"Captain Brisky," Sokov was afraid that the soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield would suffer losses, so he quickly called Brisky and urged him: "There are probably a battalion of German infantry coming towards us. Let your soldiers speed up and clean the battlefield before the enemy arrives."
"I understand, comrade comrade comrade," Brisky replied on the phone: "I will give them an order immediately."
Those who were cleaning the battlefield were the soldiers of the 10th Company and the First Company of the Destroyer Battalion. After hearing the whistle coming from the trenches, the soldiers stood up straight, turned their heads and looked in the direction of the trenches, with a look of surprise on their faces.
The soldiers of the 10th Company could hear the meaning of the whistle, but the soldiers of the 1st Company of the Killing Battalion did not understand. Ganning was a worker who had just joined the Killing Battalion. After hearing the whistle, he asked the 10th Company soldiers around him curiously: "Hey, I'm talking about sergeant comrade, what does this whistle that is long and short means?"
The sergeant who was asked frowned and said, "No, the whistle reminds us to speed up, maybe it will start fighting immediately." After he said this, he saw that Ganing was still standing there in a daze, so he raised his leg and kicked him, cursing, "What are you still standing there? Why don't you hurry up? Want to stay here and get shot by the Germans?"
Ganing said "Oh" and quickly bent down to search for the German corpses on the ground. In addition to taking away their weapons and ammunition, he also took out a pack of unopened cigarettes from the pocket of a German soldier. After seeing the labels on it, he said in surprise: "Comrade Sergeant, look, it is actually a 'Petersburg' cigarette. It seems that he has been to Leningrad."
Without saying a word, the sergeant took the cigarette from his hand and put it in his pocket. But seeing Ganning's face full of unhappiness, he took out half of the cigarette from another pocket and handed it over: "This is for you, it's a real German cigarette."
Ganning didn't know that the Soviet veterans didn't like to smoke German cigarettes because they felt like horse manure when they smoked. When they saw the sergeant exchanged German cigarettes for his own domestic cigarettes, he immediately took them happily and stuffed them into his pocket.
After the soldiers who cleaned the battlefield returned to the trenches, Brisky immediately mixed the two companies, each squad with half of veterans and half of new recruits.
Regarding Brisky's arrangement, Ballshaq, who was standing in the factory, asked with some concern: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, will the mixed troops be mixed like this cause chaos in command?"
"Don't worry, Major Ballshak." Sokov explained to Ballshak: "The commanders and fighters of the 10th Company have rich combat experience. After mixing them with your company, you can improve the combat effectiveness of the troops. As for command, since the two companies are commanded by the company commander of the 10th Company, there will be no command chaos."
"That's good." After listening to Sokov's explanation, Ballshaq suddenly felt much more at ease: "Our workers are very brave, but unfortunately they have no combat experience and are mixed with your troops. I believe they will be able to adapt to this battlefield of blood and fire soon."
The troops were waiting in the trenches, waiting for the German soldiers from that battalion to come to the trap. This time, they waited for more than two hours, but they always found traces of the enemy.
Seeing that the enemy had not come for a long time, the soldiers couldn't help but relax. Except for a few who continued to monitor the direction of the gap in the wall, most of the soldiers were sitting in the trenches eating dry food and drinking water. As soon as Ganning took out the cigarette box from his pocket, they were seen by several familiar workers next to him. They asked curiously: "Ganning, where did you get the German cigarette from?"
Ganning nudes his mouth to the sergeant not far away and said to his robes: "I exchanged it with a pack of seized Petersburg cigarettes with Comrade Sergeant." Several workers reached out to Ganning and asked him for the cigarettes, wanting to taste the taste of German cigarettes.
"Strange, what's going on?" Seeing that the German army had not appeared for a long time, Sokov couldn't help but wonder: "Even if the Germans walked slowly, they should have appeared. Why haven't they seen their shadow yet?"
"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," said Ballsack, who was standing beside him, tentatively, "You have heard it wrong, the Germans are not coming in our direction at all."
"Probably not." Sokov's heart pounded when he heard Ballshak say this, and he thought silently: "Did he hear it wrong?"
