Red Moscow

  Chapter 157 Tit for a tooth and blood for blood (Part 2)

Vasily, who was attacking from the east with three platoons, was blocked by the Germans, but their situation was better than that of the troops attacking from the front. The Germans did not dig trenches in this direction, but hid in the former village Soviet. House, shot from the window.

   Seeing this, Vasily quickly ordered the eight MG34 machine guns in the third row to line up, aiming at the wooden house more than 200 meters away. Under the fire of the MG34 machine gun, the seemingly solid wooden wall was shattered inch by inch by the dense bullets, and the pieces of wood flew up like feathers. As long as the German soldiers hiding behind the window and shooting were hit by bullets, if they were lucky, they would be cut in half; if they were unlucky, they would be directly smashed into pieces.

There were only twenty people in the room, and in less than five minutes, half of them were sent to see God by the German-made MG34. The remaining soldiers knew that if they continued to resist, they could only follow in the footsteps of these people and immediately act decisively. chose to surrender.

   Seeing that the German army had waved the white flag and surrendered, Vasily left two machine guns to continue monitoring, and rushed up with the rest of the soldiers to catch the prisoners. When a platoon leader came from the south of the village with people, he saw the surrendered German soldiers coming out of the house with their hands raised high.

Seeing the platoon leader appear here, Vasily knew in his heart that the battle on the other side of the village was over, but he still asked habitually: "Is the battle on the south side of the village over? How about the casualties of our company?" "

   "The battle is over," a platoon leader replied with a heavy tone: "There were more than 30 casualties, including 17 sacrificed, three seriously injured, and a machine gun lost."

   "Where's the battalion commander?" Although the casualties were less than what he had imagined, Vasily still felt uneasy, and he asked, "Is he not injured?"

"No, Comrade Battalion Commander didn't hurt a single hair!" The platoon leader shook his head and said in an admiring tone: "Don't look at him rushing to the front of the team, but the German bullets seem to go around him. Yes. He was the first to rush to the trenches, and used grenades to blow up the German soldiers hiding inside, so he could only surrender obediently!"

After learning that Sokov was safe and sound, the stone hanging in Vasily's heart fell to the ground. He knew very well in his heart that once the battalion commander was injured in the battle, no matter what the reason was, he would have to bear the blame . "Where is the battalion commander?"

   "The battalion commander took people to the church and prepared to rescue all the villagers imprisoned there."

   "The third platoon leader," Vasily waited for the first platoon leader to finish speaking, and then shouted at the third platoon leader standing not far away: "Come to me!"

   After the third platoon leader came to him, Vasily told the other party: "I want to go to the church to see the battalion commander, and I will leave it to you to deal with the aftermath here."

  When Vasily was observing the terrain before the attack, he saw a church made of logs in the middle of the village. He guessed that Sokov should be there at the moment, so he took a soldier and walked in that direction.

   Coming to the square near the church, he saw Sokov being surrounded by hundreds of villagers. One of them, a middle-aged woman with a well-proportioned figure and a plump figure, wearing a headscarf, was holding Sokov's hand and talking emotionally. Vasily walked over, stood outside the crowd, and vaguely heard the middle-aged woman say: "...my good brother, thank you for saving the lives of our whole village, if you come a little later, we will be killed by the Germans." kill all..."

"Women's comrades," Sokov waited for the nagging woman to finish speaking, and quickly interjected: "Actually, if you want to thank, I would like to thank Shevaloga and Anton. If they hadn't come to report to us in time , we didn't know you were in danger!"

"Valodya, my dear son," the middle-aged woman let go of Sokov's hand, bent down and kissed Volodya who was standing next to him, "Are you Well done, you and Anton are both well done, you saved the lives of the whole village."

"Comrade Battalion Commander," Vasily, who was standing behind the crowd, felt that he should save Sokov while Valodya's mother and child were making out, so he raised his voice and shouted: "I have something to report to you. After hearing Vasily's voice, the villagers surrounding Sokov hurriedly moved to the sides, making way for Sokov.

  Sokov walked out of the crowd, came to Vasily, and asked: "Comrade Captain, how is the situation there, are there many casualties?"

   "Two soldiers were sacrificed and five were wounded." Vasily replied truthfully: "We killed fifteen German soldiers and captured eleven alive."

Not long ago, Sokov learned from Valodya's mother that the SS was the one who massacred the villagers, and the German soldiers he captured were all from the Wehrmacht, not a single SS, so he took chances He asked, "Comrade Captain, are there any SS soldiers among the prisoners you captured?"

