As the troops walked along the street towards the warehouse, Yegor and the sentry who acted as a guide walked side by side. The sentry did not know that the garrison at the bridge had been wiped out. He was the only survivor and was still chattering.
Said to Yegor: "Mr. Captain, when we get to the warehouse later, you'd better ask a soldier to accompany me back, lest I can't explain clearly."
"Don't worry." Yegor said carelessly: "When we arrive at the warehouse, I will immediately send someone to take you back, and by the way, I will help you testify that you are not leaving your post without authorization, but are acting as a guide for us."
Seeing that "Captain Conrad" beside him agreed to send someone to go back with him, the stone hanging in the sentry's heart finally fell to the ground. He began to introduce the situation in the warehouse to the other party: "There were originally two companies of troops guarding the warehouse.
Later, someone objected that it would be a waste to put so many troops in a place that would not be attacked by the Russians. So the garrison in the warehouse was reduced from two companies to one platoon."
"What, there is only one platoon of defenders in the warehouse?" Hearing what the sentry said, Yegor couldn't help feeling ecstatic, but on the surface, he frowned and said displeasedly: "There are so many jobs in the warehouse.
Can you be busy?"
"Mr. Captain, you don't know something. The people who are usually responsible for moving materials in and out of the warehouse are Russians. The defenders in the warehouse only need to supervise the work of the Russians."
"They are all Russians?!" Yegor asked, "Aren't you worried that they will cause sabotage?"
"You are worrying too much, Mr. Captain." the sentry said smugly: "It has been two full years since our troops occupied this city. Anyone with bad intentions towards Germany has long been killed in previous purges.
Seeing that the situation is not good, the remaining people can only work for us obediently and honestly. Moreover, the families of these Russians working in the warehouse live near the warehouse. If they want to cause any damage, they must think carefully.
Thinking of their families.”
Yegor agreed with the sentry's statement. He felt that even if he worked in the warehouse, if his family members were placed near the warehouse, he would not dare to act rashly, lest he would harm his family.
"Then do you know where the defenders of the warehouse usually live?"
"I don't know." The sentry shook his head and replied: "I have never been to the warehouse, so I don't know what the defense situation is inside."
Yegor couldn't help but feel disappointed when he heard the sentry say that he didn't understand the defense situation in the warehouse. But then he thought about it, there was only one platoon of defenders in the warehouse, so they must be dispersed, and he only needed to send the corresponding manpower.
, they should be found soon.
Under the leadership of the sentry, Yegor and his company finally arrived at the warehouse.
Seeing that there were only two German soldiers wearing military coats guarding the entrance of the warehouse, and the sandbag fortifications beside them were empty. Seeing this, Yegor couldn't help but sigh, such a large material transfer warehouse,
The Germans only posted two sentries, and the commander responsible for guarding the warehouse was taking it too lightly.
Seeing one approaching his position, a sentry took off the rifle on his shoulder and walked towards him: "What section are you from and what are you doing here?"
"We are from the 198th Infantry Division and were ordered to take over the defense here." Yegor looked at the other party and asked: "Where are your officers?"
When the sentry learned that the other party was here to take over the defense, a look of surprise appeared on his face: "Are you here to take over the defense? That's great, we can have a good rest next."
"Soldier, you haven't answered my question yet." Seeing that the other party had not answered his own question, Yegor straightened his face and asked in a stern tone: "Where is the officer commanding you?"
"He should be sleeping in the office in the warehouse at the moment." Seeing Yegor's anger, the sentry quickly replied respectfully: "Not only does the second lieutenant live there, but other soldiers who are not on duty are also resting there." He tried to please him.
He asked, "Mr. Captain, you should know that although it has just entered October, it is extremely cold at night, so everyone is sleeping in the house to avoid getting cold."
"Here comes someone." After Yegor figured out where the warehouse defenders were, he turned to call a soldier and ordered him: "Send the guide back and report to his commander that he has not
He didn't leave his post without permission, but acted as a guide for us and led us to the warehouse."
The soldier understood what Yegor meant. It was a lie to send the guide back, but it was true to return to the bridge to meet the troops behind. After thinking about this clearly, he quickly replied loudly: "I understand, Mr. Captain. I will definitely
The soldier will be safely returned to the bridge and the entire incident will be explained to his commander."
