A moment later, Rokossovsky's familiar voice came from the trenches: "Who is looking for me?" ”

When Borisova walked out of the trench along the planks that were laid diagonally, at a glance Rokossovsky and Lobachev stood outside. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 She exclaimed, hurriedly buttoned the steel helmet in her hand to her head, ran quickly in front of the two, raised her hand and saluted, and asked in surprise: "Commander, military commissar, why did you come here today?" ”

Rokossovsky raised his hand and saluted and said, "I'm here to see how your recruits are training." ”

Hearing this question, Borisova couldn't help but smile bitterly, she never thought that training a female soldier who had never received military training would face far more problems than she imagined. But since Rokossovsky asked the question, she could only bite the bullet and say, "Only the basic queue training was completed." ”

Lobachev was clearly not satisfied with her answer, and he rushed ahead of Rokossovsky and said: "Comrade Borisova, can you show us?" ”

Borisova said with some embarrassment: "There is no problem with it, but there is only one company of troops here, and the rest of the girls are still in the city, and they may not be able to come until tomorrow." ”

Rokossovsky pretended not to see the embarrassed expression on Borisova's face, and said to himself: "Then let's take a look at the training results of this company girl." ”

Borisova nodded, walked to the side of the trench, picked up a whistle hanging around her neck and blew it, blew it twice, and shouted: "Battle alarm, battle alarm!" After shouting, the whistle continued.

After two or three minutes, the originally silent trench suddenly became noisy, as if in a moment it had become a vegetable market. Rokossovsky took two steps forward and stopped where he could see clearly what was going on in the trenches. Quietly watching the groups of girls running out of the shelter one after another, walking unhurriedly, chattering as if they were not going out to gather, but calling friends to some party.

Seeing such a situation, Rokossovsky suddenly regretted a little in his heart, regretting that he should not have agreed to conscript so many female soldiers into the army, let alone entrust such an important task of training female soldiers to a layman like Borisova.

A hundred or so girls were arranged in nine columns, twelve people each. Although the queue has been lined up for a long time, the sound of speech in the procession has not stopped, and some girls even take off the headscarf wrapped around their heads in boredom, wrap them around their heads again, and tie a beautiful knot at the chin position.

Seeing this, Lobachev also shook his head again and again, he approached Rokossovsky's side and said: "Comrade commander, can such a unit really be pulled into the battlefield?" ”

Borisova stood in front of the queue and shouted at the top of her voice: "Quiet, girls, be quiet, please be quiet!" But the effect was not obvious at all, and it was not until her voice was almost hoarse that the team gradually quieted down. Borisova immediately walked in front of Rokossovsky, saluted with a serious expression, and reported in a dry tone: "Comrade commander, comrade military commissar, the first company of the women's battalion of the Jewish regiment has been assembled, please instruct!" ”

Rokossovsky nodded, walked to the front of the queue, looked around, and said: "Hello, comrades female soldiers! I am the commander of the army group Rokossovsky......"

Before he could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by another cacophony. The female soldiers below chattered and discussed, and some said: "Oh my God, he is our commander, he is so handsome, I don't know if he and Comrade Borisova are lovers!" ”

Someone else asked loudly: "Comrade commander, when will we be given guns and uniforms?" Without uniforms and weapons, we just tell others that we are soldiers, and others don't believe us! ”

"How often can we go home?"

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Rokossovsky saw that the scene was a little out of control, and his face suddenly turned blue. And Borisova also blushed and shouted at the female soldiers: "Quiet, girls, please be quiet!" Listen to Comrade Commander's speech. ”

At this moment, an airplane appeared in the sky, and seeing that there were so many people on the ground, it lowered its altitude and flew low along the long trench. Seeing the appearance of the plane, the female soldiers who were chattering non-stop suddenly fell silent. Then I don't know who screamed, and then the whole queue rang out with screams one after another, and the female soldiers ran in all directions like hornets that had blown up their nests.

Rokossovsky glanced up at the plane, and then said to Borisova: "It's a reconnaissance plane." ”

After Borisova heard what Rokossovsky said, she picked up the whistle and blew it desperately, while shouting hoarsely from time to time: "Girls, don't panic, don't panic, it's a German reconnaissance plane, it has no weapons." ……”

After finally calming the panicked female soldiers, when she saw that they had relined the queue, Borisova said weakly to Rokossovsky: "Comrade commander, you better change someone else to train the female soldiers, if this continues, I will go crazy sooner or later." ”

"Comrade Commander, I think it was a wrong decision for you to recruit female soldiers." Lobachev was also extremely disappointed with the performance of the female soldiers, he walked to Rokossovsky's side, lowered his voice and said angrily: "You see, the defensive front here is at least five kilometers, and these female soldiers who are frightened to flee when they see the reconnaissance plane, if they come to defend this area, they may have run away as soon as they hear the gunshots, and this is not equivalent to opening a gap for the Germans to take the initiative?" So I suggest that you change to a well-trained unit and take over the defense here. ”

"Comrade Military Commissar, don't be in a hurry." Although Rokossovsky said not to be in a hurry, his heart was more anxious than anyone else, and if it were not for the fact that he could not find troops, he would not have taken the risk of handing over such an important defensive position to the Jewish regiment without any military training. But in front of his deputies and subordinates, he tried his best to maintain a calm appearance: "We must be able to think of a way to solve this problem." ”

"How to fix it?" Lobachev asked curiously.

