Chapter Thirty-Five: A Thin Line Between Life and Death

  I looked around and didn't see David's figure, so I asked in a hurry: "Has anyone seen David?" Everyone shook their heads!

  "Didn't even the corpse exist?" Just as I sighed and lost another capable general, one of Qiao Sen's former subordinates said: "I saw him, but later it was a rush, and I didn't have time to take care of it. It seemed that the German troops had sent out a group of people to chase after him!"

  "God willing, may he come back alive!" I said quietly to myself, knowing that I couldn't order the troops to go back onto the battlefield for David alone.

  David and Krein retreated continuously with the help of terrain under the pursuit of Germans, only because the two men's marksmanship was too accurate, which made the Germans also dare not to get too close, so they could pull open a short distance. However, if more German troops were to encircle them, the two would undoubtedly be doomed to death.

  David's leg was injured, and he wasn't moving fast. The two of them could only escape by supporting each other. After a while, they arrived at the broken wall of a destroyed forest ranger's hut in a thicket. David leaned against the wall with his Springfield sniper rifle, took a deep breath, wiped away the fresh blood flowing from his leg, and smiled bitterly.

  "Come on, let me bandage you up!" Krein said, pulling out a roll of gauze from the sniper's personal first-aid kit.

  David didn't refuse, but instead chuckled and said, "I didn't think you'd still be carrying this kind of thing?" In fact, David's meaning wasn't complicated. In the records of snipers, there were very few cases where they were injured and survived. Most were killed instantly. Carrying emergency bandages like these was almost useless for a seasoned sniper.

  Crayne's face turned red as he changed the subject: "And you've also used it, haven't you, Sergeant David?"

  David suddenly made a silencing gesture towards Krein, and Krein immediately picked up the sniper rifle in his hand and became vigilant around him.

  Sergeant Cyris of the German army was furious with these two American soldiers, his more than ten brothers had already died at the hands of David and Krein, four of them. Cyris vowed to capture the two men, peeling their skin layer by layer to avenge his brothers.

  This is a forest ranger's cabin, which has been blown up. Following the blood trail of the wounded American sniper, Silas determines that the pursuing enemy may be hiding here to snipe at him again. He quietly signals his loyal soldiers to crouch down and split into two groups to surround the cabin from both sides, then uses hand gestures to indicate a grenade attack. Several soldiers immediately divide into two teams, using the bushes as cover, and sneak towards the ranger's cabin.

  David did not really realize that the Germans had closed in so quickly, but as a human being's instinctive perception, he still cautiously lowered his body and observed the surrounding woods from a hollow.

  "This is no place to linger, we must leave here at once!" David said in a low voice.

  "You're right," said Krein, "we'll return at once and join the main force!"

  "Don't move! It looks like someone's there!" David suddenly raised his gun and aimed at a bush. "Krein, cover my back!"

  Krein's heart immediately lifted, half-kneeling on the ground, his cheek tightly attached to the gunstock, aiming at any suspicious place, and as soon as there was a movement, he would give the opponent an accurate shot.

  Cyrus crouched in the underbrush, carefully hiding behind a thicket of bushes as he observed the cabin through his binoculars. He waited quietly for the signal from the German assault team to move into position.

  "Jenon, get ready to lay down some suppressive fire with the machine gun! I think the two we're chasing are right here!" Ciris whispered to Jenon, the new machine gunner.

  "Sergeant Cyris, hold on to them for a moment, please let me keep their eyeballs!" Jernon said with hatred, because one of his brothers died in the Omaha defensive position, and was said to have been burned alive by American flamethrower soldiers.

  Ciris didn't say a word, she just gently patted Jernon's shoulder in comfort.

  The German attack groups on both sides quickly reached their designated combat positions, carefully lying down and waiting quietly for Serys' command. At this time, the nearest German army was only fifty meters away from David and Krein.

  David finally discovered the German ambush, but due to the angle of his position, he didn't fire because he wasn't sure if he could take out the enemy. David really let out a bitter laugh this time.

  "Krein, aren't you afraid of death?"

  "Sir, of course I'm afraid to die!" Krein suddenly understood the situation from David's words.

  "Damn it, I've actually met a cowardly soldier, what bad luck!" David cursed with a smile.

  Crayne shook his head, this man who had never sworn before suddenly also started learning from David and cursed: "Damn it, I haven't even found a woman yet, I don't want to lose my life here like this!"

  "My goodness, how old are you this year?"

  "Nineteen years old!"

  "Oh God, you should be hiding in your mother's womb and drinking milk!" David sighed intentionally!

  Krein tilted his head, thought for a moment, but still gripped the gun tightly, without relaxing his vigilance: "No, no, no! Maybe I'll eat my wife's milk instead!"

  "My god, I didn't expect you to be a pervert!" David exclaimed intentionally!

  "I'd rather be a sex ghost!" Keren replied without batting an eyelid!

  "It's a pity German bullets didn't break your little cock! Haha..."

  "David, I curse you!"

  "Watch out, they're coming!" David swiftly raised his hand and fired at a German soldier jumping out from the left side, but unfortunately only hit the ground, splashing up a small patch of dust.

