Red Moscow

  Chapter 767 Building No. 4 (Part 1)

  After Zalitsman rushed into the observation post, Omelchenko, who was on the phone with Joludev, forgot to hang up the phone, so that Joludev heard the whole thing clearly through the microphone. According to his thinking, since Omelchenko has received a reinforcement of six or seven hundred people here, there is no need for the guard company of more than one hundred people sent by Chuikov to be handed over to the other party. Any guard force, even if only one squad of Germans rushed in, could take down their division headquarters.

But after hearing the conversation between Zalitzman and the switchboard operator through the microphone, he changed his mind, raised his voice and said to the microphone: "Colonel Omelchenko, I will send you the guard company from the headquarters immediately." , you must organize people to rescue Building No. 4 as soon as possible, and we must not let our female operators be harmed."

"Understood!" Omelchenko quickly agreed, then put down the phone and said to Goria: "Comrade Captain, the division headquarters will send another company over immediately. When they arrive, we can immediately launch an attack on Building No. 4." ?"

  Golia knows that saving people is like putting out fires. If he waits any longer, the No. 4 building may be completely occupied by the German army. It is still unknown whether he can regain it by then. He nodded and said, "I'll call the fifth company commander and assign him a combat mission."

  In order to accept the task at any time, Lieutenant Relia, the commander of the fifth company, stayed not far from the observation post. Golia stood at the door and shouted, and he trotted over. He stopped in front of Golia, straightened his body and asked, "Comrade Deputy Battalion Commander, what instructions do you have?"

"Lieutenant Gelia, this is Comrade Zalitzman, the deputy director of the tractor factory." Golia pointed at Zalitzman who was on the phone with the female operator, and said to Gelia: "He told me , said that a building not far away is being attacked by the German army and hopes to get our help. Your task now is to lead the fifth company to rescue and rescue the female operator in the building."

   "Understood!" Zelia responded first, and then asked: "Comrade Deputy Battalion Commander, when shall we set off?"

   Goria turned his head and glanced at Omelchenko, and then said: "There is another company that will come over in a short time. As soon as they arrive, you will immediately launch an attack on Building No. 4."

"Comrade Captain, I'm afraid you will need to attack the enemy before another company arrives." Zalitzman, who was on the phone with Komarkova, suddenly turned his head and said, "The enemy has launched another attack on the third floor. "As he spoke, he put the microphone in front of his ear, and raised his hand towards Omelchenko and Goria, so that they could hear the voice coming from the receiver clearly.

Intensive gunshots and explosions came from the receiver, as well as Komarkova's crying voice: "Comrade deputy factory director, the enemy has launched an attack on the third floor. Our comrades are bayoneting them at the stairway." …

   My God, our comrades didn't hold back the Germans, they already rushed up to the third floor. Among them was a German soldier with a submachine gun, walking towards the main computer room where I was... I was so scared in my heart, would I be killed by him? "

"No, Komarkova." Hearing this, Zalitzman hurriedly put the microphone close to his ear and said loudly, "You won't die, I will bring someone to rescue you right away, don't worry, you Won't…"

Before Zalitsman finished speaking, there were a few crisp submachine gun shots from the receiver, followed by Komarkova's weak voice: "Farewell, my dear comrades, for me..." Her words Before she finished speaking, there were two more crisp gunshots, and then her voice was no longer heard.

   All the strength in Zalitzman's body seemed to be drained at once. He knelt on the ground, raised his head high, and pulled his hair vigorously with both hands, howling like a wounded beast. Seeing his painful expression, other people in the observation center couldn't help crying.

Golia wiped his face with his hand, and said to Omelchenko: "Comrade Colonel, the situation in Building 4 looks very bad. I will order the Fifth Company to launch an attack first, and wait until the other company arrives." Let them come and join us." After finishing speaking, without waiting for Omelchenko to make a statement, he bent down and pulled Zalitzman who was kneeling on the ground, and said to him in an orderly tone, "Vice factory Comrade Chang, please act as our guide now and take us to Building No. 4."

