Chapter 826 Heavy Snowfall

Because the two stations occupied by the guerrillas were stockpiled with a large amount of military supplies, the Germans were afraid to bomb the stations, so they could only send a few reconnaissance planes to hover over the two stations to monitor the guerrillas in the stations. trend.

   Platonov took a few guerrillas and left the 564th kilometer in an armored vehicle, heading east along the railway line. A reconnaissance plane spotted the armored vehicle leaving the station, and immediately followed it. When it was clear that there were only five or six people in the vehicle, it thought that the other party was rushing to the east to perform a reconnaissance mission. After all, the German army who came from the city Troops are advancing towards the station. After following for a while, the pilot felt that it was not interesting, so he turned around and returned to the station.

Mishiga looked at the several reconnaissance planes hovering in the sky from the window, and said to Tavlin worriedly: "Comrade Sergeant, the enemy's reconnaissance planes have been hovering over us. Doesn’t the move of the team’s camp mean exposing the target?”

   "I remember that there seemed to be several anti-aircraft guns at the station." After thinking for a moment, Taflin said to Mihiga: "If we can fire two cannons into the air, the German reconnaissance planes will surely hide away."

Unexpectedly, after he finished speaking, he saw Mihiga's embarrassed face, and couldn't help asking: "Why, Comrade Mihiga, among the thousands of guerrillas, can't you find a few who will meet you?" Someone with an anti-aircraft gun?"

"I think so, Comrade Sergeant," Mishiga said with a wry smile: "Among us there are collective farmers, workers, accountants, and teachers, but there are no former gunners. "

"Then what should we do?" Taflin looked at the gray sky and the reconnaissance planes hovering in the sky, and said worriedly: "If the enemy's reconnaissance planes cannot be driven away, then our operation of transporting supplies will You will be discovered by the enemy. If your camp is exposed, you will face the crazy revenge of the Germans."

Mihiga knew that Tavlin was not an alarmist. After the Germans recaptured the lost station, they would definitely retaliate wildly against all the guerrillas who participated in this operation. Think about the guerrillas who failed to attack the state farm last time. Higa fought against the cold, not only the entire guerrilla army was wiped out, but the brutal Germans even brutally slaughtered the villagers in several nearby villages, even the elderly and children.

"How about we wait until it gets dark before moving the supplies?" Mihiga thought for a long time, and finally came up with an idea: "Anyway, the night is long and the day is short, and it will be dark around four o'clock in the afternoon. As soon as the sky Black, the German reconnaissance planes can’t see anything, and we can move supplies on a large scale.”

"No, it's only in the morning, and there are still five or six hours until it gets dark." As soon as Mihiga's plan was put forward, Taflin denied it: "If you start moving after dark, I'm afraid it will take an overnight No matter how many mines we planted on the roads that the Germans are passing by, they cannot stop them for more than ten hours. If the Germans arrive when we are carrying supplies, I can assure you that the people in the station Thousands of guerrillas will be defeated by the enemy within half an hour."

"What should we do?" Seeing that his plan was rejected by Taflin without hesitation, Mihiga stomped his feet anxiously: "Comrade Sergeant, we can't wait until dark to carry supplies, and there is no Anti-aircraft gunners, how do we deal with enemy planes in the air, do we use submachine guns to shoot down enemy planes?"

  The speaker is not interested in the listener, and Mihiga's complaint immediately made Taflin think of an excellent solution: "Comrade Captain, I have a way to deal with the German reconnaissance plane."

   "Comrade Sergeant, what can we do?" Taflin's words made Mihiga grab hold of a life-saving straw. He grabbed Taflin's arm and asked excitedly, "Quickly tell me!"

"Comrade Captain, don't we have a large amount of weapons and ammunition among the supplies we seized?" Tavlin said with a smile on his face: "According to the order of the superior, all the weapons in the hands of the guerrillas have been replaced with all made in Germany. You Immediately organize anti-aircraft fire and try to drive the enemy's reconnaissance planes away from the station."

   "Although we have all changed to German weapons, comrades are not proficient in using the new weapons." Mihiga said hesitantly: "Even if we organize anti-aircraft shooting, we may not be able to hit the target."

