Chapter 52

"Report!" Outside came the voice of soldiers, let me give up the idea of staying in bed.

"Come in." Before I could speak, kroshkov, who had been in the shelter, had already spoken.

I lifted the curtain that separated the camp bed from the command post and looked out. I saw a soldier with a helmet and a bayonet rifle standing in front of kroshkov, reporting to him: "Comrade instructor I, I see a team of trucks with awning coming towards us."

"What kind of truck? Is it our truck? " He asked after him.

"Yes, it's the tractor truck of the artillery company of the division headquarters. The back of each truck is towing artillery, and we are coming from the rear of the position. The platoon leader thought it necessary to report it to you, so he sent me here

"I see. Thank you." Kroshkov said, waving to the soldier to let him go. The soldier immediately understood, immediately saluted him, turned and left the command post.

Kroshkov watched the soldier walk out of the command post, then slowly turned around. He thought he was going to call me, but it was just opposite to my eyes. He laughed and then asked me, "Comrade commander, can you get up? The sentry on duty just now reported that an artillery company was coming. Let's go and have a look. "

"All right." I was lying on the March bed with my clothes. With these words, I immediately got out of bed, put on my boots, pulled open the curtain, took off the coat hanging on the nail on the wall, and said to kroshkov: "Comrade instructor, let's go and have a look together."

Kroshkov and I were standing on the open ground, watching the motorcade in the distance getting closer and closer. In a short time, the motorcade stopped five or six meters in front of us. Then the driver's cab door of the first truck opened, and a fully armed captain jumped out of it. He blew his whistle hard and yelled, "artillery company, listen to me, all of you get out of the car."

With his shouts, the soldiers in the truck jumped out of the car one after another, waving their arms and kicking their legs to move their rigid bodies, and looking around with laughter and talk.

The captain ran over, saluted kroshkov, and said in a loud voice, "first class political instructor comrade, Captain gangchajin of the antiaircraft artillery company reports to you. I will lead the antiaircraft artillery company to come and wait for your order."

"Anti aircraft artillery camp?" When kroshkov said this, he looked up at the sky and said, "what we need here are anti tank anti-aircraft guns, not anti-aircraft guns. If you want to strengthen air defense, it might be more appropriate for you to go to the division headquarters. "

"Wait a minute," I interrupted the instructor and asked the captain directly, "Comrade captain, the order you have received is to use anti-aircraft guns to fire flat on the enemy's tanks?"

"Yes, exactly." When the captain answered me, he looked me up and down curiously. Maybe he was very strange, how suddenly a young woman soldier would jump out and say "three four", but the first level political instructor didn't express any objection.

"Let's meet. This is commander o'shanina." Kroshkov quickly introduced me to the captain.

"Hello, comrade commander." The captain quickly saluted me at attention. "I'm waiting for your instructions."

I didn't return the gift. Instead, I went up to him, took his hand and said, "welcome. With your support, the German Devils' tanks are not a concern. " After releasing his hand, I pointed to a forest in the northwest of the rear of the position and said, "you lead the antiaircraft artillery company to build a position in the forest over there. I'll arrange the messenger to lay a telephone line immediately. If you need fire support, I'll call you."

"I see, comrade commander." The captain saluted me at attention again, then quickly ran back to his motorcade and cried out in his loud voice, "artillery company, listen to me, all aboard."

Looking at the motorcade turning to the northwest woods, kroshkov asked, "Comrade commander, why did you arrange the artillery company's position in the woods? You know, according to the regulations, artillery should be deployed directly in the open area behind the position. "

"My political instructor comrade," I explained patiently to him, "the regulations were formulated more than ten years ago. At that time, the enemy's planes and tanks were very few, and the layout of defensive positions like that was completely correct. Now, however, the situation is different. Before the enemy attacks, first the plane blows up the artillery, and then the infantry charges under the cover of tanks. If we still follow the rules mechanically and put the artillery on the open ground, it is to let the soldiers be the living targets of the enemy. Do you see what I mean? "

On hearing my explanation, kroshkov said nothing more but nodded. After a while, he said, "Comrade commander, it's cold outside. Let's go back to the shelter." He didn't say that I didn't feel cold yet. Listening to what he said, I felt the cold wind hurt my face, so I agreed, turned around and trotted all the way back to the warm shelter.