  Zalitzman stood up, wiped his tears with his hand, and said with red eyes: "Let's go, Comrade Captain, I will take you to Building No. 4 and eliminate these **** Faxi Temple gangsters."

  The German troops occupying the outer positions of the building saw the Soviet troops rushing over, and immediately opened fire to intercept them. According to Zalitzman's thinking, the group of fighters who followed him would definitely adopt a dense formation and bravely charge towards the enemy's position outside the building.

   But what happened next surprised him. I saw those machine gunners carrying MG34 machine guns, more than 300 meters away from the building, choosing bullet craters or ruined walls as machine gun shooting positions, and suppressing the opposite German army with firepower. The rest of the infantry, under the cover of machine gun fire, formed in groups of three and five, and used short leaps to quickly approach the enemy's position.

  When they were still 20 to 30 meters away from the enemy's position, they threw grenades one after another, and with the help of the rising smoke as a cover, they quickly rushed to the enemy, jumped into the trench and started close combat and hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

  Watching the soldiers and the enemy vying for the outer positions of the building, Zalitzman instinctively raised his hand to look at his watch, and found that it was only seven or eight minutes before he left the observation post. He was shocked by how quickly this unit could rush into the enemy's position, and he asked Golia in surprise: "Comrade Captain, I'm not mistaken, did your unit rush into the enemy's position so quickly?"

   "You read that right, Comrade Deputy Factory Manager." Goliath nodded and said, "Facing a German position without solid fortifications and heavy firepower, it usually doesn't take us long to take it down."

   "It's unbelievable, it's simply unbelievable." Zalitzman said unexpectedly: "I have never seen any army that can take down the enemy's position in such a short period of time."

"Comrade Deputy Factory Director," Golia said with a normal expression, "Didn't you see it now?" After saying this, he stared at his subordinates who were engaged in close combat with the German army, frowned and added, "The enemy attacked They are quite tenacious, it seems that they will have to wait a few minutes before rushing into the building, and I don’t know if they can rescue those female operators in time.”

"It should be in time." Zalitzman thought of what Komarkova told herself before she died, saying that the rest of the female operators had been transferred to other places. No matter how fierce the German attack was, if they wanted to rush to the fifth floor, I'm afraid it will take some time, so the remaining militiamen in the building will fight desperately: "I think as long as your troops can storm into the building within half an hour, they can rescue those female operators."

   It is part of the 44th Infantry Division of the German Army that is attacking Building No. 4. They have just been transferred from another area to participate in the attack on the Dzerzhinsky Factory. Today, a company of troops was used to launch an attack on Building No. 4. Due to the ease of the battle, when the German company commander saw the Soviet army appearing, he didn't pay attention to the opponent at all. He only used one platoon to block it, and the rest of the troops tried their best to seize the building.

But the German company commander never dreamed that the troops he was facing were different from the Soviet troops he had fought against before. This was Sokov's direct lineage. They were not only well-equipped, but also extremely powerful in combat. Even if the entire German company sticks to the outer positions, they are also sure of victory.

When the commanders and fighters of the fifth company broke through the German positions and rushed towards the building, the German company commander was staying in an office on the first floor, interrogating a captured worker through an interpreter, trying to understand the situation in the building from him. Arming situation. However, the captured worker behaved extraordinarily tough, no matter how the other party punched and kicked him, he gritted his teeth and said nothing.

  Seeing that no information could be obtained from the workers, the German company commander waved at the soldiers standing aside, motioning him to drag the workers out and shoot them. The soldier grabbed the worker's arm and was about to pull him up from the ground and drag him out to shoot him when a soldier broke in from outside and reported in a panic: "Mr. The Russians stormed into the building."

   "Nonsense!" The German company commander glared at his subordinates, and said angrily, "I have set up a company outside the building. If the Russians don't pay the price of two or three hundred people, they will never get close to here."

   "It's true, Mr. Captain." The soldier said with a sad face, "The Russians have already rushed in. If we don't move, it will be too late."

  The German company commander listened to the gunshots outside, and said dubiously, "Why do I hear all the gunfire from German weapons?"

   "The Russians who rushed in were equipped with German weapons." Seeing that the captain still didn't believe his words, the soldiers remembered crying: "Let's go, Mr. Captain, it will be too late."

