Chapter 494

Bandulin hesitated for a moment when he heard trakov's order. Then he resolutely picked up the telephone hanging on the wall and repeated his order. He ordered the other party to gather the heavy and heavy machine guns of the whole battalion immediately. When the enemy troops reached the top of the mountain, they would open fire.

Looking at the empty position on the hillside hundreds of meters away, I said that even if the heavy and heavy machine guns were used to shoot the enemies who climbed the high ground and beat them to death, they would not be able to be driven down from the position without sending troops. When it comes to sending troops in the past, when I look at the open area between the two hillsides again, I can't help laughing bitterly to myself. The enemy is not blind. When we see our troops in the open area, we don't have to use big guns and tank guns. In that way, how many of our reinforcements can safely reach the opposite hillside? It's really hard to say.

When I was upset, trakov suddenly asked, "what do you think? O'shanina. " Listen to his tone, it seems that he intends to test me.

I pointed to the opposite hillside, some reluctantly said his own words: "Comrade commander, please see. Although the hillside is lower than this side, and our heavy and heavy machine guns can do great damage to the enemy occupying the position, it seems impossible to drive them down from the position. "

Trekov raised his telescope and looked at the opposite hillside again. After putting down his telescope, he pointed to the open space between the two hillsides and said in embarrassment, "I know what you mean. You can see that this open space is hundreds of meters wide. If you send troops to reinforce it, you will be killed by German artillery."

For trekov's analysis, I just nodded and didn't say a word. I know that once we open fire, it is bound to attract the enemy's revenge. Soon, the enemy's shells will fall on us.

"Comrade commander," bandurin called out to trikov just as we were at our wits' end, and reminded him, "look, the enemy will soon climb to the top of the hill."

"Comrade o'shanina, we can't care so much now. We can eliminate as much as we want." With that, he resolutely said to bandulin, "Comrade bandulin, give orders to the troops."

Bandurin picked up the phone that time, shook the phone and said in a determined tone: "Comrade major, order the soldiers to prepare for battle. As soon as the enemy reaches the top of the mountain, he will immediately open fire."

At this moment, trikov, who had been staring at the enemy on the opposite hillside, suddenly yelled: "wait a minute, comrade bandulin, don't shoot. There are still our men in the position." Then he raised his telescope, looked over there, and said, "yes, it's our people, at least a dozen people."

Hearing what trakov said, I quickly raised my telescope and looked over. There were many floating soil moving on the flattened position on the top of the mountain. It seemed that some buried people were looking outside.

The fast-moving enemy was only ten steps away from the top of the mountain. At this time, a soldier covered with soil jumped up from the ground and rushed into the middle of the enemy like lightning. Then there was an explosion. When the smoke dispersed, I saw that the soldier had disappeared, and several German soldiers fell around a newly formed crater.

At this time, only heard a roar from the position, and then the officers and men who climbed out of the clay threw their grenades one after another. The grenade fell in the middle of the enemy and exploded, sending up a lot of smoke, which made the enemy cry, turn around and run down the hill. More than 20 officers and men rushed down with weapons.

"Well done, these soldiers are wonderful!" Trikov took a picture of bandurin standing beside him and said excitedly, "these soldiers are good. When the battle is over, I will personally honor them."

As soon as trakov's words came to an end, the enemy's tanks stopped at the foot of the hillside and started firing towards our army field on the top of the mountain. One after another, tank shells landed in the pursuit line and exploded. Looking at the flying shrapnel, our soldiers were knocked down one by one, my heart suddenly sank. Although I didn't say it, I knew in my heart that none of these commanders and fighters would be able to withdraw.

Sure enough, within a few minutes, almost all the 20 officers and men who attacked fell into the enemy's fire. The German soldiers, who had just been driven down the mountain by the soldiers, turned their heads and rushed to the top of the mountain.

"Comrades commander," bandulin saw this situation and asked trikov again, "do I order the heavy and heavy machine guns to be ready to fire as soon as the enemy gets to the top of the mountain?"

Trekov pondered for a moment, and finally nodded to agree. At the same time, he said helplessly, "well, let the machine gunners be ready, ready to fight."

Bandurin agreed loudly, and then gave the battle order to his battalion commander by phone.

Seeing the enemy's infantry approaching the hilltop position again, I sighed. My heart said that as long as the light and heavy machine guns on our position fire, we will destroy many enemies, but it will soon attract the enemy's retaliation. We are equal to using the light and heavy machine gun troops to match the enemy's infantry. We can only see who will achieve more in the end.

Just when I was disappointed, another 20 or 30 natives jumped out of the floating soil. Some of them were armed with bayonet rifles, some were carrying light machine guns with large disks, and some were holding grenades. They rushed to the enemy with a shout. The German soldiers, who had been frightened by our grenades just now, let out a cry and turned around to run back. Before they ran far away, our brave soldiers had caught up with them and let the tanks under the hillside rotate the turret in vain, but they did not dare to fire easily, so as not to hurt their own people.