Seeing Sokov's face showing a hesitant expression, Ballshaq thought even more wishful thinking that Sokov must have heard it wrong, and there was no German in this direction at all, otherwise it would be impossible for more than two hours to wait without any movement. He suggested to Sokov in a hurry: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I think you should call General Guriyev again and ask what's going on."
"Okay, comrade Major." In order to figure out what was going on, Sokov decided to call Guriyev and ask if there were really German troops coming to him. He picked up the phone, heard a sound inside, and instructed the operator: "Please approach me of the command of the Guard Division."
After the phone was connected, an impatient voice immediately came out of the receiver: "I am Lieutenant Colonel Zalijuk, where are you? If you have anything, hurry up!"
Sokov heard his anxiety from Lieutenant Colonel Zalijiuk's voice, and couldn't help but regret that he shouldn't call at this time. Maybe he hadn't heard anyone talking for a long time, Zalijiuk became even more impatient: "Hey, what's wrong with you, why don't you talk?"
"Comrade Chief of Staff," Zalijiuk's voice woke Sokov from his hesitation. He quickly said to the microphone: "I am Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, and I have something urgent to find General Guriyev."
"Oh, it's Lieutenant Colonel Sokov." When it was Sokov, Zalijiuk's voice became softer: "Comrade Commander went to the defense zone of the 117th Regiment to inspect. If you have any questions, you can tell me directly."
"That's right, Comrade Chief of Staff." Sokov thought that Guriyev went to the grassroots troops for inspection. He would definitely not be able to come back in a few hours. He didn't waste so much time, so he said to Zalijiuk directly: "More than two hours ago, General Guriyev called me and said that there was a battalion of German infantry moving towards our defense zone. After receiving the call, I immediately deployed the defense. After waiting for so long, I never saw the enemy appear. I wanted to find the general to confirm whether I heard it wrongly just now."
"Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, you heard it right." Zalijiuk replied: "More than two hours ago, there was indeed a battalion of German troops heading towards the area you defended. But now, they are attacking the Second Workers' Village."
"Are they attacking the Second Workers' Village?" The Second Workers' Village is a residential community with about fifty houses. The 117th Guards' Regiment was responsible for defending. Sokov heard this and immediately understood why Guriyev went to the 117th Regiment. It was because the Germans attacked it. However, he was very eager to understand why this enemy gave up on the attacking assembly workshop and attacked the 2nd Workers' Village with strict defense? "Comrade Chief of Staff, I don't understand why the enemy gave up on our place and attacked the 117th Regiment's defense zone."
"Lieutenant Colonel Sokov," Zaliduk explained to Sokov: "We captured several German officers from the battalion in the battle. After interrogating them, we realized that their original target of attack was indeed yours. Just as we were about to get to the place, we received orders from our superiors that we had received support from a tank brigade and ordered them to turn around and attack the Second Workers' Village."
"So that's the case, I understand, Comrade Chief of Staff. Thank you!"
After Sokov put down the phone, he exhaled a breath of turbid air and then said to Ballshaq: "Comrade Major, I have asked clearly. The German army was originally ordered to attack us, but halfway through, he received an order from their superiors, saying that we had received support from a tank brigade and ordered them to turn around and attack the Second Workers' Village immediately."
"Tank Brigade, what tank brigade? Where did we get the support of the tank brigade?" After Ballshaq said this in confusion, he suddenly remembered something, raised his hand and patted his forehead, and said in annoyance: "Damn it, damn it, why did I forget this."
He looked at Sokov and said, "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, it seems that your plan has been successful. The Germans really regarded those tanks without ammunition as tank troops to reinforce ours, so they dared not attack."
Sokov picked up the phone again and called Brisky: "Comrade Captain, remove the battle alarm and give the soldiers a good rest. Remember, don't forget to leave someone as a warning."
"Comrade Brigade Commander, I don't understand." Brisky was anxious when he saw that the German army had not appeared for a long time. At this moment, he suddenly received a call from Sokov, ordering him to lift the battle alarm. He asked in confusion: "The enemy has not appeared yet, why should we lift the battle alarm?"
"The enemy who attacked us, received an order on the way, turned around and attacked the Second Workers' Village." Sokov briefly said to Brisky: "The reason they stopped attacking us was because they thought we had received reinforcements from a tank brigade and had to give up their original offensive plan."
Chapter completed!