Chapter 480

After dark, I was surrounded by Saren and panchenko to see the latest layout plan. Suddenly, the telephone on the desk rang. Saran reached for the microphone and said aloud, "Hello, this is colonel saran."

The voice of the captain of the marine came from the microphone: "report to the division commander, there is something on the other side of the Don river. Come outside and have a look. The enemy is burning our village."

After hearing this, saran threw the phone away and said to us, "let's go out and have a look."

When we came out with colonel sarren, the streets of the village were crowded with people, because there was no one to speak and it was very quiet. Everyone looked breathlessly at the burning place on the other side of the Don river.

I stood on a stump in front of the headquarters and looked West. In the dark night, even without binoculars, you can see dozens of fires on the other side of the river. The light of the fire varies from large to small. Some look like densely populated settlements, and some look like smaller villages. Some of the fires have begun to weaken, and the light has become dim, like the burning buildings have been burned out; Some just like the fire time is not long, the dark red flame in the dark sky jumping.

Seeing this scene, panchenko, who was standing beside me, said in a low voice with gnashing teeth: "these damned German robbers, I really want to take a company to the other side of the river immediately and kill them all."

Sarin came over with a gloomy face and waved his head at us. He said angrily, "Comrade political commissar, o'xia Nina, come in with me."

We followed SA Ren into the headquarters. SA Ren raised his hand and pressed down, and said to us, "all sit down."

After we all sat down, Saren looked at Pan Qinke and asked, "Comrade political commissar, what do you think?"

Panchenko said angrily: "these damned Krauts, with their fire, have destroyed the labor of many generations of our people, and how many people will be homeless!"

Panchenko talked endlessly, but sarin was obviously not interested in what he said. He turned to me and asked, "o'shanina, what do you think?"

The Germans will not set fire to villages and residential areas for no reason. It may be their intention. I thought about it for a moment, and then replied, "Comrade division, I think the enemy may be going to cross the river."

Sarin listened, nodded with satisfaction, and then said, "tell me your reason."

"The reason why the enemy set fire to villages and residential areas on the other side of the river should be to prevent our sporadic small units or guerrillas from taking these places as hiding places. Once our troops exist in these places, they will attack the enemy's camp and destroy the enemy's traffic lines at the right time. In order to concentrate our forces on attacking us, as long as the enemy sets fire to the villages, there will be no worries in the future. "

As for my analysis, sarin agreed. He said, "Comrade oshanina, you are right. I think so too. It seems necessary for us to strengthen our defensive forces along the river to cope with the enemy's attack at any time. How many troops have crossed the river recently? "

I shook my head and said, "the troops crossing the river today are all small units that have been defeated. There are seven or eight less, but there are only a dozen more. There are no battalion level units. "

"Are there any officers in the army?"

I shook my head again and replied, "no, comrade division commander, no officer. According to the report of lieutenant colonel gogoly, who took them in, only a few staff sergeants had the highest rank. All the officers had died bravely in the battle with the enemy. The German army easily defeated the troops that had lost their command. "

"Call gogoly and ask him to quickly distribute the soldiers to the army, distribute weapons and ammunition for them, and prepare for tomorrow's battle."

"OK, I'll call right away."

The next morning, the German attack on us began.

Their cannons began to fire first, and dense shells fell on the positions by the river and the river near the bank. The rolling Don river was suddenly splashed with waves, raising high water columns one by one. Then the enemy's fighters also appeared in the sky, like crows hovering in the sky of our army, bombing and strafing along the river. In an instant, the broad defensive position by the river was full of flames and smoke, just like a fog out of thin air.

Saran and I were standing in the newly built observation post half buried underground outside the village, observing the situation of the shore position with binoculars. Seeing that the front position was covered by the smoke of gunpowder, Saren immediately ordered the signalman: "call the captain of the front marine and ask what's going on in the position?"

The signalmen did not dare to neglect, but quickly contacted the frontier by telephone. We were lucky. The telephone line from the observation post to the front command post was not broken by the shell or bomb. Soon, the captain screamed: "Hello, comrade division? The enemy is shelling and bombing our positions, but please rest assured that except for a few observation posts, the rest of the soldiers are hidden in the gun holes, and the casualties of the troops are not great. "

"Well done, comrade captain." After praising the captain, Colonel sarin told him, "remember, once the enemy begins to cross the river, you must immediately order the troops to enter the position."

"I understand." The captain answered loudly, and at the same time expressed his determination to Saren: "please rest assured, comrade division commander, as long as there is one person in our navy camp, we will never let the enemy pass through our position."

The shelling and bombing lasted for half an hour. After the shelling stopped, the enemy planes circling in the air left one after another.

