Chapter 325

I was stunned when I heard what diomi said. Yeah, how can I forget that Leningrad is close to the Arctic Circle, and that there are so many white nights in June every year! I patted my forehead hard and said to myself, "muddle headed, really muddle headed!..." With these words, I looked up and saw that the expressions on the faces of diomi and the guide were somewhat unnatural. I immediately realized that it was their own words that made them misunderstand. I quickly explained with a smile, "I mean that I am too confused to forget such a big thing as the daytime in Leningrad." Then he turned the subject around and asked diomi, "Comrade captain, have you sent someone to the enemy's position to investigate?"“ Report to the major that I had already sent out the scouts when they had just had a rest. " "They should be back soon," said diomi, looking at his watch I turned to the guide and said, "Comrade Michael Lin, what did you do before the war broke out?" When Michelin heard me ask him, he quickly stood up, straightened up and answered in a loud voice, "Comrade report commander, before the war broke out, I was a lumberjack. After the start of the patriotic war, I served in the front army of Leningrad and took part in the battle of breaking through the encirclement. After the troops were dispersed, I found lieutenant colonel sotnikov and joined the guerrillas he led. " I raised my hand and pressed it down. I motioned him to sit down and said, "Comrade soldier, don't be so restrained. Sit down and talk." When he sat down again, I tried to find some relaxed topics to continue talking with him. "It turns out that you were a lumberjack before you joined the army. No wonder you are so familiar with the forest and can bring us through the narrow passage in the swamp." My praise made the young guerrilla shy. He blushed and said, "Comrade commander, I'm nothing. When it comes to the familiarity with the forest, no one can match our captain. Before he joined the guerrillas, he had fought with the bandits in many places, made many contributions and won several medals. "“ Is that right? " Michael Lin said so about his captain, which aroused my curiosity and urged him to continue to say: "tell me what kind of person he is?"“ If he were present today, maybe we would not have to go so far. We only need to walk a kilometer or two southward to get through the swamp and get to the rear of the enemy's position. Maybe by this time, we have begun to attack the German positions. "“ Comrade Michael Lin, your captain, what's his name? "“ Report commander comrade, he called... "As soon as Michael Lin said this, he heard that diomi, who was beside him, cried excitedly:" look, comrade major, our scout is back. " Then he jumped up from the ground and ran to the two soldiers who were coming in the distance. After a while, diomi came back to me with the two scouts and told the two soldiers, "sergeant grasimenko, report to the major what you have detected." The Scout named by him agreed and began to report their results to me, while the other private just straightened up and stood aside quietly. Sergeant said: "report major, we just sneaked into the vicinity of the enemy's position. After careful reconnaissance, we found that the Germans had arranged six heavy machine gun groups on the hillside, and there was an infantry company at the bottom of the hillside."“ Do you have any heavy weapons Before he finished, I suddenly cut in and asked. Sergeant grasimenko shook his head and replied, "we didn't find any German tanks or armored vehicles, except for heavy machine guns on the hillside. We didn't even have mortars." When diomi heard this, he stepped forward and asked me, "Comrade major, since the situation is clear. Are we ready to attack? "“ Well, "I said, nodding vigorously," gather the soldiers at once, and we'll start at once. " A quarter of an hour later, we quietly came to the south of the hillside, where the slope is gentle and the forest is sparse, which is very suitable for launching a sneak attack. The attention of the German soldiers on the hillside was attracted by the main force of the 327th division, who was concentrated in the forest in the West. They did not expect that someone would come around to attack them, so that there was not even a guard post on this side“ Put on the bayonet With this command issued by diomi in a low voice, hundreds of helmets fluctuated slightly, and all of them formed a dense line of scattered soldiers in a standard squatting and kneeling posture, staring at the low mountain in front of them! I was squatting not far behind him with my assault rifle. When he looked back at me, I nodded slightly to signal that the troops could attack. In front of the formation, Captain diomi sprang up. He didn't use a pistol. He was also a good rifle with a bayonet. He raised his gun to move back and yelled, "brothers, move forward!" With his command, the soldiers of the seventh company also jumped up like him, and a neat cry sounded in front of the dense line: "Wula!" The sudden cry sounded like the sound of guns in the bright night. I followed the line with my gun and rushed to the top of the slope, along with a few guards and sergeant grasimenko, the scout, who came to protect me on the order of captain diomi.