Chapter 409

Kolpakchi walked back and forth in the room for several more times, and finally stopped. He suddenly turned his head and said to gurov, "Comrade military commissar, in a few hours, the counter assault of our troops will begin. If we don't stop the German tank troops and let them rush to the kretskaya area, the flanks of the troops participating in the counterattack will be attacked. In this way, our counterattack may fail. "

Gurov just thought for a moment, then nodded and agreed: "Comrade commander, what you said is reasonable. In order to ensure the victory of the counterattack, someone really needs to stop the German tank force." Speaking of this, gurov said to me with a smile: "Comrade major, you have also heard the counterattack plan we discussed with several teachers. In order to ensure the success of this counterattack against the German army, as a military commissar of the group army, I ask you to stop this German tank unit for more than two hours. Major oshanina, do you have any questions? "

I thought in my heart, it's over. It seems that I'm doomed this time. I blame myself for being quick witted. I didn't even know my state clearly, so I jumped out and grabbed this mission without hope of survival. Now that the commanders and senior officials of the group army have reached a consensus, it's too late for me to repent. I immediately stood at attention and reported, "senior officials, I promise to complete the task."

Colpakchi then said: "major oshanina, I know you have too few people. To let you resist the Germans is to let you die, but there is no way. In order to ensure the success of the counterattack, there must be sacrifice."

When I heard him say that, the corners of my mouth twitched, and my heart said that even if someone wanted to sacrifice, I could not make such unnecessary sacrifice. I only have four or five people. It's impossible to block the attack of German tanks. But now that the commander has given the order, I have to obey.

Colpakchi called Lieutenant Peter to his side and asked him where he planned to deploy.

Lieutenant Peter pointed to a point on the map and said, "Comrade commander, on the way to the kretskaya area, there is a hill with high slopes and dense forests. I intend to set our blocking position here."

As korpakchi lowered his head to study the map, gurov also looked over. They looked at each other for a long time, then looked up at each other. Gusev nodded and said, "Comrade commander, I think their blocking positions are well chosen. They can take German tanks by surprise."

Colpakchi specially told me, "Comrade major, you are not familiar with the terrain. As for where to set up a position, it's up to lieutenant Peter." After hearing my response, he told Lieutenant Peter, "Comrade lieutenant, major oshanina is your superior. After the battle begins, you must obey her command."

"Comrade commander, please rest assured that I will obey the order of the major."

Korpakchi nodded with satisfaction, called shamikov over, and said to him, "Comrade captain, go to the ammunition depot and help them prepare the necessary weapons and ammunition."

Seeing that kolpakchi had deployed everything, I asked: "Comrade commander, can I leave now?"

He nodded and said, "major, get ready. Good luck and hope you all come back alive. "

I tried to squeeze a smile on my face that was uglier than crying, and replied, "please rest assured, comrade commander, as long as one of us is alive, we will try our best to stop the German tank army." With that, I turned and shook my head at Lieutenant Peter and said, "Comrade lieutenant, let's go!"

Lieutenant Peter took me outside their house and called out all the people who could breathe. As soon as I saw the soldiers standing in front of me, my heart was cool. With Lieutenant Peter, there were only four people.

Lieutenant Peter didn't notice my change of expression and enthusiastically introduced his men to me: "Comrade major, this is Sergeant Gregory samoylov, Sergeant Alexander berekov and Sergeant Ivan aleynikov. The lads were brave in the first two days of fighting and they were all good

I didn't speak, just nodded to show that I knew.

Lieutenant Peter yelled at several people: "brothers, just now general kolpakchi told me that a German tank unit will rush to the kretskaya area after daybreak. The order I received was to immediately build fortifications on their way and stop them at all costs. "

"I said Comrade lieutenant," interrupted the older sergeant berekov, reminding him, "we said it was a company, but there were only four people. It's impossible for us to stop the German tanks. "

"If you can't stop it, you have to stop it!" Lieutenant Peter said firmly, "this is an order from the superior. We must do it to the letter."

"But, comrade Lieutenant..." berrykov wanted to defend himself, but he was rudely interrupted by Peter. He pointed to me and said, "the commander sent this major to carry out this order with us. You have a good look, a female commander knows that this is the action of death, or come without hesitation. Are you men inferior to women? "

The short corporal aleynikov looked at me and asked in disbelief, "Comrade major, do you really want to join us in the fight against German tanks?"

"Yes, comrade corporal." I looked at the young face in front of me and politely replied, "the lieutenant is right. I will fight side by side with you." What else did berekov want to say? When he saw me say that, he closed his mouth.

