"This is the forest south of Homnich. Your parents are still in another world! You are Natasha, a sniper of the 284th Guards Division. Do you understand?" Balzen said while crying and laughing.
"So that's it. I'm not dead yet! I'm so lucky."
Sometimes, it is difficult for soldiers to withstand huge psychological trauma. For example, excessive fear, coupled with the roar of artillery fire, can frighten some soldiers into silence. Some soldiers also wake up after being comatose and suffer from memory impairment.
None of these bad things happened to Natasha, but she slowly sat up and suddenly covered her chest with her hands, opened her mouth, and screamed in pain.
This scared everyone! The veteran who just checked the girl's pulse knew some battlefield medicine.
The girl had no external injuries, and there was no abnormality in her body. Could it be internal injuries? The veteran talked a little more and said suspiciously: "I'm afraid, this child's ribs are broken."
"What?! How is this possible?!" Balzen was shocked and hurriedly knelt down and stroked the girl.
When the veteran saw this, he immediately said: "Sir, you can't do this. Patients with broken ribs must not move around, otherwise the broken bones will hurt the internal organs."
Now Balzen was dumbfounded. This cute and lively girl, a member of the Communist Youth League who longed to kill the enemy and serve the motherland, actually suffered severe internal injuries?
Just when she was at a loss, Natasha coughed violently a few times, and then took a deep breath.
Natasha felt much more comfortable now. She still felt a little painful when speaking, but she still whispered: "Don't worry about me, everyone. I just held a breath in my lungs. I was shocked just now. This is my only
internal injury!"
He was still aware of his own body. When the veteran saw the girl's positive performance, he immediately retracted his previous guess. He said to Balzen: "She is very lucky. If her ribs were really broken, she would not be able to talk to us like this, and she
The deep breath she took just now proves that she must have stretched her lungs."
Balzen nodded and asked: "Natasha, can you sit up by yourself?"
"I...I'll try."
The girl struggled to get up, her haggard face was heart-wrenching.
The strategic value of this girl to the army is very important. Of course, Balzen is not the kind of person who separates ordinary soldiers from technical units. The lives of all soldiers are precious, but this girl is loved by the commander, and she is also one of the three people in the swamp.
A little hero in the hearts of the nearly 20,000 residents of the collective farm. If she had any shortcomings, the loss would be as simple as losing an elite combatant.
Balzen immediately ordered several soldiers: "Your task is to take good care of Natasha. We are about to return, and we must ensure her safety before going back."
The girl was stubborn, but her body was indeed traumatized. Natasha didn't have much to say. For her, this battle was terrible. Not a single Nazi was eliminated, the rifle was not fired, and she almost narrowly escaped death.
Blow up by enemy aerial bombs!
After Balzen finished dealing with the girl, he immediately found a place to rest against a big tree. The soldiers had already gone down to count the casualties, and he only hoped that the casualties would be small.
"What the heck, I haven't encountered an enemy air attack for several months. This is the first time I have led thousands of troops in action, and I just happened to catch up. And I also encountered a large enemy aircraft fleet!"
Seeing the commander complaining to himself, the soldiers around him didn't interrupt. They had survived the enemy's craziest attack early in the morning, and many soldiers were accustomed to life on the battlefield. At least they were alive now, so they ate quickly and took the thrilling
Let's put it aside for now and continue eating something.
Seeing that many people were still eating cans carelessly, Balzen smiled bitterly. "It's time for breakfast. You haven't forgotten how to eat. It's a good performance."
In war, a small negligence can be fatal. Many recruits who have just participated in the battle will have a psychological breakdown due to fear. For such people, Soviet political commissars often shot them to death on the grounds of cowardice.
There was simply no such person in Balzen's team, but he didn't have to wait long before the casualties were tallied up.
Several soldiers half-knelt in front of him and reported their statistical results.
More than a hundred horses died, some were shot dead, and some were killed by bombs from enemy planes. The value of the injured horses was almost only horse meat. A soldier said: "I have already treated the injured horses."
He was shot and the horse's legs were dismembered one after another, which can also be used as military rations."
There was nothing that could be done about it, and Balzen endured it. As for the casualties, more than fifty people died in the enemy's bombing, mainly in Anatoly's battalion and militia. The reconnaissance company and the artillery company also paid their dues.
There were some casualties, but fortunately the problem was not serious.
After learning from the painful experience, Balzen stood up and ordered: "They died in the battle, and we cannot leave their bodies in the wilderness. Our original plan was to bury them all in this forest. Now I should pay attention to the remains of the fallen soldiers that we collected."
, took them all home. Buried in the Soldiers Cemetery in Catfish Village."
After the air raid, the most critical thing is to stabilize the morale of the troops.