The German attack began at ten in the morning. They have the same old tactics. When the plane comes to the position, it goes around first, drops a few bombs, then chases the target on the ground, and shoots with machine guns. Then their cannons began to roar, and dense shells fell on the ground of our army.

I had a way to deal with the old German style. As soon as the enemy plane arrived, I informed the company commanders that except for a few observation posts, the rest of the soldiers were hiding in the bullet holes they had already dug. As long as there were no dense battle formations in the trenches, the German bombing and shelling did much less damage to our army. I am very confident that under my command, the guard camp will never be completely destroyed in a day or two. Otherwise, without the higher authorities being held responsible for the failure, I would shoot myself in the temple like major general Smirnov. Before the shelling was over, I heard two quick whistles coming from the trench. These were the signals that I had spoken to the observation post in advance. They meant to ask the commander to go there immediately. I quickly ran out of the bullet hole, bent down along the trench, and ran to the observation post under enemy fire. As soon as I saw the soldier in charge of observation, I asked unhappily, "the enemy's shelling is not over. What do you do with your whistle?"“ Comrade commander, you see, German devils, "the sentry I blamed did not retort, but pointed to the front of the position and said to me," you see, German Devils' infantry are coming. " I raised my telescope and looked out. I saw that the German army's formation of scattered soldiers was approaching our position. I didn't expect that the German commander in charge of the army had a strong learning ability. Yesterday, I used this tactic to bring the troops to seize the position, but I didn't expect that they would return the soldiers in their own way today, and launch an attack when our army was suppressed by artillery fire. However, since this tactic was initiated by me, I naturally have a way to deal with it. I immediately ordered the observation post to blow the whistle and ask the soldiers to enter the position as soon as possible. After a series of rapid whistles from the observation post, the soldiers hiding in the bullet hole braved the enemy's fire and entered the battle position. As soon as the shelling was over, the German infantry charged. However, they were not as lucky as we were yesterday. They were not able to rush into the position because they were met by the intensive firepower of our army. The German infantry were exposed to the open ground more than ten meters away, which was the living target of the soldiers. The bullets splashed out, and the infantry fell in front of our position one after another. In order to avoid the intensive firepower of our army, some soldiers jumped into the individual bunker we dug“ Go Just as the fight was fierce, a shout was heard from the side. I turned to see that it was kroshkov who led the charge. See more and more soldiers jump out of the trench, began to attack the enemy. I secretly complained that it's safe to stay in the position and fight the enemy. Why are you leading the team to rush blindly? However, seeing that the enemy had retreated like a tide, I stood up straight, carrying a submachine gun to sweep the enemy's retreating line. After hitting a clip and replacing it with a new one, I jumped out of the trench and followed the soldiers forward. The stormtroopers stopped 300 meters before retreating as a whole. Kroshkov pointed to the individual bunker and said, "now I understand why you asked us to dig the bunker so deep that the German devils could not climb out if they fell in."“ Hee hee, just understand. "“ What about the German devils in the bunker? " He asked“ Find German soldiers to shout to them, want to live to throw out weapons to surrender. Otherwise, "speaking of this, I pulled a grenade from the waist of a nearby soldier, pulled the fuse, and after burning for five seconds, I threw the grenade into one of the bunkers“ Boom A loud noise, smoke mixed with a burst of blood mist from the bunker, and then everything is calm. I then added, "those who do not surrender will be dealt with in this way. Do you understand? "“ I see Kroshkov and the soldiers around him answered me at the same time. The shouting to the German soldiers trapped in the individual bunkers began. Many German soldiers in the bunkers obediently threw out their weapons. After being dragged up by the soldiers, they held up their hands and became our prisoners. However, from time to time, there were two explosions, which were the most direct means used by the soldiers to deal with those stubborn enemies.