Seeing that the air defense position in front of the north slope was shrouded in smoke, Sokov 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 and led a guard squad to run towards the front of the north slope.
Still far away, he heard the crying and screams of female soldiers from the positions, and the shouts of male soldiers: "Sanitation officer, there are also wounded people here, come here quickly." Sokov had been here before and knew that there were no male soldiers in the women's anti-aircraft artillery camp. The male soldiers shouting should be from the fourth battalion soldiers stationed on the north slope.
All the officers and soldiers on the air defense positions were busy saving people, and no one noticed Sokov who suddenly appeared. Seeing that no one noticed him, Sokov pulled a soldier running past him and asked sternly: "Where is your battalion commander, where is he?"
After seeing Sokov in front of him clearly, the soldier quickly stood at attention and said with a straight body: "Comrade Brigade Commander, please wait for a while. I will go to the battalion commander now."
After a while, Captain Brisky trotted to Sokov and reported straightened his body: "Comrade Brigade Commander, Captain Brisky, the commander of the Fourth Battalion, reported to you that our battalion is rescuing the wounded personnel of the Women's Anti-Automatic Artillery Battalion. Please instruct!"
"Continue." Sokov glanced at the bombed anti-aircraft artillery on the position and the craters everywhere, sighed secretly, and asked, "How is it, Comrade Captain, are there serious casualties?"
"Comrade Brigade Commander, the casualties are very serious." Brisky replied with a bitter face: "At least two-thirds of the anti-aircraft artillery were destroyed by the enemy's artillery fire, and more than half of the casualties were killed or killed."
"Their commander, that's called......" Sokov was excited and could not remember the name of the anti-aircraft artillery battalion commander.
Brisky quickly reminded him in a low voice: "Ulanova, Lieutenant Ulanova."
"Yes, it's this Lieutenant Ulanova, where is she now?" Sokov looked at the craters everywhere on the position and the bodies of female soldiers arranged in rows. He said angrily: "She should be responsible for the sacrifice of these female soldiers."
"Comrade Brigade Commander, please come with me." Brisky said to Sokov in a steady tone: "I will take you to see Lieutenant Ulanova."
Brisky took Sokov to the place where Ulanova was. The once heroic female officer was sitting on a cannon box, covering her face with her hands, and her shoulders were trembling constantly. Although Sokov heard no sound, he also guessed that the other party was crying silently, sad for the female soldiers who died.
Seeing Ulanova like this, Sokov's anger calmed down. He came to Ulanova, put a hand on her shoulder, and shook it gently twice.
Feeling someone shaking his body, Ulanova stopped crying, moved his hands away from his face, raised a face full of tears, looked at Sokov standing in front of him with eyes that were not at all bright, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, are you doing anything?"
"Lt. Ulanova," Sokov couldn't help but be angry when he thought of the female soldiers who died tragically. He asked sternly: "I ask you, why don't you fight back? Why don't you fight back when German tanks fire at you?"
"Ltd. Colonel," Ulanova replied in a somewhat panicked voice: "We are just anti-aircraft artillery soldiers. Before we were sent here, we only learned some common sense of anti-aircraft artillery air defense. But the one who just launched an attack on us was the German tanks. We are anti-aircraft artillery soldiers. How can we deal with the enemy's tanks..." As she said that, she began to wipe away tears again.
"Even if you use anti-aircraft guns, you can still deal with enemy tanks." Sokov pointed at a complete anti-aircraft gun not far away and said in a tone of disappointment: "You can destroy the German tanks as long as you put them flat. You must know that when the Germans were in Africa, they used 88mm anti-aircraft guns as anti-tank guns, which would defeat the British army. If you just used this 85mm anti-aircraft gun to bombard the German tanks, even if you could not destroy them, you could scare them away. It would be better than standing on the position and being bombarded by gunfire."