Just then, there was the roar of airplanes in the air. A soldier ran into the observation post from the outside and exclaimed excitedly: "report to the commander, comrade, the plane is our plane!"

Soon, a flying formation of nine planes appeared in our view. When they got to the battlefield, they quickly adjusted their formation, one by one dived and dropped bombs on the enemy tanks at the foot of the mountain, and strafed the German soldiers all over the hillside with airborne machine guns.

There was a sudden jubilation in our position.

After hearing the cheers from outside, trakov breathed a long breath and said to bandulin, "the enemy seems to be retreating. You immediately order the troops to attack. You can destroy as much as you can."

Bandurin immediately picked up the phone and excitedly said to his men, "Comrade major, it's time. In addition to leaving one company on guard, the other two companies immediately attacked and cooperated with the troops on the hillside to wipe out the attacking enemy. "

The enemy was disrupted by the sudden air attack. When the tanks at the foot of the hillside were blasted into scrap iron, the remaining infantry lost the courage to continue fighting. When they saw the two company's commanders and fighters coming down the mountain like tigers, they were scared out of their wits and began to turn around and run away.

Seeing that the victory of our army has been decided, trakov said to bandulin, "Comrade director of the political department, you stay in the position. I'll go to the front to have a look. I'll personally go to the company after the cruel battle and lead them to withdraw from the position."

Bandurin also asked with concern: "Comrade commander, do you need me to send you a guard team?"

Trekov waved his hand and said, "no, when I came, I brought a guard company with me. They just went with me."

When trakov went down the mountain, he didn't walk fast at first. I didn't expect that his pace was getting faster and faster. The guards and I couldn't even keep up. When we walked up the hillside just now, I saw that the blackened craters on the hillside were getting denser and denser. Near the top of the mountain, it was completely empty soil ploughed by gunfire for several times, and I could not see what the original fortification looked like.

At the moment, there was silence on the top of the hill. For our arrival, there is no one to come out to welcome us.

Trekov stood on a slightly higher mound, anxiously shouting, "anyone else?"

There was no response.

I quickly followed in shouting: "anyone else?"

There was still no response.

Dozens of soldiers of the guard company also followed and yelled: "is there anyone else?"

With their shouts, a weak voice came from a nearby crater: "I'm here."

Trakov made a lunge and jumped into the crater. I was afraid that he was in any danger, so I called two soldiers to follow him.

When I went to the crater and looked inside, I saw that trakov was holding one of the soldiers up. I immediately ordered the two soldiers to help. Two soldiers jumped into the crater, one left and one right, carrying the soldier out of the crater. As soon as he came out of the crater, he saw me standing in front of him. He looked down at my rank, quickly broke away from the soldiers who helped him, and raised his hand to salute me.

I looked up and down at the soldier. He was tall, his uniform was tattered, his face was black and his eyes were red. After I raised my hand to return the salute, I learned from those leaders, patted him on the shoulder, praised him and said, "good job, comrade soldier. You and your comrades in arms are good. Because of your tenacious fighting, the enemy has never been able to move forward. "

"Comrade o'shanina, that's right!" Trekov also climbed out of the crater, just heard what I said, and lost no time to praise me. After that, he went to the soldier's side, looked up at him and said, "comrades of the soldiers, you are all good

When the soldier saw that another general appeared in front of him, he was startled and wanted to raise his hand to salute, but he was stopped by trakov. "How many people are left in your company?" trekov asked with concern

The soldier looked around for a moment and answered with some embarrassment: "report to general, I have 150 people in my company. Now I guess I am the only one left."

Trekov sighed, patted him on the shoulder and said kindly, "Comrade soldier, your task has been completed successfully. Go back to the back and have a rest first." After that, he told the two soldiers standing beside him, "you two, take him to Comrade bandulin, and ask the health officer to examine him, and then let him have a good rest."

Two soldiers agreed loudly and helped the survivor down the hill.

I stood on the hillside and looked down. From the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, the whole hillside was strewn with corpses, including the corpses of both the enemy and our soldiers. More than ten meters away from where I was standing, there were several craters still smoldering with broken bodies of soldiers lying in the middle and piles of German bodies lying around the craters.

Trekov came up to me, looked at the scene on the hillside, and said with emotion: "these are our soldiers. In order to defend our great motherland, they will fight to the last moment of their lives!..."

Just as trikov was about to continue to express his feelings, Sergeant sidtorin panted up the hillside and came to trikov. After saluting, he reported, "report commander, the headquarters is calling."

Trekov looked at the soldiers cleaning the battlefield at the foot of the mountain and said without looking back, "o'shanina, read me the telegram."

