Chapter 514

In the early morning, I was awakened by the sudden battle alarm and the sound of dense anti-aircraft machine gun fire. I turned over and jumped out of bed, grabbed the submachine gun beside the bed. I didn't even care to wear my military uniform. I rushed out of my house barefoot in my underwear. Rushed outside, I nervously looked at the sky, to determine which direction to run.

Although the anti-aircraft machine guns clattered incessantly on the air defense position, there was no scene of the enemy's planes flying all over the sky like locusts in my imagination. After careful observation for a long time, I found that there was only one enemy reconnaissance plane hovering over the village where the headquarters was located.

Seeing a false alarm, I went back to my room to get dressed. While I was dressing, I scolded those idiots in the anti-aircraft machine gun company in my heart, just a reconnaissance plane. Is it worth using so many anti-aircraft machine guns to shoot? In this way of fighting, the enemy's fighters and bombers would be flying over in a very short time.

Dressed and booted, he came out again with his submachine gun and found that our anti-aircraft machine guns had stopped shooting and the enemy's reconnaissance plane had disappeared. When I was walking towards the air defense position, I looked up and worried to the sky from time to time, fearing that the enemy's bombers would suddenly dive down from high altitude.

When I went to the women's antiaircraft machine gun position, I found that the company commander, Lieutenant steining, was standing here, angrily lecturing to several women soldiers: "ladies, you are not the air defense forces only today. Can't you recognize the enemy's bombers and unarmed reconnaissance planes? Maybe the enemy didn't find us at all. You opened fire without asking for instructions and exposed the target. If you invite a large number of enemy planes to bomb the headquarters of the group army, can you bear the responsibility? "

On the way here, I guessed that the anti-aircraft machine gun was shooting at the enemy's reconnaissance plane. It was probably the female soldiers who did it. I didn't expect to come over and have a look. It was really them. I wanted to criticize them, but when I saw that they were being criticized, I changed my mind. I stopped and stood by the air defense position, quietly watching skinning criticize them.

My arrival was soon discovered by the women soldiers, and the eyes of several people couldn't help looking at me. Skinning, who was lecturing, found that the women soldiers didn't listen to him, but looked to the side. He quickly turned around and saw that I was standing behind him. He quickly turned to salute and said in a flustered way: "report, comrade commander, I'm criticizing the women soldiers."

"Why criticize them? Have they done something wrong?" I've heard steining criticize them, but I still know it.

Skinning didn't know I was teasing him. He quickly and seriously reported to me, "Comrade commander, I want to report to you today's fighting. In the early morning, an enemy reconnaissance plane flew over us. The female soldiers may be too nervous to confirm the enemy's plane, so they issued a battle alarm in a hurry and fired at the enemy plane in the air without authorization. After receiving the alarm, the nearby air defense positions also fired at the air one after another. As we all fought aimlessly, we not only failed to beat down the enemy's planes, but also exposed the position of our air defense positions. "

I couldn't help laughing when I looked at the serious appearance of the lieutenant, but I still tried my best to control my mood and continued to ask: "Comrade lieutenant, what's the final result of the anti-aircraft machine gun company? Did you bring down the enemy plane? "

"After five minutes of shooting, the enemy's plane was scared away by our intensive machine gun fire, but we consumed a lot of ammunition, with an average of one clip per gun position," he said. And the female soldiers, "he said bitterly, taking a look at the five girls who were standing upright," maybe they were too nervous, and they used three bullets. "

Three clips, this figure still makes me secretly surprised, one clip is 150 bullets, three clips is 450 bullets, these girls are really wasteful. According to their disorderly fighting, it will not be long before the ammunition of the anti-aircraft machine gun position near the headquarters is used up.

Seeing that I was listening to him in silence, steining added, "Comrade commander, I'm worried that they will bring German planes to bomb."

I can't keep silent when I heard what skinning said, but in front of the women soldiers, I still want to save some face for them: "Lieutenant skinning, it's war time. Are you a veteran afraid of the enemy's bombs? I suggest that if you encounter this situation in the future, the first thing you should do is to praise these girls. After all, they did not run away in a panic when they found the enemy plane, but bravely hit the enemy plane with machine guns. "

Seeing that I was so protective of the female soldiers, skinning had no choice but to agree: "I understand, comrade commander, I will follow your instructions." After a pause, he asked hesitantly, "Comrade commander, will you allow me to leave? I need to visit other air defense positions. "

I waved to him to leave. He just walked two steps, I suddenly thought of another thing, then stopped him. Steining stopped and asked in surprise, "Comrade commander, do you have any instructions?"

"Do you know how to set fire?" Although I have put forward this concept before, I don't know whether steining knows it, so I have this question.

"Set fire?" Skinning looked at me blankly and then shook his head.

