Chapter 280

It was a spur of the moment for me to let the soldiers push the broken trucks away from the roadside, but it was also an important part of my plan to figure out how to deal with the German plane's night attack.

Although lieutenant commander habi of the road guard stood in front of me and stared at me impatiently, he might lose his temper at any time. But for the sake of confidentiality, I'm not going to tell him the real reason until general hilov and commissar Higgins adopt my plan and formally set up air defense posts on the ice transportation line.

So with a smile on my face, I answered him, "report, comrade commander, I ordered the soldiers to push the truck to an open place for air defense at night. As for the specific reasons, I can't tell you for the time being without the authorization of my superior. Please forgive me

As soon as I finished, habi's face changed. The commander's eyes became stern, his lips moved, and he said, "no authorization?! Hum hum, I have to be authorized to answer my question. Is this the attitude a subordinate should have towards a superior? "

Although his attitude was extremely unfriendly, I calmly replied, "I'm sorry, comrade commander. Although your rank is higher than mine, I can't tell you anything until I get the official order from the superior."

My attitude surprised him. He couldn't believe his ears, so he asked again“ How do you understand that? " He was already asking in a threatening tone.

At the moment, I don't know when the air defense Sentry will be officially set up, so it's not clear when the truck will be used, so I can only answer vaguely: "Comrade commander, please don't worry. Maybe the higher authorities will give orders soon. Then you will understand the purpose of this broken truck. "

With that, I looked at habi warily to see if he would be angry immediately. But to my great surprise, he didn't lose his temper at all. He just sneered and said, "well, comrade major, that's it. I'll wait for you to explain the reason to me after you get the authorization." Then he waved his head to the male officer next to him and said, "come on, lieutenant, go back to the camp. We still have a lot of work to do." Then he turned and left.

After saluting me, the second officer followed. I vaguely heard commander habi muttering: "I don't believe a broken truck can be of any use in air defense?"

Seeing captain habi and the second lieutenant leave, kirianova came up to me and asked anxiously, "Rita, aren't you afraid to offend the guard?" Orlova also echoed: "yes, if they sue your superiors, it will affect your future promotion."

I went between them, raised my hand and patted them on the shoulder with a smile, and said confidently, "don't worry. After the German air raid tonight, his attitude towards me will change." Then he told them: "now you two go to the company to choose the soldiers who will serve as air defense sentries. Maybe you can use them tonight."

After they accepted the order, they left. I raised my hand and looked at my watch. It was still early. It was just after one o'clock at noon. I had been the commander of the anti-aircraft artillery battalion for such a long time. Except for the female soldier company, I had not been to the other two companies. Now I can go to have a look if I have nothing to do. So I went back to the tent, found my assault rifle and carried it over my shoulder.

I was standing on the side of the road, looking at the moving convoys and retreating people. When I was thinking about going that way, a timid voice suddenly sounded behind me: "Comrade major, are you going out?"

I turned around and saw that it was Naya. She was wearing a military coat and a cotton cap. She was also carrying a rifle on her shoulder. I didn't know whether she was going to work or just changed. So I replied with a smile, "yes, Naya. I'm going to visit the other two companies, but I don't know how to get there? "

"If you have no objection, I can show you the way."

"Well, let's go together."

The two of us joined the ranks of the residents who had withdrawn from the city, following the crowds slowly along the ruts made by the convoys of trucks and sledges. It's not too cold at the moment, and there's no wind on the lake. At least it won't be too cold to breathe when walking.

At the beginning, we just followed the crowd in front of us in silence. After a while, Naya couldn't help chatting with me: "Comrade major, thank you for that day."

"That day?" Hearing her words, I was stunned for a moment. Then I thought of the soldier who was taught by second platoon Lieutenant Ye Lianna that day. I asked curiously, "is that your boyfriend?"

Naya's face was flushed. She didn't know whether it was shy or frozen red. She whispered and explained to me, "his name is marado. He's my classmate in Grade 10. He's been chasing me since he was a student. After the outbreak of the war, the senior students of our school joined the army. Originally thought that there was no chance to meet, did not expect that his unit, and our company is only one way away. He just came to see me that day, but the platoon leader found out. So he was scolded by Lieutenant Ye Lianna in front of all the people in the platoon. " At this point, she turned to look at me and said, "fortunately, you came to help him out, otherwise I don't know how it will end in the end. Thank you

In my mind, I am calculating whether grade 10 is equivalent to grade one or grade two in China. If the primary school is five years, it is grade two; If it's a six-year system, it's a senior one. No wonder the online joke said: the Soviet Union can get married at the age of 16. When they were in senior one or two, others were old husbands and wives. In China, they were still in puppy love.

When I heard Naya thank me again and again, I just laughed at her and didn't speak. After another walk, I felt that my attitude just now was a little cold, which would make Naya misunderstand me for putting on airs, so I took the initiative to chat with her: "Naya, don't blame your platoon leader, she is also for your own good, but her expression is not correct."

Naya nodded and said, "I see."

In fact, I really don't have any say in emotion. I'm afraid that the more I talk about it, the more embarrassing I will be. I quickly change the topic: "Naya, which antiaircraft artillery company is closest to here?"

"Report major, it's lieutenant Baku's second company." She pointed to the front with her hand and said, "it's about 500 meters away from our present position."

I nodded to show that I understood, and then said to her in a friendly way, "Naya, don't call me major or senior, or call me Lida."

Little girl a listen to, immediately happily agreed, next and I talk is not so formal. After a while, she pulled my sleeve, pointed to a white tent not far away, and said, "Rita, it's a heating shed. Let's go there to get warm before we go."

