Drodchenko followed the 17th Partisan Brigade for several months, and at best she starved and froze, miraculously did not fall ill, let alone go into danger during several strategic shifts.

That's because she didn't fight as a soldier!

She did see too many corpses, and it was at this time that she discovered her "talent" of not being afraid of corpses and not afraid of death. Only now does the girl finally realize her innocence.

So far, she is not alone, she has a comrade-in-arms like a family member - Tarakova.

It was precisely because of his recklessness that he fled with her under the bombardment of enemy artillery. If they had both huddled in the paratrooper pit, they wouldn't have been blown up at all. It was just a thought that made me hurt and sore all over, and even breathed and breathed, and my back was also a faint pain.

The most sorry is still Talakova, today, the comrade-in-arms has only the upper half of her left arm, the leg wound is stitched up, and for a long time she could not even walk.

The fortunate thing in the misfortune is that they are both repaying each other, but their respective military careers are going to undergo qualitative changes!

The departure of the two girls taught a profound lesson to the other fighters in the battalion.

Natasha didn't want to preach anything anymore either, because it didn't make much sense.

Everyone understands the truth, and today's tragedy has explained everything: veterans usually do not mean a longer lasting battlefield vitality, many times it is just pure luck, when luck is exhausted, no matter how good the technical and tactical ability is, it will be blown into ashes by a huge cannonball.

Now, the big problem facing Barzen is to get all the wounded away.

At present, there were twenty-eight wounded on Balzen's side, including those wounded by the enemy in the initial battle, and today they were all carried away.

Judging from the map alone, the closest Soviet stronghold to Loyev is the Khomnich station.

An emergency military meeting was held in surprise shortly after the enemy artillery attack.

After analyzing with the two battalion commanders, Balzen agreed that it was not a good idea to transport the wounded there.

Why? It's all because of the road, there is no exact road here at all!

If the wounded were to advance towards Homnich in a wagon, they would have to walk zigzagically for more than ten hours.

What to do? What to do?

"Then use the boat!" Evgeny's reminder made the military meeting less embarrassing.

"With a boat? Where do we have a ship? Evgeny, are you confused? Balzen scratched his head, "Do we still have to cut down trees to make rafts?" ”

"Of course not! We do have ships, and they are very combat-ready ships. Have you forgotten where the porridge you drink comes from? ”

"It's flour!"

Evgeny's words were so powerful that Balzen finally thought that he had such a gunboat under his command.

The only Type 1124 gunboat also participated in today's counterattack, and it also used all the shells, so that the gunboat was only armed with four water-cooled Maxims. It served as a ferryboat on the front line, so that Balzen's main forces ate the captured flour.

It's just that when the soldiers were eating baked dough and drinking porridge, many people noticed that the flour had an indescribable taste, as if it had been smoked. Everyone was too hungry, so they swept away the flour that had been shipped.

Let's say that the shells used by this gunboat, when the gunboat was captured, the Soviets found not many original shells, but a lot of shells.

The reloading of shell casings was carried out, which was completed by Rigushkov's subordinates. The lathe processes the blank into 76 mm, and the warhead is manufactured. The packaging level of the Soviet army is average, which does not affect the firing of artillery, and the real concern is whether the homemade primer is easy to use.

All 42 shells in reserve became sharp weapons for the bombardment of Loyev, and not a single one was a dud. Shells were also collected again, with some crew members believing that the shells could be reloaded into shells, while others were horrified that the shells would explode if they were reloaded three times.

Having run out of shells, the gunboats retreated about a kilometer downstream.

The Soviets made a surprise attempt to build a small pier on the riverside three kilometers behind the front line, and the only barge was the gunboat. The gunboats planned to continue their tasks of transporting flour, and the defenders of the dock received an order to stand by at the dock before their arrival.

It was already June 23, and the Soviet command in the blacksmith village, Yang Mingzhi, had tried to contact the front line after waking up, and it just so happened that Balzen was about to report to his superiors that they had been counterattacked by the enemy.

"What? The Germans are still capable of hitting you? How about their artillery? What about your casualties? What is the current situation? ”

Yang Mingzhi, who was originally in a daze, was instantly frightened to his senses by Balzen's astonishing intelligence. Not only him, but the entire headquarters yawning people were gone, and everyone was paying attention to the battle reports from the front.

Yang Mingzhi asked three questions on the walkie-talkie, and Balzen could only answer them with a hard head.

"This is the case, the enemy artillery fire is not fierce, and our casualties are not large. But our line was too far forward and was shelled by them. ”

"So, you think it's incredible?"

"Yes! After a powerful blow from us, the enemy should not and cannot have the heart to fight back! ”

"So how many mortars do you think the enemy used?"

"Probably...... Maybe only two? I don't know. ”

"Two doors! Well, two-door. Yang Mingzhi listened to the judgment of this veteran, "The number of artillery you have on hand is twenty times more than that of the enemy!" The enemy's firepower is insignificant, and the soldiers who were killed and wounded in the shelling, I ordered you to transport them to Homnich as soon as possible, and the wounded will be healed nearby, do you understand? ”

Yang Mingzhi didn't hear Balzen's decisive recovery, and the headphones were silent for a while before hearing Balzen's opinion.

"General, I don't think it's a good idea to transport the wounded to Homnich."

"What? Homnich is not the nearest stronghold? Could the hospital save the lives of the wounded, or did they all die? ”

"No, I think it would be better to transport the wounded by water to the Missy Ferry, where they will be transported by land back to the blacksmith village."

"Why?!"

"That's ......"

Balzen quickly explained, and the logic of his analysis was clear and seemed to be the most plausible.

Yang Mingzhi also forgot about the gunboat for a while, this small boat that should have been the icing on the cake, had actually made meritorious contributions in the battle. It can transport flour and, of course, people. Yang Mingzhi also found that he had overestimated the level of the road, and the branch line from Loyev to Khomnich was indeed the closest, but there were almost no roads between them.

The Missy ferry to the blacksmith village is different, it hasn't rained for a while, so the road here is quite sturdy, and the trucks come and go in less than two hours.

Balzen continued: "I estimate that the gunboat transporting the wounded to the Missy ferry will be only an hour at the fastest, and that the ferry will have trucks ready at that time, and that the wounded soldier I have on hand will lie in the blacksmith village hospital in four hours at most, and be treated by the best doctors. But it takes about seven hours to get to Homnich, regardless of the capacity of the local hygienists, and the sun has set. ”

Time is of the essence, Yang Mingzhi understands very well the truth that ambulances legally run red lights, and now, choosing the path chosen by Balzen is undoubtedly the best solution.

"Do as you say! You are the commander of the front, you go and give orders! I'll cooperate with you here, and the truck will drive to the Missy ferry port immediately! ”

"Thank you, General, I'll do it!"