Chapter 275

Orlova led me into the tent where company headquarters was. Seeing us enter the door, the two male commanders who were sitting immediately stood up and saluted me at attention. They reported: "report major, Captain Ali, commander of the first antiaircraft artillery company, has been ordered to come!"“ Comrade major, Lieutenant Baku, commander of the second antiaircraft artillery company, reports to you! "

I raised my hand, waved my hand, let them sit down, and ordered Orlova to go out and call kiriyanova in. While the three company commanders are all here, I need to know the specific situation of the whole defense area first.

In the process of waiting for kiriyanova to come, in order to ease the atmosphere in the tent, I tried my best to find a topic and wanted to communicate with them first.

Captain Ali is a young man in his twenties. I feel a little introverted. When he looks at me, he looks a little stiff and embarrassed. He doesn't even know where to put his hands and feet. But Lieutenant Baku looks old, his white face is full of wrinkles, and he looks like a man in his early fifties. Even when he looks at me, he can keep calm. So I talked with him first: "Comrade lieutenant, where did you work before the war broke out?"

"Report to the major," the old lieutenant stood up. I quickly reached down and pressed him to sit down and answer the question. As he sat down, he continued, "I worked in zhidanov shipyard before the war."

Shipyard! Not another senior engineer or something? In that case, the recruiters in the battlefield should be sent to the military court. With a smile on my face, I asked, "what are you doing there?"

"Fitter, level 8 fitter."

Although he is not an engineer, he is also a senior technician. Maybe it is more meaningful for him to stay in the shipyard than in the battlefield. I asked tentatively, "how can you go to the army again?"

"The factory organized several militiamen annihilation battalions. As the backbone of the factory's production, I made a name for myself. We had a fight with the Germans in the Pulkovo highlands. Many of our workers died, and I was seriously injured and sent to the military hospital in Leningrad. When I got out of the hospital and reported back to the headquarters, I was just in time to set up an air defense camp to defend the "road to life", so I signed up and was appointed company commander of an anti-aircraft artillery company

"Wait a minute," I interrupted and asked curiously, "what did you say just now‘ What's the meaning of "the road of life"? Does it mean the ice transport line we are defending? "

"Exactly, comrade major." The old Lieutenant explained to me, "thanks to the opening of this ice transportation line, the material supply of the city has been guaranteed. Flour, meat, sugar, rice, oil and other urgently needed things have been continuously transported into the city. In this way, the food ration of the residents has the possibility to increase, and countless people have escaped the fate of starvation. That's why people call this ice transportation line "the road of life."

"May I come in?" Outside the tent came kiriyanova's voice.

"Come in, comrade lieutenant." I said it out loud.

As soon as the words fell, kirianova lifted the curtain and came in. After saluting me, I found a seat and sat down.

After listening to the three company commanders' introduction of their respective situations, I couldn't help frowning and asked, "I want to know how to put the anti-aircraft guns in your company?"

"Report to the major," Captain Ali wanted to stand up and answer, but I stopped him with my hand sign. He just sat down and said“ Our three companies, each of which has nine anti-aircraft guns, are arranged in a straight line after the snow wall built by the engineers according to the arrangement of the superior. "

"That's not good," I said, shaking my head. "If the anti-aircraft guns are arranged in a straight line, the firepower density is not enough, and it's difficult to effectively kill the enemy planes."

"Rita, how do you think the antiaircraft guns should be deployed?" Kirianova took off her hat as she spoke and raised her hand to sweep a strand of hair behind her ear with her fingertips. In my eyes, this natural little action seemed so elegant, which made her more charming. In a moment, I couldn't help but look a little dazed.

"Comrade major, what's the matter with you?" Maybe I was in a daze for a long time. The old Lieutenant found my abnormality and couldn't help reminding me.

I quickly stabilized my mood and solemnly explained my point to them: "one company has three platoons, each platoon has three anti-aircraft guns. My opinion is that in the unit of platoon, the three gun platoons are in the shape of finished products; Then the three rows of pinyin form a big pinyin form

"Comrade major," the old Lieutenant looked at me blankly and asked, "what is Pinyin?"

When he asked me this, I almost slapped myself on the side of my mouth. Why didn't I speak through my brain just now? I just opened my mouth. I know what pinyin is, but none of them knows Chinese. How can they know how to write pinyin? So I coughed quickly and explained it in a different way: "I was wrong just now. It should be a triangle. Each row forms a small triangle, and then three rows of small triangles form a large triangle. In this way, we can ensure the same firepower density no matter which direction the enemy aircraft comes from. I don't know if you understand what I said? "

"I see!"“ I fully understand The three answered me in unison“ Now that I understand, I'll arrange it right away. I hope to see you finish your new deployment before dark. "“ Yes Ali and Baku saluted me, turned and walked out of the tent. Kiriyanova and I stood at the door of the tent with the curtain lifted, looking at Orlova, who was busy with a group of female soldiers in the distance“ In the battle just now, Lena died and two other female soldiers were injured. The instructor is arranging to send them to the rear hospital. " When she said this, kirianova looked very sad. Listening to her saying this, I couldn't help looking at her for a long time. Then I came forward and took her soft and elastic waist with my right hand from the side, comforted her and said: "honey, it's war now, there will always be people to die. In these short months, in order to defend our great motherland, I don't know how many brave soldiers fell down. Don't worry. One day, we will pay back the blood debt to the bandits. "“ Is there really such a day? " Kirianova, half a head higher than me, put her left hand on my shoulder and asked“ Yes, although the war will continue, we will win in three years at most. " I answered her confidently“ War will make people close, "kirianova said suddenly and thoughtfully“ I can't forget that when I first arrived at the 171 meeting, I was very unhappy with you. I not only aimed at you everywhere, made trouble for you, but even tried to push you out of the platoon... I didn't expect that after several battles, our relationship improved unconsciously. " Hearing that she mentioned the 171 meeting again, I couldn't help but say, "I still remember that major Rostov scolded our brigadier vaskov bloodily after the class's Weijia died in the air defense battle, saying that he didn't fulfill his duty as a man, as a veteran, and didn't protect the women's safety. War is about bloodshed and sacrifice, but not women. " My words also brought back her memories. She said with emotion, "yes, the major said at that time that we should add up the soldiers in your class as soon as possible, and assign the new Genoa to your class." At this point, she asked thoughtfully, "Rita, can you tell me something about you and brigadier vaskov blocking the German devils? I want to know how the four of them, Genoa, Sonia, Lisa and garka, died? " I can't help feeling guilty when I heard her words, because I don't know if she has heard anything from vaskov. If what I said is different from what she knows, I will be in danger of helping. Thinking of this, I quickly put down my arm around her waist and said perfunctorily, "I'll tell you this later when I'm free. Let's go to see Lena off for the last time." With that, he passed her and fled toward Orlova and them.