"Is he not by your side?" Rodimtev asked.
"No." Sokov shook his head and said, "Col. Yelin took his men to our underground arsenal to collect equipment, and he was not by my side at this moment."
"Since you are not by your side, then forget it." Rodimtev ordered on the phone: "Let his troops enter the defensive position as soon as possible. Maybe they will have a bad battle to fight as soon as possible."
"I understand, Comrade General." Sokov said: "I will convey your words to Colonel Yelin."
After Colonel Yelin asked his subordinates to move all the weapons and ammunition outside the tunnel, he came to express his gratitude to Sokov. After learning that Rodimtev ordered his troops to enter the defense zone as soon as possible, he nodded slightly and then asked Sokov politely: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, your troops have been in the city for a long time. I wonder if there is anything to guide me?"
"I can't tell you the advice, I can only talk about my own feelings." Seeing Ye Lin asking for advice so modestly, Sokov was not easy to hide his personal information: "Since the German air force has firmly grasped the air supremacy over the city, we are bombed by them every day. Through observing the enemy plane, I found that the accuracy of German pilots dropping bombs is not high. Only when the frontier positions of both the enemy and our sides are wide enough, will the enemy plane dare to bomb the frontiers of our army. Therefore, I think that in order to reduce the threat of enemy planes to our defensive positions, it is necessary to maximize the distance between the frontier positions of both the enemy and our sides."
When Ye Lin asked Sokov's question, he was just a polite word. Unexpectedly, Sokov told him an extremely valuable experience. He asked while recording: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, how short do you think the distance between us and the German frontier positions is the most suitable? 300 meters or 200 meters?"
"Comrade Colonel, whether it is 300 meters or 200 meters, the distance between you and the enemy's position is still too far." Sokov thought for a moment, and finally replied decisively: "It is better to shorten the distance to throw grenades."
"What, shorten the throwing distance of the grenade?" Ye Lin was frightened by Sokov's words. He calculated silently in his heart. Usually, the range of bomb drops for soldiers is 30-40 meters. If the German army launched a charge with all their might, they could rush into the trench on the ground in a dozen seconds. He put down the paper and pen and asked hesitantly: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, is this distance too short? The enemy can rush into our position with just one charge."
Regarding Ye Lin's concern, Sokov smiled and said, "Col. Don't worry, the enemy can use a charge to rush into your position. You can also rush into the enemy's position within ten or twenty seconds."
After hearing Sokov said this, Ye Lin finally felt a little relieved. He grinned and said, "That's true. Since the enemy can rush into our position, we can also rush into our position."
Sokov knew very well that in the following days, whether it was the battles in Shizhong District or the factory area, there were very few so-called positional wars, and almost all were fighting street battles. Therefore, he felt that he needed to remind Ye Lin: "Col. After the enemy enters the city, he will engage in street battles with our army, so your tactics need to be adjusted."
"Adjust the tactics?" Ye Lin raised his eyebrows and asked in surprise: "How to adjust it?"
"I think in the next battle, the positional wars we were familiar with in the past will rarely appear, and more of a contest between the small troops on both sides. The battle revolves around a certain street or a building." In order to let Ye Lin understand what he wants to express, Sokov tried to use the tactics of combat with small troops, especially the use of snipers in street combat..."
Ye Lin finally understood what was going on when he heard this. He nodded and said, "I understand, Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, what you mean is to tell me. In the next battle, the battle between us and the enemy will be mainly street fighting. How about it, is my understanding correct?"
"It's totally correct, comrade Colonel." Seeing that Ye Lin understood his intention, Sokov couldn't help but think of Vasily and Pavlov, who wanted to recruit both of them under his command, but in a hurry, he didn't know how to speak.
Seeing that Sokov suddenly became distracted, Ye Lin quickly coughed heavily, focused his attention on Sokov, and then said, "Comrade Sokov, do you seem to have any worries?"