As the smoke on the position became thin, I could see that the enemy on the other side had boarded the ferry on the wharf and came towards us. Dozens of tanks lined up on the shore, and the black muzzle pointed to our position.

Sarin put down his telescope, sighed and said: "it seems that all our troops on the right bank of the Don River have been destroyed. The commanders of these troops really didn't know how to destroy the ferries and let the Germans seize all these boats. That's good. They can take our ferry and cross the river to attack us

Although I did not answer his words, I had no confidence in whether I could withstand the enemy's attack.

Sarin suddenly said, "Comrade oshanina, do you think we should order the artillery company to open fire and use the artillery to sink the enemy, people and ships together?"

I quickly waved my hand and said, "Comrade division, if we use mortars to attack moving ferries, the hit rate is not high. Not to mention, it is easy to attract the enemy's heavy artillery to fight back. You know, our artillery companies are all light mortars, but they can't compete with the enemy's heavy artillery. Once the artillery companies are exhausted, our division will no longer have heavy firepower. In my opinion, the artillery company should wait until the enemy's Ferry comes to the dock, and then concentrate its firepower to bombard the enemy who is disembarking, so as to inflict heavy casualties on them. "

After thinking about it, Colonel sarin nodded and agreed with me: "you're right. The artillery company should not fight too early. Let's wait for the enemy to land before firing."

Ten minutes later, the enemy's Ferry finally got on the pier of the ferry. Seeing that the enemy began to get off the ship in disorder, saran's face showed a smile, turned to me and said, "o'shanina, I think the time is almost right. You go to call the artillery company and let them fire immediately to teach these Germans a lesson."

I agreed. I went to the phone, grabbed the phone, shook the handle twice, heard rozhkov's voice in the microphone, and immediately ordered him: "Lieutenant, it's your turn to go on the stage. Aim at the enemy on the dock and fire. Let them go to hell."

On hearing the order to let the artillery company fire, rozhkov agreed excitedly, and then hung up.

When I went back to the observation hole and raised my telescope to look at the dock, the artillery company's shells were already roaring towards the enemy on the dock. Then, one after another, it fell into the dense enemy group and exploded, sending up large groups of black fireworks. The enemy screamed in alarm and ran to both sides of the dock in a disorderly way.

The German soldiers who had just escaped from the dead wharf to the left and right did not wait for them to catch their breath. The shells landed on both sides and drove them back to the middle of the wharf. In order to avoid the fatal shelling, the German soldiers dragged their guns and fled to the front position of our army.

When they ran only forty or fifty meters away from the position, the heavy and heavy machine guns on the forward position suddenly opened fire together and swept across the middle of the enemy. The enemy was beaten so that they cried and howled. Some of them left dozens of corpses and looked at the wharf and fled.

Seeing the enemy fleeing, the sailors on the position jumped out of the trench with weapons and rushed to catch up with them with shouting. Under the attack of rifles and submachine guns, the enemy was knocked down a lot.

Sarin saw this scene and exclaimed excitedly: "good boy, good boy, work harder and drive all the Krauts to the river to feed the fish."

I'm not as optimistic as he is, and I don't care to ask him. I run to the phone, pick up the phone and call the captain. As soon as I got through the phone, I immediately said to the captain in a stern tone, "Comrade captain, I order you to let the troops withdraw from the position immediately. It will be too late if it is too late!"

Although the captain was at a loss, he replied honestly, "I understand, comrade commander. I'll order the trumpeter to blow the trumpet to stop the pursuit."

When he heard that I gave the order to stop the pursuit to the army without authorization, Colonel sarin was not happy. He came up to me, slapped his telescope heavily on the table, and then asked me sternly, "commander oshanina, why? Who gave you the right and who allowed you to stop the pursuit? Don't you see that the soldiers are going to drive the enemy into the river soon? "

In the face of his fury, I straightened up and replied, "Sir, I know you can't listen to what I'm explaining to you now. I ask you to go back to the observation hole and observe calmly for five minutes, then you can understand why I ordered the troops to stop pursuing. "

In the face of my humble attitude, sarin just glared at me, then picked up the telescope and walked back to the observation hole. I didn't care about his bad attitude, so I followed him back to the observation hole.

I knew in my heart that my sudden order was not a whim. The dozens of tanks stopped by the enemy on the other side of the river are not ornaments. They will not watch their infantry being destroyed by us. They will certainly provide artillery cover for their troops.

When I raised my telescope again, I saw the pursuing sailors returning to their positions one after another. However, without waiting for all the people to enter the fortification, the tanks on the other side started shelling, and some soldiers who fell behind were immediately engulfed by the gunfire.