  "Three o'clock direction, three men!"

  "Two o'clock direction, two men!"

  "Damn it, there's still a machine gun on our front!"

  "Get out of the way, Krayt's got a grenade!"

  Boom! The small house that had been destroyed was once again affected by the flames of war, and the other half of the broken wall was immediately blown down by several German soldiers who threw in a few hand grenades.

  "Mom, my egg!" Suddenly, a severe pain came from under Keren's body. Keren touched his hand and it was full of blood. It turned out that Keren's ** had been shattered by the unexpected explosion of grenade fragments. Keren immediately let out a painful howl.

  "Strike back quickly, you damned thing!"

  David is now completely suppressed by the alternating cover of German soldiers and machine gunners, and can't even lift his head. With great difficulty, he managed to knock down a German soldier with his marksmanship, but had no idea what was happening to Krein. Turning back, he suddenly saw Krein lying on the ground, clutching his lower body and rolling around in agony, immediately realizing that Krein had been seriously injured.

  "I'm really a cursed crow's mouth, but it seems like I'll really die here today!" David was somewhat desperate at this time!

  As the German soldiers approached and hand grenades kept coming, David finally couldn't hold on, after killing two German soldiers, he leaned against the broken wall root and panted.

  Cyrus, beside the machine gunner Jernon, watched as his subordinates fell one after another, and he was so angry that he almost crushed his steel teeth. Now there were only five people left, including himself, but facing these two snipers, he couldn't guarantee that he could take them down. What Cyrus didn't know was that his grenade had immediately made one of the snipers lose important combat effectiveness, and even David was almost completely resisting with willpower alone!

  David took the grenade off the hook on his right chest, looked at Krein who was already unconscious from pain. "Brother, I'm really sorry for you, it seems like you're not going to have a woman in this life! Haha, you don't know how great that feels, huh, I won't envy you anymore! But don't worry, when we two get to heaven, I'll ask God to grow one back for you! Alas, I just wonder if there are women in heaven?"

  As the sound of gunfire from the US military ambush gradually subsided, Siris was well aware that the attacking troops had not achieved their expected mission. Siris knew that his time was also running out, because the German command's order was to annihilate the besieged US military at all costs, and if they failed, all troops would immediately withdraw from the forest area north of Munsterburg as soon as it got dark. After a while, Siris couldn't wait for David's movement, estimating that David's situation wasn't much better either. With so many hand grenades thrown in, he wouldn't die but would be seriously injured. Siris also went all out and gestured to the remaining three men to approach from different directions.

  Cyrus advanced cautiously, his fingers tightly gripping the Mauser rifle's trigger guard. When he was about ten meters from the hut, he halted and signaled to the others to prepare for close combat. After taking two more steps, seeing no movement from David, Cyrus suddenly quickened his pace.

  David had discovered Cyris earlier, and the previous enemy he had aimed at was also Cyris. Unfortunately, Cyris's angle wasn't in a good shooting position, but Cyris's good luck saved his life. Unfortunately, this good luck didn't last long on the battlefield. He was shot by David with one bullet hitting the heart position, bursting open a huge blood hole like a bowl mouth. Cyris looked at his own chest with dull eyes and finally fell to the ground unwillingly.

  Dum-dum bullet! It's a processed dum-dum bullet! The dum-dum bullet, also known as the "expanding bullet", has weak penetration power, but its destructive power is enormous. In addition to causing severe damage to the human body, it can also cause lacerations and tearing injuries to the target. If it's a special explosive warhead, it can even cause explosive damage inside the target! At 100 meters away, if you hit a vital spot, you'll die instantly. Even if you hit an arm or leg, there's still a 20% chance of death. The rest will require amputation. However, in the 1899 Hague Convention, countries explicitly prohibited the use of such bullets. But in reality, some troops have been known to modify ordinary bullets into dum-dum bullets, which occasionally appear on the battlefield. Of course, the Hague Convention won't bother with these occasional appearances.

  Cyrus's death was met with a hail of gunfire from Jaron, but this also exposed his position. David tossed a grenade at Jaron's location and immediately stood up to fire a shot. Jaron was killed on the spot by David while trying to dodge the grenade, and the Dum-Dum bullet created a dark blood hole in him.

  In the blink of an eye, two more German soldiers fell, and the remaining two German soldiers immediately panicked, desperately trying to rush towards David's hiding place. After eliminating the German machine gunner, David could no longer hold on, and with a bitter smile, he sat down on the ground with a thud, saying to the still unconscious Krein: "Two more are left! I don't know if we can make it out alive!"

  David drew his Colt 11.43mm high-power self-defense pistol, aiming in the direction of the charging German troops. A German soldier rushed forward and found David holding a gun aimed at him, but he was too late to fire, raising the butt of his rifle and slamming it down towards David's head. David dodged to one side, avoiding the blow, but his hand instinctively pulled the trigger several times, and the 11.43mm pistol bullets mercilessly riddled the German soldier with blood and flesh. Another German soldier rushed over at this time, seeing the scene before him, his eyes turned red with rage, raising his gun to fire.