Chapter 247: Disguise
The problem of Katyusha was not difficult to solve, and Major Zakhakavich directly threw the problem to Rokossovsky...... Even the difficulties are those of Moscow.
However, this is not a difficult situation for Moscow.
Rokossovsky reported the problem to Zhukov, who immediately organized manpower to collect information on nearby rocket artillery and sent an additional rocket artillery battalion to Tver.
"A rocket artillery battalion!" Major Zakhakavich said: "They will arrive in two hours!" ”
Shulka and Major Gavrilov nodded.
You must know that the reason why the "Katyusha" rocket launchers are organized into a company with four guns is because the power of the simultaneous bombardment of the four guns can form a single blow to the German army facing a frontal attack, causing a lot of casualties.
Even on the battlefield, there are such incidents:
Since the "Katyusha" was still a secret piece of equipment at this time, it was still an "unknown artillery" in the German army's report, that is, the Germans thought that they were bombed by artillery.
In order to allow the Germans to continue this "misunderstanding", the Soviet army often did not notify the front-line officers and soldiers when they sent rocket artillery to the battlefield.
As a result, at one point, when four rocket launchers fired a salvo at the attacking Germans, the Soviet troops, who were not informed, were also frightened to withdraw from their positions after witnessing the great power of this artillery.
This is probably the only equipment that can defeat both enemy and enemy forces at the same time.
One rocket artillery battalion has 12 rocket launchers, which is enough to complete Shulka's stealth plan...... After all, it was just a bombardment of the bridgehead line with a range of two hundred meters.
The next step is the coordination and incubation of the various units.
The first is the camouflage of tanks.
It's not that hard...... The T34 tank battle is now full of bullet holes and scratches on the armor, which is scarred at a glance.
Major Gavrilov ingeniously asked his subordinates to get some paint.
"I saw a school on the road!" Major Gavrilov said to the guards: "Go find some paints and someone who can paint!" ”
The guard answered and went with some people, and after a while came with paint and a woman, who was the art teacher at the school, and looked a little frightened, looking at the group of soldiers with pale faces and trembling, not knowing if they had done something wrong.
And the soldiers cheered and whistled all the way when they saw her...... This is a rare scenery on the battlefield.
"Don't be afraid!" Major Gavrilov comforted her: "We are Soviet troops!" ”
"I know this, Major!" The art teacher replied, "But this is also the battlefield ......."
"What's your name?" Major Gavrilov asked.
"My name is Yevgrasha, Comrade Major!"
"Yevgrasha, we need your help!" Major Gavrilov raised his head at the six tanks parked on the side of the road: "See them?" Six tanks, I hope you can 'dress them up' more like destroyed tanks...... You know what I mean! ”
Yevgrasha nodded.
"You have to move faster!" Major Gavrilov took out his pocket watch and looked at it, and said, "I can only give you an hour, can I do it?" ”
"Of course, Comrade Major!" At this time, Yevgrasha seemed to calm down, took the paintbrush and paint from the guards and began to "dress up" the tank.
From time to time, she adds a little "blood" here, a few black dots there, and sometimes even draws a black hole in the armor......
Fedosyev looked at the black hole and couldn't help but exclaim: "What a good drawing!" I almost thought that my tank was penetrated by the enemy! ”
"No, Fedosyev!" The actor laughed: "It was she who shot through your heart with the arrow of Eros!" ”
The surrounding warriors couldn't help but laugh.
Fedosyev's face turned red with a "swish", and his eyes didn't even dare to look at Yevgrasha...... This also seems to acquiesce to the actor's "complaints".
Shulka smiled knowingly, he didn't expect Fedosiev to be a shy young man who usually looked big and grinning.
Soon, Yevgrasha camouflaged several tanks, and sure enough, there were decent ones.
After thinking about it, Shulka said: "Comrade Yevgrasha, I think you still need to 'dress up' for us!" ”
Yevgrasha seemed to understand what the soldiers were going to do, and he couldn't help but look at Shulka in surprise, and then at the bridge, and asked, "You can't be disguised as corpses lurking on the bridge!" ”
"You seem to know something about war!" This came as a surprise to Shulka.
"Of course!" Yevgrasha replied: "My brother is one of you, he should be in Volokolamsk ...... now"
"The 16th Army?" Shulka asked.
"Yes, how do you know?"
"We just came from there!"
"Have you seen him?" Yevgrasha suddenly became nervous: "He is from the 44th Cavalry Division, he has a scar on his forehead, and it is in this position ......"
Evgrasha pointed to the top of his right eye and said, "That was when he fell and injured himself during horseback training last year, if you have seen him, there must be an imprint!" ”
Everyone around was silent.
The 44th Cavalry Division was completely wiped out at the moment of the launch of the counteroffensive...... Of course, not all of them died, but it is said that only more than 200 of the 3,000 people in a division could come back alive, and many of them were wounded.
In other words, it is likely that Yevgrasha's brother has died, but she doesn't know it yet...... She didn't know, of course, that her brother was fighting in Soviet units and she was in German-occupied territory.
However, even if she was not in the enemy-occupied area, it was difficult for the Soviet army at this time to inform her family of the information about the death on the front line in time.
"What's wrong?" Yevgrasha asked.
"No, nothing?" Shulka replied, then turned to his subordinates and asked, "Have any of you ever seen a cavalry comrade with a scar on his forehead?" of the 44th Cavalry Division! ”
The soldiers quickly understood, and they took over the topic of Shulka:
"No, Comrade Ensign! Haven't seen it! ”
"But a few days ago, I met the people of the 44th Cavalry Division, they rode tall horses, and they were majestic!"
"Yes, they are in Volokolamsk!"
……
This reassured Yevgrasha a little.
"I think you should be ready to get something ready!" "Take your family with you, we'll probably be evacuated before dawn," Shulka said...... You should go back to Moscow with us! ”
Saying that, Shulka asked Fedosyev on the tank: "Do you say yes, Comrade Fedosyev?" ”
"Oh yes!" Fedosyev's face turned red again: "Of course, I mean, I'll find you a place!" ”
"In a tank?" The actor interjected.
There was laughter again.