As a soldier, of course he is prepared to die in battle at any time. No one knows how he will die in the future. If the soldiers know their fate, of course they hope to keep their whole bodies and bury them in the cemetery.
Balzen's order was recognized by the living people. Everyone's faces were numb, and the corpses had gradually stiffened. The people who had fought together in the bloody battle were now haggard, and were loaded into the sled entering the village like cargo.
Many horses died, and they could only be pulled by manpower. In this way, the troops would return with up to nearly 200 corpses. And for other soldiers, such as the militia temporarily led by Alexander, nearly 300 people died without a burial place, and
Like Homnic, they were destroyed together.
Before returning, Balzen had to report the results of the battle to the division headquarters, because he knew that the division commander and deputy division commander must have been awake all night and were waiting anxiously.
Yes, Yang Mingzhi was very tired. His eyes had dark circles, but they were still open.
Starfruit couldn't bear it anymore, so she curled up in a puddle on the bed where her husband was sitting cross-legged, wrapped in a blanket and fell asleep.
The sun had risen, and the guards brought breakfast, which was bread and hot milk, to the division headquarters. The three important people still had their eyes open, waiting anxiously.
"Sir! It's already half past seven in the morning. You should have something to eat."
Yevlov waved his hand: "Put the food on the table and continue to do your own thing."
He immediately started to feel the hunger trend and threw another piece to Yang Mingzhi and Yelenkina. "Eat quickly, we can still stay awake after eating."
Yang Mingzhi nodded, yawned, and muttered to himself while chewing bread. "I don't know what's going on over there in Homnich. Did they encounter an air raid? Are they safe and sound?"
The three of you look at me and I look at you. Now we can only continue to wait.
Just like that, everyone continued to wait, and Yelenkina couldn't bear it anymore and fell asleep on her back. When Yang Mingzhi was also drowsy, in the radio room where someone had been replaced, the radio operator nervously ran out and held the
With a piece of paper filled with codes and translations, I rushed into the division office.
"Report to the division commander! Balzen is calling!"
He spoke loudly, and Yevlov and Yang Mingzhi suddenly woke up. Yevlov snatched the report, read it quickly, and cursed: "Damn it! These damn Germans!"
"What's going on? Is it really an air raid?" Yang Mingzhi asked anxiously.
Yevlov handed over the paper, his face full of anger. "See for yourself, we have simply failed in these actions."
Balzen's report was relatively simple. He mainly provided several important figures. For example, the casualties of the troops, the loss of horses, and the situation of Homnich. These figures best reflect the results of the battle. The enemy did carry out air strikes, so
The losses of the troops were great.
To make matters worse, Homnage has been completely bombed. How much of the large amount of steel bars that could have been used there is left now? Homnage suffered two serious air raids. This small city may have been reduced to powder!
Yang Mingzhi immediately realized that this matter was very detrimental to the long-term development of the army. After all, the manufacture of weapons requires a lot of metal!
He continued to look and suddenly saw this text - Natasha was injured.
This was like a thunderbolt, and Yang Mingzhi's head stood up like an electric shock. Natasha was injured! He allowed her to participate in the battle, but it ended up hurting her! Subconsciously, Yang Mingzhi looked at the people around him
Wife. "Xiao Tao, Xiao Tao, if you wake up and find out that your sister Natasha is injured, you will definitely resent me." This made Yang Mingzhi blame himself.
The girl's unit was hit by an air raid and she was also injured. Was she seriously injured? Balzen did not say clearly.
Seeing Yang Mingzhi's expression change drastically, Yevlov asked: "What's going on? I guess you must be nervous about Natasha."
"Yes! She is injured!"
"Who is injured?" Yelentina slowly got up. Now she learned that the intelligence from the front line had been sent back.
She quickly read the battle report, and she showed greater calmness than the man.
"Hundreds of casualties, this was a really bad regional operation. To make matters worse, Natasha was injured. It was really bad."
"Yes, I gave her permission to participate in the war. If I had known this, I would have kept her." Yang Mingzhi said regretfully.
Yelentina shook her head: "Berekov, you have to know that Natasha is a warrior. Fighting is extremely risky. Without the consciousness of dying in battle, Natasha will not join the army. Besides, Natasha will not join the army.
, even if she died, she was still a hero. Besides, this was the path she chose, so why should you feel guilty? Besides, she was only injured."
"But……"
"Berekov, please stop thinking nonsense. Take a good look at the words Balzen used. This is a minor injury, not a serious injury."
When she reminded her, Yang Mingzhi immediately thought that there was an adjective in front of the word "injured". In other words, Natasha's injury was not serious.
"Oh, I really scared myself." Yang Mingzhi breathed a sigh of relief.
Now that the three of them were awake, they immediately issued an order, ordering Balzen to immediately evacuate the place of trouble in Homnich and bring back everything that could still be used. (To be continued.) 8