Red Moscow

  Chapter 724 Hitchhiking

  Starting from Griza with the small team, Sokov has been staring at the map on the wall, silently calculating their itinerary. Seeing that Sidolin hung up the phone, he quickly asked, "Chief of Staff, where do you think Griza and the others are?"

  Sidorin hurriedly walked to Sokov's side, looked up at the map on the wall, and considered how to answer Sokov's question. After looking at it for a while, he pointed to the bottom of Gorodisheh with the red and blue pencils in his hand and said: "Comrade commander, judging by the speed of Lieutenant Griza's actions, they should have reached Gorodisheh." Thank you nearby."

"Distance," Sokov continued to ask, staring at the map: "Grisa and the others have set off for five or six hours. No matter how slow they move, they should be close to Gorodisheh at this moment. The question is how far are they from their goal?" A long distance?"

"It should be no more than ten kilometers." Sidolin thought for a while, and replied decisively: "Within this distance, there are many areas that can be hidden. In my opinion, Lieutenant Grisa and the others may temporarily hide. People went to the town of Gorodishe to conduct reconnaissance to find out whether the enemy's ammunition depots are located in the town."

Although Sokov also felt that Sidolin's analysis made sense, he was still uneasy, and he asked again with some worries about gains and losses: "Chief of Staff, if our judgment is wrong, the enemy did not set up the ammunition depot here. , didn’t Griza and the others make a trip in vain?”

"Mr. Commander." Seeing that Sokov, who had always been full of confidence, actually began to doubt his own judgment, Sidolin knew that it was because the other party was under too much pressure, so he quickly comforted her and said, "Don't worry, we last night The judgment you made should not be wrong. You stayed up all night, before the enemy has attacked, go and rest for a while."

"Okay." When Sidolin said this, Sokov was really sleepy. He yawned, went to the corner of the camp bed and lay down in his clothes, and told Sidolin: "If Griza and the others have news , wake me up immediately."

   "Then when the enemy launches an attack on Mamayev Post, do they need to wake you up?" Sidolin asked casually.

"Don't call me." Sokov lay on the bed, waving his hands and said, "Even if the Germans attack Mamayev Kurgan again, the final outcome will definitely be loss of troops, so don't bother me for such a trivial matter." rest."

   While Sokov was lying soundly asleep on the camp bed, Griza led his team to a small canyon south of Gorodisheh. Griza looked at the surrounding environment and felt that the troops were hiding here during the day and would not be easily spotted by the enemy, so he gave the soldiers an order to hide on the spot.

  Corporal Aino in the team heard Grisa's order and hurried over and asked, "Comrade lieutenant, didn't the superior order us to go to Gorodisheh town? Why did we stop here?"

Griza glared at him, and said, "Didn't you see that it was almost dawn? If you go further, there will be no place to hide. If so many of us are still walking on the road, it won't be long. will be wiped out by the Germans who drive from all directions."

   "But, what about the tasks assigned to us by our superiors?" Ainuo asked.

   "We drove all night, and the comrades are all tired." Griza replied: "Let them take the time to rest, and I will take a reconnaissance team into the town to reconnaissance later."

As soon as he heard that Grisa was going to take people to reconnaissance in person, Ainuo immediately volunteered: "Comrade Lieutenant, let me go with you." He was afraid that Grisa would disagree, so he specially emphasized, "You know, I will go with you." Now it is the person who can speak German the best, even if the Germans listen to it, they will not doubt it."

  According to Griesa's idea, when he went to Gorodisheh town for reconnaissance this time, all the people he brought would be disguised as German soldiers. He was worried that he didn't bring a soldier who knew German. Hearing what Ainuo said at this moment, he didn't immediately believe it, but asked in a skeptical tone: "What, you know German? Who did you learn it from?"

"Who else is there, of course it is Corporal Ernst." Ainuo said with some pride: "I have a good personal relationship with Ernst. Whenever I am free, I will go to him and pester him to teach me German. Learned After more than half a year, I have almost graduated from the teacher now."

  Grisa had a heavy responsibility, and he didn't dare to use the reconnaissance team to take risks casually, so he asked again cautiously: "Comrade Corporal, let me ask you again, do you really understand German?"

