They talked quietly among themselves, so that inadvertently no one would hear there outside the window. Ears on the village enough. And without policemen there were informers sympathizing with the new fascist government.

- How is the partisans in the forest? - asked Kozhube senior junior Timofey - Everything is ready for the offensive. All agreed with the headquarters of the army.

- Yes. You only need a little more training and you can attack the Germans right in the village. The headquarters said this task is mostly ours. The army will go along the edges through forests through the swamps to Minsk.

“This is what my brother is afraid of,” said the eldest Kozhub, addressing Timothy. “I am afraid for the villagers.” I kind of answer for them now, for everyone. It must be done so that no one is hurt. I have enough deaths and so. When the Fritz came to the village, this Fritz Ober Kogel ordered the descent to hang up six villagers, so for the order, as he said. Then three more for the missing patrolmen in the Wolf Farm area of ​​their motorcyclists. I tried to explain to the Germans that the place is damned and no one from the village goes there. There are a lot of people from the area who went there. Especially visitors. But these Germans will explain that it. This Kogel wrote off all the partisans. I don't need this anymore. I support you, but I do not want more death, do you understand me, brother?

“Yes, these fascists set up their headquarters in our school,” added Vsevolod Artyukhov and hung his flag. It would be nice to embed, according to this, their headquarters.

- Time - said Timothy. Everything has its time. I have a question for you Vsevolod.

- I listen - said Vsevolod.

- Here we received an order from our senior personally to you Vsevolod.

- Yes? Which one - Vsevolod asked with all the attention.

- We need to find out how many Germans have tanks in the village. Just for sure. Is the task clear? - Timofey asked the fisherman.

He shook his head knowingly. And Timofey continued - Since this is a priority task for us now. And the sooner the better. You go everywhere in the village and here you are like your own. It is necessary, in general, to count for our commander in the detachment.

- Here are just policemen - said Vsevolod.

- What are the policemen? - Timofey asked him.

- These fascist fascists at me and my son aren’t getting off the tail - said Vsevolod to Timothy - Especially Toad. Everybody sniff out something. It is necessary even to go fishing at night on the sly from everyone. And the village and the detachment must be fed.

- Yes, you need to take care of yourself - Timofey told him - As soon as you count the tanks, immediately into the detachment, did Vsevolod understand me?

- Yes, there is nowhere more clear - answered Vsevolod the fisherman - I am afraid for my son. I'm fine, but here's a boy if that is a pity. Maybe pick up now.

- It is impossible - answered Timofey - Now it is impossible, since they graze both of you. You just need to be careful. Avoid trying direct encounters, although this

hardly possible, but the information we need more life now and the front.

Messers above Snowball

In the fog, two Yaks broke away from the airfield site. Having warmed up the engines quickly, they, scaring the nimble little gray sparrows jumping across the airfield, soared upward like two large birds of prey into the air and began to climb smoothly.

At that time, behind the front line from the speech of Berezina from the German side, in the neighboring village of Smilovichi, several kilometers from Snezhnitsa from Minsk, two Messerschmitts BF-109 F-4 series, also soared into the air. They made a free hunt. Hunt for any aircraft that appeared over the front line. Or over the German-occupied territory.

They were led by two asses from the western front of the thirty-ninth year, obstreletenant Rudolf Schenker and his wingman, Major Günther Merkel.They also decided in the morning to fly at the very dawn over the battlefield and so check the airspace for the presence of enemy planes, not knowing that this fight would suddenly be fleeting for them, and very deplorable for such experienced Goers asses. Each of them had more than one aircraft already shot down, both in the west and here in the east. And here they again decided to arrange a hunt mainly for the Ilai. Since for each downed IL-2 was given the Iron Cross. And they would have another cross would not interfere, as they both thought. It hurts Elah annoyed by their ground attack adjacent roads to the front line. They horrified everyone below the Germans, wherever they did not appear. Here is dad Goering and handed out awards to the right and left to all the pilots of the Great Reich.

And the two Messerschmitts, fully charged and fueled by the two assas, walked, gaining a height of two kilometers at full speed to the front line. First fly over the battlefield and trenches of their own and others. They walked over the Berezina, just to the place where the village of Snezhnytsia was.

On the horizon, flashes of explosions blazed and fires raged, and smoke covered the ground at the very front line. And it was not visible a damn from the air. Having flown over the front, Messer was turned from the side of the sun from the river itself and began to go out on the snow. Doing an extensive search circle in the hope of finding someone in the air from opponents. While the two Russian Yak-3s, having crossed the line of fire, were already above Snezhnitsa. They had already managed to make aerial photographs of the area and managed to photograph the entire Snezhnitsa in front of all the villagers and Germans who ran around the village and shouted in a panic as abnormal, unlike the villagers looking at the sky. They tried in vain to disguise their entire equipment standing there, almost openly under the sky. Afraid of the attack of Soviet fighters. And the fighters did circles over the village itself and brought panic to them.

- Well, as Serega! - shouted Dmitry the elder on the radio - Removed ?! There are tanks! I clearly see them! Maybe scare reptiles!

- No, Dima! - Commander captain Anikanov answered - Residents there! See? Ahead stand, as driven, and do not leave!

- Probably, they wait, they will not wait, when we will come to release them!

- Let's come Dimka! We will come! - shouted to Anikanov Arsentev - It's time to go home! Stay back! Leaving the area! Mark made in the tablet?

- Made the captain! - shouted Dmitry Anikanov - We leave, so we leave!

***

From each house, the hooked Fritz rode up. They mixed up with the locals of the village, watching two Soviet fighters making circles above the village at low altitude. Some of the Germans tried to shoot with machine guns and rifles, but senselessly and all by.

Commander of the infantry regiment and commander of the infantry regiment, commander Günther Kogel and the commander of the tank division, Major SS Siegfried Walter, jumped out of the school where the headquarters of the infantry unit and tankmen were. They shouted something in their language to all the soldiers and rushed around the village. Only the inhabitants stood motionless and looked at the sky. Some with fright, some with joy. The boys even waved their caps and shouted hooray. The Germans did not stop shooting in the air, and shouting at the top of their lungs, running through the village. Here also the policemen Whip, Dryk and Pimple ran. Dryk did not find the Toad, yet found Pimples. And he did not reach the village elder's house, that the elder brother and everyone who was in the house saved his younger brother Timofey with two assistant partisans quietly with gardens backing Snezhnitsa to the woods in the direction of their partisan detachment. Taking advantage of the fog that was still creeping over the land and swamps, they had already disappeared in the bright light of the coming day. In the forest forest, delving into the thick of the birch forest and pines of the Belarusian forests.

The morning fog completely dissipated over the village, and everything was perfectly visible, all German cars, motorcycles and tanks. Yes, it is tanks.

Dmitriy saw several T-III, T-IV and three T-VI Tigers from the air. Exactly what you were looking for. Captain Anikanov captured them on film and had to go back beyond the front line to his own. It was necessary to quickly carry off the legs, while the Germans did not call the aircraft and did not raise all of their hunters from the airfields.

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