Since the two stations occupied by the guerrillas were hoarded with massive amounts of military supplies, the Germans did not dare to bomb the stations. They could only send out a few reconnaissance planes to hover over the two stations to monitor the guerrillas in the stations.
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Platonov took several guerrillas and left the 564th kilometer in an armored vehicle and drove east along the railway line. After a reconnaissance plane spotted the armored vehicle leaving the station, it immediately followed it and waited to see clearly.
There were only five or six people in the car, and they thought the other party was rushing to the east to perform a reconnaissance mission. After all, the large German troops coming from the city were advancing towards the station. After following for a while, the pilot felt that it was not interesting and turned back.
Got to the station.
Mihiga looked at several reconnaissance planes hovering in the sky from the window, and said to Tavlin worriedly: "Comrade Sergeant, the enemy's reconnaissance planes have been hovering above us. If we follow your division commander's order to send supplies to the guerrillas,
If we move the team's camp, doesn't it mean exposing the target?"
"I remember there seemed to be several anti-aircraft guns at the station." After thinking for a moment, Tavlin said to Mihiga: "If we can fire two cannons into the air, the German reconnaissance planes will definitely stay far away."
Unexpectedly, after he finished speaking, he saw the embarrassment on Mihiga's face and couldn't help but ask: "Why, Comrade Mihiga, among the thousands of guerrillas, can't you find a few who know how to do it?"
The one who used the anti-aircraft gun?”
"I think so, Comrade Sergeant." Mihiga said with a wry smile: "Among us, there are collective farm members, workers, accountants, and teachers, but there is no one who has ever been a gunner.
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"Then what should we do?" Taflin looked at the gray sky and the reconnaissance planes lingering in the sky, and said worriedly: "If we can't drive away the enemy's reconnaissance planes, then our actions to transport supplies will be in vain.
You will be discovered by the enemy. If your camp is exposed, you will face crazy revenge from the Germans."
Mihiga knows that Tavlin is not an alarmist. After the Germans retake the lost station, they will definitely launch crazy revenge on all the guerrillas who participated in this operation. Think about the guerrillas who failed to attack the state-owned farm last time. Mihiga
Shiga fought coldly, not only wiping out the entire guerrilla army, but the ferocious Germans even brutally massacred the villagers in several nearby villages, not even sparing the elderly and children.
"How about we wait until dark before moving the supplies?" Mixiga thought about it for a long time, and finally came up with an idea: "Anyway, the nights are long and the days are short, and it will get dark around four o'clock in the afternoon. As long as it gets dark,
Black, the German reconnaissance planes won't be able to see anything, and we can move supplies on a large scale."
"No, it's only the morning, and there are still five or six hours until dark." As soon as Mihiga's plan was proposed, it was rejected by Tavlin: "If we start moving after dark, I'm afraid it will take an all-nighter.
time. No matter how many landmines we lay on the roads used by the Germans, we will not be able to stop them for more than ten hours. If the Germans arrive when we are transporting supplies, I can assure you that the people in this station will not be able to stop them for more than ten hours.
Thousands of guerrillas will be defeated by the enemy in less than half an hour."
"What should we do?" Seeing that the plan he proposed was rejected by Tavlin without hesitation, Mihiga couldn't help but stamped his feet anxiously: "Comrade Sergeant, you can't wait until dark to move supplies, and there is no way
Anti-aircraft gunners, how do we deal with enemy planes in the air? Do we use submachine guns to shoot them down?"
The speaker is unintentional and the listener is intentional. Michiga's grumbling words immediately made Tavlin think of an excellent solution: "Comrade Captain, I have a way to deal with the German reconnaissance planes."
"Comrade Sergeant, what can we do?" Tavlin's words made Mihiga grasp a life-saving straw. He grabbed Tavlin's arm and asked excitedly: "Hurry up and tell me!"
"Comrade Captain, aren't there a large number of weapons and ammunition among the materials we seized?" Tavlin said with a smile: "According to the orders of superiors, the weapons in the hands of all guerrillas have been replaced by weapons made in Germany. You
Immediately organize air-to-air shooting and try to drive away the enemy's reconnaissance planes from the station."
