At noon the next day, Sokov took Selyosha to the fortifications on the south slope, found an open place, raised his telescope and looked at the soldiers digging traps in the distance.
Selyosha looked around and found that there was no one in the trench except himself and Sokov. There was a reinforced concrete fortification nearby, and all the soldiers on duty should have gone there. Seeing that there were no outsiders around, he gathered Sokov's ear and asked tentatively: "Misha, will the Germans really rush into the city?"
When Sokov heard Selyosha’s question, he put down the telescope in his hand, turned his head to look at him, nodded and said, “Yes, Selyosha, the Germans will sooner or later rush into this city. Otherwise, I would not urge Ozor every day to speed up the construction of fortifications. I just hope that when the Germans rushed to Mamayev, we can rely on complete fortifications to fight their fierce offensives.”
As the commander of the brigade guard, Selyosha once heard Sokov say that the enemy would rush into the city on different occasions, but he was always skeptical about it. Today, when he asked in private occasions, he felt heavy when he heard Sokov say so.
After a while, Seriosha said, "Misa, I believe you still remember the Battle of Kiev. The Germans besieged the Southwest Front troops in Kiev. In just one month, they annihilated 700,000 of us and captured more than 600,000. Tell me, if we stick to Stalingrad, will we become the second Kiev?"
Sokov smiled faintly about Selyosha's concern and then said, "Don't worry, Selyosha, even if the Germans rushed into this city, it would still be an unfinished task for them to completely occupy the city. When the time is ripe, we can launch a counterattack and defeat them."
After several months of getting along, Selyosha was impressed by various judgments about Sokov, so he felt much more at ease when he heard what he said. He then asked, "Misha, how long does it take for us to drive away the enemies rushing into the city?"
"In my opinion, this time will not be too short." Sokov calculated silently in his mind. The interval between the Germans rushing into Stalingrad and the Soviets launching a comprehensive counterattack was more than two months, so he said vaguely: "It will take about three months."
"Three months?" After hearing what Sokov said, Selyosha calculated silently, and then asked carefully: "Misha, do you think we can support three months with our existing troops?"
"It's very difficult." Sokov pointed his finger at the soldiers digging traps in the distance and said: "Seryosha, you have seen that we lack sufficient anti-tank weapons. If we want to block the German tanks, we can only use various means and try not to let the German tanks approach Mamayev's hill."
"Comrade Brigade Commander," Sokov just finished speaking, a soldier emerged from the reinforced concrete fortification not far away. He shouted at Sokov: "Your phone number is there."
Sokov quickly walked into the fortification, picked up the microphone on the table, and put it in his ear. Belkin's voice came from the receiver: "Comrade Brigade Commander, the anti-tank troops sent by our superiors have arrived. Come back quickly."
When Sokov heard that it was an anti-tank force, he immediately lit up and he quickly replied: "I'll go back soon."
When Selyosha heard the call between Sokov and Berkin, on the way back to the brigade, Selyosha kept asking: "Misa, did the political commissar say, what kind of anti-tank troops are sent to us by the superiors?"
"You ask me, who am I going to ask?" Sokov said to the impatient Selyosha as he walked: "When you return to the brigade headquarters, don't you know?"
When the two walked into the tent where the brigade headquarters was located, Sokov saw Belkin talking to a strange captain, and asked in a hurry: "Comrade Political Commissar, where are the anti-tank forces you mentioned?"
Belkin pointed to the captain and said to Sokov: "Comrade Brigade Commander, I will introduce you to Captain Oshanin, the company commander of the Anti-tank Dog Company."
"Oxaning?!" When he heard this surname, Sokov was stunned for a moment and thought to himself: "This surname sounds very familiar, and it seems that he has heard of it somewhere."
"Hello, comrade brigade commander." Oxhaning heard that the lieutenant colonel in front of him was the brigade commander of the infantry brigade. Although the other party seemed a few years younger than him, he still stood attentively and said respectfully: "I am Captain Oxhaning, the company commander of the Anti-tank Dog Company. From now on, I will obey your orders."
