Chapter 477

After walking for more than an hour, there was no contact with the enemy. Seeing the roadside scenery become familiar, I feel more relaxed. I turned to sa Ren, who had been walking all the time, and said, "Comrade division commander, if you go further about two kilometers, you can reach the defensive position that our regiment built some time ago. I hope that position is still in our hands, so that our division can cross the Don river safely."

Just then, a sailor came running in front of us. He stopped not far away from us. From time to time, he grabbed the passing officers and soldiers and asked, "do you know where the division commander is? Do you know where division leaders are? "

Without waiting for me to speak, Colonel Saren met him and asked, "mariner, I'm commander, Colonel Saren. What can I do for you?"

The sailor saluted Saren and respectfully reported: "Comrade division commander, our scouts have found our army's defensive position in front of them. After crossing the position, we can go forward for another two kilometers to reach the ferry terminal of the Don river. Comrade captain asked me to come back and report to you, asking whether to join the friendly forces or not. "

After hearing this, sarin slapped the sailor's helmet excitedly and said with a smile: "Comrade sailor, go back and tell your battalion commander what you can ask for. Let him take people to join the friendly forces immediately and hold the position together. Once our troops pass, we can break through successfully."

The sailor laughed sheepishly, then raised his hand to salute Saren, turned and trotted away.

"That's great, comrade o'shanina. If we go a few kilometers further, we will successfully stand out from the enemy's encirclement."

When I heard that, I could break through immediately, and the stone hanging in my heart fell to the ground. I went to the side of the road, found a fallen tree trunk and sat down. At the same time, I said to Saren, "Sir, you are tired after walking so long. Come and have a rest first."

SA Ren was not polite, so he sat down beside me directly. Then he called the officers and soldiers nearby: "Hey, comrades, everyone is tired. Let's sit down and have a rest."

On hearing his orders, the staff officers, the signalmen and the male health workers who carried the wounded behind us all went to both sides of the road, put down their communication equipment or the wounded and sat on the ground.

SA Ren took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, handed it to me and asked tentatively, "do you smoke?"

I waved my hand and said, "thank you, sir. I don't smoke." Seeing that he pulled out a cigarette and held it in his mouth, he was ready to light it with a match. He stopped him immediately: "Sir, I advise you not to smoke, it's easy to expose your target."

SA Ren hesitated for a moment, and finally put the cigarette back into the cigarette box, and said, "you're right. Let's wait until we break through successfully."

Just then, suddenly came the sound of guns. We stood up and saw that the fire in front of us was shining, which dyed half of the night sky red. On our way, it seemed that a burning flame mountain suddenly appeared.

Sarin stared at the front and said in surprise, "my God, what's going on?"

I grabbed him by the arm and hastily said, "come on, comrade colonel. Let's go over and see what happened."

We passed through the middle of the line and came to the vanguard camp. We saw the captain of the marine. As soon as he saw us appear, he quickly met us and reported to us, "comrades of division commander and commander, maybe our breakout was discovered by enemy scouts, so they blocked our way forward with intensive artillery fire. In order to prevent unnecessary casualties, I have ordered the troops to stop advancing. "

"You are right, comrade captain." I praised the captain, and then asked Saren, "Comrade division commander, what should we do next?"

Sarin looked at the dense artillery blockade in front of him, thought for a moment, and resolutely ordered: "the troops should rest in place, wait until the enemy's artillery is sparse, and then pass quickly."

We have been waiting here for 20 minutes, but the enemy's artillery has not weakened. It seems that they are firing dozens of guns in a cross fire. Sarin looked at his watch, gritted his teeth and said to me, "commander oshanina, we can't wait like this any longer. If the enemy perceives that we have left our position and come after us, we will be in danger. " With that, he called to the captain standing not far away, "Hey, comrade captain, come here for a moment."

The captain ran to him, raised his hand to salute him, and politely asked, "what instructions do you have, sir?"

Colonel Saren pointed to the front of the artillery fire and said, "Comrade captain, I think the enemy's artillery blockade line is only more than 200 meters wide. You can send a platoon to try to rush through and see if you can use the gap between the artillery fire."

Seeing that the captain went to arrange the troops to attack the blockade line, I asked Saren with some worry: "Comrade division commander, even if the platoon that tried to attack the blockade line successfully reached the safe area, it can't prove that we can all pass the death line smoothly. You know, there are slow-moving health teams and signalmen behind us. With their marching speed, they are all sacrificed, It doesn't have to be able to rush through. "

When his kung fu was not enough, the captain of the marine came back in person. He bowed his head and replied in shame, "I'm sorry, comrade division. The shock operation just now failed. A platoon of soldiers had just crossed half the distance when they were all killed in the artillery fire. "

When I heard that the impact failed, all the soldiers of a platoon died. My heart was bleeding. So many battles were gone. Look at the watch. It's already one o'clock in the morning. It will be daybreak in three hours. If we don't pass this blockade line, we will be wiped out by the powerful enemy under our own eyes after daybreak.

