After Zalitzman rushed into the observation center, Omelitchko, who was talking to Jolujeff, forgot to hang up the phone, so if Lugeff heard the whole thing clearly through the microphone. According to his idea, since Omelitchko got a reinforcement of six or seven hundred people, there was no need to hand it over to the other party with more than 100 guard companies sent by Cuikov. After all, there was no guard force in the division headquarters, and even if only one squad of Germans rushed in, they might have their own division headquarters.
But after hearing the call between Zalitzman and the switchboard operator through the microphone, he changed his mind and raised his voice to the microphone and said, "Col. Omelichenko, I will send you the guard company from the headquarters to you immediately. You must organize personnel to rescue Building 4 as soon as possible, and we must not hurt our female operators."
"I understand!" Omelichenko quickly agreed, then put down the phone and said to Goria: "Comrade Captain, the division headquarters will send another company here soon. When they arrive, can we immediately attack Building 4?"
Goria knew that saving people is like putting out a fire. If he had been slow, Building No. 4 might have been completely occupied by the German army. It is still unknown whether he could recover it. He nodded and said, "I will call the fifth company commander and assign him some combat missions."
In order to facilitate the task to be accepted at any time, Lieutenant Geria, the fifth company commander, stayed not far from the observation site. Goria stood at the door and shouted, and then trotted all the way. When he arrived in front of Goria, he stopped, straightened his body and asked, "Comrade Deputy Battalion Commander, do you have any instructions?"
"Lt. Geria, this is Comrade Zalitzman, the deputy director of the tractor factory." Goria pointed at Zalitzman, who was calling the female operator and said to Geria: "He told me that a building not far away was attacked by the German army and hoped to get our help. Your current mission is to lead the fifth company to rescue and rescue the female operator in the building."
"I understand!" Geria responded first, then asked, "Comrade Deputy Battalion Commander, when will we set off?"
Goria turned his head and looked at Omelichenko, then said, "There is another company that will come over in a short time. When they arrive, you will immediately launch an attack on Building 4."
"Comrade Captain, I'm afraid you will need to attack the enemy before another company arrives." Zalitzman, who was talking to Komarkova, suddenly turned his head and said, "The enemy has attacked the third floor again." As he said, he held the microphone from his ear, stretched his hand towards Omelichenko and Goria so that they could hear the sound coming from the earpiece.
From the receiver, there were dense gunfire and explosions, and Komarkova's crying voice: "Comrade Deputy Director, the enemy launched an attack on the third floor again, and our comrades were fighting with them at the entrance of the stairs...
Oh my God, our comrades didn't stop the Germans. They had already rushed to the third floor. Among them, there was a German soldier carrying a submachine gun, walking towards the station room where I was... I was so scared, would I be beaten to death by him?"
"No, Komarkova." Zalitzmann heard this and hurriedly put the microphone close to his ear and said loudly: "You won't die, I'll take someone to save you immediately. Don't worry, you won't..."
Before Zalitzman finished speaking, a few crisp sounds of submachine gun shootings came from the receiver, followed by Komarkova's faint voice: "Farewell forever, my dear comrades, for me..." Before she could finish speaking, two crisp sounds of gunfire sounded, and then her voice could no longer be heard.
Zalitzman's whole body seemed to have been drained. He knelt on the ground with his knees, raised his head high, and grabbed his hair with both hands, howling like a wounded beast. Seeing his expression in pain, the others in the observation center couldn't help but burst into tears.
Goria raised his hand and wiped it on his face, saying to Omelichenko: "Comrade Colonel, the situation in Building 4 looks very bad. I will order the 5th Company to launch an attack first, and after another company arrives, they will come to meet with us." After that, before Omelichenko made a statement, he bent down and pulled Zalitzman, who was kneeling on the ground, and said to him in an orderly tone, "Comrade Deputy Director, please act as a guide for us and take us to Building 4."
