Burning Moscow

Ever since I knew that the soldiers had rushed into the German base, I couldn't sit still in the command post, and I urged Yersov to take me to the front. Yersov used the walkie-talkie to talk to several forward commanders to confirm the safety ahead, and then took me out of the headquarters to a place where I could see the situation of the base clearly.

After we walked two hundred meters in the forest, our vision suddenly became clear. I saw a **** of more than 20 meters high in the open space a few hundred meters ahead. The big iron door that had blown up a hole was open, and from time to time there was a puff of smoke and the sound of shooting explosions.

Yersov stopped me and said, "Comrade Commander, the fighting in the base has not stopped. For your safety, we can't go any further. Let's go to the observation station!"

I didn't want to embarrass Yersov, so I readily agreed to his request and followed him to a nearby observation post. I stood in front of the observatory, raised the binoculars and looked into the distance, and Yersov, who was next to me, began to introduce to me: "Comrade Commander, according to the architectural style of this base, it should be built by us. The German army wanted to sweep Clearing the firing boundary and clearing all the trees within a few hundred meters of the base, so as long as our offensive troops leave the woods, they will be exposed to enemy fire."

I used my binoculars to look at the firepower spots that had been destroyed and darkened by the smoke, and then asked: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I don't understand. Why don't you attack from the back of the base?" I pointed with my finger. On that soil slope, "the enemy's defenses are all aimed at the front. If you approach the gate of the base from the left and right sides, you can reduce many unnecessary casualties."

"Comrade Commander, please look!" Yersov pointed to the right side of the base and said to me: "After the offensive began, I sent a company of troops to prepare to detour from the flank to near the enemy's firepower point. They destroyed, but..."

Although he didn't finish his words, I can see clearly where the trees have been cut down, weeds and rocks have been cleaned up. There are several craters with green smoke, and many of our commanders and soldiers lie around the craters. . Seeing this, I immediately understood what was going on, and couldn't help asking in surprise: "The enemy has laid a minefield behind the base?"

"Yes, Comrade Commander." Ershov replied with a wry smile: "The German army not only planted ordinary bombing mines, trip mines, but also electric detonating mines. A company I sent to wait for it to be withdrawn. There is less than one class left."

The German minefields were powerful, and the two guards were not equipped with engineers, so it is understandable that they attacked from the front regardless of casualties. In order to ease the awkward atmosphere in the observation station, I changed the subject and asked: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, what do you think will be in this base?"

Yersov replied very simply: "I can't think of anything in it. But since the German army chose this concealed base, I think there must be something very important." He paused for a moment, and then asked back. ,: "Comrade Commander, what do you think the Germans will put in it?"

Hearing his question, I also shook my head with a wry smile, and replied: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, to be honest, I don't know. I know that the German army often sends a convoy with a canopy escorted by armored vehicles to transport the things here. "

"The battle is almost over." Yersov listened to the sparse gunshots in the distance, turned his head and said to me: "After the enemy is eliminated, we can go in and solve the mystery."

Time passed by in our anxious waiting. Just when I was about to lose patience, Yersov suddenly pointed to a distance and said to me: "Comrade Commander, look at it, a motorcycle is coming towards us."

I looked in the direction of his fingers, and a three-wheeled motorcycle was driving towards us. Except for the motorcyclist driving the vehicle, there was a sidecar seat holding a submachine gun and wearing a helmet. commander. I put down the telescope and said to Yersov: "Go, let's go out and have a look."

The commander sitting in the side bucket, seeing us coming out of the observation post, hurriedly raised his voice and shouted at the motorcyclist: "Stop, stop, stop here!"

As soon as the motorcycle stopped steadily, the commander jumped out of the sidewalk and ran all the way to our front. After raising his hand to salute, he reported to me with excitement: "Comrade Commander, our head has found a good thing in the base. Something, let me invite you to come and have a look."

From the tone of his speech, I knew he was the commander of the 6th Guards Motorcycle Regiment. I glanced at the rank on his shoulder and asked curiously: "Comrade Lieutenant, I don't know what good things are in the base? "

Unexpectedly, the lieutenant shook his head and replied: "I'm sorry, Comrade Commander. I was instructing soldiers to clean the battlefield near the gate. Suddenly the regimental commander came in front of me and said that a lot of good things were found in the base. I invite you to come and have a look." After he finished speaking, he paused for a while, and added, "The head of the group said that you will be very interested in the contents."

I looked back at Yersov and asked him with a smile: "How about it, comrade lieutenant colonel, do you want to go over and have a look together?"

"Of course, Comrade Commander." After Yersov finished speaking, he turned his head and ordered a soldier next to him: "Go and ask the driver to bring the jeep over."

When the jeep we were sitting in was behind the motorcycle and drove towards the gate of the base, Yersov shook his head and said, "This Lieutenant Colonel Carmela doesn't know what the **** is going on, it's mysterious."

At this time, I learned that the commander of the 6th Guards Motorcycle Regiment was named Carmela, and I couldn’t help but despise myself very well. When I was a division commander, I even remembered the company platoon leader’s name clearly Chu, but now he doesn't even know the name of one of his team leaders.

The jeep stopped in front of the destroyed gate, and Lieutenant Colonel Carmela who had been waiting here quickly greeted him and opened the door for me. He respectfully said, "Comrade Commander, please come with me. , I will show you something unexpected."

"Lieutenant Colonel Carmela, what the **** are you doing?" Yersov, who got off the other side of the car, said dissatisfiedly: "Just say what you found, and it's so mysterious."

When I walked into the base, I discovered that there is a cavernous sky here. The passage is made of concrete. Maybe there is a generator somewhere inside. The electric light installed on the top illuminates the whole passage. I saw many spacious rooms on both sides of the passage. I looked into one of the rooms with the open door, and saw that it was empty and there was nothing.

