After two hours of rest, Lin Hua led his company towards Volokolamsk overnight.
The snow on the road ahead and the traces of it being cleared had no impact on the march. But after walking for more than ten kilometers, there was no road ahead, and there was a vast expanse of white everywhere. Lin Hua and the others could only trudge forward through the knee-deep snow.
By dark, it was only more than thirty kilometers away from Volokolamsk, but the commanders and soldiers 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, with only twenty or thirty wooden houses. I don't know why, but when Lin Hua saw this village, he suddenly felt an extremely bad feeling in his heart. But he couldn't tell what was wrong.
After he raised his hand to stop the advance of the troops, he ordered Vanya: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, please take two people to conduct reconnaissance. 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 conduct reconnaissance, Second Lieutenant Vasily, the leader of the third platoon, said with some disapproval: "According to my experience, there is no such thing in this village at all. No one. No villagers, no Germans.”
"Comrade Second Lieutenant, how did you see that?" Andrei heard what Vasily said and asked curiously: "Can you tell me?"
"Look, Comrade Sergeant." Don't see that Andrei's military rank is lower than Vasily's, but since the two have the same position, Vasily said to him in a level tone, "No one walks out of the snow in the village. There are no signs of passing, and there has been no snow in the past two days, which means that this village has long been uninhabited.”
After Andrei waited for Vasily to finish speaking, he stared at the village for a while, then nodded and said: "Yes, yes, the snow in the village is very clean, there are no traces of anyone walking, it looks very clean. No one has lived here for a long time.”
Just when Vanya was about to enter the village with two soldiers, Lin Hua suddenly thought of the reason for his uneasiness and shouted loudly: "Stop, Second Lieutenant Vanya, stop immediately!"
But his shouts were immediately blown away by the biting cold wind, and they couldn't hear them at all in Vanya, a hundred meters away. Andrei and Vasily next to him heard Lin Hua suddenly yelling like crazy, and realized that something might have gone 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 towards where Lin Hua and the others were.
Wanya put her hands to her ears and tilted her head to hear clearly what Lin Hua and the others were shouting. At this moment, a loud "bang" sound suddenly came from behind him, and then he felt someone pushed him hard from behind, causing him to fall to the ground in a state of embarrassment.
Lin Hua and others standing in the distance could clearly see everything that happened at the entrance of the village. As soon as Vanya's two soldiers walked into the village, a cloud of black smoke rose under the feet of the soldier walking in front. , and then he was danced into the air. After some somersaults, he fell heavily into the thick snow. Another soldier and Vanya were also knocked down by the blast of air.
"Damn it, the Germans really planted landmines in the village." Lin Hua punched his helmet with his fist in frustration, then took the lead and ran over.
Vanya, who was knocked down by the air wave, raised her head with difficulty from the snow, shook her buzzing head, turned to look behind her, and saw her two soldiers lying in the extreme. He quickly struggled to his feet and ran towards the soldier closest to him.
Lin Hua ran to Vanya and squatted down. Seeing the soldier lying in his arms with his face covered in blood, he quickly turned to Asiya who was following behind and said, "Asiya, hurry up and bandage him." ." Then he asked Vanya, "How are you, Comrade Second Lieutenant, are you not injured?"
Vanya shook her head, staring blankly at the soldier lying in the snow ahead who unfortunately stepped on a landmine, and said with a depressed expression: "I am 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 actually said proactively: "Comrade Lieutenant, let me go and have a look." After saying that, he bent down and Get ready to run over.
Lin Hua quickly grabbed him and said sternly: "Stop, Second Lieutenant Vasily, you don't want your life! Who knows how many more landmines the Germans have planted in the village. If you break in like this, you won't give it away in vain." Life?"
Unexpectedly, Vasily turned to Lin Hua, smiled, and said, "Don't worry, Comrade Lieutenant, I used to be an engineer, and these German mines can't hurt me."
Hearing that Vasily was an engineer before, 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 carefully came to the soldier's side, squatted down and looked carefully, turned the soldier's body over, and put his hand in front of his nose to try. He tried, then turned to face Lin Hua and the others, shaking his head with a serious expression, indicating that the soldier had been sacrificed.
Vasily picked up the rifle that had been left behind, stood up and walked towards the village. Since there were no ready-made mine detection tools, he used his rifle as a mine detector, gently poking at places he suspected to confirm whether there were mines there. He walked very slowly, almost one step at a time, and walked for ten minutes before reaching the middle of the village.
Vasily stopped in the middle of the village, raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, turned to Lin Hua and others standing outside the village and shouted loudly: "Comrade Lieutenant, you can come in."
Although Vasily, a former engineer, had loudly announced that there were no mines in the village, Lin Hua was still uneasy. He took four soldiers into the village and asked them to carry out the sacrificed soldiers first, and then left a trail along Vasily's path. 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?"
Vasily shook his head and said: "It should be gone, Comrade Lieutenant. I have checked carefully, at least on this section of the road I walked, no landmines were found."
Lin Hua saw a large wooden house next to him, which should have been the office of the Village Soviet. He nodded towards it and said to Vasily: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, go there and check. If there are no mines, we will take command of the house." It’s located here.”
Vasily agreed, walked quickly to the door of the wooden house, checked the wooden door first, and after finding nothing unusual, he slowly and cautiously opened the wooden door. After the wooden door opened, he did not enter the house immediately, but stood at the door in a daze.
"What's wrong, Comrade Second Lieutenant?" Lin Hua saw his reaction and immediately realized what was in the room. He was frightened and asked quickly: "What is in the room?"
"Landmines!" Vasily turned to Lin Hua and said, "The house is full of landmines!"
Hearing that the house was full of landmines, Lin Hua was suddenly startled and broke into a cold sweat. Just when he was about to tell Vasily to withdraw immediately, he heard the other party say: "These landmines are all packed in boxes. They should be planned by the Germans." They were buried somewhere, but we didn't have time to transport them away. Don't worry, as long as we don't mess with these mines, there won't be any danger."
