Chapter 607

As for his worries, I said lightly, "Comrade captain, you don't have to worry about this. I will supply you with anti tank weapons soon."

When Prokop heard what I said, he was so confident that he stared like a bell and asked curiously, "really? Comrade Colonel, I don't know where these anti tank weapons are? "

At this time, we heard the sound of a regular bugle. I turned around and saw that busmanov was directing the men, and a group of about ten people were dragging anti-aircraft guns to our side. I nuzui to the anti-aircraft guns, said to Prokop: "Comrade captain, that's right, we use anti-aircraft guns to fight German tanks."

Prokop looked at me, then at the towed anti-aircraft guns, and said in a suspicious tone, "can anti-aircraft guns hit tanks?"

With a sneer, I said that I would not only use anti-aircraft guns to attack German tanks, but also prepare to use anti-aircraft machine guns to attack infantry. You should know that this kind of fighting method originally appeared in the battle of Stalingrad, but it was plagiarized by me, and was used in advance in the battle to defend the polkovo highlands on the outskirts of Leningrad last year. It is because of this ingenuity that Zhukov paid attention to me and gradually became a subordinate he valued.

"There's nothing wrong, comrade captain." I said lightly, "whether it's anti-aircraft gun or anti tank gun, as long as it can destroy the enemy's tanks." At this point, I stopped for a moment, then continued, "Captain, how many people are there in your camp?"

"There are 175 men in the battalion, comrade colonel."

Hearing this answer, I could not help frowning slightly. How could there be only such a few people in a battalion? Thinking of this, I asked with puzzled: "Comrade captain, why are there only so many people left in your camp?"

"The German air raid on the wharf in the past half a month caused a lot of casualties. Almost all the soldiers in our camp were lost in the air raid. " As he said this, he turned to look at Li Jiya beside me and added, "not only did my battalion suffer heavy losses, but also the loss of Li Jiya's political commissar's regiment was not small. Even the head of the regiment died in yesterday's air raid."

Seeing that I turned to look at myself, Li Jiya, who was still sulky, quickly replied, "yes, my antiaircraft artillery regiment also suffered heavy casualties in the air raid. At present, there are only more than 200 people left in the regiment."

As he was talking to captain Prokop, busmanov, who was directing the soldiers to drag anti-aircraft guns, trotted over with Willa. From a long distance, he asked aloud, "Comrade division, where should we pull the guns?"

"Captain Prokop," I called the captain to the front and back, pointed to basmanov and said, "you take the captain and them to the barricade of your camp."

Prokop nodded, then yelled at basmanov, "Captain, bring your men and follow me."

Looking at a group of female soldiers with shell boxes behind the guard company, I couldn't help asking Li Jiya curiously: "Comrade political commissar of the regiment, why are all female soldiers in your regiment?"

Li Jiya rolled her eyes at me and said: "our 1077 anti-aircraft artillery regiment is originally a women's anti-aircraft artillery regiment. It's not surprising that they are all women soldiers."

"Where are the women soldiers from?" I didn't care about her attitude and continued to ask seriously.

When he heard that I was asking this question, Li jiyadun talked endlessly: "some of them were transferred from other troops, some of them were residents mobilized by the regional Soviets, and many of them were students studying." When I heard the word "student", I couldn't help looking back at Willa and her two other companions. They were also anti-aircraft artillery. Later, before the position was lost, the head of her regiment ordered them to run for their lives. As a result, most of the girls who escaped from the position were killed by the rear supervisors.

I gave Li Jiya a smile and said in a friendly way, "Comrade political commissar of the Communist Youth League, in fact, I used to be an air defense soldier."

Li Jiya heard me say this, two Xiu eyebrows could not help picking up, curiously asked: "yes, comrade Colonel, you used to be an air defense force, don't know which antiaircraft artillery regiment?"

"My earliest 171, near Smolensk, used to be an anti-aircraft machine gun shooter. At the beginning of this year, I was transferred to the Leningrad front army to serve as the commander of an anti-aircraft artillery battalion on the ice transportation line. "

"Have you ever taken down enemy planes in those places? Comrade teachers. " Originally I was chatting with Li Jiya, but I didn't want to arouse Willa's interest. Curious Willa asked regardless of her identity.

I nodded hard and answered them, "when I met with them, I had shot down two German planes. Later, when I was on the ice transportation line, the battalion that I commanded brought down nearly ten enemy planes. "

"Comrade Colonel, you have achieved good results." Li Jiya said in surprise: "that is to say, you and your men have almost killed a German flying squadron."

