Red Moscow

  Chapter 69 Surprise Raid on the Enemy's Warehouse (Part 1)

  Adelina heard someone knocking on the door, and hurriedly got up to open the door. When she saw Sergei standing at the door, she couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and asked in surprise, "What can you do with me?"

   "I'm not looking for you, Adelina." Seryozha looked at the beautiful female translator and said with a half-smile, "It's our battalion commander who wants to find you."

"Battalion Commander?" Adelina has been staying in her room since Sokov and the others took over the prisoner-of-war camp. Naturally, she didn't know that Istrina Company had been upgraded from a company to a battalion, so she was at a loss. Asked back: "Who is your battalion commander?"

"Who else is that Lieutenant Sokov who talked to you yesterday." Sergey said with some pride: "Oh, I forgot to tell you, because we captured the prisoner-of-war camp yesterday without bloodshed, and the superiors have already promoted him to For battalion commander, he is now Captain Sokov."

  Adelina waited for Seryozha to finish speaking, and then asked: "Then I can ask, what is your battalion commander looking for me?"

   Seryosha shook his head and answered honestly: "I don't know, he just ordered me to come and invite you. Please, Comrade Adelina, everyone is waiting for you."

  Adelina followed Seryosha to the door of Sokov's room, and she was startled by the crowd of people sitting inside. When she was hesitating at the door, Sokov saw her, stood up and greeted her and said, "Comrade Adelina, don't stand at the door, please come in."

   Under the eyes of everyone, Adelina came to Sokov and asked calmly: "Captain Sokov, may I ask you to come here, what's the matter?"

"That's right, Comrade Adelina." In front of many of his subordinates, Sokov put on a serious look and asked: "I heard that you once worked as an interpreter for the German garrison commander. Is this the case?"

   "Yes, Comrade Captain." When Adelina said this, she caught a glimpse of several people casting hateful glances at her. Although she couldn't name those people, she could guess from their tattered military coats that they should be prisoners of war who had just been rescued. She said in a panic: "I once worked as an interpreter for the German garrison commander. .”

  Sokov noticed the strangeness in Adelina's tone, he frowned slightly, and was trying to figure out what was going on, but he accidentally noticed the hostile gazes cast on Adelina. He finally understood what was going on, and before continuing to question Adelina, he first explained to the commander who did not understand the situation: "Commanders, let me introduce to you, this is Comrade Adelina, She was ordered by her superiors to lurk in the Volokramsk area to work underground. In order to complete the tasks assigned to her by her superiors, she silently endured misunderstandings from her own people, and the hostile eyes of others, and lived humiliatingly among the enemies on...”

   Those in the room who didn’t know Adelina’s identity included Savyev, Vasily and others, in addition to the platoon leader selected from among the prisoners. After listening to Sokov's introduction, everyone finally realized why she appeared at such an important meeting. The squad leaders who realized that they had made a mistake and blamed Adelina all smiled apologetically.

  After resolving everyone's crisis of trust in Adelina, Sokov continued to ask: "Adelina, do you know where there is a German supply base nearby?"

   "Supply base?" Hearing Sokov's question, Adelina immediately asked vigilantly: "Comrade Captain, what do you ask the German army's supply base to do?"

"That's right, Comrade Adelina." Sokov did not hide anything from Adelina, but reported truthfully: "We have more than a thousand people here, and we consume a lot of supplies every day. Being in the enemy's rear, it is naturally impossible for our superiors to deliver supplies to us, so we can only consider taking them from the enemy. I would like to ask, is there any enemy warehouse nearby?"

After figuring out Sokov's intentions, Adelina nodded and said affirmatively: "There is a logistics warehouse twenty kilometers east of the prisoner-of-war camp. All the materials needed in the prisoner-of-war camp are in the provided by them."

   "Did you take the initiative to go to the warehouse to collect supplies, or did they send someone over?"

   Agelina replied: "Generally, the warehouse sends someone to deliver it on its own initiative, once every five days, and the latest one is the day before yesterday, which means that the supplies will be delivered to us the day after tomorrow at the earliest."

  Sokov heard Adelina say this, and asked unwillingly: "Have you never taken the initiative to collect supplies?"

   "I have, of course I have." Agelina nodded her head and said affirmatively: "Last week, I accompanied the lieutenant in the prisoner-of-war camp to collect weapons and ammunition there."

   "What?" Vanya couldn't sit still when he heard this. He asked excitedly, "Comrade Adelina, are there still weapons and ammunition in that warehouse?"

"That's right, in addition to daily supplies, there are also a lot of weapons and ammunition stored." Adelina's words aroused everyone's interest, and everyone leaned forward one after another, trying to hear every word she said clearly , "I also saw two tanks parked inside."

"Adelina," Sokov heard that there were still tanks in the warehouse, he couldn't help breathing quickly, and asked a series of questions: "Have you seen the crew of those two tanks? Also, this warehouse How many defenders are there?"

Regarding these questions from Sokov, Adelina thought for a while and replied: "I didn't see the crew of the tank, it should have just arrived; as for how many defenders there are in the warehouse area, according to my observation, There are at least a hundred people. In addition to a few machine gun fire points, there are quite a few patrols,..."

"Thank you, Comrade Adelina." After expressing his gratitude to Adelina, Sokov said to the commanders present: "Comrades, don't you feel that your company's weapons are insufficient? Since our We already know that there is an enemy warehouse nearby, so we will let the enemy replenish our weapons."

  From Sokov's words, everyone heard his intention to seize the warehouse, and they all stood up and asked for a fight: "Comrade Battalion Commander, please entrust our company to complete this glorious task!"

"No, your 1st company has already contributed to the liberation of the prisoner-of-war camp." Savyev was afraid that Sokov would hand over the task to the 1st and 2nd company, so he rushed to say: "No matter how you say this time, It should be our third company's turn to fight this battle!"

"I think this task should be completed by our machine gun company." Vasily, who has been serving as a reserve team, was even more impatient this time. "With the firepower of our company, it is enough to destroy the guard warehouse in the shortest time. enemy."

  (end of this chapter)