After hearing Sokov's words, Ulanova lowered her head and looked at her toes and remained silent. While she was sad for the female soldiers who died, she also secretly thought, if I really did what this lieutenant colonel said, could the casualties of the troops be reduced?
"Captain Brisky." After Sokov fired at Ulanova, he thought that he could not use this place as an air defense position. Otherwise, next time the German tanks used another trick, the women's anti-aircraft artillery battalion would be in danger of being destroyed. He ordered Brisky: "You should immediately transfer the air defense position to the open space between the north and south slopes, which is much safer than here."
Hearing that Sokov was preparing to transfer the air defense position, Ulanova suddenly stood up from the wooden box and said firmly: "No, comrade Lieutenant Colonel, no one can transfer the anti-aircraft artillery position without authorization before receiving the order from his superiors."
Sokov didn't expect Ulanova to be so stubborn, so he said to her tough attitude: "Lieutenant Ulanova, don't transfer the position. If the Germans make a comeback, what do you plan to do? Or stand on the position and be bombarded?"
"Combat alarm, combat alarm." At this moment, a male soldier shouted not far away: "A armored vehicle, a German armored vehicle is coming."
Sokov didn't bother to continue arguing with Ulanova, so he jumped onto the shell box in one step, raised his telescope and looked into the distance. Sure enough, he saw a German armored personnel carrier driving in this direction. Before he even had to put the telescope down, he shouted: "Prepare for battle!"
Unexpectedly, after shouting, I heard a voice under my feet saying, "Comrade Brigade Commander, it is not conducive to defense. I think we should retreat to the high ground."
Sokov moved his telescope 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 use anti-aircraft guns to bombard the enemy's armored vehicles. He jumped out of the wooden box and walked towards the group of male soldiers searching and rescued the wounded. At the same time, he shouted loudly: "Who can shoot guns? Who can shoot guns?!"
Brisky trotted and caught up from behind, and asked breathlessly: "Comrade Brigade Commander, what are you asking about this?"
Sokov pointed at the approaching German armored vehicle in the distance and said, "I want to knock out that armored vehicle."
"But, comrade comrade commander." After understanding Sokov's intentions, Brisky said in embarrassment: "My men are all infantrymen, and no one can shoot artillery!"
"Comrade Captain, immediately send someone back to call the artillery position on the south slope." Sokov saw the armored vehicles approaching quickly, and hurriedly urged Brisky, "let them kill the enemy's armored vehicles with artillery fire."
"Comrade Brigade Commander." After hearing Sokov's orders, Brisky stood there without moving. He pointed to the female anti-aircraft gunners standing not far away and said to Sokov: "Didn't you just say that you can use anti-aircraft guns to deal with German tanks? Why not let these girls try now."
"Good idea." Sokov immediately agreed with Brisky's proposal. No matter what, even if the soldiers who had been artillery were temporarily found from somewhere, their familiarity with anti-aircraft artillery was definitely not as good as those female soldiers. So he quickly walked to the group of still terrified female soldiers and said loudly: "Girls."
After all the female soldiers' eyes were focused on him, he continued, "Do you want to avenge your sisters who died?"
After a brief silence, the female soldiers shouted in unison: "I want to!"
"Okay, since you want to avenge your sisters, then follow my order." Sokov pointed his hand at the intact anti-aircraft cannon nearby and ordered loudly: "Let the muzzle flat, aim at the German armored vehicle rushing over, and fire!"
As soon as Sokov finished speaking, the female soldiers rushed towards the intact anti-aircraft cannons as if they were injected with chicken blood, shaking their handwheels to flatten the high muzzle. At this time, Ulanova's mood also stabilized. She walked over with two small signal flags in hand and shouted at the female soldiers surrounding the anti-aircraft cannons: "Girls, listen to my orders!"
"Recharge!"
When Ulanova called out here, she raised the signal flag in her hand over her head: "Aim!"
Then, she suddenly waved down: "Fire!"