"I think so, political commissar Li Jiya." With that, I took Li Jiya's hand and went on. Looking at the expression on her face, she said to her kindly, "Comrade political commissar of the Communist Youth League, you may still be angry about what I said just now, but I have to say to you that we all hope our troops can defeat all the enemies who come here, but now the reality is that the enemy is far stronger than us, so in the next battle, We are bound to lose some battles. As an intermediate commander, how can he command the troops to fight without such psychological endurance? It's no big deal to lose a battle. Even if the enemy managed to win, their strength was weakened by us in the battle. Even if the enemy takes the position, it's no big deal. As commanders, we should keep calm and not be frightened by the enemy's attack. We should immediately organize troops to fight back and take the position back from the enemy's hands. The final victory must belong to us, for this, I always firmly believe

After listening to what I said, Li Jiya was silent for a long time, and then said with difficulty, "Comrade Colonel, what you said is reasonable. I wronged you just now."

With these words, we came to the interior division's defense area. At the end of the road leading to the wharf, there were five or six barricades built by sandbags and logs on both sides of the road. At this moment, the anti-aircraft guns were placed behind the barricade, and the long guns pointed straight ahead from above the chest wall made of sandbags.

Captain Prokop and basmanov ran over together and reported to me that the anti-aircraft guns were in place. Then captain Prokop politely said to me, "Comrade Colonel, it's too dangerous here. You'd better hide in the building." With that, he turned and walked towards a building not far away.

Although the building had been bombed by enemy planes, it still stood still. Several of us followed captain Prokop carefully up the stairs full of holes, crossed the corridor full of bricks and stones, and came to a window on the second floor. Captain Prokop stopped, pointed to the outside and said, "Comrade Colonel, we can see the enemy in the distance here."

I nodded and raised my legs to go to the window, but Li Jiya stopped me. She kindly reminded me, "Comrade Colonel, don't stand at the window. That way, the Germans in the distance will find out. If they fire, you will be in danger." To her concern, I politely smile, and then went to the window, body against the wall, raised the telescope carefully to the distance.

On both sides of the road are buildings. Due to the repeated German air strikes, almost all the buildings have been damaged to varying degrees. The rubble pile formed by the collapse of the external wall makes the originally spacious road narrow. Seeing this situation, I nodded secretly, thinking that under such road conditions, German tanks can't move forward quickly, and there is still a great hope of success when antiaircraft artillery strikes such a slow moving target.

I pull the camera back. On both sides of the road directly to the left, there are gray concrete blockhouses. Outside the blockhouse, there are three German tanks, two of which are still burning, and the black smoke fills the whole street.

At this time, suddenly, two tank shells came whistling, exploded in front of and behind the abandoned tanks, and raised two waves of soil. It seems that the German army is going to attack.

Without waiting for me to turn back, several more shells flew over. In addition to continuing to hit around the tank, one shell directly hit the bunker on the right side of the road. Seeing the firelight of the bomb rising on the blockhouse and the cement slag splashing everywhere, my heart raised to my throat. My heart said that the blockhouse would not be destroyed by the German tank guns, would it? When the smoke dispersed, I saw that only the top of the blockhouse was smashed by the bomb, and the whole was still safe, and my heart was released.

I don't know what kind of harassment action Oleg launched against the German army. Anyway, soon after I arrived in the building, the German army began to attack. Looking at the tanks slowly coming towards us and the German soldiers who have been jumping around in the rubble, I turned around and said to Li Jiya solemnly: "Comrade political commissar of the regiment, please go back to the army immediately and let the girls shoot down these tanks with anti-aircraft guns." In order to enhance her confidence, I specially stressed: "German tanks are moving very slowly, which is much easier than fighting enemy planes in the sky."

Li Jiya probably understood what I meant and assured me with a smile, "please rest assured, comrade Colonel, that even if my anti-aircraft artillery regiment runs out, these German tanks will not be allowed to enter our wharf." With that, he raised his hand and turned to leave.

Seeing Li Jiya's departure, Captain Prokop immediately asked me, "Comrade Colonel, what's the mission of our battalion?"

"The task is clear, comrade captain." I said in an official voice: "the task of your battalion is to kill all the infantry who follow the tanks and let them go to hell like the two burning tanks below." After that, I waved my head to basmanov and said, "Comrade captain, you can go with him. There are fewer soldiers in the captain's camp, so the soldiers of the guard company should be assigned to the positions. "

When he heard what I said so easily, Captain Prokop had confidence in winning. He swore to me, "don't worry, comrade colonel. My soldiers and I will send these German devils to hell."

