"Sometimes I feel very sad when I think about it carefully."
"What?"
Alsim, who was dismantling the receiver cover of the AK in his hand, cleaning it for dust and maintenance, raised his head when he heard this, and cast his confused eyes directly on the deputy who had not finished speaking. He squatted next to Alsim and sorted out the blood.
Relic" Sulovchenko continued.
"Look at these things, all of them are bloody, and each of them is an object with life. They were ripped off the body of the original owner and used again. After all, they were not able to see the final victory with the original owner."
While playing with the bloody magazines and grenades in his hands, he sorted them out and placed them neatly on the ground, waiting for distribution later.
Sulovechenko, who had made himself bloody after messing around for a while, sounded quite sad.
Looking at the relics placed on the ground in front of him, taken from the bodies of the fallen comrades, Alsim, who had similar feelings to Sulovechenko, had different specific expressions.
"You and I both know this is inevitable, and all the brothers know it."
"Are there many people who have sacrificed and fallen all the way to this point? We have gone through all kinds of hardships to get here, just to prevent such things from happening again and to allow the vast majority of people to live.
We should live a normal life, at least be able to live in peace and stability rather than living under constant bombardment. This goal has never changed."
Click——
crackling——
I snapped back the AK receiver cover that I had briefly cleaned and maintained, picked up a full, bloody magazine from the ground, inserted it into the receiver, pulled the charging handle, and loaded the gun.
Alsim, who uses all the useful supplies at hand to maximize their value and does not rely entirely on the ammunition supply to the friendly follow-up troops, not long ago personally ordered to collect from the remains of his fallen comrades,
Remove the ammunition consumables such as magazines and grenades that are still useful and continue to use them.
But now, he is the first to put bloody ammunition into the barrel of the gun, taking the lead with practical actions and setting an example.
"If the person in front falls with a red flag, the person behind has to pick it up and continue along the path that the person in front has not finished until they reach the end, or they fall down themselves, and then the people behind repeat the process
The process repeats itself until victory is achieved.”
"Isn't this what we have always done? It is the same now. Use these ammunition to kill the enemy and lead to victory. This is the sacred mission and glorious mission we have inherited."
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At this moment, Alsim always feels a little, uh, different.
Sulovechenko, who has not been with Alsim for a long time, but not a short one either, always felt that these words coming from Alsim's mouth gave people a somewhat refreshing feeling, and in contrast, Alsim himself
He seemed to notice the surprise on his deputy's face.
"Did you conclude this yourself?"
"Not exactly, what's the saying? It's what you intellectuals often say. Oh, I remembered, it should be "reading comprehension". I wrote down what my comrade said to me, and
Try to understand it in my own way, and what I just said is my perception."
The rough-and-tumble Alsim refuses to accept any knowledge and learning, at least not to the comrades he respects and admires.
I cherish every opportunity to have face-to-face conversations with my comrades. Alsim, who could not even write, was a Siberian native and illiterate. He even taught himself how to write his mother tongue in handwriting so that he could express his comrades to his teachers.
Write down your words on paper so you don’t forget them.
When I feel tired or lack motivation, I will write down the "Quotations of Comrade Teachers and Comrade" on paper by myself. The handwriting is sloppy and ugly, but I can still understand it. Take it out and take a look.
For no other reason than to seek a kind of invisible and intangible spiritual power from it, to find something that can make one inexplicably feel the power flowing through the body, increase the fighting spirit, and return to the battlefield with a hundredfold energy.
It’s funny to say that, at least before following Malashenko and joining the leadership division, Alsim had always been a person who was quite dismissive of “faith and spiritual power”.
At that time, Alsim had nothing but killing and massacre, and there was nothing else in his mind. The only bottom line was to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, and to know what was for humans to do and what was not for humans to do. That was all.
Other things.
Later, Alsim met the person who had the greatest and deepest influence on him so far, allowing him to quietly change from a pure killing machine, the comrade he admired, the division commander.
Alsim admires his comrade, but that does not mean that Malashenko is extraordinarily brave and has a stronger desire to fight and can defeat and conquer Alsim on a personal level.
Not to mention that Malashenko doesn't have this ability now, even if Comrade Lao Ma is given a few more years of training, he still won't be able to defeat the "Slavic Superman". This is purely due to the difference in strength and nothing else.
The real reason why Alsim admires his comrade is because Malashenko seems to him like a beacon, standing in the darkest moment of the Red Army and the motherland, and has never fallen down from beginning to end.
It always gives people strength, like the light from the top of a lighthouse, shining all around and illuminating everyone in the leadership team.
You will always involuntarily trust him for one reason or another, or for reasons that may not even be clear to you. I believe that following him is following victory. As long as he is still alive beside his comrades, he will definitely be able to lead everyone to overcome the difficulties.
Against all odds, defeat any imaginable or unimaginable enemy.
Some people say that the leading division is a symbol of the Red Army's victory. Alsim agrees with this, but he has other opinions.
For example, if "Victory of the Leader Division" was written in text, Alsim felt that the handwriting left on the paper should be "Malashenko".
"It's almost time for us to put an end to this, once and for all."
From the friendly forces that followed up, we obtained more ammunition supplies needed to continue the attack and re-armed them.
He handed over the task of completing and garrisoning the outpost assembly point to the friendly troops who had just come up, and led the remaining soldiers to prepare for another, probably the last time, to embark on the road of destroying the Nazis.
One last thing to do.
"Attention, everyone, salute the comrades who sacrificed their lives!"
The remains of 28 comrades who died in the Battle of the Library were gathered together and lined up on the ground waiting for evacuation.
With the rest of the team, they lined up to assemble before continuing the expedition, in order, and paid the last military salute to their fallen comrades.
Even the friendly troops who had just followed up couldn't help but follow along after seeing this scene, saluting the unfamiliar fallen comrades. Even the troops who had just been treated in an emergency and were carried on a stretcher were about to retreat.
The wounded who were sent down also raised their hands one after another to send their comrades, whose voices and smiles were still fresh in their memories, for the final journey.
The road to the final victory is not far away. Even though the most ferocious and crazy Nazi minions and eagle dogs are still entrenched on this road, the brave Red Army soldiers are still fearless.
The red flag of victory will eventually fly high in the dome of our heart and will be remembered forever.