Seeing the intensive and fierce shelling of German tanks, sarin was stunned. After a while, he regained his mind, gave me a thumbs up, and said with emotion: "o'shanina, you are really amazing. You can even guess that the enemy's tanks will bombard our pursuit troops. Fortunately, you gave the order to retreat in time and let the sailors withdraw to their positions. Otherwise, the whole army may be destroyed. "

I gave a little smile and said modestly, "Sir, it's nothing. I've only been dealing with the Germans for a long time, so I'm familiar with their way of playing, so I just found out the enemy's plot in time. "

"What's next?" At the moment, sarin showed great trust in me and began to ask me about the next action of the army.

Now that he asked me, I said bluntly, "the artillery company has exposed its target in the battle just now. We should let them transfer their positions immediately. In addition, call the captain of the marine and ask him to hide the rest except for a few observation posts. In my judgment, the enemy's planes will soon bomb our positions again. "

"All right, do as you say. I'll give an order to the troops. "

A few minutes later, four enemies appeared in the sky. As soon as they got close to the front of our army, they quickly dispersed and began to circle over the position. It seemed that they were coming straight at the front of our army.

After circling for several circles, the enemy planes began to lower their altitude, changed their formation again, formed a column, followed by a dive, and dropped bombs on our army. As the bomb landed and exploded, the front positions were filled with smoke and smoke.

After the first round of enemy bombing, seeing that our army had no air defense firepower on the ground, we became more and more courageous and lowered our altitude continuously. From my point of view, they are almost flying close to the ground.

When sarin saw the enemy planes shooting and dropping bombs above my position, he was so angry that he smashed them on the log wall and said, "damn German, bullying me, I dare to be so arrogant without air defense firepower. Another day, I'll ask the commander for an air defense unit to bring you all down. "

Seeing the enemy's planes flying around our army like they were in a state of no man's land, I hated them, but I couldn't do anything about them.

Just at this time, a dive of the enemy aircraft just pulled up, the fuselage suddenly flashed a big slip of dark red fire, and then emitted a thick black smoke. Dragging a long belt of smoke, the enemy plane staggered to the other side and plunged into the tank line on the other side. After a loud bang, a cloud of smoke rose. When the smoke cleared, I saw that a tank had become a burning scrap, and the two adjacent tanks were also overturned by the explosion.

"Great! How wonderful When he saw the crash of the enemy plane, Colonel sarin even claimed a German tank at the same time. He couldn't help cheering like a young man. Then he urged me in a voice: "Comrade oshanina, you call the captain of the Navy and ask what's going on? Who brought down the enemy plane? I'm going to give credit to this hero. "

I nodded with a smile and said, "OK, sir. I'll call the captain right away and ask what's going on."

After dialing the phone, I said to the captain with a smile: "Comrade captain, I congratulate you on your good fight. You even shot down the enemy's plane without air defense firepower. Comrade division commander said that he would personally ask for credit for the hero who defeated the enemy plane. Comrade captain, do you know who shot down the enemy plane? "

The captain was very happy when he heard my praise. He replied excitedly, "report, comrade commander, the plane was shot by sergeant kruglov. As he watched the enemy planes dropping bombs and strafing over our battalion's position, he was very angry. So he took advantage of the enemy's dive and fired at the enemy's plane with the anti tank gun that was distributed to our battalion yesterday. I didn't expect that the boy had such good luck that he even knocked down the enemy plane. "

"Well done, comrade captain. All your soldiers are good."

When I put down the phone, I reported to Colonel Saren, "Comrade division, I have made it clear. It was sergeant kruglov of the Marine battalion who got off the plane

"You are not right, comrade commander." At the door came panchenko's voice, who was hurrying into the observation post, adding, "I think that in such an extraordinary period, heroes like kruglov should be commended. I think the rank of sergeant is too low. He should be promoted to officer. "

Although I don't like political workers like Pan Qinke, I can't find any reason to oppose his proposal, so I seconded: "I agree with the political commissar. And you, Mr. teacher. " In order to show the importance of this matter, I specially used honorifics for sarin.

SA Ren looked outside with a telescope, nodded and said, "I also agree with the political commissar. In that case, I'll promote this Crewe... Crewe what? "

"Kruglov." I hastened to remind him in a low voice“ Yes, it's sergeant kruglov. I want to promote him to second lieutenant Said Colonel salen carelessly. In this way, kruglov, who was a private a few days ago, became a second lieutenant just a few days after he became a sergeant of kruglov because he had captured an enemy plane. The speed of his promotion is somewhat similar to that of me at the beginning.