When the first tank was more than 100 meters away from our blockhouse, the anti-aircraft guns opened fire. Maybe it's because the girls are so nervous that they miss at such a close distance. The shells landed in the rubble nearby, and the blast raised the bricks high, then crackled on the German tanks. However, the damage to the German tank was negligible. It continued to move forward slowly and fired a shot at the same time.

When I saw the tank firing, my heart was seized again. With the tactical level of the German army, firing at such a short distance must be fruitful. I prayed in my heart that this shell had better be missed, and never hit our position. Even if you fight in the position, don't fight in the gun position where the girls stay. Although I'm used to seeing life and death for a long time, every time I see a young female soldier who died, I feel like a knife in my heart. Otherwise, I would not have vomited blood because I saw the female signalmen died in the air raid yesterday.

German tank shells are not a big threat to our blockhouse. Even if they hit, they would only blow up a few walls. The soldiers in the blockhouse are shooting all the time, knocking down the German soldiers who are jumping on the rubble from time to time. Although the tanks can't destroy our blockhouses as long as they don't directly hit the shooting holes, our soldiers are short of anti tank weapons, and they can't do anything about those tanks that are swaggering. Looking at the tanks crawling like snails, I know more about the future urban street fighting. Tanks, mobile artillery and motorized infantry have little use in narrow streets. On the contrary, they will become targets for soldiers hidden in buildings on both sides. Just then, basmanov, who had just left, ran over and reported to me with a happy face: "Comrade division commander, the commander of the 35th division of the guards is coming." Before I knew what was going on, a commander who had met me had already appeared in front of me. After he raised his hand and saluted, he reported: "Comrade Colonel, the anti tank company of the 101st regiment of the 35th division of the close guard infantry has been ordered to come to help you. Political instructor grasimov has reported to you and is waiting for your further orders." I went forward to hold the instructor's hand and said excitedly, "great, instructor grasimov, when you come, we will have more confidence in dealing with the German tanks." I looked at the soldiers who followed me. It seemed that there were not many soldiers, so I asked, "Comrade instructor, how many of you are here?"“ There are 11 people, including me, with 10 anti tank guns. " There are only ten people and ten guns. It's too few. I'm a little disappointed. But when I heard the rumble of guns and the incessant gunfire outside, I didn't care. Less is better than nothing. It's better than no antitank gun. In order to relieve the pressure on the female antiaircraft gunners and the soldiers of the interior battalion, I quickly told grasimov: "Comrade instructor, let the soldiers set up the blocking positions here. It's condescending and has a wide field of vision. You can take the German tanks as targets." Grasimov looked out and readily agreed, "well, comrade Colonel, I'll put my position in this building. Please rest assured that we will never let these German tanks rush to the dock." Then he turned to the soldiers behind him and yelled, "all in position!" Seeing the anti tank men setting up positions on the second floor, basmanov said to me in a low voice, "Comrade division, it's not safe here. We'd better get out of here." What basmanov said is exactly what I thought in my heart. If it's exposed here later and it's retaliated by tank fire, it's estimated that the building will collapse within a few shots, so I should move it as soon as possible. Thinking of this, I nodded, called Willa and some of them, and left with busmanov. As soon as we got downstairs, busmanov suddenly roared, "Sir, be careful!" Then he opened his arms and stood in front of us. Almost at the same time, a wall five or six meters behind him collapsed in the loud noise, and the collapsed bricks and stones raised dust all over the sky. God, the German tanks found us so quickly that they collapsed the corridor wall with one shot. As I raised my hand and waved, I tried to fan away the dust blocking my sight. At the same time, I gratefully said to basmanov, "thank you, comrade captain. If it wasn't for you, Vera and I would be buried in the rubble." Basmanov gave a simple and honest smile and replied, "Comrade division commander, I am your guard battalion commander. My responsibility is to protect your safety even if I sacrifice my own life." His words warmed my heart. I went over and patted him on the shoulder and said sincerely, "Comrade captain, you saved my life. I will always remember that." We walked out of the building and, under the German artillery fire and the bullets whizzing over our heads, bent over the barricades and led by busmanov, went to captain Prokop's command post. The captain's command post is on the bottom floor of a building. The glass on the window was shattered by the blast. When we stepped on the ground of broken glass, the captain was holding a microphone and shouting loudly: "if the Germans rush into the dock, you and I will be all finished. I order you to shoot with machine gun. Don't save bullets. Aim at the German infantry hiding behind the tanks and rubble. Hit me hard! Fight!! "Fight!" After giving the order, he put down the microphone and turned to see busmanov and I standing behind. He was shocked and said nervously, "Comrade Colonel, how are you here? You'd better go back to the dock. It's too dangerous here. Maybe the Germans will attack you soon. "