Burning Moscow

Regarding the concern of Captain Prokop, I just smiled, took two steps forward, came to a chair, wiped off the broken glass on the chair with my sleeve, sat down casually, and asked with a relaxed expression. : "Comrade Captain, how is the situation outside now?"

Unexpectedly, Prokop said with a sad look: "The situation is terrible, Comrade Colonel. Although the Germans attacked and we defended, from the current situation, we can hold on for up to half an hour."

"What? What did you say?" Prokop's words shocked me and jumped out of my chair. Obviously I saw German tank shells hit the bunker, and only one layer of the wall broke down, even the soldiers who were holding on to it. The vellus hair is indispensable, how can the defense line be in jeopardy after a while? I asked in a puzzled way: "Comrade Captain, what is going on? I just saw upstairs that the soldiers are fighting very well, why in a blink of an eye, the enemy is about to break through our position. "

"That's it, Comrade Colonel." Prokop said with a weeping face: "A tank shell flew into the bunker on the left, killing all the soldiers inside. The soldiers in the bunker on the right were also caught by the German Pyro. He was driven out of the fortification and was all killed by the machine guns on the tank."

I thought that the two strong bunkers had been killed by the Germans, and the Germans could push over the remaining one or two hundred meters away, and I couldn't sit still anymore. I asked Basmanov nervously, "Captain, where do you deploy the guard company?"

"I put them in the trenches and nearby buildings." Basmanov answered me quickly.

"Go, go out with me and have a look." Thinking of the critical situation, I couldn't sit still in the house. Instead of sitting here waiting for news. It would be better to go outside to supervise the battle. You can also keep abreast of changes on the battlefield.

"Comrade Colonel, it's too dangerous outside, you should stay here." Seeing that I was leaving, Captain Prokop quickly stopped in front of me and kindly persuaded me.

I opened my eyes and said unceremoniously: "Comrade Captain, didn't you say that the Germans will be here soon? I'm going out and commanding my troops. If you are afraid of death, you can stay here." After speaking, I lifted my leg and walked out.

Hearing what I said, Captain Prokop had no choice but to bite the bullet and followed, but he must have been scolding me secretly in his heart. I walked out of the command post, stopped, and asked Prokop on my side: "Comrade Captain, where can I observe the situation on the battlefield?"

After Prokop's mouth twitched violently, he said to me with difficulty: "Come with me, Comrade Colonel. I know a place where you can observe the situation on the battlefield."

Prokop led us into a building by the road. When he came to a window where even the window frame was blown up, the captain stopped. Turned around and said to me, "This is it, Comrade Colonel."

After thanking him, I told Basmanov: "Comrade Captain, you immediately go back to the army and order them to destroy the infantry behind the tank. As long as the infantry is blocked, then even if the tank rushes up, we There are also ways to get rid of it all."

Basmanov has been my guard battalion commander for some time, knowing that my order is irrefutable, so he agreed without hesitation, turned and left to the position to command the troops.

Seeing Basmanov's departure, Prokop became a little uneasy. He hesitated for a long time and asked me for instructions: "Allow me to leave? Comrade Colonel, I think I should go to the trenches to command the troops."

"Then why are you still in a daze here, go back to the army!" I waved at him impatiently, trying to make this obnoxious commander disappear from my front immediately.

Not far from the window where I was, there was a female anti-aircraft artillery squad hiding behind the sandbag breast wall. There were several female soldiers around the antiaircraft artillery. There are female soldiers, one is in charge of adjusting the angle of the barrel by turning the hand wheel, and the other is a shooter.

Because of the short distance, even with the interference of gunfire, I can hear what they are yelling. I saw the female soldier who was observing with a telescope shouting loudly: "No. 4 Cannon, aimed directly at the German tank and fired!"

As she shouted, the anti-aircraft gun fired violently, and a shell roared towards the passing German tank, but unfortunately, the shell fell in front of the tank and exploded. The body of the tank shook violently, then passed through the smoke from the explosion and continued to move forward. When the tank was moving forward, two more shells fell on the left and right sides of the body and exploded. It was obvious that the female soldiers from other gun positions were firing.

