"Gentlemen, our attack on the ground is over. You have completed the task well, and now all the supplies have been left behind. All squadrons are ordered to return!"
Huge dandelions bloomed above the German positions, each one chasing the heavy linen package and falling swaying in the breeze.
The German troops on the ground cheered loudly, shouting victory slogans and saluting their own fighter planes as they returned home.
Through the porthole, the first captain looked at his compatriots on the ground with satisfaction, and decisively issued an order to each team: "The second team, the third team, and the transport team, you continue to return, and the first team, follow me in a circle."
The circling of the aircraft is a form of respect from the Air Force. Paul, standing next to Griffin, raised his head in relief: "They are paying tribute to you!"
"pay tribute?"
"I'm in the Air Force, and I know what circling means. I'm so unlucky!"
"Unlucky? Our army won this Avengers operation."
"This is a victory for Germany. It is indeed my bad luck. My plane was destroyed, otherwise I would have participated in the bombing this time."
"I see, you are really unlucky. Don't say any more now. I need to organize people to collect the airdrop materials. In the afternoon, I will send people to investigate."
The fierce bombardment made the smell of gunpowder smoke extremely strong on the battlefield. People with sensitive noses could smell not only the smell of pine resin, but also the weird smell of barbecue.
It’s self-evident what the smell of barbecue is.
Most soldiers of the Soviet and German armies have become numb to the bloody battlefield. The comrades who were smoking with them just now suddenly died in battle. When they died, they died. The living people would just bury them on the spot in a numb manner.
The surviving Soviet officers and soldiers were doing just this.
The power of the aerial bomb was so great that hundreds of people died on the spot, and their bodies were broken into pieces and scattered over a huge area along with a huge amount of earth and stone.
Due to bombing and strafing by enemy planes, more than half of the artillery regiment and the first regiment of the 284th Division were lost.
Most of the soldiers who escaped the disaster were hiding in shallow trenches and crawling on the ground. Their bodies were covered with a lot of dirt and debris. When the dust settled, they crawled out one by one like marmots and began to rescue the wounded.
They also saw a large number of parachutes floating towards the German positions, and their grief and anger instantly turned into tears.
"Germans, just wait, I will fight you tooth and nail tomorrow!"
"Damn fascists, don't think you can defeat us like this."
"Comrades who sacrificed their lives, your sacrifice will not be in vain."
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The German army caused catastrophic casualties to the Soviet army. Not only was the morale of the Soviet army not shattered, but it suffered a large number of casualties, forcing both the male and female soldiers here to have incomparable hatred for the German army and to want to eat their flesh.
Liu Hongxiu's right hand was burned with two blisters, and the excruciating pain made her unbearable. She felt that she was extremely unlucky and extremely lucky today.
My hands were burned, but my life was still there, my body was still sound, and I could continue to fight back against the Nazis and fascists.
But looking at the listless platoon leader, Liu Hongxiu couldn't control her emotions and shed two lines of tears.
The radar platoon that escaped the disaster had a total of forty people, and only sixteen of them escaped to safety in the woods. This also included the wounded. There were five wounded here, one seriously!
The person who was injured in the end had his intestines exposed outside his body and his whole body could only breathe.
Liu Hongxiu knew that he was bound to die. The girl understood even more that the German attack was too fierce, and the number of medical personnel and medicines in Homnich was small, so many of the wounded would die soon.
Now, the platoon leader himself has fallen into a coma again.
What to do next?
Liu Hongxiu tried her best to suppress her unconscious trembling body. She ignored the wetness in her crotch and moved closer to the confused platoon leader.
"Platoon leader! Platoon leader?! You?"
"She fainted again." Sorkina, who was taking care of Diana, said helplessly.
"Sister, tell me... do you think the platoon leader will die?"
"Bah! Silly girl, don't say any unlucky words. Her injuries are not fatal!"
"But, what should we do now? Who will take command now? Should we continue to stay in the woods?"
Sorkina's mind was also blank. She looked around nervously and saw that the survivors were either cooks or clerks responsible for data recording, as well as a few guards. The one with the highest military rank and command authority here was the unconscious Diana.
Liu Hongxiu didn't talk nonsense. She boldly came over and slapped Diana's pale face directly.
"Platoon commander! Are you awake?"
This slapping had a very good effect, and Diana opened her eyes again and again, and her whitened lips were mumbling.
"what did you say?"
Liu Hongxiu leaned her ear closer, and then quickly took out the small objects she had saved so hard and displayed them in front of him.
"Platoon leader, take a good look, the magnetron is here. It's not damaged!"
Diana was speechless with difficulty. Her lips moved, showing a happy smile.
"Platoon leader, do you have any other orders?" An anxious Liu Hongxiu leaned her ear again.
After finishing speaking, Diana became quiet again.
Suddenly, what Liu Hongxiu didn't want to happen the most seemed to have happened.
"No! Platoon leader, you can't die!"
The excited Liu Hongxiu shook Diana's body desperately, but unfortunately there was no response, as if she was dead.
Of course, Sorkina didn't believe this was true. She simply put her hand into Diana's clothes and put it against her heart. Suddenly, a smile appeared on her sad face.
"Periya! Stop crying, Platoon is not dead, she fainted again."
"real?"
"She lost a lot of blood. We must hurry up and find a way to save her! Tell me, what did she say before she fell into coma?"
"She said we have to run south to the position of the second regiment of the 284th Artillery Division. Sister Anna, she asked you to take temporary command."
In this attack, Lavrenti's troops were lucky in their position and no one was killed. However, they were forced by the deterrence of the German army and did not dare to act rashly even if the enemy plane suddenly disappeared.
Lavrenti sent only a very small number of troops, only one platoon, and they dispersed their operations so that they would never expose the large troops and attract the German air force to come back.
The task of the reconnaissance force was to make a surprise attack on the positions of the artillery regiment and the first regiment to see what the situation was like there.
When Sorkina was in danger, some people used branches and leggings and sackcloth to make a stretcher. They placed the shocked Diana on her back and started to march hard to the south with three wounded people on their backs (the seriously injured ones were already dead).
On the flat ground, a small group of people in ragged clothes were struggling to move forward, and were soon discovered by soldiers who were ordered to investigate.
After all, women's body shapes are very different from men's. One scout was so shocked that he took off his hat to wipe his sweat.
"Oh! It's actually a woman! You must be from the radar platoon!" The soldier sped up and ran, and Sorkina soon discovered him.
Seeing the comrades who came to help and escaping the disaster, everyone who was nervous immediately cheered loudly.
The soldier hurried over and asked immediately: "You are women! Are you soldiers of the radar platoon?"
"Yes!" Sorkina responded.
"Where is your commander?"
"On the stretcher..."
Halfway through Sorkina's words, Liu Hongxiu pounced on her and said loudly: "I am Periya, and I am the commander's daughter. You are members of the second regiment, the direct troops of the commander. Come and save us."
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The soldier took a closer look and found out that the commander recognized such a daughter, and she was a foreign student.
The soldier did not dare to neglect, and directly took over the work of another soldier and lifted the stretcher himself.