"It goes without saying that even Ernst heard my German and said it sounded like a German." Seeing that Grisa expressed doubts about himself, Corporal Aino became a little anxious: "I assure you, My German is good enough for anything."

"Okay, Corporal Ainuo." Seeing that Ainuo was impatient, Griza felt that the other party would not lie to him on such a big issue of life and death, so he nodded and said, "Then you will follow me later." Let's go scouting together."

  The reconnaissance team was quickly formed, led by Lieutenant Grisa, including his old subordinates, Corporal Aino, Sergeant Elizaveta, and three other fighters. Everyone changed into the uniform of the German army. Considering that Aino was the only one who knew German, Grisa asked him to wear the uniform of a German second lieutenant.

  The entire group, disguised as a German patrol, marched in the direction of the town of Gorodisheh. Grisa and Ainuo were walking in the front. Ainuo looked at the endless road and asked Grisa with a mournful face, "Comrade Lieutenant, how far is it from Gorodishe town?"

  Griza replied without looking back: "There are not ten kilometers, but seven or eight kilometers."

   "My God, it's still so far away." Ainuo wailed, "I wish I had a car."

   "Don't worry, there will be a car."

"Is there a car?" Hearing that there is a car for transportation, Ainuo's eyes lit up immediately, and he hurriedly asked: "Comrade Lieutenant, when you led the team to move around in this area a while ago, did you hide a car somewhere? "

"What are you thinking?" Grisa turned his head and glared at Aino, and said angrily, "Comrade Corporal, don't forget that this is an enemy-occupied area, and there are enemies everywhere. Even if we have cars hidden nearby, it is estimated that It has been discovered by the enemy a long time ago." He paused for a moment, then asked again, "By the way, can you drive?"

   "No!" Ainuo replied embarrassingly: "I was an electrician in the factory before the war, and I really didn't learn to drive."

Griza snorted, looked at Aino with disdain and said, "Comrade Corporal, this is not acceptable. If we don't know how to drive, if we capture the enemy's car, what should we do with it? We can't just blow it up Bar?"

   Before Ainuo could answer, the roar of a car motor suddenly came from the road behind him. Griza's attention was immediately concentrated, he stopped, turned his head and said to the soldiers behind him: "Comrades, get ready for battle! Remember, be calm and calm, follow my eyes and act, and don't expose yourself easily. identity!"

  The soldiers waited for Griza to finish speaking, and replied in unison: "Yes!"

  Grisa turned his head and said to Ainuo: "Comrade Corporal, we will watch your performance next. I hope you can persuade the enemy driver to let us take a ride into Gorodisheh Town."

   Soon, a convoy of five trucks appeared in Griza's sight. The compartments of each truck are covered with tarpaulins. Judging from the appearance and shape of the tarpaulins, the trucks are loaded with weapons and ammunition. Grisa saw that besides the driver, there were two German soldiers escorting the cabs of each car, so he shook his head slightly at the soldiers, signaling them not to act rashly.

A German officer sitting in the first car couldn't help frowning slightly when he saw a patrol team suddenly appearing on the side of the road ahead. He put his hands on the holster, turned his head and told the driver: "Slow down, Ask which patrol is who?"

  The driver heard the officer's order, quickly let go of the accelerator, and slowed down the speed. The officer rolled down the car window, poked his head out to Griza and the others and asked loudly, "Hey, what part are you from?"

  Although Griza couldn’t understand the German officer’s words, he guessed that the other party was asking for his serial number, so he coughed lightly and winked at Aino, signaling him to deal with the officer. And the soldiers next to them, after hearing Griza's cough, put their fingers on the trigger, and pointed their guns vaguely at the officer in the car.

   "Report to Mr. Lieutenant!" Ainuo stepped forward two steps quickly, raised his hand to salute the officer sitting in the vehicle, and pretended to be respectful and said: "Our patrol team of the 389th Infantry Division is performing a patrol mission."

   "So it belongs to the 389th Division!" After hearing Ainuo's unit number, the German officer removed his hand from the holster, waved to Ainuo, and told the driver: "Speed ​​up and continue on the road!"

