Red Moscow

  Chapter 352 Return

  Seeing that the air defense position in front of the north **** was shrouded in smoke, Sukov 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 ran towards the front of the north slope.

Still far away, he heard the cries and screams of the female soldiers, and the shouts of the male soldiers: "Healer, there are also wounded here, come here quickly." Sokov once came Passing here, it is clear that there are no male soldiers in the women's anti-aircraft artillery battalion. The male soldiers who are 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 saving people, and no one paid attention to Sokov who suddenly appeared. Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Sokov grabbed a soldier who was running past him, and asked sharply, "Where is your battalion commander, where is he?"

  After seeing Sokov clearly in front of him, the soldier quickly stood at attention, straightened his body and said, "Comrade Brigadier Commander, please wait a moment, I will go to the Battalion Commander right away."

After a while, Lieutenant Briski trotted up to Sokov, straightened his body and reported, "Comrade Brigadier, Lieutenant Briski of the Fourth Battalion is here to report to you that our battalion is rescuing the women's anti-aircraft artillery battalion." The wounded, please instruct!"

   "Go on." Sokov glanced at the bombed anti-aircraft guns and the bomb 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 bitter face: "At least two-thirds of the anti-aircraft guns were destroyed by the enemy's artillery fire, and the casualties exceeded half."

   "Their commander, that's called... called..." Sokov was so excited that he couldn't remember the name of the anti-aircraft artillery battalion commander.

  Bliski hurriedly 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 in the position and the corpses of female soldiers arranged in rows, he said angrily: " She should be responsible for the sacrifice of these female soldiers."

   "Comrade Brigadier, please follow me." Briski said to Sokov in a steady tone, "I will take you to see Lieutenant Ulanova."

  Bliski took Sokov to the place where Ulanova was. This once heroic female officer was sitting on a shell box, covering her face with her hands, and her shoulders were trembling. Although Sokov didn't hear any voice, he also guessed that the other party was crying silently, grieving for the female soldiers who died.

  Seeing Ulanova like this, Sokov's anger calmed down. He came in front of Ulanova, put a hand on her shoulder, and shook her gently twice.

Feeling that someone was shaking her body, Ulanova stopped crying, moved her hands away from her face, raised a face full of tears, and looked at the woman standing in front of her with eyes that were not at all bright. Sokov asked in a hoarse voice: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, what can you do?"

"Lieutenant Ulanova," Sokov couldn't help being angry when he thought of those female soldiers who died tragically. He asked sharply, "I ask you, why didn't you fight back? Why didn't you fight back when the German tanks fired at you? "

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," Ulanova replied in a flustered voice, "we are just anti-aircraft artillery. Before we were sent here, we only learned some common sense of anti-aircraft artillery. But it was the Germans who attacked us just now. We are anti-aircraft artillery, how can we deal with enemy tanks..." As she spoke, she began to wipe her tears again.

"Even if you use anti-aircraft guns, you can still deal with enemy tanks." Sokov pointed to a intact anti-aircraft gun not far away, and said in a tone of hatred: "You just need to fire the anti-aircraft guns." You know, when the Germans were in Africa, they used the 88mm anti-aircraft guns as anti-tank guns, and they defeated the British army. If you just used this 85mm anti-aircraft guns, the bombardment Even if the German tanks can't destroy them, they can scare them away, which is better than standing on the ground and being bombarded."

After listening to Sokov's words, Ulanova lowered her head and looked at her toes, and kept silent. While she felt sad for the female soldiers who died, she also secretly thought, if I really According to the method that the lieutenant colonel said, can it reduce the casualties of the troops?

"Captain Briski." Sokov fired at Ulanova, thinking that this place could no longer be used as an anti-aircraft position, otherwise the next time the German tanks would repeat the old trick, the Women's Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion would have the entire army The danger of being destroyed, he told Briski: "You 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 about to transfer the air defense position, Ulanova stood up abruptly from the wooden box, and said firmly: "No, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, no one can take the anti-aircraft gun without the order of the superior." Position transfer."

Sokov didn't expect Ulanova to be so stubborn, so he said to her forcefully: "Lieutenant Ulanova, don't move your position. If the Germans make a comeback, what are you going to do? Or stand in the position and be bombarded." Boom?"

   "Battle alarm, battle alarm." At this moment, a male soldier shouted not far away: "Armored vehicle, a German armored vehicle is coming."

  Sokov didn't care about continuing to argue with Ulanova, he jumped onto the shell box with one stride, raised his binoculars and looked into the distance, and sure enough, he saw a German armored personnel carrier driving in this direction. Before even putting down the binoculars, he shouted: "Ready to fight!"

  Unexpectedly, after shouting, I heard a voice under my feet saying: "Comrade Brigadier, this place is not conducive to defense. I think we should retreat to the high ground."

  Sokov moved the binoculars away from his eyes and saw that there were three or four anti-aircraft guns left on the air defense position in front of him. He had an idea and decided to bombard the enemy's armored vehicles with the anti-aircraft guns. He jumped out of the wooden box and walked towards the group of male soldiers who were searching and rescuing the wounded. At the same time, he shouted loudly: "Who can shoot? Who can shoot?!"

  Bliski trotted up from behind and asked pantingly, "Comrade Brigadier, why are you asking this?"

  Sokov pointed at the approaching German armored vehicle in the distance, and said, "I want to destroy that armored vehicle."