   But no matter what decision the German company commander would make next, it was already too late. The soldiers of the fifth company who rushed into the building found German soldiers standing at the door of this office, and rushed over while shooting. The one who rushed to the front was a sergeant. He led two soldiers and killed the soldiers guarding the door. Knocked down.

   Seeing that there was no one standing in the office, the sergeant was about to take his subordinates to the next room to search, when suddenly he heard someone shouting in a weak voice: "Comrades, help me!"

The sergeant stopped quickly, turned his head and told a soldier behind him, "Go in and have a look." After speaking, he turned his face to the house again, pointing his gun at the pile of corpses on the ground, lest any German soldier pretending to be dead Will jump up and shoot.

  After moving away a corpse that was pressing on the worker, the soldier turned his head and shouted at the sergeant in surprise: "Comrade sergeant, there is one of ours here, and he is still alive."

   "Help him up quickly." The sergeant ordered: "Ask what he does?"

The injured worker was supported by the soldiers to the door, and reported to the sergeant: "Comrade sergeant, I am still a pipe repairman in the factory, and I was transferred here to guard Building No. 4 last night. The colleagues with me all Died in battle, and I was stunned by shells, and when I woke up, I was captured by the Germans. They brought me here and wanted to know from me how the building was armed...But you Don't worry, I didn't say anything."

  The sergeant saw the pipeline repairman explaining himself eloquently, guessed what he was worried about, just smiled lightly, and then asked, "Are you familiar with the terrain in the building?"

   "Before the enemy attacked Stalingrad, I often came here to repair the pipeline." The maintenance worker quickly replied, "I am very familiar with the terrain in the building."

   "Can you still go?" The sergeant asked tentatively: "If you can still go, how about being a guide for us?"

   "No problem, no problem." The maintenance worker thought that the sergeant would order someone to guard him, and after the battle was over, he would hand it over to the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. But I didn't expect that the other party didn't mention this matter at all, and even asked me in a negotiating tone that I would like to be a guide, so I hurriedly said: "It's all skin trauma, it's okay. Comrade Sergeant, don't worry, I will definitely be a good guide for you." guide."

  The sergeant bent down and picked up a submachine gun from the ground, handed it to the maintenance worker, and asked again: "Can you use it?"

   "Yes, yes," the maintenance worker replied: "The military instructor sent by the superior taught us how to use the weapon. But I used the Mosin Nagant rifle before, and the German submachine gun has never been used."

After the sergeant briefly introduced how to use the MP40 submachine gun to the maintenance worker, he specially added: "The ammo capacity of this gun is only 32 rounds. When you shoot, don't run out of bullets in one breath. Without bullets, this gun It's just a pile of scrap metal."

  When the maintenance worker took the sergeant and the others to the other side of the building, he asked tentatively, "Comrade sergeant, are you from General Zholudev's unit?"

   "No," the sergeant replied while observing the surrounding environment vigilantly, "We belong to the 41st Guards Division."

   "The 41st Guards Division?!" After repeating the serial number mentioned by the sergeant, the maintenance worker frowned and replied, "Why have I never heard of this unit?"

After the sergeant raised his gun and knocked down a German soldier rushing out of the front room, he lowered his head to the maintenance worker who was squatting on the ground to avoid bullets and said, "You haven't heard of it, it's normal. Our division has been stationed at Mamayev Gang. , was ordered to come to reinforce you."

  The maintenance worker saw that the enemy who rushed out was knocked down by the sergeant, so he stood up quickly. He was worried that the sergeant felt that he was greedy for life and afraid of death, so he quickly explained: "I'm sorry, comrade sergeant, I was taken aback by the sudden appearance of the German just now. Believe me, I am not afraid of death at all. In the battle, I also killed a German devil with my own hands."

"Okay, don't talk." The sergeant didn't know where the enemy would appear ahead, and he didn't have the heart to continue chatting with the maintenance worker, so he said in a stern tone: "Pay attention to the surrounding environment, and be careful of the enemy's plot. "

  (end of this chapter)