After a few loud bangs, the shells flew towards the armored vehicles in the distance. Unfortunately, because the armored vehicles moved too fast, the shells fired by the anti-aircraft artillery landed on the open space, and the explosion of the air waves caused several mud pillars.
Seeing the shells fall, both female soldiers and male soldiers sighed at the same time. Ulanova shouted loudly: "Reload and prepare to shoot again!"
The female soldiers just loaded the new shells into the cannon chamber when they suddenly saw several mud pillars rising up in front and behind the armored vehicles. What's going on? When they saw this scene, Sokov thought to himself: Could it be that the German armored vehicles were crushed with landmines? Don't think about it, even if they were crushed with landmines, it would be impossible to explode in several directions at the same time?
Just when he was puzzled, Brisky pulled his clothes, pointed to the south slope, and said loudly: "Comrade Brigade Commander, the shells were flying from the south slope, and it should be the artillery position over there firing."
The second round of shooting of the female soldiers, the landing point of the shell was much closer than before. A shell even landed four or five meters away from the armored vehicle and exploded, causing the vehicle body to bump violently. Before the female soldiers could complete the third loading, a red flag suddenly rose from the armored vehicle.
"Stop shooting, stop shooting!" Seeing the red flag rising from the armored vehicles, Sokov's first reaction was that the squad led by Kristov had returned. He quickly shouted to Ulanova: "It's our own people, our own people." The female soldiers who were preparing to shoot stopped when they heard Sokov shouting, and looked at Sokov with surprise.
"Comrade Lieutenant," Sokov asked Ulanova, who held the signal flag, "Can you find a soldier who knows the flag and send a signal to the armored vehicle that the brigade commander is here and let him lean over quickly?"
"I am the best signal soldier in the women's anti-aircraft artillery camp." After Ulanova finished speaking, she turned around and walked to an anti-aircraft artillery. With the help of the female soldiers, she climbed onto the artillery mount and signaled to the armored vehicles coming. Perhaps because she saw the red flag rising from the armored vehicles, the artillery positions on the south slope also stopped firing.
After seeing the signal, the armored vehicle slowed down its speed and followed an open passage that only the officers and soldiers of the infantry brigade knew, passing through the minefield in front of the north slope, and arrived at the anti-aircraft gun position with wisps of blue smoke.
After the armored vehicle was opened, the first one was a German officer wearing a big brimmed hat, followed by a dozen German soldiers wearing steel helmets. Seeing so many German soldiers suddenly appeared in front of them, they immediately startled the soldiers standing around. They pointed the black muzzles at each other, and just waited for Brisky to call them, they knocked them into sieves.
In full view of the crowd, the officer came to Sokov, raised his hand to salute, and reported loudly: "Comrade Brigade Commander, Lieutenant Christopher, the reconnaissance company commander, to you, I have successfully completed the mission, please instruct me!"
"Why are you the only one car?" Sokov thought of five armored vehicles when he went out, but now only one came back. Had the other four been lost in the battle, he asked with some concern: "Is there something unexpected happening?"
"No, no accidents." Hearing Sokov's problem, the officer shook his head and said, "Comrade Brigade Commander, we rushed to the Rososhka area this time and successfully seized a German military warehouse, seizing a large number of weapons, ammunition and various military supplies from it. In addition, we also got more than 20 trucks to be transported back. But because we were worried that it would cause unnecessary misunderstandings when returning, so I will come back to report to you first."
"Comrade Lieutenant, you can report such things by radio. Why do you have to go there in person?" Sokov said unhappily after Brisky finished speaking: "You were almost killed by our own artillery fire. By the way, you just said there were twenty trucks. Where did you find so many drivers?"
"Comrade Brigade Commander, our radio station has a malfunction and cannot contact the brigade department, so I can only take a risk to take a trip myself." Christopher replied: "As for the driver, we met a retreating army, and there were many people who knew how to drive cars, so I requisitioned them all."
"Where is the convoy?" Sokov continued.
Chapter completed!