After the soldiers took away the guide, Yegor turned to the sentry and said: "Sentinel, take me to your platoon leader. I want to personally hand over the defense in the warehouse to him."
"Okay, Mr. Captain." The sentry quickly opened the closed warehouse door, respectfully invited Yeager and his men to enter, and at the same time said with a smile: "I will take you to see our second lieutenant."
Yegor knew the importance of this warehouse, so he quickly arranged for a few soldiers to be responsible for guarding the door together with the remaining sentry. However, the sentry who did not know the inside story saw that the new captain actually arranged so many people.
On duty with me, I couldn't help but secretly rejoice: Since there are so many people guarding the door, I can find a place to have a good sleep later. It won't be too late to come out when my shift changes at dawn.
After arranging the responding soldiers and guarding the door, Yegor took the remaining tactics and rushed directly to the warehouse office under the leadership of the sentry who did not know the truth.
The warehouse office is located in an independent two-story building. The defense work here is obviously much stricter than that at the gate. Regardless of the two sentries on duty, there are still two people in the sandbag fortifications on one side of the gate.
An MG42 machine gun.
Seeing a group of people coming, the two sentries at the door quickly took off their rifles on their shoulders and aimed at the commanders of the second company who were walking over. They asked: "Hey, what do you do?"
The sound of the sentry woke up the machine gunner who was sleeping in the fortification. He quickly stood up and saw clearly that a group of people were approaching not far away, and hurriedly aimed his machine gun in that direction.
"Hey!" The sentry leading Yegor and the others saw the tense look on the other side and shouted quickly: "Don't shoot, I'm Ralph!"
A corporal in the sentry obviously knew Ralph. He lowered his gun and asked Ralph who was next to Yegor: "Ralph, why don't you stand guard at the door and come here?"
do what?"
"Corporal," Ralph said to the other party: "The captain next to me was ordered to come to the warehouse to take over the defense. I was worried that he would not be able to find a place, so I brought him here."
Hearing what Ralph said, the corporal came over, looked Yegor up and down, raised his hand in salute, and then asked politely: "Mr. Captain, which part do you belong to? Can you let me see you?"
Certificate?"
"Corporal!" How could Yegor easily show his ID to the other party? He said with a straight face: "Where is your second lieutenant? Call him out!"
The German corporal replied awkwardly: "Mr. Captain, the second lieutenant has gone to bed..."
"Wake him up!" Yegor said in a stern tone: "Go and wake him up immediately. I will hand over defense to him face to face. Do you hear me?"
The corporal didn't dare to neglect, turned around and ran towards the building.
Yegor turned to face his soldiers and made a gesture to them. Immediately, several strong soldiers quickly rushed towards another sentry and the machine gunner behind the sandbags.
Before the sentry could recover, a sharp dagger was placed on his neck. Seeing that the situation was not good, the machine gunner was about to grab the machine gun, but he was still a step too late. A soldier rushed in front of him and grabbed his machine gun with his hand.
The dagger inside touched his neck. The machine gunner stopped grabbing the machine gun, covered his neck with both hands, trying to stop the blood from flowing out of the wound, and made a sound that did not sound like a human voice. But after a moment, he
Still he fell softly to the ground and left this world with a look of reluctance on his face.
Everything happened so fast in front of him that it was over before Ralph could recover. Seeing the machine gunner lying in a pool of blood, he hurriedly went to take off the rifle on his shoulder, but before he could take it off,
A pistol was pressed against his forehead: "Ralph, if you don't want to die, don't move."
From the voice of the other party, Ralph recognized that it was the captain he had brought in. He hurriedly raised his hands above his head and said nervously: "Captain, Mr. Captain, no, don't shoot, I surrender!"
After getting rid of the German soldiers at the door, Yegor waved his hand, and the soldiers rushed into the building to deal with the remaining enemies.
The German second lieutenant slept on the second floor of the building. After he was woken up by the corporal, he asked unhappily: "Corporal, what did you wake me up for? Did something happen outside?"
"Mr. Second Lieutenant." The corporal reported to the Second Lieutenant: "A captain came outside, and he brought many people with him. He said he came to take over our defense."
