Red Moscow

Calm was restored outside the hotel, except for the corpses everywhere, there was no sign of any activity.

In the hotel, there were still sporadic gunshots or grenade explosions. These sounds mainly appeared in the corridors or rooms on the first floor, and some of them appeared on the stairs leading to the second floor. These are the surviving soldiers, strictly following the captain's order, whenever they saw moving figures on the first floor, they would shoot immediately.

After a long wait, the sky outside finally dawned. Seryozha, who had been waiting impatiently, immediately rushed to the hotel with his troops.

The defenders in the building, seeing the troops coming from a distance, worried that the Germans were impersonating them again, but when they saw that the leading captain was indeed Captain Seryozha of the guard battalion, they lowered their guns. Especially in the queue, some soldiers even saw their familiar faces, which made them more convinced that it was their reinforcements.

However, when they came outside the hotel, they did not immediately let the defenders inside open the door, but searched for the corpse outside to see if there were any living people.

As for the soldiers of the division's communication company, the first thing after dawn is to hurry up and repair the telephone line between the hotel and the hotel that was destroyed by the enemy, so as to restore the telephone connection with the hotel.

Within half an hour, Sokov contacted Zhukov in the hotel by phone, and he asked with concern: "Comrade General, is your place still safe?"

"It's safe, very safe." Zhukov said with a smile, "Misha, it's because you arranged it thoughtfully. When the hotel was attacked by the enemy, you didn't rush to send troops to support it. Otherwise, the enemy might use tricks to make our hotel Defenders and reinforcements killed each other."

"Have you cleared out the enemies in the hotel?" Sokov asked carefully.

"A few minutes ago, I heard sporadic gunshots coming from downstairs." Zhukov replied, "It's completely quiet now, and the enemy must have been wiped out."

"Comrade General, please be safe and calm." Sokov was deeply afraid that Zhukov would run downstairs at this time. If one or two enemies pretended to be dead and shot him when they saw Zhukov appearing, it would be impossible to guard against. Dissuading: "The troops deployed near the hotel will slowly approach the hotel, and I will rush to the hotel as soon as possible. If there is anything, I will talk about it when I get there."

"Okay." Zhukov originally wanted to go downstairs to see the battle situation, but when he heard Sokov say this, knowing that the other party cared about his safety, he temporarily changed his mind: "Then I will wait for you upstairs."

The troops responsible for sealing off the hotel area at night have now gathered outside the hotel. However, they all received an order that no one was allowed to enter the hotel before Sokov arrived. The commander who led the team could only let the soldiers surround the hotel tightly to prevent the surviving German soldiers from escaping.

The jeep that Sokov was riding in soon appeared at the door of the hotel.

As soon as the car stopped, Seryozha stepped forward and opened the car door for him, and reported respectfully: "Mr. Comrade, the corpses outside the hotel have been cleaned up. There are 37 corpses in total, except five of them are Except for the corpses of our soldiers, the rest are all German corpses."

Knowing that there were as many as thirty-two German corpses outside the hotel, Sokov couldn't help frowning, and asked with a straight face, "How many enemy corpses are there in the hotel?"

"I don't know," replied Seryozha truthfully: "No one of mine has yet entered the hotel, and no one has come out of the hotel!"

"Let me tell them to come out." Sokov said, walking towards the hotel gate.

He came to a place seven or eight meters away from the gate and stopped. Seeing the densely packed bomb craters on the gate and a few dark windows nearby, he could guess how fierce the battle was last night. Sokov shouted towards the inside: "I am Colonel Sokov, and the commander inside came out to answer."

After Sokov finished shouting, he waited for a while, and the door of the hotel, which had been battered long ago, was opened. With the support of two soldiers, the captain walked out with difficulty. He came to Sokov and tried to straighten his body to report, but just as he tried to do this action, the severe pain from his abdomen made him bend down again.

Sokov hurriedly supported the other party, and asked with concern: "Comrade Captain, are you injured?"

"Two bullets in the abdomen, but the wound has been bandaged, so it's okay."

"Stretcher!" Knowing that the captain was injured, Sokov hurriedly turned his head and shouted to the crowd behind: "Come another health worker, and re-bandage the wound of Comrade Captain."

When the captain was lying on the stretcher and the hygienists began to re-bandage his wound, Sokov asked the crucial question: "How is the situation in the hotel?"

"Comrade Commander," the captain said with a pained face, "During the battle last night, a dozen or so enemies blasted open the windows on the first floor with grenades, broke into the building, and had a fierce exchange of fire with us. After a fierce battle, most of the enemies were eliminated by us, and we just carried out another investigation and captured two survivors."

"Seryozha!" Hearing that the captain said that two prisoners had been captured, Sokov quickly stood up and shouted to Sergey who was standing aside: "There are two captured German soldiers in the hotel. Take them with you immediately." People go in and take over and send them back to command for questioning to find out what's going on."

Seeing Seryozha rushing into the hotel with a group of soldiers, Sokov squatted in front of the captain again, and asked curiously: "Comrade captain, I saw the German corpses outside. Many of them were wearing our uniforms. The light in the room is so dim, how do you identify the enemy and the enemy?"

"Comrade commander, in fact, I can't tell the difference." The captain said with a wry smile: "Later, when I found out that the enemies were all on the first floor and couldn't go up to the second floor, I gave an order to the soldiers staying on the first floor, so that everyone could go up to the second floor." Stay where you are, and shoot without hesitation whenever you see a moving figure."

Sokov asked curiously: "How did you give such an order to the soldiers in different rooms?"

"It's very simple. I asked the soldiers to shout loudly." The captain said: "There must be some Germans who understand Russian, but according to my judgment, most of them don't. As long as those Germans who don't understand Russian, Running around in the hotel, our concealed fighters can kill them all like a target."

"Captain, this method of yours is very effective. It is this method that wiped out all the enemies who rushed into the hotel." After listening to the captain's narration, Sokov smiled and nodded. Rehabilitate, and when your injury recovers, I will arrange more important work for you."

After finishing speaking, Sokov stood up and said to the soldiers carrying the stretcher, "Send him to the division's field hospital and give him the best treatment."