Chapter 959

When gordonov came to report the results, Katerina and two middle-aged women were also behind him. Looking at Katerina, the joy on their faces and the German rifle on their back, I know that they have gained a lot in the just concluded battle.

Several people came to the gate of the observation post on the slope, and when they saw me coming out from inside, Katerina and Katerina stopped. Instead, gordonov came forward alone and reported the results to me.

Although the battle was over, in order to prevent German snipers from lurking, Godunov stopped in front of me. Instead of saluting, he straightened up and reported to me, "Comrade commander, in the battle just ended, we destroyed 14 German tanks, totally annihilated two infantry companies, killed 219 people and captured 83 people alive, including five officers. A number of weapons and ammunition were seized, and in addition to replenishing our troops, the rest was given to Katerina and them. "

After listening to his report, I asked flatly, "how are our casualties?"

"With the exception of major perskin's tank unit, there were casualties in infantry and artillery. I haven't got time to count the casualties of the artillery, but it's estimated that it's not too small. On the infantry side, 46 people were killed and 69 people were injured, of which 11 were seriously injured and needed to be sent to the health camp immediately for treatment. "

"Major, we need to send the seriously wounded here immediately." I raised my hand, looked at my watch and looked at the gray sky. I thought that when I went to kilovgrad at this time, I would not be attacked by enemy planes. I added, "when I return to the army headquarters, I will take the wounded to the city by the way, so that they can receive proper treatment."

As soon as Godunov left, Katerina came over, held up a German submachine gun, showed off to me with a happy face and said, "Comrade commander, what a good weapon! I handed it over from the Communist aggressors myself."

"Then stay, comrade Katerina." I wanted to say to her, "not only this submachine gun, but also the weapons that major gordonov gave you. Because you are the only ones who are armed, so even if the Germans come back, you don't have to worry. "

As soon as I spoke, the expression on Katerina's face suddenly became serious. After she waved the two middle-aged women to leave, she took two steps closer to me, looked left and right, and then asked cautiously, "Comrade commander, what do you mean by that? The Germans are coming back. Are you going to give up here again and leave us to the Germans again? " Speaking of the back, she couldn't help raising her voice.

I put my hand on her shoulder and said with a kind face, "Comrade Katerina, don't you think it hurts when I give the order to give up these places? If you know that this is the land of our Soviet motherland, can I bear to see the Communist aggressors ravaging her? If there is even a little possibility, I am not willing to give up easily... "

Katerina didn't wait for me to finish, but she broke in and said, "but we've just won a battle and wiped out two or three hundred Communist aggressors. I've heard that there are still tens of thousands of main forces in the city of kilovgrad. If they win a battle like this and wipe out nearly as many enemies as they have, then you can have a foothold here. "

As for Katerina's one-sided understanding, I didn't interrupt her casually. After she finished speaking, I went on to say, "Comrade Katerina, although we have won a trivial victory, it is of no help to the whole situation. Although we have more than 10000 people, we are now in the rear of the enemy. It is difficult for us to get timely supplies of ammunition, food and medicine. In a short period of time, the enemy may have nothing to do with us, but if they don't fight for a long time, our troops will gradually lose their combat effectiveness because of insufficient supplies. We should know that the German army has hundreds of thousands of troops in Ukraine, not to mention that they have a large number of aircraft, tanks and artillery. Even if we fight for the number, we are not their opponent. "

"Ah, how serious is the situation?" Frightened by what I said, Katerina nervously asked, "what are you going to do next?"

Although I don't intend to conceal her, I can't tell her some specific details. I can only say in a broad way: "first, we should deal with the German army near kilovgrad. If the situation is not good, we should find a suitable direction to break through the siege of the German army and cross the Dnieper River to join the friendly army to avoid being annihilated by the enemy."

"To cross the Dnieper?" After listening to my analysis of the fierce relationship with her, Katerina no longer worried that we would give up their business again, but frowned and thought about the future of our army: "now the ice on the river is beginning to thaw, it's not realistic to cross the river from the ice layer; And the water is too cold. If you swim, most people will be frozen to death before you swim to the other side. Even if the rest of the people barely reach the other side, they will basically lose their fighting capacity. "

I listened to Katerina's analysis so thoroughly that I was immediately intrigued to see that she had signs of stopping and urging her: "go ahead, comrade Katerina, go on."

Katerina nodded and went on: "in this way, you only have two choices: one is to cross the river from a section with a bridge, but it seems unrealistic. This kind of place must be guarded by German soldiers. If you want to break through by force, you will pay a great price. The last way left is to find a boat to cross the river, but... "Speaking of this, she stopped and seemed to be afraid to go on because of scruples.

I coughed and added, "Comrade Katerina, I see what you mean. You are worried that so many of us are going to cross the river and we can't find so many boats in a hurry, are you? " Seeing that she nodded her approval, I went on to say, "and even if we can barely find a boat that can cross the river for more than 10000 people, all the heavy weapons have to be discarded. Am I right? "

After listening to me, Katerina slapped her thigh and said excitedly, "Comrade commander, no wonder you can be a general. I can even guess what I think. It's amazing."

For her evaluation, I gave a wry smile and said in my heart, in fact, I have thought about all that you just said. If there was a safe plan to cross the river, I would have gone north with my troops to join the front army of Voronezh. Would it be necessary for me to wander in the rear of the German army? I didn't want to dwell on this issue any more. Instead, I asked, "Comrade Katerina, what are you going to do next?"

