Chapter 71 surprise attack on the enemy warehouse (2)
Under the guidance of Agelina, the convoy arrived near a material warehouse. The German corporal who managed the warehouse recognized that these vehicles belonged to the prisoner of war camp. He quickly walked out of the small post outside the warehouse and directed the truck to turn around.
The rear of the car reversed toward the warehouse door.
As soon as the five trucks came to a stop, the soldiers sitting in the carriage lifted the tarpaulin behind and jumped out one after another. Seeing seventy or eighty soldiers lined up next to the truck, the German corporal quickly stepped forward and asked loudly
: "Which of you is leading the team?"
Ernst, who got off the second truck, winked with Sokov, then faced the German corporal and replied: "It's me, corporal, what can I do?"
Ernst was still wearing the uniform of a German captain at this moment. After the corporal saw his rank clearly, he quickly stood at attention and saluted, and replied: "Hello, Mr. Captain!"
Ernst returned the gift casually and repeated his question again: "Corporal, what can I do?"
"Mr. Captain," the corporal replied in a panic: "The warehouse is such an important place that no one can get close to it!"
"Idle people waiting for you?!" Ernst raised his eyebrows and asked sternly: "Corporal, you actually call the soldiers I brought here idle people waiting for you?"
"Excuse me, Mr. Captain," the corporal saw that Ernst was about to get angry and quickly defended: "This is an important area of the warehouse. We are not internal personnel and are not allowed to approach here. This is the rule of the warehouse, please forgive me!"
"If my people don't go in," Ernst said reluctantly, "then how are we going to load the supplies into the car?"
The corporal looked at Ernst and thought to himself: What's going on with this captain? Doesn't he know that there are people who specialize in moving goods in the warehouse? But he still patiently explained to Ernst: "Mr. Captain, we
There are people specifically responsible for carrying goods, please let these soldiers leave here first."
"How many of you are there?" Ernst glanced at Sokov who was standing not far away, and then asked: "Can they handle five trucks of goods?"
"There are 25 people in our group. No matter how much goods we carry, we will be busy." After the corporal finished speaking, he politely said to Ernst: "Mr. Captain, please go to the warehouse supervisor first and list the needs."
With the list of goods, I can also arrange for manpower to help you load the truck."
Through Agelina's low-pitched translation, Sokov understood the conversation between Ernst and the corporal. Thinking that there were only about twenty logistics soldiers carrying goods in the warehouse, they should have little combat effectiveness, so he ordered decisively:
"Do it!"
Following his order, several soldiers rushed forward and pointed the black muzzles at the corporal. Facing the muzzles pointed at him, the corporal asked in panic: "You...you...are...yes"
Who?"
"Corporal, they are the Soviet Red Army!" Ernst saw the corporal reaching out to draw his gun and quickly stopped him: "I advise you not to resist in vain, but to surrender obediently!" Seeing that the situation was over, the corporal could only raise his hands obediently.
Over the head.
Vanya led a company of soldiers and rushed into the warehouse to capture the German soldiers carrying goods inside; while Vasily led a company of soldiers and followed Sokov to find the warehouse supervisor.
Unexpectedly, they had just reached the halfway point when they encountered a ten-man patrol. The German sergeant leading the team saw that something was wrong with the oncoming troop. There were four machine guns in front and a submachine gun behind them.
. He quickly stopped the patrol and asked Sokov, who was walking at the front of the team: "Which unit are you in?"
At this moment, Ernst and Agelina were not with him. Sokov could not understand what the German soldiers were saying. He just led his soldiers forward quickly.
When the German sergeant saw that the other party did not respond, he immediately realized that they were a group of impostors. He took out his gun and shouted loudly: "They are Russians, shoot quickly!"
If the German sergeant hadn't yelled so loudly and rushed to draw his gun, Sokov and the others would not have realized that they were exposed. At this moment, seeing the sergeant drawing his gun, Sokov raised his submachine gun without hesitation.
The trigger was pulled at the opponent, and after a series of "click-click" bullets were fired, the sergeant was shaken like an electric shock, and fell to the ground with a pop. The soldier following Sokov saw the battalion.
The leader took the lead in firing and fired unequivocally. The machine gun and submachine gun opened fire at the same time, knocking all the patrols who had not recovered to their senses to the ground.
As soon as the gunshots were fired, the German officers and soldiers in the warehouse area were naturally alerted. With weapons in hand, they rushed from all directions to the place where the gunshots were fired, hoping to eliminate these enemies who had sneaked in as soon as possible. However, the firepower of the machine gun battery was so powerful that
It exceeded their imagination. The bullets sprayed by the four machine guns one after another formed a fire net, piercing the bodies of the German soldiers who broke in, causing them to fall in pieces on the snow. The rest
Seeing that the Soviet army's firepower was too fierce, the German soldiers did not dare to continue charging, so they could only hide in wooden houses or ravines and fire back.