After Sokov woke up from his meditation, he grinned at Ye Lin, and then said, "Comrade Colonel, I have a soldier under him, saying that his friend is also in your army. He begged me, can he be transferred to our brigade?"
"Is it a new soldier or an old soldier?" Ye Lin asked with frown.
From Ye Lin's expression, Sokov saw the other party's displeasure, so he gave up the plan to recruit Lian Pavlov and decided to only pull the sniper god Vasirizaitev over: "It's a new warrior."
Hearing that he was a new warrior, Ye Lin's expression became relaxed again, and he asked, "Comrade Sokov, do you know what his name is and where he comes from?"
"Vasirizaitev." As soon as Yelin finished asking his question, Sokov's answer blurted out: "Aleninsko from the Ural Mountains used to be a hunter."
"Vasirizaitev." Ye Lin nodded after repeating the name, "Don't worry, Comrade Sokov, as long as he is still alive, I will definitely send someone to you as soon as possible."
Sokov suppressed the ecstasy in his heart and tried his best to say to Ye Lin in a calm tone: "Comrade Colonel, I would like to express my gratitude to you on behalf of the soldier! It's getting late, I'll ask you to take you to the deep ditch of Crutoy, where you should build a line of defense."
After Yelin said goodbye to Sokov, he followed the guide to leave Mamayev hill and headed towards the deep ditch of Krutoy. Halfway through, he suddenly remembered what Sokov asked for him, and hurriedly asked Dragan: "Captain, is there a new soldier named Vasirizaitev in your company?"
Although there were nearly two hundred soldiers in Dragan's company, one-third of them were new soldiers, Dragan clearly remembered the names of each soldier. After hearing Ye Lin's question, he thought for a moment, then shook his head and said negatively: "No, Comrade Commander. No this person."
"What, you don't have this person in your company?" Ye Lin couldn't help feeling a little disappointed when he heard that Dragan had no Vasily in his company. After all, Sokov helped him so much that he not only sent people to the ferry to greet his troops, but also gave him a large number of weapons and ammunition, but he couldn't even do such a small thing. "That's a pity."
Dragan was curious about why Ye Lin suddenly asked a new soldier, and asked quickly: "Comrade Commander, why did you think of finding a new soldier? Who is he? Are you a relative or a friend?"
"It's the first time I heard of this name." After Dragan reminded him, Ye Lin also felt strange. Why did Sokov think about asking for a new recruit under his command? Could it be that it was because he was entrusted by a soldier to find his fellow countrymen in his troops, but this did not make sense. But then he thought, he was just a new recruit, and there were not many others. Since Sokov wanted to, as long as he could find someone, he would give it to him. "It was Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, the commander of the 73rd Infantry Brigade, who said that one of his subordinates and this new recruit was a fellow villager, and wanted to transfer him to the infantry brigade."
When he figured out that the person who was looking for the recruit Vasily was to give his own ammunition, Dragan felt that he had to contribute some effort to the other party so that he could be worthy of the weapons and ammunition given by others. He quickly assured Ye Lin: "Comrade Commander, there are many recruits in my company. Maybe someone among them knows Vasily, I want to ask."
After getting Yelin's permission, Dragan quickly walked to a recruit who was carrying the box forward: "Comrade Soldier, do you know Vasirizaitev?"
"I don't know!"
"Do you know the recruit Vasirizaitev?"
"I don't know!"
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After asking more than a dozen recruits in succession, one of the recruits finally asked hesitantly: "Comrade Commander, is the recruit you asked about from Yalensko?"
Ye Lin only told Draggan to look for Vasily, but did not say where the other party came from. Therefore, after hearing the recruit's rebellious question, Draggan was stunned. After Ye Lin came over, he asked tentatively: "Comrade Commander, don't know where the recruit is from?"
Ye Lin frowned and thought for a while, then replied: "It seems to be Yalensko in the Ural Mountains."
