Since the journey of this attack was quite far, if there was no transportation, it would take at least five or six days to go back and forth. Sokov was afraid of long nights and sleepless nights, so he ordered the six military horses captured during the surprise attack on the transfer station to be used to pull the sled.
Before leaving, he told Belkin: "Comrade Deputy Battalion Commander, this mission is of great importance. Before we come back, no matter who asks, you cannot reveal the slightest bit of information. Do you understand?"
"Don't worry, Comrade Battalion Commander, I will keep the secret." When Belkin shook hands with Sokov and said goodbye, he specifically told him: "Pay more attention to safety and look forward to your triumphant return!"
"Don't worry, we will come back safely."
Sokov came to the gathering of the squad, looked at the soldiers who were holding their heads high and chests high, and nodded with satisfaction, then waved his hand and announced with great majesty: "Everyone listen to my command: stand at attention! Stand at attention!
Turn back, get on the sled! Let’s go!”
Thirty-one commanders and combatants, including Liansukov, were sitting on sleds pulled by six German army horses, heading towards Dominici, which was dozens of kilometers away.
Seryosha, who was sitting on the same sled as Sokov, was eager to know what the specific mission of this operation was, so he approached Sokov and asked: "Hey, Misha, since we have already set off, how about you
Tell me, what on earth are we doing in Dominican Republic?"
Unexpectedly, Sokov snorted and said to him in an official tone: "Second Lieutenant Seryosha, you are also an officer now. Don't you know what to ask and what not to ask?" Seryosha did not expect that he
Hui hit a soft nail here in Sokov, so he could only laugh twice, lean back, lean against the supply pile on the sled and close his eyes to rest.
The route that the team took was inaccessible. The snow in the forest was deep. The sled pulled by horses could only travel four or five kilometers per hour. Sokov couldn't help but secretly feel lucky that if there were no horses and sleds, the soldiers would carry them.
With their respective weapons and matching ammunition, they marched through waist-deep snow, up to one or two kilometers in an hour. It would take at least two days to cover the fifty kilometers. Even when they reached their destination, the soldiers would still be exhausted due to physical strength.
Without support, he could not immediately enter the battle.
It was already midnight when they arrived at their destination. Fortunately, there was a moon in the sky, so Sokov and the others discovered the location of the concentration camp in time.
Sokov looked at the small concentration camp in the distance with a telescope. It was no different from the concentration camps he had seen before. The entire camp was surrounded by a double-layer barbed wire fence. Near the entrance, there was a wooden sentry box four to five meters high.
, with a machine gun mounted on it and a searchlight swinging back and forth, scanning the wooden huts in the prisoner-of-war camp to prevent any prisoners of war from slipping out.
"Comrade Valerian," Sokov put down the telescope and asked puzzledly: "I don't understand, what is the point of the Germans building such a prisoner of war camp in this place with no store in front of Buba Village?"
"It is said that this is a place specially built by the Germans to detain officers." Although it is still five or six hundred meters away from the prisoner of war camp, Valerian habitually lowered his voice when speaking, "I was detained at that time.
I also met two generals while I was here."
"General, have generals been imprisoned here?" Seryosha, who was lying on the other side of Sokov, suddenly became excited when he heard that there were captured generals in the prisoner of war camp. "Misha, if we can rescue a general from here,
, that would be a great achievement.”
Hearing what Seryosha said, Sokov couldn't help laughing, thinking that even if there were ten generals in this prisoner-of-war camp, they would not be as important as Yakov alone. He turned to Seryosha and told Seryosha: "Seryosha
Sha, you lead two squads of soldiers, cut the barbed wire fence into the prisoner of war camp, and kill the guards inside, do you understand?"
After receiving the order, Seryozha habitually asked: "How many guards are there?"
"There are only about twenty." Valerian rushed to answer: "Generally after dark, except for the sentries at the guard box and the door, the rest of the guards sleep in the wooden house on the left side of the entrance."
Knowing that there were only about twenty guards in the prisoner-of-war camp, Seryosha grinned and confidently said to Sokov: "Misha, don't worry, I will let these guards go to see God in their sleep.
