The enemy plane fled, and the female soldiers rushed to my side and kissed me on the cheek desperately. It was supposed to be a good opportunity to hug left and right, but I sat in front of the machine gun in a daze, and when I hit the enemy plane just now, I was calm; When the battle was over, I began to be afraid, and my whole body was shaking like chaff.

"What's wrong with you?" Jeanne next to her asked with concern, her address to me had changed from "you" to an affectionate "you".

"It's nothing, it's just a little cold." I found a more appropriate reason to hide my gaffe. The temperature difference between morning and evening in autumn in Russia is too great, and when I rushed out of the house just now, I was nervous and did not feel the chill of the early morning. It's really a little chilly at this time.

Karenina walked over to me, put her arm around my shoulders and said, "Let's go, Leda." We went back for breakfast, and we couldn't let the damn German devils delay our breakfast. I said yes, jumped out of my seat, and returned to the house, surrounded by the female soldiers.

There was a long wooden table in the room, presumably the table at which the female soldiers usually ate, with sliced black bread, pickled cucumbers, cheese, sausages, and even a pot of green apples.

Just as he was about to start eating, suddenly a man's voice came from the door: "Can we come in?" "I looked towards the door, and I saw Captain Holopov and Captain Khlopov standing outside the door with a smile on their faces. I quickly stood up and greeted him, and said in a loud voice: "Comrade commander, welcome to you. ”

The two of them sat down at the table, took off the steel helmet from their heads and placed it on the table. Khlopov said to everyone a little excitedly: "Girls, you guys are amazing! Before you came, there was no air defense in this position, so the planes of the German devils had to fly over the high ground every day to go around in circles, and they didn't pay attention to us at all. Today, you have taught them a hard lesson, and it is estimated that they will not dare to be so arrogant in the future. ”

"All right, my comrade political instructor," interrupted the lieutenant, "it's time for breakfast, and if you want to say something, you'll have to wait until you're done." He placed a satchel on the table and laid out the contents one by one: rusks, lard and a jar of condensed milk. Although there are not many things, I clearly know that these things that usually seem ordinary are incomparably precious food during the war years.

"Girls, this is my gift to you." The captain beckoned everyone: "You're welcome, everyone, come and eat." Your normal time for breakfast has been delayed by the German devil's plane, so hurry up and eat, so as not to be disturbed by the German devil in the middle of the meal. ”

"Boom!" As soon as he finished speaking, an explosion sounded outside. At first it was just a sound, and then "boom, boom, boom!" The explosion rang out.

"Not good," the captain's face changed immediately, "the Germans began to shell the positions again." Captain, let's hurry to the observation post. Grabbing the steel helmet resting on the table, he rushed out, and Khlopov rushed out after him.

"I'm tortured, Captain is really a crow's mouth." I whispered a curse in Chinese, then stood up and gave my deputy platoon commander a loud order: "Karenina, except for a few necessary personnel at the anti-aircraft machine gun to keep guard, everyone else hides in the anti-artillery hole." ”

"Leda," Karenina said with some hesitation, "but we stay in the house during the usual shelling." Comrade battalion commander also said that this house was built behind a mountain, and artillery fire could not hit it, so it was very safe. ”

When I heard this, I really couldn't laugh or cry, maybe the location of the house was not hit by German artillery fire, but it didn't mean that the planes couldn't bomb it either. Dozens of people were nestled in a broken wooden hut, and all of them were hung up when an aerial bomb fell. So I said very resolutely: "No, go and hide in the anti-artillery hole, this is an order." ”

After giving the order, I grabbed a few slices of bread from the table, ate them, and walked out of the hut, following the two commanders, to the observation post set up on the hillside.

In addition to the battalion commander and instructor who were observing the enemy situation with binoculars, there was also a male telegraph operator with a headset holding a microphone and shouting loudly: "Hey, hey, division, division, I'm here on the nameless heights, I'm on the nameless heights." ······."

"Boom, boom, boom!" I lay down in front of the observation port and watched as the German shells exploded one after another on the high ground, and the smoke and dust flew and obscured half of the sky.

However, the situation here was not the worst, and the heights on the left were subjected to more heavy shelling. The various strong fortifications on the hillside were like papier-mâché toys, torn and crumpled by the force of the explosion, and then lifted high into the air. Mines in minefields were constantly detonated, the barbed wire in front of the trenches was torn to shreds, and the soldiers hiding in the trenches were blown to pieces······

The phone at the division headquarters was finally about to go, and the captain loudly reported the situation to the division commander: "······ The German devils were heavily shelling the heights, and the infantry was massing in the rear. Depending on the situation, they are preparing to adopt the old tactic again, suppressing the high ground on our left and right with artillery fire, and then organizing troops to assault the main peak position. ······"

"Boom!" With a loud bang, a shell exploded near the observation post, and large and small clods of dirt fell on the roof like a torrential rain, I screamed in fright, hurriedly left the observation port, and squatted on the ground with my head in my hands. Outside, a large cloud of spicy gunpowder smoke was blown in by the wind, and I choked a little out of breath.

The captain, who had just finished the call, looked at me with dissatisfaction, and was about to open his mouth to criticize me, a panicked man, when Khlopov, who had been observing the enemy situation outside, suddenly said loudly: "Oh, it's not good. ”

"What's the matter?" The captain rushed over, grabbed the telescope placed at the observation port, and looked nervously out.

"Captain, you see, there are tanks and armored transports covering the German infantry is bypassing from the right side of our position, and they want to go directly to attack the line of defense on the Kyiv road."

"You have to report to your superiors immediately." The captain turned around and grabbed the phone and began to shout loudly again: "Divisional headquarters, divisional headquarters!" I am the Nameless Heights, I am the Nameless Heights! He suddenly dropped the microphone and said angrily, "Hell, the phone line was blown up." Then he told the signal soldier: "Hurry up and check the line." ”

"Did the division commander say anything just now?" As soon as the signal corpsmen left, Khlopov asked the lieutenant with concern.

"Having said that, it is still the same few words: it is better to leave the bones exposed in the wilderness than to abandon the high ground; As long as there is still one person, it must be nailed to the position like a nail, and there is no step back. ”

"Boom!" Another shell landed nearby, and I fell on another thick layer of dirt. It's too dangerous here, maybe I'll be hit directly by a shell after a while, I don't want to die in the unknown, let's go to the anti-artillery hole and find the soldiers in the platoon, at least stay there and not be killed by the shell. Thinking of this, I didn't say hello to them, quietly stood up, and sneaked out of the observation post. As soon as I got out, I spread my feet and ran to the bomb hole.