Chapter 331

I fell so hard that I was born one Buddha and two Buddhas ascended to heaven. I stayed in the trench for a long time and didn't move.

The German shells rained down and burst into a sea of fire all around our position. The sound of explosion was deafening. I know that the passageway under the hillside, just like us, is suffering from the rampage of gunfire, and the line of the field hospital cannot escape the fate of heavy casualties. But at the moment, under such heavy shelling, I can't hear screams or gunshots. Apart from explosions, there are still explosions!

The earth fell and hit me as if the sky had fallen and the mountain had fallen. The soil falling from the air is like a quilt, covering my body. I covered my mouth and nose with my hands, so as not to get into the mud and suffocate myself.

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly it was quiet outside. Then I vaguely heard someone blowing the whistle, and then someone shouting repeatedly: "enter the position, the enemy is coming up! Hurry into the position, the enemy is coming up! "

I wriggled hard, trying to arch all the earth on my body. My action startled the soldier next to me. He rushed over and pulled me out of the soil with his hands and feet, and asked with concern, "how about it? Are you all right? "

"There should be no problem!" With that, I patted the clay on my shoulder and stood up on the earth wall. Maybe it was because I stood up so hard that I felt dizzy for a while. I stood up against the earth wall for a long time before I got back to normal.

Looking around, the German artillery bombardment just now caused obvious damage to our army. Many parts of the trench collapsed. There were many bodies lying in the trench and many wounded people groaning in pain.

The telescope and assault rifle, after falling into the trench just now, didn't know where they were. Seeing a lot of guns and ammunition scattered on the ground, I grabbed a rifle, bent down along the trench and ran to the command post I remembered.

Thankfully, the command post that appeared in my view was still intact, so I went in.

Lieutenant ugad was holding up his telescope to check the enemy's situation. Seeing that I suddenly broke in, he first stayed for a while, then relaxed and asked with concern, "where are you from? Comrade major. "

I sat down on the stool beside the wooden table, patting the dust on my body and answering, "from the trench. Hell, it was buried alive at the time of the shelling. What's going on out there? "

"Very bad, comrade major." He handed me his telescope and said, "as soon as the shelling was over, their infantry attacked us under the cover of tanks. It's fast approaching at the moment. "

I put the rifle in my hand against the table, took the telescope in his hand and came to the observation hole to observe the enemy situation. The attacking German army, with two tanks as its forerunners, rushed to our position in a fierce manner. Hundreds of German soldiers with various weapons and bent over trotted behind.

I looked at the command post. In addition to wugad, there were soldiers standing guard at the gate. Just as he was about to call the soldier in for the assignment, Sergeant grasimenko, a temporary guest of my guard, came in shouting, "Comrade lieutenant, comrade lieutenant. I've searched everywhere, but I haven't found Comrade major. I don't know if she is... "

"Here I am, comrade sergeant." I knew that his gaffe was because I was worried about my safety, so I immediately interrupted the words behind him, went to pat him on the shoulder and said gratefully, "I'm safe, thank you!"

The sergeant didn't say anything, just straightened up and stood in front of me like a telegraph pole, waiting for my order.

Now that the sergeant is here, I don't call the sentry at the gate any more. Instead, I give him a direct order: "Sergeant comrade, go down the hill immediately and find captain vitorganov of the 29th tank brigade. Let's say I said, let him drive the tank to the hillside immediately. We need his firepower to cover here. Do you understand? "

"I see, comrade major. I promise to finish the task. " With that, Sergeant gracimenko turned and ran out of the command post. He went down the hill to convey my orders to captain vitorganov.

As soon as the sergeant left, Lieutenant ugad came up to me with a solemn salute and said, "Comrade major, please allow me to command the troops in the trench."

"Go, lieutenant. Good luck The soldiers in the trench came from several different companies and really needed a commander with rich combat experience like ugad to command them, so I agreed to his request without hesitation.

German tanks soon approached our trench, one of which was destroyed by the antitank fire on the position, and then the antitank position was destroyed by the shells of the remaining German tank. Ugad sent several soldiers out of the trench with grenades in an attempt to kill the damned tank. As a result, the soldiers were either swept down by the machine guns on the tank or hit by the German soldiers following.

At this time, a stream of soil burst up next to the approaching tank, and an explosion sounded. Several German soldiers were thrown to the ground by shrapnel.

"What's going on? Did Lt. miducci's mortar platoon fire? " The idea flashed through my mind.

Then there was another explosion. This time, it hit the tank directly, smoke came out of the observation hole of the tank, the body shook and stopped.

Can mortars also destroy tanks? I was thinking, and the roar of motors came to my ears. Then several T34 appeared in my field of vision, and they rushed to the German infantry who had lost the cover of tanks at high speed. It dawned on me that it was captain vitorganov's tank troops.

