Chapter 57: Respite

"It's just an empty room." Ye Chuchu pointed to the side, "Aunt Osania helped find a big wooden bucket and a shower head, and we used the stove to boil the water. ”

"You're all done?" Sun Hui asked again.

"yes." Ye Chuchu looked at Sun Hui and smiled, "What, do you still want to see it?" ”

"No, no." Sun Hui made her laugh and came back to her senses, and pointed to the "fancy clothes" they were drying, "You also washed the clothes by the way?" ”

"That's right." Ye Chuchu only noticed the strange expression of Sun Hui's expression at this time, "What's wrong?" ”

"Our clothes from that time...... It's better to put it away right away, so that no one can see it, and if you show it to the commissars, there will be trouble. Sun Hui looked at her and said solemnly.

"Isn't the commissar of the regiment Uncle Krenev? I've seen it, a very good person, how can he even care about what clothes a woman wears? Ye Chuchu obviously didn't know much about the usual majesty of the powerful political commissars, and asked strangely.

"Of course, there's nothing they can't control. Don't forget that we are still in the review period, we are all 'amnesia', the identity is unknown at present, and the political commissar here is not the only one who is the political commissar of the regiment," Sun Hui pointed to the black stockings fluttering in the wind, and said in a deep voice, "Just these things, deduct your hat with serious bourgeois ideology, burn it at the least, and arrest it for ideological transformation......

"Everybody's coming to collect the clothes! Hurry up! Ye Chuchu didn't wait for Sun Hui to finish speaking, he realized the seriousness of the problem and immediately shouted to the other three girls.

The three girls quickly ran over, and when they heard Ye Chuchu say that they wanted to collect the clothes, they didn't understand what was going on, but when they saw Sun Hui and Ye Chuchu with solemn expressions, they didn't ask much, but quickly put away all the half-dried "fancy clothes" and took them to the house.

"Brother Sun, you can take a bath too." Ye Chuchu looked at Sun Hui with some apologies, "I'll go and boil some more water for you." She said, and without waiting for Sun Hui's answer, she ran to boil water.

Sun Hui looked at her pretty back, remembered the half-truths and half-truths of those scouts, and suddenly understood the feelings of those fathers who worried about their daughters all day long in the original time and space.

At this time, Sun Hui didn't know that on the roof of a dilapidated two-story building in the distance, a man had seen everything just now, put down the telescope, and quickly recorded something in a small notebook.

After washing away the dirt and dirt of the past few days, Sun Hui returned to the "KV-1" tank (now they have their own barracks, because after all, there is a difference between men and women, and there is only one room divided from the top, he can only let four girls live in one room and live in the tank by himself, because Soviet female soldiers have certain privileges), turn on the radio and listen to the radio.

His Russian is still not good, and his daily simple conversation is barely good, but he can't read documents and listen to the radio, but he turned on the radio not to listen to some "supreme instructions" from the "loving father", but to hear the voice of the mysterious woman who said that he wanted to help them.

From that day until now, her voice has not been heard again.

Although the German offensive was no longer as fierce as it used to be, he still feared that the fortress could fall at any time.

According to Sun Hui's memory of this period of history, as early as August 21, the South Road German army had occupied Chudovo and cut off the October railway from Leningrad to Moscow. At the end of August, the Nordic German army advanced to the Slutsk-Korpino region, just 20 kilometers south of Leningrad. On 8 September, the German army reached the southern shore of Lake Ladoga, east of the city of Leningrad, occupied Schlüsselburg, cut off the last land line of communication between Leningrad and the outside world, and surrounded Leningrad on three sides, with only one side of Lake Ladoga able to maintain water and air communication with the outside world. In the eyes of the Germans, Leningrad was already within reach. And in the opinion of Marshal Voroshilov, there was no hope for Leningrad, and he even ran to the front, hoping that he would be killed by the Germans.

The situation reached such a point that the Supreme Command of the USSR decided to form the Leningrad Front, with General Zhukov, the former commander of the Reserve Front, as the commander of the Leningrad Front. On September 10, Zhukov flew to Leningrad, reorganized the Front, and worked out a plan for the defense of the city overnight.

On the morning of September 9, the Germans began a frontal assault on Leningrad from the south, and on September 13, the Germans broke through the Soviet defenses, occupied Sosnovka, Keyelovo in Finland, and forced into Uritsk. Zhukov, realizing that the defense of Leningrad had reached its most critical juncture, decided to throw into battle the 10th Infantry Division, the last reserve of the Front. On the 14th, the 10th Infantry Division, with the support of artillery and aviation, carried out a rapid assault on the enemy. The Germans did not expect that the Soviets would suddenly launch a counterattack, and for a moment of confusion, they were forced to abandon Sosnovka and Kholovo in Finland, and the Soviets returned to their original posture.

As Hitler shifted the focus of the operation to the Moscow direction. On 6 September, Hitler issued Instruction No. 35, codenamed Operation Typhoon, and set the Battle of Moscow on 2 October. On 16 September, the Germans broke through the Soviet defenses from the junction of the Soviet 42nd Army and the 55th Army, captured the city of Push, 18 kilometers south of Leningrad, and detoured to the left to the Pulkovo Heights, just south of Leningrad, and to the right to the southeast, Kolpino. On the 19th, the German offensive reached its climax. The German infantry, under the cover of tanks, launched a fierce attack on the Pulkovo Heights and other places, the artillery bombarded Leningrad for 17 hours, and the air force launched nearly 300 sorties to bomb the city in six waves. However, the Leningrad military and civilians withstood the last attack of the Germans. After that, the elite units of the German Army Group North were gradually transferred, and the 4th Panzer Corps of Heppner and the 57th Panzer Corps of the 3rd Panzer Corps of Hort of the former Army Group Center were transferred to the direction of Moscow, and soon the 18th Air Army was also transferred to the 2nd Air Force, and the Germans were no longer able to launch an offensive on all fronts.

It is now December, and the positions of the two sides have gradually stabilized, but the siege and anti-siege struggle between the two sides are far from over. The Germans imposed a tight blockade on Leningrad, constantly shelling and bombarding the city, and some strategic points around the city were attacked from time to time. The fortress of "Karava-Eastleg", where Sun Hui and the girls are located, is one of these strategic points.

Sun Hui was most glad that he could not starve like the Soviet soldiers and civilians in Leningrad in this fortress and get a chance to breathe, but fierce battles could still break out at any time, and as the "shield" of the infantry, the "521" crew was still in danger at all times.