When the convoy of the female soldier company drove towards the station south of Sushinich, Sokov and Liuba were both sitting in the cab of the first truck. Sokov was acting as a guide, showing the way for the driver; while Liuba wanted to learn more about the situation in the south of the city from Sokov.
Seeing that Sokov was alone, Liuba couldn't help but curiously asked: "Comrade Captain, I want to ask, why did you come to the city alone without even a guard? Aren't you afraid of danger on the road? ?”
"Lieutenant Lyuba, I did not return to the city alone." Sokov explained to her: "During last night's battle, we captured several howitzers from the Germans. I was ordered to send the artillery to Back to the city. As for not bringing any guards, that was on purpose."
"Why?" Sokov's words aroused Liuba's curiosity.
"You should know that there is a serious shortage of troops in the city, and everyone is trying to find ways to supplement their own troops." Sokov said with a wry smile: "If I bring a guard platoon into the city and the division commander or commander sees it, they will Ask me to leave half of my warriors for them, do you think I will give it to them?"
"So that's it." After listening to Sokov's explanation, Liuba had a look of understanding on her face. She pointed at Sokov's nose and said, "Comrade Captain, you are really cunning."
With the help of a truck, the six-kilometer distance was covered in just over 20 minutes.
Seeing the position appearing in front, Liuba quickly asked: "Comrade Captain, where do you plan to place our company?"
"There." Sokov pointed to the place where the third battalion of the 972nd Infantry Regiment once stayed, and said to Liuba: "There is a headquarters and a dozen concealment units there. Your company can be stationed there temporarily."
"Then where should our anti-aircraft machine guns be deployed?" Lyuba then asked.
Ever since he learned that the women's anti-aircraft machine gun company was going to be placed under his command, Sokov had been thinking about where to place the position. When Liuba asked, he answered confidently: "From where you live to the foot of the north slope, there is an open area. You can place the air defense position in that area."
The soldiers standing guard noticed a convoy heading towards the position and quickly reported it to Belkin on the phone. After receiving the news, Belkin walked out of the command post and walked towards the convoy with several soldiers from the guard platoon, wanting to ask which part of the troops came from.
Seeing Belkin coming with someone, Sokov quickly asked the driver to stop, then opened the door and jumped out of the car. When Belkin saw that the person coming out of the cab was actually Sokov, he couldn't help but curiously asked: "Comrade Battalion Commander, which army are you coming with?..." Before he could finish his words, I saw Liuba coming out of the cab, and female anti-aircraft machine gunners coming out of the cars behind.
"Comrade Deputy Battalion Commander, why are you so dazed?" Sokov came forward with Lyuba and Sveta, and introduced to Belkin: "Let me introduce to you, they are from the women's anti-aircraft machine gun company. Commander, this is the company commander, Lieutenant Lyuba, and that is the instructor, Sweta." Then, he faced Lyuba and Swita and said, "This is the political deputy battalion commander, Comrade Belkin."
After the two sides saluted and shook hands with each other, Belkin said enthusiastically to Liuba and the others: "Comrade commanders, it's too cold outside. Let's go back to the battalion headquarters first. It's warm there."
Regarding Belkin's warm invitation, Lyuba said with some embarrassment: "But my soldiers are still here."
"Don't worry, I will put them in place." After Belkin finished speaking, he turned to look at Sokov, wanting to hear how he arranged the accommodation for the female soldiers. Seeing Sokov pointing towards the place where the former 972nd Infantry Regiment lived, he immediately understood. He turned around and told Seryosha who was following behind him: "Seryosa, take someone to help the female soldiers to live there first. Down."
Just when Sokov, Belkin and Liuba were heading to the battalion command post, the soldiers who were staying in the concealment to keep warm learned from the sentry that a group of female soldiers had arrived, and they all rushed to the camp. In the trenches, people kept commenting: "Wow, it's really a female soldier. I thought that boy Anton was lying to me, but it turned out to be true."
"I've seen it before. Where did the female soldiers come from? There are so many, dozens of them."
"Brothers, we haven't seen so many women in a long time. We will go look for them later."
"No, no. Their expressions are too serious and they should be difficult to approach."
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When the female soldiers passing by not far away heard the chatter of the male soldiers, their faces turned red with embarrassment. They lowered their heads in unison, and at the same time quickened their pace, wanting to leave the place of trouble and wrong as soon as possible.
Seeing this reaction from the female soldiers, the male soldiers became even more proud. They whistled desperately at the female soldiers, trying to attract their attention. There was even a male soldier who shouted loudly to the female soldiers: "Hey, girls, we are from the Istria camp. If you need anything, you can come to us. We are very willing to serve young girls like you." …”
He was shouting vigorously when he suddenly felt someone slap his helmet hard. He turned around and was about to have an attack when he saw company commander Vanya standing solemnly behind him. He immediately stopped in fear, quietly greeted other soldiers who were watching the fun, and slipped back to his shelter.
Vanya stood in the trench with her hands behind her back, looking at the dozens of young female soldiers, frowning and asking the sentry standing guard next to her: "Sentry, where did they come from?"
After hearing Vaniyar's questions, the sentry quickly replied: "They came back with the battalion commander. The two female commanders leading the team have followed the two battalion commanders to the command post."
"Playing the piano randomly is just playing the piano randomly." Vanya said dissatisfied in her heart: "How can we let women go to the battlefield when all our men are not dead yet? No, I have to talk to the battalion commander and let him Send these female soldiers back." Thinking of this, he turned around and walked towards the battalion command post.
Vasily was chatting with the second company commander Andrei in the shelter when he suddenly heard soldiers coming in and reporting: "Two comrades, company commanders, please go out and take a look. A group of female soldiers have come from nowhere. Our brothers are all here." It’s fun outside to watch.”
The two walked out of the shelter and saw dozens of female soldiers following Seryosha towards the idle fortifications in the distance. Andrei said with some confusion: "Vasily, what do you think your superiors are doing here? You can't let them be like male soldiers, holding guns and fighting the Germans with bayonets, right?"
Vasya's sharp eyes had long seen the truck parked in the distance and the anti-aircraft machine gun towed behind it. He smiled and said to Andre: "Andre, don't worry, the superiors will never let these female soldiers... Follow us to fight the Germans with bayonets. Look at the trucks over there and the anti-aircraft machine guns on the back. The superiors should have sent them to strengthen our air defense."
