Chapter 67

Sergeant geriath, with the troops, left along the way we came. In order to enrich the combat effectiveness of this unit, I also arranged for three other soldiers to accompany him. When the team passed me, I found that there were a lot of wounded people inside, some with bandages on their heads or arms, and some with a branch as a crutch. I can't help feeling guilty. I feel that my attitude towards them just now is a little too much.

"Comrade commander, I know you." When a soldier passed me, he suddenly stopped and said something to me.

"Yes? Comrade soldier. " I said carelessly. Guilt belongs to guilt, but I always remember their cowardly performance just now, so my attitude is particularly indifferent.

"Not long ago in borojino, you came to our regiment and personally led us to fight back against the German army. And all the way to the war memorial tower on the high ground. "

"There has been such a thing."

"I met you at that time. Do you remember me?" He said happily.

Listening to what he said, I couldn't help looking up and down at him curiously. Unfortunately, in my impression, it seems that I have never seen the soldier in front of me, so I shrugged, shook my head and said, "I'm sorry, it seems that I've never seen you before."

"Alas, comrade commander," he said wrongly, "at that time, on the high ground, after the fourth tank brigade joined us, their commanders looked for you everywhere. I went to report to you. Don't you remember? "

I remind of it! When he said that, I remember it all! As soon as the Highlands were conquered, I was standing under the war memorial tower, talking to Pavlov, who was escorting some captured French soldiers. The soldier came to report to me that the fourth tank brigade had reached the Highlands, and their commanders were looking for me everywhere.

"Well, I remember." I nodded and asked, "what happened to your regiment and how did you get captured?"

"The day after you left, the German infantry, under the cover of tanks, artillery and aircraft, attacked our positions in turns. The soldiers showed great tenacity and beat back more than ten German charges, which made them pay a heavy price in front of our position. After a day's fighting, the positions on the left and right wings were successively broken through by the German army, and our regiment was surrounded by the German army. That night, the commander personally led us to break through. The German position had a lot of firepower. As soon as the leader of the charge left the highland, he fell at the muzzle of the enemy and died. The rest of the commanders took us forward, but we still failed. The troops were scattered, most of the soldiers died, and the rest were captured by the German army. "

"Then, are there any members of your regiment in this army?"

"No more." He shook his head and continued: "they have long been escorted to the prisoner's camp behind the enemy. Because I was organized into a temporary engineering team, which was responsible for digging graves for them, burying the remains of soldiers on both sides, or building fortifications, I was sent to the prisoner's camp with these captured soldiers until today."

"How is Pavlov?"

"I don't know. Maybe I died."

"So it is!..." At this point, I feel a little speechless.

"Comrade commander!" The soldier suddenly said to me firmly, "can I stay and fight with you?"

"Why?"

"I will avenge my dead comrades! How many comrades have I buried myself? In the future, I will send the same number of German bandits to the grave. "

I stared at him for a while, then nodded and said, "OK, then you stay. By the way, what's your name? "

"Sergeant sapochuk, Moscow."

We walked south in the forest for more than 500 meters, until we couldn't see the forest road with binoculars, so I ordered the team to stop and have a rest. It turned out that it was difficult to walk in the rugged forest. In addition, there was thick snow. So after the quick march just now, I felt that my underwear had been wet with sweat, wet and cold. When I stopped and was blown by the cold wind, I felt cold.

There are only ten people left in the team, including me. Sergeant Aji was at the front of the line, and the two soldiers with him were private saskat and private Leon Geoff; I was surrounded by the new sergeant sapochuk, sniper agumente, telegraph operator corporal Orlov; At the back of the line were sergeant Lukin, corporal resdayev and corporal sgoria, all armed with submachine guns.

I went to Aji's side. At present, he is the most familiar and trusted person in my team, so he has been assigned the top job. At the moment, he was squatting in the bush between the two birch trees, watching warily ahead. I put a hand on his shoulder and asked softly, "what's the matter?"

Ah Ji twisted his head and said, "no, it's quiet all around. There's nothing moving. It seems that our ambush just now has not yet alarmed the Germans. "

"Which way shall we go later?"

Aji took out his North finger to determine the direction, then with one finger to the right front, said: "should go in that direction. Walking for about two hours, you should be able to see a small village. If the village has not been occupied by the Germans, we can choose our camp there tonight. "

I went back to sergeant sapochuk and Sergeant Orlov with my submachine gun. The operator asked me softly, "Comrade commander, do you need to contact the headquarters of the group army now?" I waved my hand and said, "I don't need it for the time being. Let's talk about it after camping at night." Then he turned to sapochuk and asked him, "do you know where yasnayapoliana is?"“ Ah? " Sapochuk listened to me, looked at me with wide eyes and surprise, and said, "no, comrade commander. Don't you know that the manor of the famous Russian writer Lev Tolstoy is there? "“ I know, I know! " I hastened to cover up their ignorance, "of course I know this, I just test you." He quickly turned his eyes to aguminte and asked, "is your sniper gun heavy?"“ It's not heavy. " As he said, he raised his weapon several times before he continued, "just like an ordinary rifle, there is only one more sight." I walked up to the three stormtroopers and had a brief chat with them. After a tour, I felt more secure and returned to my position. I asked the operator, "what time is it?" He rolled up his sleeve, looked at the watch on his wrist, and said, "it's 11:07. We've been resting here for five minutes." I looked around and saw that the fog had already gone. I waved my hand forward and said, "let's go!" At my command, the team moved on again. After walking hard for more than an hour in the snow, suddenly a Ji's voice came from the front: "something's wrong!"“ Stop I quickly gave the order to the team: "stay in hiding and stand by." Then he ran to Aji with his submachine gun and asked softly, "what did you find this time?"“ Comrade commander, you see, "he pointed to the front and said to me," thirty meters ahead, that's a temporary road that has just been built. "“ Is there anything on the way? " I saw the sky above the road, neither cars nor people. But I believe Aji will give us an alarm when he finds out something, so I specially ask“ The enemy forces are coming in this direction. This time they are not infantry, but mechanized forces. " As if to verify what he said, the roar of the motor came from the road. When the enemy came, I just had this idea in my mind, and my body was instinctively lying on the snow. In a short time, I saw German tanks, armored vehicles, artillery tractors, and trucks full of soldiers driving one by one on this rough forest road.