USSR 1941

While Major Gavrilov and the political commissar were busy organizing other troops and assigning tasks, Shulka sat next to Pukarev with two gas masks.

"Comrade Shulka!" asked Pukarev. "Any instructions?"

Shulka couldn't help being taken aback, he obviously felt that Pukarev's attitude was different from before.

"That's right, Comrade Dashi!" Shulka handed Pukarev a gas mask: "We're going to give everyone a gas mask and make sure they all use it!"

Pukarev took the gas mask and looked at it, then replied: "We all use it, unless you can't!"

"Do you have any opinion on me, Comrade Dashi?" Shulka asked suspiciously.

"No, how dare I?" Pukarev met Shulka's gaze: "You don't seem to understand something, Shulka... At this moment, I mean, we are all going to die sooner or later, so I I'm not afraid of snitches! Come on, Shulka, I don't want to use the damned thing!"

With that said, Pukarev stuffed the gas mask back into Shulka's arms and walked to the other side.

"Small report?" Shulka sounded puzzled, and soon he realized that Pukarev had misunderstood.

"You think I'm making a small report?" Shulka spread his hands.

Without raising his eyes, Pukarev asked: "Isn't it? Tell me, what's your excuse? You bastard!"

"That's right, Comrade Dashi!" Shulka said: "I did make a 'small report', but..."

Shulka took out a map from his pocket, spread it out and walked up to Pukarev, handed it over, pointed to the Holm Rope Bridge and said, "My 'little report' made the major decide to let us sort out the map." Take the Holm Rope Bridge!"

Pukarev raised his head in surprise, and looked at Shulka with disbelief.

"What did you say? Capture the Holm Rope Bridge? Our platoon? It's impossible..."

At this moment Major Gavrilov came back and asked: "Shurka, have you informed Comrade Pukarev of the mission?"

"Yes!" said Shulka, "but Comrade Dashi doesn't believe it!"

Major Gavrilov laughed: "Yes, of course, I didn't believe it before that either! But..."

Major Gavrilov patted Pukarev on the shoulder: "You have a very smart subordinate, Comrade Pukarev, and his plan may save all of our lives! So, these are true of!"

Then Major Gavrilov looked at his watch, shook his head at Shulka, and said, "I will leave this part to you. Time is running out. We must arrange other troops!"

"Yes, Major!" Shulka answered.

After a long pause, Pukarev said, "So, I misunderstood you?"

Shulka shrugged and replied: "Comrade Dashi, as you said, I can't survive anyway. Do you think I will be stupid enough to make a small report at this time? Or against you?"

"I knew it, Shulka!" Pukarev immediately became happy. He jumped up and gave Shulka a hard punch, then grabbed Shulka's head and shook it vigorously a few times: " If you dare to report me, I'll wring your head off your neck!"

Shulka, who was dizzy from being shaken, couldn't help cursing inwardly... This is how the Soviets apologize.

Soon the entire platoon of twenty-seven people was gathered together, first of all, each of them was issued a PPD submachine gun... It can be predicted that after lurking on the other side, more close combat will be used, and it is still dark, submachine guns are definitely more useful than rifles.

In order to cooperate with other troops, Shulka got a waterproof watch in addition to a submachine gun.

For some reason, after putting on the watch, Shulka suddenly had a feeling of solidity in his heart, and he finally found something certain.

Then the gas masks were distributed, and Shulka explained to them how to modify the gas masks and the whole plan.

Everyone was stunned after listening.

"Comrade squad leader!" The veteran asked, "You didn't come up with this plan, did you?"

"You guessed it!" Shulka replied: "But it's thanks to the thief!"

"Me?" Fovalikov raised his head in confusion.

"The gas mask you threw!" Shulka said. "It inspired me!"

Fovalikov smiled awkwardly and replied: "Don't say it, comrade squad leader. I just took it as a joke, but you came up with such a plan..."

Everyone around laughed.

"God, so we still have hope of breaking through!"

"We might get out alive!"

...

Although the result is not yet known, at least it is a feasible path for them, so the soldiers immediately gained confidence, like plants that had been drought for a long time suddenly came to life like a good rain.

According to the plan, the first step is to dive into the river.

Shulka and Pukarev took the soldiers back to the place, packed their luggage and set off.

"Do you have a mission?" Agata asked.

"Yes!" Shulka replied while putting a waterproof bag on her backpack.

"What task?" Agata asked again.

"Get water!" Shulka raised his head towards the bucket next to him.

"Don't try to fool me!" Agata said, "When no one fetches water, they bring two bricks!"

"You'll find out soon!" Shulka picked up the bucket and walked out.

Agata shouted from behind: "What about 'last moment'?"

Shulka waved his hand back without looking back, and replied, "Maybe there won't be any 'last minute'!"

The first task is indeed to fetch water, but it is not fetching water.

To be precise, they were mixed in the water fetching team and approached the river bank.

They were divided into three batches, one squad for each batch. The real water fetching troops were in the front, and the commandos were in the back... As soon as the enemy's gunshots rang out, the commandos fell to the ground and pretended to be dead.

Needless to say what happened next, when the Germans were not paying attention, they slowly crawled to the river bank and hid in the river.

Shulka was the first batch, and the process went very smoothly. The only thing to pay attention to is to lie still and pretend to be a corpse when the searchlight shines on.

It is not so easy to climb over one bloody corpse after another, especially some corpses have begun to emit a foul smell and there are many flies and mosquitoes flying around it.

This made Shulka almost throw up, but he finally held back, because he knew that any sound might trigger a burst of enemy fire.

Shulka wanted to hide in the river quickly, but when he hid in the river, he realized that things were not as good as he imagined... The river was a bit cold in the middle of the night, so he should consider keeping warm in advance.