  "One or two people shooting into the air may have little effect, but if thousands of people shoot at the same time, the barrage formed over the station is entirely possible to shoot down the enemy's plane."

Mihiga waited for Tavlin to finish speaking, slapped the table excitedly, and said excitedly: "Comrade Sergeant, your method is really great. Anyway, we have seized so many weapons and ammunition, and we can't take them all away. Instead of blowing it up or leaving it to the Germans, it would be better to use it against the German planes first."

Just when Mihiga was about to walk outside, Tavlin called him again: "Comrade captain, let the team members lie down in an organized manner on the ground, and select one or several targets to focus on shooting, so that the enemy The ones shot down by the plane may be bigger."

   "Let the team members lie on the ground and shoot in the air?" Taflin's method was completely beyond Mihiga's understanding. He tentatively asked, "Is this possible?"

"Why can't it work?" Tavlin said confidently: "When the division commander led us to fight the enemy in the Red October factory, he used this kind of concentrated fire tactics to shoot down several enemy bombers and fighter jets. Think about it, Since bombers and fighter jets can be shot down, is there any problem in dealing with unarmed reconnaissance planes in the sky?"

  Five minutes later, intensive gunfire sounded in the station. A reconnaissance plane that was lowering its altitude and trying to pass over the station was unfortunately hit by dense bullets. The plane dragged a long black smoke trail, flew crookedly towards the distance, and then fell into a in the forest. After a ball of fire with billowing smoke rose, there was a dull explosion.

  Seeing that their own shooting actually shot down the enemy's reconnaissance plane, the guerrillas who were lying on the ground and shooting suddenly became excited as if they had been shot with chicken blood. They desperately pulled the trigger according to the target indicated by their respective captains.

  The other planes hovering in the air saw that one of their own planes was hit by the intensive firepower from the ground, they immediately raised their altitude and climbed desperately. Even so, two reconnaissance planes were still concentrated by dense bullets, billowing black smoke from the engines, the pilots did not dare to stay in the air any longer, and flew back staggeringly.

As soon as the enemy's reconnaissance plane flew away, Tavlin immediately rushed out of the station master's office and shouted to Mihiga who was giving orders: "Comrade captain, the enemy's plane has been chased away by us, you should organize people to carry supplies as soon as possible." Bar."

  Mihiga looked at the sky worriedly, and saw that the enemy's reconnaissance planes had indeed flown away, so he called the guerrilla leaders together and arranged for them to start transporting supplies to their respective camps. For a while, the trucks and carriages in the station were requisitioned by the guerrillas, and as soon as they were filled with supplies, they immediately left the station and went to their camp.

  While the guerrillas started to carry supplies, Tavlin asked the radio operator to send a report to Guchakov, saying that the reconnaissance plane over the station had been driven away, and now it was delivering supplies to various guerrilla camps.

   After receiving the telegram, Guchakov immediately called back and asked: "How far is the German reinforcements from your station?"

   "I have sent Platonov to lead people to lay mines along the railway east of the station," Tavlin replied, "I estimate that the enemy is at least ten kilometers away from the station."

  Guchakov's new call back is very simple: "Hurry up and rush to transport supplies. Be sure to transport more useful supplies to the guerrilla camp for storage."

   Don’t see that there are as many as 2,000 guerrillas who participated in the battle this time. These are just combatants. There are still hundreds of non-combatants, including the elderly and children, left in various guerrilla camps. Seeing their own people transporting a large amount of supplies outside the forest to unload trucks, they immediately came out and moved the supplies into the camp in the forest one trip after another.

At noon, Platonov's armored vehicle came back, and he reported to Tavlin and Mishiga: "We planted more than 60 mines eight kilometers east of the station, and arranged two mines. Minefield, I believe it can block the enemy for a while."

"Comrade Platonov, you have worked hard." Tavlin held the other's hand and said apologetically, "I know that you have just returned from the task of laying mines. You have worked very hard and you need to rest immediately. But you can't do it now. , The enemy may rush into the station at any time, so we must plant more mines on the way the enemy advances to make it difficult for them to move."

