Chapter 112

O'lear and I rushed out of the church and saw that there was a mess outside.

Several German planes circled in the air, diving down from time to time to drop bombs or strafe. In the thick smoke and fire, the anti-aircraft machine gun company, which had constructed the air defense position yesterday, was shooting fiercely into the air. Three or five groups of unarmed or armed soldiers were running around in panic. Several female soldiers of the cooking class were also running around with tableware behind the crowd.

"Hide! Hide I ran a few steps forward and yelled at the women, but the explosion and the firing of the antiaircraft machine gun suppressed my voice.

"Be careful!" A man rushed up from behind and crushed me on the snow. Almost at the same time, the bullets from a dive enemy plane passed through the place where I was standing.

"Go and find a place to hide. I'll evacuate the headquarters." As soon as the man on me spoke, I immediately recognized that it was deputy chief of staff o'lear who had saved my life just now. I hastened to loosen my back. O'lear got up and ran to the church. As he ran, he cried in his loud voice: "all the people in the headquarters leave their positions and go outside to hide!"

In his shouts, I also heard a series of screams. Turning around, it turned out that the soldier standing guard at the door had been hit in two by machine gun bullets. Because he didn't die in a moment, his upper part of his body was rolling with blood red intestines in the extremely painful scream

Seeing the tragedy in front of me and smelling the strong blood gas, I just felt that between my chest and abdomen, there were waves of things pouring up. I couldn't stand it any longer, so I lay there and vomited.

The bomb dropped by the plane was exploding everywhere in the village. I was thinking about where to hide. Although I had been calling everyone to hide just now, it was just an instinctive reaction. I didn't know where to hide if I wanted to. Maybe lying on the ground would be the safest.

From time to time, a bomb fell into the crowd, and the air wave of the explosion lifted the soldiers high into the air, and then dropped them heavily. In the continuous explosion, my hands and feet trembled involuntarily, my body was lying in the snow, and I didn't dare to move. I was afraid that the shrapnel flying around would hit me.

A bloody arm suddenly fell in front of me, which startled me. Wait a little calm God, a close look, found that the arm's skin delicate white, should belong to women. The residents of the village have been scattered for a long time. Which female soldier in the cooking class has suffered misfortune?

Looking around, I saw damana, who helped me to change my clothes a few days ago, lying in the snow not far away with blood all over her body, rolling in the same place and shouting vaguely from her mouth which constantly gushed blood. I quickly climbed up to her, hugged her and asked aloud, "damana, how are you doing?"

Damana looked at me with silent eyes, opened her mouth a few times, and said a few words in a very weak voice. Because the explosion around was so loud, I didn't understand what she said. I just wanted to put my ear to her mouth to hear it. As a result, she had tilted her head and stopped breathing.

Seeing the sacrifice of damana in my arms, a burst of sadness came to my heart, and my eyes began to wet. Death! It turns out that it is so simple. In the fierce battlefield, it may only take a few seconds for a fresh life to turn into a cold corpse. My tears in the eyes of astringent red transit for a long time, or can not help but flow out, drop by drop fell on damana's face.

"Boom!" A bomb exploded not far away, and the mud and snow fell on me.

Looking up, it turned out that another enemy plane swooped down and dropped a bomb on the village. Seeing the rampant enemy planes in the air, I suddenly feel an irresistible impulse in my heart. I want to revenge and beat down the damned enemy planes! Looking around, I saw that the anti-aircraft machine guns in the village's air defense positions were shooting desperately at the air. I wiped a tear, put down damana's body, stood up and rushed to the nearest air defense position.

Just now, I was so scared of the explosion of the bomb, but now I don't even do the instinctive necking movement. I just bend over and run towards the anti-aircraft machine gun. At this time, a bomb fell on the side of the anti-aircraft machine gun. The blast wave collapsed the chest wall made of sandbags. The soldier who was shooting covered his head and fell from the seat. The machine gun suddenly became dumb.

I stepped over the collapsed sandbags, jumped on the machine gun seat, turned the handle nimbly, and aimed at the enemy plane in the air through the sight. There are soldiers next to me shouting: "commander comrade, what can I do for you?"

"Help me with the ammo." I said faintly, and then stepped on the gun button, a little bit more strength

"Yes In response, the soldier quickly inserted two ammunition boxes into the gun.

The target of the enemy plane in the sight is bigger and clearer“ Maybe it was this plane that broke the soldiers on guard into two parts and killed damana. " So I thought, and at the same time, I stepped on the button of the gun, and a series of bullets burst out of the muzzle and shot at the enemy plane.

The two ammunition boxes soon ran out, but they didn't even touch the side of the plane. At this time, it suddenly occurred to me that when I was in the Pulkovo Highlands, I heard the female soldiers say the secret of fighting enemy planes: better welcome than chase! That is to say, when the enemy planes dive, they shoot head-on, which is higher than the hit rate of chasing the enemy's buttocks. So I changed my strategy, continued to focus on the enemy aircraft in the air, and slowed down the rotation speed of the gun

The enemy plane was ready to dive again at high altitude, whistling towards the position. When the sight caught the enemy plane again, I stepped on the gun button without hesitation, and a string of bullets shot at the enemy plane.