I was worried. Sarin was more anxious than I was. He rolled his sleeve, took a rifle from the soldier beside him, and said to me in a loud voice, "Lieutenant Commander o'shanina, the troops will be handed over to you. I'll go ahead and have a look. "

I quickly grabbed him and asked nervously, "Comrade teacher, you don't plan to take people to rush in person, do you?"

"I don't believe I can't rush through!" Sarin said angrily.

Then he raised his legs to leave. I stopped him and said, "Comrade division commander, you are the head of a division. Your duty is to lead the soldiers to jump out of the encirclement of the enemy smoothly, instead of risking their lives like a soldier."

At this time, commander gogoli of the 804th regiment also came over. He heard the conversation between sarin and me, and quickly said, "Comrade division commander, commander o'shanina is right. You are division commander. You have no right to leave the commanders and fighters of the whole division and take risks with your own life. Well, I'd better take someone to rush. "

In front of him, Colonel sarin had not yet persuaded him. I didn't expect that commander gogoli would make trouble again. I reached out to stop them and said firmly, "stop, not only Colonel sarin can't go, but also you, commander gogoli."

After they were stopped by me, they asked in unison, "we are not going, so who should go? Are you going? You know, the men of the 229th division are not dead, and it's not a woman's turn to take risks for us. "

I didn't answer them right away. Instead, I took them by the arms and took them to the side of the road. When I got to a position where there were few people, I said my plan: "Sir, commander gogoly, I wonder if you have noticed where the shells came from?"

Listening to me, sarin and Gogol were stunned for a moment, and then they pointed in the same direction together. Gogol said, "I noticed that the shells came from that direction." At this point, he stopped for a moment, and then said, "I estimate that the enemy's artillery position is only two or three kilometers away from here."

"It's a good choice to take out the enemy's artillery positions." Colonel sarin thought and said, "who should be sent?"

I looked at the direction they were pointing to, which was the direction of the 678th regiment's garrison in the past, so I said, "well, since you have seen the location of the enemy's artillery, I'll take people to take it away, so that our division's troops can smoothly pass the blockade line in front of us."

Gogoli wanted to speak, but sarin raised his hand to stop him. He thought for a while and waved his hand: "OK, that's it." Then he called out to the captain, "Comrade captain, come here for a moment."

The captain ran in front of us again. Before we could speak, he began to show his determination: "Sir, please let me take another charge. I promise to finish the task."

Sarin waved his hand and interrupted him, saying: "Comrade captain, I have a task to give you, but I don't want you to take the risk of attacking the enemy's artillery blockade."

The captain asked cautiously, "Comrade division commander, I don't know what task it is?"

Sarin pointed to me and said, "take your battalion with lieutenant commander oshanina, take the enemy's artillery position away, and cover the division's main force through the enemy's blockade line. Do you have the confidence to finish the task? "

After receiving this task, the captain immediately beamed with joy and answered firmly, "please rest assured, sir. I promise to complete the task you assigned me and cover the main force of the division to break through."

"Well, don't delay. Let's go now."

The captain and I, with a battalion of Marines, made a rapid advance towards the former defense area. Because the speed of the sailors' march was too fast, I had been walking in the front of the team. Within half an hour, I had slowly fallen behind the team. If the captain had not sent two soldiers to carry me away, I would have fallen behind.

An hour later, we approached my former observation post and saw the enemy's artillery position from a distance. The enemy is concentrating on blocking our only way to break through the encirclement with artillery fire, and has not noticed the arrival of our troops at all. Seeing this scene, I couldn't help but be overjoyed. I speeded up and ran to the front of the team. I said to the captain who led the team, "Comrade captain, the enemy's artillery position is in front of us. When we quietly approach, we will launch a surprise attack immediately. We must take the enemy by surprise."

The captain promised to turn around and order the troops to speed up the March. I was so tired that I could hardly walk, but when I saw that the victory was in sight, I was so excited that I went with the captain, but I was not pulled down by him.

In less than five minutes, our troops quietly approached the enemy's position. In order to prevent being found by the enemy, the captain let the soldiers lie down and crawl towards the enemy's artillery position. In the flash of the shell, I clearly saw the enemy's line of more than 20 guns. Without the cover of the guard troops, the enemy artillery did not notice our arrival at all, and continued to fire at our troops.

Seeing that I was close to the enemy for one hundred meters, my heart beat faster. I pulled out my pistol from my waist, stood up abruptly, shot into the sky, and then yelled, "brothers, follow me! Go ahead

As soon as my voice fell, the captain next to me also called out in a loud voice: "go on, brothers, wipe out all the enemies!"