Oshaning's words reminded Sokov of the fact that during the Patriotic War, Zhukov formed several anti-tank dog companies, which specially carried explosives to bomb German tanks, and achieved good results. Now that there is such a military dog ​​company in the brigade, he has a greater chance of winning against German tanks.
After Sokov greeted Oshanin to sit down, he asked politely: "Captain, I wonder how many people there are in your company and how many military dogs?"
Ao Xianing, who had just sat down, quickly stood up again and replied respectfully: "Report to the brigade commander, I have a total of 150 people and 125 military dogs."
Sokov thought that a military dog ​​company could have fifty or sixty military dogs at best, which was very good, but he didn't expect there were so many. He turned his head and looked at Belkin sitting beside him, and said unexpectedly: "I really didn't expect there were so many?"
"Comrade Brigade Commander, we have formed a total of four anti-tank military dog ​​companies here." Oshanin straightened his body and reported to Sokov: "The number of troops and military dogs in each company is the same."
"Captain," Sokov asked curiously after he said Oshanin: "I want to ask, how far is the attack distance between the military dogs?" In Sokov's imagination, the military dog ​​trainer would immediately pull the explosive pack after seeing the German tank appear, so that the military dog ​​would rush to the bottom of the German tank and blow it up. If this method is used, the combustion time of the fuse must be very limited, and the attack distance must be very short.
But Oshanin seemed to not understand the question Sokov wanted to ask. After hesitating for a while, he said embarrassedly: "Comrade Brigade Commander, can you repeat your question? Please forgive me, I didn't hear it very clearly just now."
Before Sokov could speak, Belkin said first: "Captain, the brigade commander wants to ask, when you go on a mission to blow up the tank, how far is the tank at the attack location."
"It should be fine for two or three hundred meters." Oshanin was afraid that Sokov and Belkin would not understand, so he explained specifically: "In fact, it is okay to attack around five hundred meters. But we are worried that the military dogs will lose control in the battlefield with the sound of gunfires, so we set the best attack distance to two or three hundred meters."
"The distances may be different, the length of the fuse may be different." Sokov humbly asked Oshanin for advice: "If it is too short, it will explode before the military dog ​​rushes to the German tank; if the fuse is too long, maybe the explosives will not explode after all the German tanks are driven from the military dog's head."
"Wrong, comrade comrade brigade commander, you're wrong." Unexpectedly, as soon as Sokov finished speaking, Oshanin shook his head and said, "The detonation mode of explosives on the back of the military dog ​​is different from what you imagined."
"Different?!" Sokov asked unexpectedly: "Captain Oshanin, I want to ask, if the fuse is not used in advance, what method do you plan to detonate the explosives on the military dog?"
After hearing Sokov's words, Oshanin grinned and said, "Comrade Brigade Commander, if you allow me, I will bring a military dog ​​here and introduce it in detail to you and the political commissar."
Sokov and his friends came outside the tent. Oshanin waved his hand to the distance, and immediately a trainer came with a military dog. The military dog ​​came to the front of several people and sat down properly with the instructor's order. Oshanin introduced the explosives tied to Sokov and Belkin to Sokov and Belkin: "Brig Commander, Political Commissar, please see. The one tied to the military dog ​​is called a canvas hanging bag. On its back is an iron box containing a fuse. The wooden stick with a spring on the iron box is called a wooden trigger rod. When the military dog ​​penetrates into the bottom of the German tank, the trigger rod will press down, causing the explosion of the explosive package..."
When Belkin heard this, he couldn't help but interrupt and asked, "Captain, can you blow up the enemy's tanks with just a little explosive?"
"It's totally OK." Oxhanin pointed to the square leather bags on both sides of the canvas bag and continued: "This is the explosive bag. It is connected to the detonating potion bag with a fuse. As long as the detonating potion bag explodes, it will cause a chain explosion and blow up the enemy's tanks."
