Red Moscow

  Chapter 102 The funeral of the female soldier

   Liuba raised her hand to salute Sokov, and said dryly: "Comrade Captain, Lieutenant Liuba, the company commander of the women's anti-aircraft machine gun company, is reporting to you that our company is on standby, please give instructions!"

"Please rest easy!" Sokov raised his hand to return a salute to Liuba, then walked a few steps forward, and came to the row of corpses of female soldiers. He took off the helmet on his head, held it in his hand, Bow your head in silent tribute to these female soldiers who died.

  The girls, who were not breathing, lay quietly on the ground with their hands folded on their stomachs, as if they were deeply asleep. The living female soldiers have helped them wipe off the smoke and blood on their faces, and put on clean and tidy military uniforms.

Liuba walked up to Sokov and asked in a low voice: "Comrade Captain, can we bury our comrades first and then move out of the city?" She was worried that Sokov would urge them to go, so she thought it necessary to ask clear.

   "Of course, it goes without saying." Sokov replied in a panic, "We'll bury the girls' bodies, and it won't be too late to leave."

  "Lieutenant Liuba." Kazakov approached Liuba and asked Liuba: "Where is the instructor of your company?"

   "Instructor Sveta, please come up." Liuba heard Kazakov's question, and hurriedly shouted at the person who was digging in the pit: "Comrade General wants to see you."

   Following her shout, a soldier who was digging stopped, handed the shovel to the soldier next to him, and then turned around and climbed up the pit. When Sokov first saw the back of this person, he thought it was a male soldier. When he turned around, he realized that it was a middle-aged female officer with a strong back.

After the female officer climbed out of the pit, Liuba pointed to Kazakov and explained to her: "Sveta, let me introduce you. This is General Kazakov, the artillery commander of the Army Group. It is Captain Sokov, and from now on, our company is under his command."

  Kazakov waited for Sveta to salute, and asked curiously: "Sveta commander, I'm curious, there are bomb craters everywhere around here, but why did you take someone to dig another one?"

Sveta looked up at Kazakov, and after a long time, he said: "Comrade General, I cannot and have no right to bury these girls in the craters made by the shells that killed them, so So I hired a few male soldiers to help me dig a new grave for the sacrificed girls."

   "So that's the case, I understand." Kazakov heard Sveta say this, and immediately respected her: "Comrade instructor, continue working."

When Sveta returned to the pit to dig soil, Sukov saw that the project would not be completed for a while, so he discussed with Liuba in a low voice: "Comrade Lieutenant, can you take me to see your company now?" technical equipment?"

Liuba took Sokov and Kazakov to the position of the anti-aircraft machine gun placed not far away, and introduced to them: "comrades commanders, please look, this is the 14.5mm four-armed gun equipped by our company. The joint anti-aircraft machine gun is composed of four 14.5mm anti-aircraft machine guns. It is composed of a gun body, a scope, a gun frame, and a four-wheel and two-axle car seat. It needs to be pulled by a car when moving.”

In order to let the two of them have a better understanding of this anti-aircraft machine gun, Liuba also sat in front of the scope, skillfully manipulated the machine gun, and continued to introduce: "The rate of fire of this machine gun is 600 rounds per minute, and the effective range is 2000 rounds. meters, in addition to anti-aircraft, it can also shoot flat. Two magazines can be installed on the machine gun at the same time, and each magazine has a capacity of 150 rounds..."

After introducing the company's weapons and equipment, Liuba began to introduce the situation of the commanders at all levels in the company: "The women's anti-aircraft machine gun company is commanded by me and the instructor Sveta, and there are three platoon leaders below. The first platoon leader, Sergeant Katya , the second platoon leader is Sergeant Junia, and the third platoon leader is Sergeant Lida..."

"Wait a minute, Lieutenant Liuba." When Sokov heard the name Lida, he remembered that he had seen this name in a novel before time travelling, and he immediately became very interested in her, and couldn't help but "Is Lida's surname Ossianina, and her husband's surname?" interrupted her.

  Liuba had a surprised expression on her face: "Comrade Captain, you knew Lida before?"

"do not know."

   "Comrade Captain, you may have misidentified the person." Liuba sighed and said, "Lida is not married yet, so why does she follow the so-called husband's surname. By the way, where did you hear this order?"

Seeing Liuba and Kazakov looking at him curiously, Sokov naturally couldn't tell them that he had seen this name in a novel of later generations, so he could only say perfunctorily: " One of my friends, Oshanin, was an officer in the border guards. After the war broke out, he disappeared. His wife Lida signed up to join the army in order to avenge her husband. It is said that she became an anti-aircraft machine gunner. So I As soon as I heard you mention the name Lida, I thought it was the same person. Unexpectedly, I made a mistake, hehehe!"

  When several people returned to the location of the tomb, Sweta had already commanded a group of male soldiers to put the remains of the female soldiers in the pit. Since there is no coffin, they can only be placed neatly at the bottom of the pit and covered with a white cloth. Sveta first scooped up a shovel of soil with the shovel, raised it into the pit, and then handed the shovel to Liuba. After Liuba, Kazakov, and Sokov lifted the soil into the grave, the tearful female soldiers lined up in a long line, adding soil to their former sisters with shovels. After the ceremony was over, the male soldiers standing beside rushed forward and shoveled all the dirt outside the tomb into the pit.

  Just ten minutes later, a new grave appeared in front of everyone.

  Liuba and Sveta, together with several squad leaders, inserted the wooden cross engraved with the names of the sacrificed soldiers on the grave. Then, they placed the steel helmets worn by these girls on the grave one by one.

After finishing all this, Liuba walked up to Sokov and begged him: "Comrade Captain, please say something to the girls." When Sokov was about to decline, Kazakov was also beside him. Encouragingly said: "Say a few words, Captain Sokov, just to boost the morale of the girls."

"Girls, comrades!" Sokov stood in front of the queue and said to the female soldiers who stood neatly: "Today, we buried eleven young female soldiers here. It's too early. But let's not be sad, don't cry for them, I believe that our descendants will never forget those soldiers who died gloriously in the battle to defend the motherland, they are all loyal sons and daughters of the motherland."

Having said that, he put the steel helmet in his hand back on his head, took off the submachine gun on his shoulder, and pointed the gun directly at the sky: "In order to commemorate all the soldiers who died in the women's anti-aircraft machine gun company, let us pay tribute to them." A final salute!" After speaking, he shot a short burst at the sky.

  Liuba standing in the queue hastily ordered loudly: "Listen to my password, all raise their guns and shoot!"

After the funeral, Liuba and Sveta took the female soldiers to line up to board the car, while Kazakov told Sokov: "Captain Sokov, the girls are all future mothers. You don’t want them to participate in the battle at all. You have to promise me that if the situation is critical in the future, even if all the male soldiers die, you will let these girls come back alive, understand?”

   "Comrade General, please rest assured." Sokov nodded vigorously, and solemnly assured Kazakov: "I assure you, I will definitely protect the safety of the female soldiers."

   Thanks to the book friends: Hopeless and meaningless, Earth Luobo's reward and support!

  (end of this chapter)