After Lin Hua prevented the German army's plot to blow up the dam, considering that there was a huge disparity in strength between himself and the German army, he led his company's soldiers to the bunker where the German engineers lived, preparing to wait for the large forces to arrive before going there to fight with them. They join.
He stood at the door and looked inside. He saw that the space was not large. If more than a dozen people went in, 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 killed and six were injured, two of whom were seriously injured. If they were left to lie outside, they would easily get sick from the cold. Therefore, as soon as Lin Hua's order was given, the soldiers carried the wounded into the bunker in a hurry and put them on the ground, while Asiya 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 and looked curiously towards the dam, wanting to see clearly how their troops destroyed the enemies on the dam.
Although he didn't have a telescope, Lin Hua could clearly see the battle taking place a few hundred meters away. The Soviet army that attacked the dam probably had a battalion of troops. They didn't even have fire cover, so they hurriedly attacked the dam. However, at the entrance of the dam, they were fired upon by German machine guns. After injuring forty or fifty people, they retreated in panic.
Vanya, who was standing next to Lin Hua, also saw this scene. He couldn't help frowning and said: "Comrade Lieutenant, there are two bunkers at the entrance of the dam. The crossfire formed by the two machine guns can completely block the passage. The road to the dam. If these two bunkers are not destroyed first, it will be difficult for our army to rush into the dam even if we pay a huge price."
"Comrade Company Commander," after 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? This allows friendly forces to successfully occupy the dam."
Hearing what Andre said, Lin Hua turned to look at him and said with a serious expression: "Second Platoon Commander, don't forget that we suffered ten casualties in the battle that just ended. Even if four of them were seriously injured, We are young warriors who can continue to participate in the battle, and there are only nineteen of us. To attack an enemy seven or eight times more numerous than us is to risk death."
Andre's suggestion to attack was impulsive because he saw the friendly forces' attack failed. After listening to what Lin Hua said, I realized that I was too reckless. Just relying on a dozen of them might not be enough to fill the gaps in the Germans' teeth.
After the troops attacking the dam failed, they temporarily retreated to the forest to rest and recuperate. After another half an hour, they launched the attack again, 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 to try to prevent the tanks from approaching.
The dense bullets hit the armor plate of the tank, splashing a series of sparks, but it did not slow down the track of the tank. The leading tank stopped about a hundred meters away from the bunker, slowly turned the turret, and aimed the muzzle at the bunker on the left. A moment later, with a loud blast, 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 had been destroyed by tanks, the infantrymen who followed cheered and quickened their pace, passed the tanks parked at the entrance, and rushed into the dam.
The battle lasted for about half an hour and then came to an end. More than a hundred German soldiers were killed or bombed. The remaining ones quickly threw away their weapons, raised their hands high, and surrendered to the Soviet army.
Lin Hua and his men 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 couldn't hold back anymore and kept urging Lin Hua: "Comrade company commander, the battle is over. Let's go over and say hello to the friendly commanders." Bar."
"Wait a moment." 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 forces arrives. , it’s not too late for us to go there.”
However, the higher-level commander of the friendly forces had not yet arrived, but a search team came first. It turned out that after seizing the dam, the Soviet battalion commander used a telescope to observe the surrounding environment and found that there seemed to be a small army in the forest to the north. Judging from his clothes, he looks like one of his own. In order to find out what was going on, the battalion commander sent a squad to search north.
When the sergeant leading the team was still more than a hundred meters away from Lin Hua and the others, he shouted loudly: "Hey, which unit are you from?"
In order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, after Lin Hua heard the other party's shouting, he asked Vanya to step forward and answer. Vanya shouted at the other party: "We are from the 765th Regiment of the 5th Guards Division. Which part are you in?"
The sergeant asked his soldiers to stay where they were, and walked over alone. After saluting Lin Hua, the highest-ranking military officer, he replied: "We are from the third battalion of the 248th Regiment of the 9th Guards Division. We were ordered to seize the Istria Reservoir." The dam will not be damaged by the enemy so that our army can smoothly pass through the ice downstream."
Lin Hua waited for the other party to finish speaking, and then said: "Comrade Sergeant, our mission is similar to yours, 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?" He looked towards the back. The bunker pursed his lips and said, "The detonating device of the German engineers is right there. We lost ten soldiers in the battle to stop them."
The sergeant looked at the snow-covered bunker not far away and found that there were indeed many traces of the battle, especially the snow near the shooting hole, which had completely melted, revealing the gray concrete wall below. After seeing all this, he smiled and said to Lin Hua: "Comrade Lieutenant, since we are friendly forces, please come with me back to the dam. Our battalion commander wants to see you."
Although the force that captured the dam was not the 5th Guards Division, it was inappropriate for such a small force to stay in the ice and snow all the time. Since the sergeant took the initiative to invite him to the dam, he agreed without hesitation. Then he ordered the soldiers to carry the wounded and follow the friendly soldiers towards the dam.
