Chapter 268 264. The situation collapses

The team's physical energy consumption, personnel losses, dispersion of people, the other party's caution in setting countermeasures and the gap in numbers are gradually compressing Aresta's escape space. Such dense gunfire will inevitably attract a large number of enemies. He has only two soldiers around him, and it is not much easier to take Kawei away from here than climbing the sky.

"Let's go first!" Arestala moved forward with difficulty, avoiding the first wave of attacks. "Go to the east first to see if there is any possibility of escaping."

".What if there isn't?" A soldier looked back and found that there were no pursuers, so he said, "If we encounter another obstacle, we will fight!"

"Yes, captain, it's better to be a prisoner."

"Don't! Don't draw conclusions so quickly, things will turn around." Aresta led them into an alley. "Now the gunshots are so dense that they will attract many reinforcements, but they will also mislead the Prussian soldiers who originally guarded the entrance of the town."

This sentence awakened them.

The soldiers guarding the entrance of the town are the biggest troubles they have when they escape. If the orders are not determined enough, or if their orders are not implemented firmly, they will inevitably be shaken after hearing such dense gunfire.

If all of them come to support, there will be huge loopholes. After all, the town of Otaka is still too big for this company.

The reality was really as he thought. At the beginning, the 12 people in the north divided eight soldiers to rush to the entrance of the west town. As soon as they arrived, they heard the gunshots here, and they quickly turned around and rushed towards the church.

The things were the farthest away, and the two gunshots were not clear at the beginning, and no one was sent for their own responsibilities.

But after discovering that the density and loudness of the gunshots suddenly increased, the squad leader here did not hold back, leaving only one person guarding the hole, and everyone else was dispatched.

This is indeed an opportunity, but if Aresta wants to avoid the reinforcements gathered toward the church, he can only walk the path and even find another way: "Breaking the door!"

A soldier glanced at the house in front of him, and without saying a word, he raised his foot and kicked the door panel: "Open! Open! Open!!!"

“Get in quickly.”

Aresta, with Kavi, who had almost exhausted his energy, plunged into the house, and a smell of wood, mold and dust kept pouring into his nose as he breathed.

It's true that no one has come in for a long time.

"Open the window."

"yes."

The town has a wide range of dark alleys and complex internal connections, but there are few external intersections. If you want to avoid encountering reinforcements from the east, you can only do this.

In fact, even if you don’t enter the dark alley, there will be no problem with the path you choose now. From the perspective of God, what Aresta has to face is not reinforcements, but Mendestein, who is secretly following him.

Ever since he discovered the importance of Kavi at the entrance of the church, the Prussian cavalry company commander decided to bite them tightly.

It’s not that he has no chance of winning, but that the situation is now under his control, and the other Austrian soldiers who are left at the entrance of the church are given priority.

The Austrian army has poor equipment and bad command. The only one who can do it is these tough soldiers who dare to fight and fight. They suffered secret losses in the past when they fought and suffered heavy losses. If these guys were left to ignore them now and instead attacked the commander of the opponent, no one would guarantee that these soldiers would do any crazy actions.

As for the three little mice that escaped, just run away, as long as you don’t leave your sight.

What's more, Kawei was about to lose his energy, and he was not moving fast, so he was waiting for his energy to run out of energy to catch the live.

However, Aresta is not a vegetarian. He must have had a great deal of dealing with them here. Although he did not realize that he was targeted, he still made some decisions that were unexpected to others.

"Wait, why did they enter the hut on the street?"

Mendestein frowned, soon realized the other party's intention, and snorted, "Maybe you are avoiding reinforcements from other roads, Ball, first look over and see what they are going to do."

"yes."

"Be careful."

Ball is a short Prussian, with agile movements and good strength. After receiving the order, he immediately lowered his waist and quickly came to the same window. He slowly raised his head and looked into the house: "They went through the window!"

"Leave?"

Mendestein and Duke quickly followed and immediately found the window that was opened on the other side of the room: "It's a bit troublesome, they must have run into the dark alley!"

"There are all kinds of dark alleys here, so you have to catch up with me."

The two of them were about to open the door and enter the house, but they were stopped by Mendestein: "Don't worry."

"It will be too late if you don't chase after me!"

"I said don't worry!!!" Mendestein glared at Duke, "The town is in our hands now, are you afraid that he can run away?"

"yes"

"Give me a map."

Ball pulled out a stacked map from his body, and after it was spread out, a hand-painted route map of the town of Otaka was presented to them: "This is a church, should we find problems at this location?"

“The route has changed again.”

"There is a large residential area behind the church, which is much denser than the west side." Mendestein said. "This is a dark alley in the residential area. It's very messy, and we haven't seen it. What if we get lost when we go in?"

"They probably haven't been there either."

