Seeing the air defense position in front of the northern slope shrouded in smoke, Sokov was worried about the girls in the anti-aircraft artillery battalion. After the German tanks were driven away, he immediately jumped out of the trench, led a guard squad, and headed towards
Run towards the north slope.
Still far away, he heard the cries and screams of female soldiers coming from the battlefield, as well as the shouts of male soldiers: "Healthman, there are wounded here too, come here quickly." Sokov came once.
After passing here, it was clear that there were no male soldiers in the women's anti-aircraft artillery battalion. The male soldiers who were shouting should be soldiers from the fourth battalion stationed on the north slope.
All the officers and soldiers on the air defense position were busy rescuing people, and no one paid attention to the sudden appearance of Sokov. Seeing that no one noticed him, Sokov casually grabbed a soldier who ran past him.
He asked sharply: "Where is your battalion commander? Where is he?"
After the soldier clearly saw Sokov in front of him, he quickly stood at attention, straightened his body and said: "Comrade Brigadier, please wait a moment, I will go find the battalion commander right away."
After a while, Captain Briski trotted up to Sokov, straightened his body and reported: "Comrade Brigade Commander, Captain Briski, commander of the fourth battalion, is reporting to you that our battalion is rescuing the women's anti-aircraft artillery battalion.
The wounded, please give instructions!"
"Let's continue." Sokov glanced at the blown-up anti-aircraft guns on the position and the craters everywhere, sighed secretly, and asked: "How is it, Comrade Captain, are there many casualties?"
"Comrade Brigadier, the casualties are very heavy." Briski replied with a grimace: "At least two-thirds of the anti-aircraft guns were destroyed by enemy fire, and the casualties exceeded half."
"Their commander, that one's name is..." Sokov couldn't remember the name of the anti-aircraft artillery battalion commander because he was so excited.
Brisky quickly reminded him in a low voice: "Ulanova, Lieutenant Ulanova."
"Yes, this is Lieutenant Ulanova. Where is she now?" Sokov looked at the bomb craters everywhere on the position and the corpses of female soldiers arranged in rows. He said angrily: "
She should be responsible for the sacrifices of these female soldiers."
"Comrade Brigade Commander, please come with me." Briski said to Sokov in a calm tone: "I will take you to see Lieutenant Ulanova."
Briski took Sokov to where Ulanova was. This once heroic female officer was sitting on a shell box, covering her face with her hands, and her shoulders were shaking. Although
Sokov didn't hear any sound, and guessed that the other party was crying silently, feeling sad for the female soldiers who had sacrificed their lives.
Seeing Ulanova like this, Sokov's anger calmed down. He came to Ulanova, put a hand on her shoulder, and shook her gently twice.
Feeling that someone was shaking her body, Ulanova stopped crying, removed her hands from her face, raised a face full of tears, and looked at the person standing in front of her with eyes that had no energy at all.
Sokov asked in a hoarse voice: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, what can I do for you?"
"Lieutenant Ulanova," Sokov couldn't help but feel angry as he thought of those female soldiers who died tragically. He asked sternly: "I ask you, why didn't you fight back? When the German tanks fired at you, why didn't you fight back?
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"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," Ulanova replied in a somewhat panicked voice: "We are just anti-aircraft artillery troops. Before being sent here, we only learned some common sense about anti-aircraft artillery and air defense. But the Germans just attacked us.
tanks, we are anti-aircraft artillery, how can we deal with enemy tanks..." As she spoke, she began to wipe away tears again.
"Even if you use anti-aircraft guns, they can still deal with enemy tanks." Sokov pointed to an intact anti-aircraft gun not far away, and said in a tone that hates iron for not being made of steel: "You just need to fire the anti-aircraft guns."
You know, when the Germans were in Africa, they used 88mm anti-aircraft guns as anti-tank guns and defeated the British army. If you just used this 85mm anti-aircraft gun to bombard
Even if the German tanks can't destroy them, they can still scare them away, which is better than standing there stupidly and being bombarded."
After listening to Sokov's words, Ulanova lowered her head and looked at her toes, silently. While she was sad for the sacrificed female soldiers, she was also secretly thinking, what if I really
Can the casualties of the troops be reduced by following the method suggested by the lieutenant colonel?
