Red Moscow

  Chapter 768 Building No. 4 (Middle)

  After the German army rushed into Building No. 4, because they were eager to seize the entire building, they rushed directly up the stairs in the hall, so that they ignored the stairs in remote locations. The maintenance worker led the sergeant and the others towards this remote staircase. It may be because the road they took was so remote that they didn't meet many German soldiers along the way. Even if one or two appeared occasionally, they were killed by the sergeant and his soldiers.

   Seeing that they were near the stairs, the sergeant lowered his voice and asked the maintenance worker: "The people guarding this staircase are your people or the Germans?"

   "I don't know!" The maintenance worker shook his head and replied, "My combat post is outside the gate. I don't know if there was any fighting here."

Fortunately, the sergeant is a veteran with rich combat experience. After seeing the stairs not far away, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then said to the maintenance worker: "It seems that we are lucky, there has been no fighting here. "

  Seeing that the sergeant said so affirmatively, the maintenance worker asked puzzledly: "Comrade sergeant, how do you know?"

"Look," the sergeant pointed to the location of the stairs: "Although the wall next to the stairs was blown through a hole, the bricks and rubble were piled up on the stairs, which should have been bombed by the German artillery or bombing." Collapsed. In addition, no corpses were seen on the stairs, so I boldly speculate that there was no fighting here."

   "It makes sense, it makes sense!" The maintenance worker nodded and echoed: "After hearing what you said, I also think that our own people should be guarding the stairs."

   As soon as he finished speaking, a white smoking thing fell from the sky and landed on the stairs. The sergeant had sharp eyes and quickly shouted: "Grenade, lie down!" After shouting, he pushed the maintenance worker beside him to the ground.

   There was a loud "boom", and the blast wave lifted up the gravel on the stairs, and scattered them in all directions like a goddess, many of which fell on the sergeant and the others lying on the ground. The sergeant and the others were better, wearing thick cotton uniforms and steel helmets, and they didn't feel any pain when the gravel hit their bodies and heads. But the maintenance worker suffered. When he lay on the ground, although he held his head with both hands, he was still screamed by the gravel.

   "Comrade Sergeant," a soldier following the sergeant asked the sergeant in a low voice when he got up from the ground: "Could there be Germans on the stairs?"

"It should not be German." The sergeant waved his hand and said, "Didn't you see the grenade that just fell on the stairs? That is the standard grenade used by our army. This kind of grenade is not only cumbersome to use for the Germans , and it’s not very powerful, they don’t bother to use it.”

  The maintenance worker rubbed the back of his head that was hurt by the gravel, got up and asked the sergeant: "Comrade sergeant, do you think there might be our people upstairs?"

"This possibility is very high." Don't see the sergeant analyzing his subordinates clearly, but he is really not sure whether the person guarding the stairs above is a German or his own, so he can only vaguely say Said: "But we still have to find a way to confirm."

"Leave this to me." After the maintenance worker finished speaking, he walked straight towards the stairs. He came to the side of the stairs, raised his head and shouted at the top: "Hey, who's up there, don't throw grenades. They almost blew up their own people."

   After a moment of silence, a voice came from upstairs: "Who is downstairs?"

   "I'm Yefim!" Hearing the familiar voice from above, the maintenance worker took a few steps up the stairs and asked excitedly, "Are you Leshat?"

   "It's me, it's me." The person above asked again: "Aren't you guarding the gate, what are you doing inside?"

  Perhaps in order to prevent misunderstanding, the plumbing repairman who called himself Yefim did not tell Leshat upstairs that he had been captured by the Germans. He turned his head and glanced at the sergeant who was standing not far behind, then raised his head and said, "I'm taking some comrades from the Guards Division, and I want to go up here to fight the Germans."

"Come up quickly." Upstairs Leshat said to Yefim: "I was frightened by two Germans who appeared nearby just now. Turn around and go back."

When the sergeant and others followed Yefim to the second floor, they saw an old man in casual clothes and gray hair standing at the stairs on the second floor, holding a Mosin Nagant rifle without a bayonet in his hand. There were two grenades in his belt.