Seeing our tank troops coming up, ugad jumped out of the trench with a submachine gun in his hand. He looked back and yelled at the soldiers, and then he took the lead to rush down. Then, I was glad to see groups of soldiers jump out of the trench. They passed ugad and rushed forward.

The German attack was repulsed. Captain vitorganov's tank troops and ugad's infantry pursued only a few hundred meters and returned to their positions after annihilating the invading German troops.

In the battle just now, the troops on the Highlands suffered heavy casualties. Even the wounded were included in the whole position, but there were only 126 people, barely a company. However, the casualties were even more serious. The field hospital was crowded in the passageway. When the wounded troops were attacked by German artillery, they had no place to run or hide. The wounded and medical staff fell down in pieces. After overturning, the burning carriage and the crooked remains of soldiers were scattered in the passage full of craters, and the smell of burnt human flesh floated in the air.

I stood on the top of the hillside, looking at the miserable situation in the passage below, and wanted to cry without tears.

Lieutenant ugad, with his arms hanging from his chest, came up to me and said in a low voice, "Comrade major, Mr. anchufiev and commander habi, they are here."

I looked to the West. At the entrance of the passage, there were several commanders in big eaves hats, commanding the new troops to clean up the bodies in the passage. Although it was a little far away, I could see that among the commanders were Colonel anchufiev and Lieutenant Colonel habi.

I sighed, trotted down the hill and came to them. Just as I was about to raise my hand to salute the report, I found that there was a well-known major general of medium build and thin face standing beside Colonel anchufiev. I couldn't help hesitating for a moment. I didn't know who to report to.

Seeing my dilemma, anchufiev pointed to the general and said, "this is general privalov from the headquarters of the group army. Please report to him."

General privalov, it's a familiar name. I seem to have heard it somewhere before. But at the moment, I didn't care to think about it. I went directly to the general and saluted him: "report to general Comrade, major oshanina, we have broken through the encirclement of the German army and joined the reinforcements of the front army. At your command. "

The major general raised his hand to his forehead, returned a salute and said slowly, "good job, comrade major. Now that you have broken through the siege, you can take your troops and escort the field hospital to miyas nebol area. "

I feel a little puzzled about general privalov's inexplicable order. You know, there are still Germans near the passage. They may launch another attack at any time and cut off this narrow corridor. The first thing we need to do is to organize our troops to sweep away the enemies who are entrenched near the traffic line, or to strengthen the defensive forces on the highlands on both sides of the passage, so as to ensure the smooth flow of this road.

Thinking of this, I retorted: "Comrade General, you should know that the Germans are still camping hundreds of meters away from here. They may attack at any time. If we withdraw our troops, they will be able to close the channel which our army has managed to get through again at any time. "

General privalov glared at me and said sternly, "major oshanina, don't you know that the orders of the superior are not allowed to be discussed?" At this moment, I suddenly remember who the general in front of me was. He was the commander of the whole army that broke through the encirclement to the north a few days ago. I didn't expect that he came here again to command blindly. Thinking of this, my hand could not help but feel the holster around my waist.

"Major o'shanina," commander harpy suddenly yelled, and I got to attention in a hurry, and the movement of touching the holster ended inadvertently. He said, "please tell general privalov the reason why we can't withdraw the troops."

"Yes, comrade commander." I promised, turned to face general privalov and stated my reasons to him: "Comrade General, although we have opened the way to break through, the Germans are trying to encircle us again. Not long ago, they launched an attack on us. You see, "I continued, pointing to the mountain of corpses in the passage," these soldiers died under the German artillery fire. It was with the support of the 29th tank brigade that we eliminated the attacking enemy. From what we have just observed, we can see that the enemy is deploying a new attack. If the troops defending the highlands are withdrawn at this time, and once the enemy attacks again, they can easily occupy the highlands on both sides and re block this hard to get through passage. "

On hearing what I said, Colonel anchufiev helped me and said, "general privalov, I think major oshanina has a point. The troops on the highlands on both sides cannot retreat. They must be strengthened to cover the retreat of the main forces of the group."

To his surprise, general privalov waved his hand and interrupted the colonel. He said obstinately, "well, comrade Colonel, you don't have to say that. Since major oshanina felt it necessary to hold fast, let her troops stay on the high ground. As for the reserves, we don't have enough people to cover the evacuation of the wounded now, so we don't have to send any more troops to her. You leave some people to clean up the bodies and clear out the roads as soon as possible. Let's go With that, he left with several commanders. Hobby, who had fallen behind, looked at me awkwardly. His mouth twitched. He wanted to say something, but he didn't say it. He turned to chase general privalov who was in front of them.