Red Moscow

  Chapter 727 Wandering among the enemies (Part 2)

   After the truck drove away, Ainuo looked towards the intersection more than 30 meters away, and saw a sandbag fortification there. Two machine gunners were standing in the sandbag fortification, looking here and talking in a low voice. In the middle of the road, there were several wooden fences with barbed wire, leaving only a place for people to pass through. Seven or eight German soldiers stood behind them, randomly checking people who passed the barricades from time to time, asking them to show their ID cards.

Aino approached Griza and said in a low voice: "Comrade lieutenant, the driver just asked me when I would leave the town. I was worried that he would leak our whereabouts to the SS, so I lied to him that today's patrol mission has been completed and there is no need to go out of town again." gone."

"You did the right thing, Comrade Corporal." After Grisa praised Aino, he told the surrounding soldiers: "Comrades, we have come to the middle of the enemy. In order to avoid revealing our identities, except for Corporal Aino, the rest Comrades, unless there is a last resort, no one should speak, and communicate with gestures if there is anything to do."

   "Understood!" The soldiers lowered their voices and replied neatly.

   "Let's go!" Griza said in a low voice, "Continue to pretend to be a German patrol, try to find a way to pass through the barricades in front, and search for the target we want to attack."

In order to make the reconnaissance team look more like a German patrol team, he also whispered to Aino: "Comrade Corporal, you are now a German second lieutenant, remember to walk with your hands behind your back, lower the brim of your hat, and raise your chin. Put on a high-spirited look. Later, you will find a way to distract the German soldiers so that we can enter the town smoothly."

Aino obeyed Grisa's instructions, and immediately put on the air of a German second lieutenant. He swaggered to the front of the barricade, pointed at the two machine gunners through the sandbags, and said bluntly: "Second class, you are here!" Are you here on duty, or are you here on vacation?"

   The two machine gunners did not expect the second lieutenant who had just arrived from outside the town to question themselves in public, and quickly straightened their bodies and replied, "Report Mr. Second Lieutenant, we are on duty."

   "On duty?" Ainuo sneered, and said, "But, I think you seem to be chatting. If the Russians rush in front of you at this time, you probably won't be able to recover."

  The soldiers on duty at the intersection originally saw a second lieutenant bringing a patrol team over and were about to check it out, but the other party preemptively criticized the machine gunner for not being serious about his duty. The sergeant in charge quickly walked up to Ainuo, and said to him with a smile on his face, "Mr. Second Lieutenant, they are all at their posts, even if they chat, it will not affect their duty..."

"What did you say?" Ainuo interrupted him without waiting for the other party to finish, and took out a small notebook from his pocket, pretending to ask: "What's your name, which unit are you in? Report to your superiors and let them know how our soldiers have neglected their duties while on duty..."

  The soldiers on duty standing at the intersection saw an unfamiliar second lieutenant reprimanding their sergeant and machine gunner, and they didn't bother to check Griza's and their documents, and stretched their necks to watch the excitement. Seeing that no one was checking, Griza and the others quickly took the opportunity to pass the barricade and continue walking along the street.

From the corner of his eye, Ainuo caught a glimpse of Griza and the others passing the barricade, and after recording the names of the sergeant and the machine gunner, he closed the notebook, pretended to be serious and said to them: "Go back immediately, Report today's behavior to your superiors and ask him to detain you for two days. I will ask about this matter again when the time is right." After finishing speaking, he ignored the dumbfounded sergeant and machine gunner, shaking their hands behind their backs. Through the barricades quickly, to catch up with the scouting group ahead.

Griza walked in the front of the whole group. He looked around as he walked. With his many years of experience in the army and the keen observation ability of a soldier, Griza found that the town had become a huge military camp. In addition to the barricades, sandbags were piled up on the windows of many buildings on the roadside, and machine guns were mounted on them. When attacked, they can form a three-dimensional crossfire to block the street. Seeing this, Griza couldn't help but think to himself: I really didn't expect that the enemy's defenses in the town are so tight. If there is no new type of rockets, they can only rely on troops to attack by force. To take this town, at least one regiment is needed. troops.

  The further you go, the more German soldiers you meet, and you even meet two real patrols. Fortunately, the other party regarded Grisa and the others as a real patrol team, not only did not come to check, but even waved towards them.

  The reconnaissance team was approaching the church square in the center of the town, but was stopped by a roadblock ahead. In addition to the barricades and machine gun fire points at the intersection, the SS is actually responsible for guarding this area. Behind them, there were several tanks parked, their black muzzles pointing in the direction Griza and the others had come from.

   Seeing the SS guarding the intersection ahead, Griza knew that he could not go any further, otherwise his identity would be revealed. Hastily coughed softly, signaling Ainuo not to move forward. Ainuo, who understood, stopped quickly and raised his hand to signal everyone to stop.

   After the team stopped, Ainuo took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, shook one out and put it in his mouth. Griza quickly took out a match and lit it for him. At the same time, he whispered: "Comrade Corporal, pay attention to the situation on the church square!"