Under our leadership, the soldiers rushed to the enemy's artillery positions with shouts. The soldier in the front row with the submachine gun held the butt of the gun to his waist and shot as he charged. The bullets rattled the baffle of the cannon. The soldier with a rifle, after a shot, did not care to pull the trigger, but directly took out his grenade, pulled the string and threw it at the enemy. After a series of grenade explosions, the enemy's artillery positions immediately shrouded in smoke. Where did the enemy's artillery see such a formation? They were so scared that they dropped their shells and fled everywhere.

Within minutes, the battle was over. Half of the enemy's artillery were killed and half were taken prisoner, while all their artillery were captured by us. The captain and I leaned against a big gun, happily giving orders to the soldiers, commanding them to count and capture, treat the wounded and take care of the prisoners.

Seeing that he was almost busy, the captain asked me with a smile, "Comrade commander, shall we blow up the cannon now?"

"Blaster?" I looked at the mountain of shells piled up on the ground and asked, "why do you want to bomb now? Don't you see so many shells piled up on the ground?" With these words, I couldn't help sweating. Fortunately, the grenade thrown by the soldiers just now didn't detonate the enemy's shells, otherwise the shells killed by the soldiers would be enough for us to die with the enemy.

"We can blow up the shells together."

"Comrade captain," I looked at the captain and said with a smile, "it's a pity that so many shells have been blown up. I'm going to leave them all in Germany."

"For the Germans?" The captain was confused. He frowned slightly. When he refuted me, his tone was a little discontented. "Comrade commander, do you mean to leave so many shells to the Germans, so that they can use them to hit us at the right time?"

I didn't want to talk to him much. I just told him, "Comrade captain, are there any soldiers who have been artillery soldiers in your camp? Call them all here. "

The captain didn't know what I was going to do, but since I gave the order, he could only carry it out unconditionally. In a short time, he came back with more than 40 commanders and fighters. After stopping the small unit, he led a lieutenant to me and said, "Comrade commander, this is lieutenant rozhkov. He used to be an artillery soldier. Because our artillery was lost in the battle, he became an infantry soldier." Then he pointed to the group of soldiers who followed him and added, "these soldiers used to be artillery."

I looked at the artillery soldiers with great interest, and then looked at the handsome artillery Lieutenant standing in front of me. With a smile, I asked, "Comrade lieutenant, can you operate German guns?"

The lieutenant looked at the cannon behind me, nodded and confidently replied, "no problem, comrade commander. Although we are not proficient in using our own guns, we will not make too much error in hitting the target. "

Hearing my conversation with the lieutenant, the captain was surprised and asked, "Comrade commander, you are not going to let us transport all these guns back, are you? You know, we can't get these heavy guns back without trucks. "

I waved my hand and said with a smile, "Comrade captain, you think too much. How can this be possible. You know, I don't plan to get these cannons back. Even if they are all shipped back, I can't take them across the Don river. In the end, they either blow up or leave them to the Germans. I don't want to do such a stupid thing. I just saw that there were so many shells left. If they were all blown up, it would be a bit too wasteful. It would be better to make use of them and hit them to the enemy's positions with cannons, so that they would feel like being bombarded. "

"Excellent, comrade commander, you are excellent!" The captain heard what I said, and immediately exclaimed excitedly, "don't worry, we'll finish all these shells in one shot, and let the Germans taste their own shells."

"Comrade commander," although the captain was a little complacent, Lieutenant rozhkov kept the necessary calm. He reminded me, "without coordinates, I don't know where to shoot."

"It's easy to do. Here's a map of the enemy. It should have the artillery targets you want." With that, I took out a map from my briefcase and handed it to rozhkov.

Rozhkov took the map and looked at it with his flashlight. Then he cheered and said, "it's wonderful, comrade commander. The enemy's deployment is clearly marked on this map. I know where to shoot."

"In that case, comrade lieutenant, you muster the artillery quickly." After giving orders to rozhkov, I said to the captain, "Comrade battalion commander, first arrange some people to take these prisoners away, so as not to affect the speed of our retreat."

The captain arranged a captain to escort a company's forces to leave the captured artillery. The remaining soldiers assisted the artillery selected by lieutenant rozhkov to turn one head and aim at the enemy's position.

Then the artillery in rozhkov's command, began to aim, loading shells. While rozhkov was holding the command flag high, I asked curiously, "Comrade lieutenant, where is the first target?"“ The tank camp in the valley ahead. " With these words, rozhkov issued orders to his subordinates in a loud voice: "listen to my command, prepare!" Then the command flag swung down and yelled, "let go!" With his command, more than 20 guns fired at the same time, like a huge thunderbolt in my ear, which shocked me to sit on the ground. When our cannons had entered the third round of firing, I recovered and slowly got up from the ground. Looking at the valley in the distance, I saw that the fire was shining, which made the valley red like a volcano eruption. It seemed that under such artillery attack, the enemy's tank troops were finished.