   Griza was worried that the officer would get out of the car to check the identities of his group on a whim, and his heart was in his throat. At this moment, seeing the officer just asked a casual question, and ordered the driver to speed up and leave, he breathed a sigh of relief. After the convoy had left, he gave the order again: "Keep going!"

   Everyone walked forward for about one kilometer, and the roar of the car motor came from behind them again. Aino listened carefully for a moment, and then asked Griza: "Comrade Lieutenant, it sounds like there is only one car. Shall we take this car?"

"A little further ahead, there should be a German checkpoint." Grisa said thoughtfully, "Even if we capture the vehicle, it may not be a difficult task if we want to pass through the German checkpoint smoothly." Easy thing. I think you'd better try to convince the enemy driver to drive us into Gorodisheh."

"Comrade Lieutenant," Ainuo heard Grisa talk about persuading the enemy driver for the second time. For the first time, he thought the other party was joking. Now he knew that it was not a joke, but that he was going for real. He couldn't help crying and said: "How could the Germans give us a ride?"

   "If you don't try it, how will you know it won't work." Griza raised his hand and patted Ainuo's shoulder twice, and said, "Whether we walk or take a car, it depends entirely on you!"

  The hard-riding Ainuo gritted his teeth and jumped into the middle of the road. He waved his arms desperately, and shouted at the car with a cover: "Stop, stop quickly!"

  The German driver stopped the car five or six meters away from Aino, poked his head out and asked inexplicably, "Mr. Second Lieutenant, what's the matter?"

  Seeing that there was only the driver in the driver's cab, Ainuo couldn't help feeling ecstatic. He walked quickly to the side of the driver, pointed to the rear compartment with his hand, and asked, "Is there anyone in the compartment?"

  The German driver hurriedly shook his head.

   "Which area are you going to?" Aino asked again.

   "Gorodisheh town." The German driver replied.

"What to do?"

  The German driver thought he had encountered a patrol, so he quickly and honestly replied, "Mr. Second Lieutenant, I'm going there to collect military supplies."

   "Since it's for military supplies, why isn't there even an **** in the car?" Ainuo deliberately asked with a straight face, "Aren't you afraid of encountering guerrillas?"

   "I'm afraid, of course I'm afraid." The driver replied with a wry smile, "But there is really no manpower in the battalion, so I can only go to Gorodisheh town by myself."

   Seeing that the driver was indeed going to Gorodishe Town, Ainuo was so happy that he wished he could do a few somersaults on the spot, but he still put on a serious face and asked, "Your troop number!"

   "I belong to the 100th Jaeger Division."

   "There are guerrillas infested in the area in front recently." Ainuo pretended to say, "In order to prevent you from encountering guerrillas, I plan to let my patrol team go with you to the town of Gorodisheh."

  The German driver was overjoyed when he heard that there was a patrol team going with him. He thought to himself, with this patrol team, even if he meets Russian guerrillas on the road, he doesn’t have to be afraid. He quickly nodded vigorously, and said respectfully: "Mr. Second Lieutenant, you and your troops should get on the train!"

Ainuo walked around from the front of the car to the door on the other side, turned his head and shouted at Griza and the others standing aside: "Don't be dazed, get in the car quickly." He was afraid that Griza and the others would not understand, and shouted While gesturing desperately.

Although Grisa couldn't understand what Ainuo was shouting, he guessed from his gestures that he had successfully persuaded the German driver to let his group get a ride, so he shook his head at the soldiers beside him, signaling that they all boarding.

  Ainuo didn't get into the car immediately, but stood by the car door, seeing all his comrades climbed into the back compartment, he got into the driver's platform. After closing the car door forcefully, he commanded the driver with great dignity: "Driver, drive!"

  The driver hurriedly agreed, restarted the vehicle, and drove along the highway towards Gorodisheh Town.

   Sergeant Elizaveta, who was sitting in the carriage, asked Griza curiously in a low voice: "Comrade Lieutenant, what did Ainol and the German guy say to let us get a ride so readily?"

"I guess Ainuo told the other party that there are guerrillas appearing ahead, and we can take a ride to ensure his safety." Although Grisa couldn't understand what Ainuo was talking to the German driver, he guessed the whole thing completely. Ten: "The driver naturally wanted it, so of course he let us get in the car."

  (end of this chapter)