Sokov saw Oshanin's hand swaying around the wooden trigger rod, and he couldn't help feeling relieved. He was afraid that Oshanin would accidentally press the trigger rod, causing the explosive pack on the military dog's back to explode, blowing the people around him to pieces. Just as he was about to take a few steps back, he heard Oshanin continue, "There is a safety pin on the iron box. As long as we don't pull it out, no matter how we touch the wooden trigger rod, it will not cause an explosion. But as long as we pull out the iron ring, the wooden trigger rod will explode in an instant when it encounters a collision."
"Captain," Belkin continued to ask curiously, "I want to ask, what method do you use to make the military dogs rush directly to the enemy's tank?"
"This is very simple," Oxhanin explained: "We started with the formation and fed the military dogs, all of which were near the German tanks. Over time, the military dogs knew to take the initiative to rush towards the German tanks. Even if some military dogs did not rush, our trainers could order them to rush up..."
When Oshanin talked endlessly to the two, Sokov thought to himself: "Lishening Captain Oshanin, it is Zhukov's intention to form an anti-tank army dog ​​company. In order to achieve this goal, he must have hit a lot of nails. You must know that dogs are human friends in Russia. This is not a slogan, but an iron-like fact. Although stray dogs can be seen everywhere on the streets, they can all be well cared for and sufficient food. Now, if these "human friends" are going to perform such a cruel task, I believe there must be many people who oppose it."
After Sokov finished his talk, he asked curiously: "Comrade Oshanin, I want to ask, if your military dogs were exhausted in the battle, what would you do next?"
"Comrade Brigade Commander," Oshanin looked at Sokov with a blank expression and said in confusion: "Is this more important? If the military dogs are exhausted, you can adapt us into infantry. Although we are all military dog ​​trainers, there is no problem in changing to infantry."
"What? Let me use the military dog ​​trainer as an infantryman?" Sokov frowned and asked, "Don't you have to go back to the rear and retrain new military dogs? You know, you are now the precious wealth of our infantry brigade. Even if all the military dogs are consumed, you cannot treat you as infantry."
"Comrade Brigade Commander, you don't know anything." Oshenin said to Sokov with a serious expression: "The four newly formed anti-tank military dog ​​companies are already at their limit. Whether it is to supplement the trainer or the military dog, it will be very difficult. Instead of letting us return to the rear and wait for the military dogs that will be replenished after all the military dogs are sacrificed, it is better to pick up our weapons and have a face-to-face fight with the Germans."
After chatting a few more, Oshanin ordered the soldiers and generals to take away their dogs, and he followed Sokov and Belkin back to the tent. Belkin looked at Sokov and said with a smile: "Comrade Brigade Commander, with these 125 military dogs that can blow up German tanks, our defense mission has been greatly reduced. I believe the Germans would never have dreamed that we would send military dogs to carry explosives to blow up their tanks."
Sokov nodded slightly, and then said to Oshanin: "Captain Oshanin, since this war will not end in a very short time, I hope you can be mentally prepared and prepare for long-term combat. Do you understand?"
"I understand, comrade brigade commander." Oxaning nodded and said affirmatively: "I understand your intentions. You are worried that we will use all the military dogs to bomb German tanks in the early stages of the war. Don't worry, I know how to use these anti-tank military dogs."
Sokov raised his hand and looked at his watch, then smiled and said to Oshanin: "Captain Oshanin, you have worked hard all the way. I will ask someone to take you to your place to live. You should take a good rest for two days first, and the training time can be slowed down a little. Seryosha!"
Hearing Sokov calling his name, Selyosha quickly took two steps forward, straightened his body and replied: "Here!"
Sokov pointed at Oshanin and said to Selyosha: "Take this captain and his subordinates to rest in the tent that has been prepared for them. Try to satisfy them as much as possible if they need it."
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Chapter completed!