"
Seryozha and his soldiers successfully approached the barbed wire fence. The two soldiers cut the wires with the pliers they carried, and then climbed in through the cut gap, preparing to cut the second barbed wire fence. Seryozha thought to himself, this time
The action was so simple that the enemy didn't notice at all and allowed us to enter the prisoner of war camp smoothly.
At this moment, there was a loud "boom" sound, and a dazzling fire appeared between the two barbed wire fences. A soldier holding pliers danced into the air, and then fell heavily, causing
A bigger explosion.
"Hell, it's a minefield!" Seryosha never dreamed that the Germans would lay out a minefield between two barbed wire fences. According to his experience, the passage between the two barbed wire fences should be a patrol area. How could this happen?
What about laying landmines?
The explosion of the mine alerted the sentries at the watchtower and the door. The searchlight immediately swept towards Seryosha's position, and the soldiers of the two squads were instantly exposed to the strong light of the searchlight. Once the target was locked, the searchlights at the watchtower and the door were
The machine gun was aimed at Seryosha's position and opened fire.
Several soldiers who were caught off guard immediately fell under intensive machine gun fire. The remaining soldiers quickly lay down on the spot and fired back at the German machine guns. The sound of gunfire alerted the sleeping guards in the wooden house. They carried their guns and
They rushed out in disheveled clothes. They fired while approaching the direction of Seryosha and the others.
Sokov, who was on the other side of the prisoner of war camp, saw this situation and immediately ordered the soldiers around him: "Snipers, shoot down the machine guns and searchlights; machine gunners, use firepower to block the path forward of the German troops, and do not let them get close to the enemy."
Liao Sha and the others."
As the order was issued, the searchlights on the watchtower were first knocked out. After the Germans lost their shooting target, the gunfire immediately became sparse. The guards who were rushing towards Seryosha and the others were blocked by machine guns and could only
He lay down on the spot and fired back at Sokov's position.
Seeing that the enemy's firepower was weakened, Seryosha immediately ordered the soldiers to blow up the barbed wire fence with grenades, quickly rushed into the prisoner of war camp, and bypassed the rear of the guards.
The battle lasted for more than ten minutes, and all the guards in the prisoner of war camp were eliminated. However, the team also paid a heavy price, with five people killed and seven injured.
Sokov came to the door of the prisoner-of-war camp and ordered Seryosha, who was directing the soldiers to open the door: "Second Lieutenant Seryosha, the sound of gunfire may have alerted the nearby enemies. We need to move immediately and let all prisoners of war immediately."
Come out of the cabin."
Sokov's order was quickly passed on. When the prisoners of war in the wooden house heard the gunshots outside, they guessed that it might be their own troops coming to rescue them. When they saw their comrades in Soviet uniforms,
When I kicked open the closed wooden door and rushed in, I couldn't help but burst into tears.
But these soldiers did not bother to chat with them. Instead, they shouted loudly at them: "Comrades, get out of here quickly, the enemy is coming soon!" After shouting, they walked to the wooden bed where the prisoners of war slept.
, wake up those prisoners of war who are still asleep and haven't woken up one by one.
Sokov stood at the entrance of the prisoner-of-war camp and saw his soldiers leading groups of prisoners of war wearing vertical stripes, one after another, walking out of the prisoner-of-war camp and walking towards the place where the sleds were parked. He wanted Valerian to
He checked to see if there was Yakov among these people, but he saw no one on the left and right. He couldn't help shouting loudly: "Valerian, Valerian, where are you?"
"Comrade Battalion Commander," a sniper standing nearby replied: "He is dead. He was just killed by a German machine gun. His body was parked at the position where we were just lurking."
Hearing that Valerian had died, Sokov couldn't help but feel a headache. He said to himself that I don't know Yakov, so I can't ask out loud here: Who is Stalin's son Yakov?
Seryosha led his men to clean up the camp and made sure that no prisoner of war was missing. Then he ran over and reported to Sokov. From a distance, he shouted loudly: "Major Sokov, I have checked
When we passed, there wasn’t a single prisoner of war inside.”
At that time, several prisoners of war passed by Sokov. When one of them heard Seryosha's shout, he stopped and turned to look at Sokov. After looking for a moment, he asked tentatively: "
Major Sokov? I would like to ask if your name is Mikhail Mikhailnovitch?"