At this moment, Sun Hui really wants to know what kind of new tank will be in his hands.

After about half an hour of driving, a convoy of trucks appeared, and the trucks joined the convoy and marched together.

"There have been a lot of supplies going to Leningrad lately, and I don't think you will go hungry." Melikov said with a smile, "I heard that Comrade Zhdanov's house has a 12-day stock of grain, hehe, I don't know how much grain is in Comrade Zhukov's house, maybe you will know when you get there." ”

"If we can bring some more food with us at the dock on the east bank of the lake, right?" Sun Hui remembered the suggestion of Pantelov, who was driving a small motorboat, and asked.

"Absolutely." "As long as you can bring them over and don't let them fall into the lake halfway." Of course, it doesn't matter if you fall in, we have a salvage team that can help you get it back. You know that the boys of the salvage team are terrible people, and they often brave the cold to dive to the bottom of the lake for seven hours in order to salvage the cars, tanks and artillery that sank to the bottom of the lake, sometimes until they are completely unconscious. ”

After listening to Melikov's joke, Sun Hui realized that the situation in Leningrad was still very serious, and he began to think about how to bring more food into the city.

The snow stopped, the strong cold wind dispersed the large dark clouds, the sun came out, and everything around changed the shape. The trees shone with a silver glow, and the untouched snow on both sides of the road looked like soft fluff, and the snowflakes flew with a gentle blow.

Suddenly, it was as if it had jumped out of somewhere in the woods. A German plane flew over the convoy and disappeared behind the woods.

Soon, from where it disappeared, almost clinging to the treetops, 9 "BF109" fighters passed. They quickly formed formation, and their cannons and machine guns fired at the convoy in unison. After a while, two cars caught fire and one was blown to pieces, and Sun Hui heard the shouts and moans of the wounded from a distance.

At this moment, on the air defense position next to the road, an anti-aircraft machine gun opened fire on the group of "BF109" fighters. An enemy plane was quickly hit and caught fire, dragging black smoke down, and an explosion was heard somewhere behind the woods. The German fighters turned a corner, ready for a second dive, but at this moment a group of Soviet fighters with their fuselages painted with red stars appeared and condescendingly pounced on them. Four German fighters plummeted black smoke and fell into a snow-covered field, while others dropped a few bombs indiscriminately and disappeared behind the forest.

The convoy stopped, the medics immediately began to bandage the wounded, several Soviet soldiers jumped out of the truck to help them, and everyone collected the bodies of the victims.

A captain led a small group on skiing to find the site of the crash of the enemy plane. The convoy is back on its way.

A short time later, the convoy met the captain and his group on the road, and the two German pilots limped ahead with their hands tied.

"These lads are doing a good job, and the Germans are having a hard time." Merikov said with a smile.

Sun Hui nodded, the battle just now showed that the strength of the Luftwaffe in the Leningrad region was weakening, while the strength of the Soviet Air Force was gradually increasing, so that he and the girls were much safer than in the fortress.

At 10 o'clock, the truck arrived in Kabona with the convoy, and the liaison officer arranged a vehicle for Sun Hui and the girls to leave for Leningrad the next day.

At night, under the moonlight and the blue headlights of the cars, people buried their fallen comrades in the city cemetery. With grim expressions, the Soviet officers and soldiers stood solemnly around the graves where their comrades-in-arms were buried together, listening to the eulogy of a major who presided over the funeral. After the eulogy, the coffin slowly landed in the tomb. A platoon of fighters fired a volley of submachine guns, bullets shot into the cold night sky, and the echo resounded through the countryside.

After settling the girls, Sun Hui went to the storehouse to bring more food into the city, and after showing his ID and formalities, the staff generously loaded him with a large wooden box of canned meat, bread, sausages and potatoes, and told him that unless the truck that sent him had more space, these things were the limit. Sun Hui felt that what he said made sense, so he came back with the box in the surprised eyes of everyone (there are very few people who can carry such a big box now).

Early the next morning, Sun Hui and the girls boarded the truck that was transporting them into the city and set off with the convoy.

"I heard there's a big cleaning going on in the city." Sun Hui, who was sitting in the carriage, told the girls, "We're still in time." ”

"yes, you don't need to see so many dead people." Ye Chuchu also sighed.

During the long and cold winter of '41-'42, a total of 630,000 people lost their lives in Leningrad as a result of the starvation siege imposed by the German army, and many streets in the city were littered with corpses. With the advent of spring and the warming of the climate, the frail Leningraders had to act immediately to clean the city and prevent the epidemic of plague and other diseases. The Leningrad City Party Committee demanded that all citizens of all sexes over the age of 15 should go out into the streets to clean up, remove residual ice and snow, dispose of garbage and dirt, and bury corpses in the open air, with an average of 300,000 people participating in the general cleaning every day in the city, which greatly improved the appearance and sanitary conditions of Leningrad's city, and suppressed the typhoid fever that had just become prevalent.

"I heard that the 'KV' tank was produced by the Kirov factory, but I heard that there is an extreme shortage of skilled workers in the factory now, and it will take a while for our new tank to be produced." Du Lili said with concern that she had learned about this yesterday by chatting with a woman from Leningrad.

Sun Hui knew that she was telling the truth, that the enterprises in Leningrad that had not been relocated were now resuming production, but that the biggest obstacle was the lack of trained skilled workers. As a result of the outbreak of war, a large number of skilled workers either went to the front as soldiers or were evacuated to the rear in the east, and many people died of malnutrition during the hungry winter, as in the case of the Kirov factory, where more than 400 skilled workers died.

"You can ask if there is a ready-made prototype car, and if there is, just modify it and drive away." Sun Hui thought for a while and said.