Chapter 238 Private houses
Shulka and his party waited in the private house for two days.
Although the environment inside the private house is much better than outside, it is a kind of psychological torture for people, especially in order not to attract the attention of the German army, they cannot step out of the private house even if the German artillery fire and plane bombing are no exception... These artillery fires and aircraft strafing were not aimed at the houses in the village, but a line of defense against the Soviet troops outside the village.
That is part of the 316th Division. They are the only fully equipped unit of the Moscow Supplementary 16th Army. Even the Fourth Tank Brigade cannot be considered "full staff".
The anti-aircraft artillery battalion of the 4th Tank Brigade was active in the village. They built an air defense position in this area to protect the logistics supply line of Volokolamsk... When the 4th Tank Brigade "went out" of Tver, Volok Ramsk became the supply line.
This arrangement is to prevent the tanks and troops hidden in the civilian houses from being exposed, and even the soldiers of the 316th Division on the outer defense line don't know anything about it.
But even so, shells would still smash into the village one after another, sometimes setting houses on fire. The soldiers of the artillery battalion rushed to organize the fire fighting, but the soldiers hiding inside still didn't dare to move, they could only watch helplessly. everything.
Shuerka believes that if the fire really spreads, it may be difficult for them to hold on. At that time, the soldiers rushing out of the house may be seen by German reconnaissance planes or scouts and show their feet.
Fortunately, it has been raining and snowing during this period, the houses are very humid, and the water supply system in the village has been repaired, the soldiers of the artillery battalion quickly put out the fire.
The instructor didn't care about this. He sat beside Shulka who was wiping his gun boredly, and asked in a low voice, "Is this your idea?"
"What?" Shulka pretended not to know what the instructor meant.
"Don't pretend to be confused, Comrade Shulka!" The instructor said: "This is not the order of the superiors, at least not for us to stay here and smell our own urine!"
Staying in a private house is good for everything, the food is dry food prepared early in the morning, the living place upstairs is very dry, and some private houses even have a small bed on the roof... I learned this through the phone, for each team To be able to cooperate, telephone lines are connected between the houses, and the soldiers use the phone to talk nonsense with other troops when they are bored.
The only bad thing is that there are no toilets in the houses, and the toilets are usually built outside in rural cottages.
So, the soldiers had no choice but to dig a hole with an engineering shovel in the corner of the house.
This is not bad. A few soldiers **** all over the place after drinking some alcohol. The actors always liked to go to the tank tracks. They thought that there were not many such opportunities in normal times.
If Fedosiev finds out, he will reprimand them a few words.
"Hey!" he said, "Don't you know you're going behind the tracks of a tank?"
"It's okay, Comrade Lieutenant!" The actor replied with a smile: "I am not alone behind the track, and I will never stand directly behind it!"
This remark immediately drew scolding from other fighters.
After such a long period of time, the inside of the private house will naturally be smelly, just like the instructor said, "smelling of my own urine".
After hesitating for a while, Shulka replied: "Yes, Comrade Instructor, this is indeed my idea!"
The instructor frowned, then said, "Well, you've got to hope this idea works, or they won't let it go!"
Shulka nodded silently.
"Do you know what they will do?" The instructor said to Shulka almost gritted his teeth: "They will put all the responsibility on you, the reason for the failure, and the loss, everything... because You don't obey orders and don't listen to their commands!"
Shulka asked rhetorically: "If we obeyed the order, wouldn't they do it?"
Hearing this, the instructor couldn't help being stunned.
What Shulka said is that there is no excuse for the so-called crime, even if everything is carried out according to the order of the Supreme Command... But as long as the battle is lost, the best excuse is that the soldiers on the front line were not brave enough, not enough. resolute.
Similar things have happened many times.
"So!" Shulka said: "I don't think our choice is wrong, and we can only do this!"
Seeing that the instructor was silent, Shulka said again: "Even to some extent, they helped us!"
"What's the meaning?"
"You know it!" Shulka said: "The Germans have planted many spies in our army. These spies will always pay attention to the movements of their superiors and even obtain information from them..."
Hearing this, the instructor will understand.
If even their superiors have been fooled, then the Germans will believe it.
Shulka guessed right.
Von Bock had no doubts about the 4th Tank Brigade moving north to Tver, and the information from the intelligence personnel played a decisive role in this.
The German Gestapo has a systematic approach in this regard, and they are very good at using Soviet prisoners.
Some of the Soviet prisoners, especially officers, were not meant to be German intelligence agents, they didn't even think about it.
but…
The Gestapo would get a little useful information from them during the interrogation, not much, just a little, such as the deployment of firepower on a certain front line, the location of ammunition depots, and so on.
Some information is even outdated and completely useless. It was only when the Soviet officers knew that the Germans had occupied these areas that they were relieved to disclose it.
But... if they thought this would fool the Germans, they were making things too easy.
The Gestapo will record all of this, and then it will become evidence, evidence of the surrender of these officers.
Then things are easy.
The Gestapo will take these recordings and say to these Soviet officers: "We will let you go back, you must work for us, that is, collect some useful intelligence for us. Otherwise..."
Otherwise, there is no need to say more about the following, the Germans will send the recording directly to the Soviet army, and even play it on the front line, and then these officers will not be able to speak clearly even if they are covered in mouths.
The Gestapo successfully placed many valuable intelligence personnel in the Soviet army through such means.
"They are finished!" Von Bock said happily to the adjutant: "The Fourth Tank Brigade is attacking Tver!"
"Are we going to Tver to surround them?" the adjutant asked.
"No!" Von Bock said: "We are not attacking Tver, but Volokolamsk. Our armored division cannot confront the Russian tank brigade head-on, otherwise we will suffer heavy losses!"
(end of this chapter)
