Burning Moscow

Chapter 12

"Now tell me: How did you come up with a good way to hit German tanks and infantry with anti-aircraft machine guns? How did you come up with that? " Captain horopov, standing on the edge of the cliff, with his telescope in his hand, asked me curiously as he looked with interest at the soldiers cleaning the battlefield below.

Just now, he rushed to me with some soldiers in a rage. His face was red and his veins were blue. He yelled at me: "sergeant, you are committing a crime! You know, without the permission of the higher authorities, the anti-aircraft machine gun was used to fight the German infantry, and the use of technical equipment was changed without authorization. This is going to the military court

I couldn't help but retort. I immediately restrained myself and shook my head with a bitter smile. Many things in this era can't be measured by the standards of later generations. The anti-aircraft machine gun was invented by the Soviet army. I just plagiarized the achievements of the predecessors. Although the captain is the highest commander on the Nameless Highland at present, he can only remove me at most. Can he really send me to the military court? If he wants to scold me, let him scold me enough at one time. Anyway, what he said is fast and urgent. I can't understand a lot of the content, so I just choose to ignore it.

He was cursing fiercely, and the smoke from the foot of the mountain and a disgusting smell of scorch interrupted his long speech. He ran to the edge of the cliff, put up his telescope and looked down. First, he opened his mouth wide in surprise, then he burst out laughing and exclaimed excitedly: "good job, girls! Good job, girls!! You've done a good job! " Although I didn't look down with the telescope as he did, I knew exactly what he saw: the dead bodies of the German troops were lying on the silent battlefield, the destroyed tanks and armored vehicles were still emitting smoke, and the German soldiers who survived with their hands held high, under the escort of the soldiers, they had no choice but to go on their way as prisoners of war.

Although I saw the example of fighting infantry with anti-aircraft machine gun on a well-known forum, it is impossible for me to say to the captain: I saw this kind of fighting method from a World War II post when I was browsing the Forum on the Internet. In that case, I would not be taken as a madman by them. I shrugged my shoulders, laughed awkwardly, and racked my brains to make up a bad reason“ At that time, I wanted to fight the enemy's tanks and infantry as airplanes, and that's how it happened. "

He put down his telescope, gave me a look, shook his head in disbelief and gave me a smile“ So, you said, you just took the German devils below as enemy planes in the sky, that's what happened? "

I didn't know how to answer him, so I didn't say a word.

"No matter what you thought at that time, you still ordered the use of anti-aircraft machine guns as ordinary weapons." The captain kept asking“ Maybe you just want to take a chance? Taking risks, don't you think you were taking risks at that time? "

"Comrade platoon leader," I was pondering over how to answer him when Natasha broke in next to me and said, "shall we continue to count the ammunition consumption?"

"Go on." I finally found the reason to get rid of the captain. I didn't make good use of it. I told them, "first check how many empty ammunition boxes there are, and then check how many bullets are left in the ammunition boxes on the machine gun, so that we can calculate how much ammunition was consumed in this battle."

Seeing that I was busy, the captain closed his mouth and continued to look at the scenery with his telescope. After all, there was something he liked to see there.

The roar of the motor came from the distance. Everyone stopped their work and looked in that direction. There was a team of armored cars coming towards us on the road.

"It should be the senior commander." Behind her, a female soldier whispered, "look, there are so many armored cars coming."

"What senior commander?" The captain's ears were very good. He heard such a small voice. He put down his telescope, looked back and saw the convoy coming, and immediately trotted to the armored car.

The armored cars in front slowed down as they passed the captain, and the other armored cars behind slowed down. One of them stopped a few steps away from the captain. The door opened with a crash. Three generals came down from it. One of the generals, of medium build, broad shouldered and big brained, was at the front, followed by the other two.

The captain straightened up and saluted the general who came. Then he said in a loud voice, "Comrade General, I'm the interior people's Committee." my name is mushdakova oshanina, Sergeant rank. Now I'm the platoon leader of the unknown highland anti-aircraft machine gun platoon. "

Looking at his serious face, I guess Zhukov will be furious soon. After all, I am now in a very special era. It is always a taboo to change the way of using technical equipment without authorization. Even if I have the credit, the consequences are hard to predict.

But soon I found that I was worried. Zhukov had a smile on his face. He pretended to be serious and said, "wrong, wrong. It's not sergeant oshanina, but lieutenant oshanina. It's not a platoon leader, it's a company leader. Report it again. "

I just got the rank of sergeant yesterday, and I got a higher rank of lieutenant today. I became an officer from a soldier. I can't help blushing with excitement. The women soldiers behind me began to whisper happily when they heard that I had become a lieutenant. I tried my best to suppress my excitement. I reluctantly spoke and repeated the report. For the first time in my life, I called myself a lieutenant and a company commander. Of course, I don't forget to express my gratitude to Zhukov. After all, he gave me an unexpected promotion.