When I received the telegram from sidtorin's hand, I gave him a friendly smile. Then I went back to trikov and began to read the telegram for him: "Comrade trikov, the 229th division and the 66th marine brigade have withdrawn to the designated position. After finishing the blocking task, you and the rear army immediately rush to the assembly site to join them. The military commissar of the group army, sergeuk

After listening to me read it, trakov took the telegram from my hand, looked at it again, then looked down the mountain with infinite attachment, and said with regret, "it's a pity that so many soldiers have died. We have no time to bury their bodies, so we are going to retreat." At this point, he turned and ordered sidtorin standing at the back door: "sidtorin, you go down to the two company commanders and ask them to stop cleaning the battlefield and immediately lead the troops to withdraw."

Half an hour later, we began to retreat.

The truck used by the soldiers of the guard company was vacated to transport the wounded of the 229th division. Like ordinary infantry soldiers, they walked behind the convoy and slowly retreated eastward.

Trakov called bandulin into our car and was ready to go together. I didn't expect that when the driver was about to drive, our car was stopped by several soldiers. I saw a sergeant with bandages on his head. He was so excited that he tried to rush to our car. Behind him, a soldier pulled his arm hard. The other two soldiers stood in front of him side by side, with a second lieutenant standing beside him, as if trying to persuade him.

See this scene, my heart can not help a tight, the heart said, did encounter mutiny? Thinking about this, I could not help but hold the submachine gun in my hand and put my finger on the trigger. I was ready to wait for the soldier to rush to do something wrong, so as to shoot decisively.

The movement in front of the car startled trakov and bandulin. Trikov frowned and said to me, "o'shanina, go and see what happened."

"Yes I promised and pushed the door open. Just as I was about to get off the bus, I heard bandulin in the back row say, "Comrade commander, I'll go and have a look. After all, these are all my subordinates."

With bandurin, I have more confidence in properly handling this matter. I was carrying a submachine gun, strided to them, and asked aloud, "who can tell me, what's going on here?"

The second lieutenant, who was standing beside him, immediately called out, "stand at attention!" The three soldiers who were blocking the sergeant quickly let go, turned to attention and saluted me with the second lieutenant. The sergeant sat down on the ground and began to cry.

"What's the matter?" I looked at the sergeant on the ground with disdain and turned my attention to the second lieutenant.

"Report to lieutenant oshanina," the second lieutenant replied politely. "Well, the sergeant took part in today's blocking battle. Shortly after the battle began, he was sent off the position because of his injuries. When he saw that the officers and men of their company had died, and that the body had not been buried, and that the troops were about to move, he began to cry, saying that his company commander and so many comrades in arms had died here, and he could not leave them behind. "

"Chief, you are a man, not a woman. Don't sit on the ground and cry. Stand up for me." Bandurin came up to me and said sternly to the chief who was sitting on the floor crying.

The sergeant quickly stood up, saluted me and bandulin, and said in a choking voice, "report commander, all the officers and men in my company died here, and they didn't even have time to bury their bodies. I can't leave them and run back. I want to stay. Even if I die, I will die with them. "

When I heard the sergeant say this, I felt my nose was sore and tears welled up. I went up to the sergeant, put a hand on his shoulder and said to him, "sergeant, your comrades in arms will not shed blood in vain. Retreat. It's an order from our superiors. Our temporary retreat is to replenish, recuperate and restore the fighting capacity of our troops. I believe that we will fight back soon, and then you will have a chance to avenge your comrades in arms. "

"Lieutenant oshanina," the sergeant said in a loud voice, wiping tears from his face, "I believe what you say. I will obey the order and follow the troops back."

I feel a little relieved to see that the chief is no longer at the top. But then I asked curiously, "Comrade sergeant, do you know me as well as the second lieutenant?"

"Yes, comrade commander." The sergeant and the second lieutenant said with one voice, "we know you, because you have fought side by side with our brave division commander, Colonel sarien!"

As I was walking to the jeep side by side with bandulin, he whispered to me, "Comrade commander, you are not easy. In a few words, you convinced the excited chief. Have you ever considered switching to a political worker? "

Political workers?! I'm kidding. What I dislike most is political workers. If I'm one of them, it's better to kill me. However, these words can be said in my mind, but I can't say them. So I said to bandulin vaguely, "Comrade director of the political department, I still like to be a commander in the fighting forces."

When we got on the bus, trikov saw bandulin look disappointed and asked him curiously, "Comrade bandulin, what's the matter? You look down and down. " Bandurin replied with a bitter smile: "Comrade commander, I wanted to persuade lieutenant commander o'shanina to become a political worker, but she refused." After hearing this, trikov laughed and said, "I still think oshanina is more suitable to be a commander in the fighting forces than a political worker." When our jeep passed by the officers and men, they stood in a very neat line on the side of the road and raised their hands to salute our jeep.