   "Yes, there are three or four, I can't remember." Vasily turned around and ordered the soldiers who came to him: "Go back and tell the third platoon leader to bring the captured SS here."

  After the soldiers left, Sokov asked Vasily: "Do you understand German?"

   "No." Vasily said with a blushing face, "I know two or three words, and I learned them from Assia. By the way, Comrade Battalion Commander, why are you asking this?"

"What else to do, of course, is to interrogate the captives and ask them why they slaughtered the villagers." After learning that Vasily did not understand German, Sokov said with some disappointment: "It's a pity that Assia and Ernst are not here. Here, in charge, we can let them help interrogate the prisoners."

  The German officers and soldiers who were captured in the battle were quickly brought over. When they approached the square, someone shouted: "Kill them and avenge our relatives!" Then, snowballs and mud clods rained down on the captives.

  The mud and snowballs thrown by the villagers hit the captives, forcing them to turn sideways, but some accidentally injured the soldiers who were escorting the captives. Fearing that the scene would get out of control, Sokov quickly shouted loudly: "Comrades, calm down, please stay calm!" But the shout was covered by the voices of the excited villagers. Fortunately, Vasily next to him helped shout for two Throat, the excited villagers stopped.

The prisoner was escorted in front of Sokov, a German sergeant walked out of the queue and said in broken Russian: "Mr. Major, we have put down our weapons and stopped resisting. I ask you to give us the treatment we deserve as a prisoner of war. "

  Hearing that the German sergeant in front of him could actually understand Russian, Sokov couldn't help showing a surprised expression on his face. He looked at the other side and asked with some surprise: "Do you speak Russian?"

   "Yes, I am Lian Li's translator."

  Although the sergeant's Russian grammar was full of mistakes and the words were not accurate enough, Sokov could still understand what he wanted to express. He nodded and asked: "Sergeant, I can treat the prisoners preferentially and give you the treatment that a prisoner of war deserves, but please tell me, why do you want to massacre the villagers?"

"Mr. Major, we did not massacre the villagers. We are the National Defense Forces. According to military regulations, we cannot casually massacre unarmed and peaceful residents." It's the SS, it has nothing to do with us."

"It's him, it's him!" A short, stooped old woman rushed out from the crowd, and pulled out a German soldier wearing a steel helmet from the prisoners in the third row. He cried and said, "It was he who led people to take my husband outside the village to kill him. Comrade commander, do you want to make the decision for us?"

"Tell me," Sokov saw from the other party's collar badge that he was a commando team leader, so he walked up to him and asked through gritted teeth, "Why did you massacre the villagers?" After finishing speaking, he motioned to stand The German sergeant next to him helped him translate.

  Unexpectedly, before the sergeant could translate, the commander of the commando team rebelliously said: "I am also following orders!"

   "It's great that you understand Russian." Sokov stared at him and asked coldly, "What order?"

"The order to eliminate the Jews." The team leader glanced at the villagers next to him, and said with a sneer: "The Jews are the lowest ethnic group, and they should be completely wiped out from this world. The order I received is to clear the occupied areas. of all the Jews."

   "You bastard," the old woman heard the team leader say this, and while hitting the opponent with her fist, she cursed: "Are you still human? You will definitely be punished for doing so many bad things."

"They're not human," Sokov gritted his teeth and said, "They're just two-legged beasts. To treat beasts, we have to treat beasts." At this point, he said to Vasily, "Wa Captain Siri, lock up all Wehrmacht prisoners in the church."

"What about these SS prisoners?" When the soldiers led the Wehrmacht prisoners to the church, Vasily pointed to the three SS prisoners standing alone and asked Sokov: " How should they deal with it?"

  Sokov glanced at Vasily, and said with a normal expression: "Give them to the villagers for disposal, and the blood debt must be paid with blood."

   When Vasily heard Sokov say this, he was taken aback for a moment, and then he understood. He waved to his subordinates and led them to the other side.

When the team leader saw the villagers approaching him, he immediately realized something was wrong, rushed up and grabbed Sokov's arm, and begged bitterly, "Mr. Major, please don't hand me over to them. Please!" you!"

  As soon as Sokov raised his hand, he broke away from the captain's grasp of his hand, and walked aside expressionlessly. Behind him, the villagers who had lost their loved ones shouted and cursed and rushed towards the three SS captives who had lost the ability to resist. Amidst the bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang the SS prisoners, until finally completely silent.

  (end of this chapter)