Chapter 458: The Price of Victory
Natasha still shook her head: "Maybe my technical and tactical level is very good, and luck is indeed the key to my survival so far." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Many veterans of the info reconnaissance company were killed, and more than 100 of us were once surrounded and pursued by 2,000 people. The make-up reconnaissance was almost spotted by the Germans. My cotton clothes were cut by bullets in the rain of bullets, and if the bullets were any closer, I would have been a gray corpse. ā
"How is that possible? As a sniper hero, you won't encounter such danger, right?! Snipers always shoot at long distances. ā
Natasha didn't want to listen to it, and she said in an aggravated tone: "It's just your feelings!" Put yourself in the enemy's shoes and think about what you would do if you found an enemy sniper. ā
"Probably sweep in that direction, maybe a bullet will hit!" As soon as he said that, Kharkov suddenly realized.
"That's right! It's just a mess of sweeping. The enemy did even more frenziedly, their machine-gun fire was very ferocious. I changed into a cotton coat, and the torn one was discarded. But the reason for the calculation was not that I became the focus of the enemy machine gunners, but that I took out the enemy's assault guns and stopped the enemy's attack. I was almost on the way to transfer when I was hit by the enemy. ā
Recalling the scene at that time, Natasha still remembers it vividly. It was really too dangerous at the time, and the bullet was enough to knock out her internal organs, and even the most beautiful girl would turn into a gray corpse!
"I'm really lucky!" Natasha changed her initial relaxation, Yang Mingzhi turned her head, and this girl was serious all over her body. "It was the veteran Sasha who covered me with his life and blocked the shrapnel from the enemy for me, and it was the sacrifice of Sasha and Satoyama that gave me the opportunity to pick up the RPG and destroy the enemy's assault gun. It was their fearless sacrifice that saved my life and that of all the soldiers of the reconnaissance company! Sasha was the original veteran of the 284th Division, and he didn't die in the battle in Minsk, but he didn't expect to die in this operation to cover me! As she spoke, the girl's big eyes were already soaked in tears, and she simply hugged her good sister and cried.
Kharkov was speechless, and the girl's crying easily aroused the man's desire to protect, but she said it so emotionally, and the cold words directly outlined the cruel picture of this battle.
In fact, there is no need for her to say in detail, the large number of wounded and the piles of enemy corpses say it all!
"One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither!" Yang Mingzhi couldn't help but say this in Chinese.
"Sir, what does that mean?" Natasha asked.
"I mean, a good general wins a war at the cost of a large number of soldiers. Natasha, you are very lucky, in Kuta Town, you and Besica were only injured and bruised, aerial bomb attacks only hurt your lungs and healed first, this time the bullets just passed by! But many of the soldiers were not so lucky, they may have been peasants one day, and today they have become mobilized soldiers, and they have been killed by enemy bullets in the first charge. ā
"Yes, sir! I see what you mean. Natasha said, "Even if I kill more enemies, I only have one life, and perhaps I am very lucky, this superstitious thing is not worth boasting about." ā
"That's right. Kharkiv! ā
"Here!" The boy immediately stood upright.
Yang Mingzhi came to his senses, and there was no herald to report any disturbances anyway, so he decided to teach these young people in the youth camp a lesson.
Kharkov ordered everyone to stand in line, and Yang Mingzhi also played the role of instructor with his hands behind his back.
"Comrades, I personally trained you a few months ago, and I am also dormant with your youthful enthusiasm. However, in the first battle, there were incidents of attacking without listening to orders, and they thought that their skills and tactics were too poor and they were easily defeated by the enemy. The perpetrators were executed, and I think you all had a new understanding of war that day.
But I saw your eager eyes. It's good that warriors are eager to fight, but you still need to train before that. Many veterans died in this battle, can we say that their skills and tactics are poor? Outside Minsk, they were safe and sound against the enemy's torrents of steel and whistling bombers, but they closed their eyes in this battle.
Listen! No matter how experienced a veteran is, he can be easily killed by a single bullet, and the enemy is not a fool! ā
Yang Mingzhi pointed to the corpses of his enemies, the Wehrmacht soldiers who had been energetic yesterday were now stiff gray corpses. "You're seeing hundreds of dead bodies, and there's a lot of them scattered around the forest! They're not going to let us shoot us in obedience, they're looking for an opportunity to annihilate us! Now the enemy is dead, and that's because we're smarter than them!
Natasha just talked about luck, and I think that only sufficient pre-war decision-making and firm execution are the keys to a big victory. You must understand this! Strategy and tactics were developed by the divisional headquarters, especially I, Berekov. And you soldiers must obey orders! ā
These words have been to Kharkov's heart, he understands that the deputy division commander's heartfelt words are this, and it is really very caring to be reprimanded by him like this!
Bikharkiv also heard about the damage in this battle, and it is said that 6,000 dog tags were collected, and 1,700 casualties were inflicted on his own troops. This made this young man who cared about the country couldn't help but think, if all the Soviet troops could fight such a record, what else would the enemy have to be afraid of?! Maybe in a few months the red flag will be planted in Berlin.
It's a pity that it's still delusional, the 284th Guards Division is a unique unit, Kharkov knows what his unit is creating, and he is proud of it.
From the sharp eyes of the children, Yang Mingzhi understood that they had completely listened to his words.
"Very good, I hope you will take this as a warning. You boys, don't see that Besica and Natasha have more than one medal on their chests, they gambled with their lives. We will inevitably win the final victory in this war, but I dare not guarantee that we will survive until the day of victory. No one knows when death will come, so I hope everyone should be careful. If there is any military action in the future, please be mentally prepared. The total casualties of this combat unit account for one-fifth of the maximum strength of our army, and your peaceful days are now over! ā
Kharkov's eyes lit up suddenly: "Could it be that the commander already has the intention of sending us a military mission, and in the event of a new battle, we can also strike at the enemy?!" ā
"That's right! Including the girls in the youth camp, they will inevitably be sent to the front line to fight with guns in the future! Because we're still overstretched! ā
At a higher level, in what Yevlov called the "Second Battle of Pripet", the 284th Guards Division was fighting at its limit. The total number of troops invested is more than 8,000, of which more than 2,000 are women. Women should not be involved in war, but unfortunately the lack of troops has to arm women.
At this moment, Yang Mingzhi ordered the disbandment of the juvenile camp and continued to perform their duties.
His gaze was not far away, where Yevlov was coordinating his troops. I saw that the wounded were first carried onto the truck, and the seized ammunition was still piled up on the grass.
"Talent is the foundation of everything, Yevlov, you are doing the right thing!" Yang Mingzhi shrugged, and the troops rested for a while, and they were all about to leave. (To be continued.) )