Chapter 929

It's said that the German army has really repaired the pontoon on the Dnieper River. Although only one of them has been repaired, it's enough to make me anxious. If the German army, under the cover of tanks, rushes across the Dnieper River and stops in the city, then I just mentioned that crossing the river and breaking through will be fatal.

I quickly grabbed the assault rifle that I was leaning against the table, stood up abruptly, and said to kirilov and Vitkov, "political commissar, chief of staff, I'll go to the front and have a look. I'll leave it to you."

Kirilov got up from his seat, went around the table, stood in front of me with open hands, and earnestly advised me, "Comrade oshanina, it's too dangerous outside. You can't go!"

Seeing kirilov's action, wittkov immediately recovered. He quickly stood by kirilov's side and helped to persuade him: "yes, comrade commander, the situation in the 22nd division of the guards is very dangerous. We don't even know whether the enemy will break through our position by the river and rush into the city. As the head of an army, you have no right to risk your life. "

"Political commissar, chief of staff." I knew in my heart that if we didn't persuade them, we couldn't get out of the headquarters today, so instead of rushing in, I stood in the same place with assault rifles and said to them sincerely: "in our next plan, whether the riverside position can be controlled in our hands is the key to the success of the operation. Let's sit in the headquarters and wait for the news. I can't do that. I thank you for your concern for me, but please rest assured that I will not go directly to the riverside position. Finally, I will go to the command post of the first regiment to learn about the progress of the battle. "

Listen to me, kirilov slowly put down his hands and stopped me from leaving, but he was still worried. He stepped forward, grabbed my empty right hand and said, "Comrade o'shanina, you must pay attention to your safety. The future of our 79th infantry army depends on you alone."

I slung my rifle on my shoulder, patted the back of his hand with my left hand, and said gratefully, "thank you, comrade political commissar, for your concern. Don't worry, I will come back intact. I will take our 79th infantry army all the way to Berlin. How can I sacrifice my life so easily? " With that, I gently pulled my right hand out of his palm, stepped back, and raised my hand to give him a solemn military salute.

He and wittkov also quickly raised their hands to salute me and said in a low voice, "Comrade oshanina, you should be more careful on the road and never try to be brave. Once we encounter the enemy who rushes into the city, we should move as soon as possible. After all, there are still many troops in the city. They can eliminate the enemy who rushes in in the shortest time. "

As soon as kirilov's words were finished, wittkov yelled out to the outside, "Captain Yushchenko, Captain Yushchenko, come in."

With his shouts, armed Yushchenko rushed in from the outside. He ran to Vitkov and stood at attention. He asked in a loud voice, "chief of staff, what instructions do you have?"

Wittkov raised his hand to me and said, "Comrade captain, the commander should go to the first regiment defense area of the 22nd division of the guards immediately. I order you to bring more soldiers to protect the commander's safety. You want your life and honor to promise me that even at the expense of your lives, you must ensure the safety of the commander. "

Yushchenko looked at me and then replied in a loud voice, "please rest assured, chief of staff. The order I received before I led the special guard company to Stalingrad is to ensure the safety of the commander at all costs. As long as there's one more of us, we'll never let the Krauts hurt the commander. "

When we came out of the headquarters, Yushchenko told me to wait for a while, and then he yelled at the opposite house. As soon as he cried out, a platoon of soldiers came out of the building and quickly formed a four-way column in the street. Seeing that all the soldiers are the same as me, wearing sh-42 body armor and bulletproof vest, carrying assault rifles, I knew in my heart that these soldiers were all excellent soldiers brought by Yushchenko at the beginning.

Seeing that the troops had assembled, Yushchenko yelled at the troops: "Sergeant Lazarev!"

A staff sergeant standing on the right of the first group trotted to him and stood at attention, staring at Yushchenko, waiting for him to give orders to him.

"Sergeant," Yushchenko did not say anything to Lazarev. He gave him a direct order: "you take a class, sit in the front, and lead the way. Do you understand? "

"I see, comrade battalion commander." Razalev nodded and replied loudly. Then he turned to the line and called, "class one, follow me!" With that, he took away and ran to the west of the city. A group of soldiers who received his order followed him.

