The bombardment is a large basement with dim lighting, damp, and looks like a boiler room. When I entered, there was no one inside, and I couldn't help but be a little angry, the female soldiers in the platoon were so unbelievable, that no one obeyed my orders and came here to escape the German fire.

I wanted to go out and teach them a lesson, but I couldn't help but retreat when I heard the rumbling sound of cannons outside. Sitting on the bench against the wall, I still had a lingering palpitation when I remembered the few shells that had exploded next to the observation post, so much so that my heart was beating faster and faster, and I couldn't breathe, and my legs were trembling incessantly.

"Leda," Jeanne said suddenly at the entrance of the cave, a little breathless, "why are you hiding here, we are looking for you everywhere." ”

"Ah," I took a deep breath and forced my composure to ask, "is there anything wrong?" ”

"I found a German devil behind the position, and the deputy platoon commander asked me to come to you, if I can't find you here, I'm going to go to the observation center to find you."

"Oh, there are Germans in the rear of the heights!" When I was at the observation post, I had heard Khlopov say that there was an attempt by the Germans to bypass us, and then cross the road to attack the defensive positions behind and cut off the high ground from the rear. Although I did not know what kind of battle was about to take place, I knew that the German offensive would definitely fail, and this was a fact that could not be changed, otherwise Leningrad would have fallen a long time ago, so I still sat on my stool and asked unhurriedly: "What kind of Germans?" ”

"I ······ I don't know what to do. She replied a little panicked: "The sentry on duty just now said that he had discovered the Germans, and I think I should report to you first, and then you should report to your superiors······

The gunfire outside had stopped, and although I had been flustered not long ago, the feeling of fear was gone. Everything is back to its original form. I interrupted her and asked, "How many Germans are there?" ”

"Comrade platoon commander!" Jeanne was infected by my emotions and calmed down, saying. "It was the mobile sentinels in the platoon who came to report, and she affirmed that the Germans ······"

"What kind of troops?·······"

"I don't know," replied Jeanne, realizing that her own answer was very unusual, "and I think it must be reported at once!······ At the same time that I came to look for you, the deputy platoon commander also went to the edge of the cliff to observe the enemy's situation. ”

I stood up and said to Jeanne, "Let's go, take me to see what kind of German it is." ”

Karenina and the two squad leaders of the second and third classes were standing on the edge of the cliff, observing the enemy situation below with binoculars. I walked up to Karenina and whispered, "What's going on?" ”

"The situation is very good," she said with a sad face as she handed me the binoculars in her hand, "there is probably a battalion of German devils below, under the cover of three tanks and ten armored vehicles, attacking the positions on the north side of the road, and the line of defense may be breached." ”

"Not necessarily." I smiled contemptuously and raised my hand to look high down the binoculars. A few hundred meters away on the road, the German infantry lined up in a skirmish formation and were slowly advancing towards their positions on the north side of the road. In front of them were three heavy tanks, firing guns, machine guns, slowly moving forward, crushing bushes, tree stumps, and barbed wire fences under the cars along the way.

The defending troops probably lacked anti-tank weapons, and from time to time fighters jumped out of the trenches and pounced on the tanks with explosive packs, but they were quickly knocked down by machine-gun fire from the armored vehicles behind the tanks. The tanks stopped about fifty meters from the trenches and opened fire with artillery and machine guns, covering the infantry jumping from armored vehicles to occupy advantageous combat positions.

"Karenina, assemble all the platoons at once." Seeing that the situation of the line of defense below was becoming more and more critical, I decisively gave the order. Karenina said yes and ran to assemble the team.

After a while, the heavily armed female soldiers came running over, and then stopped in front of me, neatly lined up in three rows. Jeanne, the second squad leader Narissa, and the third squad leader Nadasha also returned to the queue. Karenina stepped forward and saluted me: "Comrade platoon commander, the whole platoon has been assembled, please instruct." ”

I stepped forward and said with a serious expression to the thirty or so female soldiers in front of me: "Comrades, the situation is very serious, the German devils have gone around behind us and are attacking the positions of the militia division on the north side of the road. The militia has little combat experience, it is difficult for them to hold off the enemy's attack, and we should support them······"

"Comrade Platoon Commander," Second Squad Leader Narissa interrupted me, "how can we support them?" There's a cliff behind here, and we can't go down. ”

"Who said we were going down?!" I was unhappy that she interrupted me, so my tone was also very unkind. "We are on high ground and supporting them with fire."

