At night, we finished everything. Except for leaving a few posts on duty, the rest returned to the wooden house.

I and more than 20 female soldiers sat around the big wooden table. The meals and tableware were already arranged, and the hot soup was served on the plate. From the morning to now, I have only eaten a few slices of black bread, and at this time I feel so hungry that my hands and feet are weak.

Karenina poured a dark red liquid into the enamel teapot in front of everyone. When it was my turn, I quickly covered the mouth of the cup with my hands, waved my hands repeatedly and said, "No, no, I don't drink."

"Comrade Lieutenant, this is not wine, it's just juice." I heard that it was juice, so I stopped refusing. I moved my hand blocking the mouth of the cup and let her pour me a full cup.

"Everyone raises your glasses." Karenina began to pay tribute to the words: "For us to repel the German devils today and for Lida to become a lieutenant, let's have a drink."

"Cheers!" I picked up the teapot, shouted loudly and touched the glasses with everyone one by one, and then took a big sip. The juice tasted sour and a little sweet, but I also felt a spicy smell. I was secretly yelling in my heart, and I had been in vain for so many years in Russia, but I forgot that they all drank alcoholic fruit wine as juice. I didn't have much time, so I felt my cheeks were hot and my whole body was soft, and I felt drowsy.

"Let's dance." Suddenly a female soldier suggested. Everyone immediately became active and the house suddenly became a magpies' nest. I saw Jeanna quietly poking Karenina and signaling her to ask me for advice.

"Everyone is quiet, who is talking about having a dance?" Karenina stood up and said to the female soldiers with a serious expression: "This suggestion will not be adopted without the permission of the commander."

After hearing her words, the girls who were still chattering just now closed their mouths, looked at each other, and then collectively turned their eyes to me. I knew that in this era of lack of entertainment life, there were no TV, computers and other things to be used to spend boring time, so I should adopt a supportive attitude towards such spontaneous entertainment programs of female soldiers. So I stood up shakingly with the table and said to everyone present: "Girls, don't be stunned. The dance party begins now, hurry up and jump up!"

The female soldiers cheered, folded the big wooden table and moved it to the corner of the wall. A wide area suddenly appeared in the middle of the room. I was weak and sat on the chair in the corner of the wall, watching them busy back and forth.

Lena - the female soldier who helped me carry soap last night, made an accordion from somewhere and started playing. With the melodious sound of the piano, a beautiful song suddenly sounded in the room. It is the familiar "Cranberry Flowers Blooming". The song of love is a popular song of this era.

At the end of the song, Karenina suddenly suggested to everyone: "Next, please ask our lieutenant to sing a song for me, are you going to say okay?"

"Okay~~~!" The female soldiers cheered in unison.

I was shocked and sweated all over. If it were Russian songs, I could sing "Cranberry Flowers Bloom", "Night outside Moscow", "Katyusha", etc. Unfortunately, they could only sing Chinese rather than Russian. The only Russian song I could know was the once popular "Men like Putin, Marry a Man", which was once popular. On such occasions, I would not dare to sing it with my courage. I could only wave my hand and say vaguely: "I'm sorry, girls, I'm drunk and can't sing, let's talk about it another day."

While these female soldiers did not make things difficult for me, Karenina grabbed Narisa and took the lead in dancing. The female soldiers who had been itchy for a long time entered the simple dance floor and danced with the music, and the room immediately turned into a sea of ​​joy.

Jeanna did not go to dance, but sat beside me and accompanied me. She suddenly asked me: "Comrade Lieutenant, when I was shooting German reconnaissance planes in the morning, I seemed to hear you shout something, but I didn't understand."

"Oh," I remembered that I couldn't help but shouted in Chinese at that time. I hesitated for a moment, and made up a reason to explain to her: "I'm shouting in Chinese."

"Chinese?!" She continued curiously: "What does that sentence mean? Where did you learn Chinese?"

"In Russian, it means 'Yi is Wumier'," I explained to her because in later generations there was a friend who lived with me. He liked to talk to sleep at night, and when he talked, he usually used Chinese and Russian alternately. I was afraid that when I talked to sleep one day, I would also have such mixed Chinese and Russian. Instead of arousing others' suspicion, it would be better to find a reason to hide the truth as soon as possible. "I used to study in the school where I was a student, an old school worker who cleaned the house, a Chinese who participated in the October Revolution. I am very familiar with him, so I learned a few Chinese from him."

"Oh." Jeona looked like she suddenly realized.

My head became dizzy, the characters in front of me began to become blurred, and the sound of Jeona speaking around me seemed to be coming from a distant place. I finally fell asleep unknowingly.

When I woke up, it was already dawn. As soon as I walked out of the wooden house, the sentry on duty last night came over to report to me: "Comrade Lieutenant, come and see, there are troops under the cliff."

"Is it the German army?" I couldn't help but be surprised, thinking that the German army quietly walked around behind in the night.

"No." The sentry showed a joyful expression on his face: "It's our army."

The road under the cliff was marching with large groups of people, and there were lined up or single soldiers on the road and on the road, as well as military trucks, cannon trucks and even tanks. I looked at everything that happened below with a telescope very calmly. These troops were scattered along forks and roads to the front lines on both sides of the road. In any case, it was really delighted to see this huge team, cannons and tanks.

"It's so exciting!" Karenina's voice suddenly sounded beside me. I turned my head and saw that she was standing next to me at some point and was excitedly watching the passing team.

According to the habit I have developed recently, I raised my eyes and looked at the sky, thinking: Will the large-scale mobilization of troops in broad daylight be attacked by the Luftwaff? However, today's sky is gloomy, thick clouds are pressing down on the low altitude, and raindrops have fallen. I guess it is probably because of this that Zhukov dared to take the risk of continuing to mobilize the team in broad daylight.

What team is this? I guessed while watching, were they transferred from other parts of the front line, or were the reserves transferred from the commander? But there is one fact that the Soviet army had already concentrated its strong forces on the Pulkovo defense line. Based on the known ending, I clearly knew that the German attack on the high ground would eventually fail, and they would be subjected to a devastating counterattack, repelled by the Soviet army, and defeated the army.

"Look, Comrade Lieutenant, that's a sailor!" Karenina pointed to me excitedly.

I looked in the direction of her finger and saw several teams of soldiers wearing blue and white striped shirts and a black uniform, marching with pride. These should be the Marines drawn from the warship.

I thought about it and although today's weather is not suitable for the takeoff of the plane, I still cannot be taken lightly. So I put down my telescope and said to Karenina beside me: "Issue a combat alarm and notify all soldiers to enter the artillery position. We must be prepared for air defense to prevent the Luftwaffe from launching a sudden attack on the troops behind."

Karenina agreed and was about to walk away when a man suddenly came out behind her: "Girls, where is your commander?"

I turned my head and saw a second lieutenant wearing a brand new military uniform and shining with leather boots coming towards us. When he came to us, he looked at the ranks of Karenina and me, and when he saw that we were both sergeant ranks, he whistled frivolously: "Hey, beauty, where is your commander?"

I looked at him contemptuously, and then asked indifferently: "I am Lieutenant Oshaninna, the commander of the anti-aircraft machine gun company. Who are you?"

Hearing my own report, he quickly raised his body to salute me and replied in a panic: "I'm sorry, comrade Lieutenant, you are still wearing the sergeant's uniform, so I didn't expect you to be the commander." After a brief pause, he calmed down his emotions and continued: "I am Lieutenant Savchenko from the Air Defense Command, and I was ordered to serve as your deputy. The two platoons of anti-aircraft artillery have also been in place and can enter the position at any time."
Chapter completed!