Rokossovsky looked around, and suddenly saw several black dirt pits thirty or forty meters behind the trenches, and he immediately called Borisova to the front, pointed there and asked: "Comrade Borisova, what kind of dirt pit is that?" ”

Borisova turned her head and looked at it, and then quickly replied: "This is the crater left by the bombing of German planes a few days ago, and it also caused a lot of casualties to our volunteers who built the fortifications. ”

Rokossovsky waved his hand and said, "Let's go, let's go and have a look." ”

Although neither Borisova nor Lobachev knew what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd, they honestly followed them, crossed the trenches, and walked towards the craters, leaving only a group of female soldiers in civilian clothes to talk about it behind.

Rokossovsky walked to a crater, looked down, and then circled around the crater again. Then he returned to Borisova and Lobachev, and asked them with a sideways face: "Tell me, how many people can be hidden in this crater?" ”

Lobachev took a closer look at the crater, which was one meter deep and two meters wide, and then said: "If you use this as a foxhole, you can put at least two or three people." ”

"Three people may be a bit cramped, but two people are just right." Rokossovsky said to Lobachev: "I thought of a good way to overcome the timidity of the female soldiers when they went to war, so that they would not panic even if a bullet flew over their heads and a bomb exploded next to them. ”

"Oh, there's such a good way?" After listening to what Rokossovsky said, Lobachev curiously asked: "Comrade commander, what good idea did you come up with?" Hurry up and hear about it. ”

"Let's go, let's go to the trenches first, and I'll talk to you slowly."

When they came to the trench, Rokossovsky stopped, glanced at the female soldiers standing on the opposite side of the trench, and then turned back to Borisova beside him and said: "Comrade Borisova, I have come up with a good way to let your female soldiers hide in the crater over there, and then shoot them with submachine guns or machine guns here, so that they can experience the feeling of bullets flying over their heads." As long as they have experience, when they go to the battlefield, they will not panic in the enemy's shelling and bombardment, and they will not be frightened to flee in all directions when they see the enemy's tanks rushing up. ”

"What, let the female soldiers hide in the craters and let them be subjected to machine-gun fire?" After listening to Rokossovsky's proposal, Borisova suddenly lost her face, and said desperately waving her hands: "Comrade commander, this proposal of yours is so ridiculous that I cannot agree to it. The bullet doesn't have a long eye, if the machine gun is firing, which female soldier can't control it and can't help but stand up, won't she be killed by random shooting? No, no, this is resolutely not possible, you better go another way! ”、

"Yes, Comrade Rokossovsky." Lobachev may have felt that the matter was serious, so he did not call Rokossovsky by his post in Mandarin, but called him by name: "Comrade Borisova is right, such a training method is too dangerous, and the slightest mistake will kill someone." I don't agree with that either! ”

In the face of the resolute opposition of the two, Rokossovsky smiled, and then asked rhetorically: "Can you think of a better way to overcome the fear of female soldiers on the battlefield again?" ”

Hearing Rokossovsky's question, Lobachev and Borisova thought for a moment, and then shook their heads neatly, indicating that they could not think of anything effective.

Seeing that the two were speechless, Rokossovsky called one of the guards and asked him to ask Lieutenant Colonel Tarasov to come over. At the same time, he also instructed that when Comrade Lieutenant Colonel came, he would bring two more experienced machine gun shooters with their machine guns, and there was an important task to be assigned.

Watching the guards trotting away, Lobachev sighed and asked Rokossovsky tentatively: "Comrade commander, have you decided?" ”

Rokossovsky nodded and said affirmatively: "Yes, Comrade Military Commissar, I can't think of any other way than this kind of training to overcome the fear that a recruit has when he first goes to war in the shortest possible time." ”

"But who should go?" Lobachev looked at the crater in the distance and said thoughtfully: "If there is a slight mistake, an accident will happen, and it will be too late to remedy it." ”

Rokossovsky said with a smile on his face: "Since I came up with this idea, then the people hiding in the crater, there must be me." As for the other person," he said here, he deliberately paused, turned his gaze to Borisova, and then continued after a moment, "I wonder if Borisova and the volunteers will go with me?" ”

The female soldiers on the other side of the trench were stunned when they heard that Borisova was going to demonstrate with Rokossovsky how to overcome the fear of the battlefield, and the originally noisy ranks became silent. Hundreds of pairs of eyes stared intently at Rokossovsky and Borisova, barely believing that what they heard was real.

"Comrade Commander, don't forget who you are." Lobachev was anxious when he heard that Rokossovsky was going to go out in person, and without waiting for Borisova to make a statement, he tried his best to object, saying: "You are the commander of the army, and if something happens, then the entire army will be left without a leader, and then it will be ......"

"Don't worry, Comrade Military Commissar, I'm sure of this, I won't risk my life." Rokossovsky did not wait for Lobachev to finish, then interrupted him, turned his eyes to Borisova again, and asked in an inquiring tone: "Comrade Borisova, would you like to give an example to the female soldiers with me?" ”

Hearing Rokossovsky say this, Borisova couldn't refuse anymore, she could only answer stubbornly: "Okay, Comrade Commander, since you have to personally go to the demonstration, I, as the regimental political commissar of the Jewish Mission, must not be greedy for life and afraid of death, so I will go with you." ”

Seeing that Borisova agreed, Rokossovsky nodded, and then nodded at the female soldiers on the opposite side of the trench and said: "Okay, Comrade Borisova, since you have agreed to my proposal, then you can tell the female soldiers about this." ”

The female soldiers on the other side of the trench were stunned when they heard that Borisova was going to demonstrate with Rokossovsky how to overcome the fear of the battlefield, and the originally noisy ranks became silent. Hundreds of pairs of eyes stared intently at Rokossovsky and Borisova, barely believing that what they heard was real. (To be continued.) )