"Although we have all been equipped with German-style weapons, our comrades are not yet proficient in using the new weapons." Mihiga said hesitantly: "Even if we organize air-to-air shooting, we may not be able to hit the target."
"One or two people shooting in the air may have no effect, but if thousands of people shoot at the same time, the barrage formed above the station is entirely possible to bring down the enemy's aircraft."
Mihiga waited for Tavlin to finish speaking, then he slammed the table excitedly and said excitedly: "Comrade Sergeant, your method is really great. Anyway, we have seized so many weapons and ammunition, and we can't take them all away.
Rather than blowing it up or leaving it to the Germans, it would be better to use it against the German planes first."
Just when Mihiga was about to walk outside, Tavlin stopped him again: "Comrade captain, let the team members lie down on the ground in an organized manner, select one or a few targets and concentrate their firepower on them, so as to destroy the enemy."
The one shot down by the plane might be bigger."
"Let the team members lie on the ground and shoot in the air?" The method Tavlin said was completely beyond Mihiga's understanding. He asked tentatively: "Is this possible?"
"Why can't it be done?" Tavlin said confidently: "When the division commander led us to fight the enemy in the Red October Factory, he used this concentrated fire tactic to shoot down several enemy bombers and fighter jets. Think about it,
Since bombers and fighter jets can be shot down, is there any problem in dealing with unarmed reconnaissance aircraft like this in the sky?"
Five minutes later, intensive gunfire rang out inside the station. A reconnaissance plane that was lowering its altitude and trying to fly over the station was unfortunately hit by a dense barrage of bullets. The plane trailed a long black smoke ribbon, swaying.
It flew towards the distance, and then fell into a forest. After a ball of fire with billowing smoke rose, a dull explosion sounded.
Seeing that their shooting actually knocked down the enemy's reconnaissance plane, the guerrillas who were lying on the ground and shooting suddenly became as excited as if they had been shot. They followed the targets instructed by their respective captains and pulled the triggers desperately.
Other aircraft hovering in the sky saw that one of their own aircraft was hit by intensive firepower from the ground. They immediately raised their altitude and climbed up desperately. However, two reconnaissance aircraft were still concentrated by intensive bullets, and their engines
Black smoke billowed out, and the pilot did not dare to stay in the air anymore and flew back unsteadily.
As soon as the enemy reconnaissance plane flew away, Taflin immediately rushed out of the station commander's office and shouted to Mihiga who was giving orders: "Comrade captain, the enemy's plane has been driven away by us. You should organize manpower to transport supplies as soon as possible."
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Mixiga looked in the air uneasily and saw that the enemy reconnaissance planes had indeed flown away. Then he summoned the guerrilla captains and arranged for them to start carrying supplies to their respective camps. For a moment, trucks and trucks in the station
The carriages were all requisitioned by the guerrillas, and as soon as they were loaded with supplies, they immediately left the station and headed for their own camps.
As the guerrillas began to transport supplies, Tavlin asked the radio operator to send a report to Guchakov, saying that the reconnaissance plane over the station had been driven away and was now delivering supplies to various guerrilla camps.
After receiving the telegram, Guchakov immediately called back and asked: "How far are the German reinforcements from your station?"
"I have sent Platonov to take people to lay mines along the railway east of the station," Tavlin telegraphed back: "I estimate that the enemy is still at least ten kilometers away from the station."
Guchakov's new reply was simple: "Seize the time to rush to transport supplies, and be sure to transport more useful supplies to the guerrilla camp for storage."
Don't forget that there are as many as 2,000 guerrillas participating in the war this time. These are just combatants. There are still hundreds of non-combatants including the elderly and children in various guerrilla camps. I saw our own people transporting a large amount of supplies.
After unloading the truck outside the forest, they immediately came out and moved the supplies into the camp in the forest one trip after another.
At noon, Platonov's armored vehicle came back. He reported to Tavlin and Michiga: "We laid more than 60 mines eight kilometers east of the station and arranged two mines.
Minefield, I believe it can stop the enemy for a while."
"Comrade Platonov, thank you for your hard work." Tavlin held the other person's hand and said apologetically: "I know you have just returned from the task of laying mines. You are very hard and need to rest immediately. But you can't do that now.
