Red Moscow

  Chapter 13 First Arrival in Kryukovo Village

  Lin Hua left the division headquarters and returned to his team. Andre immediately asked with concern: "Comrade platoon leader, what is the task of our platoon?"

   "The division headquarters gave us an order to rush to Kryukovo village immediately and take up the defensive task." Lin Hua said angrily, "Comrade Andrei, I guess we won't fight for a long time."

   Knowing that the next combat mission was to go to a small village with the same name as the city to take on the defense mission, Andre couldn't help showing a disappointed expression on his face. He said angrily: "There is no way, comrade platoon leader, since it is an order from the superior, then we can only carry it out unconditionally."

  A guide sent by the division headquarter led Lin Hua and his soldiers to a small village after walking several kilometers on foot. An elderly second lieutenant officer was standing at the entrance of the village with his hands behind his back. The soldiers leading the way hurried forward to salute him, and reported: "Second Lieutenant Vasily, I have been ordered to bring the new troops."

  The second lieutenant nodded at the other party, and said politely: "Thank you for letting you run so far. Please go to the village and have a cup of hot tea."

  The soldier hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No need, Second Lieutenant Vasily, I'm going back to report back." After speaking, he raised his hand to salute the other party, turned and left quickly.

As soon as Lin Hua and other soldiers left, they quickly came to the second lieutenant, raised their hands in salute, and said, "Comrade second lieutenant, Sergeant Sokov, the commander of the garrison platoon in Khimki, reports to you that our platoon has been ordered to come here." Take over the defense, please instruct!"

  The second lieutenant raised his hand to return the salute, walked straight to the soldiers who had just lined up, and said loudly: "Comrades, I am second lieutenant Vasily, welcome to come!  …"

  While Second Lieutenant Vasily was speaking, Lin Hua was carefully observing the situation in the village. Half of the buildings in the village should have been destroyed by the war. The original wooden houses in those places were only left with some black beams left by the fire. After Lin Hua waited for Vasili to finish speaking to the soldiers, he immediately asked him for instructions: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, where do our troops live?"

"According to the rules, they should live in the homes of ordinary people." The second lieutenant glanced at the army in front of him, and then turned his head to look at it. Only half of the village was left, and he said with some embarrassment: "But this village was built half a month ago. , in the German attack, half of them were destroyed. When the villagers returned to the village after the fighting was over, many people found that their homes no longer existed. Now they are several families crowded together. If our If soldiers live in residential houses, many people will have nowhere to go.”

  Lin Hua turned his head and looked towards the village again, and saw a relatively complete wooden house in the south of the village. He pointed to the house and said to Vasily: "Comrade Lieutenant, we can live there."

Vasili looked in the direction of his finger, and after seeing the wooden house clearly, he nodded and replied: "Comrade Sergeant, there is a barn in the village. Although there is no grain stored, there are a lot of straw piled up. , you and your subordinates live in it, there should be no problem."

  Vassily came to the barn with his troops, and when the door was opened, an unpleasant smell immediately hit his nostrils. Seeing that everyone instinctively covered his nose with their hands, Vasily said apologetically, "I'm sorry, comrades, this place has not been used for a long time, so it must have a smell, just open the door for a while."

"Comrades, don't stand still." Lin Hua removed his hand covering his nose, looked at the messy barn, and told the soldiers: "Hurry up and tidy up here, we will live here later. "Hearing Lin Hua's order, the soldiers poured into the barn one after another and began to clean up.

  Seeing the soldiers starting to clean up, Vasily said to Lin Hua: "Comrade Sergeant, come with me for a walk, and I will introduce you to the situation in the village."

  Lin Hua guessed that the other party might have something to say, so he asked Andre to stay and direct the soldiers to clean up, while he followed Vasily towards the outside of the village.

   "Comrade Sergeant," Vasily pointed to the burned houses and asked, "Do you know how these houses were burned?"

  Hearing this question, Lin Hua shook his head instinctively, thinking that since I didn't see it with my own eyes, how could I know how these houses were burned down.

Vasily didn't seem to want to get any answer from Lin Hua at all, but said to himself: "Half a month ago, a platoon of soldiers was stationed in this village. Facing the ferocious German attack, they stubbornly The battle lasted for three days. Even when there were only the last seven people left in the platoon, the platoon leader led the soldiers to bravely charge towards the enemy. In the end, all the soldiers except one seriously wounded were sacrificed. And these buildings The objects were destroyed by German artillery fire during those few days of fighting."

After listening to Vasily's story, Lin Hua's mind suddenly flashed, and he thought: No wonder when I heard the place name Kryukovo, I felt so familiar. In the book, I heard a song "In Nakryukovo Village", which praised the soldiers who stood firm in Kryukovo Village. Thinking of this, Lin Hua couldn't help admiring the soldiers who sacrificed their lives to defend Kryukovo Village.

Vasily took him to the west of the village. Here, you can see a circular trench outside the village. From the scorched earth, the bomb craters everywhere, and a damaged German tank in the distance, you can imagine the battle at that time How intense.

  Looking at the simple fortifications outside the village, Lin Hua asked Vasily curiously: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, did the soldiers who defended the village at that time rely on such simple fortifications to hold on for three days under the fierce German offensive?"

"Yes, our brave fighters blocked the German attack with such crude fortifications." Vasily pointed to the wreckage of the tank in the distance, and continued: "The warriors do not have any anti-tank weapons. When this tank rushed towards the village, two soldiers strapped bombs on their bodies and rushed up to die with the enemy tank." Lin Hua took off his military cap and looked at the destroyed German tank in the distance. Silent condolences to the two warriors who bombed the tank.

After Lin Hua put on his military cap again, Vasily said to him: "Comrade Sergeant, although our army is currently besieging the city of Kryukovo, can we take the city and drive the enemy far away from this area?" Go, we don't know yet. Therefore, the village must be defended with troops against a possible German attack."

   "Comrade Second Lieutenant," Lin Hua analyzed from the song he remembered, and analyzed that the German army would not launch a second attack, so he was full of confidence in defending the village. He waited for the other party to finish speaking, and immediately stated: "Please rest assured, as long as we are here, Kryukovo village will be impenetrable, and no German will ever be allowed to enter this village."

  (end of this chapter)