It seems that he didn't understand the meaning of this term, so I patiently introduced to him: "in air defense operations, the fire of antiaircraft machine gun or antiaircraft artillery, within the effective fire range, fires at a group or a target at the same time. It can increase the density of firepower and provide the probability of hitting the target.... "

After I finished what I knew, I found that skinning was standing in a daze, with an incredible look on his face. I went up to him, raised my hand and waved it in front of his eyes. At the same time, I called out, "Hey, comrade lieutenant, what's the matter with you? Why are you so stupid? "

Skinning recovered, gave me a thumbs up, and said repeatedly, "Comrade commander, you are so amazing that you can come up with such a wonderful way. Don't worry. I'll arrange it right now, so that every soldier can master this kind of fighting method, and ensure that the enemy's plane will never come back. "

After skinning went away, I went back to the women's air defense position. Seeing me back, Vera quickly raised her hand to salute me, and took the initiative to admit her mistake: "I'm sorry, Rita, we were wrong."

Just now, in front of skinning, I was afraid that I would hurt the self-esteem of the female soldiers, so I intended to defend them. Now only a few of us are present. There are some important things to be said, so as not to make similar mistakes again. I snorted and criticized them discontentedly: "Vera, although you have only been antiaircraft Gunners for a short time, you were antiaircraft Gunners before. Can't you tell the enemy's reconnaissance planes from fighter planes and bombers? Today's attack has exposed the target, and may have brought in the enemy's bombers. "

Hearing my criticism, Vera blushed and bowed her head in silence. At this time, another voice suddenly rang out: "sorry, Rita, it has nothing to do with Willa, it's all my fault. I was too nervous when I found the enemy plane, so I issued a battle alarm. When everyone rushed to the gun position, I took the lead in firing again. "

I turned and looked. It was garka. I criticized her impolitely and said, "garka, remember, never again. On the battlefield, it may be because of your negligence or lack of calmness that your comrades in arms may die. Do you understand? "

"I see, Rita." She answered in a low voice with her head down.

"And you? Do you understand? " I asked, looking back at the other four girls.

"I see." The four answered me neatly.

Seeing that the women soldiers had understood what I meant, I didn't stay any longer, so I rushed back to the headquarters.

As soon as I entered the headquarters, I received two telegrams from the staff. One was sent by the 29th division commander, Colonel klobkin. He reported that the engineering regiments sent by the group army had reached two heights 158 and 165 respectively, and were digging tunnels with explosives. The other was sent by the commander of the 229th division, Colonel sarin, who reported that the situation of the enemy in front of their positions had changed.

After reading the two telegrams, I did not dare to neglect them. I quickly went to shumilov, who was talking with trikov, and handed the two telegrams to him. After reading the telegram, shumilov handed it to trikov, raised his head and asked me, "Comrade oshanina, what do you think of these two telegrams?"

When shumilov asked, trekov, who was reading the telegram, couldn't help looking up at me. I hastened to reply, "Comrade report commander, the situation reported in Colonel sarren's telegram is somewhat strange."

At this time, trikov also finished reading the contents of the telegram. He put the telegram paper on the table, grabbed it in front of shumilov and asked, "listen, what's strange?"

I picked up Colonel sarren's telegram and read it: "the enemy trucks soldiers into the position in the daytime, and still can hear the voice of the enemy's troop carriers in the evening." After reading, I put the Telegraph on the desk and said, "it's strange here. The two commanders may remember last night's telegram from Colonel klobkin. He said that the enemy carried the soldiers away by truck and the operation lasted until evening. As a result, after reconnaissance, it turned out that it was a trick of the enemy. During the day, they carried away a small number of soldiers, but at night, they quietly brought more soldiers to the positions. However, the situation reflected in the telegram of Colonel sahren is just the opposite. It is also a trick of the enemy to paralyze us. They deliberately transport troops to positions during the day, but quietly transfer a large number of troops to other directions at night. It's just to make us misjudge that they will attack from the renok area, and that they will deploy troops from other areas to strengthen here, so that they can find the weak area to break through our defense line. "

Maybe it was my accurate speculation last night that made shumilov have a sense of trust in me. He nodded and said to trekov, "Comrade trekov, I think oshanina's analysis is very reasonable. What do you think?"

Trikov's fingers were tapping on the table. After listening to shumilov's question, he quickly stopped his little action and replied, "Comrade commander, I have the same opinion as you. I also think that oshanina's analysis is very accurate. But how can we confirm our conjecture? "

Shumilov raised his chin to me and said, "o'shanina should answer this question."

Since the commander trusted me so much, I couldn't hide myself. I quickly said what I thought in my heart: "two comrades, I think so. Since the enemy is playing the trick of "fake increase and real transfer" in front of us, we should make good use of this opportunity to teach them a lesson. "

"What's the lesson?" Trekov asked curiously.