The tent is more than ten meters away, next to a big ice pile. At the door stands a white board with several black words: "heating station". I looked at my watch. We had been away from the station for more than an hour. Listening to Naya talking about the heating station, I really felt a little cold. So we went to the heating station together.

When she got to the tent, Naya first lifted the curtain and went in. I followed and followed.

The tent was full of people. Men and women were standing. The old people and children were sitting on wooden benches. On the ground of the tent, there are several thick wooden boards, in which there is a stove, and two lanterns are hung on the pole supporting the tent.

Although there are many people in the tent, no one speaks, which gives people a feeling of special depression. Because of the large number of people and the stove, the tent is much warmer than outside. For those who have walked a long way in the cold wind, it is a good place for a short rest.

People came in from time to time, but few people went out, and the tent became more and more crowded. I whispered to Naya, "let's go out and leave our seats for those who are freezing."

Naya promised to squeeze out with me. When I opened the curtain, I saw that many people outside wanted to come in, and we wanted to go out, so we took the initiative to make way for us.

On the way to the second company station, I was silent and couldn't help thinking, "how far have I come from the station? It's only two kilometers, right? It's hard to walk such a little bit when it's not too cold. The residents who have been evacuated from the city have to walk dozens of kilometers in the cold, and the number of heating stations on the ice transportation line is limited. It's not known how many people will be frozen to death on the road. " Think of here, can't help but dejected.

When I was thinking about it, suddenly there was a clear shot in the distance. Where to shoot? Almost as I thought about it, I held the assault rifle over my shoulder, opened the safety, squatted around to see where the gunfire came from.

"German, it's German coming up." From the north of the road came a loud cry.

With his shouts, the vehicles on the way to the city stopped. The driver and the soldiers in charge of the vehicle jumped down from the bridge and pulled the door open one after another, lying on the side of the road, covered by the ice, put up the gun and pulled the trigger. For a moment, the gunfire was loud.

The residents who evacuated outside the city were in a mess after the gunfire. Some ran forward, some turned around and ran back, and some hid behind the ice on the south side of the road.

From the direction of the gunshot, I knew that the Germans were from the north, and I didn't care where they came from. I called out to Naya behind, "Naya, follow me!" He rushed across the road with a gun and a cat's waist. He also learned from the drivers who were lying on the side of the road and put the gun on the ice. But instead of shooting right away, I watched carefully what happened.

Only after this observation did we find that two armored vehicles were parked about 200 meters away from the road. The white cross on the body was clearly visible. More than a dozen German soldiers were using ice as a shelter to cover our side alternately.

I have a look at our side. There are at least 40 drivers and soldiers escorting cars. Plus the coming soldiers of road guards, it is estimated that we will soon reach hundreds of people. As long as the other side doesn't have any heavy weapons, there should be no problem in guarding the transportation line, or even wipe them out.

It's not far from Baku's second company. If he was told to bring dozens of soldiers to help, the battle would be over soon. So I turned my head slightly and called to Naya, but after a few shouts, I didn't hear an answer. Turning around, I saw Naya sitting behind me, holding the gun in her arms, shaking her head, almost crying.

I reached for Naya by the collar and said sternly, "I order you to go to lieutenant Baku's company immediately and give my order that he bring twenty soldiers here at once. Do you hear me

The muscles on Naya's face twitched violently, and she burst into tears. To see her cry so sad, so wronged, I can not help but secretly sigh. But now is an extraordinary period, can not be soft hearted, so I ruthlessly grabbed her collar, shaking hard, yelled: "this is the order, go quickly!" Then she loosened her collar.

Crying, Naya got up on the ground and turned to run. I yelled at her again: "don't run straight, bend over." After watching Naya run to the side of the road and disappear into the ice of different heights, I turned my attention to the Germans again. In just one or two minutes, they were close to 100 meters. Although our guns were loud, they didn't seem to have caused any casualties. In the distance, the two armored vehicles were still in the same place, and they didn't know whether they were stuck in the ice or not. The machine guns of the nurses on the bus were not beating incessantly, but they were firing without delay. Not only the soldiers who blocked the attack, but also some people were shot, injured or sacrificed. Even the residents who ran about on the road were hit by stray bullets from time to time, with screams and cries. I lay behind the ice and didn't shoot. I looked around again. It was found that behind a chest high snow wall on the south side of the road, there was a quadruple anti-aircraft machine gun, the kind I used to use. If I used it to hit German armored vehicles, it would be no problem. Just as he was about to get up and run across the road, a famous Lieutenant with a submachine gun and more than a dozen soldiers ran to my side and fell down. The gun on the rack opened to the German who was coming. In the clear gunfire, I yelled at the lieutenant, "Comrade lieutenant, are you a road guard?" The lieutenant glanced at me and asked me, "yes, what's the matter?" I pointed to the anti-aircraft machine gun on the other side of the road and said to him, "send a soldier to inform the anti-aircraft machine gun position immediately and let them suppress the German armored vehicles. There will also be a few more soldiers to evacuate the residents who are running around and take them to a safe place. " The lieutenant rolled his eyes at me and said, "who are you? Why should I listen to you? " I didn't talk to him. I unbuttoned my clothes, opened my collar and let him see my badge. At the same time, I pulled the trigger and fired three shots to knock down a German soldier who just jumped out of the ice. The lieutenant looked at my rank and immediately agreed to give orders to the men he had brought. My order was quickly conveyed. A soldier with a gun bent over the road and ran to the anti-aircraft machine gun position; Five soldiers, with their backs against cars parked on the side of the road, yelled, directing the residents to evacuate to safety.