Red Moscow

  Chapter 1 Khimki Town

Lin Hua was wearing a hooded military uniform of the Soviet Army during the Great Patriotic War, holding a Mosin Nagant rifle with no bullets in his hand, standing in front of a crumbling wooden door like a goose, staring blankly at the front Snow-covered buildings, forests, and pedestrians in thick winter clothes.

He clearly remembered that today was Victory Day. He and a few Russian friends were in a newly discovered underground bunker, wearing the uniforms of the Soviet Army during the Great Patriotic War, and holding the rifles without bullets they got from the Digging Party. adventure.

  Because the light in the bunker was too dark and there were many forks in the corridor, Lin Hua got separated from his friends while walking. He groped for a long time in the darkness, and finally saw a light shining through a half-hidden door in front of him.

  He quickened his pace and rushed to the door, pulling it open forcefully. I thought that as soon as I opened the door, I could see my lost friends waiting for me outside the door. Unexpectedly, after opening the door, they found a snow-covered scene in front of them. Although in Russia in May, sporadic unmelted snow can still be seen in the forest, but the snow scene in front of you, no matter how you look at it, will only appear in November and December.

Lin Hua turned around and walked into the door, wanting to go back to the passage just now, but found that behind the door was a half-collapsed room, the walls were not covered by snow, and one could see the smoke and flames formed by the smoke. black. He wandered around the room for a long time, but found no other passages except the door he came in.

  He came to the door again. In order to prevent himself from being frozen by the biting cold wind, he put the gun on his shoulder, crossed his hands on his chest, and kept stamping his feet on the spot.

Two young girls in dark blue military overcoats and cotton military caps passed by the trail ahead. Seeing Lin Hua's distressed appearance, they stopped and pointed at him, as if they were wondering, in such a cold place In the weather, how can someone stand outside in unlined clothing, isn't he afraid of frostbite?

   Just as Lin Hua was thinking about whether to go up and ask the two girls where this place is, he suddenly heard someone calling his Russian name loudly: "Misha, Misha, where are you?"

   "I'm here!" Hearing this shout, Lin Hua seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and hurriedly replied with a loud voice. But when he turned his head and looked in the direction where the sound came from, he saw a middle-aged man wearing a khaki short leather military coat and a cotton military cap, holding a pile of clothes in his hands, walking in the snow. He jumped and ran towards himself.

The man came to Lin Hua, frowned and said, "Misha, why did you come here, and you wear so little, aren't you afraid of being frozen to death?" A short leather military coat was draped over Lin Hua's body.

  Lin Hua put on his military overcoat, and immediately felt his whole body warm up. He looked at the middle-aged man and asked, "Who are you?"

"Who am I? Who else can I be? I'm Sergey Sha." Hearing Lin Hua's question, the other party asked strangely: "Don't you recognize me, and still call me 'you'? "

Lin Hua, who has been in Russia for more than ten years, naturally knows that only friends or acquaintances call him "you" instead of "you". However, in order to understand his situation, he ignores these details and instead Yes continued to ask: "Who am I? Where is this place?"

Seryosha stared at Lin Hua with wide eyes and said, "Misha, your full name is Mikhail Mikhailovich Sokov, you are a corporal, and you are our squad leader. Where are we now? The location is in the town of Khimki on the northern outskirts of Moscow, and our squad received the task of defending the town to prevent German spies from sneaking in and sabotaging it."

  Corporal of the Red Army, Khimki, and German spy, the combination of these words made Lin Hua's heart skip a beat, wondering if I had returned to the period of the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union? He hurriedly asked: "Seryozha, what time is it?"

  Seryozha took out a pocket watch from his pocket, glanced at it, and replied: "11:40 noon."

   "I want to ask what year and day is today?" Lin Hua said impatiently.

   "December 1, 1941." After finishing his answer, Seryozha said to Lin Hua in a concerned tone: "Misha, you should take time to visit the military hospital."

   "Go to the military hospital?!" Lin Hua asked puzzledly, "Why should I go to the military hospital?"

   "During yesterday's bombing, your head was concussed." Seryozha shook his head and said, "Consciousness has become blurred. Not only do you not remember the time and where we are, but you even forget who you are."

Lin Hua didn't pay attention to what Seryozha said, but thought desperately in his heart: On December 1, 1941, during the Moscow Defense War, at three o'clock in the afternoon of that day, a member of the German 258th Division A reconnaissance team entered and occupied Khimki, which is only 20 kilometers away from Red Square, on a motorcycle. If he waited for the Germans to come, he might not even be able to save his own life, so he might as well run away as soon as possible.

  But he quickly dismissed this idea. As a newcomer, even if he left Khimki town, he would have nowhere to go. Besides, there are checkpoints everywhere. Once you are caught, you will be shot on the spot as a deserter. Since escaping is death, and staying is also death, it is better to use the history of knowing that the Germans will enter Khimki town in a few hours, prepare for the battle in advance, and catch the Germans by surprise.

Thinking of this, he immediately ordered Sergey Sha: "Gather all the comrades in the squad to the north of the town immediately, and make them ready for battle." Considering that only one squad of his own is hard to stop the German reconnaissance Those in the small detachment must have the help of the militia, so he asked Seryozha again, "Where is the town leader?"

  Seryozha asked tentatively: "You mean the People's Commissar of the Town Soviet?"

   "Yes, yes, that's him." Lin Hua nodded vigorously, and asked anxiously, "Do you know where he is?"

  Seryozha thought for a while and replied: "Before I came here to look for you, I saw that Comrade Town People's Commissar went to the police station. You should be able to find him there."

   "I'll go find him right away." After Lin Hua finished speaking, he ran forward with a gun on his back. But after running a few steps, he stopped, turned his head to look at Seryozha who was still standing there, and asked a little embarrassedly, "Seryozha, where is the town police station?"

Hearing Lin Hua's question, the muscles on Serezha's face twitched violently a few times, then he stretched out his hand, pointed to the front right, and said, "Misha, you go east along this road. You can find the police station to the east. I think that Comrade People's Commissar is having lunch with the chief of the police station."

  (end of this chapter)