Hearing that the car in front had hit a landmine, Lin Hua quickly pushed Asiya away, opened the door and jumped out of the car, shouting to the back: "Listen to my command and get out of the car!"
The explosion in front had already alarmed the soldiers sitting in the carriage. Many people lifted the tarp and looked outside, trying to figure out what happened. Upon hearing Lin Hua's order, the soldiers lowered the baffle at the rear of the carriage, jumped out of the car one after another, and gathered next to the truck.
While the soldiers were gathering, Lin Hua glanced at the snow-covered forest on both sides of the road, thinking that although the truck in front hit a mine, who could guarantee that there was no German squad lurking in the forest? ? Thinking of this, he quickly shouted loudly: "Platoon leaders, come to me." Following the shout, three platoon leaders, two sergeants and one deputy, came to Lin Hua.
Lin Hua said to the platoon leaders: "The car in front hit a mine. You stay here as a guard. I will go to the front to have a look." After that, he turned around and walked away with his gun in hand.
After taking a few steps, he felt someone chasing him. Turning around, I saw it was Asiya. He was about to ask Asiya to go back, but Asiya said first, "Misha, the truck in front hit a mine, and someone must be injured. I am a health worker, and my duty is to rescue the injured."
Asiya's words made Lin Hua give up the idea of letting her go back, but for safety reasons, he still let Asiya walk on his right side, between him and the truck, so that even if a German came from If you shoot coldly in the forest on the left, you can take a bullet for Asiya.
After the convoy stopped, the soldiers from the first and second companies also got out of the truck, but they did not organize a defense. Instead, they stood in groups next to the truck, talking messily. A few soldiers even stood on the roadside, standing on tiptoes and looking forward, trying to figure out what was going on.
Lin Hua and Asiya squeezed through the crowd and came to the front of the motorcade. He saw that the lead car that had struck a mine was burning, and he could feel a heat wave from a long distance away. Bukov and Leskov were standing in front of the second truck, pointing toward the burning vehicle.
Although Lin Hua had already seen the burning truck, he still asked Bukov and others: "Two comrades, company commanders, what happened here?"
"The Germans laid mines on the road." Bukov looked at the burning truck and said through gritted teeth: "After hitting the mine, the driver and a platoon leader sitting in the cab died on the spot, and the twelve soldiers in the carriage They were all injured to varying degrees.”
"Asia," Leskov saw Asya following Lin Hua and asked politely, "Can you help me?"
"Comrade Captain," Asiya saw that the person talking to her was a captain, and she quickly asked respectfully, "Is there anything I can do for you?"
Leskov stretched out his hand and pointed to the other side of the truck, signaling Asiya to look that way. Asiya looked in the direction of his finger and saw seven or eight soldiers with painful expressions, sitting with their backs against the truck, humming incessantly. A male hygienist was busy bandaging their wounds. Seeing this situation, Asya immediately understood what Leskov wanted to say. She quickly walked over, knelt down and began to treat the wounded.
Lin Hua looked at the road passing through the forest in front of him, frowned and asked Bukov: "Comrade Captain, I don't know how many mines the German army has laid on this road and how wide the minefield is. Look, what should we do?"
Leskov, who had just handed over the task to Asiya, came over and said: "Bukov, I think we should ask the battalion commander to contact his superiors and let the engineers come to clear the mines on our roads."
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Bukov shook his head and said: "No, the engineers don't know when they will be available, and the superiors ordered us to rush to the Istria Reservoir as soon as possible, and we cannot waste too much time here." After that, He turned to the back and shouted: "First squad leader!"
Following his shout, a young sergeant of medium build ran over. He stopped in front of him and held his head high, waiting for Bukov to give him an order.
"First squad leader," Bukov pointed forward with his hand and said to the sergeant: "Take the soldiers to the front to explore the road and see how big the German minefield is."
When Lin Hua heard the order given by Bukov, he couldn't help but be startled. He thought to himself, isn't this asking the soldiers to go to the mine? Before he could speak, a squad leader had already set off with five soldiers. After they passed the burning truck, they immediately dispersed into formation and walked cautiously forward along the road.
Looking at the backs of these six soldiers, Lin Hua secretly prayed for them in his heart, hoping that the Germans would only plant the mine that blew up the lead car on this road. Just when he thought of this, there was a loud "boom", and the squad leader who was walking at the front of the entire team was lifted into the sky by the air wave of the explosion in a dazzling fire. After his body fell from the air, it continued to roll forward under the huge inertia, causing a series of explosions. Hearing the explosion of the landmine, Lin Hua and others hurriedly lay down on the spot to avoid the flying shrapnel.
When the explosions stopped, there was no one standing on the road ahead, and the soldiers who were exploring the road fell in a pool of blood. As soon as Lin Hua got up from the ground, someone suddenly ran past him quickly and ran towards the place where the smoke was still coming out. Lin Hua stared at the back for a moment, and then realized that it was Asiya. Lin Hua was so frightened that he shouted at the top of his lungs: "Asiya, it's dangerous! Come back quickly, come back quickly!"
But Asiya ignored him. Instead, she rushed to a soldier lying on the road. After quickly checking the opponent's injuries, she turned his body over with difficulty, tore open his military coat, and began to bandage the wound. .
Lin Hua saw Asiya treating the wounded in the minefield and was worried that something would happen to her. He didn't care about his own safety, so he rushed over. He ran to Asiya, squatted down, and said loudly to her: "Asiya, you don't want your life. You knew this was a minefield, but you still rushed into it."
Asiya continued to bandage the wounds of the wounded and said without raising her head: "Misha, it is my duty to treat the wounded, let alone in a minefield, even under artillery fire, I have to fulfill my duty. "
After Lin Hua heard Asiya's words, he stood up suddenly. Asiya was startled by his actions and asked hurriedly: "What are you going to do?"
Lin Hua pointed at another wounded man lying not far away and said, "I'll drag him back to a safe place. It won't be too late for you to treat him then." After saying that, he rushed to the wounded man's side and bent down. , hands passed through his armpits, dragging him towards a safe place.
Seeing Lin Hua and Asiya desperately trying to save their comrades, several more soldiers rushed over and assisted Lin Hua in dragging the injured comrades to a safe place. Only one squad leader was blown to pieces by a landmine, and even his intact body could not be found.
Bukov and Leskov returned Asiya to a safe place, and they both stepped forward and said approvingly: "Asiya, you are so good! It's amazing." In response to the two people's compliments, Asiya Ya just grinned, then squatted down and continued to treat the wounded.
Battalion Commander Ivan heard a series of explosions in front and hurried from the back of the convoy. After figuring out what was going on, he cursed Bukov: "You bastard, how dare you order the soldiers to go to mines? Believe it or not, I will shoot you." As he said that, he reached out to draw the gun.
Leskov hurriedly hugged him and persuaded him for a long time before Ivan's anger slowly calmed down. He turned around and said to a soldier who was following him: "Send a report to the regiment immediately, report the situation of our battalion to the regiment commander, and ask him to send engineers to remove landmines for us as soon as possible."