"When I came back, I took a look at the weather." Platonov said to Tavlin: "I guess it won't be long before it will start snowing. I think that in order to speed up the speed of mine burying, some mines don't need to be buried at all." In the field, we only need to wait for the blizzard to come, and we can scatter landmines in the snow, and the enemy can also be blown up."

"Then act quickly." Taflin knew that Platonov's level of guerrilla warfare and landmines behind the enemy was much higher than his own, so he nodded at him and said, "The enemy may rush to the enemy at any time." Come here at the station, your task is to complete the laying of the new minefield as soon as possible. Do you understand?"

   "Understood, Comrade Sergeant." Platonov replied with a smile: "I will make the enemy step on a mine every time he takes a step forward. But I have one condition."

"What conditions?" Taflin thought to himself, if Platonov's conditions were not harsh, he would definitely agree to him: "You just say, as long as it is within my ability, I will definitely satisfy your wishes .”

"Two armored vehicles can only carry 24 people." Platonov, who had just returned from the armored vehicle, naturally knew how much the armored vehicle could carry. He introduced to Taflin: "I will bring 20 people and enough rush to the mines in the east. After the armored vehicles come back, please use these two vehicles to send us more comrades and mines.”

  Tavlin originally wanted to reject Platonov's proposal because of the shortage of manpower, but then he thought about it, and it would take a lot of manpower to lay a sufficient number of mines before the enemy arrived at the station. However, due to the test of the overall situation, he decided to meet the request for countermeasures.

Tavlin nodded and said to Platonov: "Comrade Platonov, I agree to all your requests. After the armored vehicles return, I will send you more personnel. Yes, this time I will send you a few of our comrades over there, and they will be responsible for dealing with the enemy engineers, and you must not let the enemy pass through your minefields easily."

After Platonov took the armored vehicle for the second time and set off with the mine-laid team members and mines, Mishiga walked into the station chief's room from the outside, and said to Taflin with some regret: "I really didn't expect that, we So many materials will be seized at the station. However, because there are too many materials and the places where we store materials are too scattered, I think that even at night, the materials that can be moved will be very limited."

  Thinking that there are so many supplies that have to be destroyed in the end, Tavlin also feels quite regretful. He nodded and said helplessly to Mihiga: "No way, Comrade Captain, we have too few manpower at our disposal, so we have to move as much as we can. Anyway, when we evacuate the station, we will all the remaining supplies. Set it on fire and never leave any supplies to the Germans..."

  Tavlin hadn't finished speaking when he suddenly heard cheers from outside the station master. He couldn't help being taken aback, and instinctively asked Mihiga: "Comrade Captain, what happened outside?"

   Before Mihiga could answer, a guerrilla rushed in outside and shouted excitedly at the two, "It's snowing, it's snowing heavily outside."

  Tavlin heard cheers from outside and thought it was reinforcements arriving, but it was just snowing. He asked the team members who came in to report with a blank expression: "It's already winter now, what's so great about the occasional snowfall."

"Comrade Sergeant, you can't underestimate this snow." Mihiga looked outside, saw countless snowflakes falling from the sky, and said excitedly to Tavlin: "It looks like , This is a heavy snow, it will cover up the whereabouts of our materials, even if the Germans recapture the station, they will have no way to figure out where we have moved the materials.”

  Hearing what Mihiga said, Taflin quickly walked to the door and looked outside. I saw flake-like snowflakes floating in the sky. Due to the low temperature, the snowflakes would not melt immediately when they fell on the ground, but piled up slowly. A thin layer of snowflakes had accumulated on the shoulders of some guerrillas that appeared in his field of vision.

Seeing this situation, Tavlin was also happy. He turned his head and said to Mihiga in the room: "Comrade Captain, this heavy snowfall came at a good time. In this way, not only will the enemy no longer be able to dispatch reconnaissance planes to monitor the station." .Even the enemy who is coming here may have to slow down their marching speed. This is equivalent to buying us a few more hours of precious time to transfer more supplies to the guerrilla camp go inside."

  (end of this chapter)