"What? There is such a thing. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info "In the war room of the group army, Lin Jun listened to Lieutenant General Pulkaev's report, and his mind suddenly paused a little: This situation is really troublesome, especially for front-line commanders, they have no way to solve it.

War, you are a life-and-death contest, but this situation was reported at the level and level, and it should have been a decision that the front-line commanders could make, but the commanders of the Red Army could not decide for themselves, because if this decision is traced down, it will be a big trouble!

If he hadn't been here, Lin Jun would have thought that the report would have been submitted to Tukhachevsky, the commander of the Front, and he might have continued to report it!

It's all done by the damn "rebellion", and sometimes it shackles the hands and feet of the commander.

Pulkaev didn't dare to make a decision, Lin Jun thought for a while and said, "Tell the bottom, agree to the proposal of the Germans, and give them an hour." The front-line troops should be ready for battle and prevent a surprise attack by the Germans, just for an hour! Within an hour, if the Germans did what they said, we would not have opened fire. Once violated, don't say that we don't talk about humanitarianism! ”

"Yes, Marshal!"

Comrade Commander is also happy to see this hot potato resolved.

What is this contradiction that front-line commanders can and cannot decide? It all started with what happened not long ago at the position on the south side of the train station - the Germans were going to collect the corpses.

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Tozić listened for a while before he understood what the Germans were shouting over the loudspeaker: it was recommended that a ceasefire be held for an hour, and that they should send people to collect the bodies in the no-man's land between the two armies. This proposal was clearly beneficial to both sides - there were about four or five hundred dead German corpses in the muddy water in the middle area, some of which had been blown up and swelled in the water.

Although the temperature is relatively low, and the corpse will not decompose and pollute the environment all at once, after all, it is not two months ago that the corpse was fine in the wild under the severe cold conditions, and after a long time, it will not only smell bad, but also the overflowing sewage will easily cause infectious diseases!

Now the Germans really had a big problem for the Red Army: no one at the front could make this decision!

Agree? Still disagree?!

Benjamin looked at a group of junior commanders who were arguing and undecided, and said: "In the last war, we often couldn't bury the dead immediately, and before the front line changed, the corpses in the no-man's land would always be there, and the smell was so terrible, sometimes we had to wear gas masks when we slept!" Sometimes, however, the two sides would propose a formal ceasefire in order to allow the wounded to return to their positions and send stretcher teams to haul the bodies. ”

"But at that time, many senior commanders were unwilling to give up the opportunity to attack because of this humanitarian reason, and basically did not allow the opposing army's burdens to enter the no-man's land, and the soldiers were forbidden to make such a ceasefire." However, the soldiers in the trenches on both sides of the meeting basically did not carry out this order, because we all knew that such a brief ceasefire would be beneficial to both sides. ”

Tozić shook his head: "There is no such precedent since the fascist invasion, and the current war is not as gentlemanly as last time." ”

Benjamin looked at the corporal in the eye: "Fascism is not humane!" ”

Nonsense, when did the SS and German policemen in the quarantine zone talk about humanity, Benjamin just took matters into account according to the current problem: dragging the bodies away and burying them would be beneficial to both sides, but no one on the side of the Red Army could make a decision - report it!

The German trumpets were still chirping, but the Red Army here only cared about repairing their trenches and no one answered, waiting for orders from above. The situation at the railway station was reported to the regiment, the regiment reported to the city defense headquarters, and Ba Qiuning reported to the group army headquarters, and was finally finalized by Lin Jun.

"All be ready for battle, no shots are allowed without an order!"

When the men in the trenches heard the order, they immediately put down their shovels and pickaxes, picked up their weapons and returned to their respective positions.

A loudspeaker was then brought up by a wire and placed on the chest wall of the trench, "Whoever knows German, cease fire with the Germans for an hour, and let them collect the corpses." ”

The first choice was Benjamin, who was fluent in German and was brought to the Big Horn.

