USSR 1941

  Chapter 55 Familiar

  Due to the military emergency, the soldiers only had two hours of sleep.

   Yet this is extremely painful.

  The soldiers were indeed very tired, and they hadn't been able to take a good rest from the moment the battle started.

But maybe it was because of the tension of crossing the German front, the joy of successfully joining forces, and the worry about the enemy's attack tomorrow morning... All of these make people's adrenaline secretion strong, so it is common to feel sleepy and can't keep your eyes open. But can't sleep.

The actor was rolling his own horse box again, carefully, using half of the quantity as usual, after rolling it, he lit it and took a deep breath, then leaned against the concrete wall of the bunker contentedly, breathing in the smoke Zhong slightly squinted his eyes and listened leisurely to the cadenced voice from the radio outside.

   "You look confident, Okunev!" the veteran asked while cleaning his gun.

   "What?" The actor raised his eyes.

   "You don't worry about this fight at all!" said the veteran.

   "Do I need to worry?" The actor replied in the smoke: "Leave such a thing to our squad leader comrades!"

   "What does this have to do with me?" Shulka asked back.

   "Of course it's related!" The actor raised his eyebrows above his head: "Look at this bunker, there are machine guns and ammunition, and there are quite a few of us... There should be hundreds of thousands of people!"

   "No, at least hundreds of thousands!" The thief interjected, "Two fronts!"

   Thieves can always have more accurate information, even now even the top Soviet army is not sure how many people there are.

   The veteran laughed: "You think we can hold off the Germans? That's just what they say!"

Speaking of which, the veteran raised his head in the direction of the broadcast, and the announcer was shouting in anger: "There is no doubt that any attack by the German invaders will be defeated by our heroic Soviet army, because the soldiers standing in front of them Not just the line of defense, but also our flesh and blood and unyielding spirit..."

  The high-level Soviet army used propaganda tools to convince everyone, including the people in Kyiv, that this line of defense could stop the German attack.

   Therefore, the lives of the people of Kyiv are business as usual, and even entertainment venues are operating as usual.

   But soldiers with combat experience know that's not the case.

  The reason is simple: there is also such a line of defense in front of Minsk. If that line of defense is vulnerable to the German attack, why can this line of defense be defended?

   "No, Comrade Matvey!" the actor replied: "Of course I wouldn't believe them!"

Seeing the puzzled look from the veteran, the actor explained with a smile: "Think about it, Comrade Matvey. When we were in Brest, we had less than a thousand people, and we ran out of ammunition and food. The strength is dozens of times that of ours. Even so, Shulka can still bring us out, it is much better now than then, isn't it..."

   "Shut up, Okunev!" Shulka interrupted the actor: "It's not as simple as you think!"

   "Look!" The actor said with a smile: "Our squad leader is worried, that's right!"

  The soldiers around were amused by the actor, or they more or less had the same idea as the actor... Shulka would know how to do it.

   "Comrade squad leader!" The thief even said: "They should make you a bigger officer, I mean...command more troops!"

   "I agree!" Soon someone answered: "Especially when we swaggered past the German front!"

   "Yes, I thought Shulka must be crazy to come up with such a method, it can't be successful!"

   "But it worked, and we made it here alive!"

  …

  Soldiers chatting with each other, the atmosphere was so enthusiastic that Shulka couldn't even get in the conversation.

At this moment, a sharp whistle came from outside the bunker, followed by Major Gavrilov's hoarse voice: "It's time to get up, boys, take up your weapons, let's practice how to deal with the enemy tomorrow !"

  This remark is actually an irony: practice how to deal with the enemy tomorrow? This should have been done long ago.

  But for the Soviet army, this is normal. Shulka even knows that there are volunteers in the army who have just been recruited from Kyiv and can't even shoot.

This is the characteristic of the Soviet army. Although in principle, what the Soviet army lacks at this time is not people, but quality, equipment and preparation, but they always feel that more people are better than fewer people, so they stuff some people who get in the way. came in.

Of course, Shulka couldn't complain, he could only order the soldiers to move. Okunev was not willing to part with his unfinished horse box. He extinguished the cigarette and took a while to take out the shredded tobacco and stuff it back In the box... the smoker, Shulka suspected, would one day use the muzzle of an enemy's gun as a cigarette holder.

  The first thing to get acquainted with is the equipment. The Shulka squad is responsible for the three connected bunkers, which are divided into left, center and right layouts. There are three machine guns on the left and right sides, and two 37MM anti-tank guns in the middle.

  Shuerka thinks there is a problem with this layout. Putting the anti-tank gun in the middle makes it inevitable that there will be many shooting dead ends, and the machine guns on both sides can form crossfire to cover each other... This is obviously the configuration for dealing with enemy infantry.

  If the enemy comes up with a tank, the situation will be worrying.

  A very useful piece of equipment is the periscope inside the bunker, which allows Shulka to observe the situation outside without going outside the bunker.

  The second is to get familiar with the direction... This is actually very simple, that is, to carry ammunition back and forth to the rear ammunition depot.

In fact, there is a small ammunition depot inside the bunker, and boxes of bullets and shells are piled up in it. Because of fear of being ignited and killed or collapsed, its walls are made of the thickest standard, which is 1.5 meters. And the opening is backward, and there is also an iron door.

  Although the Soviets were sloppy in their work, they were cautious when it came to matters involving their lives.

  Finally, the small perforations on the bunker are used...that is for riflemen, mainly for some blind spots that some machine guns cannot hit.

   This is very important, because German infantry often touch these blind spots, and then stuff explosives or Molotov cocktails into the perforations.

   But Shulka thinks these perforations are difficult to use because they are too small, just enough for soldiers to insert their rifles and aim through the front sight.

   This was done because they feared that the perforation would become a deadly danger to the bunker if the perforation was too large, and the enemy could stuff grenades through the perforation.

  However, with such a small observation range, if the Germans run past the perforation, the shooter simply does not have enough reaction time.