Zalitzman, who stood up, raised his hand and wiped his tears, and said with red eyes: "Let's go, Comrade Captain, I'll take you to Building No. 4 to eliminate these damn bandits of Faxi Temple."
The German army occupying the outer positions of the building, when they saw Soviet troops coming, they immediately opened fire to intercept them. According to Zalitzman's idea, the group of soldiers who followed him would definitely use dense formations and bravely launch a charge towards the enemy positions outside the building.
But what happened next surprised him. The machine gunners carrying MG34 machine guns chose craters or ruins as machine gun shooting positions more than 300 meters away from the building and used firepower to suppress the opposite German army. The remaining infantry, under the cover of machine gun firepower, quickly approached the enemy's position in groups of three or five in a formation in a short leap forward.
When they were still twenty or thirty meters away from the enemy's position, they threw grenades one after another, and quickly rushed to the enemy with the help of the rising smoke as cover, jumped into the trenches and started melee and hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.
Seeing the soldiers and the enemy competing for the outer positions of the building, Zalitzman instinctively raised his hand and looked at his watch, finding that it was only seven or eight minutes before he left the observation site. He was shocked by the fact that this army could rush into the enemy's position so quickly. He asked Goria in surprise: "Comrade Captain, I'm not wrong, your army rushed into the enemy's position so quickly?"
"You read that right, comrade of the deputy director." Goria nodded and said, "Facing with German positions without strong fortifications and heavy firepower, it usually takes us not long to take it down."
"Incredible, it's simply incredible." Zalitzman said unexpectedly: "I have never seen any unit that can take down the enemy's positions in such a short time."
"Comrade Deputy Director," Goria said as usual: "Didn't you see me now?" After saying this, he stared at his subordinates who were in close combat with the German army, frowned and added, "The enemy is fighting quite tenaciously. It seems that it will take several minutes to rush into the building. I don't know if the female call operators can be rescued in time."
"It should be too late." Zalitzman thought of Komarkova's death and told himself that the rest of the female operators had been moved to other places. No matter how strong the German attacked, it would take some time to rush to the fifth floor. Therefore, the remaining militia in the building would fight to the death: "I think your troops can rescue the female operators as long as your troops can rush into the building within half an hour."
The 44th Infantry Division of the German Army was attacking Building 4. They had just been transferred from another location to participate in the attack on the Derzhinsky factory. Today, they used a company's troops to launch an attack on Building 4. Because the battle was easy, when the German company commander saw the Soviet army that appeared, he did not take the other party seriously at all. He only used a platoon to block the attack, and the remaining troops seized the building with all their might.
But the German company commander never dreamed that the troops he faced were different from the Soviet troops he had fought before. This was Sokov's direct line. They were not only well-equipped, but also extremely strong in combat. Not to mention a platoon of German troops, even if the entire German company was mostly stuck on the periphery, they were also sure of victory.
When the commanders and fighters of the Fifth Company broke through the German position 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, and tentatively understanding the defense situation in the building from his mouth. However, the captured worker was particularly tough, and no matter how the other party punched and kicked him, he gritted his teeth and said nothing.
Seeing that no information was found from the worker's mouth, the German company commander waved to the soldier standing aside and signaled him to drag the worker out and shoot him. The soldier grabbed the worker's arm and was about to pull him up from the ground and then drag him out to shoot him. A soldier broke in from outside and reported in panic: "Mr. Captain, something is wrong, the Russians rushed into the building."
"Nonsense!" The German company commander glared at his subordinates and said angrily: "I have arranged a company outside the building. The Russians don't pay the price of two or three hundred people, so they don't even think about getting close to this place."
"It's true, Mr. Captain." The soldier said with a sad face: "The Russians have rushed in. If we don't move, it will be too late."
The German company commander listened to the gunshots outside and said half-believingly: "Why do I hear all the shooting sounds of German weapons?"