Seeing that the avant-garde class was 50 or 60 meters away, Captain Yushchenko waved his hand to the troops and said in a loud voice: "all of you, listen to my command, let's go!"

Although we all trotted all the way when we started, because our chest armor was too heavy, we didn't run far, so we all changed trot into fast walk. The streets and roads were full of roadblocks and barricades made of sandbags and wood. Except for the openings for pedestrians and vehicles, the rest of them were blocked by fortifications. As the residents of the city had been evacuated for a long time, the officers and men of the 22nd division of the guards were busy reinforcing the fortifications.

As I walked, I said to Yushchenko, "Comrade captain, you are too cautious. You have also sent a class of troops to be the vanguard in the front. Not to mention that the regiment's position by the river has not been lost. Even if it is lost, there are our commanders and fighters all around, and the Krauts can't get here smoothly. "

Yushchenko looked at me and said coldly: "Comrade commander, my responsibility is to protect your safety. Therefore, we must be cautious in terms of safety and never make any mistakes. "

I knew in my heart that Yushchenko's duty was to try every means to protect my safety. Instead of talking, I went along with the troops in silence. But Yushchenko was still a little nervous. Even if the German army broke through a regiment's position by the river, it was not so easy for them to break through the layers of defense in the city and rush to the city.

We are getting closer and closer to the first regiment's defense area. As long as we go to the intersection seven or eight meters ahead and turn right, we can see the command post of the first regiment of Lieutenant Colonel Sergey rickov. Listening to the more and more clear gunfire coming from the front, I hastened to urge Yushchenko: "Comrade captain, let's speed up. The regiment headquarters of the first regiment will arrive soon."

As soon as my voice fell, before Yushchenko could speak, there was a burst of gunfire in front of me. I watched helplessly as the group in front of me was knocked down by bullets coming from the buildings on both sides of the road. Almost at the same time, Yushchenko threw me to the ground, and at the same time, he cried out: "battle alert, all hidden! Battle alert, all hidden

When all the people were lying down or hiding behind the sandbag fortifications, I heard Yushchenko yell, "fire cover, class three, class four, class two!" Then the clear fire of the assault rifle rang out in all directions.

I lay down next to a simple semi-circular sandbag. I patted Yushchenko gently with my backhand, indicating that he would leave me alone and concentrate on directing the battle.

When Yushchenko's body moved away, I crawled to the gap of the sandbag and carefully went out to watch. I saw a group of soldiers who had been knocked down by the German army. At the moment, many of them were squatting or lying down, fighting back towards the buildings on both sides of the road. The second group of soldiers who went up for reinforcement were divided into two groups, and quickly approached the fierce battle position close to the wall.

The number of German troops in the building seems to be small. Under the combined attack of class one and class two, and the suppression of the firepower of class three and class four, their shooting gradually became sparse. I saw Sergeant Lazarev, who had fallen to the ground, stand up wobbly with his hands over his chest. It seems that he was just hit in the chest by a bullet. He stood there for a moment, took a few steps forward with his weapon, and seemed to rush into the building through the door.

Just then, a German officer with a pistol and a big cornice cap burst out of the building. He hit Lazarev's chest with his shoulder, which made the chief stagger back several steps. He seemed not satisfied with the result, and then he raised his pistol and fired several shots at the chief.

I thought that Sergeant Lazarev would be killed on the spot by such a close shot. Just as I wanted to lift my assault rifle to kill the damned German, I saw Lazarev pulling the trigger at the German officer in front of me with his gun. A series of bullets were shot from the muzzle of the gun and hit the German officer solidly. There was a thick mist of blood. The officer leaned back and fell to the ground without saying a word.

When the German officer was shot and killed, the shooting in the building stopped completely. Three German soldiers holding rifles came out of the building and surrendered to our soldiers.

I don't know if there are any remaining Germans in the building, so I still lie on the ground. Finally, Yushchenko squatted down and reported to me, "Comrade commander, you can get up. All the German soldiers who ambushed have been eliminated."

I got up from the ground, escorted by Yushchenko and a dozen soldiers, and came to the area where the fierce battle had just started. I looked at the body of the German officer whose chest had been beaten to blood and flesh. Then I turned around and asked Lazarev standing in front of us with concern, "Comrade sergeant, are you seriously injured?"

