Red Moscow

  Chapter 653 Attack without cover (Part 2)

Papchenko ran forward with a submachine gun in his hand, and shouted loudly at the soldiers lying on the ground: "You **** cowards, if you keep lying on the ground, you are not afraid of getting calluses on your belly!" You cowards, seeing Wu Liya being killed by enemy bullets in front of you, you dare not make a sound, are you still men?"

   Gunshots and explosions covered Papchenko's shouts, and only a few soldiers could barely hear what he was shouting. First, one or two soldiers tried to stand up, bent over and ran towards the enemy's position. Seeing that their comrades had stood up first, the soldiers lying on the ground felt ashamed, and they also stood up one after another, imitating their comrades, bending over and rushing towards the enemy's position.

  The Romanian machine gunner, who was shooting wildly, suddenly realized that something was wrong. The Soviet commanders and fighters who had been suppressed by their own firepower all got up from the ground one by one. Although some people were shot and fell down on the way they charged forward, the people behind stepped over the wounded or dead bodies without turning their eyes, and rushed forward without hesitation.

   Before the firepower of the Romanian army pressed the Soviet commanders and fighters to the ground again, someone in the attacking force shouted the slogan first: "Avenge Wu Liya, go forward!"

  First one or two people shouted, and then a dozen or twenty people shouted. Not all the soldiers witnessed Wu Liya's sacrifice with their own eyes. Only when they heard the slogans shouted by their comrades did they know that the female health worker Wu Liya, who was loved by all the commanders and soldiers in the division, had died on the battlefield.

  In a short time, hundreds of commanders and fighters who were rushing towards the enemy's position, all of them shouted the slogan of revenge for Wu Liya, bravely rushed towards the enemy's position under the rain of enemy bullets.

  One person is hard to stop, not to mention hundreds of thousands of people are going to fight, how can the Romanian army that stands firm can stop it. In less than three minutes, there were trenches in several areas, and Soviet soldiers rushed in, and immediately started a scuffle with the Romanian officers and soldiers inside.

The chief of staff of the regiment passed the lookout and saw that the troops of the first and second battalions had rushed into the trenches of the enemy's second line of defense one after another, and started a scuffle with the enemy. He quickly reported to Sokov: "Comrade commander, our Troops have rushed into the enemy's trenches."

   "Let the commanders and fighters of the 124th Regiment stay." After Sokov and the chief of staff of the regiment finished speaking, he immediately ordered him to say: "You rush up with the 3rd Battalion to meet Lieutenant Colonel Papchenko."

After seeing the regiment chief of staff attacking with the third battalion on the high ground, Sokov called Starcha, the commander of the 124th regiment: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel Papchenko has already commanded his regiment." The station has been transferred to the enemy's second line of defense. I now order you to immediately move the regiment command post to the position of the first line of defense."

  Starcha saw that the battle ahead was in full swing, but he stayed in the command post at the foot of Nangang Mountain with nothing to do, and felt extremely depressed. At this moment, after receiving Sokov's order, as if hearing the sound of nature, he quickly replied: "Don't worry, Comrade Commander, I will immediately move the regiment command post forward."

   Regardless of the fact that the 122nd regiment took down the enemy's second line of defense, it was already a certainty that they could not escape, but Sokov was still not at ease. He finally told Starcha: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, after your regiment command post reaches its new location, you must seize the time to consolidate the fortifications to prevent possible counterattacks by the enemy."

"Comrade Commander, we have Lieutenant Colonel Papchenko's 122nd Regiment in front of us. It is very difficult for the enemy to rush over." Starcha didn't understand what Sokov meant. He thought that the other party was worried that the enemy would attack from the front. Fighting back, he said carelessly: "You can rest assured."

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I'm not at ease." Seeing that Starcha didn't understand what he wanted to express, Sokov simply explained the matter: "The enemy will never just watch their defensive positions. One by one they fell into our hands. Next, they will certainly counterattack to recover their lost positions. If the frontal attack fails, they will attack from the flank. If you have no strong defenses, Once the enemy takes the position from you, then Lieutenant Colonel Papchenko and the others will be alone. Understand?"

  After Sokov's explanation, Starcha immediately understood what was going on. Thinking of the possibility of the enemy attacking from the flanks, he was startled into a cold sweat. If the situation mentioned by the division commander really happened, then the two regiments of himself and Papchenko would be surrounded by the enemy. Whether to get out is a question.

When the 122nd Regiment occupied the enemy's second line of defense, Papchenko stood on a high place and gave orders to his subordinates: "Find me the sniper who shot at Wu Liya immediately. If you want to see people die, you want to see the dead body." .Even if he died in the melee just now, you must drag his body to me."

   After hearing Papchenko's order, the commanders and fighters agreed resoundingly, and began to search for the sniper who killed Wu Liya among the piles of corpses and prisoners.

  After a lot of twists and turns, someone finally escorted a Romanian prisoner and reported to Papchenko: "Reporting to the head, we have caught the murderer of Comrade Wu Liya."

  Papchenko carefully looked at the sniper of the Romanian army, but found that his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, as if he had just been taught a lesson. After Papchenko thought for a while, he knew that it was the soldiers who captured the sniper. They wanted to use this method to avenge their favorite female health worker, Wu Liya.

  For this sniper, Papchenko had no interest in interrogating the sniper at all. He said to the two soldiers who grabbed the captive's arms: "Let him go!"

  As soon as the two soldiers let go, the sniper fell to the ground with a thud. Just as he was trying to get up, Papchenko walked over and kicked his foot **** his vest. Taking advantage of the sniper's fall again, Papchenko pulled out his waist. The TT-33 pistol aimed at the back of the sniper's head, and fired all the eight bullets in the magazine in one go.

After running out of bullets, Papchenko stared at the headless sniper on the ground, and said in a low voice, "Wu Liya, I will avenge you!" The two soldiers, "throw his body in front of the captives, let them see what will happen if they shoot and kill our health workers casually."

   The two soldiers quickly agreed, suppressing their nausea, and each of them grabbed the sniper's leg and dragged them towards the place where the captives were being guarded.

  (end of this chapter)