"That's great, this is really great." After Draggan confirmed that the recruit mentioned Vasily, who was the person Colonel Yelin was looking for, he said excitedly: "Comrade Commander, my famous subordinate knows him."
The new soldier was called to Ye Lin and saw the regiment commander standing in front of him. He asked nervously: "Comrade Commander, don't you know what you are doing to Vasily? Did he have something happened to him?"
"It's a good thing." Seeing that the new soldier was so nervous, Ye Lin hurriedly comforted him and said, "There is a friendly commander who wants to transfer Vasily to his troops, so please ask me to find it. Why, do you know his whereabouts?"
The new soldier did not immediately answer Ye Lin's question, but asked back: "Comrade Commander, can I ask which commander wants to transfer Vasily to his troops?"
"It's the unit we just left," Ye Lin said the truth in order to dispel the other party's concerns: "I don't know where the brigade commander Lieutenant Colonel Sokov heard about Vasily from, and he just asked me for someone."
When he learned that it was the commander of the army who was standing on Mamayev's post and planned to transfer Vasily to his own army, the new soldier immediately felt relieved. He quickly replied: "Vasily is now in the fifth company of the Second Battalion."
After coming to the deep ditch of Crutoy, Ye Lin saw that the Chief of Staff had established the temporary command center. After praising him a few words, he asked, "Have you tied the telephone line between each company?"
The Chief of Staff thought Ye Lin was planning to notify the company commanders of each company to come and get the weapons, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, Comrade Commander, because the time is too short, so so far, our telephone line can only talk to the command posts of each battalion so far."
"Chief of Staff, immediately notify the company commanders of each battalion to come to the command center to collect weapons." Ye Lin said to the Chief of Staff: "Let them hurry up. Maybe when the day dawn, we will go to war with the Germans."
Fortunately, the entire regiment was not dispersed. After the call was called, less than a quarter of an hour, the three battalion commanders and more than a dozen company commanders each brought a group of people to the command center, preparing to collect the weapons they needed.
Seeing that his command post was filled with commanders at all levels, Ye Lin asked loudly: "Who is the fifth company commander?"
As soon as his words fell, one of the people raised his hand: "Comrade Commander, I am the fifth company commander."
Ye Lin glanced at the other party and found that it was an elderly lieutenant. He looked at him and asked, "Does there be a new soldier named Vasirizaitev in your company?"
"Yes, Comrade Commander." Although the lieutenant did not understand why Ye Lin asked, he answered truthfully: "The new soldier Vasily is indeed in my company."
"Send someone to call him to me immediately." Ye Lin instructed the other party: "I have something important to tell him."
By chance, Sokov was among the soldiers waiting outside to receive ammunition. When he heard his company commander say that the regiment commander wanted to see him, he came to the regiment command post with some anxiety. Fortunately, at this moment, the company commanders of each battalion brought his subordinates to collect weapons and ammunition at the designated location, so there were not many people in the command post.
After the lieutenant brought Vasily into the command post, he reported to Ye Lin: "Comrade Commander, the man brought it."
"Thank you, Comrade Lieutenant. There is no matter what you do here. Let's go and do yours first." After Ye Lin and the lieutenant left, he looked Vasily carefully and felt that the other party was an ordinary-looking young man and had nothing outstanding. He really couldn't understand why Sokov specifically asked him for this person.
"Comrade Vasily," Yelin stared at Vasily and said, "I just returned from Mamayevgang. Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, the commander of the garrison, called me to ask you. You should clean up immediately and rush to Mamayevgang to report."
When Vasily heard Ye Lin say this, he said unexpectedly: "Comrade Commander, I don't seem to know Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, why did he call me a name? Can you tell me the reason?"
"I'm sorry, Comrade Vasily." Ye Lin shook his head and said, "I can't give you any answers, because I don't know why. If you want to figure out all this, pack your luggage immediately and rush to Mamayev Hill."
"But, Comrade Commander." Vasily said a little embarrassedly: "I don't have any luggage."
Chapter completed!