Carmela noticed that I was looking around from time to time and quickly reminded me: "Comrade Commander, dozens of rooms outside here are empty. The things stored here should have been taken away by the Germans."

In the passage, we constantly encountered the **** prisoners passing by and the soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield. Seeing our presence, they all slowed down or stopped their work and straightened their bodies to salute us.

After walking another twenty or thirty meters, Carmela stopped in front of the room where a soldier was standing guard, turned around and said to me, "Comrade Commander, right here." After speaking, he pushed the room straight away. The door went in.

I followed him, walked into the room, and saw a pile of wooden boxes neatly stacked in the room. I was guessing when these boxes would be put in, and I heard Yersov ask Kamela: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, you called us here to see the German arms stored here?"

"Arms?!" After Carmela repeated the word, raised her eyebrows, and said with some pride: "Lieutenant Colonel Yersov, how could I call the commander and you for a room of arms? Where are you from here?"

As he said, he stepped forward, lifted the lid of a wooden box, picked up a rectangular object that looked like a brick from the inside, turned and handed it to me, and said: "Comrade Commander, look at this What is it." Seeing me reaching out to pick it up, I quickly added, "Be careful, it's a little heavy, be careful of smashing your feet."

I carefully took the brick-like object from his hand. I only felt that it was extremely heavy. If it hadn't been for Carmela to remind me, it might have hit my foot. I carefully looked at the object in my hand, and when I saw it clearly, I couldn't help being taken aback: "Lieutenant Colonel, is this a gold brick?"

"What, gold brick?" Yersov was shocked when he heard me say this. He took the gold brick from my hand, checked it over and over again, and finally said in surprise: " Oh my god, it's really a gold brick." Then he looked up and asked Carmela, "Lieutenant Colonel, where did you get this thing?"

"Where else can it be, of course it is here." After answering Yersov, Kamera reported to me: "Comrade Commander, after our commanders rushed in, they found that there were not many enemies in the base. There was only one company around, but their resistance was so stubborn. It took us nearly an hour to completely occupy this place."

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, how many gold bricks are there?" But when I was sure that the hundreds of boxes in front of me were filled with gold, I couldn't help but breathe more quickly, "Have you done statistics? "

"A gold brick weighs ten kilograms, and there are forty such gold bricks in a wooden box." Carmela reported to me the amount of gold in the house like an accountant: "There are a total of 150 wood in the whole house. Box, which means there are 60 tons of gold."

"What, 60 tons of gold?" Hearing this amount, my heart was racing, but Yersov was even more unbearable, so he sat down on the ground and muttered: "I'm not dreaming, I'm actually Can see so much gold."

"Lieutenant Colonel Carmela," I suddenly became nervous when I learned that there were 60 tons of gold in this house. I was afraid that someone would move some crooked thoughts, and quickly said to Carmela with a serious expression: " Security must be strengthened here. There are too few sentries at the door. At least one squad must be sent."

"Comrade Commander, just 60 tons of gold, I think a sentry is enough." After listening to my words, Carmela said disapprovingly: "I think the guards should be used in more important places."

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," I couldn't help but smile when I heard him say this: "Where else do you think is more important than a room that holds 60 tons of gold?"

"Yes, Comrade Commander." Carmela said confidently: "If you look at the things in the other rooms, you will think that this 60 tons of gold is nothing. Please come with me, I Take you to see."

I followed Carmela and walked out of the room where the gold was stored, and muttered to myself: It's a toad yawning so loudly. Unless there is a house of diamonds, I can't find anything worth more than 60 tons of gold. But when I followed him around the corner and walked into the guard room with four soldiers, I knew that I was wrong, and it was so wrong.

Hundreds of half-person high picture frames are stacked in the spacious room. When Carmela asked the two soldiers who followed in to bring a picture frame in front of me, and after tearing open the kraft paper tied outside, I recognized at a glance that it was the famous "Tracker on the Volga", even if it wasn't. Looking at the scribbled signature of the painter in the lower right corner, I also know that this is Repin’s famous work.

I held my breath and stared at the oil painting in front of me, carefully examining this familiar world-famous painting. But after I was sure that it was definitely not a fake~www.wuxiaspot.com~ I asked tentatively: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, besides Repin's works, are there any other famous painters' works?"

"Yes, Comrade Commander." Carmela nodded and said: "In addition to Repin's works, there are also a large number of Levitan's works, four of which are his culmination: "Vladimir "Road", "Abyss", "Evening Bell" and "Over the Cemetery", these are his explorations of expressing the atmosphere of the times in landscape paintings. It is completely different from his early "Volga Group Paintings" which praised the natural scenery of Russia. It deeply expressed the depressed social mood at that time. The "Vladimir Road", known as the Russian historical landscape painting, describes a road formed by the dark rule of the tsar. The lonely tombstones and road signs at the crossroads, the hazy sky, and the swimming The clouds enhance the sadness and desolation of the picture. "Beside the Abyss" reflects the story of a girl who died in a stagnant pool for love. The whole picture is quiet and terrifying, with a legendary color. "The Evening Bell" is a painting of Russia. A corner of the ancient city contains melancholy in the bright tones, which conveys people’s spiritual sustenance of the ancient past. Levitan painted "Over the Graveyard" two years later, which combines the associations and emotions of the first three works. With a monumental composition, it depicts the moment when a thunderstorm is approaching and a strong wind blows up. The whole picture has a magnificent and vigorous melody...

I listened to Carmela’s popular science to me, and finally waited for him to finish, I immediately instructed Yersov: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, immediately send a report to the command of the group army, and we are here. Find out and report to them." (To be continued.)