Red Moscow

  Chapter 425 Full Speed ​​Ahead

  Vassily led a company of sailors, and under the cover of bomb craters and traffic trenches, he cautiously headed towards the workshop of the nail factory. Regardless of the fact that there were more than a hundred sailors in the company, when they marched through the ruins, they didn't make any noise at all, but followed Vasily quietly. Vasily couldn't help feeling secretly that the quality of this army was really too high.

   When there were two or three hundred meters away from the factory building, Vasily made a gesture to signal the troops to stop advancing. The first company commander who was walking in the middle of the line saw the line stop suddenly, trotted to Vasily's side and squatted down, and asked in a low voice, "Comrade Vasily, why did the line stop?"

   "Comrade Company Commander," Vasily pointed to a piece of rubble in the distance, and said in a low voice, "There is a German soldier hiding behind that pile of rubble. If we just break through like this, they will find us."

  The company commander nodded, and then made a gesture towards the back. A sailor hurried over, squatted beside the company commander and asked, "Comrade company commander, what instructions do you have?"

  The company commander pointed to the ruins that Vasily told himself, and said in a low voice: "There is a German soldier hiding there, go and kill him!"

   "Understood." The sailor agreed, and handed over the spear in his hand to the company commander. Holding only a dagger, he bent down and carefully touched the rubble. Vasily set up his gun and aimed at the enemy's hiding place, ready to shoot and kill the German soldier if the sailor's action failed, and the covering troops rushed over.

Fortunately, what Vasili was worried about did not happen. The German soldiers on duty thought that even if there was a surprise attack by the Soviet army, they would appear in front of the station, and they would be safe here. Smoke on the stone pile, otherwise Vasily would not have discovered it from afar.

   After the sailors killed the sentinels, they stood up from behind the rubble and waved their arms towards the hidden troops, signaling that everything was safe. Seeing that his men had cleared the German sentries, the first company commander got up and ordered the troops to move on.

  The German army stationed the troops of this platoon in the factory building. At this moment, except for four or five sentries deployed inside and outside the building, the rest were lying in the room and sleeping soundly. They were all exhausted from the days of fighting.

  After clearing the sentinels around the building, the sailors quietly entered the factory building. Under the guidance of Vasily, they entered the room where the German soldiers slept and killed them one by one with a dagger.

  Originally, everything went smoothly, and more than 20 German soldiers living in four adjacent rooms were all killed by the sailors with daggers in their sleep. But when they moved to the fifth room, an accident happened. A sleepy German soldier opened the door and came out. A group of soldiers in black uniforms stood outside the door.

  After a moment of stupefaction, he immediately shouted: "Russians, Russians!" Just as he tried to take off the submachine gun on his shoulder, a sailor soldier cut his throat with a dagger in his hand. The German soldier snorted, covered the bleeding wound with both hands, staggered back a step, knocked open the door with his back, and fell on his back to the ground.

  Although the German soldier who woke up at night was killed, the movement he made had already alarmed the other enemies in the room. Several German soldiers who were sleeping on the bed turned over and got out of bed to get their weapons, but they were killed by the sailors who took the first step.

  After being awakened, the German soldiers in other rooms did not rush out of the room immediately, but hid on the side of the door and aimed their guns at the door. The unprepared sailors kicked open the door, and when they were about to rush in, the German soldiers hiding by the door opened fire on them, immediately knocking down several sailors near the door.

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  After the first company set off, the battalion commander led the second company and the third company to lurk only a hundred meters away from the station square. According to the plan in advance, after the nail factory was seized in a row, they would attack the station building at the same time. But after he heard the intensive gunfire from the direction of the nail factory, he immediately realized that the German army had spotted the sneak attack, so he decisively issued an attack order.

  As the order was issued, the sailors lying on the ground got up from the ground, held their weapons, bent over, and marched towards the station building in a scattered formation. After they entered the square, the sailors found that the ground was full of dead bodies in various postures, some were shot to death, some were killed by shells, and there was not even a complete body. They took a closer look and found that almost all of them were the corpses of Soviet commanders and fighters, and they should all be comrades who died during the storming of the station.

  The attacking troops came to the center of the square and when they approached the famous fountain, they were discovered by the enemy of the station building. A machine gun placed on the roof immediately opened fire on the sailors in the square. A few unlucky sailors immediately fell to the ground, and the rest of the sailors immediately lay down, using the bomb crater or the corpses around them as cover, and fired back at the enemy.