Ainuo hummed softly, stood up straight, pretended to be indifferent, and looked towards the church square tens of meters away, and saw a hill of green ammunition boxes. The Germans probably thought that there would be no accidents here. When it came to the attack, they didn't even have a camouflage, and they were all piled up in the open space of the square. From time to time, cars drove into the square from other directions. When they saw a car coming, the soldiers in charge of loading and unloading immediately stepped forward to unload the ammunition from the fully loaded ammunition cart; empty car.

After confirming the location where the enemy's ammunition was stored, Ainuo showed a sneer at the corner of his mouth, and he whispered to Grisa: "Comrade Lieutenant, the enemy's ammunition is stored in the open air, as long as one of the new rockets we launch can hit target, the ammunition depot can be completely destroyed.”

  Although it has been seen that the ammunition of the German army is stored in the open air, how many ammunition is stored here, but because of the angle problem, it is impossible to see clearly. Therefore, Griza was silent for a moment, and said to Aino in a low voice: "Let's go around the town in several other directions, trying to find out how much ammunition the German army has stored in the square."

In response to Griza's order, Ainuo nodded, threw the unsmoked cigarette on the ground, crushed it with his toes, and then led the scouting team into a nearby alley, preparing to walk around the square. Figure out the size of the enemy's open ammunition depots.

  They walked through the buildings around the square, trying to find a high place to see how much ammunition the German army had piled up on the square. Then, after walking around the town for a long time, Grisa realized that he had thought the problem too simply. The SS guards in charge of guarding the open-air ammunition depots were set up in the buildings that could clearly see the whole square. The guard post, seeing Griza and the others approaching, immediately waved them away.

   Seeing that it was impossible to observe the situation in the square, Ainuo asked Grisa for instructions: "Comrade Lieutenant, what should we do next, should we continue to circle around the square?"

Grisa shook his head and said: "The SS guards around the square are too tight, we can't get close to the square at all. If we continue to turn around, I'm afraid it will arouse the suspicion of the enemy. I think we should find a way to get out of here first. "

  Since they decided to return to the hiding place, the group turned around and walked back. When Ainuo saw that there were no enemies nearby, he murmured softly, "Comrade Lieutenant, if I knew I would have asked that German driver to wait for us, it would be much easier to get out of town this way."

"Even if the German driver is willing to take us, we can't take his car anymore." Grisa reminded Aino: "That car is used to pull supplies, and it must be full of goods on the return trip. There are so many of us. Can't sit down."

"That's true." Hearing what Griza said, Ainuo felt that this was indeed the case. He nodded, and then asked Griza: "Comrade Lieutenant, how do we go back? From the town to our hiding place, It's almost ten kilometers. When we walk back, I'm afraid it will be dark. After we go back, we don't even have time to rest, so we have to come back again and attack the enemy's ammunition depot."

  Grisa looked at the German officers and soldiers walking on both sides of the street, and wondered in his heart, should he get a car somewhere, get some documents, and then drive the car and leave town swaggeringly?

  When Griza was in trouble, several trucks stopped next to the scouting team. A familiar voice came from the bridge of the first car: "Hey, second lieutenant, what are you doing?"

  Ainuo looked up and saw that it was the convoy transporting the ammunition, and the person who was questioning was the German lieutenant sitting on the bridge. The carriages were empty at the moment, presumably the ammunition had already been unloaded in the open-air ammunition depot on the square. He hurriedly approached the car, and said to the lieutenant with a smile on his face, "Mr. lieutenant, we have been ordered to perform a mission outside the city, and the distance to go is a bit long. The soldiers stopped to take a breath before preparing to continue."

   "Where are you going?" Probably because he once fought against the guerrillas side by side, the lieutenant was very friendly to Ainuo, a fake German second lieutenant, "What can I do for you?"

   "It's the place where we were attacked today." Hearing what the lieutenant said, Ainuo suddenly had an idea, and decided to leave the town as soon as possible with the help of the lieutenant: "It would be great if your convoy could pick us up for a while."

Hearing that Ainuo and the others were going to the location where they were attacked to carry out their mission, the German lieutenant said carelessly: "We are all acquaintances, you are welcome, let's all get in the car." Then, he raised his hand and pushed the corporal sitting by the door "Corporal, go to the back compartment and make room for Mr. Second Lieutenant."

"No need, Mr. Lieutenant." Ainuo quickly raised his hand to stop the corporal. He held the door of the car and raised his head and said to the lieutenant: "I'd better sit in the car with my soldiers." The reason why Ainuo said this is because It was because he thought that if he sat with the German lieutenant, if he kept asking himself questions, he might be in trouble. And if the German corporal sat in the carriage with people like Grisa who didn't understand German, he might see the flaw in less than five minutes. Because of this, he would strongly demand to sit in the compartment.

  The German corporal heard what Aino said, and quickly turned to look at his commander to see how he would make a decision. Seeing that Aino wanted to sit in the back compartment with his subordinates, the German lieutenant hesitated for a moment before agreeing to his request.

  Hearing that the German lieutenant agreed to his request, Ainuo couldn't help being overjoyed. He quickly waved at Griza and the others, and shouted loudly: "Everyone obey my orders, get in the car!"

  (end of this chapter)