"From 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., just an hour. The Germans were not allowed to carry weapons, those who came out to collect the bodies were required to fly white flags or wear red cross armbands, and no more than 100 people were allowed to appear in no man's land. If the Germans have any provocations and violations of the armistice during this period, we will consider them to tear up the agreement and take the initiative to attack! ”

A captain clearly told Benjamin what to shout, and after saying that, he informed all commanders above the platoon level of the order, telling them to take good care of their men and to keep a close watch on the movements of the Germans during the ceasefire - during which there should be no misfire of weapons or small movements of some people who were dazed, let alone surprise attacks by the Germans in the name of collecting corpses.

At 1:50 p.m., Benjamin began shouting into the microphone in the trenches, shouting twice, and the Germans replied - they agreed to such an agreement.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the Germans wearing Red Cross armbands appeared by their bunkers in twos and threes, and felt the atmosphere on the ground, and could see the barrels of guns sticking out of some of the Red Army trenches and their heads sticking out, and there was no sound in the middle of the battlefield except for the faint sound of rain that began to fall!

There was tension on both sides, and even the gunners on the mortar side of the Red Army were on the side, although they did not have shells in their hands, but the shells were placed within easy reach. The infantry in the front-line trenches were also nervous, except for the heavy machine gun position, in order to prevent any guy from accidentally misfired, the other guns were not loaded, and everyone held their weapons to closely monitor the Germans' every move.

The Germans were even more nervous, they didn't know if the Russians would be treacherous, and they were more worried about which one of the opponents made a small move, and the person carrying the stretcher and carrying no weapons had almost no chance of survival.

The air seemed to be suffocating, and Shuklin poked his head out of his artillery position, holding a telescope to observe, and constantly looking down at the time: the Germans were collecting the corpses, apparently nervous at first, but then much more natural, and some even carried stretchers to less than 20 meters from their own line of trenches.

Tozić stared at the two German soldiers who were less than 20 meters away from him, watched them drag up a dead body by the side of a tank, and turned his head to look at himself - he could clearly see the eyes of both sides, full of hostility!

Finally, the scene of almost suffocating both sides ended at 2:40, and the Germans dragged back all the bodies they could find, and the no-man's land became a "dead land" again!

"Our commanders salute your humanitarian spirit!"

The Germans also paid their respects, but the Red Army soldiers basically thought that there was something wrong with the man's brain!

So much reimbursement and salute?!

This is a signal to end the ceasefire, "Damn, it's more tense than fighting!" "Tozic put down his gun and retracted into the trench, and it was fucking tiring to be on high alert in the icy rain!

Everyone should do what to do, Tozich went back to digging his trench, while Moses continued to be in his bunker, pulling the bolt, loading the bullet, and from now on any German army that appeared in his field of vision would be a sniper target.

At 5:30 p.m., when it was already dark, a small group of Red Army soldiers wearing pullover raincoats and carrying Mosin-Nagant sniper rifles appeared on the main street of the railway station.

After asking for directions, the group walked into the collapsed building of the train station, unloaded their sleeves, and saw that some people were preparing meals.

At a glance, one of the highest-ranking lieutenants here was talking to a sergeant, and the sniper corporal who led the team walked over.

Shuklin noticed the snipers and stopped talking, looking at them like everyone else, a little curious - because they were all lesbians!

"The 27th Sniper Detachment of the 4th Infantry Division of the Leningrad Front, Sergeant Nina Pavlovna Petrova and her subordinates, a total of 8 people, came to report to the position."

"Hello, I'm Lieutenant Shuklin Artillery, this is Sergeant Tozich, basically we are in charge of this 200-meter-wide defensive line, welcome to you." After returning the salute, he thought about it again and said, "Originally, there was a captain, but he was wounded half an hour ago, and I will be regarded as the temporary commander of two companies." ”

The one who spoke to Shuklin was a middle-aged female sergeant in her 50s, and the older one could be someone else's mother. A sniper corporal who could be considered a grandmother in the Soviet Union arrived with seven little girls, which made the soldiers really curious - there were many female snipers, but they had never seen such an old age.