"Come to our place to take over the defense?" the second lieutenant said with some confusion: "I didn't receive the notice?" After a moment of pause, he asked the corporal, "Have you checked the other party's ID?"
"No!"
"Why not check?"
The corporal replied honestly: "Mr. Second Lieutenant, I don't dare. That captain is too cruel."
"Okay, okay, I'll go check it myself." The second lieutenant muttered as he put on his clothes: "It's not a good time to change defenses, but you have to come here at night, which makes it impossible for me to sleep peacefully."
The second lieutenant put on his military coat and led the corporal downstairs.
As soon as he walked out of the stairs, the second lieutenant saw many people standing in the corridor. Standing at the front was a captain. He should be the captain who the corporal said would take over the defense.
"Mr. Captain," the second lieutenant hurried forward and said with a smile on his face: "You brought someone to the warehouse to take over our defense, right?"
Unexpectedly, as soon as he took a step forward, he saw the soldiers behind the captain raising their guns in unison. Facing the black muzzle of the gun, the second lieutenant hurriedly raised his hands to a position parallel to his shoulders.
, asked in confusion: "Mr. Captain, can you explain what is going on?"
"It's very simple, Mr. Second Lieutenant." Yegor sneered and said, "Now you are my prisoner."
"Mr. Captain, are you mistaken?" Yegor's words confused the German second lieutenant: "Aren't we one of our own?"
"Who is one of your own?" Before Yegor could speak, an officer beside him said sternly: "We are the Soviet Red Army, and you are now our prisoner."
The other party's words were like a heavy hammer, hitting the German second lieutenant's heart severely. He did not expect that in the place where the enemy was least likely to appear, there would be a group of Russians wearing the same uniforms as himself. He knew very well that probably in the
Before he went downstairs, all his men were finished.
He slowly lowered his head and replied with difficulty: "We surrender!"
After taking control of all the Germans in the warehouse, Yegor began to interrogate the prisoners.
The first person to be interrogated was naturally the German second lieutenant.
Facing Yegor's inquiry, the German second lieutenant knew that there was no point in concealing it, so he answered truthfully: "Mr. Captain, if you want to know the storage situation of materials in the warehouse, I can give you the inventory in and out account book."
, find someone to take a look at it slowly."
Seeing that the second lieutenant was so cooperative, Yegor did not embarrass him. After asking a few questions casually, he ordered someone to take him down.
After the German second lieutenant was taken away, Yegor stared at the stack of ledgers in front of him and felt worried. Although he could speak German well now, he still stayed at the level of speaking. If he was asked to read these documents, he would really read them.
don't know.
Fortunately, his embarrassment did not last long and was interrupted by Mikhailev who walked in from outside: "Comrade Captain, what are you doing?"
Seeing Mikhailev, Narva and others entering the door, Yegor quickly stood up from his seat, straightened his back and reported: "Comrade Battalion Commander, I seized the warehouse's entry and exit account book, but the content on it,
I can't understand."
"Egor, don't worry." Narva rushed to say: "The camp is equipped with a special German translator. You can ask him to translate the contents of the account book."
"Narva, our translator fell ill when we set out. I left him at the station to rest and did not let him follow us deep behind enemy lines." Mikhailev frowned and said, "We can only think of other ways.
, let’s find out the ledger of incoming and outgoing warehouses.”
"Comrade Battalion Commander." Yegor originally placed his hope on the translator in the battalion, but he did not expect that the translator did not follow the troops at all. As a result, he could only think of other ways to clear the inventory in the warehouse.
He quickly remembered that the sentry who was his guide told him that the staff in the warehouse were all Russians. He thought he could make a fuss about this, so he said to Mikhailev: "I heard about the daily work in the warehouse.
They are all in charge of our workers, and I think I can ask them to find out about the inventory status of various materials in the warehouse."
"Yeah, that's a good idea." Mikhailov nodded and said, "But where can we find them?"
"I asked the prisoners, and they said that in order to prevent the workers in the warehouse from causing damage at night, they were sent home before dark." Yegor said: "It is estimated that the workers will not rush over to work until dawn.
"
Mikhailov raised his hand and looked at his watch and said reasonably: "There are only two hours left before dawn, so let's wait for the workers to go to work. But before that, we must first make defensive preparations to prevent the German army from going to work."