At this moment, a truck came unsteadily towards where we were standing. Captain shamikov leaned out of the window of the co pilot's bridge, waved his arms at us desperately, and cried out, "Lieutenant Peter, Lieutenant Peter."

Peter saw the approaching truck, came up to me, touched me with his arm and said, "Comrade major, it seems that captain shamikov has brought us the equipment."

I smile and say, "come on, Lieutenant Peter, let's go and see what Comrade captain has prepared for us."

After the truck stopped, shmikov jumped out of the car, ran to me, saluted and reported, "Comrade major, all the equipment you need are ready. Please accept it."

I went to the side of the truck, reached for the baffle on the side of the car, stepped on the tire with one foot, and stood up with the help of my arm. When I looked into the carriage, there were four bulging backpacks, four long anti tank guns, five engineering shovels, five raincoats, one submachine gun and two round drums.

I reached for my submachine gun, put it on my shoulder, and jumped out of the car. He went up to shamikov, nodded at him and said, "thank you, comrade lieutenant." Then he called Peter, who was standing on one side: "Lieutenant Peter, what are you doing in a daze? Take your men to the car quickly!" Peter quickly agreed and asked the other three to get on the bus.

After I got into the cab, the driver asked me, "Comrade commander, where are we going?"

I turned to the back and yelled, "Lieutenant Peter, tell the driver where our car is going."

Lieutenant Peter leaned down from the car and said to the driver, "drive into the mountains west of cletskaya."

The driver promised to drive the truck to the designated place.

Half an hour later, the truck moved from the open plains into the rolling hills. Suddenly someone was slapping the top of the bridge with his hand. Then I heard Lieutenant Peter's familiar voice: "Hello, comrade driver, stop by the side of the road here." The driver nodded in silence, stepped on the brake and pulled over steadily.

I opened the door and stepped out of the truck when Peter and the four of them had already got out of the car and were lining up by the side of the road. Although Peter had only three subordinates, he still called the order solemnly: "stand at attention, at ease! To the right, count

At this time, the driver poked his head out of the window and asked, "Comrade commander, what can I do? Will you stay here and wait for you? "

I waved to him and said, "no, comrade driver, it's none of your business here. You'd better go back to the headquarters."

Sending the driver away, I went up to Peter and asked him, "Comrade lieutenant, where shall we go next?"

"Go up the mountain!" Then he picked up a large backpack on the ground, carried a long anti tank gun and headed for the mountain. The other three soldiers carried their bags and guns on their backs and followed him up the mountain.

We walked in the mountains for about ten minutes. He suddenly stopped, turned to me and said, "here we are, comrade major." Then he gave orders to his men: "everyone find a place, dig individual bunker."

I stood in the same place, watching the four people throw their backpacks aside, bend down and start digging with the engineer shovel. I asked Peter curiously, "Comrade lieutenant, why are you digging here?"

Peter stopped his work, pointed to the foot of the mountain and said to me, "Comrade major, look at the terrain nearby. Except for this hill, there is a lot of open land around. If we set up our intercepting position on the open plain, the German tanks will be able to get rid of us with only a few shells. But the situation is different if we set up the blocking positions on the hills. The mountains are high and the forests are dense. It is not easy for the German tanks to find us. In this way, we have a greater chance of successful blocking. "

I raised my telescope to look at the terrain, and found that, as he said, except for this hill, there are many plains around. It's really a good choice to set up the position here. I looked to the East and saw the flag of our army flying on the defensive position two or three kilometers away. It seems that there are still a large number of defensive troops.

After seeing the terrain, I crouched down and said to Peter, who was digging a shelter, "Comrade lieutenant, I have an idea."

As he dug up the shelter, Peter panted, "Comrade major, let's hear what you think."

I pointed to the north side of the hill and said, "after dawn, German tanks will pass through the open area in the north and attack our troops in the East. My idea is that when the German tanks appear, we should hide and not shoot for the time being. We'll shoot when they're on the move shelling our positions. It's not easy for German tanks to find us under the cover of the explosion of shells. "

Peter stopped his work. He stood in the pit with his shovel in his hands and thought about it. Then he nodded his head and agreed: "Comrade major, your suggestion is good. We'll do as you say."

Peter and his three men were very quick, but in five minutes, they each dug out a shelter more than half a person deep. Peter pointed to the bunker he dug and said to me, "Comrade major, you can use this bunker. I'll dig another one."

I just wanted to say no, but he had already jumped out of the bunker. After walking two or three meters to the side, he bent down and began to dig a second bunker. I can only thank him, jumped into the bunker, picked up the raincoat from the pit, spread it in the pit, and lay down.

Lying on the raincoat, I closed my eyes, hoping to have a rest. After all, I haven't slept much these days. Maybe it's because I'm too tired. After a while I lay down, I fell asleep.