, the enemy may rush into the station at any time, so we must lay more mines on the enemy's path to make it difficult for them to move."
"When I came back, I checked the weather." Platonov said to Tavlin: "It will probably start to snow soon. I think that in order to speed up the laying of mines, some mines do not need to be buried at all.
In the field, we only need to wait for the blizzard to come, and we can scatter mines in the snow, and we can blow up the enemy and knock them off their feet."
"Then act quickly." Tavlin knew that Platonov's level of fighting guerrillas and laying landmines behind enemy lines was much higher than his own, so he nodded to him and said: "The enemy may rush in at any time.
Come here at the station, your mission is to complete the laying of the new minefield as soon as possible. Do you understand?"
"Understood, Comrade Sergeant." Platonov replied with a smile: "I will make the enemy step on a mine every time he takes a step forward. But I have a condition."
"What conditions?" Tavlin thought to himself, if Platonov's conditions were not harsh, he would definitely agree to him: "You can just say, as long as it is within my capabilities, I will definitely satisfy your wish.
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"Two armored vehicles can only carry 24 people." Platonov, who had just returned from the armored vehicle, naturally knew how many passengers the armored vehicle could carry. He introduced to Tavlin: "I will first bring 20 people and a sufficient number of people."
mines and rush to the mine-laying point to the east. After the armored vehicles come back, please use these two vehicles to send us more comrades and mines."
Tavlin originally wanted to reject Platonov's proposal because of the shortage of manpower, but then he thought about it. It would take a lot of manpower to lay a sufficient number of mines before the enemy arrived at the station. However, out of concern for the overall situation
Despite the test, he still decided to comply with the request.
Tavlin nodded and said to Platonov: "Comrade Platonov, I agree with all your requests. After the armored vehicles return, I will send you more personnel. Also,
Yes, I will send you a few of our comrades this time, and they will be responsible for dealing with the enemy engineers. We must not let the enemy easily pass through your minefields."
After Platonov took the armored vehicle for the second time and set off with the mine-laying team and the mines, Michiga walked into the station commander's office from the outside and said to Tavlin with some regret: "I didn't expect that we
There will be so many supplies seized at the station. However, because there are too many supplies and the places where we store the supplies are too scattered, I think even at night, the supplies that can be moved will be very limited."
When he thought that there were so many supplies that had to be destroyed in the end, Tavlin felt quite regretful in his heart. He nodded and said helplessly to Mixiga: "There is no way, Comrade Captain, we can use it."
We have too few manpower, so we have to move as much as we can. Anyway, we will set fire to the remaining supplies when we evacuate the station, and we will never leave any supplies to the Germans..."
Before Tavlin finished speaking, he suddenly heard a burst of cheers coming from outside the stationmaster's room. He couldn't help being stunned, and instinctively asked Mixiga: "Comrade Captain, what happened outside?"
Before Mixiga could answer, a guerrilla suddenly rushed in outside and shouted excitedly at the two of them: "It's snowing, it's snowing heavily outside."
When Taflin heard the cheers coming from outside, he thought it was the reinforcements arriving, but unexpectedly it was just snowing. He asked the team members who came in to report the news expressionlessly: "It's winter now. Occasionally, there will be a snowstorm."
What’s so great about snow?”
"Comrade Sergeant, you can't underestimate this snow." Mihiga looked outside and saw countless snowflakes falling from the sky. He excitedly said to Tavlin: "It looks like
, this is a heavy snow, it will completely cover up our movement of materials, and even if the Germans take back the station, they will have no way to figure out where we moved the materials."
Hearing what Mihiga said, Taflin quickly walked to the door and looked outside. He saw flakes of snowflakes floating in the sky. Due to the low temperature, the snowflakes would not melt immediately when they fell on the ground.
Instead, it slowly piled up. The shoulders of some guerrillas who appeared in his field of vision were covered with a thin layer of snowflakes.
Seeing this, Tavlin also became happy. He turned to Mihiga in the room and said: "Comrade Captain, this heavy snowfall comes at a good time. Not only will the enemy no longer be able to send out reconnaissance planes to monitor the station,
. Even the enemies who are coming here may have to slow down their march. This is equivalent to buying us a few more hours of precious time to transfer more supplies to the guerrilla camp.