"That's even more messy." Mendestein was unwilling to give up the opportunity, but he didn't want to take risks. "It's better to determine their goals and wait at the finish line than wandering around the dark alley."

“It makes sense!”

"Where is their target? Or the entrance of the East Town?"

This question is also something Mendestein is thinking about.

The other party originally advanced from west to east, but now he has changed his route and has turned to the southeast. The next step is to maintain the original judgment and continue to go east or to walk south the other way, you need to make a good choice.

"The dark alley to the east is here, the one to the south is here," Mendestein pointed to the two alleys and thought for a moment, and said, "Bauer, go ahead from the road next to you, and stop by the intersection behind the two paths, and wait for the people in the east to come and take them back to their original position."

"Or go east?"

“Yes, east.”

"What if it's south?"

"The brothers who harvest wheat will be responsible for guarding the gate." Mendestein soon found the fastest route, "It is the widest road in the town, and there is still a large wheat field at the door. It is almost impossible to escape from sight."

The situation in the town of Otaka is increasingly tilting towards Mendestein.

The battle at the entrance of the church was very fierce, but this fragile balance was soon broken by reinforcements from the west when the commander was lost.

From the beginning, the medical team was frightened by the gunfire and hid in the houses. Now the front is unstoppable, and the remaining soldiers from the guards can only follow their example and break into the houses and hide temporarily.

In the fierce gun battle, casualties are always inevitable.

The number of guards decreased from 11 to 6, while the medical team was injured by three, while the number of soldiers in Prussia increased from 10 to 19, with almost no room for resistance.

"Surrender! We surrender!!!"

The three female nurses were the first to walk out of the house. They seemed to be the only one who could do the same at the end of the road: "Don't shoot, don't shoot. We are not soldiers, we are just nurses who follow the army."

Soon many doctors came out: "We surrender too! We are doctors, we don't have weapons, don't shoot!!!"

Of course, these people who walked out of the room were surgical assistants, whether they were from Vienna or other cities, they were all doctors in surgical clinics. In addition to the same profession, they also had one thing in common, they were all from ordinary civilians.

Opposite them are doctors such as Ignaz, Bergt, and Herman.

They come from several of Austria's top medical schools and enjoy the best educational resources of the empire. Most of them also have jazz titles. Out of their loyalty to the empire, they always have a grudge against surrender.

However, soon, this grudge turned into fear.

The church door, which had a brief fire, returned to quiet, but suddenly a few gunshots were heard, and several doctors who had just walked out of the room screamed and fell into a pool of blood.

Everyone saw clearly through the window that the bullet did not come from the Prussian soldiers. Because these soldiers had been ordered to cease fire, they were also restricted by the Geneva Convention and there was no need to do so.

Since it was not a Prussian gun fired, the bullet could only be shot from the barrel of the rifle in the hand of the guards.

This behavior was beyond everyone's expectations, including the soldiers of the guard who fired the gun, did not expect that they would be so uneasy. But looking back at the various changes they encountered along the way, it would be a false to say that they had no hatred.

The escort team is only 1/5 left, in order to ensure that the medical team is brought back to the northern line.

But these doctors with military ranks and seals chose to surrender shamelessly at the last moment. So what was their efforts for before?

This hatred will swallow a lot of negative emotions in an instant, and then quickly ferment with the sound of surrender, greatly affecting the mood of the remaining five members of the guards.

When they come to their senses, the situation becomes what they are now.

what to do?

Things are no longer remedied.

There are only them in the town now, the number of Prussians is much higher than that of them, and the firepower is stronger. In fact, since Aresta said "dispersed", they have already recognized the reality, but they are just unwilling to admit it.

This battle will definitely lose.

But surrender?

Obviously these people were unwilling to surrender, otherwise the comrades who had fallen under the enemy's gun would all die in vain. Anyway, the captain and Kawei have left here, and there is still hope for the mission. They can drag it for a while, and kill one more person.

With this belief, the second round of gunfight began, with a wider number of 5:19.

The Prussian soldiers were not idle either. After discovering that the other party had an internal strife, they immediately took the doctors who were not shot to the rear of the team to be placed, and immediately launched a charge against the two houses where the guards were located.

On the other side, Aresta had already thrown the gunshots behind him.

He thought about how he looked during the battle and couldn't think of any victory. From the moment he decided to abandon his team members, these people had become abandoned children of the mission, just like Smith and Dress.

“Where are we now?”

"I don't know, the path here is too complicated, with things piled up everywhere, and there is no way to walk well."

"Don't be anxious, you need to find the right direction." Aresta looked at the sun in the sky, "Walking forward along the sun's position, there should be no mistakes in the general direction."

The two players were exploring the way forward, while Kawei was pulled by the captain and kept walking forward. In fact, the speed of escape had returned to a fast walking, but the narrow path and the debris that appeared at his feet from time to time were still further squeezing his physical strength.
To be continued...