 163rd Division of the Soviet Union, the ruts they pursued all the way branched off without any warning, except for the two vehicles that were still heading east along the ice. In addition to the two, there are actually two heading to the direction of due north and due south respectively.
"Which way to run?" Mika was in trouble and asked the old hunter Ino who was responsible for driving.
"Go north"
After thinking for a moment, the old hunter Ino shook the reins vigorously, "There are our people in the east, and the Soviets going in that direction will definitely not be able to escape. Although it is in the south There are only Civil Guards, but if they run south, they will only get farther and farther away from the Soviet Union. So we go north. Only in this direction can we return to the Soviet Union as quickly as possible!"
Wei Ran opened his mouth. , after all, he didn’t say anything. If he was sure that Commander Zelentsov of the 163rd Division really ran south, he wouldn’t have to risk his life to return to this war.
In the howling cold wind blowing in the face, the sleigh pulled by two reindeer ran faster and faster, and the ice-blue light emitted by the kerosene gas lamp hanging on the sleigh was also in the dark night. It echoes the green aurora overhead and is extremely conspicuous.
While the three of them were on tight alert, the two reindeer ran for an hour, and finally an invisible shadow appeared in front of them.
"Attention," Ino warned in a low voice. He took out the Ruger P08 pistol from his waist and hid it in his wide sleeves. Then he shook the reins and sped up slightly.
Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately raised his submachine gun, ready to take a shot at any enemy that might appear.
As the distance got closer and closer, they finally saw clearly that the black shadow was indeed a car, a GAZ produced in the Soviet Union. M1 car!
Looking sideways at the series of scattered footprints leading to the forest on the shore, the old hunter Ino lowered his voice and said, "Mika, use your skis to go around from the right. Wei and I Kedo continued walking along the lake shore, trying to lure them out and catch them alive." After hearing this, Mika jumped off the sleigh without hesitation, tied up his skis, and rushed in following the footprints. forest.
"Victor, go put the bells on them." As the old hunter Ino spoke, he reached out and took out two pear-sized copper coins from a small box on the edge of the sled. bell.
When Wei Ran took the bell, the former took off his white camouflage clothes and said, "Hide yourself with a wolfskin blanket later."
"This will work. "Is that so?" Wei Ran asked, avoiding the reindeer heads that kept stretching toward his arms, and struggled to help them put on their copper bells.
“Who would shoot at Santa’s sleigh?” Ino joked with a smile, “Don’t worry, as long as they still want to escape to the Soviet Union alive, they won’t shoot us to death.”
"I hope so..."
Wei Ran pulled his mittens out of a reindeer's mouthCome, lie down on the sleigh and cover yourself with a thick wolfskin blanket.
Amidst the pleasant tinkling of the bells, the sleigh, which was deliberately slowed down under the control of Ino, ran for more than a hundred meters toward the center of the lake, moving slowly in a direction parallel to the shore. .
When the cold wind carried the crisp sound of bells into the forest, Mika, who was carrying a submachine gun, also speeded up slightly and followed the undisguised footprints on the ground to catch up.
Soon after, the sound of conversation that he couldn’t understand came from directly in front. Hearing the sound, Mika immediately crouched down, using the cover of the surrounding cedars, and used ski poles to support him a little closer. The distance between the two parties.
When he walked around two pine trees growing side by side, he immediately saw the edge of the forest not far away. There was a Soviet soldier holding a telescope and looking at the slow-moving sleigh on the lake. Next to him, there were five trembling Soviet Red Army soldiers lying side by side with their guns raised.
This is not over yet. Behind the six of them, a Soviet soldier dressed in a blue hat was wading through the snow, shivering and pulling branches he could find from all around. Trying to light a bonfire with matches.
Using the faint light before the match went out each time, Mika, who was hiding not far from him, could clearly see that his thighs were completely frozen, icy. The trouser legs were covered with thick snow and fallen leaves.
If nothing else, this unlucky guy must have accidentally fallen into the water when the car got stuck in the ice. At this time, if he didn’t take off his pants quickly and light a fire to warm himself up, at most In just one hour, even if he doesn't freeze to death, his legs will be useless.
Mika did not rush to shoot, but waited patiently for three of the other soldiers to run out of the forest and onto the lake with weapons in hand. Then he carefully untied the skis tied to his shoes, moving slowly. Lying on it, he took out the Finnish hunting knife and Nagant revolver from his waist, lightly kicked the pine tree he was originally using to hide, and slid towards it silently like a mass of moving snow. Under the flagpole, the blue hat finally lit the branches on fire.