Katerina shrugged her shoulders and said, "what else can I do? Except for the old and the disabled, the rest will follow you Seeing my surprised face, he continued: "for example, my deputy Mira is very familiar with the terrain near the Dnieper River. If you're going to cross the river, maybe she can help you

Just then, I saw a large group of people coming towards us in the distance. Katerina took a look, and then excitedly said to me, "Comrade commander, look, major, they brought not only our wounded, but also the German prisoners."

I followed the direction of her fingers, and sure enough, a large group of people were coming towards us. There are more than ten stretchers in front of us. Although the stretchers are carried by German prisoners, the wounded of our army lie on them. Seeing that there were no serious wounded lying on stretchers among the following prisoners except a few wounded who wrapped their heads or hung their arms on their chest, I couldn't help saying to myself, "it's strange that there are no serious wounded among the German prisoners."

Katerina laughed and said triumphantly, "in fact, when cleaning the battlefield, we found some wounded German soldiers who could not move. It was the major who said that they could not be saved anyway. It was also a waste of our precious medicine to keep them. Let the soldiers solve them all."

In fact, I just had this idea in my heart. When Katerina said it carelessly, I still couldn't bear it. But when you think about it, just kill it. Anyway, it won't be long before we will carry out a breakthrough. At that time, how to carry our own wounded is a problem, let alone the enemy's wounded. With such a killing, we have virtually removed a big burden.

Seeing that the stretchers were neatly placed in the open space at the foot of the mountain, and the prisoners under the care of our soldiers were honestly standing in a square, Katerina and I went down the hill to have a close look at the prisoners.

As soon as I got to the foot of the mountain, Godunov came out of the crowd with two soldiers and reported to me, "report to the commander, our seriously injured soldiers have been brought here. In addition, we have also brought the prisoners here. We want you to take them with you when you go back to the city. "

I nodded and took a look at the two soldiers behind Godunov. They were armed with bobosha submachine guns and were wearing the steel armor of Assault Infantry. I couldn't help laughing, and then joked to Godunov: "Comrade major, I thought you left all the soldiers in the assault infantry battalion to me, but you left two of them yourself."

"Comrade commander, I..." although I said this to Godunov in a humorous tone, he was still nervous. He quickly explained to me: "I really didn't mean it. I think... "

Before Godunov finished his reason, I caught a glimpse of a prisoner in a black tank uniform moving his body in a strange way. I quickly raised my hand, interrupted Godunov's words behind, and turned my eyes to the prisoner. At the same time, I grasped the assault rifle in my hand.

When I was about to ask Godunov to take the prisoner out of the crowd, the tank soldier prisoner took out a pistol from somewhere, put it on the shoulder of a prisoner in front of him and aimed at me.

Soon after that, I saw the enemy's muzzle aimed at me. Before I had time to respond, I heard a young voice roar: "commander, be careful!" Almost at the same time when I heard the gunshot, a tall figure stood in front of me.

"Pa Pa Pa", with three shots, the soldier in front of me tilted back, and the huge impact force knocked me back a few steps.

"Dada... Dada!" Before I could give an order, there was a lot of gunfire around me. In front of them, the German prisoners fell to the ground like rice.

Then I heard Godunov's majestic voice: "stop shooting!"

The shooting around him stopped in his shouts, but there were only a few dozen prisoners left in the dense captivity team. And the survivors all huddled together, shivering.

"What's the matter, comrade major?" Seeing that the situation had subsided, I quickly stepped forward and asked Godunov in a loud voice, "Why are the prisoners still armed?"

In the face of my reproach, Godunov bowed his head and replied in shame: "Comrade commander, the prisoner who fired the gun is a tank soldier. Maybe our soldier was negligent when searching his body and let him hide a pistol on his body." I snorted heavily, looked at the bloody bodies of German prisoners, and said impolitely, "major, remember the lesson of this time. The target of this assassination is me. Next time it may be a commander with a higher rank. If something really goes wrong, I guess you can't keep your head. " With that, I stopped talking to him. Instead, I turned around and asked the soldier standing beside me, rubbing his chest with my hand. I asked with concern, "Comrade soldier, are you ok?"“ It's all right, comrade commander. " The soldier replied with a silly smile: "it's only because of this breastplate that the captured bullet didn't hit me. But the impact of the bullet is too strong, and my chest is still a little painful. " I took the soldier's hand and shook it hard, saying gratefully, "thank you, thank you! Comrade soldier, if you hadn't reacted quickly, I would have lost my life. By the way, what's your name? " After the soldier released my hand, he straightened up and said, "report to the commander, my name is yazov. I'm a soldier of the first battalion of the new third regiment, and now I'm a guard of major Godunov." Yazov, I think this name seems to have been heard somewhere. It sounds familiar. Then I asked, "Comrade soldier, what's your father's name and real name?" When the soldier heard my question, he immediately replied without hesitation, "Dmitry tymofeevich yazov." Dmitry tymofeevich yazov? When I heard the name, I almost sat down on the ground. It turned out that it was him, the future marshal of the Soviet Union. I didn't expect that he was the one who saved my life. No wonder I feel so familiar when I heard his name.