Red Moscow

  Chapter 74 Ambush

   In less than half an hour, the soldiers of the two companies entered their ambush positions. In order to avoid being noticed by the German army, they built a half-person-high snow wall in front of the position. There was a shooting hole at every interval on the wall, which was specially used for machine gun shooting. The soldiers hiding behind the snow wall waited for the enemy to enter their ambush circle.

  However, the time passed by every minute and every second, and the hour mentioned in the telegram had already passed by, but there was still no sign of German reinforcements on the road. Seeing this situation, Sokov couldn't help muttering in his heart: "Why hasn't the enemy appeared yet? Could it be that we set up an ambush in the wrong direction?"

   Just when he was uneasy, the commander who had been listening to him suddenly said pleasantly: "The enemy is coming!"

   "The enemy is coming?" Hearing what the commander said, Sokov immediately listened carefully, but unfortunately, he heard nothing except the deafening roar of the tank engine. He looked at the commander and asked strangely: "Comrade commander, why didn't I hear anything, did you hear wrong?"

"That's right, Comrade Battalion Commander, I didn't hear you wrong." Seeing Sukov's suspicious look at him, the commander quickly explained: "I have been a tank soldier for more than ten years, even the sound of a tank engine No matter how loud it is, I can hear cars driving in the distance."

  As soon as the captain's voice fell, a convoy appeared on the road in the distance. Seeing the enemy's convoy appearing, Sokov felt a little joy in his heart, and quickly ordered loudly: "Comrade commander, get ready for battle immediately, as soon as the enemy's truck approaches, we will fire immediately!"

   "Comrade Battalion Commander," while speaking, the enemy convoy moved closer. The commander pointed to the two three-wheeled motorcycles ahead and said, "Is our target a motorcycle or a truck?"

  Sokov stared at the approaching convoy, and found that the two motorcycles that opened the way ahead were originally moving at the same speed as the truck. But they seemed to have spotted the tank parked on the road, and suddenly accelerated to come over. Seeing this, Sokov turned his head and said to the commander: "Comrade commander, immediately notify the No. 2 vehicle next to you by radio, and tell them that when the German motorcycles approach the 100-meter range, immediately shoot them down with machine guns. We, on the other hand, targeted the first truck in the convoy and opened fire."

  The two motorcycles driving in front of the convoy saw two tanks lined up on the road in the distance. They thought they were coming to meet them, so they speeded up respectively, preparing to rush over to establish contact with friendly forces. But they never dreamed that when they were less than a hundred meters away from the tanks, one of the tanks suddenly shot at them with a machine gun.

  The soldier driving the motorcycle was the first to bear the brunt of the bullet and fell off the car. The motorcycle lost control and crashed into the snowdrift on the side of the road, knocking out the soldier in the sidecar. Before the soldiers who fell into the snowdrift stood up, another tank fired at the truck in the distance.

  The shells fired by the tank hit the first truck impartially. There was a loud "boom", and in the light of the fire, countless car parts and soldiers' stumps and broken legs were thrown high into the air by the air waves, and then fell into the snow near the bombing point one after another.

  The following vehicle, seeing that the vehicle in front was blown up, hurriedly applied an emergency brake. The German soldiers in the carriage were already on high alert, but when they realized that they were being attacked, they lifted the tarpaulin behind them before the car stopped, jumped out of the car one after another, and prepared to disperse into the forest on both sides of the road, so as not to stay on the road and be fooled. target.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they ran close to the forest, there was a burst of bean-like gunshots in the forest. The commanders and fighters hidden behind the snow wall opened fire decisively. The dense bullets hit the German army's formation, causing large groups of blood to explode. In the fog, the German soldiers who were running forward were caught off guard and fell under the guns of the Soviet army one after another. The remaining soldiers hurriedly retreated to the vicinity of the truck, relying on the body of the truck to carry out the final stubborn resistance.

Seeing the enemy huddled near the truck, Vanya stood up first, raised his pistol high above his head, and shouted loudly: "Comrades, come with me!" Snow wall, take the lead and rush towards the enemies on the road. Shouting "Ula", the soldiers broke through the snow wall one after another, and rushed forward with weapons in hand.

  The machine gun company hidden in the forest on the south side, seeing that the first company launched an attack, was naturally not to be outdone, and also launched a charge, rushing towards the enemy trapped on the road.

  The German soldiers who hid beside the truck and fired their guns indiscriminately towards the forest were stunned when they saw a group of people in German uniforms rushing out of the forest. Their first reaction was: they made a mistake, they must have made a mistake, and their own people started fighting with their own people. But when he heard the soldiers rushing out of the knee-high snow and shouting "Ulla", he realized that it was not his own people who exchanged fire with him, but Russians in German uniforms.

  The commander in the tank in the distance saw the Soviet commanders rushing out of the forest on both sides of the road, and quickly asked Sokov for instructions: "Comrade battalion commander, do we need to help them?"

Seeing the battle taking place on the highway in the distance, Sokov shook his head and said, "No need, our infantry is enough to deal with this enemy. "

   There were originally more than 200 German troops, but under the intensive firepower of the Soviet army, two-thirds of them were killed or injured in just a few minutes. The remaining people hid around the truck and desperately shot at the rushing Soviet soldiers, but the results they achieved were very limited.

  Seeing the approaching Soviet soldiers, the German soldiers became timid and hesitated to shoot. Finally, a German soldier couldn't take it anymore, and he took the lead in throwing away the weapon in his hand, and raised his hands to surrender. Seeing someone surrender, the people next to him followed suit, throwing away their weapons and surrendering.

  The German company commander, who was shooting desperately, saw that some of his subordinates surrendered to the Soviet army, so he quickly turned his gun and shot at these subordinates who were not firm. After he knocked down two soldiers who raised their hands and surrendered in a row, a bullet flew from nowhere and pierced his temple directly. on the ground.

  Seeing that the company commander was killed by the Soviet army, the German soldiers' will to resist suddenly collapsed. They shouted in German that the Soviet commanders and fighters did not understand, threw away the weapons in their hands, and raised their hands to surrender obediently.

Seeing the end of the battle ahead, Sokov, who was sitting in the tank watching the battle, heaved a sigh of relief, and said to the commander: "Okay, comrade commander, the battle is over." Then he glanced at the three survivors in front of the tank The motorcyclist, seeing the three of them standing obediently by the side of the road with their weapons thrown under their feet and their hands raised high, without any attempt to resist, added, "Send a soldier out and take the three captives into custody." Back to the warehouse area."

  (end of this chapter)