Chapter 1701

I was dazed and sat on the ground for a long time, only to find that the enemy's mortar had stopped shelling, and replaced by the roar of our heavy artillery. It is estimated that the soldiers of the artillery company found that we had been shelled by the enemy, so they fired decisively to suppress us. Otherwise, it is still unknown whether trekov and I can survive.

I saw trakov holding his adjutant, his brother, Theodore, and saying, "dead, my Theodore is dead, dead...". I leaned forward, reached out and touched his artery, and immediately noticed the pulse beating; Then I put my finger in front of his nose, vaguely feeling that he was still breathing. After confirming that Fyodor was not dead, I yelled at trakov, who was in a state of gaffe: "general trakov, he is not dead. Your brother is not dead."

Before trakov made any response, a group of soldiers bent over and rushed over. They were in groups of three or five, carrying trakov and me, the wounded Fyodor and the sacrificial guard platoon leader, and they ran to the safe place.

After we arrived at the safe area, trakov finally recovered from his grief. He grabbed the military doctor who came with a small suitcase and yelled at the top of his voice, "save him, you must save him, understand? If I can't save him, I'll let you bury him with me. " With that, his hand instinctively reached to his waist and tried to draw the gun.

Seeing this, I rushed over, hugged him from behind, and cried out, "general trakov, calm down, calm down, your brother is not dead, he's just injured. Let the military doctor treat him quickly, or it will be too late! "

As soon as he heard me yelling, trikov let go of the hand that held the military doctor's clothes and waited for him to treat his brother. But I looked around nervously, deeply afraid that I would become the German artillery area again. However, seeing that there were buildings all around, the enemy's artillery in the fort could not see us at all, so I felt a little relieved.

I would have urged Theodore to return to the headquarters of the group army as soon as possible if he had not been upset by the fact that Theodore was still alive and dead. The shell doesn't have long eyes. It doesn't matter whether you are a general or an ordinary soldier. As long as one of the shells falls on your side and explodes, it will be enough to send us all to see Marx.

Fortunately, the platoon leader and Theodore fell on us and blocked the shrapnel for us. Otherwise, it's really hard to say what's going on between me and trekov.

I turned to see the platoon leader who had saved my life and saw the young lieutenant lying on the stretcher with blood on his face. When a female health worker was about to cover his head with a white cloth, I stopped her. In the eyes of the public, I walked over, asked the health worker for cotton and medical alcohol, and carefully wiped the blood from the Lieutenant's face.

After all this, I gently covered the Lieutenant's face with the white cloth. Then I waved to the stretcher man and whispered, "take him away."

After watching the stretcher man carry away the body of the guard platoon leader, I stood up slowly, only to find that trakov didn't know when to stand behind me. I quickly asked, "general trakov, what's the situation with Theodore?"

"I got some shrapnel on my back. The military doctor said it's OK." After these words, trikov raised his hand and wiped his face. He resumed his usual expression and said to me, "Rita, let's go back to the group army headquarters and discuss how to take this fortress."

Back at the headquarters, trakov immediately ordered Vladimirov to call in the commanders of the two divisions, saying that an emergency military meeting would be held. Seeing the murderous look on his face, military commissar Pronin asked me in a low voice, "Rita, what happened when you went out? How can I feel that the commander's state today is a little wrong?"

"When we inspected the bombing effect near the fort, we were shelled by the German army." I took a quick glance at trakov, who was giving orders, and whispered to Pronin, "general trakov's brother, Fyodor, was injured in the shelling to cover us."

"So it is. No wonder the commander looks like he wants to kill people." "Seeing the meeting later, he will make some special rules," Pronin said suddenly

"Special rules?" Hearing what Pronin said, I couldn't help being stunned. Then I asked, "Comrade military commissar, do you know what the regulation is?"

"You'll find out later in the meeting." Pronin was about to go on when the high-frequency telephone on the table rang. The only one who can make a high-frequency call here is the headquarters of the front army, which is Moscow. So I couldn't wait to listen to the words behind Pronin, so I grabbed the microphone, stuck it to my ear and quickly said, "I'm oshanina, where are you?"

"I'm Zhukov!" Zhukov's low voice came from the receiver: "I heard that you and trakov were shelled by the German army when they just went to inspect the fortress? Well, are you all right? "

When I heard Zhukov's question, I couldn't help but feel stunned. My heart said that his news was very fast. Even the people of trekov headquarters didn't know about our shelling. He actually knew about it. It was obvious that he had another information channel. He quickly replied, "yes, marshal, general trakov and I were just inspecting the front line when we were bombarded by the German army. General trakov and I are all right. However, general trakov's brother Fyodor was wounded in the shelling, and the platoon leader of the guard died to protect us

After listening to my report, Zhukov breathed a sigh of relief and said, "it's OK. I'm relieved. But I would like to remind you and trekov once again that you are both commanders in important positions. You can no longer run to the front like an ordinary company commander or battalion commander. Once something happens, all the consequences are very serious. "

"I see, comrade marshal." As soon as I think of what just happened, I feel scared. If it wasn't for fiodor and the platoon guard who jumped on me and trekov and blocked the shrapnel for us, it would be one of us who was lying on the stretcher covered with white cloth.

After I put down the phone, trikov asked carefully, "Marshal Zhukov knows about our shelling?" Seeing that I nodded in affirmation, I couldn't help frowning and said discontentedly, "hell, whose mouth is so fast, actually reported this to the superior."

