Red Moscow

  Chapter 479 Night Attack (Part 2)

  Hearing that an enemy sentry was spotted ahead, the carriage immediately became quiet. Tavlin leaned close to Golia's ear and whispered, "Comrade Battalion Commander, since there is only one sentry, why not kill him?"

"No," Goria denied Tavlin's proposal without hesitation: "There is only one sentry in our field of vision, who knows where there is a hidden sentry. Once the target is exposed, our The mission has failed." After he finished speaking to Taflin, he told the driver, "Keep going!"

  The German sentinel standing in the middle of the road saw an armored vehicle approaching his position, and quickly raised his right hand to signal to stop. Golia quickly ordered the driver in a low voice: "Driver, stop the car and see what he is going to do?"

  As soon as the driver stopped the armored vehicle, the German sentry came over with a gun. He came to the side of the armored vehicle, looked up at the commanders and fighters in the vehicle, and asked loudly, "Which part do you belong to? Where are you going?"

  Golia pushed Taflin with his hand, motioning him to deal with the German soldier. Taflin, who was wearing the uniform of a German second lieutenant, stood up, leaned on the carriage and lowered his head, saying, "We belong to the 100th Jaeger Division and are performing a special mission."

   It may have been a long time since he had encountered a surprise attack by the Soviet army in disguise. The German sentry was relatively low vigilance. Hearing what Tavlin said, he waved his hand and let him go without even checking his documents.

   As the armored vehicle continued to move forward, Taflin suddenly found a sandbag fortification on both sides of the road with a machine gun on it. The shooter's hand rested on the trigger, and his eyes followed the movement of the armored vehicle. Seeing this scene, Tavlin couldn't help being frightened into a cold sweat. He thought to himself: It's so strange. If the battalion commander really listened to his opinion and killed the sentry, maybe there are people hiding on both sides of the road. The machine gun was already firing wildly at the armored vehicle.

After he could no longer see the two machine gun fortifications, Taflin raised his hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said to Golia with lingering fear: "Comrade battalion commander, fortunately, you were calm and didn't ask us to kill that German soldiers, otherwise the enemy would have been engaged by now."

"Comrades," Goria saw that he had entered the German defense line at this moment, felt the need to say a few words, and said in a low voice: "We have penetrated deep behind the enemy lines, we must remain vigilant at all times to avoid exposure, so as to ensure that the superiors hand over Our mission can be successfully completed. Understand?"

  As soon as he finished speaking, a deliberately lowered voice sounded beside him: "Understood, Comrade Battalion Commander."

The regimental command post of the German army was set up in a small village with only fifty families. When it was four or five kilometers away from the village, Golia ordered the driver to slow down, stood in the carriage, and raised his binoculars to look into the distance. go. With the help of moonlight, he could clearly see that the center of the village in the distance was brightly lit, which should be the location of the German army's headquarters.

   "Comrade Battalion Commander," Tavlin couldn't help asking curiously when he saw Golia was holding up the binoculars, "Comrade Battalion Commander, have you seen where the enemy's headquarters is?"

   Goliath continued to observe, and said: "I only saw a few wooden houses in the middle of the village that were brightly lit, but I couldn't tell which one was the headquarters."

   Just when Golia was feeling embarrassed, Minishki, the artillery soldier responsible for the rocket launch mission, suddenly said, "Comrade Battalion Commander, can I have a look?"

"Where can you find the enemy's command post?" Although Goria expressed doubts about Minishki's statement, but considering that the enemy's command post will be destroyed later, he will be needed to aim and launch, so he put his hand He handed him the binoculars inside: "Okay then, Comrade Minishki, try it."

  Minishki took the binoculars from Goria, looked at the distant village for a while, and said, "Comrade Battalion Commander, I have found the location of the German headquarters."

   "What, you found it so quickly?" Goliath asked in surprise, "I saw five or six wooden houses with lights on. How could you find them so quickly?"

   "Yes, Comrade Battalion Commander." Minischki said in a positive tone: "It is very easy to find the enemy's headquarters. You only need to see which wooden house has an antenna on the roof and whether there are sentries standing guard at the door."

"Based on these two points alone, it may be difficult to prove that the German commander is in that room." Golia was skeptical of Minischki's statement: "If the enemy had a separate communication room, there would be antennas on the roof. , There will also be sentries standing guard at the gate."

"In addition to the two points I just said," Minischki continued without putting down the binoculars, "I saw a motorcycle with a sidecar parked in front of the wooden house on the left, and a man with a large After the officer in the brim hat got off the sidecar, he was questioned by the sentry at the door before entering the cabin."

After Minishki’s explanation, Golia immediately decided that the room must be where the German commander was, and he asked tentatively, “Minishki, are you sure you can hit the target at such a distance? "

"Comrade battalion commander, if we had more rockets, I would be sure to destroy the target at such a long distance." Minishki put down the binoculars, frowned and said, "But we only have four rockets. To destroy the target, you must get closer to the village."

  The reason why Golia wanted Minishki to destroy the target four or five kilometers away was because he found that there were many German patrols near the village, and he was worried that if he was too close to the village, it would be difficult to escape once the enemy discovered it. Hearing what Minishki said at this moment, he had to reconsider Sokov's order to fire rockets at the enemy's headquarters a kilometer or two from the village.

  Thinking of this, Golia said to the driver: "Continue to drive towards the village, and when you are one or two kilometers away, find a hidden place and stop the car. Do you understand?"

   "Understood, Comrade Battalion Commander." The driver replied.

  The armored vehicle drove forward for a certain distance, and stopped in a small forest on the side of the road. The driver said to Golia: "Comrade Battalion Commander, if you drive further, there will be no shelter, and you will be easily spotted by the enemy."

   "Minishki," Goria said to Minishki when he saw that the distance was almost there, "we will establish a launch position here."

  Everyone got out of the carriage, found a flat place, and helped put the two launch tubes on a special tripod. After setting up the launch tube, Minishki was in charge of determining the target. After aiming at the wooden house in the distance, some soldiers helped to load the rocket into the launch tube.

   Seeing that Minishki was ready to launch, Golia swung his hand down and shouted: "Launch!"

  Hearing Goria's order, Minishiki pressed the launch button, and the two rockets left the launch tube, roaring and flying towards a small village in the distance.

  (end of this chapter)