Seeing that the target was missed, the girl with the telescope continued to shout loudly: "Continue to reload, aim at the German tank directly in front, and open fire!"

This time, the girls’ luck was obviously good. The shells directly hit the front armor of the tank. As a fire blazed up, the body of the tank shook suddenly, dragging thick smoke and driving forward for a certain distance. Stopped.

Seeing a German tank destroyed by their own anti-aircraft artillery, the female soldiers cheered in unison. They raised their hands and jumped on the spot, shouting loudly: "Ulla! Ulla! Hit, hit!"

But the joy was extremely sad. Just as they were cheering, a shell fell not far from the barricade and exploded. The female gunner who was standing on the barrel of the gun screamed, covered her head with her hands, and fell straight back. Come down. "What's wrong, what's wrong with her?" The two female soldiers who were carrying the shells put down the shells in their hands and ran over yelling. He threw himself at the female gunner's side, leaned down and took a look, and then sat on the ground in fright and started crying.

The female soldier with the binoculars should be their squad leader, because I can clearly see the corporal rank on her collar. He heard the cry of the girls under his men and ran over nervously, and asked, "Girls, what's the matter?" Seeing the female soldier who fell on the ground had moved, she was shocked. , But in order to stabilize the military's mind, she tried to keep calm and comforted the crying female soldier loudly: "Don't be afraid, don't cry. Girls. Don't be afraid. Hurry up and go back to your gun position."

A female soldier grabbed a handful of dirt from the ground and threw it forward. At the same time, she cursed fiercely: "You **** bastards, I can't spare you." After she shouted, she jumped up from the ground and went straight. Run towards the shell box.

The corporal climbed onto the gun stand and patted the female soldier standing on the gun stand shaking the hand wheel. Then he turned his head and shouted at the rest of the female soldiers: "Don't be stunned, girls, hurry up and load me the cannonballs and get ready to continue fighting." In order to disperse the female soldiers' hearts as soon as possible due to the sacrifice of their comrades. Fear and despair, she kept shouting at her subordinates to cheer them up: "Girls, dear, come on, come on, come on, come on, we have to teach these **** Germans well."

I looked back at Vera who was standing behind me. Cautiously said to her: "Vera, you were also anti-aircraft artillery before. Go and help these girls, I think they are all frightened."

When Vera heard me say this, she was taken aback for a while, and then asked with concern: "Comrade commander, if we go to help the anti-aircraft artillery, who will protect your safety?" She asked, and the other two women The soldiers also echoed: "Yes, comrade commander, if we all leave, who will guarantee your safety?"

I waved to them and said disapprovingly: "Girls, don't worry about my safety. You must know that this is our army's position. The Germans can't rush to it for the time being. Go ahead, if German tanks rush over. If it does, then we are really in danger."

Seeing my firm attitude, Vera took off the submachine gun hung around her neck, handed it to my hand, and said with concern: "Comrade commander, hold the submachine gun, so even if there is a German devil rushing Come here, you can also destroy them." After speaking, with the other two female soldiers, they ran to the antiaircraft artillery position.

Several German tanks have been destroyed by our army. The billowing black smoke produced by the burning obscured the view of the German tank soldiers. In order to get around the wreckage of the tanks burning on the road and piles of rubble everywhere, the tanks had to slow down again and again. In addition to the speed of travel, in this way, it has become a target for us to shoot. The anti-aircraft guns accelerated the speed of shooting, and the anti-tank company hidden in the building was also condescending to hit these targets.

Ten minutes later, the tanks of the original aggressive armored units were all turned into burning rubble. The tank soldiers who escaped from the tanks barely ran far and were shot to death around the tanks.

Seeing that the German tanks had been wiped out, Prokop and Basmanov led their troops to launch a counterattack. Although the German tanks were all destroyed by us, the infantry did not retreat easily. They hid behind the rubble and fired at our charging troops.

As soon as the charging troops rushed past the two bunkers that were reimbursed, they were suppressed by German fire. They had to hide behind the bunkers or tank wreckage to avoid German shooting.