  If the army encounters this situation during an offensive, even if they lie on the ground and shoot back, the possibility of destroying the enemy's machine guns is infinitely close to zero. But at the moment, the sailors were lying on the square to fight back. Compared with the army, they were not only well-trained but also had rich combat experience. Therefore, when seven or eight sailors aimed at the machine guns on the roof and opened fire, the shooter was killed first, and the deputy shooter just took his place, and was killed by bullets flying from the square before he could fire. The ammunitionist, who did not know his life or death, grabbed the machine gun and tried to continue shooting, but he also did not escape being killed.

  Although the machine gun on the roof was killed, other firepower points of the German army were activated. Bullets from machine guns, submachine guns, and rifles fired from fortifications and bunkers in all directions formed a dense fire net, blocking the way for the sailors to charge.

  Seeing that the enemy's firepower was so fierce, Lemusev quickly blew his whistle. The sailors closest to the station building pulled incendiary grenades and threw them after hearing the whistle. Taking advantage of the smoke from the explosion of the grenade, they rushed forward quickly, and at the same time threw the smoked grenade out.

The second row of grenades landed in the fortifications and bunkers and exploded, raising blood mist and gunpowder smoke. Taking advantage of the weakening of the enemy's firepower, the sailors rushed into the fortifications quickly with bayonets. As long as they saw the enemy, no matter it was Dead or alive, we have to stab two bayonets first.

   Seeing that his subordinates had rushed into the fortifications and engaged in close combat with the enemy, Lemusev got up from the ground, raised his pistol and shouted loudly: "Go at full speed!"

  The sailors who heard his shout jumped up from the ground one after another, shouting "Full speed ahead!" With their weapons in hand, they bravely rushed to the station in front of them against the enemy's bullets.

   There were no more than forty or fifty German troops deployed outside the station building. They thought they could repel the Soviet attack with their own strength. Unexpectedly, this group of Soviet troops wearing sailor uniforms was extremely powerful, far from what they imagined. They could rush into the position quickly and start close combat by continuously dropping bombs under the pressure of several machine guns. After only four or five minutes, the outnumbered German army was completely annihilated, and the sailors rushed into the building again to clear out the enemies in the building.

Kerimov led the guards in the back to watch the battle. When he heard the faint shouts coming from the front, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, because when the sailors were attacking, they didn't shout "Ulla" but "full speed!" go ahead". He couldn't help but curiously asked a sailor operator next to him: "Comrade operator, why did you shout 'full speed forward' when your troops attacked? Do they still think they are on a warship?"

The radio operator grinned when he heard what Klimov said, and then said: "Comrade Captain, this is the tradition of our sailors. We will shout 'full speed ahead' no matter on the warship or on land, just like the army. There's a reason to like to yell 'Ulla' when you're on offense."

   "It turned out to be like this." After figuring out what was going on, Klimov said to the operator: "Comrade operator, immediately send a telegram to your brigade commander, saying that the commanders and fighters of the first battalion have rushed into the station building."

After receiving the telegram from the first battalion, Tanasolov couldn't help being stunned. He slapped the telegram in front of Vlasov and asked sharply: "Comrade Vlasov, please explain to me, What's going on here? Why did the First Battalion attack the station without my permission?"

Regarding the attack on the station by the first battalion, Klimov once said that he would report to Tanasorov, but the battle started soon, and he had not had time to go to the brigade headquarters. Therefore, for this operation, the brigade headquarters No one knows here. After reading the telegram, Vlasov couldn't help but frowned slightly, thinking what happened to Lemusev, the brigade headquarters clearly issued an order, and all troops had to stand still before receiving the order. Unauthorized attack on the station?

Although Vlasov said that he was a little dissatisfied with Lemusev in his heart, he still wanted to speak for Lemusev in the face of Tanasolov's questioning: "Comrade Brigadier, I know Captain Lemusev, he He is not a reckless and impulsive person. Since he was able to launch an attack on the station at this time, he must have found the best fighter. I think we should support the aggressive offensive actions taken by the grassroots commanders .”

  Tanasolov, who originally wanted to accuse Lemousev, heard what Vlasov said, and knew that the other party was determined to defend Lemousev. If he had to pursue the responsibility, the other party might have a dispute with him. Even if this kind of thing was brought up to the army headquarters, maybe Cuikov would help them speak up. After weighing it over and over again, Tanasolov sighed, and said helplessly: "Comrade Vlasov, please tell Captain Lemusev, let's forget it this time. If something similar happens again next time, I will definitely Severe punishment."

  (end of this chapter)