I quickly raised my hand to stop him and said to him, "general trakov, I think Marshal Zhukov has a special intelligence source, so he can know about our German shelling in the first time. The reason why I decided that it would not be a small report made by people inside the group army is that most people do not know about it yet. "

As soon as my voice was heard, the deputy commander duhanov was surprised and asked, "what, comrade commander, you have just been shelled by the German army at the fort. How are you doing? Are you not injured?"

Trikov glanced at him and said angrily, "if we are injured, can we still stand in front of you and talk to you?" He might have thought of his brother, whose life and death were uncertain. After that, his expression became dim again: "but Fyodor was injured to protect me."

"What, Theodore's hurt?" After hearing this hour, several other people in the headquarters, like Pronin's expression when he heard the news, opened their eyes in surprise. After a while, Vladimirov asked cautiously, "I don't know how his injury is?"

"He has been sent to the health camp. As for the result, we will not know until we have finished the operation." "The platoon leader who went to the fort with us, in order to cover us, had died in the shelling," he said with some frustration. I've had his body carried back. Chief of staff, you'll arrange for someone to find a coffin later, and then find a suitable place to bury him. After all, he saved our lives. "

As soon as Kuragin and hetagurov arrived, trakov immediately announced the meeting. After the meeting started, I finally understood what the special rules Pronin said? Trikov told the two teachers that if they encounter resistance during the attack, they should try their best to destroy the German resistance. They can use artillery and explosives. Since the Germans want to resist to the end, send them to God.

As soon as the meeting was over, trakov called the health camp and asked about Theodore's injury. After hearing that the operation was over, the shrapnel had been removed from his body, and he was out of danger, trikov's heart was put back in his stomach.

The battle to attack the fortress began the next afternoon. When the fortress was bombed, the enemies who fled to the field fortifications never dreamed that our army would carry out heavy shelling on the fortifications where they were hiding just after the air raid, and the unprepared German officers and soldiers suffered huge losses.

Instead of staying in the headquarters and waiting for the battle reports from the front line, trikov and I went to the division headquarters of the 82nd division of the guards to observe what happened on the battlefield through telescopes in general hetagurov's observation station.

I saw a small army, under the fire of the enemy, rushing towards the wall of the fort. The enemy on the wall was shooting down with machine guns, knocking down several unlucky soldiers on the ground. But their luck was obviously good, and they soon rushed under the wall and entered the dead corner of German machine gun fire.

When the enemy saw that the machine guns could not hit our soldiers, they threw the grenades out of the shooting holes on the wall in an attempt to kill all our soldiers hiding below.

Just as trikov was ordering hertagorov to let the Los guns bombard the hole where the grenade was being thrown, I found that the soldiers hiding in the corner of the wall were not waiting to die. Instead, they ran along the wall to the other side in the smoke of the explosion. I quickly turned the camera in front of them and found a wide gap on the wall more than 20 meters away. I don't know whether it was exploded by bombs or heavy artillery. Anyway, it looks like a good breakthrough.

The gap of the wall is three or four meters high from the ground. The soldiers who rush to the gap immediately set up a ladder. One soldier after another climbed up with the help of his comrades in arms. They stood at the gap, carrying guns and shooting inside, then rushed in one after another.

I quickly patted the German army on the shoulder, pointed to the place where the soldiers rushed in, and yelled at him, "general trakov, look quickly, our soldiers have rushed up, they have rushed into the fort through the gap."

When trekov looked in the direction of my finger, a bright red flag had been raised at the gap. Trikov was excited when he saw this situation. He immediately told hetagorov, "see? Our soldiers have already rushed into the gap. Immediately order the troops to adjust the direction of attack and rush into the fortress from there

The small troops who rushed behind all carried wooden ladders, so there was no need to build any more ladders. The commanders and fighters climbed into the gap of the fortress wall along the wooden ladders leaning against the wall, and rushed into the courtyard to fight fiercely with the German army. As more and more troops entered the fort from the gap, I could not help holding my breath and staring nervously at the top of the triangle fort near the gap to see if there was a red flag rising. According to the Soviet tradition, as long as the red flag can be placed at the top of the building, even if the rest of the place is still fighting for every inch of land, it also means that we have occupied the fortress. But until I almost suffocated, I didn't see the red flag rising on the top of the fort. I only heard that trakov was asking hetagurov, "Comrade division commander, which army was the first to rush into the fortress wall? I want to honor them?" Hetagurov turned his head and murmured to a staff officer nearby, and then replied, "Comrade report commander, it is clear that he is a comrade from the 5th company of the 271st regiment of the guards, and the first one to enter the gap is Lieutenant Mikhail chepanov, the platoon leader."“ Look, red flag Just then, a staff officer called out in a loud voice, "our red flag has risen from the top of the fort."“ Well done, the second lieutenant is well done Seeing the red flag flying at the top of the fort, trakov said with a smile: "as soon as the battle is over, he will be promoted to captain and made company commander." Unfortunately, when we seized the fort and searched for the platoon leader who was the first to rush into the fort, we found his body beside the red flag at the top of the fort. He sat on the ground with his back against the wall, his head on his chest, and the red flag in his hand was flying in the wind. After taking off his hat and paying a silent tribute to the hero's second lieutenant, trakov told khttagrov, who was following him: "Comrade division commander, please sort out his deeds immediately. I will apply to the higher authorities to award him the title of" Soviet hero. "