The wreckage of the tanks on the road, although they have become a hiding place for our soldiers to avoid bullets, they also blocked the vision of the anti-aircraft gunners, which prevented them from providing necessary artillery cover for the infantry.

When I saw this scene in the telescope, I was going to ask Prokop if there were any curved artillery such as mortars in his battalion in order to eliminate the German infantry who were hiding behind the rubble. At this moment, I vaguely heard the sound of "Wula!" lowered by the sound of submachine gun shooting and machine gun shooting. I quickly raised my binoculars and looked forward, and saw the most of our troops swarming in the distance. In front, a bright red military flag was fluttering in the wind. At a glance, I could see that it was the flag of the military division. It turned out that Lieutenant Colonel Oleg sent troops to pounce from behind the Germans.

Seeing our reinforcements coming up, I jumped out of the window, holding a submachine gun, bending over, and ran forward quickly along the wall.

After five minutes, everything is over. The destroyed tank of the German army was burning. Beside the corpses of the German army, the soldiers who were lucky enough to not be killed, put down their weapons and raised their hands and stood on the spot honestly.

The soldiers surrounded the captives, and Lieutenant Colonel Oleg came to me and reported: "Comrade commander, our regiment has completely wiped out the German troops trying to occupy the dock."

"Why did your troops come so late?" I thought that the order I gave him was at least an hour later, but he was late, so I asked him angrily, "Know if your troops attack early If this is the case, the casualties of the women’s antiaircraft artillery regiment will be much smaller."

Hearing my criticism, Oleg said a little embarrassed: "Comrade commander. In fact, when the Germans first attacked the pier position. I sent troops to attack from the flanks. But the German tank fire was too violent. It attacked. One company only fought the enemy for a few minutes before the entire army was wiped out."

In a few minutes, one company is reimbursed? I thought with horror that, fortunately, the direction of the German attack was the pier, not the residential area. Otherwise, Oleg’s seven company would not be able to support it for long. But fortunately, all the German troops have been wiped out now. Thinking of this, I secretly breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from my forehead, and instructed Oleg: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, arrange for the soldiers to clean the battlefield and move all useful things. Go to a residential area, maybe it can be used in the future."

Then came to report to me that it was Captain Prokop, Captain Basmanov, or Gerasimov, the instructor of the 101st Regiment Anti-Tank Company. I saw soldiers following them with anti-tank guns on their shoulders. So he asked Gerasimov with concern: "Comrade Instructor, are the casualties in your company serious?"

Gerasimov looked back at his men. Looking back and smiling, he said: "Report to Comrade Colonel that there were three minor injuries and no sacrifices. In the previous battle, we destroyed 12 German tanks in total."

"What, 12 vehicles?" When I heard the results of this battle, I could hardly believe that the Germans attacked the dock with only 17 or 8 tanks. They actually killed 12, which means that two thirds of the tanks were If they were killed without their support, it is estimated that only a few antiaircraft artillery from the antiaircraft artillery regiment would not be able to stop the German tanks.

I put my hands on his shoulders, slapped them vigorously, and praised without hesitation: "Good job, comrade instructor. You have done a great job in defending the pier, and I will take you and you. Report the achievements of your subordinates to the command of the group army, and I will ask for your credit."

"Serve the motherland of the Soviet Union!" Gerasimov answered in an official tone, and then asked politely: "Comrade Commander, can we leave?"

"Yes, comrades instructors, we will have a period later. Good luck!"

After sending away Gerasimov and his anti-tank company, I took Prokop and Basmanov to the anti-aircraft artillery position. Judging from the information gathered just now, the results obtained by the anti-aircraft artillery regiment are not great. What is going on, I'm going to see what happened.

After approaching the barricade fortifications, I was taken aback. I saw that two sandbag fortifications had been destroyed by artillery shells. The antiaircraft artillery in these two fortifications had been blown to pieces, and there were craters everywhere on the ground. There are neat rows of corpses in the bunker. This should be the female gunners of the two guns. The female soldiers who had not sacrificed dug a hole in the open space not far away without saying a word.

