Red Moscow

  Chapter 37 The friendly forces who captured the dam

After Lin Hua stopped the German army's plot to blow up the dam, considering the disparity in strength between himself and the German army, he brought the soldiers from his company to the bunker where the German engineer soldiers lived, and prepared to wait for the large troops to arrive before going there to fight with the German army. They converge.

  He stood at the door and looked inside. He saw that the space was not very big. If more than a dozen people entered, it would be difficult to turn around. So he told Andre: "Let the wounded go in and rest, and we will stay outside."

  In the battle just now, four soldiers were sacrificed, six were injured, and two of them were seriously injured. If they were to lie outside, they would easily suffer from freezing. Therefore, as soon as Lin Hua's order was issued, the soldiers hurriedly carried the wounded into the bunker and put them on the ground, and Assia took care of them.

   After all this was done, the battle to attack the dam in the distance began. The soldiers stood around the bunker, looking curiously towards the direction of the dam, wanting to see clearly how their troops wiped out the enemies on the dam.

  Although he didn't have a telescope, Lin Hua could still clearly see the battle happening hundreds of meters away. The Soviet army attacking the dam probably consisted of a battalion of troops. They didn't even have fire cover, so they hastily launched an attack on the dam. But at the entrance of the dam, they were shot by German machine guns, and after forty or fifty casualties, they retreated in a panic.

Vanya, who was standing beside Lin Hua, also saw this scene. He couldn't help but frowned and said, "Comrade Lieutenant, there are two blockhouses at the entrance of the dam, and the crossfire formed by the two machine guns can completely block the passageway." The road to the dam. If we don’t destroy these two bunkers first, it will be very difficult for our army to rush into the dam even if we pay a huge price.”

"Comrade Company Commander," Hearing what Vanya said, even Andre came out to join in the fun, he said to Lin Hua: "How about we launch an attack from the other side of the dam to attract the enemy's attention, So that the friendly forces can successfully occupy the dam."

Hearing what Andre said, Lin Hua turned his head to look at him, and said with a serious expression: "Second platoon leader, don't forget that we lost ten soldiers in the battle that just ended. Even if four of them were seriously injured Young fighters can continue to participate in the battle, and we only have 19 people. To attack an enemy whose number is seven or eight times larger than ours is an act of death."

  Andre's proposal to attack was also impulsive because he saw that the friendly army's attack failed. Hearing what Lin Hua said, he realized that he was too reckless. Relying on himself alone, a dozen or so people, probably wasn't enough to give the Germans teeth.

  After the troops attacking the dam failed, they temporarily retreated to the forest for rest. Another half hour later, they resumed their attack, this time with two T-34s leading the way. Seeing the Soviet tanks rushing up, the German machine gunners hiding in the bunker immediately fired desperately, trying to prevent the tanks from approaching.

  The dense bullets hit the tank's armor plate, splashing a series of sparks, but it didn't slow down the tank's tracks. The leading tank stopped about a hundred meters away from the bunker, slowly turned the turret, and aimed its muzzle at the bunker on the left. A moment later, with a bang, the gun barrel spit out a foot-long flame, and the bunker at the entrance of the dam exploded, and the German officers and soldiers inside were blown to pieces. Then, the tank following behind also fired a shot, destroying another bunker.

  Seeing that the bunker at the entrance of the dam was destroyed by tanks, the infantry who followed cheered and quickened their pace, crossed the tanks parked at the entrance, and rushed into the dam.

  The battle lasted for about half an hour before it was declared over. More than a hundred German soldiers were killed or bombed to death, and the rest quickly threw away their weapons, raised their hands high, and surrendered to the Soviet army.

  Lin Hua and his subordinates stayed quietly near the bunker a few hundred meters away, carefully observing the battle to attack the dam. Seeing that the German army was wiped out and the Soviet army occupied the dam, Andre lost his composure and kept urging Lin Hua: "Comrade company commander, the battle is over, let's go over and say hello to the commander of the friendly army." Bar."

"Wait a little longer," Lin Hua saw that although the battle was over, the highest commander on the dam at the moment was at most a battalion commander, so he said calmly, "Wait until the higher commander of the friendly army arrives." , it’s not too late for us to go there.”

  However, before the higher-level commanders of the friendly army came, a search team came first. It turned out that after the Soviet battalion commander captured the dam, when he observed the surrounding environment with a telescope, he found that there seemed to be a small army in the forest to the north. Judging from the clothes, he looks like one of his own. To find out what was going on, the battalion commander sent a squad north to search.

  The sergeant leading the team shouted loudly when he was still more than a hundred meters away from Lin Hua and the others: "Hey, which part are you from?"

  In order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, Lin Hua asked Vanya to come forward to answer after hearing the other party's call. Vanya shouted at the other party: "We are from the 765th Regiment of the Fifth Guards Division. Which part are you?"

The sergeant asked his soldiers to stay where they were, walked over alone, saluted Lin Hua, who had the highest military rank, and replied: "We are from the third battalion of the 248th Regiment of the Ninth Guards Division. We have been ordered to seize the Istria Reservoir. the dam so that it will not be damaged by the enemy, so that our army can pass through the ice downstream smoothly."

Lin Hua waited for the other party to finish speaking, and then said: "Comrade Sergeant, our mission is similar to yours, and it is also to protect the dam from being destroyed by the Germans." When he said this, seeing that the sergeant seemed to want to interrupt, he continued , "I know, you want to ask why we are here. I can tell you clearly that before you arrived, we had just destroyed the German army's plot to blow up the dam. Did you see that bunker?" The bunker pouted, "The detonators of the German engineers are there. In the fight to stop them, we lost ten soldiers."

  The sergeant looked at the snow-covered bunker not far away, and found that there were indeed many traces of battles, especially the snow near the shooting holes, which had completely melted away, exposing the gray concrete wall below. After watching all this, he smiled and said to Lin Hua: "Comrade Lieutenant, since you are a friendly army, please come back to the dam with me. Our battalion commander wants to see you."

  Although the unit that captured the dam was not the Fifth Guards Division, it was not appropriate for such a small unit as his own to stay in the ice and snow all the time. Since the sergeant invited him to go to the dam, he agreed without hesitation. Then ordered the soldiers to carry the wounded, and followed the soldiers of the friendly army to walk towards the dam together.

  (end of this chapter)