Shulka did not report the entire plan to the command of the army group.

No one other than a few men from the 82nd Infantry Regiment knew that they had been ordered to hold the hospital and the school.

"We will be flanked by the enemy from both sides!" Major Mikhailvich shouted to the soldiers: "You know, the Mamayev post has been lost, so we need to build another line of defense in another direction!" ”

"But we don't have enough troops, Major!" One soldier asked: "How can we defeat the enemy in two directions!" ”

In fact, the 82nd Infantry Regiment had to deal with more than just two directions of the enemy, they were already surrounded by German troops in both the hospital and the school, and the enemy could attack from either direction.

"Don't worry about this, lad!" Major Mikhailvich replied: "So that we will have a double victory!" ”

The Soviet soldiers laughed.

This was the case with the Soviets, the more the commander downplayed the danger that was coming, the less the soldiers took them to heart.

But that's only part of the story.

Shulka rested on a makeshift bed set up from a shell box.

Since the 82nd Infantry Regiment entered the hospital and school, Shulka has not closed his eyes for two days.

The soldiers of the 82nd Infantry Regiment too.

To be exact, they leaned somewhere between battles and squinted their eyes and slept for a while.

It is said that in the first battalion there was another incident: two fighters fell asleep in the rubble, and as a result the German soldiers thought they were dead.

They did look like dead people, covered in blood and dust, with several corpses next to them.

In addition, it was gray in the evening...... In fact, it is easiest to make mistakes when it is gray, because you can see some of it, and it seems unnecessary to use a flashlight.

Otherwise, if you shine a flashlight on your face in the dark, you will soon find out the problem.

In short, it was a dozen German soldiers who occupied a wall behind him and built a defensive line.

Therefore, even the Soviet soldiers thought that these two comrades-in-arms were finished.

Then they were awakened by the sound of gunfire and explosions, and they opened their eyes to see ...... It was immediately recognized that something was wrong, the gunfire was in the rear, and it was fired in the other direction.

After waiting for a while, it was found that the shouting was German again, and occasionally a few German soldiers were running around.

Needless to say, they grabbed their rifles and charged the German soldiers...... They were armed with rifles, which can also be said to be a kind of luck, because the Germans did not take the rifle in their eyes and did not check it, and if it was a submachine gun, it was different.

The German soldiers in the darkness were stunned on the spot, they did not even understand where the bullets came from, shouted and turned around and ran.

The two Soviet soldiers chased the enemy and fired again, as a result of which only two German soldiers fled, and the others were all killed on the spot.

Of course, a few were wounded and then re-shot.

This can only be described as a kind of luck.

From this, it also shows how tired the soldiers of the 82nd Infantry Regiment were...... Although two days is not a long time, the mental tension on this high-intensity battlefield is high, and everyone seems to fall apart.

But the battlefield is like this, everyone feels that their last bit of strength has been exhausted when they are resting, even if they move a finger, they can't do anything, but as long as there is danger, they will immediately jump up as if they were pricked by a needle and enter the battle again.

This may be the potential of human beings, and the last bit of potential will be tapped under the threat of death.

Shulka at this time was the former, he lay on the bed and didn't even have the strength to lift his eyelids, but he couldn't sleep.

Akimovich walked over, leaned against the wall and handed Shulka a cigarette and said: "Do you know what the soldiers are talking about you?" ”

"This is not something I need to care about, Comrade Akimovich!" Shulka replied.

"I thought you wanted to know!"

"No, I don't want to know!" Shulka replied: "Maybe you should learn this too, don't be too curious about things that don't make sense!" ”

"But I don't think it's meaningless!" "It's about whether they support you, believe in you, and even carry out your orders without question!" Akimovich said. ”

"That's what doesn't make sense!" Shulka replied: "Because I believe in them, that is...... I already knew the answer! ”

Shulka took Akimovich's lit cigarettes, took a few deep puffs, then exhaled the smoke and watched it spread out in front of his eyes.

Sometimes, Shulka hopes that it is some kind of magic smoke that will get him out of it all in an instant.

"Okay!" "But I think you should still be told," Akimovich said. They're talking about being flanked by the enemy, and some people are worried that we're going to be surrounded and die here, you know...... This is indeed possible if the entrance to the underground passage is blocked by the enemy. But guess what they say? ”

After a pause, Akimovich asked himself: "They say, don't worry, comrade, do you know who our deputy head is?" He's Shulka, a 'breakout hero'! He'll take us out of the enemy's encirclement! ”

"I'll just say it!" Shulka smiled: "It doesn't make sense! ”

"No, Shulka!" Akimovich smiled bitterly and said: "I just want to express to you my envy for you, to be exact...... Yes, it's more appropriate to use jealousy, because I want the person they are discussing with me! ”

"That's why you're doing everything you can to lead the observation company?" Shulka asked rhetorically.

"So to speak!" Akimovich replied: "I thought that when I learned your skills and taught them to others, I would be able to be like you...... But I came to realize that it was almost impossible! ”

"There are two sides!" Akimovich continued: "One is that I find it impossible for me to learn all your skills, even though you don't hide anything, because a considerable part of your skills are 'ideas' that no one else can learn, such as the cemetery!" ”

"Another one!" Akimovich laughed: "Even if I teach others, others will say ...... Lo and behold, these are all summed up by Shulka, he is so smart that he will come up with these methods, he saved our lives, he saved Stalingrad! ”

"You need to stay on the battlefield a little longer, Comrade Akimovich!" Shulka said.

"Why?" Akimovich said: "Does this have anything to do with the battlefield? ”

"Of course!" Shulka rubbed his aching, dry eyes: "Because then you knew that these were meaningless, you just wanted to live!" ”