  The sergeant smiled at him and said, "Old man, it's a good thing you didn't throw a grenade when we went up the stairs, otherwise none of us would have made it to the second floor alive."

After listening to the sergeant's words, the old man named Leshat grinned and replied: "I'm sorry, comrade sergeant, I heard someone talking downstairs and thought it was a German, so I threw a bomb." Get the grenade down."

The sergeant looked around and found that it was just a staircase connecting the first and second floors, and could not lead to the third floor. He couldn't help frowning, and asked, "Why, can't this staircase go up to the third floor?" ?”

"That's right, Comrade Sergeant." Reshat replied: "It is precisely because this staircase can only lead to the second floor. People who are not familiar with the terrain in the building really can't find it. Therefore, when deploying defenses, the superior will Only arrange for me to guard here alone." He reached out and pointed to the long corridor next to him, "Follow this corridor, and you will find the main staircase leading to the third floor."

   After the sergeant thanked Leshat, he took two soldiers and prepared to rush along the corridor to the main staircase to participate in the ongoing battle there. After walking a certain distance, he saw Yefim closely following behind him, so he stopped and said to him, "Comrade Yefim, you don't have to go. You and Leshat will stay at the stairs." , just don’t let the Germans escape from here.”

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  The German army, who had just occupied the third floor and was not on a firm foothold, saw the Soviet army attacking from downstairs, and immediately launched a counterattack. They thought that the troops that had just rushed in must be about the same combat effectiveness as the troops they had defeated, so instead of relying on the condescending terrain to defend, they rushed down the stairs, trying to drive the Soviet troops out with a single counterattack. out of the building.

   But they quickly paid the price for their underestimation of the enemy. Some soldiers rushing down the stairs were killed on the stairs by dense bullets. Seeing that the situation was not good, the soldiers behind quickly shrank back, hid at the stairs and shot and dropped bombs downward.

   Lieutenant Zelia, the commander of the fifth company who personally directed the battle in the building, saw several soldiers trying to rush up the stairs were knocked down by the bullets fired from upstairs, or were blown down by grenades. Quickly organize fire cover, use intensive firepower to hit the enemy upstairs so that they dare not show their heads, while the attacking soldiers take advantage of this time to rush up.

   There was only one company of the German army attacking the No. 4 building, and a platoon deployed outside the building had already been wiped out by the soldiers of the No. 5 company. As for the troops in the building, after a fierce battle with the militia in the building, there were no more than fifty or sixty people left, and they were distributed on the second and third floors respectively. How could they stop the Soviet army that was several times their size. In less than ten minutes, as the commanders and fighters of the fifth company rushed to the third floor, the gunfire in the building became sparse.

   When Gelia went up to the third floor with a submachine gun, a platoon leader came over and reported to him: "Comrade company commander, my platoon has captured several prisoners, and there are two wounded among them. How should we deal with them?"

"Leave none, shoot them all!" Zelia had learned from Zalitzman that the female radio operator Komarkova had been brutally murdered by the enemy, so she hated the Germans deeply. Regarding the platoon leader's request for instructions, he gritted his teeth and said, "We absolutely do not accept the surrender of these two-legged beasts."

"Yes, Comrade Company Commander!" Before attacking Building No. 4, Gelia gave a brief mobilization to the soldiers, and specifically mentioned that the female radio operator in the building was killed by the Germans. Therefore, all the commanders and fighters of the Fifth Company His heart was filled with hatred for the Germans. Hearing Zelia's order, the platoon leader quickly and loudly agreed: "I will immediately carry out your order."

Gelia ordered the signal soldier behind him: "Go to the deputy battalion commander immediately and tell him that we have wiped out all the German soldiers and recovered the building." After the signal soldier went downstairs, he reached out and grabbed another A soldier who ran past him told him, "Go find a militiaman, and I want to ask him about the situation in the building."