The enemy plane was hit and pulled a black smoke to one side. Although the enemy plane had been injured, I didn't intend to let it go. I continued to lock it with the sight glass, continuously stepped on the gun button, and the machine gun bullets shot at the enemy plane. In an instant, I heard a loud noise, the enemy plane exploded in the air, disintegrated and became pieces of debris.

After destroying an enemy plane, my nervous body and mind suddenly relaxed, my right foot released the gun button, and I sat down on the seat feebly.

"Hide The soldier who loaded me with ammunition suddenly yelled and gave me a push.

I didn't know what was going on, but instinctively I jumped off the machine gun and ran to the side.

After a few steps, I was knocked down from behind again. Then I heard the earth shaking explosion coming from behind. Then the overwhelming mud and snow came down from the sky and buried me.

After a while, the person who pressed on me moved and asked me in a low voice, "Comrade commander, are you ok?"

"I'm fine. What happened just now?"

"The German devils saw that one of their planes had been shot down, and the rest of them all turned around and made a ferocious dive towards us. That's why I let you hide." The soldier spoke and stood up.

I felt a light on my back and immediately turned over and sat up. Seeing the position where the anti-aircraft machine gun was placed just now, it was blown into a big pit, still emitting plumes of smoke. I got up from the ground with fear, went to the pit, looked at the wreckage of the anti-aircraft machine gun, and thought I was lucky. If the soldier didn't react quickly, I would have no bones left.

The enemy planes circled over the village for a while. It was estimated that they had dropped all the bombs before they all turned around and flew away.

"Come and help, everyone!" Someone was shouting in the distance: "the commanders are buried in the church!"

Hearing this cry, I couldn't help but excite myself. I turned to look at the position of the church. I was surprised to find that the bombing had turned the church into a smoky ruin, and the dome with gold foil was also broken into several pieces and scattered around. Around the church gathered a lot of soldiers, they are nervously looking for survivors.

"O'lear has just entered the church to take charge of the evacuation. He will be OK." I think so, at the same time, I keep running towards the original headquarters.

When I came to the ruins, I tried my best to squeeze into the crowd, but I was held by someone later. Looking back, it was o'lear. His head was covered with bandages and blood oozed from his forehead.

"Are you all right?"“ Are you ok? " We asked each other in unison.

"It's OK, it's good! And you? " We both answered each other's questions at the same time.

"Comrade deputy chief of staff, what happened?" This time I asked him first.

He pointed to the ruins of the church with his hand and said excitedly, "at least five bombs hit the church just now, and then it collapsed."

"What about the casualties?" I asked with concern.

He shook his head and said, "although I was directing the evacuation just now, I was still a little slow. Most of the commanders of the intelligence service and the operations department didn't have time to withdraw. The church collapsed and buried them in it. I'm organizing people to rescue them."

I look at the busy soldiers in the rubble, especially understand that people are buried in such ruins, the chance of survival is very slim. After a pause, I asked, "do you have the latest report on the war?"

"Yes. This is the last document the intelligence service received. " O'lear took a folded sheet of paper from his pocket, opened it and read to me, "the local counter attack launched under the command of the front army this morning has had little effect. At the beginning, because of our sudden attack, our army even succeeded in inserting about 3 kilometers into the enemy's camp. But at this time, the enemy began to launch a full line attack on our group army. Our advancing forces were forced to rush back. The cavalry led by dovator was in a particularly difficult situation. The enemy attacked them from all sides. Thanks to the dexterity of the commander, the skilful cavalry were able to escape and avoid being completely surrounded. "

"The commander is back!" There were soldiers nearby shouting excitedly.

O'lear and I looked in the direction of the village. A black car was coming along the bumpy road. When the car came near, I was surprised. The windshield in front of me was gone and bullet holes were everywhere. As soon as the car stopped, commander rokosovsky jumped out of the car. I was also surprised by his image. His long military coat was covered with mud, as if he had just rolled on the mud.

O'lear went up and said with concern, "Comrade commander, why did you come back alone, political commissar?"

"After coming out of the 316 division, political commissar Comrade lobachev and I went directly to the Cadet regiment, where fierce fighting was also going on. I went back to the command post here to understand the defense situation of the troops in each zone. I didn't expect that the car was strafed by German planes twice in a row on the way back. " After listening to rokosovsky's story, I understood why he was so embarrassed. It turned out that there was an air raid on his way. He walked quickly to the front of the church, pointed to the ruins and asked Aurel, "what's going on?"

O'lear bowed his head and replied sadly: "just now, the enemy plane bombed US crazily. The church where the headquarters is located was hit by five bombs. Most of the comrades in the intelligence and combat departments died." Looking at the mutilated body on the ground, rokosovsky's face became heavy. The shaking of his hands was obviously very exciting.