The Germans advanced seventy or eighty meters from the side of the road, then stopped, and they hid behind the uneven ice and opened fire on us. Although they were small in number, they looked like veterans who had fought in Europe for several years, and they had extensive experience in marksmanship and quasi-combat, and they did not shoot blindly, but hid behind the ice after one or two shots.

On the other hand, on the side of our army, although there are many people, they belong to a rabble that has been put together temporarily, and there is no discipline at all to fight. The drivers, in particular, threw their rifles at the ice on the side of the road, and crackled and beat them indiscriminately, regardless of whether they were aiming at the target or not. What's even more infuriating is that they didn't know how to hide, not only did they expose most of their bodies when they shot, but they didn't even know how to hide when they changed magazines, so they squatted there and let the Germans use them as targets.

In this way for half a day, seven or eight German soldiers were defeated, and the casualties on our side exceeded at least forty. Fortunately, the Germans were mainly armed with rifles, armed with four or five submachine guns. Stopped in the distance were half-tracked armored vehicles, not equipped with artillery except for machine guns, otherwise the Germans would have almost wiped out our regiment with a single artillery fire and another charge from the infantry.

In the blockade, I finished a magazine, and except for the first three bullets, which knocked down a German soldier, I didn't even hurt a German soldier. I turned sideways, leaned my back against the ice, pulled out the magazine from my coat pocket, and shouted to the lieutenant next to me as I changed: "Comrade lieutenant, you can't fight like this anymore." Otherwise, even if we run out of people here, we won't be able to destroy this German army. ”

The lieutenant crawled up to me and asked loudly: "Comrade Major, what should we do?" ”

I changed my magazine, turned over and looked through the gap in the ice, and saw that there were about ten more people shooting on the German side. I didn't bother to answer the lieutenant's words, so I put my gun back on the ice and prepared to shoot two more shots, but I was already spotted by the Germans on the opposite side, and immediately two people opened fire on me. Instinctively, I shrank down and hid myself behind the ice. The bullets hit the hard ice, and the cold pieces of ice exploded in all directions.

I hurriedly rolled to the left side, put the gun on the other ice pile, and fired two bursts in the direction where the bullet had just flew. This time he hit a target by chance, and the German soldier threw his rifle and the body lay headfirst on the ice.

I hid myself back in the ice and instructed the lieutenant not far away: "Comrade lieutenant, go and organize the fighters with submachine guns and let them suppress the fire here; Then send two teams of men to make a detour from the left and right of the German army, and they must all be wiped out. ”

"No, Major. The Germans were too threatening with their armored vehicles, and the machine guns on them suppressed us to the death, and whoever straightened up would be knocked down. ”

Listening to the lieutenant say this, I realized that I had thought about the problem too simply, and if I didn't shoot out the fire of the armored vehicles, the soldiers on both wings might be killed by all the machine guns above. I don't know if the fighters who went to the anti-aircraft machine gun position to convey the order arrived? Without anti-aircraft machine guns, we really had no way to take the armored vehicles of the Germans.

When I was very anxious, I couldn't help but look back at the anti-aircraft machine gun position, but I didn't expect to see a group of soldiers, bending over, pulling or pushing a quadruple anti-aircraft machine gun, coming in our direction. Seeing this, I couldn't help but cry out in my heart: hell, you guys just fire behind the snow wall, what are you doing with the machine guns pushed out?

It was too late, and the anti-aircraft machine gun was quickly pushed between the two trucks, and a fighter sat in the sightman's seat, quickly shook the handle, shook the high muzzle to a level, and opened heavy fire.

In the crisp sound of gunfire, the machine-gun shooter on the first armored car was beaten to the ground, and the blood mist disappeared directly from my sight. Then the anti-aircraft machine gun pointed its gun at the second armored vehicle and continued to fire, this time after taking out the machine gun shooter, the armored vehicle's ammunition was hit, and after a violent explosion, the vehicle began to burn.