"The Russians rushed in were equipped with German weapons." The soldiers remembered that they still didn't believe their words, and they almost cried: "Go away, Mr. Captain, it would be too late."
But no matter what decision the German company commander would make next, it was too late. The soldiers of the fifth company who rushed into the building found that there were German soldiers standing at the door of the office, so they rushed over while shooting. A sergeant rushed in front. He led two soldiers to kill the soldiers guarding the door, rushed to the door quickly, and shot into the room, knocking the German company commander and his subordinates to the ground.
Seeing that there was no standing person in the office, the sergeant was about to take his troops to the next room to search when he suddenly heard someone shouting in a faint voice: "Comrades, save me!"
The sergeant stopped quickly and turned his head to instruct a soldier behind him: "Go in and take a look." After that, he faced the room again and pointed the gun at a pile of corpses on the ground, so that any German soldier who pretended to be dead would jump up and shoot.
After the soldier moved away a body pressing against the worker, he turned his head and shouted in surprise at the sergeant: "Comrade Sergeant, there is one of ours, he is still alive."
"Hurry up and help him up." The sergeant ordered, "Ask him what he does?"
The injured worker was supported by the soldiers and came to the door and reported to the sergeant: "Comrade Sergeant, I am still a pipe repairman in the factory. I was transferred here to guard Building 4 last night. My colleagues with me were all in battle and died, and I was also stunned by the shells. When I woke up, I found that I was caught by the Germans. They brought me here to learn about the defense situation in the building from me... But don't worry, I didn't say anything."
When the sergeant saw the pipe repairman talking nonstop to defend himself, he guessed what he was worried about, so he just smiled faintly, and then asked back: "Are you familiar with the terrain in the building?"
"Before the enemy attacked Stalingrad, I often came here to repair pipes." The maintenance worker quickly replied: "I am very familiar with the terrain in the building."
"Can you still leave?" the sergeant asked tentatively, "If you still leave, how about giving us the guide?"
"No problem, no problem." The maintenance worker thought that the sergeant would order someone to take care of him and then hand it over to the staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs after the battle was over. However, he did not expect that the other party did not mention this matter at all, and even asked himself in a controversial tone that he would be willing to be a guide, so he hurriedly said: "It's all skin trauma, it's not a problem. Comrade Sergeant, don't worry, I will definitely be a good guide for you."
The sergeant bent down and picked up a submachine gun from the ground, handed it to the repairman, and asked again: "Can you use it?"
"I know," the maintenance worker replied, "The military instructor sent by the superiors has taught us how to use weapons. But I used the Mosinnagan rifle before, and the German submachine guns have never been used."
After briefly introducing the maintenance worker to how to use the MP40 submachine gun, the sergeant added: "The capacity of this gun is only 32 rounds. Don't shoot all the bullets in one breath when you shoot. Without the bullets, this gun is a pile of scrap iron."
When the maintenance worker led the sergeant and the others to the other side of the building, he asked tentatively: "Comrade Sergeant, are you General Jorugeff's troops?"
"No," the sergeant replied while observing the surrounding environment vigilantly: "We are from the 41st Guards Division."
"The 41st Guard Division?!" After repeating the number of the sergeant said, the maintenance worker frowned and replied, "Why have I never heard of this army?"
After the sergeant raised his gun and knocked down a German soldier who rushed out of the room in front, he lowered his head and rushed to the repairman who was squatting on the ground to avoid bullets and said, "It is normal that you have never heard of it. Our division has been stationed in Mamayev Hill and is ordered to come to reinforce you."
When the maintenance worker saw that the enemy who rushed out was knocked down by the sergeant, he quickly stood up. He was worried that the sergeant felt greedy and afraid of death, so he quickly explained: "I'm sorry, comrade Sergeant, the German man suddenly appeared just now, which scared me. Believe me, I'm not afraid of death at all. In today's battle, I also killed a German devil with my own hands."
Chapter completed!