However, after she took off her raincoat, she pinned a Red Banner medal, a medal for combat merit and a medal of "Voroshilov Shooter of the First Class" on her coat, so that no one dared to despise this grandmother-level female sniper.

"Comrades, roast the fire first, eat something later, and then we will go to the position to have a look."

Beckoning everyone to sit down, Shuklin introduced the basic situation of the neighborhood according to the map he had drawn, "You don't have to be in the front-line trenches, this is almost the best place for snipers to set up ambushes, and the buildings in the back street are good with this building." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the railway station building, which was a mess, but there were many commanding heights, and the high and low ruins could give snipers a very good sight and standby position.

"I've already seen some places when I came, and we'll set up three positions on the north side of Station Street, and my three people with the best long-range sniping skills will be there."

The tattered three- and four-story buildings were only 500 meters away from the German front-line bunkers, within the effective killing distance of snipers.

The snipers were not in a hurry, probably for professional reasons, and did not want to take a look at the front as soon as they arrived, as soon as the reinforcements arrived: pay attention to the way they came first, and as for the front-line trenches, they were not in a hurry, and they couldn't understand it at night anyway.

Nina Pavlovna Petrova, born on July 15, 1893 in Kronstadt, fought in the Northern War, graduated from the sniper school before the Great Patriotic War, was a sports and shooting instructor of the Leningrad Spartak Volunteer Sports Association! After the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, 22 enemy soldiers were killed in the battle with the Finns in the north, almost half of them Finnish snipers!

At first glance, she doesn't have a high record of killing, but she is not only a sniper, but also a qualified sniper instructor, and this team of female snipers she brought with her are all her students.

She was familiar with the tactics of the German snipers, because she knew that like the German sniper instructors, she taught her own cadets just like her German counterparts.

After dinner, Shuklin took the snipers to the front-line positions to observe, but it was not very clear in the night. The lieutenant said to the south: "The Germans are 300 meters ahead of us, in a thin meadow, but they are well concealed, and they can only hear the sound of bunkers and no one can be seen. ”

Pointing to Moses in an electrician's overalls next to him, "This is our volunteer sniper Moses, a comrade liberated from the ghetto, who has killed 16 Germans in two days." ”

Moses smiled and said that he was an amateur, an amateur, an amateur, "I am a good marksman when I hunt, most of them were killed by the Germans when they charged, and today there is only one, and they have become very cunning, but their snipers have caused us a lot of trouble." But I can't see anything on this rainy day, it's the same on both sides. ”

There will be nothing to do with the snipers at night, unless you want to risk "going forward and ambushing", but this is not suitable for the positional warfare environment here: go to the back to find tomorrow's sniper position and rest, and tomorrow before dawn the snipers will get up and go into battle, of course, provided that tonight will be too peaceful, and the Germans will not come to find trouble.

The snipers are fine, but most of the others will have to be busy for a while: trench warfare is basically peaceful during the day, and it is time to work at night.

Just after eight o'clock in the evening, supporting sappers arrived with barbed wire and mines.

It's really hard for Ivanov and his subordinates to stop and go, their cars are all heavy trucks, loaded with all kinds of mines, and explosives detonators. You can't drive it fast, otherwise it's unsafe to mess up all kinds of ****; Of course, it's not fast, it's just that rotten road.

Because of the rain, the water in the Nereis River has increased, the pontoon bridges have been suspended for a long time, and the sappers and other troops who are going to Vilnius have a taste of queues today. The ferry has been repeatedly run over by tanks and vehicles these days, and as a result, the rutted ground has been soaked in ice water, and the mud is much deeper than in other places!

Having finally crossed the bridge in the afternoon and rested in a makeshift barracks near Cathedral Square, Ivanov went to the city defense headquarters to receive an order - his battalion was divided into six blocks to support the different positions in Vilnius: he himself took a squad of 30 sappers and pulled a truckload of mines, explosives and an 800-meter-long serpentine and two-crate mesh barbed wire fence to the railway station.

