Position 19, shrouded in heavy rain, fell into a rare quiet, damp and dim bunker. Wei Ran was surrounded by several Soviet soldiers of different ages, racking his brains to combine the Soviet history he had learned. With his knowledge and previous travel experience, he patiently answered various questions raised by the soldiers around him.
He even didn’t mind using the excuse of “imagination” to help them “imagine” the beautiful world after the war. After all, there is a high chance that these soldiers will be bulldozed by the German army along with Position 19 in a few days. Even if they are lucky enough to survive and survive until the Soviet army enters Berlin, the probability is not much greater than winning the lottery. the difference.
"It would be great if it was just like what you said."
Cyril, the veterinarian, clicked his pipe that was about to burn out. It doesn’t matter if it’s as good as Victor’s random guess.”
A soldier sitting next to Cyril leaned back against the log that served as the wall, “Yes, if you can survive until the end of the war. , I must be a postman like Victor and go to every city."
"You will get lost in the trenches, and you still plan to be a postman?"
An acquaintance of the soldier joked happily, "Maybe by the time you deliver the letter, the mailbox at the recipient's door will be covered with black mushrooms."
Low There was a roar of laughter in the damp bunker. Standing in the shadow outside the bunker door, Aleut raised his head, letting the dense raindrops hit his face, and murmured to himself in a voice that only he could hear, " It would be great if it was like what you said, it would be great if I could live until the end of the war."
The taciturn Vanya gently patted the former's shoulder and silently carried the extinguished gun. With a flashlight, he quickly walked through the bunker door and walked towards the anti-tank gun position not far away.
Wiping the rain off his face, the Aleutian company commander did not disturb the soldiers in the bunker who were listening and telling stories. He turned around and walked towards the mortar position on the other side of the trench in silence.
The torrential rain raged all night long, and the water in the trenches once again flooded to the ankles. The recruits who were temporarily organized by Vanya vigorously waved the engineer shovels and pickaxes in their hands, and gave the soldiers on the position Five vital anti-tanks and two 120 mm heavy mortars stepped up to build the waterproof wall.
In the bunker, Wei Ran, who had been telling "future stories" for most of the night, finally closed his eyes and fell asleep to the sound of heavy rain to help him sleep.
"Da da da!"
The sound of heavy machine gun fire, enough to wake everyone up, suddenly sounded, and the foot-long muzzle flash was particularly conspicuous in the rain that did not weaken at all. But then, the sound of machine gun fire like an alarm bell stopped abruptly with a scream, followed by an almost continuous sound of submachine gun fire!
When Wei Ran woke up, he rolled subconsciously, and then fell into the water with a crash that was enough to submerge his whole body.
EarnWei Ran climbed up and wiped the sewage on his face. The soaked Wei Ran looked around with the oil lamp hanging above his head. At some point, enough rainwater had accumulated in the bunker to submerge his knees, and even the bunker was used as a bed. On top of the ammunition box, in addition to the awakened soldiers, there were also a few soaked black rats.
Outside the bunker, the harsh sounds of gunfire, shouts of death, and the explosion of grenades were so noisy that the heart almost lost its rhythm.
Fumbling for the flashlight he had put next to him before going to bed, Wei Ran first touched the two anti-tank gun magazines still in his pocket, and then picked up the ammunition box. Mosin-Nagant rifle.
As the soldiers around them got out of the bunker, the sounds of firefights in the rain became clearer, but the sky above them was still so dark that it was hard to see.
Fortunately, they didn't have to wait long at all. With a dull sound of artillery, a flare was fired into the night sky, and then the entire battlefield was completely illuminated.
Wei Ran, who struggled to climb up the trench, lay down behind the sandbag used as a bunker and carefully poked his head out, but what he saw next made him feel cold from the back of his head to his tailbone.
I don’t know when, at least hundreds of heavily armed Germans, under the cover of night and heavy rain, had cut a dozen holes in the barbed wire fence big enough for tanks to drive through, and this barbed wire fence was far away from the trenches. The straight line distance between the lines is not even 100 meters!
Almost at the moment when the flares came into effect, several machine gun fire points in Position 19 opened fire in unison. The fire snakes mixed with tracer bullets instantly suppressed the German soldiers who were almost touching their faces and filled with water. in the crater.
But then, the German artillery began to unleash its power, and dense artillery shells hit the vicinity of Position 19. Even one of the machine gun fire points was hit, and even the gunmen and the men were blown to pieces in the rain. .
But even so, the remaining firepower points and the soldiers lying on the muddy trenches did not stop shooting, and they used all their strength to eliminate all the sneak attack German soldiers near the barbed wire fence.
As position No. 19 was the first to stop firing, the artillery fired from the opposite side also stopped roaring tacitly.
"Where are our artillery observers?!" the Aleutian company commander shouted and asked, leaning against the trench.
"I'm here!" The observer who followed Signal Corpsman Beshev to Position 19 last night immediately ran to the Aleutian company commander's side.
"What's your name?" Aleut asked loudly.
"Kazer!" the artillery observer shouted in response.
"When can our artillery counterattack?"
"The distance is not enough!"
Kazer shouted in response, "The artillery positions on the West Bank have been The German planes were blown up, and the artillery positions on the east coast were too far away to reach them!"
Aleutian punched the wall of the trench with flowing mud in anger, "Vanya! Organize a group of people to remove the wire immediatelyThe network is added! Plant a few more landmines by the way! "
"You guys follow me! ”
Wanya pointed at a few people at random with the beam of the flashlight. When the beam accidentally hit the face of the person next to Wei Ran, it was extinguished very quickly, and then after some distance, it It lit up again and jumped to the next person's face.
Wei Ran, who was about to get up, was stunned. The person Vanya accidentally selected just now included the person who asked him before going to bed. How many soldiers there were in Red Square and the soldier who wanted to be a postman after the war!
He even remembered that the stubble-faced soldier had a son who was only five years old. I remember that the soldier who wanted to be a postman seemed to be such a fool that he would get lost in the trenches! But he didn't remember the other party's name at all.
But the selected soldiers didn't. Complaining, they each received the mines and barbed wire, immediately climbed over the trench, crawled forward and disappeared into the manic rain
Soon after, there were two loud explosions of grenades and a faint bang from the direction of the barbed wire. Scream.