Deep in the forest, in an A-shaped shack built with pine branches, the warmth brought by the embers in the campfire pit easily dispelled the chill that came with the dense fog. Inside the shack, which was filled with a little smoke, a meal of canned soup was filled.

Most of the people with full stomachs have fallen asleep.

On the other hand, Sasha, who was on night watch, was sitting alone by the pine tree at the door of the shack, leaning half of her body against the rough trunk. Using the faint firelight, she inserted a trimmed crow feather into a 20 mm caliber shell shell.

After dipping it, he meticulously drew a red five-pointed star on the barrel of the anti-tank gun that Wei Ran had repaired.

At the same time, Wei Ran, who was sleeping at the door of the shack, unabashedly pressed the shutter towards the other party - even with this weak brightness, he probably wouldn't be able to capture anything at all.

Turning his head to look at Wei Ran, who was also awake, the young Sasha responded with a gazi-like honest smile, then gently blew on the newly painted red star until he was sure that the red paint on it would not flow.

Only then did he carefully place the anti-tank gun across his legs against the branch of a tree.

Then, he took out a wooden stopper from his pocket, blocked the bullet shell with red paint, pressed it on the tree trunk and put it into his pocket.

"Why didn't you sleep?" Sasha asked Wei Ran in a low voice.

“Not too sleepy”

Wei Ran answered softly, then simply sat up, took out a cigarette from his pocket and gave one to the other party.

It's not that he wasn't sleepy, it was just that he couldn't sleep at all because of the loud surround sound snoring of Alyosha and Father Dofilo who were sleeping on the left and right sides, and their strong bad breath.

They each lit their cigarettes. Sasha tightened the blanket around her and lowered her voice and asked expectantly, "Victor, are there really three tanks outside the forest?"

"Of course it's true. Didn't the political commissar say it in detail just now?" Wei Ran replied in a low voice in the swirling smoke, "And I saw it with my own eyes."

"Very good"

Sasha happily took a puff of his cigarette, "I will definitely be able to break at least one car by then, and maybe I will have a chance to break the second one, and then I will be able to draw one or two stars."

"You may have hit one, but I must have damaged the other two."

Yeremei, who was sleeping at the entrance of the shack like Wei Ran, joined the conversation in a low voice, "Brother Victor, do you still have cigarettes? Give me one too."

"I'm too lazy to argue with you."

Sasha took advantage of Wei Ran to share the cigarette with his opponent and said, "We'll see who can fight faster then."

"I will definitely be faster than you," Yeremei said confidently, lighting up his cigarette, and at the same time, his voice subconsciously became louder.

"If you don't want to sleep, go to the forest and chop down trees."

Alyosha, who was woken up, complained in confusion, and then snored loudly again.

The three people who were not sleeping looked at each other. Wei Ran and Yeremei quietly got out of the tent, and followed Sasha, who was holding an oil lamp in his hand, and walked a dozen meters away, casually looking for a stone.

The fallen pine tree sat down against the lee.

"Sasha, do you think there is anyone alive in the village?" Yeremey asked in a low voice.

"There must be no one left alive"

Sasha said in a determined tone, and then couldn't help but sigh, "Maybe only a few of us are still alive."

"What happened to your village?" Wei Ran couldn't help but ask.

"Burned by the Germans"

Yeremei leaned against a tree trunk covered with moss and explained calmly in the swirling smoke, "The Germans thought some people in our village were Jews, so they locked them all in barns and burned them to death."

"Wavila's parents were burned to death."

Sasha added in a low voice, "The rest of the men either escaped or were captured and sent to the front line to dig fortifications. It was when David, Sergey, and I were digging trenches that we escaped into the forest at night to survive.

Come down."

"And those women..."

Yeremei clenched his fists, but gritted his teeth and could not go on. A cold tear ran down his cheek, and dripped on the back of Wei Ran's hand in the night, burning the latter's body.

A tremor.

"They will be fine," Sasha said, but then she hammered the tree trunk behind her hard, and the three of them fell into silence for a while.

"Go back to sleep," Sasha muttered, looking up at the night sky filled with thick fog.

Sighing secretly, Wei Ran put the cigarette case in the other person's hand, stood up and walked towards the tent in the distance.

In the blink of an eye, the next morning, when the sun had not yet climbed up to the treetops and the morning fog was at its thickest, everyone took their weapons, shouted at the two mules, and dragged the heavy load that had been temporarily mounted on a simple sled.

The machine gun rushed towards the edge of the forest.

