"Isn't it, comrade captain?" someone from the fifth infantry company asked.
"I heard it!" Shulka pointed to the direction where he was speaking, and then replied: "It's not true, how about we make a bet?"
"How to bet?" Sokolov answered on his behalf.
"Tomorrow morning, you don't need to do anything, just watch!" Shulka replied: "I will send another force to carry out your mission, and we will tell you with facts whether they are waiting to die!"
After a moment of silence, Sokolov nodded: "I agree, Comrade Captain!"
This caused no losses to the 5th Infantry Company.
Because first of all it means that they don't need to carry out this "cannon fodder mission" tomorrow morning.
After thinking for a while, Sokolov asked again: "Comrade Captain, what is the bet?"
"If I lose!" Shulka said, "You can choose any of your future combat missions!"
"But if I win!" Shulka turned his gaze to Sokolov and said, "Similar things can never happen in the future. You, including you, Comrade Sokolov, must completely obey the orders of your superiors. You understand me.
What do you mean?"
"Understood!" Sokolov wiped the blood from his nose and replied: "That's fair, I agree!"
After returning to the headquarters, Shulka immediately handed over the task of garrisoning the front line to the sniper company.
Shulka asked Korodeev, the commander of the sniper company: "Are you not like the Fifth Infantry Company who thought this was a punishment and sent you to die?"
This wave of operations made Major Mikhailovich confused, but Andrianka understood it.
"So, you didn't plan to let the 5th Infantry Company carry out this mission from the beginning, did you? Comrade Captain!" Andrianka asked.
Shulka did not deny it.
In fact, Shulka set a trap for the 5th Infantry Company and waited for all of them to slip into the trap.
The battlefield is sometimes a very strange place, and the same task assigned to two different troops may have two completely different ideas.
For example, if the task of guarding the frontier is assigned to a sniper company, they will consider it an honor. It is because the headquarters values them that it assigns such a difficult task to the sniper company.
When the same mission was given to the Fifth Infantry Company, their response was to send them to the battlefield to die.
These two completely different ideas arise, on the one hand because of confidence, and on the other hand because of trust.
The sniper company has great confidence in itself. They are the elite of the 82nd Infantry Regiment. They believe that their superiors will never and cannot give up on them at any time, and they will never receive a "death mission" at any time.
Of course, the Fifth Infantry Company cannot be confident in this regard. They are deserters and will be sent to a "punishment camp" or even shot. This makes them always worry about whether they will receive a "death mission"
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In other words, the Fifth Infantry Company has always had an inferiority complex.
Shulka knew that if the Fifth Infantry Company did not overcome this inferiority complex, they would never be able to become a normal force, and there would be many dangers on the battlefield in the future... They would be suspicious of their superiors because of this inferiority complex.
, will be defensive, and may even leave a way out for themselves.
Because they are always worried that they will be betrayed by their superiors and used as cannon fodder.
Shulka didn't want to wait until a problem broke out and caused losses before trying to make up for it, so he used this method to force the problem out first and let it surface.
Early the next morning, the 82nd Infantry Regiment entered the position two hours before dawn.
As expected, the Fifth Infantry Company had no mission and was assigned to the second line.
Even in order to facilitate their observation, Shulka also ordered the distribution of several telescopes to the grassroots officers of the Fifth Infantry Company... These telescopes were pieced together by the officers and temporarily lent to the Fifth Infantry Company, because there were often only battalions in the Soviet army.
Only officers above the rank are qualified to be equipped with telescopes, and only a few are equipped with them at the company level.
This is not only due to the backwardness of the Soviet light industry and the lack of production technology such as glass lenses, but also because the Soviet tactics almost do not require the use of telescopes... When large corps fights, it is a waste for company commanders to equip telescopes. They only need to obey orders.
It is enough to lead the troops and charge forward.
Then, Korodeev led the soldiers of the sniper company into the forward building.
"Red October" New Village is a staff dormitory, with four-story buildings arranged neatly, like an army.
The reason why it is four-story is because the construction level in this era was not very good. The four-story building is neither too high nor too low, so it can achieve the greatest common denominator between cost and safety.
But these are not things Shulka needs to consider.
He was lying next to Sokolov and said to him: "I hope Comrade Valery did not blind your eyes, otherwise you will not be able to see now!"
"Comrade Valery's injuries are no less serious than mine!" Sokolov replied.
"Do you know where you went wrong?" Shulka asked.
Sokolov did not answer.
"You have always failed to regard yourself as a normal force!" Shulka said: "If it were a normal force, would it be possible to disobey the battalion commander's orders and still have a fight with him?"
"That's because it's not fair..."
"That's fair, Comrade Sokolov!" Shulka interrupted Sokolov: "This is a normal task, which can be assigned to a unit of the 82nd Infantry Regiment, and the fifth
The infantry company also belongs to the 82nd Infantry Regiment! This is your problem, to be precise, your problem, but you think others are using you and betraying you!"
After a moment of silence, Sokolov said "Alas" and said, "I realized this when you made a bet with me!"
Sokolov is not stupid. He knows that Shulka will hand over this task to other troops, which means he has confidence in this task.
"Put away your prejudices!" Shulka said: "You are an ordinary army, not a privileged army. When receiving a mission, the first thing you should think about is how to complete this mission and
Come back alive, not if your superiors want you to die, do you understand?"
"Understood, Comrade Shulka!" Sokolov said: "I admit defeat!"
After a pause, Sokolov said again: "I have a request, Comrade Shulka! Can you give us this task? I don't want others to complete our tasks!"
"No!" Shulka refused without thinking: "You should learn and see how others complete this task!"