Liuba raised his hand and saluted Sokov, and said dryly: "Comrade Captain, Lieutenant Liuba, the commander of the female anti-aircraft machine gun company, reported to you that our company is on standby, please instruct!"

"Please rest!" Sokov raised his hand and bowed to Liu Ba, then walked forward a few steps and came to the bodies of the row of female soldiers. He took off the helmet on his head, held it in his hand, and bowed his head to observe silently at the sacrificed female soldiers.

The girls who had no breathing were lying quietly on the ground, with their hands folded on their abdomen, as if they were sleeping soundly. The living female soldiers had already helped them clean the smoke and blood on their faces and put on clean and tidy military uniforms.

Liuba walked to Sokov and asked in a low voice: "Comrade Captain, can we bury our comrades first and then drive out of the city?" She was worried that Sokov would urge them to set off, so she thought it was necessary to ask clearly.

"Of course, that's all." Sokov replied in a panic: "We'll bury the girls' bodies, and it's not too late to set out again."

"Lieutenant Liuba." Kazakov came over and asked Liuba: "Where is the instructor of your company?"

"Instructor Swita, please come up." Liuba heard Kazakov's question and quickly shouted at the person who was digging in the pit: "Comrade General wants to see you."

As she shouted, a soldier who was digging the soil stopped, handed the shovel to the soldier next to him, and then turned around and climbed into the pit. When Sokov saw the man's back, he thought it was a male soldier. When he turned around, he realized that it was a middle-aged female officer with a tiger's back and a bear's waist.

After the female officer crawled out of the pit, Liuba pointed at Kazakov and explained to her: "Swita, let me introduce you to General Kazakov, the commander of the army artillery, and the next one is Captain Sokov. From now on, we will be under his command."

After waiting for Sweta to salute, Kazakov asked curiously: "Sweta Commander, I'm very curious. There are craters everywhere around here, but why do you have to lead someone to dig another one?"

Sweta looked up at Kazakov, and after a long time, he spoke, "Comrade General, I cannot and have no power to bury these girls in the craters of the shells that had blown them to death. Therefore, I invited a few male soldiers to help me dig a pit of their grave for the girls who died."

"So that's it, I understand." Kazakov immediately respected Sweta when he heard what he said: "Comrade Instructor, you keep working."

When Sweta returned to the pit to dig soil, Sokov saw that the project could not be completed for a while, so he whispered to Liuba: "Comrade Lieutenant, can you take me to see the technical equipment of your company now?"

Liuba took Sokov and Kazakov to the position of the anti-aircraft machine gun placed not far away, and introduced to the two: "Commanders, please see, this is the 14.5mm quad-aircraft machine gun equipped by our company, consisting of four 14.5mm anti-aircraft machine guns. It is composed of a gun body, scope, gun frame, and four-wheel double-axle seat combination. Movement requires a car to traction."

In order to give the two people a further understanding of this anti-aircraft machine gun, Liu Ba also sat in front of the scope and skillfully controlled the machine gun. He continued to introduce: "This machine gun has a firing rate of 600 rounds per minute, with an effective range of 2,000 meters. In addition to air defense, it can also be fired flat. Two ammunition boxes can be installed on the machine gun at the same time, and each ammunition box has a capacity of 150 rounds..."

After introducing the weapons and equipment in the company, Liu Ba began to introduce the situation of commanders at all levels in the company: "The female anti-aircraft machine gun company is commanded by me and instructor Sweta, and there are three platoon leaders below. The first platoon leader Sergeant Kaga, the second platoon leader Sergeant Yunya, and the third platoon leader is Sergeant Lida..."

"Wait a minute, Lieutenant Liuba." When Sokov heard the name of Lida, he thought that he had seen this name in a novel before traveling through time. He immediately became interested in her and couldn't help but interrupt and asked, "Is Lida's surname Oshanina, and her husband's surname?"

Liu Ba's face showed a surprised expression: "Comrade Captain, did you know Lida before?"

"Don't know."

"Comrade Captain, you may have recognized the wrong person." Liu Ba sighed and said, "Lida is not married yet, why do you follow the so-called husband's surname? By the way, where did you hear this order?"

Seeing that Liuba and Kazakov looked at him with curious eyes, Sokov naturally could not tell the two that he had seen this name in a novel in a later generation, and could only say perfunctorily: "I have a friend Aoshaning who works as an officer in the border guards. After the war broke out, he disappeared. His wife Lida signed up for the army to avenge her husband, and it is said to be an anti-aircraft machine gunner. So when I heard you mention the name Lida, I thought it was the same person. Unexpectedly, I made a mistake, hahaha!"

When the few people returned to the location of the tomb pit, Sweta had already commanded a group of male soldiers to put the bodies of the female soldiers in the pit. Since there was no coffin, they could only place them neatly at the bottom of the pit and cover it with a white cloth. Sweta first shoveled up a shovel of soil with a shovel, slapped into the pit, and then handed the shovel to Liuba. After Liuba, Kazakov and Sokov put the soil into the pit, the female soldiers with tears in their faces lined up in a long line, and they also used shovels to add soil to their former sisters. After the ceremony, the male soldiers standing next to rushed up and shoveled all the soil outside the tomb pit into the pit.

In just over a dozen minutes, a new tomb appeared in front of everyone.

Liuba and Sweta and several squad leaders inserted a wooden cross with the names of the sacrificed soldiers on the grave. Then, they placed the helmets worn by the girls one by one on the grave.

After doing all this, Liuba walked up to Sokov and begged him: "Comrade Captain, please say a few words to the girls." When Sokov was about to refuse, Kazakov also encouraged him: "Say a few words, Captain Sokov, just to encourage the girls."

"Girls, comrades!" Sokov stood in front of the queue and said to the women who stood neatly: "Today, we have buried eleven young women here. Their red lives ended too early. But don't be sad, don't cry for them. I believe that our descendants will never forget the soldiers who sacrificed gloriously in the battle to defend the motherland, they are all loyal children of the motherland."

Speaking of this, he put the helmet in his hand on his head again, took off the submachine gun slung on his shoulder, and pointed the muzzle straight at the sky: "To commemorate all the soldiers who died in the female anti-aircraft machine gun company, let us pay our final salute to them!" After saying that, he shot a short shot at the sky.

Liu Ba, who was standing in the queue, quickly ordered loudly: "Listen to my command, everyone raises their guns and shoot!"

After the funeral, Liuba and Sweta took the female soldiers to line up and board the train, while Kazakov reminded Sokov: "Captain Sokov, the girls are all future mothers. If it were not forbidden, I would not want them to participate in the battle at all. You must assure me that if the situation is critical in the future, even if the male soldiers die, you should let these girls come back alive. Do you understand?"

"Comrade General, please rest assured." Sokov nodded vigorously and assured Kazakov solemnly: "I promise you that I will definitely protect the safety of the female soldiers."
Chapter completed!