Hearing this, Shulka's eyes couldn't help but light up, and asked, "The instructor agreed to break through?" ”

"No, Shulka!" Major Gavrilov replied: "That's not what I'm talking about!" I'm talking about the supplies, we also found the medicine that the wounded desperately needed in it, and they all want to thank you, and everyone should thank you! ”

Shulka let out an "oh" and replied with some disappointment: "This is what I should do, Major!" ”

"You can see that you want to break through!" Major Gavrilov handed Shulka a cigarette.

Shulka was surprised to find that it was not a hand-rolled cigarette...... The Soviet army had almost all hand-rolled cigarettes like Okunev's, which they called "horse-to-horse cigarettes."

This was determined by the fact that the USSR did not attach importance to light industry, and even officers like Major Gavrilov usually needed to roll their own cigarettes.

"Was it a surprise?" Major Gavrilov noticed Shulka's expression and explained: "Taken from the Germans, I happened to kill one of their officers, and then I took this out of his pocket!" ”

As he spoke, he took out a pack of German cigarettes and raised them in front of Shulka.

"Let's talk about it!" Major Gavrilov said: "If your answer satisfies me, then it is yours!" ”

"Say what?" Shulka was somewhat confused by Major Gavrilov.

"What do you think!" Major Gavrilov lit a cigarette for Shulka and himself, respectively, and said: "What you think about this battle! ”

"It's easy!" Shulka replied: "I think you also understand, Major, we have only one way, and that is to break through!" ”

"If it were you, which direction would you choose to break through?" Major Gavrilov asked: "To the east?" ”

"Of course not!" Shulka shook his head and said: "As I said before, the Germans are used to using 'blitzkrieg', and if this is true, then they will use mechanized troops to quickly penetrate the hinterland of our country, if they break through from the east...... Then it's not a breakout, it's about following the Germans' butts, and you can't get out of their encirclement! ”

Major Gavrilov nodded appreciatively: "Then there is only the north!" ”

"Yes, North!" Shulka agreed.

There is no doubt that the east was the first to be excluded, the west was the direction of the German attack, and the south was the central fortress of the fortress and the two fortresses that had been completely occupied by the Germans, and it was almost impossible to break through to the south by crossing several rivers and bridges blocked by the Germans.

"Is there still one of us in the central fortress?" Shulka asked.

"Yes!" Major Gavrilov replied: "There are still occasional gunshots and artillery fires there, which proves that the central fortress has not yet been lost. But we couldn't get in touch with them! ”

"That's what I'm trying to say!" Shulka picked up a twig and explained as he drew on the ground: "This is the central fortress, this is our fortress. After a day of fighting, the Germans had completely captured the fortress of Terespil in the southwest and the fortress of Volyn in the south. All that remains is our Kobrin fortress and the central fortress. What is certain is that the Germans will focus their offensive on the central bastion, and ......"

"And will it take heavy troops to penetrate between the two fortresses and make us lose contact?" Major Gavrilov understood what Shulka meant.

"Yes, Major!" "That's why we can't get in touch with the central fortress, and the German attention is focused on the central fortress and the division of our two fortresses," Shulka said. This will inevitably make their defenses on the Bug River to the north weaker, which means that their encirclement is still porous, and this is the perfect time for us to break out. If you wait a little longer......"

"The Germans will turn their attention to us!" Major Gavrilov continued: "And then draw troops from the central fortress and completely surround us ?!" ”

"That's exactly what I'm going to say!" Shulka added: "It's too late, you have to break through as soon as possible!" ”

Major Gavrilov was a commander with combat experience, and it was not at all difficult to talk to him, and Shulka felt a kind of relief in vomiting.

What Shulka didn't know was that Major Gavrilov's heart at this time could only be described as shocked.

As mentioned before, the Soviet army's requirements for soldiers are usually that they do not need to have their own ideas and only need to obey orders, on the other hand, the cultural level and military training of Soviet soldiers are insufficient, so Soviet soldiers generally do not have battlefield analysis ability and subjective initiative.

But now, Shulka analyzed it in front of Major Gavrilov, and even Major Gavrilov, an experienced commander, did not take into account these things...... Major Gavrilov only thought that the north was a forest, and that it would be easier for the troops to avoid the pursuit of the Germans after breaking through into the forest, and that other things such as the central fortress distracted the Germans and that the breakthrough must be made as soon as possible, etc., and he did not think about it at all, until he heard Shulka say this.

After thinking about it, Major Gavrilov couldn't help but get anxious.

"That's right!" Major Gavrilov said: "The breakthrough must be made as soon as possible, otherwise there will be no chance." No, I have to convince the instructor ......"

As he spoke, Major Gavrilov threw the cigarette butt to the ground and turned to walk towards the headquarters.

After a while, he turned back and threw something at Shulka a few meters away, saying, "It's yours!" ”

Shulka took it and saw that it was Major Gavrilov's pack of cigarettes, the "Phynas" brand, and there were even blood stains on it.

But of course, no one cares about that.

Shulka was about to put his cigarette in his jacket pocket when he saw several of his men come around from nearby.

"Squad leader!" Okunev said pretly: "We seem to smell a little tobacco!" ”

"We also saw what the Major gave you!" Matvey continued.

"It can't happen to be a cigarette!" Fovalkov added.

And then the others also said everything to me, pretending not to know and asking questions.

Shulka rolled his eyes, there was no one left to meet this group of bad people, he could only generously throw the cigarette among them...... The soldiers cheered and scrambled.

With a puff of smoke, Shulka set his eyes on the dark sky.

He wondered if Major Gavrilov would be able to convince the instructor...... In this case, it should be possible.

One of the reasons why the major had not been able to convince the instructor before was that he had not made up his mind.

But now, when he knew that the time to break through was now, and that he would lose his fighter plane in a few days and might be surrounded here forever, there was no question of determination.