Chapter 166

The other side showed their identity, I lowered the muzzle of the gun, but my finger did not leave the trigger. Once I found something wrong with the other side, I could immediately pull the trigger and raise my hand to sweep the bullets out of the gun. I looked the middle-sized young officer up and down, and then asked, "sabotage mission, what kind of sabotage mission?"

"Report to lieutenant commander," said Captain starcha in the dry tone of reply from his subordinates to his superiors, "our battalion has been ordered to cut off the roads from klin to wolokoramsk, wolokoramsk to lotoshilo, klin to new pedrovskoye, and shahoskaya to new petrovskoye after klin parachute landing."

As soon as I hear that their combat range is so large, can they have enough troops? I took my finger off the trigger and asked with great interest, "how many people in your battalion can complete the combat tasks in the above areas at the same time?"

"There were 415 men in the battalion, three companies. The deputy battalion commander took a company to destroy the railway from shahhoskaya to new petrovskoye. I led the second company to ambush the German troops who might pass by here. In these days of fighting, our battalion has destroyed ten German trucks, and hundreds of enemies have been killed by us.... "

"Ramis, let's go!" I was not interested in hearing the captain talk about their fighting experience, so I called Ramis and turned away with a gun.

"Then where are the soldiers of the third company?" Ramis, who followed me, asked curiously.

"According to the brigade's orders, I have deployed them in peshki village."

"What?! Peshki village? " I had already walked several steps towards the position of the car. Suddenly I heard the place name mentioned by the captain. I stopped and ran back to the captain. I looked at the captain and asked in an uncertain tone: "Comrade captain, what are you talking about? Peshki village? "

"Yes, comrade commander." The captain was startled by my unusual behavior. Although he didn't understand why he suddenly asked, he respectfully gave a positive answer.

"What's the situation in the village, in our hands or in German hands?" I grabbed the captain's collar and asked anxiously.

The captain stepped back and gently freed his collar from my tightly held hands. He replied awkwardly, "Comrade commander, I can't answer your question for the time being. I'm sorry."

Aware of my gaffe, I quickly put down my hand, chuckled twice, apologized to the captain with some embarrassment, and then repeated the question.

"I don't know. Maybe it's in our army's hands, or maybe it's taken away by the Germans." The captain shook his head and gave me an ambiguous answer. Seeing the disappointment on my face, he quickly added: "please don't worry. I'll ask how the situation is over there."

"How?"

"There is a phone in the shelter department to contact them directly. Please do it!" With that, he put his body aside and made a gesture to me. Then he took a step to guide us.

Following the battalion commander, we came to the forest. I found that there was a long trench in the middle of the forest. There was a heavy machine gun position piled up with snow in the middle of the trench. The soldiers on duty stood up to salute us when they saw us entering the trench.

Walking along the traffic ditch to the deep forest, about 70 or 80 meters, turning a corner, you can see a shelter made of wood. The captain stopped, turned and said, "this is my battalion headquarters. Please come in." Then he lifted the curtain and went in first.

As soon as I entered the shelter, I felt the light inside was extremely dim. It took me a long time to get used to it. In the middle of the room, there was a map and a steam lamp on the shabby wooden table, which dazzled people. There is also a table in the corner, on which is a square machine. Next to it is a soldier waiting for earphones.

The captain pointed to the communication equipment and said to me, "this is a walkie talkie, a portable low-power wireless telephone transceiver, which can be used to communicate even during the March." With that, he took off the earphone from the signalman's head and put it on his head. Then he picked up the microphone and began to shout: "parachute, parachute! I'm a glider, I'm a glider! If you hear me, please answer

After he repeated it several times, the answer came from the earphone: "I'm a parachute, I'm a parachute."

The captain looked at me and asked, "where are you now?"

"Our company is now one kilometer south of peshki village."

"Is the village in our hands, or is it occupied by the Krauts?"

Perhaps this question was too abrupt, and the other side obviously stopped for a moment before answering, "in the hands of our army, almost a regiment entered the village two days ago and built many fortifications in the north of the village."

"Has there been any fighting recently?"

"No, there was no fighting. There wasn't even a German in the neighborhood."

After listening to the other party's report, the captain removed the microphone, took off his earphone, turned to me and said, "Comrade commander, I just asked. Peshki village is still in the hands of our army." I put the submachine gun on my shoulder, and walked in the shelter with my hands on my back, with a bitter smile in my heart: it's ridiculous. It's just an ordinary dream. I actually believed it. I also flew Stalin to transfer a regiment from the reserve team to defend this unknown village. If the Germans attack, it's OK. If they don't attack, I won't have the face to see Stalin in the future. After walking back and forth in the room, he looked up and saw that the captain still held the earphone in his hand, so he said casually, "Comrade captain, please ask him again, has any commander of the Western Front Army been to the village recently?" The captain put on the earphone again and asked, "have any commanders of the Western army entered the village these two days?"“ Yes, two days ago, a Western army investigation team entered the village, led by two generals. " As soon as I heard the word "investigation team", I ran to the captain's side and urged him: "ask quickly, has the investigation team left?"“ No, "the other side said firmly without waiting for the captain to ask," absolutely not! They have never left since they entered the village. "“ Are you sure? " I asked the captain again“ It's quite certain, comrade commander! " The other party replied, "I've arranged people around the village. No matter which direction they leave, I can find them in time." When he said that, he suddenly gave a sigh of surprise and said, "they left. The investigation team's car is coming towards our highway."“ Are you sure? " This time it was the captain himself who asked“ Yes, comrade battalion commander, "the other party replied drily," there are four black cars coming out of the village and driving northeast along the highway. It seems that they are going to the defense area of the eighth division of the guards. " The captain took off the headset again, handed it to the signalman together with the microphone, and asked me, "Comrade commander, what else can I do for you?"“ Yes, "after implementing the information that the investigation team of the front army was in the village and had just left, my confidence was enough. At least part of my dream was real. Whether the rest would happen remains to be seen. But instead of waiting passively, I should do something. So I said, "Comrade captain, can you give me some soldiers and let me take them to peshki village to have a look?" Captain starcha frowned in embarrassment, then nodded his head and said, "Comrade commander, this is no problem. I'll take the men myself." I nodded with satisfaction and said, "thank you, comrade captain, but you'd better hand over the command to your deputy first. I'll go out first and wait for you outside. " Then I patted Ramis, who had been standing nearby and didn't speak, "come on, let's go back to the car."