Chapter 698

I was bending over to hide behind verol and safchenko. When I saw that the soldier who came was sergeant shaykin, I couldn't help but stand up straight and yelled, "don't shoot, it's my own man!" After shouting, I went by verol and met shaykin.

When I came to shaykin, I raised my hand and grasped his arm. I asked with concern, "Comrade sergeant, are you ok? You haven't been hit by the enemy's bullet?"

Shaykin shook his head and said confidently, "I'm fine, sir. The enemy's bullets can't hit me." Then he flaunted to me, "not only did he miss me, but I killed seven people, one of whom was killed by a grenade I recognized."

"Well done, comrade shaykin!" Verol obviously knew the sergeant. As she put the pistol in the holster, she came to praise shaykin: "it is because of your decisive and brave behavior that you rescued the division commander and the commander from danger. I want to report your heroic deeds to the whole league and call on everyone to learn from you. "

Shaykin giggled at verol's words. When he was almost laughing, I quickly asked him, "Comrade sergeant, just now I sent a small team to reinforce you. Did you see them?"

"Yes," said shaykin, nodding his head vigorously. "Because they appeared in German uniforms, the German soldiers who came out of our army were stunned for a while. As a result, they were caught by surprise."

When I heard that the enemy had been destroyed, I was relieved. At the same time, I didn't forget to care about Lieutenant gretka's team: "how are the casualties of our troops?"

"When our troops destroyed the Germans, there were casualties, and they paid the price of death and injury." Shaykin thought for a moment and added, "but all the Germans in our uniform were killed, and none of them escaped. There were 19 of them."

I then asked, "sergeant shaykin, in addition to the one death and one injury you just mentioned, do we have any casualties?"

"Yes," shaykin replied without thinking, "five of us were killed in the shooting with the German army, and 11 of us were injured, but none of them were seriously injured."

"Comrade division commander, the number of casualties has been counted." Verol suddenly said, "in the battle that just ended, we killed 27 people. We sacrificed 115 and injured 25. "

The data reported by verol startled me. Most of the officers and men of the second regiment have experienced a lot of fighting, but they have paid such a heavy price after being attacked by the enemy's small troops. I asked in surprise, "Comrade veroll, why are our casualties so great?"

Seeing that I was not good-looking, verol quickly explained: "Comrade division commander, there are two main reasons why our regiment has paid such a high price: first, the enemy is wearing our army's uniform, and our commanders and fighters can't quickly distinguish the enemy from the enemy, thus giving the enemy a chance to take advantage of it; I thought that my proposal would be opposed by verol and safchenko first. After all, as the superiors of lieutenant gretka, they knew his details very well. Unexpectedly, verol took two pieces of paper from his briefcase and handed it to me, adding, "the report I just filled out when you were talking to lieutenant greteka."

I reached for it, stopped, took the report to my eyes, and read aloud, "Lieutenant gretka, German, led the army to surrender to our army in the battle of Stalingrad. He showed bravery and tact in the battle of cooperating with our army to defend the great city of Stalingrad. When the commander of our army was besieged by the enemy, he braved the enemy's bullets and rushed up, wiped out all the enemies and rescued our commander, showing courage and heroism. " I flipped through the one below and found that this report was for shaykin's medal.

I believe there are many reports in veroll's briefcase. If you just take them out and fill in their names, it will be a new report. So after reading them, I put forward my different opinions to veroll: "Comrade veroll, I think the content of your report should be revised. You can see that in the comments on both of them," show bravery "is used "Showing the spirit of heroism" does not show a person's characteristics at all. We should find something different to distinguish them. Do you agree with me? "

"No, sir, I'm not the same." Verol firmly refuted me and said, "the kind of words you want to use are not available in the world."

"Why not?" I asked in surprise.

"I can't think of such a word, or to be exact, such a word hasn't been created yet. You know, it's easy to find a few words for a hero to comment on his achievements, but not now. Now there are thousands of such heroes, or tens of thousands of them. If they are really worthy of them, they really don't have the kind you said

Without saying a word, I handed veroll the report of the application for the medal and walked on silently. After a long walk, I said softly, "Comrade verol, thank you for your support! Although I know that it is unlikely that the report of lieutenant gretka will be approved, I still want to thank you

"Why not get approval?" "I don't understand?" veroll asked in a voice

After a moment's silence, I sighed and said, "because he is too sensitive to the German identity. Although he has long surrendered to our army and made a lot of contributions, many people still can't accept it psychologically if they want the superior to award a German medal."

