Natasha would not feel the slightest pleasure from shooting the enemy and watching the enemy's corpses flying everywhere. After all, she had experienced hundreds of battles and killed enemies on the battlefield. She had already entered a state similar to numbness, shaking.
The enemies are like moving targets.
She would not say how miserable the enemies killed were. In her performance report, she would just write down what kind of enemies she killed at a certain place and time. At most, she would write down whether the enemy was shot in the chest or shot in the head.
"As you all know about today's battle, it was basically a smooth battle for us. I killed fifteen enemies in this battle, and many enemies thousands of meters away were shot dead. As a price, my shoulders are very sore now!
Some of you sitting here have been on the battlefield, and some are still new soldiers. If you want to surpass me, the most important thing is an attitude! An attitude of reverence for corpses."
Next, Natasha's words became a little uncomfortable, even disgusting.
It has passed the summer solstice, and the next sixty days will be the warmest season in Belarus, especially in July, when the highest temperature can exceed 30 degrees. They all gathered around the fire to warm up. In fact, there are also environmental problems at 10 degrees.
The temperature is already very warm. If the corpses on the battlefield are not handled cleanly, they will soon turn gray and white, and then begin to rot. No matter how fearless the soldiers are of corpses, they will never ignore the stench of corpses. After all, the strong stench
Stimulation will trigger the human instinct to vomit, and people will collapse if they stay in a foul-smelling environment for a long time.
The Soviet army is now facing such a bad situation. Their machine guns and artillery are driving the enemy into the city. So what to do with the hundreds of corpses left on the battlefield?
Could it be that during World War I, the two opposing armies sent people to hold high white flags and collect the bodies of their own dead?
This is impossible! Because as long as those enemies leave the city, a bunch of bullets will hit them.
It is impossible for the Soviet army to break away from the current front and risk running to the battlefield to collect corpses for the Germans. The most fundamental reason is that the Soviet army has received a death order. Without the order of the group army commander, soldiers who arbitrarily leave the encirclement on the edge of the forest will be killed.
was sentenced to death.
Natasha asked at the right time: "Drochenko, have you ever smelled the smell of decay after death?"
"I've smelled this before. It was when I was in the guerrilla brigade."
"How do you feel after smelling it?"
The girl who looked optimistic just now suddenly became sad and even made a show of vomiting, which made everyone laugh.
"Stop laughing! Is it funny?" Natasha yelled harshly.
Drodchenko also straightened his body and said solemnly: "The smell is so bad that I vomited the first time I smelled it. I'm not afraid of death, but when I smell that smell, I feel like I'm going to die."
Natasha nodded: "So you should stay calm. Since at least the smell of rot is extremely disgusting, you should be glad that it is not you who is rotting! You are still alive now, and you must cherish life! So, if you fight
Entering the difficult stage, all of you must not get hot-headed and do things that are meaningless in life and death. I want you to calm down and kill the enemy calmly. If you are really going to die in battle, kill at least ten enemies for me before you die!
"
"Yes!" Everyone said in unison.
"Okay, finish the food quickly, go to the toilet quickly, and then everyone goes to sleep."
At this moment, Natasha is really handsome. Igor, the observer who was ordered to take care of her, has realized that this girl looks like a male officer. Her words are indeed reasonable. As a precision shooter, this is what she should be like
An awareness.
However, for ordinary soldiers, many times do require pure bravery. Many times, knowing that the charge will be riddled with bullets from the enemy, they still have to charge forward one after another, and the political commissar often takes the lead in the charge!
Russian soldiers are not afraid of death and do not hesitate to die, but the same is true for the elite German army.
The children got into the foxholes they dug themselves, and even into the trenches. They were so exhausted that even the girl soldiers snored. It was also because of exhaustion that no one would complain that the place where they lay was full of
Mud, like ordinary soldiers, they wrapped their bodies in blankets and fell asleep one after another.
Now, in the huge encirclement, there are still a large number of Soviet sentries who are not resting. No one can guarantee whether the enemy will break out of the encirclement at night. Besides, at twelve o'clock at night, they will fire artillery to harass them.
The Soviet army fell asleep carelessly, and the enemy defenders in Loev City also emerged from the shadows of panic and despair in the afternoon.
The German battalion commander was frightened by the corpses of soldiers who had been cut off at the waist by some kind of weapon. Fortunately, he received a telegram from the division headquarters after the sun went down.
What he longed for most was the promise of reinforcements. He never expected that the division headquarters would respond faster than he expected!
A large number of German and puppet troops looked impoverished. Many people's clothes were torn during the battle, and everyone's face was stained by gunpowder smoke. Sweat flowed down, forming streaks on their cheeks.
These soldiers believed that they would receive reinforcements, but they had to defend the city until reinforcements arrived. Because they were not panicked and had no plans to break out at night.
They were equally exhausted and equally fearful of a Russian attack at night.
The Soviet and German armies have entered such a strange state. Each is worried about the other's attack, so each other is strengthening its defenses.
The most frightening thing is the civilians in the city. They are the families of the puppet soldiers, and there are many women among them. These women already think that they are traitors, so if they are caught by the Soviet army, they must be tortured
fatal.
Some of these civilians were injured or killed in the shelling, and those who survived began to take care of the wounded.
What is very bad is that Loev has a lot of ammunition and food stored in the city, but there is a shortage of medicine and gauze.
While strong soldiers were carrying bricks and rubble to strengthen the city defense, bursts of wailing of wounded soldiers could be heard in some buildings that were used as hospitals. Some of the wounded died that night because their injuries were so severe.
The battalion commander was well aware of his predicament, so he was ecstatic after receiving the order from his superiors.
He sent people to each company to convey the good news from the division headquarters. The communication soldiers shouted a simple fact in the defense area of each company: "Reinforcements will arrive in less than forty-eight hours!"
The German soldiers who stood guard at various posts really hoped that reinforcements would arrive in a second. The reinforcements actually had to wait for another forty-eight hours. Maybe the city would be lost before the reinforcements arrived.
The promise of reinforcements will definitely be fulfilled. With reinforcements, there is hope. The majority of soldiers and those desperate civilians finally have hope.
However, they were not happy for long. At 0:00 in the morning on June 23, various types of Soviet artillery that surrounded the city from four directions simultaneously let out an astonishing roar.
Recoilless rifles, 45mm field guns, each gun fires two rounds.
Even so, the artillery fire still caused casualties to the German and puppet troops that night, even though most of them were hiding under the ruins.
Some people had their internal organs shattered by the shock wave, some were buried by collapsing walls, and some were simply pierced by shrapnel.
The casualties basically occurred on the outskirts of the city's built-up areas, and because of this shelling, many wooden houses that had been extinguished burned again.
At first glance, the city was surrounded by a wall of fire, and the clouds in the sky were illuminated red by the fire.
The German army was roaring loudly, urgently rescuing the wounded. Even if there were fires everywhere, they had to go to the fighting position. The machine gunners fired aimlessly into the forest in all directions, the brilliant tracer bullets were like lasers, and the bullets all hit the trees.
Above, the fallen branch fell on the Soviet soldier lying on the ground.
In fact, the majority of Soviet soldiers were awakened before opening fire. They were not nervous at all. Instead, they laughed secretly while looking at the burning city...