Red Moscow

"What, there isn't a single enemy in the trench?" Hearing the soldier's report, Paulkowski had an unbelievable expression on his face. He turned his questioning gaze to the guide on the side, and asked in a low voice: "What's going on, why are there no enemies in the trenches?"

The guide got up from the ground, hid behind a pile of rubble, looked in the direction of the factory building for a while, and then whispered to Bolkowski: "Comrade Captain, it seems that the enemy thinks the trench is too cold, so they hide Went to warm up in the factory building. You see, there are several fires in the factory building."

In fact, even if the guide didn't say anything, Bolkowski had already seen the flames in the trenches, but he didn't expect that the Germans didn't stay in the trenches to guard, but hid in the factory building and warmed up. They were really brave enough The big ones are not worried that they will be trapped in the factory by the Soviet army when they are attacked at night.

The staff sergeant who had just been ordered to stay behind as a guard saw that Bolkowski and the others stopped moving forward, and even when the soldiers sent out to reconnaissance came back to report the situation, they did not crawl back but ran back, so they guessed that the enemy's situation might have changed . The sergeant crawled up to Bolkowski's side from his hiding place, and said in a low voice, "Comrade company commander, did something happen?"

"Didn't I ask you to be the guard at the back?" Seeing that the sergeant left the guard position without authorization, Paul Koski glared at him and said dissatisfiedly, "Who asked you to come up?"

"Company Commander." The sergeant said with a playful smile, "I saw you stopped here and didn't move forward. I wondered if the enemy's situation had changed, so I came over to have a look. If I'm not wrong, there should be no enemies in the trenches. ?”

Seeing that the sergeant guessed so accurately, Paul Koski couldn't help asking curiously: "Sergeant, how do you know?"

"Isn't that simple." The sergeant pouted at the scout who was squatting aside, and said, "If there is an enemy in the trench, when he returns from his reconnaissance mission, he must crawl back instead of running back. .It is from this that I judge that there must be no enemy in the trenches."

There are no enemies in the trenches, which means that the original deployment needs to be adjusted. Looking at the factory building glowing red in the distance, Paulkowski wondered whether to ask the sergeant and the others to adjust the security position to the trench, and then lead his men to sneak attack the enemies in the factory building?

Just as I was thinking about it, I heard the sergeant whisper: "Comrade company commander, can you let me take the combat team over there, and you and the rest of the soldiers will stay in the trench as a guard?"

"Okay." Balkoski felt that the sergeant's proposal was more reasonable, so he readily agreed: "Comrade sergeant, take your team over to have a look, throw two grenades at each fire, After the enemy is bombarded, withdraw immediately, and we will provide you with cover."

After obtaining the consent of Bolkowski, the staff sergeant led the combat team across the trench, and formed a scattered formation and walked cautiously towards the factory building. But when they were more than 30 meters away from the factory building, there was a sudden "boom", and a huge fire ball rose among them, as if a shell had landed among them and exploded.

Seeing the four subordinates fall in the flames, Bolkowski couldn't help being taken aback. Could it be that the mortar crews who were hiding nearby fired without hesitation when they saw someone approaching the factory building? Not long after this idea came up, he denied it. If it was fired by a mortar, in such a quiet night, the sound of the shell being fired would definitely be heard. I didn't hear any sound, it must be that the combat team led by the sergeant stepped on a landmine.

He made a decisive decision and whispered to the soldiers around him: "Come up with me and bring back the wounded comrade." As soon as his words fell, the enemies in the factory building were already alarmed, and the machine guns installed inside were firing loudly Get up, but because the machine gunner has been dazzled by the flames of the bonfire, and because he doesn't know where the sneak attacking Soviet army is, he just shoots aimlessly. hit any target.

Bolkowski led several soldiers, and using the cover of the bomb crater, quickly approached the position where the sergeant and the others fell. He climbed to the sergeant's side, stretched out his hand to check his breath, and found that the other party had already stopped breathing. And the soldiers who came with him also quickly checked the situation of the other three comrades in arms. Soon, they reported to Paul Koski: "Comrade company commander, one died and two were seriously injured. What shall we do next?" Do?"

"Put the wounded on your back and move them immediately." Paul Koski said to them, "The enemy will soon chase them out."

The soldiers quickly carried the wounded on their backs, stumbled along the original road, and ran towards the trench. Bolkowski stayed behind, hiding in a crater, ready to stop the enemies chasing from the factory building.

Before the soldiers carrying the wounded ran into the trenches, a group of enemies rushed out of the factory building shouting. Bolkowski, who was hiding in the crater, picked up the submachine gun in his hand, aimed at the enemy and pulled the trigger. Half of the shuttle bullets went out, and the two German soldiers rushing in front fell to the ground, and the soldiers behind quickly fell down on the spot.

Seeing the enemy lying down, Bolkowski turned his head and saw that the soldiers with the wounded on their backs had already entered the trench, so he threw several grenades in the direction of the enemy lying down, taking advantage of the explosion to jump up Using the gunpowder smoke as cover, he quickly left the bomb crater and ran towards the trench.

Bolkowski jumped into the trench, and immediately a soldier came over and asked with concern: "Comrade company commander, are you not injured?"

"No." Bolkowski shook his head, thinking annoyedly: "It's really unlucky. First, the sewer leading to the factory building was blocked by the enemy, and then the combat team sent to attack the factory building stepped on the enemy's burying ground. mines, tonight's operation was a complete failure."

The German soldiers who were lying on the ground saw the attacker throwing a few grenades, and there was no further movement. Guessing that the attacker must be trying to escape, they crawled up from the ground one after another, shouting and rushing up.

Even though the number of German soldiers rushing up was twice as many as their own, but Paul Koski and the others hiding in the trenches could rely on favorable terrain to repel the enemy's attack. Bolkowski shouted loudly: "Comrades, get ready to fight! Open fire when the enemy approaches!"

When the German soldiers were still more than 30 meters away from the trenches, and Bolkowski was about to give the order to fire, there was a sudden scream of shells in the sky, and then a series of shells fell on the enemy line and exploded. In an instant, the enemy rushing towards the trench was shrouded in fire and smoke.

Seeing the enemy rushing up, wiped out by the sudden shells, Paul Koski, who was hiding in the trench, was dumbfounded. He looked at the enemy with corpses strewn all over the field not far away, and murmured: "Damn, what is this from?" Cannonballs flying from somewhere."