Unexpectedly, razalev shook his head and replied in a loud voice: "please rest assured, commander. I'm only slightly injured. It won't affect my next fight."

I looked down at his chest armor and saw seven or eight bullet hit dents on it, but they were only dents, not punctured. It seems that his injury is not fatal. After nodding, I asked, "how are the casualties of class one?"

"Report to the commander," razalev told me after looking at his subordinates behind him: "one was killed and seven people were injured, but none of the injuries will affect the next battle."

After listening to Lazarev's report, I stared at his chest again and said to myself, "what a hell, I saw that the German officer fired several shots at your breastplate, but at such a close distance, he didn't get through it."

"Comrade commander, please let me explain to you what happened." Yushchenko's voice sounded in his ear. He might have come to see that I had been staring at the breastplate to study one, so he took the initiative to explain to me: "after a period of actual combat, I found that the mp40 submachine gun equipped with 9mm bullets, which is often used by the German Army in close combat, can pierce our ordinary helmets within an effective range of 200m, But when shooting from 100 meters away, you can't penetrate this hard body armor. But I didn't expect that it could effectively defend the penetration effect of Luger 9mm pistol bullet in such a short distance. "

After listening to Yushchenko's explanation, I nodded with satisfaction. With this kind of body armor, my chances of surviving in the battlefield will be greatly improved. I raised my hand and looked at my watch. The fight just started in less than five minutes. I turned and asked Yushchenko, "Comrade captain, have you interrogated the Germans, how did they sneak into the vicinity of the command post of a regiment?" Yushchenko shook his head and replied, "I'm sorry, comrade commander. There are no German speaking soldiers here, so I sent some soldiers to escort the prisoners back to the army headquarters. " Because I couldn't find out how the German army infiltrated at the first time, I was disappointed. But at present, the most important task is to go to the regiment command post of the first regiment and find out about the situation on the front line with lieutenant colonel shejerikov. So I waved my head and said to Yushchenko, "come on, comrade captain, we need to get to the command post of the first regiment immediately." On the way to the command post of the first regiment, I couldn't help muttering: the fighting place is so close to the command post of the first regiment, but the troops in charge of security didn't notice it at all. If the German army did not ambush us just now, but went to attack the command post of shejerikov, wouldn't they be in danger of being attacked by the German army“ Stop, who are you We had just passed the crossroads when there was a shout in front of us: "stop, I'll shoot if I don't stand there any more!" When I went along the road, I saw a machine gun fortification piled up with sandbags on the roadside in front of me. Two machine gun shooters were ready to shoot, and a corporal was asked to talk to us. He was standing next to the machine gun with a rifle in his hand, aiming at us. I raised my hand and asked Yushchenko and the soldiers in the guard platoon to stand still, so as not to stimulate these nervous soldiers. I slowly walked forward two steps, then stopped, put my hands behind me, and asked the corporal who raised his gun at me, "don't you know me, corporal?" The corporal listened to me and looked at me carefully. Then he lowered the muzzle of the gun and asked the machine gunner next to him to turn off the safety to prevent the fire from escaping. After finishing the work, the corporal came up to me, raised his hand to salute me, and reported, "sorry, comrade commander, please forgive me for not recognizing you just now. We just heard a lot of gunfire in front of us, but because there are few people, we can't go to check it, so we have to strengthen our guard. "“ I'm going to find your commander. Is he in the command post? " I asked briefly“ Yes, comrade commander. " The corporal replied busily, "the commander has been directing the battle in the command post all day, and he has never left."“ Sergeant Lazarev, you and the first group stay and help the corporal guard this intersection. " With these words, I called Yushchenko out loud again: "Captain, take the rest of you to the regiment headquarters with me."“ Yes Yushchenko agreed, and then began to give orders: "class one and Sergeant Lazarev stay, class two, class three and class four follow me!" Perhaps because of the shortage of troops in the regiment, we never met any other security forces in the distance of more than 100 meters from the fortification to the command post. When I came to the gate of the regiment headquarters, I saw two sentries standing guard. Seeing this situation, Yushchenko frowned and said, "Comrade commander, the defense strength of the regiment command post is too weak. If the German troops come to even one platoon, they will be destroyed."