Red Moscow

  Chapter 46 Picking up the Ocean (Part 2)

After Yakup finished talking with Orel, he put down his headset and microphone, raised his hand to salute Lin Hua, and said, "Comrade Lieutenant, Captain Yakup, the commander of the automatic sled company directly under the 16th Army, is reporting to you. My company was ordered to accept your command, please instruct!"

"We are comrades-in-arms who have fought side by side, so we don't need such etiquette." Lin Hua pulled Yakup's hand from his forehead and said with a smile, "I have an important task now, and I need you to help me complete it." .”

  Although Lin Hua said this in a very easy-going tone, Yakup still said respectfully: "Comrade Lieutenant, please give me an order!"

   "Comrade Captain, it's like this, we still have a dozen soldiers left in the village." Lin Hua said to Yakup: "Do you remember?"

   "I remember." Yakup nodded, expressing his approval of Lin Hua's statement, and then asked: "Comrade Lieutenant, are you going to send me back to fetch them?"

"That's right, you immediately send ten sleds back to pick up all the soldiers who stayed in the village." After Lin Hua gave him an affirmative answer, he specifically told him, "There are a few wounded among them who can't stand up." Blow cold air on the pry boards. In the dispatched sledges, except two with machine gunners, leave the crew compartments of the other eight for the wounded."

   Yakup waited for Lin Hua to finish speaking, and immediately replied unambiguously: "Understood, Comrade Lieutenant, I will immediately follow your order."

Just when Yakup arranged for the deputy company commander to take people back to the village to pick him up, the three platoon leaders Vanya, Andre, and Vasily came over and asked Lin Hua: "Comrade company commander, I don't know if the superior What task has been assigned to us?"

   "The superior has arranged a good task for us." Lin Hua smiled and said to the three platoon leaders, "Let's go pick up the ocean."

   "Picking up the ocean?" After hearing the words Lin Hua said, the three platoon leaders looked at each other, their faces full of confusion. In the end, Vanya asked, "Comrade company commander, we don't understand what is meant by 'picking up the ocean'."

Hearing Vanya's question, Lin Hua immediately realized that there was no such statement at this time, and quickly introduced to them: "When the German army fled, they discarded a lot of weapons and various military supplies. The mission of our company is to Gather up what the Germans dropped."

  After learning about the next mission of the troops, Andre couldn't help asking: "Comrade company commander, there are more than a hundred prisoners here. How should we deal with them? We can't shoot them all, right?"

"No, Comrade Andre, absolutely not." Lin Hua glanced at the prisoners under the watchful eye of the soldiers, and saw that they all had numb expressions and stomped their feet on the spot with their shoulders folded, so as not to freeze . He said decisively: "They have put down their weapons, we cannot slaughter the prisoners."

Yakup, who had just finished setting up the mission, happened to come over. Hearing what Lin Hua said behind him, he couldn't help interjecting and asked, "Comrade Lieutenant, we are going to carry out the mission. It is inconvenient to bring so many terrorists with us." Or..." At this point, he stopped and raised his hand to wipe his neck.

  Lin Hua didn't answer directly, but threw the question to the other two platoon leaders: "What's your opinion?"

  Vanya shook his head and said to Lin Hua: "Comrade company commander, I do not agree to execute the prisoners on the spot. After all, they have already put down their weapons and surrendered to us."

   And Vasily said ambiguously: "I obey everyone's opinions."

Regardless of the opinions of most people, these prisoners are all to be dealt with, but Lin Hua is unwilling to slaughter the enemies who have put down their weapons. After thinking for a while, he said to a few people: "I think so, anyway, we collect supplies We also need manpower, so why don’t we take these captives to work as coolies.” At this point, he stopped, glanced at the faces of the four people, and raised his voice to ask, “Do you have any different opinions?”

   "No!" Hearing that there is no need to kill the prisoners, Vanya immediately echoed: "I agree with the opinion of Comrade Company Commander."

  Seeing that Lin Hua didn't intend to kill the prisoners, and proposed such a plan, Yakup thought for a while, and then said: "I obey the orders of Comrade Lieutenant!"

Seeing that no one raised objections, Lin Hua looked at Vasia and said, "According to the report from the superior, the Germans planted landmines near these discarded weapons and supplies. Second Lieutenant Vasia, you used to be an engineer. In a while, you follow me to observe on the spot."

After Vasia nodded in agreement, Lin Hua went on to say: "Second Lieutenant Vasia and I took ten soldiers and drove to the designated place in a sled. Second Lieutenant Vanya, after I leave, you will be fully responsible for this place, you and Andre led the troops to **** the prisoners and then rushed over!"

   After Yakup waited for Lin Hua to assign the task, he quickly reminded: "Comrade lieutenant, we still have eight machine gunners. Do you think you should leave in a sled, or **** the prisoners with your men?"

   "We have enough manpower," Lin Hua replied casually, "Let them stay and help **** the prisoners."

  Before departure, Yakup offered to let his machine gunner make room for Lin Hua, but Lin Hua refused. Lin Hua was still standing on the pry board, and after the designated soldiers got on the pry board, he knocked **** the door of the driver's cab, and shouted to Yakup who was sitting inside: "Let's go!"

  As soon as Lin Hua and the others left, Vanya ordered the soldiers to drive away the captives and head towards the area where the German army discarded supplies. Unexpectedly, after the order was issued, the screams of soldiers and the screams of prisoners came from not far away. , Vanya hurried over and saw Gelia, the leader of the fifth squad in the second platoon, kicking a prisoner lying in a snowdrift, and asked him: "Comrade corporal, can you tell me that something happened here?" What's the matter?"

Gelia pointed at the German soldier rolling in the snowdrift, and said angrily: "This damned German, I told him to stand up. It's fine if he doesn't stand up, and he scolded me. When I got angry, I beat him up." Hit him a few times."

  Vanya also did not understand German, and he was unable to verify what Gelia said with the captives. But he was more careful, and found that the pain on the face of the prisoner rolling in the snow was not as fake, so he quickly squatted down to take a closer look. Looking at it, I really saw the problem. There was a brown stain on the knee part of the prisoner's pants, which was obviously bleeding from an injury.

  After figuring out what was going on, Vanya stood up and said to Zelia: "I figured it out, his leg is injured and he can't walk independently. You take someone to tie a stretcher and carry him away."

Hearing what Vanya said, Zelia felt that it was necessary for him to understand the current situation, and quickly reported to him: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, it's not easy to carry the wounded in the snow. Our manpower is limited. If a few more people were selected to carry the stretcher, there would be even fewer people to **** the prisoners."

  Vanya glanced at the captive and wounded soldier lying on the snowdrift, and said in a disgusted tone: "Let the captive carry him. He is not qualified to let our soldiers waste energy on him."

Hearing Vanya's words, Gelia immediately agreed excitedly: "Understood, Comrade Second Lieutenant, I'll arrange for a stretcher to be erected, and let the prisoners carry their own people and set off with us. "

  (end of this chapter)