"You have to try. The superior is not unreasonable. If he knows the cause and effect of the whole thing, I think he will make an exception. " At this point, she suddenly changed the topic and asked, "where are we going next? To the headquarters of our regiment or to the headquarters of our division? "

"It's better to go back to the division headquarters. Maybe the political commissar and the chief of staff all know what happened just now. They don't know how worried they are now. Only when they see me appear in front of them peacefully will their hearts be at ease. " Then I turned to safchenko, who was following me, and said, "and you, comrade political instructor, come back to the headquarters with me. Now that lieutenant gretka is wounded, it's up to you to report to me the information that the reconnaissance team has got. "

But before I got back to the headquarters, on the way, I met kirilov in the trench with captain basmanov and a dozen soldiers of the guard company. Seeing that I was safe and sound, kirilov rushed over, grabbed my arm and said happily, "thank God, comrade o'shanina, it's so nice to see you safe and sound."

I looked at my partner who was concerned about my safety and said gratefully, "Comrade political commissar, thank you for your concern. Although I've been attacked by the enemy, I'm lucky and lucky. You see, I'm still fine now. I haven't hurt a hair at all. "

Kirilov snorted and asked verol, who was standing beside him in a loud voice: "which company is responsible for carrying out the inventory task? Why did the enemy come up so easily? This matter needs to be dealt with seriously. None of the soldiers on duty or their company commander can escape. You send for them all at once. "

"Wait a minute, comrade verol." I stopped verol, who was about to leave, and pleaded with kirilov for the unknown commanders and fighters: "political commissar, those Germans disguised as our soldiers, and there was no obvious identification mark on their equipment. The soldiers on duty didn't recognize them, which is understandable."

Kirilov was adamant: "Comrade verol, what are you still doing here? You don't take people to catch those soldiers on duty and their company commanders." As I was about to speak, kirilov had already put up his hand to stop what I had to say, and he gave an order to himself: "Captain basmanov, take some soldiers with you and political commissar verol."

Basmanov agreed, and immediately turned to call the names of the soldiers who followed. Looking at basmanov summoning a few soldiers in the shortest time, verol could only sigh helplessly, and obediently led them to catch those soldiers who were derelict in their duties.

Kirilov and I went back to the headquarters under the protection of the rest of the guards. As soon as kirilov got to the door, he stopped, turned to me and said angrily, "Comrade division, we'll wait here for a while, and we'll go in after dealing with the dereliction of duty soldiers brought by verol."

When he finished, I asked carefully, "what are you going to do with them?"

Kirilov snorted again: "what else can we do? Of course, all of them are shot."

"Shot?" Kirilov's announcement of the punishment decision startled me and quickly persuaded him with a smile: "is this kind of punishment too severe? I think a few days' imprisonment is enough? "

"Sir, please be serious." Kirilov said with a straight face: "because of their dereliction of duty, the enemy has been put on our position. If the enemy did not go in the wrong direction and entered the position of the second regiment, but directly touched our headquarters, do you think our division headquarters can still exist at this moment? "

Kirilov's words really made me speechless. I had to keep silent and prepare to wait for the wrong soldiers to come before deciding whether to save them.

After a while, verol and basmanov, with their soldiers, escorted five anti binding militia soldiers. Among them, the one in civilian clothes at the front seemed to be the head of the militia.

Verol came up to us, raised his hand to salute, and then reported without expression: "Sir, political commissar, I have brought all the soldiers on duty. Because their company commander died in the battle just now, I can only bring the platoon leader of the soldier's platoon. Now people are here at your disposal. " With that, she stood aside, and the soldiers pushed several militiamen in front of us.

Kirilov nodded, went up to the militiamen in civilian clothes and asked briefly, "are you a platoon leader?" After the other side nodded in affirmation, he suddenly asked, "how did the Germans get into our army?"

"Comrade political commissar, it is like this." The platoon leader replied honestly, "when we were on duty, we saw a small army coming down the mountain. I immediately stopped them and asked which part of the commander was in charge of the team? The other side replied that they belonged to the 35th division of the guards. Because the whole division was almost lost, the rest of them belonged to our division. They came to report to the division headquarters. As you know, from time to time there are small groups or three or five groups of soldiers coming from the city to the highlands. They were all added to our division after the original troops were defeated, so I didn't ask any more questions, so I let them go. "

After listening to the Self Justification of the militia platoon leader, I also understand that although he has certain responsibilities, he will not be guilty to death. After all, because of the shortage of soldiers in the independent division, there are indeed sporadic small units coming to join us recently. Thinking of this, I went to kirilov's side, pulled him aside, and whispered to him, "Comrade political commissar, I think it's better to forget it. If they make a mistake, just put them in jail for a few days. If we really shoot them, the soldiers on duty will stop others when they meet with our troops to go up the mountain. As you know, it's not only our independent division that is short of troops. Maybe others see that we don't accept them, and they turn around and go to Soviet street or 107.5 highland to join the friendly forces. " Kirilov was stunned. After a while, his expression became dignified and he was ready to give an order to deal with the dereliction of duty soldiers. However, thinking about the terrible consequences, he felt that things could not be done rashly, so he had to say vaguely, "Comrade oshanina, since you say so, then do as you just said."