In the thick mist sprayed from the thick nostrils of the two mules, the group arrived at the minefield only a hundred meters away from the edge of the forest before seven o'clock in the morning. Alyosha was responsible for digging the minefield used to hide machine guns.

Beside the pit.

This pit, which is only about half a meter wide at most, was dug under the trunk of a fallen pine tree. It seems to be about two meters long and nearly one meter deep.

Moreover, there were a lot of collected dead branches and leaves piled up on both sides of the long and narrow pit. Under these dead branches and leaves, there was also the Soviet cloak that Wei Ran had used as a floor mat.

Obviously, when you need to bury a weapon, just put the weapon in and lift the cloak with force.

After careful testing, after confirming that it was enough to put the heavy heavy machine gun, ammunition boxes and the anti-tank gun, Commissar Vinia and Wei Ran took the boys except Dofero through it.

They passed through dangerous minefields and "visited" the three fire positions they had prepared.

"Next, assign combat tasks"

Vinia led everyone back to the pit where the machine gun was to be hidden. He also borrowed the topographic map that Wei Ran had drawn before and placed it on the lying tree trunk. He pointed at three places on the topographic map with a pine branch as thick as a chopstick.

The position began to assign combat tasks.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Sasha, Alyosha, you two work together."

Political Commissar Vinia had already prepared and said, "You two are in charge of an anti-tank gun. Victor, you will take them to the position you dug later."

"No problem" Weiran, Sasha and Alyosha responded in unison.

"Yeremei, you and Vlas are in charge of our heavy machine guns."

After Vinia finished speaking, he continued to make arrangements without any need for Weiran to respond, "David, you and Victor are in charge of the German machine gun. Come with me to the high ground later."

"No problem" David responded simply.

"etc"

Yeremei asked in astonishment, "Let me be in charge of the machine gun? I want to continue fighting tanks. Sasha and I have made an appointment to see who can destroy more tanks."

"no problem"

Vinya was particularly happy, "David, you and Yeremey's jobs will be swapped. You and Fras will be in charge of the heavy machine gun. Yeremey, you and I will be in charge of the other anti-tank gun. By the way, we will be responsible for the Vickers."

Lots of secondary shooters.”

"Thanks!"

Yeremei responded with joy, then glanced at Sasha and silently mouthed "Compare."

"Beat it!" Sasha muttered vaguely.

Political Commissar Vinia seemed not to notice, and continued, "Victor, the machine gun you are responsible for does not have much ammunition, so unless there are infantry rushing over, don't fire easily. In addition, after emptying the bullet,

You also need to support other positions."

"Good" Wei Ran simply accepted the position of "free man".

Political Commissar Vinia paused after hearing this and reminded again, "Fras, you and David are in charge of the heavy machine gun. You are also the main force responsible for suppressing the enemy."

"Leave it to us!" Fras and David responded confidently.

"Vinya, what about me?"

Father Dofero asked dissatisfied, "What should I do? Hide and watch, and then applaud you?"

"Dad, you are responsible for controlling the animals."

Political Commissar Vinia was obviously well prepared, "It is not troublesome for our positions on both sides to retreat, but if David and Fras's heavy machine guns want to withdraw, the strength of the two of them alone may not be enough."

Hearing that there was something to do, Father Dofero immediately accepted the job, shaking his gray sideburns.

"Let's talk about the battle plan next."

Political Commissar Vinia said, "According to yesterday's observation, there are only three tanks guarding the intersection, and one of the tanks can only be regarded as a machine gun bunker. As long as we fire first, there won't be much of a threat. The other two tanks are with us."

The ones that were ambushed before were of the same model, but there were a lot of sandbags piled outside."

After a pause, Vinia continued, "Platoon Commander Taras will launch a sneak attack on the village of Polpino after 5:30 this afternoon. We will attack the highway guard 15 minutes in advance to attract firepower, but the specific time is based on the time that Yelie and I will

Mei was in charge of firing the anti-tank gun.

David, you and Fras need to use machine guns to destroy the No. 1 tank with only a machine gun turret immediately after we open fire, and you must ensure that its machine gun turret does not create fire suppression."

"What about us?" Sasha asked.

"You attack the other nearest Panzer II tank."

Political Commissar Vinia made arrangements, "This time is different from before. After destroying the three tanks guarding the intersection, we don't have time to seize the weapons, but we can attack any passing German vehicles. This is also our mission today."

main target."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's faces immediately showed expressions of excitement.

"Next is the situation in case someone is injured and the time to retreat." As soon as Political Commissar Vinia finished speaking, everyone immediately fell silent.
To be continued...