"But we're all armed with rifles, so I'm afraid they won't do much." Although I could tell in my tone that I was unhappy with her, she still mustered up the courage to say what she wanted to say.

"Who said we were going to shoot with a rifle?" I paused deliberately, and then announced in a shocking way: "I decided to carry out flat fire on the German devils with an anti-aircraft machine gun." ”

"Flat shot?!" When she heard my words, her eyes lit up, and she said in surprise: "You have a point, anti-aircraft machine guns can indeed provide powerful fire support for militia divisions. But ······" She paused, then said with some hesitation: "But according to the regulations, if you want to change the use of weapons, you must get permission from your superiors······"

"Alright," I couldn't wait to interrupt her, these old hairy people are just dull in their work, and when they get permission after asking for instructions, it is estimated that the position on the north side of the road has already been broken by the Germans. "All the responsibility is on me. The combat mission was arranged as follows: Deputy Platoon Commander Karenina and the second squad leader remained in the original artillery position to maintain anti-air defense. Jeanne, the leader of the first squad, and Natasha, the leader of the third squad, immediately led the soldiers to push the anti-aircraft machine guns here, and we must immediately enter the battle and destroy these German devils. Do you understand? ”

"Understood." The female soldiers roared in high spirits.

"Anti-aircraft machine gun No. 1 is in place."

"Anti-aircraft machine gun No. 3 is in place."

Standing on the edge of the cliff, I raised my right hand high and shouted as I watched the enemy with my binoculars: "Machine gun No. 1, target: German tanks." ”

"Understood, target: German tanks." Jeanne, who was sitting in the shooter's position, repeated my command loudly

"Machine gun No. 3, target: armored car on the right side of the tank."

"Target: German armored vehicle." Natasha repeated my command aloud as well.

"Shoot!" With a shout, my hand swung violently, and the two anti-aircraft machine guns opened fire violently, and a string of vengeful bullets was fired at the enemy.

Looking through the binoculars, an armored car was hit by a dense barrage of bullets, and immediately billowing smoke came out, like a flaming torch. The bullets clanged the tank's armor, but only a series of sparks splashed, and it seemed that at such a distance, the machine-gun bullets did not hurt it much.

"Jeanne," seeing that the attack on the tanks was ineffective, I immediately shouted to Jeanne: "Stop fighting tanks, but fight the armored vehicles and infantry next to you." ”

The German tanks, which were attacked at the foot of the hill, stopped shelling the militia positions and turned around and opened fire on our hill. However, because of the angle of fire, the shells fired by the tanks all fell halfway up the mountain without exception; The infantrymen covering the tanks also hurriedly turned their guns to our positions and organized fire strikes, because their weapons did not have enough range to inflict any damage on us at all. In my eyes, it was a one-sided massacre.

The armored vehicles under the hill were blown up one after another, the explosion of ammunition was incessant, the nearby infantry was knocked down by pieces of shrapnel, and the rest screamed and dragged their guns around.

Quite a few people from the militia positions jumped out of the trenches and rushed towards the German tanks. By this time, the Germans were too busy to organize an effective defense, and the militia quickly rushed to the vicinity of the tanks. A dazzling burst of fire from the body of a tank, enveloping the entire huge body, and then a raging fire broke out. The hatch clattered open, and the first thing that came out was a puff of smoke that bubbled out of the flames, and then several soldiers jumped out. They screamed, waved their arms, and rolled on the ground in an attempt to extinguish the flames on their jumpsuit tank suits.

Our anti-aircraft machine guns continued to roar, pouring ammunition into the ranks of the German troops, mercilessly reaping the lives of the German devils. Where the bullets plowed, there was no longer a single person standing.

The remaining two German tanks were also blown up by the militia, and the militia division also began a full-scale counterattack.