Red Moscow

  Chapter 42 Landmines, see also Landmines

   After a two-hour rest, Lin Hua led his company to march towards Volokolamsk overnight.

  The snow on the road ahead and the traces that have been cleaned up have no effect on the march. But after walking more than ten kilometers, there was no road ahead, and there was a vast expanse of whiteness everywhere. Lin Hua and the others could only walk forward with difficulty on the knee-high snow.

  When it was dark, it was only more than 30 kilometers away from Volokolamsk, but the commanders and fighters were extremely tired. Seeing this situation, Vanya quickly said to Lin Hua: "Comrade company commander, the soldiers are exhausted, let's find a place to rest." He pointed forward with his hand, "There is a village."

  Lin Hua looked forward in the direction of his finger, and saw a snow-covered village there. The village is not big, only twenty or thirty wooden houses. For some reason, when Lin Hua saw this village, he suddenly had an extremely bad feeling in his heart. But what's wrong with it, he couldn't say.

  After he raised his hand to stop the troops from advancing, he told Vanya, "Comrade Second Lieutenant, take two people to investigate. I always feel that something is wrong in the village."

"Comrade Lieutenant, what could be wrong?" Seeing that Lin Hua ordered the troops to stop, but asked Vanya to take people to reconnaissance, Second Lieutenant Vasili, the third platoon leader, said disapprovingly: "According to my experience, there are no No one. No villagers, no Germans."

   "Comrade Second Lieutenant, how did you see it?" Hearing what Vasily said, Andre asked curiously, "Can you tell me about it?"

"Look, Comrade Sergeant." Although Andrei's military rank is lower than Vasily's, but because the two have the same position, Vasily said to him in a tone of equal rank, "No one walks in the snow in the village." There are no signs of snow, and there has been no snow in the past two days, which means that no one has lived in this village for a long time.”

Andre waited for Vasili to finish, stared at the village for a while, then nodded, and said: "That's right, the snow in the village is very clean, there are no traces of people walking by, it looks very No one lived there for a long time."

   Just when Vanya was about to enter the village with two soldiers, Lin Hua suddenly thought of what made him uneasy, and quickly shouted: "Stop, Second Lieutenant Vanya, stop immediately!"

   But his shout was immediately blown away by the bitter cold wind, and they couldn't hear it at all in Vanya, a hundred meters away. Andre and Vasily next to him heard Lin Hua suddenly yelling like crazy, and realized that something might be wrong, so they also yelled. This time Vanya finally heard it. He waved his hand and told the two soldiers to continue walking towards the village. He turned around and looked at where Lin Hua and the others were.

  Vanya put his hand to his ear, tilting his head to hear what Lin Hua and the others were shouting. At this moment, there was a loud "bang" sound from behind, and then he felt someone pushing him heavily from behind, causing him to fall to the ground in a state of embarrassment.

What happened at the entrance of the village was clearly seen by Lin Hua and others who were standing in the distance. As soon as the two soldiers under Vanya entered the village, a cloud of black smoke rose from the feet of the soldier walking in front. , Then he was danced and flew into the air, and after somersaults, he fell heavily into the thick snow. Another soldier and Vanya were also knocked down by the blast.

   "Damn it, the Germans really planted landmines in the village." Lin Hua punched his helmet with his fist angrily, and then took the lead and ran over.

Vanya, who was knocked down by the air wave, raised his head from the snow with difficulty, shook his buzzing head, turned his head and looked back, and saw his two soldiers lying on the limit, He hurriedly struggled to stand up, and ran towards the soldier closest to him.

Lin Hua ran to Vanya's side and squatted down. Seeing the soldier lying in his arms covered in blood, he quickly turned his head and said to Assia who was following him, "Assia, quickly bandage him!" ’” Then he asked Vanya, “Well, Comrade Lieutenant, you’re not hurt?”

Vanya shook his head, looked blankly at the soldier who had unfortunately stepped on a landmine lying in the snow in front of him, and said with a dejected expression, "I'm not injured, but I don't know what happened to my soldier. .”

During the night battle in Kryukovo Village, Vasily, who was extremely timid, saw the soldier lying in the snow and said, "Comrade Lieutenant, let me go and see." Ready to run over.

Lin Hua quickly grabbed him, and said sharply, "Stop, Second Lieutenant Vasili, you are dying! Who knows how many landmines the Germans have planted in the village. If you barge in like this recklessly, it is not for nothing. life?"

   Unexpectedly, Vasily turned his head and smiled at Lin Hua, and said, "Don't worry, Comrade Lieutenant, I used to be an engineer, and these German mines can't hurt me."

  Hearing that Vasili used to be an engineer, Lin Hua let go of his hand, but still told him: "Second lieutenant, be more careful."

Under the concerned eyes of everyone, Vasily entered the village. He cautiously came to the side of the soldier, squatted down and looked carefully, turned the soldier's body over, put his hand in front of his nose and tried Try, then turned to face Lin Hua and the others, shook his head with a serious expression, indicating that the soldier had died.

  Vassily picked up the rifle that had been left aside, stood up and walked towards the village. Since there were no ready-made mine detection tools, he used the rifle as a mine detector, and poked lightly at the places he suspected from time to time to confirm whether there were mines there. He walked very slowly, almost moving every step, and walked for more than ten minutes before reaching the middle of the village.

   Vasili stopped in the middle of the village, raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, turned his head and shouted at Lin Hua and others standing outside the village: "Comrade Lieutenant, you can come in now."

Although Vasili, who was born as an engineer, had loudly announced that there were no landmines in the village, Lin Hua was still not at ease. He took four soldiers into the village and asked them to carry out the sacrificed soldiers first, and then left along Vasily. He walked slowly to Vasily's side, and said to him: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, have you confirmed that there are no landmines in the village?"

  Vassily shook his head and said: "There should be none, Comrade Lieutenant. I have carefully insisted on it. At least on the way I walked, no landmines were found."

Lin Hua saw a big wooden house next to it, which should have been the office of the village Soviet in the past, so he pouted there and said to Vasily, "Comrade Second Lieutenant, go and check there. If there are no mines, we will send the commander set up here."

  Vassily promised, and walked quickly to the door of the wooden house, checked the wooden door first, and opened the wooden door slowly and cautiously after finding nothing unusual. After the wooden door opened, he did not enter the house immediately, but stood at the door in a daze.

   "What's the matter, Comrade Second Lieutenant." Seeing his reaction, Lin Hua immediately realized what was in the room, frightened him, and quickly asked, "What's in the room?"

   "Mines!" Vasily turned to Lin Hua and said, "The house is full of landmines!"

Hearing that the house was full of landmines, Lin Hua was startled into a cold sweat. Just as he was about to order Vasili to withdraw immediately, he heard the other party say: "These landmines are packed in boxes. They were buried somewhere, but they were not transported away in time. Don’t worry, as long as we don’t mess with these mines, there won’t be any danger.”

  (end of this chapter)