Chapter 608

As for captain Prokop's concern, I just laughed, walked forward two steps, came to a chair, dusted the broken glass off the chair with my sleeve, sat down as if nothing had happened, and asked with a relaxed expression: "Comrade captain, what's the situation outside now?"

Unexpectedly, Prokop said with a sad face, "it's very bad, comrade colonel. Although the German attack, we defend, but from the current situation, we can persist for half an hour at most

"What? What did you say? " Prokop's words made me jump out of my chair. When I saw the German tank shells hitting the bunker, it only broke a layer of wall. Even the soldiers who stuck inside could not do without a hair. How could the defense line be in danger after a while? I asked, "Comrade captain, what's going on? I just saw from upstairs that the soldiers are playing very well. In a twinkling of an eye, the enemy is about to break through our position. "

"Well, comrade colonel." "A tank shell flew into the bunker on the left and killed all the soldiers in it," he said with a sad face. The soldiers in the bunker on the right side were also driven out of the fortification by the German firemen and killed by the machine guns on the tanks. "

As soon as I think that the two solid blockhouses have been killed by the Germans, the remaining distance of one or two hundred meters will soon be pushed by the Germans, so I can't sit still any more. I asked busmanov nervously, "Captain, where do you deploy the guards?"

"I put them in trenches and nearby buildings." Busmanov answered me quickly.

"Come on, come out with me." When I think of the critical situation, I can't sit in the room. Instead of waiting for news, I'd better go outside to supervise the war and learn about the changes on the battlefield in time.

"Comrade Colonel, it's too dangerous outside. You'd better stay here." When Captain Prokop saw that I was going to leave, he stopped in front of me and kindly persuaded me.

I stared and said impolitely, "Comrade captain, didn't you say that the Germans will rush here soon? I want to go out and command my troops. If you are afraid of death, you can stay here. " With that, I lifted my leg and went out.

When I said that, Captain Prokop had to follow me, but he must be scolding me secretly. When I walked out of the command post, I stopped and asked Prokop, "Comrade captain, where can I observe the situation on the battlefield?"

After his mouth twitched violently, Prokop said to me with difficulty, "come with me, comrade colonel. I know a place where I can observe the situation on the battlefield. "

Prokop led us into a building on the side of the road and came to a window whose window frame had been blown up. The captain stopped, turned to me and said, "this is it, comrade colonel."

After thanking him, I told basmanov, "Comrade captain, go back to the army immediately and command them to destroy the infantry following the tanks. As long as we block the infantry, then even if the tank rushes up, we can kill it all. "

Busmanov had been my battalion commander for some time, and knew that my order was irrefutable, so he agreed without hesitation, turned away and went to command the troops.

Seeing basmanov leave, Prokop became a little uneasy. He hesitated for a long time and asked me, "will you allow me to leave? Comrade Colonel, I think I should go to the trench to command the troops. "

"Then why are you still here? Go back to the army as soon as possible!" I waved at him impatiently, trying to make the blinding commander disappear from his face immediately.

Not far from my window, there is a women's anti-aircraft gun class hiding behind the sandbag breast wall. There are several women soldiers around the anti-aircraft gun. Some are carrying shells, some are holding telescopes to observe, and there are two women soldiers standing on the gun rack. One is responsible for shaking the hand wheel to adjust the angle of the gun barrel, and the other is a shooter.

Because the distance is not far, even if there is the interference of guns, I can hear what they are shouting. The female soldier, who was in charge of observing with a telescope, yelled: "gun No.4, aim directly at the German tank, open fire!"

With her shouts, the antiaircraft guns opened fire fiercely. A shell roared towards the German tank, but unfortunately, the shell landed in front of the tank and exploded. The body of the tank vibrated violently, then went on through the smoke of the explosion. When the tank was moving forward, two more shells landed on the left and right sides of the body and exploded. It was obvious that the female soldiers from other gun positions were firing.

Seeing that she missed the target, the girl with the telescope continued to shout: "continue loading, aim at the German tank in front, fire!"

The girls were obviously lucky this time. The shell directly hit the front armor of the tank. With the rising of a fire, the tank body was shocked again. After driving forward for a certain distance with smoke, it stopped.

Seeing a German tank destroyed by its own anti-aircraft gun, the women cheered in unison. They raised their hands high and jumped in place, shouting: "Wula! Wura! Yes, yes

But the joy was very sad. Just as they were cheering, a shell landed not far from the barricade and exploded. The female gunner standing on the gun body screamed, covered her head with her hands, and fell straight back“ What's the matter with her? " Two women soldiers carrying shells put down their shells and came running shouting. He rushed to the gunner's side, bent down to have a look, and then sat down on the ground and cried.

The female soldier with the telescope should be their monitor, because I can see the rank of corporal on her badge. He heard the cry of his girls, ran nervously, and asked: "girls, what's the matter?" Seeing that the fallen female soldier had moved, she was also shocked. But in order to stabilize the morale of the army, she tried to keep calm and comforted the crying female soldier in a loud voice: "don't be afraid, don't cry, girls, don't be afraid, hurry up, go back to your gun position."