There are not many directional mines, which need to be buried on the south side close to the trenches, and they basically have to be arranged diagonally, and they must be covered with some torn military uniforms in the mud or something. And, of course, bury the wires in the ground as well - expecting a trip wire to fire doesn't seem to work here.

As long as the rain doesn't wash it away, whoever lets it be exposed must be exposed to exert its power.

At night, when the work was carried out, a large number of wooden crates were unloaded from the trucks, and the sappers were preparing to build a large minefield in front of the position tonight!

In addition to directional mines, there is also a new type of anti-infantry mine ОЗМ-1 -- this is based on the German SMi-35 anti-infantry mine design scheme obtained through special channels before the war, but it is much more convenient to manufacture.

Compared to the relatively large ОЗМ-1, the TT35 anti-infantry mine is like an iron box with shoe polish, which contains only 20 grams of explosives, and it will fire when you step on it - don't look at its small size, it can cleanly blow off the lower leg of the person who steps on it! This design is vicious enough that it can't die, but it must be disabled!

The largest number is the POMZ-2 anti-infantry rod mine that looks like a long-handled grenade, consisting of a wooden handle and an iron shell, with 6 rows of prefabricated fragments on the mine body, which looks like a grenade and can be fitted with multiple tripwires. The prototype of this POMZ-2 is the POMZ-1 that Ivanov once used in Lake Hassan, and it is not more powerful than the new prototype, but it is more convenient to manufacture.

The most "vicious" of these anti-infantry mines is the ОЗМ-1: inside the mine there is a cast iron mine body used to form fragments, and once fired, the mine is first ejected to waist-high and then explodes, and the shattered anti-personnel fragments are shot out in a horizontal direction! Reduced costs, Soviet war mode.

Jumping thunder, this killing range is not only to blow up one person, but also to people nearby. However, the ОЗМ-1 is a little more "merciful" than the German SMi-35, because the German product is loaded with preset fragments and hundreds of steel balls!

There are not many anti-tank mines, just one TM-35 anti-tank mine, which has no problem blowing up the tracks of German tanks.

This made Ivanov the highest-ranking officer in this part of the railway station, because he had quite a lot of experience in positional warfare, so he took over the command of this area, and Shuklin was willing to hand over this power, and it was a little difficult for him to command the positional war as an artillery officer.

People who can lay serpentine barbed wire fences go to move the barbed wire that is pressed into plates, and each board is 50 meters away as soon as it is opened! It is laid out in two lanes, and the supporting wooden posts are inserted in the middle of the barbed wire, and the lower part is also fixed with pins as much as possible. In the open space about 5 meters wide between the two serpentine barbed wires, a mesh barbed wire fence about 15 cm above the ground is laid!

The completed barbed wire barrier, but Ivanov thought that this was not enough - after the serpentine barbed wire was laid, the sappers still hung a lot of POMZ-2 anti-infantry stick mines on it, but they were all in the mud in the lower part of the barbed wire and it was not easy to find: as soon as the moving barbed wire or the shape of the barbed wire changed significantly, those mines would explode!

Throw some TT35 anti-infantry mines under the mesh barbed wire!

This is not over, under the cover of the night rain, the sappers also planted hundreds of mines on the south side of the barbed wire array, and the three kinds of mines were mixed and laid out, making it impossible to prevent it!

At 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, Ivanov returned to the trench covered in mud and water, and told Tozic: "It seems that the Germans are also pulling barbed wire, and no one can move now." ”

The Germans were not idle tonight, as Ivanov had approached less than 200 meters from the German trenches just now, and vaguely saw that the Germans were doing the same work as themselves -- it was estimated that the Germans should also find their own movements.

"There will definitely be an artillery bombardment tomorrow, say hello to our artillery, and tomorrow take care of the barbed wire array of the Germans." Ivanov didn't care about saying - it's all the same, bombing during the day and mending up at night. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )