Drodchenko stayed with the 17th Partisan Brigade for several months. At most, she suffered from hunger and cold. Miraculously, she did not get sick, nor was she in danger during several strategic shifts.
That's because she has never been in the military!
She indeed saw too many corpses, and it was at this time that she discovered her "talent" of not being afraid of corpses or death. Until now, the girl finally realized her innocence.
Now, she is not alone, she has a comrade-in-arms who is like a family member - Talakova.
It was precisely because of his recklessness that he took her to flee under the bombardment of enemy artillery. If they had huddled in the paratrooper pit, they would not have been bombed at all. Just by a thought, he was injured, his whole body ached, and he even breathed out.
There was also a dull pain in my back.
The most sorry person is Talakova. Today, her comrade only has the upper half of her left arm, the wound on her leg has been sutured, and she cannot even walk for a long time.
Fortunately among misfortunes, of course they can survive each other, but their respective military careers will undergo qualitative changes!
The departure of the two girls taught the other soldiers in the youth camp a profound lesson.
Natasha didn't want to preach anymore, because it was meaningless.
Everyone actually understands the truth, and today's tragedy has explained everything: veterans usually do not mean longer-lasting battlefield vitality. In many cases, they are just pure luck. When luck is exhausted, no matter how excellent technical and tactical abilities are, they will be wiped out.
A huge cannonball exploded into ashes.
Now, a big problem before Balzen is to transport all the wounded people away.
Currently, there are a total of twenty-eight wounded on Balzen's side, including those who were shot by the enemy during the initial battle. Today, they have all been transported away.
Judging from the map alone, the closest Soviet stronghold to Loev where the large force is currently located is the Homnich Military Station.
An emergency military meeting was convened shortly after the enemy artillery attack.
After analyzing the situation with the two battalion commanders, Balzen concluded that it was definitely not a good idea to transport the wounded there.
Why? It’s all because of the road. There is no exact road here!
If the wounded were loaded onto a carriage and headed towards Homnage, they would probably have to walk tortuously for more than ten hours.
How to do how to do?
"Then use ships!" Yevgeny's reminder made the military meeting no longer embarrassing.
"Use a boat? Where do we have a boat? Yevgeny, are you confused?" Balzen scratched his head, "Do we still have to cut down trees to make rafts?"
"Of course there is no need! We do have ships, and they are very powerful ships. Have you forgotten where the noodles and porridge you drink come from?"
"It's flour!"
Yevgeny's words were so enlightening that Balzen finally thought of having such a gunboat under his command.
The only Type 1124 gunboat also participated in today's counterattack. It also fired all the artillery shells. In this way, the gunboat's weapons only had four water-cooled Maxims. It served as a ferry on the front line, making Balzen's main force
Ate the seized flour.
But when the soldiers were eating baked dough and drinking porridge, many of them noticed that the flour had an indescribable smell, as if it had been smoked and roasted. Everyone was too hungry, so they hurriedly swept away the flour that was delivered.
And empty.
Let’s talk about the artillery shells used by this gunboat. When the gunboat was captured, the Soviet army found not many original artillery shells, but a lot of shell casings.
Liguschkov's men completed the reloading of the shell shells. The lathe processed the shell blank into 76 mm, and the warhead was manufactured. The packaging level of the Soviet army was average, which did not affect the launch of the artillery. What really needed to be done was to
What I am concerned about is whether the homemade primer is easy to use.
All 42 rounds of artillery shells in the reserve became weapons for bombing Loev, and none of them was a dud. The shell casings were also collected again. Some crew members believed that the shell casings could be reloaded into artillery shells, and some people were horrified to think that,
If the cartridge case is reloaded three times, it may explode.
After firing all the shells, the gunboat retreated about one kilometer downstream.
The Soviet army assaulted and established a small dock on the riverside three kilometers behind the front line. The only barge was this gunboat. The gunboat planned to continue its mission of transporting flour, and the dock defenders received orders before its arrival, that is, in
Waiting at the pier.
It was already June 23rd. At the Soviet headquarters in Blacksmith Village, Yang Mingzhi tried to contact the front line after waking up. It happened that Balzen was about to report to his superiors that they had encountered an enemy counterattack.
"What? The Germans are still capable of hitting you? How are their artillery? What are your casualties? What's your current situation?"
Yang Mingzhi, who was originally in a daze, was instantly awakened by Balzen's astonishing information. Not only him, but no one yawned in the entire command headquarters. Everyone was paying attention to the frontline battle reports.
Yang Mingzhi asked three questions on the walkie-talkie, and Balzen could only answer them one by one.
"This is the situation. The enemy's artillery fire was not fierce, and our casualties were not large. But our defense line was indeed too far forward, and we were actually shelled by them."
"So, you think it's incredible?"
"Yes! After encountering our powerful blow, the enemy should not and cannot have the intention to fight back!"
"So how many mortars do you think the enemy used?"
"Maybe...maybe there are only two doors? I can't tell."
"Two! Okay, two." Yang Mingzhi listened to the veteran's judgment for the time being. "The number of artillery you have on hand exceeds that of the enemy twenty times! The enemy's firepower is insignificant. For the soldiers who were injured or killed in the artillery attack, I order you to
They rushed it to Homnage, where the wounded were treated nearby, do you understand?"
Yang Mingzhi did not hear Balzen's decisive recovery. After the earphones were silent for a while, he heard Balzen's opinion.
"General, I think it's not a good idea to transport the wounded to Homnage."
"What? Isn't Homnich the nearest stronghold? Can the hospital there save the lives of the wounded, or have all the wounded been sacrificed?"
"No, I think it's better to transport the wounded to Mixi Ferry by waterway, and then transport them back to Blacksmith Village by land."
"What's the reason?!"
"Is such that……"
Balzen quickly explained it. The logic of his analysis was very clear and seemed to be the most reasonable.
Yang Mingzhi also forgot about the gunboat for a while. This small boat, which was supposed to be the icing on the cake, has actually made great achievements in combat. It can transport flour, and of course it can also transport people. Yang Mingzhi also found that he had overestimated the level of the road.
, the branch line runs from Loev to Homnich, which is indeed the closest, but there is almost no road between them.
It's different from Missi Ferry to Blacksmith Village. It hasn't rained for a while, so the road here is quite solid. It takes less than two hours for the truck to come and go.
Balzen continued to explain: "I estimate that the fastest speed for the gunboat to transport wounded soldiers to Missi Ferry is only one hour. The ferry will prepare trucks by then. The wounded soldiers I have on hand can be lying in Blacksmith Village Hospital in four hours at most.
, was treated by the best doctors. But transporting it to Homnich, regardless of the ability of the local health workers, would take about seven hours just to transport it there, and the sun would have set by then."
Time is of the essence. Yang Mingzhi understands the legal principle of ambulances running red lights. Now, choosing the path chosen by Balzen is undoubtedly the best plan.
"Just do as you say! You are the frontline commander, you go and give the order! I will cooperate with you here, and the truck will drive to Missi Ferry immediately!"