Red Moscow

  Chapter 674 Cherish each other

  The German army occupying the building turned every window into a firepower point, condescendingly shooting at the attacking Soviet army. And this counterattack Soviet army was obviously formed temporarily by staff officers and logistics personnel. They used all kinds of weapons in their hands to bravely shoot at the enemies in the building. However, due to inferior firepower and lack of terrain advantages, facing the enemy's intensive firepower, they were shot and fell every moment.

Colonel Omelchenko, the head of the 109th Guards Regiment who was staying in the back building, saw the heavy casualties of his subordinates, and his heart was bleeding. He quickly ordered someone to blow the whistle, preparing to let the rest of the people withdraw first. In the building, readjust the force before attacking.

  As soon as the Soviet troops began to retreat, the German troops in the building rushed out. They tried to follow the retreating Soviet troops and rushed into the opposite building. Just then, Sokov's troops rushed to Liumian Street. According to their prior deployment, the troops immediately deployed in platoons and launched a surprise attack from behind the enemy.

  The German army deployed a battalion of troops on Liumian Street, but due to fighting in several positions at the same time, the troops were extremely scattered. Facing the new force of Sokov, they were caught off guard.

  Sokov personally led the two platoons of the guard company and launched an attack on the four-story building that the Germans had just occupied. Seeing that the Soviet army was attacking behind him, the German commander quickly mobilized the remaining troops to organize a new defense in the building. When the soldiers of the guard company approached the building in a skirmish formation, the enemies hiding behind the rubble and behind the windows immediately used crossfire to block and shoot, and rushed to the front squad, almost falling into a pool of blood.

   Fortunately, the guard company is Sokov's old base. Not only is it well equipped, but it also has rich combat experience. The machine gunner immediately chooses a suitable location, builds a machine gun position, and suppresses the exposed firepower points. As for the most threatening machine gun fire points, use sharpshooters to deal with them.

Seryozha, who was staying with Sokov, saw the German machine gunner who was shooting wildly. He was shot in the head by the sharpshooter, and the machine gun immediately became dumb. Why didn’t you allow the sharpshooters in the company to participate in the sniper unit, it turned out to be of great use at this time.”

"Don't talk nonsense." Sokov saw that the deputy shooter took over the shooting position, and was shot dead by the sharpshooter in the company before he could pull the trigger. You lead people into the building yourself."

   "If I take everyone away," Seryozha heard Sokov's order, and asked with some concern: "What about your safety?"

   "Don't worry," Sokov turned his head and glanced at Guchakov and the other two soldiers behind him, and said to Seryosha: "With Guchakov by my side, there will be no problem with safety.".

"What, ask Guchakov to protect your safety?" Seryozha thought of the history of Guchakov being captured twice, and was not at all at ease entrusting Sokov's safety to him. He shook his head loudly Said: "I can't trust him. If something happens to you, what will we do as a teacher in the future?"

As soon as Seryozha's words came out, Sokov found that Guchakov's face was flushed, obviously he had been severely stimulated, and he hurried out to smooth things over: "Okay, Seryozha, stop talking. I believe that Guchakov Kefu can protect my safety, you should take your people and quickly occupy that building." Hearing what Sokov said, Seryozha could only agree helplessly, bent over and ran forward to command the troops went.

   I saw Sergei leading the soldiers into the building, and there were bean-popping gunshots and grenade explosions in the building. Sokov felt relieved immediately. He felt that as long as the soldiers of the guard company could rush into the building, there would be no problem at all in taking the building down.

  The German troops in the building were powerful, but their resistance lasted less than ten minutes in the face of Sokov's elite troops. When the gunfire in the building stopped, a soldier came over and reported to Sokov: "Comrade Commander, the company commander asked me to report to you that the building has been completely occupied by us, and 29 German soldiers have been captured..."

   Knowing that the building has been completely occupied, Sokov stood up and said to Guchakov: "Come on, let's go to the building."

   When they came to the building, the soldiers led Sokov and the others to a relatively complete room on the second floor, where Sergey Sha was interrogating the prisoners. Seeing Sokov coming in, he quickly stood up and reported respectfully: "Comrade Commander, Lieutenant Seryosha, the commander of the guard company, is here to report to you. I am interrogating the prisoners. Please give instructions!"

Seeing Seryozha pretending to be 13, Sokov wanted to go up and kick him, but in front of so many soldiers and prisoners, he had to save face for him, so he said in an official tone: "Continue to interrogate. "

  A soldier standing in the room brought Sokov a chair that had just been cleaned. After sitting aside, Sokov looked at the interpreter who was interrogating the prisoner, and asked Seryozha in a low voice: "Did any valuable information come out of the interrogation?"

"They belong to the 54th Jaeger Regiment of the 100th Jaeger Division," Seryozha heard Sokov's question, and quickly replied: "The enemy attacking Liumen Street probably has a battalion, and the battalion commander is Major Bazel. The prisoners Just confessed a very interesting intelligence."

  "Interesting information?" Sokov heard for the first time that the information confessed by the captives could be described as interesting, so he asked curiously, "Tell me, what interesting information?"

"It's like this, Misha." Seriosha introduced to Sokov: "When the friendly army launched an attack on this building, Major Bazel issued an order to let the soldiers shoot. fighters, not officers.”

  Sokov thought about it carefully, and felt that this order was indeed interesting. According to various signs, the Soviet commanders and fighters who participated in the counterattack were all staff officers or logistics personnel drawn from the headquarters. Especially those officers, although they were very brave in battle, due to lack of combat experience and the weapons they used were not at hand, it was difficult to achieve any results. Once those experienced fighters are sacrificed, they will be easily defeated by the enemy if they are not targeted by the enemy. The bad effect of a group of officers routed on the battlefield is definitely ten times worse than that of an equal number of soldiers.

Although the two sides are hostile positions, Sokov still has a strong interest in Major Bazel. He asked Seryozha: "Where is Major Bazel? Bring him to me. I want to talk to him." chat."

  Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Seryozha shrugged his shoulders and said in a regretful tone: "Misha, I'm sorry, I think it may not be possible to satisfy your wish."

"why?"

"During the battle in the building, Bazel was shot more than a dozen times, and he has almost lost his combat effectiveness." Seryozha said to Sokov with a wry smile: "Our soldiers saw that it was a German officer, so they wanted to To catch the one alive, who knows that he fired the grenade, and died together with the three soldiers who went to catch them.”

"What a pity." After being shocked, Sokov also developed some admiration for this German major who had never met before. It seems that not only the Soviet commanders and fighters could treat death as home at the last moment of their lives, but also their enemies. can do it. Thinking of this, he sighed softly, and told Sergei: "Sergesha, although Major Bazel is our enemy, as a soldier, his behavior is worthy of our admiration. Later, you send His body was properly buried."

   "Understood." Seryozha nodded, "I will immediately arrange for someone to handle this matter."

  (end of this chapter)