Chapter Ninety-Three: Fighting Together
Although it was said to be defensive, Andrei knew that the Germans would definitely take it lightly when they found out that the Soviets were retreating, and they would let their guard down when they moved forward. Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ info In this way, he can take advantage of the opportunity to teach the small troops of the German army a hard lesson, after all, the German army will inevitably be arrogant and arrogant if it wins all the way, and the Fourth Panzer Army is now under-armed.
He said to Mhammad: "The goal of this time is simply to take advantage of the opportunity of the German army's rash advance, to take them by surprise, and to inflict heavy damage or even eat a part of the German army." In order to achieve this goal, the divisional reconnaissance battalion had to pay attention to the camouflage of the troops and not allow the enemy to detect us prematurely. At the same time, you can understand the enemy's movements, know yourself and your opponent, and prepare for the next ambush. β
After Andrei's instructions, Mhammad replied: "Understood, captain, don't worry, I'll lead the team myself!" Then the four regiments were replenished with some weapons, but there were still more than 2,000 fighters who did not have guns in their hands, and had to go to the battlefield with grenades Molotov cocktails and sapper shovels on their backs.
And everyone is now in addition to nervousness, more of a relief, for the soldiers if it weren't for this war, they might have died in the Gulag, but now that the Germans have invaded, they have to resist, these people who are willing to go to the battlefield no matter what kind of story they have now only fight with the Germans, maybe the glorious death on the battlefield will be a relief, the four regiments that fought the vanguard, a few soldiers of the Orthodox faith were on the truck, secretly staring at the cross they made, In fact, the Russian tradition is an Orthodox state, after the establishment of the Soviets, due to the abolition of the privileges of the church, so that countless churches sided with the White Army, and as a result, since 1919, the Soviets have begun to vigorously attack and destroy religious organizations, outlaw churches, destroy churches, and arrest clergy. As a result of the crackdown, more than 90 per cent of religious forces in the territory have been destroyed, including other religions such as peace religions, such as the closure of more than 300 mosques in the Tashkent region.
In the early years of Stalin's rule, no effort was spared in the attack on religion. Stalin considered religious people to be a non-productive class, and classified religious people mostly as "class enemies", and in the course of industrialization, collectivization of agriculture, and the Great Purge, he destroyed churches, confiscated church estates, and exiled clergy and their families to concentration camps. The state also encourages the people, especially young people, to join the "League of Atheists" to fight against religious forces in various localities. In the horrific "Great Purge", most of the clergy were "suppressed" and "eliminated".
It can be said that from the day the Cheka was founded, and the church was an old enemy, and the religious affairs committee of the Soviet religious administration department was in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but now the officers found that some people prayed and would not care, in 1941, when the Soviet-German war broke out and the Soviet army was losing and retreating, Stalin realized the role of religion in uniting the people and uniting people when resisting foreign invasions, and began to gradually change the hardline policy towards the church. In July 1941, Stalin issued an order to release priests imprisoned in concentration camps and to reopen some 20,000 churches and monasteries throughout Russia. At the same time, for the first time since the October Revolution, Pravda, the organ of the CPSU, news of a cordial meeting between Stalin and Metropolitan Sergei, the temporary deputy of the Orthodox Patriarch, was published. Now for the Orthodox Church is an object of unity and need
The patriotic attitude of the church made the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the political commissars relax their ideological control, after all, the Orthodox Church is also patriotic, so when the truck was born, Andrei brought Boris, the captain of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who was the company commander, saw that someone had fallen from the cross, and he was not angry but said calmly: "Although I am an atheist, I believe that those of you who believe in God are also willing to sacrifice your life for the country, now everyone hurry up and dig fortifications to prepare for battle!" β
"Yes." In fact, in the early days of the new division, Boris and other officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who came to support found that many people in the new division had no faith, but they were also many Orthodox Christians, but after Andrei knew the situation, he directly called all the officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs he brought to the division headquarters for a conversation, and Andrei said at the beginning: "Comrades, I know that we are all devout communist fighters, but this is a critical moment in the Great Patriotic War, and what we need is to defend the Motherland together and not to dwell on these issues! AndrΓ© then explains: "At the beginning of the war, the people of the Church and the Church in large numbers showed unprecedented patriotic fervor. In order to make Party organizations and non-believers realize that Church members and the broad masses of Catholics can also sacrifice their lives and contribute to the socialist Fatherland and the Soviet power; Christians and non-believers cannot be pitted against each other. From the beginning of the war, the leaders of the Church stood on a patriotic standpoint, called on all the faithful to fight against the German fascist invaders, and mobilized the clergy at all levels and the general number of believers to donate money for the country to buy planes, artillery, tanks, and munitions. Moreover, Supreme Commander Stalin and the Chairman of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs Molotov received the leaders of the Church, and the Council of Ministers of the Russian Orthodox Church, which was established not long ago, directly belongs to the Council of Ministers of the USSR, and now the work of the Orthodox Church is the responsibility of the Council of Ministers, not our Ministry of Internal Affairs, so you must know that this is a critical moment in the Great Patriotic War, and we must not dampen the patriotic enthusiasm of the faithful, do you understand?"
At the same time, there are also many people in the reconnaissance platoon lurking on the side of the road of the reconnaissance battalion of the division headquarters who are believers, some of them are Urals, some are Central Asians, they used to be hunters, actors, forestry bureau employees, herdsmen, because they have their own strengths in reconnaissance, so they came to the reconnaissance platoon, and there are also soldiers holding their crosses in one hand and watching the movement in front with binoculars, and the sniper next to them is holding a sniper rifle modified with a simple optical sight, which is also a discovery of Andrey, It turned out that among the soldiers, there were engineers and skilled workers who were escorted to the Gulag from the arsenal, so Andrei asked these talents to be gathered together to transform ordinary rifles into sniper rifles on the one hand, and on the other hand, to make some improvised mines and incendiary bombs and other weapons, of course, there is still a big gap between this modified sniper rifle and the sniper rifle produced by the regular arsenal carried by Unit A, but at least it is better than ordinary rifles, and in this short period of time, Alyosha They have trained more than 30 snipers, Of course, if these snipers are not qualified according to the standards of Unit A, but they are already much better than the average Soviet army, you must know that generally speaking, snipers are divided into two types: one is a sniper with a regular establishment who has received complete formal sniper training, and the other is a shooter with accurate marksmanship who is temporarily selected in wartime. For a sniper, a strong body and an iron will are necessary prerequisites, and good marksmanship is only a basic quality. For the training of snipers, in addition to implementing the sniper concept and mastering the weapon system, it also includes how to calculate the influence of wind difference and distance measurement, learn to march in stealth, choose tactical maneuver routes, construct firing positions, enter and withdraw positions covertly, observe and discover hidden targets, and so on. Snipers should also be good at observing the war zone, determining the location of suspicious sounds, being good at using artificial and natural materials for camouflage, being able to maneuver quickly, and having the ability to endure long-term lurking. In addition, snipers need the ability to accurately read maps, which often helps them enter and exit positions and battlefields quickly and safely. There are really people who can quickly master it in a short time, but there are only two, and the others still need the baptism of actual combat!
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