A female soldier grabbed a handful of soil from the ground and threw it out to the front. At the same time, she cursed: "you damn bastards, I can't spare you." After shouting, she jumped up from the ground and ran directly to the shell box.

The corporal climbed up the gun rack, patted the female soldiers who were standing on the gun rack and shaking the handwheel with his hand, then turned back and yelled to the other female soldiers, "don't be stunned, girls, help me load the shells quickly, and get ready to continue the fight." In order to dispel the fear and despair brought by the sacrifice of her comrades in arms as soon as possible, she kept shouting at her subordinates: "girls, dear, come on, come on, come on, we should teach these damned Germans a good lesson."

I looked back at Vera standing behind me and cautiously said to her, "Vera, you used to be antiaircraft artillery. Go and help these girls. I think they are scared."

When Vera heard me say this, she was stunned for a moment, and then asked with concern: "Comrade division, if we go to help the antiaircraft artillery, who will protect your safety?" When she asked, the other two women soldiers echoed and said, "yes, sir, if we all leave, who will guarantee your safety?"

I waved to them and said with disapproval, "girls, don't worry about my safety. You know, this is the position of our army. The Germans can't rush here for the time being. You go quickly, if the German tank rushes over, then we are really in danger. "

Willa saw that my attitude was firm, and it was hard to insist on it. She took off the submachine gun hanging around her neck, handed it to my hand, and said with concern: "Sir, comrade, take the submachine gun, so even if there are German devils coming, you can eliminate them." After that, he took the other two women soldiers and ran to the anti-aircraft artillery position.

Several German tanks have been destroyed by our army, and the burning black smoke has blocked the vision of German tank soldiers. In order to get around the burning tank debris on the road and the rubble everywhere, the tanks have to slow down again and again. In this way, they become the target of our shooting. The anti-aircraft guns increased the speed of firing, and the anti tank company hidden in the building also condescended to hit these targets.

Ten minutes later, the tanks of the original fierce armored forces were all turned into burning ruins. The tank soldiers who escaped from the tanks almost did not run far away and were killed by random guns around the tanks.

When Prokop and basmanov saw that the German tanks had been destroyed, they led the troops to launch a counterattack. Although the German tanks were all destroyed by us, the infantry did not retreat easily. They hid behind the rubble and fired at our charging troops.

As soon as the charging troops rushed through the two blockhouses, they were suppressed by the German firepower. They had to hide behind the blockhouses or the remains of tanks to avoid the German fire.

Although the remains of tanks on the road became the hiding place for our soldiers to avoid bullets, they also blocked the view of anti-aircraft gunners, so they could not provide the necessary artillery cover for infantry.

When I saw this scene through the telescope, I was going to ask Prokop if there were curved guns such as mortars in his camp, so as to eliminate the German infantry hiding behind the rubble. Just at this time, I vaguely heard the sound of submachine gun fire and machine gun fire coming from the front I quickly raised my telescope and looked forward. I saw a bright red flag flying in the wind in front of our army. I could see at a glance that it was the flag of the independent division. Lt. Col. Oleg had sent troops from behind the German army.

Seeing our reinforcements coming up, I jumped out of the window, bent over with my submachine gun, and ran quickly along the wall.

After five minutes, it was all over. The destroyed tanks of the German army were burning. Next to the scattered bodies of the German army, the soldiers who were lucky not to be killed put down their weapons and raised their hands to stand in place.

The soldiers surrounded the prisoners. Lieutenant commander Oleg came up to me and reported, "Comrade division, our regiment has completely annihilated the German troops trying to occupy the dock."

"Why did your troops come so late?" I thought that the orders I gave him were at least an hour later, but he was late, so I asked him angrily, "you know, if your troops attack early, the casualties of the women's antiaircraft artillery regiment will be much smaller."

Hearing my criticism, Oleg said with some embarrassment: "Comrade division, in fact, when the German army launched its first attack on the dock position, I sent troops to attack from the flank. However, the German tank fire was so fierce that a company that launched the attack was annihilated after only a few minutes of fighting with the enemy. "

In a few minutes, a company will be reimbursed? I was terrified to think that fortunately, the German attack direction was the wharf, not the residential area. Otherwise, Oleg's seven companies would not be able to support for long. Fortunately, now they have eliminated the German army. Thinking of this, I was relieved, wiped the sweat from my forehead, and told Oleg: "Comrade commander, let's arrange the soldiers to clean the battlefield, If we move all the useful things to residential areas, we may be able to use them in the future. "

The next reports to me are captain Prokop, Captain basmanov, and the instructor of the anti tank company of the 101st regiment, grasimov. When I saw the soldiers who were following them with anti tank guns on their shoulders, I asked gracimov with concern, "Comrade instructor, how many casualties have you suffered in your company?"