When the fighting in the warehouse area was in full swing, Saviev arrived with the main force of the third company and the first company and the machine gun battery, and launched an attack on the warehouse area from the outside. Where are the two machine guns at the entrance of the German army on the west?
Against an opponent with more than a dozen machine guns, two machine guns were killed in less than five minutes.
Seeing that the enemies at the entrance were eliminated, Saviev stood up from the tree stump where he was hiding, raised his pistol high above his head, and shouted: "Comrades, charge!" Under his leadership, hundreds of soldiers
Soldiers rushed into the warehouse area like a tide.
The number of German troops in the warehouse area was not superior to begin with. In addition, they suffered heavy casualties during the counterattack. Now that they saw the large Soviet troops rushing up from behind, they had no courage to continue fighting. Some immediately threw away their weapons.
, raised their hands high and surrendered; some fled towards the east entrance, trying to escape to a safe place from there.
Seeing the enemies in the warehouse area scurrying around like headless flies, Sokov led dozens of soldiers and launched an attack on the wooden house where the German major was located, preparing to take it down in one fell swoop. Unexpectedly, the Germans arranged in the wooden house
There was a machine gun, and the soldiers who rushed towards it suffered more than a dozen casualties.
Seeing this situation, Sokov quickly ordered the 1st and 3rd companies to capture prisoners in the warehouse area, while he took the machine gun battery to surround the wooden house. At the same time, he also asked Ernst, who came after hearing the news, to attack.
Shouting in the room, ordering the German major inside to immediately put down his weapons and come out to surrender.
After hearing Ernst's shouting, the dozen or so German officers and soldiers in the room instinctively turned their eyes to the major, wanting to see what decision he would make. Unexpectedly, the major sneered and said: "This
The house was made of logs. If the Russians didn't have artillery support, they wouldn't even be able to rush in even if corpses were spread all around the house."
When the German soldiers saw that the house was surrounded, they were a little uneasy at first, but when they heard the major speaking so confidently, they all gave up the idea of surrender and prepared to continue to resist.
The major looked through the window and saw that there were four to five hundred Soviet troops outside. He couldn't help but frown slightly. He realized that no matter how strong the house he was in, if he did not get foreign aid, he would be unable to escape sooner or later.
The fate of the army would be destroyed. Thinking of this, he quickly ordered the communications troops: "Send a report immediately, saying that the logistics warehouse has been attacked by the Russians. If troops are not sent to support immediately, the warehouse is in danger of being lost."
Vasily outside also found that the house was solid and it was not easy to take it down. He walked to Sokov and whispered: "Comrade Battalion Commander, this house is made of logs. If there is no artillery fire,
Support, if we rush in, we will inevitably pay heavy casualties."
Sokov stared at the wooden house for a while, agreeing with Vasily's view. He thought for a while, and then said to Vasily: "Comrade Lieutenant, you immediately gather eight machine guns and shoot at the door!" p>
Hearing this strange order, Vasily asked curiously: "Comrade Battalion Commander, what is going on? Why are we aiming at the gate and shooting?"
Sokov did not explain to him, but urged him: "Stop talking nonsense and execute the order quickly."
Vasily muttered and returned to his soldiers, selected eight machine gun teams, and ordered them to aim at the door and shoot. The machine gunners lay on the ground, pointed their guns at the wooden door, and with the order, everyone pulled the triggers at the same time.
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When the German soldiers hiding in the house saw eight Soviet machine guns set up, they didn't pay much attention. They thought that bullets would not penetrate the logs so easily and they should be safe hiding in the house. But when the machine guns fired, they
Shooting, they were immediately dumbfounded. After the closed wooden door was hit by the dense bullets, the splashed wood splinters flew up like feathers.
"What the hell, what the hell." The major saw the closed wooden door shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye under the heavy bullets, and couldn't help shouting: "Concentrate so many machine guns just to deal with a wooden door.
, this Russian commander must be crazy."
Seeing this, one of his subordinates quickly grabbed him and begged: "Mr. Major, let's surrender. If there is no wooden door, even if the Russians don't have artillery, they can throw countless grenades in and blow us up alive."
Dead."
"Yes, yes, Mr. Major." Seeing someone speaking first, several soldiers immediately echoed: "The Russians' firepower is too strong, we'd better surrender!"
The major saw that as the wooden door was destroyed by the Soviet machine gun fire, the soldiers in the room had lost their fighting spirit, and there was no point in forcing them to resist. He stamped his feet, closed his eyes and said painfully: "Okay, we -
Surrender!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a German soldier pushed open the window sideways, stretched out a rifle tied to a white shirt, and waved it desperately.
"The Germans have surrendered!" Vasily, who was crying, saw the white flag sticking out of the window. His eyes suddenly lit up and he quickly ordered the machine gun to stop shooting. Then he pulled out his pistol and rushed to the soldiers on standby and said: "Brothers
, it’s our turn, come with me to capture the prisoners!”