When I was asleep, I felt someone shaking my shoulder and a low voice calling me: "Comrade major, comrade major, wake up."

I was suddenly awakened from my dream. My heart was beating all the time. Seeing that it was lieutenant Peter who woke me up, I asked a little unhappily, "Comrade lieutenant, what's the matter?"

"Comrade major, it's German. Their tanks are coming in our direction

German, tank. These two words remind me that I was sleeping on the battlefield. Suddenly, the drowsiness left behind was startled and disappeared. I sat up in a hurry and asked nervously, "where are the German tanks?"

Peter pointed to the northwest and said, "Comrade major, look at the dust on the plain over there. It's German tanks coming towards us."

I turned over, lay down in the bunker, raised my telescope, and looked in the direction of the dust. Sure enough, many German tanks were in battle formation, coming fiercely.

"There are 30 tanks in total," berekov said excitedly after counting them first. "There are four of us here. Each brother can divide them into seven tanks. The other two tanks will fight whoever moves fast." I couldn't hear the slightest fear from his tone, as if he was not going to fight German steel giants later, but just a few rabbits in the mountains.

German tanks in battle formation are getting closer to our hills. Looking at the enemy's tank on the open ground in front of him, the impatient berekov turned and asked Peter, "company commander, shoot?"

Peter waved his hand and said, "wait a minute. When these gangsters fire on our defensive positions, we'll shoot again, so that they won't find us hiding on the hills."

At the front was a T-3 medium tank, with a T-4 tank on each side, followed by a group of T-2 light tanks. The tank soldiers in the uniform of black tank soldiers didn't find our position on the hill at all. The top covers of several tanks were open, and some tank soldiers leaned out and stood there.

At this time, the leading T-3 tank opened fire on our army in the distance, and then the other tanks opened fire one after another. I yelled at Peter next to me, "Lieutenant, it's time to fire!"

Peter yelled, "everyone, fire freely!" With that, he aimed at the leading T-3 tank and pulled the trigger. After a loud gunshot, the tank smoked, and then began to slow down. After driving a few meters, it stopped. The tank soldiers inside opened the hatch in a hurry and climbed out one after another.

Then, berekov, who was the most noisy just now, fired a shot at a Y-2 tank. The armor piercing incendiary bomb with steel core accurately hit the tank tank, and the German tank immediately caught fire.

Seeing Peter and berekov's two shots, they destroyed two German tanks. Next to them, Sergeant samoilov and corporal aleynikov were not outdone. They aimed at the two T-4 tanks and pulled the trigger. After five or six shots, the two type 4 tanks were lying on the ground and burning.

Looking at the tank soldiers in black escaping from the destroyed tanks, I really want to call them one by one with the guns in my hand. Unfortunately, the submachine guns can't hit 300 meters away, so I can only watch them escape on the way back.

When the tenth tank was destroyed by us, the German army finally found that there was a dangerous enemy hiding on the hill to their right, so they turned their guns and began to fire on the hill.

When the first shell fell and exploded 50 or 60 meters away from us, I immediately yelled at Peter: "Comrade lieutenant, let's move quickly, or the German artillery will destroy us all."

Lieutenant Peter answered, jumped out of the bunker, picked up the antitank gun, carried the big rucksack, and yelled, "all of you, come with me." After shouting, he ran to the west side of the hillside. I didn't care about the others, and I ran after him with my submachine gun.

As soon as we ran out, several shells fell on the hidden place and exploded. The big tree with thick bowl mouth was broken by the waist, and the flying shrapnel rattled on the nearby tree trunk.

We ran out more than 100 meters and found a new place to hide. Looking at the old position which had been bombed into a sea of fire, berekov wiped the sweat on his forehead with his hand, and then said fearfully, "fortunately, we moved in time, otherwise we would all be buried in the sea of fire now."

Lieutenant Peter squatted beside me and asked me, "Comrade major, what shall we do next? Continue to fight or retreat? "“ Is there any ammunition left? " Lieutenant Peter raised the rucksack and replied, "there's more ammunition."“ That's good! " Since we had enough ammunition, we didn't have to retreat, so we could continue to fight. So I told them, "everyone spread out, find a place to hide, and continue to shoot at the German tanks. Remember, after five rounds each, we'll move. Do you understand? "“ Understand All the people answered in unison. For the next few hours, we were like snipers, shooting a few shots and changing places. Because the German tank troops did not have the cooperation of infantry, they could only bombard the hills with gunfire in the face of the fire of our anti tank hands. The cat and mouse game didn't end until five in the afternoon. The German tanks, which had run out of shells, retreated, leaving only 17 burning tanks at the foot of the hill.