"Captain Brisky." After Sokov fired at Ulanova, he thought that he could no longer use this place as an anti-aircraft position, otherwise the next time the German tanks tried their old trick again, the women's anti-aircraft artillery battalion would have the entire army.
Seeing the danger of destruction, he ordered Briski: "Immediately move the air defense position to the open space between the north and south slopes. It is much safer there than here."
Hearing that Sokov was preparing to move the anti-aircraft position, Ulanova stood up from the wooden box and said firmly: "No, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, no one can move the anti-aircraft guns without permission from their superiors."
Position shift."
Sokov did not expect Ulanova to be so stubborn, so he said to her forcefully: "Lieutenant Ulanova, if you don't move the position, if the Germans come back again, what are you going to do? Or will you stand on the position and be shot?"
Boom?"
"Battle alert, combat alert." At this moment, a male soldier shouted not far away: "Armored vehicle, a German armored vehicle is coming."
Regardless of continuing to argue with Ulanova, Sokov jumped onto the shell box with a single step. He raised his binoculars and looked into the distance. Sure enough, he saw a German armored personnel carrier heading in this direction.
Before even putting down the telescope, he shouted: "Get ready to fight!"
Unexpectedly, after shouting, I heard a voice at my feet saying: "Comrade Brigadier, this is not conducive to defense. I think we should retreat to the high ground."
Sokov moved the telescope away from his eyes and saw that there were three or four anti-aircraft guns left on the anti-aircraft position in front of him. He had an idea and decided to use anti-aircraft guns to bombard the enemy's armored vehicles. He jumped off the wooden box and faced the group of people who were surrounded by them.
The male soldier who was searching for and rescuing the wounded walked over and shouted loudly: "Who knows how to shoot a cannon? Who knows how to shoot a cannon?!"
Briski trotted up from behind and asked breathlessly: "Comrade Brigade Commander, why are you asking this?"
Sokov pointed at the approaching German armored vehicle in the distance and said: "I want to knock out that armored vehicle."
"But, Comrade Brigadier." After understanding Sokov's intention, Briski said with some embarrassment: "My men are all infantry, and no one knows how to fire artillery!"
"Comrade Captain, immediately send someone back to call the artillery position on the south slope," Sokov saw the armored vehicles approaching quickly, and quickly urged Briski, "Let them use artillery fire to kill the enemy's armored vehicles."
"Comrade Brigadier." After listening to Sokov's instructions, Brisky stood still and did not move. He pointed at the female anti-aircraft gunners standing not far away and said to Sokov: "You just
Didn’t you say that you can use anti-aircraft guns to deal with German tanks? Why not let these girls try it now?"
"Good idea." Sokov immediately agreed with Briski's proposal. In any case, even if soldiers who had been artillery were temporarily found from somewhere, their familiarity with anti-aircraft artillery would definitely not be as good as
These female soldiers. So he walked quickly to the group of still shocked female soldiers and said loudly: "Girls."
After all the female soldiers' eyes were focused on him, he continued: "Do you want to avenge your sacrificed sisters?"
After a brief silence, the female soldiers shouted in unison: "Think!"
"Okay, since you want to avenge your sisters, then listen to my order." Sokov pointed his hand at the intact anti-aircraft gun nearby and ordered loudly: "Leave the muzzle level and aim at the incoming enemy."
German armored vehicles, fire!"
As soon as Sokov finished speaking, the female soldiers rushed towards the intact anti-aircraft guns as if they had been given a shot of blood, and turned the handwheel to level the high muzzles. At this time, Ulanova's mood also became more intense.
For the sake of stability, she walked over holding two small signal flags and shouted to the female soldiers surrounding the anti-aircraft gun: "Girls, obey my orders!"
"Load!"
When Ulanova shouted here, she raised the signal flag in her hand above her head: "Aim!"
Immediately, she waved down fiercely: "Fire!"
After several loud noises, the shells flew towards the armored vehicle in the distance. Unfortunately, because the armored vehicle moved too fast, all the shells fired by the anti-aircraft gun fell on the open ground, and the explosion air waves set off several mud pillars.
