Red Moscow

  Chapter 722 Raid on the Ammunition Depot (Part 2)

Sokov originally planned to equip Griza with a force of 40 to 50 people, so that if the sneak attack fails, he can switch to a strong attack. Just throwing a grenade into the ammunition pile of the German army can cause earth-shattering Sacrifice. Since Grisa still has three rockets that can change the situation, the number of soldiers who are going to be assigned to him must be reduced.

   "Lieutenant Griza," Sokov called Griza to the wall, pointed to the map on the wall and asked, "I want to ask you, where do you hide the rockets?"

Griza stared at the map for a while, then pointed to a location decisively with his hand, and said in a firm tone: "Comrade commander, it is in the forest near this small village, and only I know the location of the buried rockets." .”

"I'll give you twenty men," Sokov said to Grisa with his hands behind his back: "You are responsible for blowing up all the ammunition stored by the enemy, so that the enemy who attacked the barricade factory and the Dzerzhinsky factory had to fight with ammunition." Insufficient, and stop the attack on the factory."

Regarding the number of people that Sokov said, Griza did not express any objection. He knew very well in his heart that as long as he had a magical weapon such as rockets, let alone twenty people, even if there were only two people, he could still take them out. Enemy's heavily guarded ammunition depot. He paused for a moment and asked Sokov: "Comrade commander, I would like to ask, where is the enemy's ammunition depot?"

"I don't know." Rokossovsky replied simply, "We only know that there may be an ammunition depot storing a large amount of weapons and ammunition behind the enemy attacking the two factories. Your task is to find and destroy it. Relieves pressure on front-defending allies."

  The smile gradually froze on Griza's face. He didn't expect Sokov to entrust him with such an unreliable task. He didn't even know where the enemy's ammunition depot was, so he let himself lead his troops to destroy it. With such a large area, relying on more than 20 people alone, the difficulty is no different from finding a needle in a haystack.

   "Comrade Commander," Griza asked with some difficulty, "I wonder how long you can give us to complete this arduous and glorious task."

"Two days. Lieutenant Grisa, I can only give you two days." Sokov stretched out **** and said firmly: "The squad you lead must find and destroy the enemy ammunition depot."

While Grisa was hesitating, a flash of light suddenly appeared in his mind. He thought of the man who looked exactly like the commander. Since the man could bring him back from Karachi intact, it shouldn’t be difficult to find the enemy’s ammunition depot. . Thinking of this, he quickly replied: "Don't worry, Comrade Master, we will definitely complete the task."

Although Sokov felt that Grisa and Gang Gang were completely different people, he couldn't guess what the other party was thinking, and continued to explain to the other party: "Comrade Lieutenant, although we don't know the exact location of the German ammunition depot. , but you can judge the possible location from the clues. For example, if the enemy wants to transfer so much ammunition, the ammunition depot must be located in a place with very convenient transportation; and in order to prevent being attacked by our army, the ammunition The field of vision at the location of the warehouse must be very wide, so that the soldiers serving as guards can observe far away.  …”

  When Sokov was explaining his analysis to Griesa, Sidolin, who was standing aside, was staring at the map on the wall in a daze, thinking about where to go along with the various characteristics that Sokov said. After Sokov finished speaking, he slapped the wall fiercely and said excitedly, "Comrade Commander, I know where the enemy's ammunition depot is."

   "Where is it?" Sokov asked curiously.

"Here, Gorodisheh!" Sidolin pointed to the location on the map and said excitedly: "The northwest of this town is Konaya Station, the south is Razgulyevka Station, and the east is Konaya Station. On the front is the German 94th, 389th Infantry Division, 100th Jaeger Division, and 24th Armored Division that attacked the Barricade Factory and the Dzerzhinsky Factory. Ammunition is stored in Gorodisheh, and the enemy can pass through roads extending in all directions , bring the ammunition from the station to the town, and from the town to the war zone."

After listening to Sidolin's analysis, Ivanov, who was still silent, nodded and said to Sokov: "Comrade commander, I think the chief of staff's analysis is very reasonable. The enemy is likely to set up the ammunition depot. In a small town."

Knowing that the enemy might have set up the ammunition depot in the small town, Sokov's expression became serious. He frowned and said, "If there are our residents in the town, once Lieutenant Grisa and the others blow up the ammunition depot, they will surely would burn the town to the ground, and the townspeople would be buried with the Germans."

  After Sokov finished speaking, the entire headquarters fell into silence. Everyone knows very well that if the Germans really store ammunition in the town, as long as the ammunition depot is destroyed, the whole town will definitely be razed to the ground by a huge explosion. Neither the Germans nor the Soviets survived.

what should I do? Sokov asked himself secretly in his heart, although destroying the enemy's ammunition depot was to weaken the enemy's offensive strength, but so many residents really had to be sacrificed, so Sokov still couldn't bear it.

In the end, it was Grisa who broke the silence. He asked Sokov curiously: "Comrade Commander, since you think that the Germans may have set up ammunition depots in the town, I will take someone to investigate. If it is really there There, we use rockets to destroy ammunition depots."

   "Comrade Lieutenant," Sidolin said without waiting for Sokov to speak: "Didn't you hear what the teacher said just now? Once we destroy the town, all the residents in the town will die..."

   "But, Comrade Chief of Staff, there is not a single resident of ours in the town." Griza looked at Sidolin and said with a look of surprise, "The residents of the town were all evacuated two months ago."

"Lieutenant Grisa, what did you just say?!" As soon as he finished speaking, Sokov grabbed his hem and said excitedly: "You said that all the residents in the town were transferred two months ago. ,is this real?"

"Of course it's true." Griza nodded vigorously, and said with a positive tone: "I took people around this area some time ago, and the terrain here must be quite familiar. At the beginning, I hoped to get some information from the residents of the town. Some supplements of food or medicine brought people into the town. Unexpectedly, after entering, we found that there was an empty town, and all the people had disappeared. We stayed in an empty room in the town for one night, and the next day If it is not lit, it will be transferred."

  Knowing from Grisa that Gorodisheh is an empty town, Sokov was immediately relieved. As long as there are no residents in the town, you can feel free to use any means against the enemies in the town. After a long sigh of relief, he said to Griza: "Comrade lieutenant, you should immediately go to the guard battalion and the drawdown regiment to pick suitable candidates, and you must leave in two hours."

  Grisa knew that members of the guard battalion and the downsizing regiment had experience fighting behind enemy lines. Sokov arranged this in the hope that he could better complete the task. He quickly raised his hand to salute Sokov and the others, then turned and walked out of the division headquarters.

  (end of this chapter)