   "But, Comrade Brigadier." After figuring out Sokov's intentions, Briski said with some embarrassment: "My subordinates 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." Seeing that the armored vehicles were approaching quickly, Sokov urged Briski, "Let them use artillery fire to kill the enemy's armored vehicles."

"Comrade Brigadier." After listening to Sokov's order, Briski stood still. He pointed to 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 against German tanks? Now let these girls try."

"Good idea." Sokov immediately agreed with Briski's proposal. In any case, even if soldiers who had worked as artillery were temporarily recruited from somewhere, their familiarity with anti-aircraft artillery is definitely not as good as These female soldiers. So he walked quickly to the group of female soldiers who were still in shock, and said loudly: "Girls."

   After all the female soldiers focused their attention on him, he continued, "Do you want to avenge your sacrificed sisters?"

  After a brief silence, the female soldiers shouted in unison: "I want to!"

"Okay, since you want to avenge your sisters, then follow my orders." Sokov pointed at the nearby intact anti-aircraft guns and ordered loudly: "Leave the muzzle level and aim at the rushing guns." German armored vehicles, open fire!"

  As soon as Sokov's words fell, the female soldiers rushed towards the intact anti-aircraft guns, shaking the handwheel to level the high muzzles. At this time, Ulanova's mood also tended to stabilize. She walked over with two small signal flags in hand, and shouted at the female soldiers surrounding the antiaircraft gun: "Girls, obey my orders!"

   "Reload!"

   When Ulanova shouted here, she raised the signal flag in her hand above her head: "Aim!"

   Immediately, she swung down suddenly: "Fire!"

  After a few loud noises, the shells flew towards the armored vehicle in the distance. It's a pity that because the armored vehicle was moving too fast, all the shells fired by the anti-aircraft artillery fell on the open space, and the air waves of the explosion set off several mud columns.

  Seeing that the shells fell through the air, both female soldiers and male soldiers sighed in unison. Ulanova shouted loudly: "Reload, ready to shoot again!"

  The female soldiers had just loaded new shells into the barrel when they suddenly saw several pillars of mud shooting up into the sky from the front and back of the armored vehicle. How is this going? When seeing this scene, Sokov thought to himself: Could it be that a German armored vehicle ran over a landmine? I don't want to, even if I run over a landmine, it's impossible to explode in several directions at the same time?

Just when he was puzzled, Briski tugged at the hem of his clothes, pointed towards the direction of the south slope, and said loudly: "Comrade Brigadier, the shells are coming from the direction of the south slope, it should be that The artillery positions on the side are firing."

   In the second round of shooting by the female soldiers, the shells landed much closer than before. A shell even landed four or five meters away from the armored vehicle and exploded, causing the vehicle body to shake violently. Before the female soldiers finished reloading for the third time, a red flag suddenly rose in the armored vehicle.

"Stop shooting, stop shooting!" Seeing the red flag raised by the armored vehicle, Sokov's first reaction was that the team led by Christopher had returned, and he quickly shouted at Ulanova: "It's me People are our own people." The female soldiers who were preparing to shoot stopped when they heard Sokov shouting, 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 signal language, and signal to the armored vehicle that the brigade commander is here, so that he can quickly approach the armored vehicle?" come over?"

"In the women's anti-aircraft artillery battalion, I am the best signal soldier." After Ulanova finished speaking, she turned and walked to an anti-aircraft artillery. With the help of the female soldiers, she climbed onto the gun mount and drove towards The armored car sounded the signal. Probably seeing the red flag raised in the armored vehicle, the artillery positions on the south **** also stopped firing.

   After seeing the signal, the armored vehicle slowed down and drove along the open passage that only the officers and soldiers of the infantry brigade knew, passed the minefield in front of the north slope, and arrived at the antiaircraft artillery position that was still emitting wisps of smoke.

  After the armored vehicle was opened, a German officer wearing a big-brimmed hat came down first, followed by a dozen German soldiers wearing steel helmets. Seeing so many German soldiers suddenly appearing in front of him, the soldiers standing around were startled. They all pointed their black muzzles at each other, and they beat each other into a sieve as soon as Briski gave an order.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the officer came to Sokov, raised his hand to salute, and reported loudly: "Comrade Brigadier, Lieutenant Christopher, the reconnaissance company commander, reports to you that I have successfully completed my mission and returned. Please instruct me." !"

"Why is there only one car for you?" Sokov thought that when he went out, there were five armored cars, but now only one came back. Whether the other four were lost in the battle, he asked with some concern: "Did it happen?" What's the surprise?"

"No, there was no accident." Hearing Sokov's question, the officer quickly shook his head and said, "Comrade Brigadier, we rushed to the Mali Rossoshka 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 got more than 20 trucks and prepared to transport these supplies back. But I am worried about unnecessary misunderstandings when I return, so I will come back first report to you."

"Comrade Lieutenant, this kind of thing can be reported on the radio, why 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 that there are twenty trucks, where did you find so many drivers?"

"Comrade brigade commander, our radio station is out of order and we can't get in touch with the brigade headquarters, so I can only take the risk of going there myself." Christopher replied: "As for the driver, we encountered a retreating Among our troops, there are quite a few people who know how to drive a car, so I conscripted them all."

   "Where is the convoy?" Sokov continued to ask.

   "It's parked in a forest about 20 kilometers away from here. I have already deployed the necessary security." Christopher replied, "When it gets dark, I will ask the convoy to deliver the supplies."

  (end of this chapter)