Seeing the shells falling, both female and male soldiers sighed in unison. Ulanova shouted loudly: "Reload and prepare to shoot again!"
The female soldiers had just loaded new artillery shells into the breech when they suddenly saw several mud pillars rising into the sky from the front and back of the armored vehicle. What was going on? When seeing this scene, Sokov thought to himself: Could it be?
Did the German armored vehicle run over a mine? Don’t think about it, even if it ran over a mine, it would not explode in several directions at the same time?
Just when he was puzzled, Briski tugged on the hem of his clothes, pointed in the direction of the south slope, and said loudly: "Comrade Brigade Commander, the artillery shells are flying from the direction of the south slope. It should be there."
The artillery position on the side is firing."
In the second round of shooting by the female soldiers, the impact point of the shells was much closer than before. One shell even landed four or five meters away from the armored vehicle and exploded, causing the vehicle to jolt violently. Before the female soldiers could finish
After reloading for the third time, a red flag suddenly rose in the armored vehicle.
"Stop shooting, stop shooting quickly!" Seeing the red flag raised on the armored vehicle, Sokov's first reaction was that the team led by Christopher was back. He quickly shouted to Ulanova: "It's me
People are our own." When the female soldiers who were preparing to shoot heard Sokov shouting, they all stopped and looked at Sokov with surprised eyes.
"Comrade Lieutenant," Sokov asked Ulanova, who was holding the signal flag: "Can you find a soldier who understands the flag language to send a signal to the armored vehicle, saying that the brigade commander is here and asking him to get closer quickly?
come over?"
"In the women's anti-aircraft artillery battalion, I am the best signal soldier." After Ulanova finished speaking, she turned around and walked to an anti-aircraft gun. With the help of the female soldiers, she climbed onto the gun mount and headed towards the vehicle.
The armored vehicle signaled. Perhaps seeing the red flag raised on the armored vehicle, the artillery position on the south slope also stopped firing.
After seeing the signal, the armored vehicle slowed down and drove along an open passage known only to the officers and soldiers of the infantry brigade, passing through the minefield in front of the northern slope and arriving at the anti-aircraft artillery position where wisps of smoke were still rising.
After the armored vehicle opened, the first person to get out was a German officer wearing a large-brimmed hat, followed by about a dozen German soldiers wearing steel helmets. Seeing so many German soldiers suddenly appeared in front of him, he immediately became confused among the people standing around him.
The soldiers were startled, and they pointed their black guns at each other, waiting for Briski's order to beat the opponent into a sieve.
In full view of the public, the officer came to Sokov, raised his hand in salute, and reported loudly: "Comrade brigade commander, Lieutenant Christopher, commander of the reconnaissance company, is reporting to you that I have successfully completed my mission and returned. Please give me instructions."
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"Why do you only have one vehicle?" Sokov thought about the fact that when he went out, there were five armored vehicles, but now only one came back. If the other four were lost in the battle, he asked with some worry: "Did it happen?
What's the accident?"
"No, there was no accident." Hearing Sokov's question, the officer quickly shook his head and said: "Comrade Brigadier, we rushed to the Mallet Rososhka area this time and successfully captured a German military warehouse.
, a large amount of weapons, ammunition and various military supplies were seized from it. In addition, we also obtained more than 20 trucks and prepared to transport these supplies back. But because I was worried about causing unnecessary misunderstandings when we returned, I came back first
Report to you."
"Comrade Lieutenant, you can report this kind of thing on the radio, why bother to go there in person?" Sokov waited for Briski to finish speaking, and said with some displeasure: "You were almost killed by our own gunfire just now.
By the way, you just said there were twenty trucks, where did you find so many drivers?"
"Comrade Brigadier, our radio is out of order and we can't contact the brigade headquarters, so I can only take the risk and go there myself." Christopher replied: "As for the driver, we encountered a retreating force.
There are many people in our army who know how to drive cars, so I recruited them all."
"Where is the convoy?" Sokov continued to ask.
"Stop in a forest about 20 kilometers away from here. I have set up necessary warnings." Christopher replied: "As soon as it gets dark, I will have the convoy transport the supplies."