When I looked at these female soldiers with puzzled eyes, Prokop leaned close to my ear and whispered: "Comrade Colonel, the female soldiers don’t want to bury their comrades in the trenches, so they have to dig separately. One."

I walked towards the female soldiers with black cheeks and smoke of gunpowder. I stood next to a female soldier and asked in a low voice: "Comrade soldier, do you know where your regiment political commissar is?" Because I have not seen Li Jiya since the end of the battle, I am worried that she is here. I was sacrificed in the battle just now, so I asked the soldiers in the regiment to inquire about it.

Unexpectedly, after I finished speaking, the female soldier didn't react at all, and continued to dig the pit. Seeing me standing awkwardly, Basmanov hurried over to explain to me: "Comrade commander, please forgive me. These female soldiers were deafened in their ears during the battle just now. They couldn't hear you. Say what?"

After Basmanov finished speaking, he stepped forward and grabbed the shoulder of the female soldier and shook it vigorously. Then the female soldier looked up at us blankly. Basmanov made several gestures to her, then pointed to his big brimmed hat, and asked loudly: "Where? Where?" The female soldier pointed back weakly, and then lowered her head to continue. Dig a hole.

Basmanov dragged me to a barricade not far away, and around the chest-high sandbag fortification, I saw Li Jiya and several other female soldiers. For some reason, a few of them took off their military uniforms outside, leaving only the white shirts inside. When Basmanov saw this scene, he turned his back a little embarrassed.

I walked to Li Jiya's side, grabbed her, and asked curiously: "Comrade regiment political comrade, what's the matter? Why did you take off your uniforms?" When I said this, I was thinking in my heart that the Germans are already After being defeated by us, there is no need to make up as ordinary people to escape. What do you mean by taking off your clothes?

Li Jiya looked at me with shining eyes, gave a wry smile, and then said to herself: "Comrade Colonel, you are right. The enemy was stronger than we thought. If it weren't for your reinforcements, maybe the dock It's already lost."

"Comrade political commissar of the regiment, I was asking why you took off your military uniforms?" I was afraid that her ears had been deafened, so I approached her ears and asked loudly.

Li Jiya quickly removed her ears and then answered my question: "You have also seen that in the previous battle, we sacrificed more than 20 young girls. We can't let them be buried in tattered military uniforms like this. , So we took off our more complete uniforms and put them on the sacrificed girls."

Hearing what Li Jiya said, I was ashamed of what I had just thought. I quickly reached out to unbutton the military uniform and wanted to take off the uniform from my body. Unexpectedly, Li Jiya grabbed her hand, she shook her head and said : "No, comrade colonel, I understand your wishes, but the uniforms we prepared for the girls are enough."

At this moment, I was eager to do something for these sacrificed girls, so I turned around and shouted to Basmanov, who was standing with his back: "Comrade Captain, you take twenty soldiers from the guard company to help the female soldiers. We must dig pits and bury the sacrificed girls as soon as possible."

When Basmanov left, I remembered my guard squad leader Vera~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and continued to move forward. I found Vera, Vonia, and Nagia before walking very far. Wonia sat on the ground, her back leaning against the breast wall of the sandbag, holding her company in both hands, her shoulders trembling constantly, while Vera and Nagia stood on either side of her.

"Vera, what's the matter? Is Vonia injured?" The three female guards beside me were sent out to serve as anti-aircraft gunners when I was in the most critical time. If there is any damage to them, I will feel too. It won't be better.

Vera waved at me and said, "It's okay, Comrade Commander. Vonia was a little dizzy. Just after the battle, she saw the sacrificed female soldier lying under the high artillery and was frightened. But don't worry. , She's okay, she will be well soon."

I nodded, bent down, and patted Vonia lightly on the shoulder. She raised her head and looked at me, and said nervously, "Comrade Teacher, I am fine. I am either greedy for life and fear of death, or dizzy when I see blood. Don't worry, I will be fine for a while."

I just smiled faintly, and said noncommittal: "Get up when you are all right. We will also help Li Jiya and the political commissar to bury the sacrificed female soldiers." (To be continued...)

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