Glasimov looked back at his subordinates and said with a smile, "report to the Colonel that three people were slightly injured and no one died. In the last battle, we destroyed 12 German tanks. "

"What, 12?" When I heard this result, I could hardly believe that the German army had only 17 or 18 tanks attacking the dock, but they had killed 12. That is to say, they had killed two-thirds of the tanks. Without their support, it is estimated that only a few anti-aircraft guns of the high artillery regiment would not be able to stop the German tanks.

I put my hands on his shoulder, slapped him hard, and praised him without stint: "well done, comrade instructor. You have made great contributions in the battle of defending the wharf. I will report the results of your battle and your subordinates to the headquarters of the group army, and I will ask for contributions for you. "

"Serve the motherland of the Soviet Union!" After giving an official reply, grasimov politely asked, "Comrade teacher, can we leave now?"

"Yes, instructors, we'll see you later. Good luck

After seeing off grasimov and his anti tank company, I took Prokop and basmanov to the anti-aircraft artillery position. Judging from the intelligence just collected, the anti-aircraft artillery regiment has not achieved much success. I want to see what's going on.

Approaching the barricade, I was startled to see that two sandbag fortifications had been destroyed by shells, and the anti-aircraft guns in these two fortifications had been smashed to pieces, with craters everywhere on the ground. There were a row of bodies in the bunker, which should be the female Gunners of the two guns. Those women soldiers who did not die dug a hole in the open space not far away without saying a word.

When I looked at the women soldiers with puzzled eyes, Prokop came close to my ear and said in a low voice, "Comrade Colonel, the women soldiers don't want to bury their comrades in the trenches, so they want to dig another one."

I walked towards the women soldiers with black cheeks and smoke. Standing beside a female soldier, I asked in a low voice, "Comrade soldier, do you know where your regiment commissar is?" Because I haven't met Li Jiya since the end of the battle, I was worried that she had died in the battle just now, so I asked the soldiers in the regiment.

I didn't expect that after I finished, the female soldier didn't react at all and continued to dig a hole. Seeing me standing awkwardly, busmanov quickly came up to me and explained, "Sir, please forgive me. These women soldiers were deafened in the battle just now. They can't hear you at all."

Basmanov said, went forward to grasp the woman soldier's shoulder, shaking hard, the woman soldier looked up at us blankly. Basmanov gestured to her, then pointed to his cornice cap and asked aloud, "where is it? Where is it? " The female soldier pointed back weakly, then lowered her head and continued to dig.

Busmanov dragged me to a barricade not far away, bypassing the chest high sandbag fortification, and I saw Lydia and several other female soldiers. I don't know why, they took off the military uniform outside, leaving only the white shirt inside. Basmanov turned his back a little embarrassed when he saw this scene.

I went to Li Jiya's side, grabbed her and asked curiously, "Comrade political commissar of the Communist Youth League, what's the matter? Why did you take off your uniform? " When I said this, I thought in my heart, now that the Germans have been defeated by us, there is no need to disguise as ordinary people to escape. What do you mean by collectively taking off your clothes?

Li Jiya looked at me with eyes without any brilliance, gave a bitter smile, and then said to herself, "Comrade Colonel, you are right. The enemy was stronger than we thought. If it wasn't for the reinforcements you brought, maybe the dock would have been lost."

"Comrade political commissar of the Communist Youth League, why did you take off your uniform?" I was afraid that her ears would be deafened, so I came close to her and asked in a loud voice.

Li Jiya quickly moved her ear away a little, and then answered my question: "as you can see, in the battle just now, we sacrificed more than 20 young girls. We can't let them be buried in ragged military uniforms, so we took off our relatively complete uniforms and put them on for the sacrificed girls."

Hearing what Li Jiya said, I immediately felt ashamed of what I had just thought. I quickly reached out to unbutton my uniform and tried to take off my uniform. Unexpectedly, Li Jiya grabbed me. She shook her head and said, "no, comrade Colonel, I know what you want, but we have enough uniforms for girls." At the moment, my heart was eager to do something for these sacrificed girls, so I turned around and called to busmanov, who was standing on his back: "Comrade captain, you should take 20 soldiers from the guard company to help those girls dig pits, and bury them as soon as possible." When busmanov left, I thought of Vera, my guard monitor, and went on. Not far away, I found Vera, wonia and nagia. Wonia sat on the ground, her back against the chest wall of the sandbag, her hands holding her company, her shoulders shaking, while Vera and nagia stood on her sides“ Vera, what's the matter? Has wonia been hurt? " These three policewomen around me were sent out to play a guest role as antiaircraft Gunners in the most critical time. If they were injured, I would not feel better. Vera waved to me and said, "it's OK, sir. Wonia was a little dizzy. Just after the battle, she was frightened to see the dead woman soldier lying under the antiaircraft gun. But don't worry. She'll be fine soon. " I nodded, bent down, and patted her on the shoulder. She looked up at me and said nervously, "I'm ok, sir. I'm either afraid of death or dizzy when I see blood. Don't worry. I'll be OK in a moment." I just a faint smile, noncommittal said: "it's OK to get up, we have to help political commissar Li Jiya they go to bury the sacrifice of women soldiers."