"Let Colonel sarin send small troops to harass the enemy's positions with the company as a unit. If the enemy really increases its troops, they will take the opportunity to launch a counterattack; If the troops are really reduced, they will stay in the trenches and dare not leave their positions at will. "

"Well, it's a good idea. You can try it." First of all, shumilov agreed. He turned to trakov and said, "Comrade trakov, it's up to you to call Colonel sarren."

When trakov called Colonel Saren to arrange the task, I couldn't help feeling to myself. During this period of time, trakov and shumilov almost always asked for my opinions when they worked out the battle plan, and most of the time, they were mainly me. I don't know whether they are looking at Zhukov's special care for me or taking the opportunity to cultivate my command ability?

Before trikov finished his call, another staff officer came in and reported to me, "Comrade commander, there are a number of prisoners coming from outside. They are soldiers from the 70th division of the guards. Come here and have a look."

I whispered to shumilov about the captives, and then the staff officer left the headquarters in a hurry.

Walking to the edge of the village, I saw hundreds of German prisoners coming towards us. Among the captives, except for a few who were in good health, the rest were the wounded. Some of them had bandages on their heads and arms, some had injuries on their feet, and they used a thick branch as a crutch to limp. The soldiers, armed with bayonet rifles, bravely walked around the captives. Once they saw anyone walking slowly or trying to leave, they would hold up their bayonets and yell loudly.

"What are these prisoners doing in the headquarters of the group army?" I turned and asked the staff next to me.

The staff officer replied, "we need to understand the enemy's distribution of forces and the next deployment of operations by interrogating the prisoners."

Just as the captive team came to the entrance of the village, four enemy planes suddenly appeared in the sky. After circling in the sky, they dived down and shot at the village behind me. Bombs roared down on the open space of the village and around the house, sending out earth shaking explosions.

As soon as the German prisoners saw their own planes dropping bombs and strafing, they let out a cry, and the whole team was in a mess. Some people hold their heads tightly and fall on the ground directly; Some directly kneel down on the ground, looking up at the sky, hands constantly cross; Some ignore it and run far away.

The escorted soldiers yelled at the escaped prisoners. Unexpectedly, the more they yelled, the faster they ran. In this case, the escorted soldier did not hesitate to shoot at the escaped prisoner.

Nearly a third of the escaped prisoners were unhurt. Under the intensive firepower of the soldiers, some prisoners only ran a few meters away and saw the people around them were penetrated by bullets. Their bodies fell to the ground and blood splashed in the air. They were so scared that they quickly stopped and squatted down with their heads in their arms.

Seeing that these soldiers from the 70th division of the guards could cope with the captives, I quickly turned to the staff and said, "go to the headquarters as soon as possible and cover the commander. They will withdraw to a safe place."

"Comrade commander, where are you going?" After accepting my assignment, the staff officer couldn't help asking another question.

"I'll go to the AA company and drive the enemy's planes out of the village as soon as possible, otherwise we will suffer heavy casualties." With that, I started running towards Vera's air defense position.

When I rushed to Vera's gun position, their anti-aircraft machine guns were firing fiercely.

Looking at the bullets they shot, there must be no threat to the enemy's aircraft. I rushed forward, and one of them dropped garkara, who was sitting in the position of the aiming hand, and sat down in the seat of the aiming hand. I quickly shake the handle, through the mirror, quickly lock the target.

"Rita, ammunition's loaded." I heard a loud report from someone nearby.

I nodded calmly, looked through the gun mirror, firmly locked a diving bomber, then stepped on the gun button, the machine gun trembled, fired dense bullets into the air, and suddenly pulled out long black smoke behind the tail of the enemy plane which was diving towards us.

"Yes! Hit it The women soldiers around me cheered when they saw this scene.

Then, there was a loud noise in the air. The enemy plane that I hit exploded and disintegrated in the air. It became pieces of debris and floated down. And our artillery position was also found by the remaining enemy planes. Two planes circled in the air and then dived ferociously towards us.

"Danger, lie down!" I yelled at the girls. After that, I jumped out of my seat and ran outside.

As soon as I ran a few steps, I heard the sharp whistling of the bomb falling from the sky behind me. I quickly jumped forward, held my head in both hands, and fell on the ground.

"Boom" a loud noise behind me, and then some messy things and the soil crackled on me, especially a stone on the helmet, hit my eyes black, eyes with stars, almost fainted. When I get up, I turn and look back. I saw that the original air defense position had been bombed into a black crater. The anti-aircraft machine guns in the crater had become a pile of scrap iron, while several female soldiers were lying in the vicinity of the crater, motionless.