Red Moscow

  Chapter 138 Night Attack on Prisoner of War Camp

  Due to the distance of this raid, if there is no transportation, it will take at least five or six days to go back and forth. Sukov was afraid of long nights and dreams, so he ordered the six army 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 must not reveal the slightest information, understand?"

   "Don't worry, Comrade Battalion Commander, I will keep the secret." When Belkin shook hands with Sokov to bid farewell, he specifically told him: "Pay attention to safety, and look forward to your triumphant return!"

   "Don't worry, we will come back safely."

Sokov came to the gathering place of the squad, looked at the soldiers with heads held high and high spirits, nodded with satisfaction, then waved his hand, and announced with great majesty: "All listen to my password: stand at attention! Turn back and get on the sled! Let's go!"

  Thirty-one commanders and fighters, including Sokov, sat on sleds pulled by six German army horses, and headed towards Duminić dozens of kilometers away.

Seryozha, who was sitting on the same sled with Sokov, was eager to know what the specific mission of the operation was, so he approached Sokov and asked, "Hey, I said Misha, since we have already set off, what are you doing?" Always tell me, what the **** are we going to do in Duminić?"

Unexpectedly, Sokov snorted and said to him in an official tone: "Second Lieutenant Seryozha, you are also an officer now, don't you know what to ask and what not to ask?" Hui hit a soft nail on Sokov, so he could only laugh dryly, leaned back, and leaned against the supply pile on the sled with his eyes closed.

  The route taken by the team was inaccessible. The snow in the forest was very deep, and the sled pulled by horses only traveled four to five kilometers per hour. Sokov couldn't help but secretly rejoice that if there were no horses and sleds, the soldiers would have to carry their own weapons and supporting ammunition to march through the waist-deep snow, at most one or two kilometers an hour. It will take at least two days to cover the fifty kilometers. Even if they reach their destination, the soldiers will not be able to fight immediately because of lack of physical strength.

  It was already midnight when we arrived at the 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 this small concentration camp in the distance with a telescope, and it was no different from the concentration camps he had seen before. The entire camp is surrounded by double-layer barbed wire. Near the entrance, there is a four- to five-meter-high wooden sentry box with a machine gun on it and a searchlight swinging back and forth on it. It is scanning the wooden houses in the prisoner-of-war camp to prevent prisoners from entering. slip out.

   "Comrade Valerian," Sokov put down his binoculars, and asked puzzledly, "I don't understand. What's the point of building such a prisoner-of-war camp for the Germans in a place where there are no stores behind the former Buba village?"

"It is said that this place was specially built by the Germans to detain officers." Although it was five or six hundred meters away from the prisoner-of-war camp, Valerian lowered his voice habitually when he spoke, "I was imprisoned at the time." When I was here, I also met two generals."

"General, has a general been imprisoned here?" Seryozha, who was lying on the other side of Sokov, became excited when he heard that there was a captured general in the prisoner-of-war camp, "Misha, if we can rescue a general from here , that would be a great achievement.”

  Hearing what Seryozha said, Sokov couldn't help laughing, thinking that even if there were ten generals in this prisoner-of-war camp, they were not as important as Yakov alone. He turned his head and told Sergey Sha: "Sergeysha, you take two squads of soldiers, cut the barbed wire and enter the prisoner-of-war camp, and kill the guards inside, understand?"

   After receiving the order, Sergei asked habitually, "How many guards are there?"

   "There are only a dozen or so." Valerian hurriedly replied: "After dark, except for the guard post and the sentinel at the gate, 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, Seryozha grinned and said to Sokov confidently, "Misha, don't worry, I will let these guards go to see God in their sleep. "

  Seryozha led the soldiers to approach the barbed wire fence smoothly. The two soldiers cut the wire with the pliers they carried, and then climbed in through the cut gap, ready to cut the second barbed wire fence. Seryozha thought to himself, this operation is really too simple, the enemy didn't notice it at all, and let us enter the prisoner-of-war camp smoothly.

   At this moment, there was a loud "boom" sound, and a dazzling flame rose between the two barbed wire fences. A warrior with pincers danced into the air and fell back down hard, causing an even bigger explosion.

"Damn it, it's a minefield!" Seryozha never dreamed that the Germans would set up a minefield between two barbed wire fences. According to his experience, the passage between the two barbed wire fences should be the area for guards and patrols. What about planting mines?

  The explosion of the landmine alarmed the watchtower and the sentries at the gate. The searchlight immediately swept towards the position where Sergei Sha and the others were, and the soldiers of the two squads were exposed to the strong light of the searchlight in an instant. As soon as the target was locked, the machine guns on the watchtower and at the door aimed at the position where Seryozha and the others were.

  A few soldiers who were caught off guard immediately fell under the intensive machine gun fire, and the rest of the soldiers quickly lay down on the spot and fired back at the German machine guns. The sound of gunfire alarmed the sleeping guards in the wooden house, and they rushed out disheveledly with guns in hand. As they fired, they approached in the direction of Seryozha and the others.

Sokov, who was on the other side of the prisoner-of-war camp, saw this situation and immediately gave orders to the soldiers around him: "Snipers, destroy the machine guns and searchlights; Liao Sha and the others."

  As the order was issued, the searchlights on the watchtower were first knocked out. After the German army lost the target, the gunfire immediately became sparse. The guards who were rushing towards Seryozha and the others were blocked by machine guns, so they could only lie down on the spot and fight back at the position where Sokov and the others were.

   Seeing that the enemy's firepower was weakened, Sergesha immediately ordered the soldiers to use grenades to blow up the barbed wire, and quickly rushed into the prisoner-of-war camp, turning around from behind the guards.

  The battle lasted for more than ten minutes, and all the guards in the prisoner-of-war camp were wiped out. But the small team also paid a big price, five people died and seven were injured.

Sokov came to the gate of the prisoner-of-war camp and ordered Sergei who was directing the soldiers to open the gate: "Second Lieutenant Sergei, the gunshots may have alarmed the nearby enemies. We need to transfer immediately and let all the prisoners be moved immediately." Come out of the cabin."

  Sokov's order was quickly conveyed. When the prisoners of war staying in the wooden house heard the gunshots outside, they guessed that it might be their own troops who came to rescue them. When they saw their comrades in Soviet uniforms kicking open the closed wooden door and rushing in, they couldn't help but burst into tears.

But these soldiers didn't bother to greet them, but shouted 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 , Woke up those prisoners of war who were still asleep.

  Sokov stood at the entrance of the prisoner-of-war camp, and saw his soldiers leading groups of prisoners in vertical stripes, coming out of the prisoner-of-war camp one after another, and walking towards the position where the sleds were parked. He wanted Valerian to identify whether there was Yakov among these people, but he saw no one on the left and right, and he couldn't help but shouted: "Valerian, Valerian, where are you?" ?”

   "Comrade Battalion Commander," replied a sniper standing next to him, "he is dead, he was just killed by a German machine gun, and the body is parked where we were lurking just now."

  Hearing that Valerian died, Sokov couldn't help but feel a headache. He said to himself that I don't know Yakov, so I can't ask loudly here: Who is Stalin's son Yakov?

   Seryozha led his men to clean up the camp, and after confirming that no prisoner was missing, he ran over to report to Sokov. After a long distance, he shouted loudly: "Major Sokov, I have already checked, and there is no prisoner of war inside."

   At that time, several prisoners of war passed by Sokov, and one of them stopped when he heard Seryozha's shout, and turned his head to look at Sokov. After looking at it for a while, he tentatively asked, "Major Sokov? I want to ask, is your name Mikhail Mikhailnovich?"

  (end of this chapter)