The German soldiers who were shooting at us could not help but panic a little when they saw that their armored vehicles had been knocked out by us. When two more soldiers were shot and fell, the rest did not dare to stay, alternately covering an attempt to escape. To tell the truth, when the armored vehicles were still there just now, they were going to run, and we didn't have a problem with them; Now the armored vehicles that pose the greatest threat to us have been killed, and if they want to run, they will have to ask us if they will agree.

I stood up with my gun in my hand and said to the lieutenant, who was still lying behind the ice, "Lieutenant, take your men and rush forward, and don't let them run away!" ”

"Yes!" The lieutenant agreed, jumped up from the ground, and shouted loudly: "Comrades, rush with me!" Then, he took the lead in rushing out of the city with a submachine gun, and those soldiers lying on the ground, whether they were road guards, drivers, or escorts, saw that a commander was the first to rush out of Lu, and they also rushed forward with a shout.

Seeing that the situation was decided, I did not follow the charge, but put the gun on my shoulder and walked towards the anti-aircraft machine gun. I would like to express my gratitude to their commanders, because without their help, it is difficult to say who will win or who will lose in the end, not to mention how long we will have to fight this enemy.

I had just taken a few steps when I saw a second lieutenant walking towards me with these two soldiers. The three of them came up to me, saluted me neatly, and said in unison: "Hello, Comrade Major! ”

I returned the salute, and then the second lieutenant shook his hand and said gratefully: "Comrade second lieutenant, thank you!" If it weren't for your help, we wouldn't have had a problem with this enemy. ”

The second lieutenant looked at me with a smile: "Major Oshanina, don't you remember me?" ”

The officer in front of me looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while, which may be the sadness of a person with face blindness like me. Out of politeness, I cautiously asked, "You look familiar, but I don't know where we've met before?" ”

The second lieutenant sighed and said, "Comrade Major, don't you really remember me?" I'm Savchenko! ”

"Savchenko?!" I really didn't have any impression of the name, so I shook my head and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, Comrade Ensign, I really can't remember seeing you somewhere." ”

Seeing that I still didn't remember who he was, the second lieutenant was a little reluctant and continued to remind me: "Think again, we fought together on the nameless heights of Pulkovo last October. ”

As soon as I heard the names of Pulkovo and the Nameless Heights, I immediately associated the second lieutenant in front of me with the whistling frivolous second lieutenant in the anti-aircraft machine gun company I commanded at that time. I was especially happy to meet another acquaintance here. I grabbed the second lieutenant's hand and shook it vigorously, and said, "I didn't expect it to be you, comrade second lieutenant." We meet again. ”

"Yes, yes, Comrade Major." He was also very happy to see me, his old superior, "Look at me, I'm still a second lieutenant, and you're already a major!" ”

As we spoke, the battle to destroy the remnants of the enemy came to an end. After all, we have sixty or seventy heavily armed soldiers, and if we can't even deal with the remnants of a few Germans, then these people should go back to being ordinary people. It is for this reason that I can feel comfortable and bold to catch up with the second lieutenant.

After a short time, the lieutenant came and reported to me: "Report to Comrade Major that the invading Germans have been completely wiped out. Two armored vehicles were destroyed, 19 German soldiers were killed and 5 were captured alive. What to do with the captives, please instruct you! ”

I was about to speak when I heard a rush of footsteps, and then Naya's voice: "Comrade Major, I'm back!" "I followed the prestige, Naya was running towards me with a rifle and a group of soldiers, and the commander beside her was none other than Lieutenant Baku, the commander of the second company.

Then, I heard the horn of the car again, and two trucks full of soldiers rushed towards us at a speed and stopped a dozen meters away from us. As soon as the car stopped, the soldiers in the car jumped down one after another and formed a team under the car. The door of the cab of the truck in front of him opened, and a commander stepped down from the co-pilot's side and shouted domineeringly: "Who is in charge here?" Come to me! ”

When I saw it, this person was none other than Lieutenant Colonel Harpy, who had only dealt with him in the morning. Why are these people, like those policemen in Hong Kong and Taiwan films, waiting for the dust to settle before they are late.