After finishing the call with Orel, Yakup put down the earphone and microphone, raised his hand to salute Lin Hua, and said: "Comrade Lieutenant, Captain Yakup, commander of the automatic sled company directly under the 16th Group Army, is reporting to you.
, our company is ordered to accept your command, please give instructions!"
"We are comrades who have fought side by side, so there is no need for such etiquette." Lin Hua pulled Yakup's hand from his forehead and said with a smile: "I have an important task now, and I need your help to complete it.
."
Although Lin Hua said this in a very easy-going tone, Yakup still said respectfully: "Comrade Lieutenant, please give the order!"
"Comrade Captain, it's like this. We still have a dozen soldiers left in the village." Lin Hua said to Yakup: "Do you remember?"
"I remember." Yakup nodded, expressing his approval of Lin Hua's statement, and then asked: "Comrade Lieutenant, are you going to send me back to pick them up?"
"That's right, you immediately send ten sleds back to pick up all the soldiers who stayed in the village." After Lin Hua gave him a positive answer, he also specifically warned: "There are several wounded among them who cannot stand.
Blow cold air on the skid plate. Among the dispatched sleds, except for two equipped with machine gunners, the crew compartments of the other eight were set aside for the wounded to ride on."
As soon as Lin Hua finished speaking, Yakup immediately replied unambiguously: "Understood, Comrade Lieutenant, I will immediately follow your order."
Just when Yakup arranged for the deputy company commander to take people back to the village to pick them up, three platoon leaders, Vanya, Andrei, and Vasily, came over and asked Lin Hua: "Comrade company commander, don't you know what your superiors are doing?"
What tasks have been assigned to us?"
"The superiors have arranged a good task for us." Lin Hua smiled and said to the three platoon leaders: "Let us go pick up the foreign food."
"Pick up oceans?" After hearing what Lin Hua said, the three platoon commanders looked at each other with confusion on their faces. Finally, Vanya asked: "Comrade company commander, what does 'pick up oceans' mean?"
Luo', we didn't understand."
Hearing Vanya's question, Lin Hua immediately realized that there was no such statement at this time, and quickly introduced to them: "When the German army fled, they discarded a large number of weapons, equipment and various military supplies. The mission of our company is
Collect all the things discarded by the German army."
After understanding the troops' next mission, Andre couldn't help but ask: "Comrade company commander, there are more than a hundred prisoners here. What should we do with them? We can't just shoot them all, right?"
"No, Comrade Andre, absolutely not." Lin Hua glanced at the prisoners under the guard of the soldiers and saw that they all had numb expressions, holding their shoulders and stomping on the spot to avoid freezing.
. said decisively: "They have laid down their weapons, we cannot massacre the prisoners."
Yakup, who had just finished assigning the mission, happened to come over. Hearing Lin Hua's words behind him, he couldn't help but interrupt and asked: "Comrade Lieutenant, we are going to carry out the mission. It is not convenient to bring so many fascists with us. Do you want to?"
No..." At this point, he stopped and raised his hand to wipe his neck.
Lin Hua did not answer directly, but asked the question to the other two platoon leaders: "What are your opinions?"
Vanya shook his head and said to Lin Hua: "Comrade Company Commander, I do not agree to execute the prisoners on the spot. After all, they have laid down their weapons and surrendered to us."
Vasily said ambiguously: "I obey everyone's opinions."
Despite most people's opinions, they all wanted to get rid of these prisoners, but Lin Hua was unwilling to massacre the enemies who had laid down their weapons. After thinking for a moment, he said to a few people: "The way I see it, let's collect supplies anyway.
We also need manpower, why not bring these prisoners over to work as coolies." At this point, he stopped, glanced at the faces of the four people, and asked in a raised voice, "Do you have any different opinions?"
"No!" After hearing that there was no need to kill the prisoners, Vanya immediately agreed: "I agree with Comrade Company Commander's opinion."
Seeing that Lin Hua was not prepared to kill the prisoners and proposed such a plan, Yakup thought for a while and then said: "I obey the order of Comrade Lieutenant!"
Seeing that no one raised any objections, Lin Hua looked at Vasiya and said: "According to the report from superiors, the Germans have laid mines near these discarded weapons and supplies. Second Lieutenant Vasiya, you once served as an engineer.
Later, you can follow me to observe on the spot."
After Vasiya nodded in agreement, Lin Hua continued: "Second Lieutenant Vasiya and I will take ten soldiers and rush to the designated location on a sled. Lieutenant Vanya, after I leave, you will be fully responsible for this place. You and
Andre led his troops to escort the prisoners and came over later!"
After Yakup waited for Lin Hua to complete the mission, he quickly reminded: "Comrade Lieutenant, we still have eight machine gunners. Do you want us to leave on the sled as well, or escort the prisoners with your people?"
"We have enough manpower," Lin Hua replied casually: "Let them stay and help escort the prisoners."
Before setting off, Yakup offered to let his machine gunners make room for Lin Hua, but Lin Hua refused. Lin Hua still stood on the crowbar, waiting for the designated soldiers to get on the crowbar.
, he knocked hard on the cab door and shouted to Yakup sitting inside: "Let's go!"
As soon as Lin Hua and the others left, Vanya ordered the soldiers to drive the prisoners towards the area where the German army had abandoned supplies. Unexpectedly, after the order was issued, the soldiers' curses and the prisoners' screams were heard not far away.
The sound. Vanya quickly walked over and saw Zheliya, the fifth squad leader of the second platoon, kicking a prisoner lying in a snowdrift, and asked him: "Comrade Corporal, can you tell me, here
What happened?"
Zhelia pointed at the German soldier rolling in the snow and said angrily: "This damn German, I asked him to stand up. If he doesn't stand up, forget it, and he scolds me. When I get angry, I will beat him.
Hit him a few times."
Vanya didn't understand German either, so he couldn't verify with the prisoner what Zelia said. But he was more attentive and found that the pain on the prisoner's face who was rolling in the snowdrift didn't look like he was pretending, so he quickly
He squatted down and took a closer look. At this time, he really saw the problem. There was a brown stain on the knee of the prisoner's pants, which was obviously blood from an injury.
After figuring out what was going on, Vanya stood up and said to Zheliya: "We've figured it all out. His leg is injured and he can't walk independently. Take someone to get a stretcher and carry him." After hearing what Vanya said, Zheliya felt that it was necessary for him to understand the current situation, and quickly reported to him: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, it is not easy to carry the wounded in the snow. We have few manpower to begin with.
If we select a few more people to carry stretchers, there will be even fewer people to escort the prisoners."
Vanya glanced at the wounded prisoner lying in the snowdrift, and said in a disgusted tone: "Let the prisoner carry him, he has no right to let our soldiers waste energy on him."
When Zheliya heard Vanya's words, he immediately agreed excitedly: "Understood, Comrade Second Lieutenant, I will arrange for someone to put up a stretcher and let the prisoners carry their own people and set off with us.