In less than two minutes, Yefim, who had just come up from the second floor, appeared in front of Zelia. After raising his hand and paying a non-standard military salute, he asked respectfully, "Comrade commander, may I have any questions?" What can I do for you?"

   "I want to ask," Gelia asked bluntly without asking the other party's name, "Can you tell me where your main computer room is?"

   "Comrade Commander," Yefim, as a frequent visitor to Building No. 4, of course knows where the main computer room is. Hearing that the commander in front of him wanted to go to the computer room, he thought that the other party was planning to make a phone call, so he volunteered and said, "I am familiar with this place, let me be your guide."

Yefim brought Zhelia to the door of the main engine room. When he saw the open door and several corpses on the ground, he couldn't help being stunned, and then shouted loudly into the room: "Komarkova, you Where?"

  Hearing Yefim calling Komarkova, Zelia couldn't help being taken aback, and then asked tentatively, "Comrade Militia, do you know Komarkova?"

   "Yes," Yefim nodded vigorously, and replied, "She is my girlfriend, and she works in the main computer room."

"Comrade," after understanding the relationship between Yefim and Komarkova, Zelia raised her hand and grabbed his arm, and said in a heavy tone: "I want to tell you some bad news, your daughter My friend Komarkova has been brutally murdered by the Germans."

"Impossible, how is this possible." Hearing what Gelia said, Yefim showed a shocked expression: "Comrade commander, you are talking nonsense, you don't even know where the main engine room is, why? Maybe you know that Komarkova was killed by the enemy? False, what you say is false, you must be deceiving me."

"If you don't believe me, you can go in and see for yourself." Gelia let go of her hand, lowered her head and said to Yefim: "The other female operators in the switchboard room were all transferred before the enemy rushed to the third floor. Nizhny Komarkova was alone on duty. As a result, she was killed by German soldiers who rushed in."

   Yefim didn't believe what Zelia said, he rushed into the main computer room quickly. Looking around for a while, he saw a female operator in a white shirt lying in a pool of blood. From the figure of the other party, he recognized his girlfriend Komarkova at a glance. But he still walked over with luck, helped Komarkova sit up with one hand, shook vigorously, and shouted loudly: "Komakova, what's wrong with you? Wake up, I am Yefim, I am Yefim!"

Zelia walked behind Yefim, looked down at Komarkova who was covered in blood, and found that her body had at least seven or eight bullet holes, and the blood had already dried up. There was no way to save her life. He knelt down beside Yefim, raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder, and said in a low voice, "Comrade Yefim, Komarkova has already died, so please accept your condolences."

"No, she's not dead." Yefim turned his head to look at Zelia, and shouted with tears streaming down his face: "Comrade commander, she's not dead yet, I beg you, hurry up and get your health worker, maybe And save her."

"Comrade Yefim." Seeing Yefim's grief and his whole being plunged into madness, Zelia stood up abruptly, looked down at him, and said in a stern tone: "Let me tell you the truth, early She was killed by the enemy before we attacked Building 4. We even used this incident to boost morale and fill every soldier's heart with hatred for the enemy, otherwise how could we rush into the building so quickly , and wiped out all the enemies?"

  Zhelia's roar made Yefim somewhat sober up. He looked up at Zhelia for a while, and then asked with difficulty: "Comrade commander, do you know what her last words are?"

"She said, she said," when Zhelia was repeating Komarkova's last words, his nose suddenly became sore. Fortunately, he controlled his emotions in time, so tears did not come out of his eyes, but he continued to say a few words A "she said" before she said what she wanted to express: "She said: Farewell, dear comrades, save it for me! She may have more to say, but the **** German didn't wait for her Finished, beat her to death."

"Comrade Lieutenant, have you found Komarkova? Have you found Komarkova?" The voice of deputy factory director Zalitzman came from the door. After rushing in from the outside, he saw Ye Komarkova, who was held in Feim's arms, fell silent immediately. He just moved his steps mechanically, came to Yefim's side and squatted down.

  (end of this chapter)