Under Agelina's guidance, the convoy arrived near a material warehouse. The German corporal in charge of the warehouse recognized that these vehicles belonged to the prisoner of war camp. He quickly walked out of the small post outside the warehouse and directed the truck to turn around on the spot and reverse the rear of the truck towards the gate of the warehouse.
As soon as the five trucks came to a stop, the soldiers sitting in the carriages lifted up the tarpaulin behind them and jumped out one after another. Seeing seventy or eighty soldiers lined up next to the truck, the German corporal quickly stepped forward and asked loudly: "Which of you is leading the team?"
Ernst, who got off the second truck, winked with Sokov, then faced the German corporal and replied: "It's me, corporal, what can I do?"
Ernst was still wearing the uniform of a German captain at this moment. After the corporal saw his rank clearly, he quickly stood at attention and saluted, and replied: "Hello, Mr. Captain!"
Ernst returned the gift casually and repeated his question again: "Corporal, what can I do?"
"Mr. Captain," the corporal replied in a panic: "The warehouse is such an important place that no one can get close to it!"
"Idle people?!" Ernst raised his eyebrows and asked sternly: "Corporal, you actually call the soldiers I brought here idle people?"
"Excuse me, Mr. Captain," the corporal saw that Ernst was about to get angry and quickly defended: "This is an important area of the warehouse. We are not internal personnel and are not allowed to approach here. This is the rule of the warehouse, please forgive me!"
"If my people don't go in," Ernst said reluctantly, "then how are we going to load the supplies into the car?"
The corporal looked at Ernst and thought to himself: What is going on with this captain? Doesn't he know that there are people in the warehouse who specialize in moving goods? But he still patiently explained to Ernst: "Mr. Captain, we have people who are responsible for carrying goods. Please let these soldiers leave here first."
"How many of you are there?" Ernst glanced at Sokov who was standing not far away, and then asked: "Can they handle five trucks of goods?"
"There are 25 people in our group. No matter how much goods we carry, we will be busy." After the corporal finished speaking, he politely said to Ernst: "Mr. Captain, please go to the warehouse supervisor first and list the needs." With the list of goods, I can also arrange for manpower to help you load the truck."
Sokov understood the conversation between Ernst and the corporal through Agelina's whispered translation. Thinking that there were only a dozen logistics soldiers carrying goods in the warehouse, and they should have little combat effectiveness, he decisively ordered: "Do it!"
Following his order, several soldiers rushed forward and pointed the black muzzles at the corporal. Facing the gun pointed at him, the corporal asked in panic: "You...you...are...who are you?"
"Corporal, they are the Soviet Red Army!" Ernst saw the corporal reaching out to draw his gun and quickly stopped him: "I advise you not to resist in vain, but to surrender obediently!" Seeing that the situation was over, the corporal could only raise his hands obediently. Over the head.
Vanya led a company of soldiers and rushed into the warehouse to capture the German soldiers carrying goods inside; while Vasily led the soldiers of the machine gun company and followed Sokov to find the warehouse supervisor.
Unexpectedly, they had just reached the halfway point when they encountered a ten-man patrol. The German sergeant leading the team saw that something was wrong with the oncoming troop. There were four machine guns in front and a submachine gun behind them. . He quickly stopped the patrol and asked Sokov, who was walking at the front of the team: "What part are you in?"
At this moment, Ernst and Agelina were not with him. Sokov could not understand what the German soldiers were saying. He just led his soldiers forward quickly.
Seeing that the other party did not respond, the German sergeant immediately realized that they were a group of impostors. He took out his gun and shouted loudly: "They are Russians, shoot quickly!"
If the German sergeant hadn't shouted so loudly and rushed to take out his gun, Sokov and the others would not have realized that they were exposed. Seeing the sergeant pull out his gun at this moment, Sokov raised the submachine gun without hesitation and pulled the trigger at the opponent. After a series of bullets were fired, the sergeant was shaken as if he was electrocuted, followed by a pop. He fell to the ground with a sound. When the soldiers following Sokov saw the battalion commander taking the lead in firing, they fired without hesitation. The machine guns and submachine guns opened fire at the same time, knocking all the patrols who had not recovered to their senses to the ground.
The sound of gunfire naturally alerted the German officers and soldiers in the warehouse area. They held weapons and rushed towards the place where the gunshots were heard from all directions, hoping to eliminate these enemies who had sneaked in as soon as possible. However, the firepower of the machine gun battery exceeded their imagination. The four machine guns sprayed bullets one after another, weaving into a fire net, piercing the bodies of the German soldiers who broke in, causing them to fall in pieces. On top of the snow. The remaining German soldiers saw that the Soviet firepower was too fierce and did not dare to continue the charge. They could only hide in wooden houses or ravines and fire back.
When the fighting in the warehouse area was in full swing, Saviev arrived with the main force of the third company, the first company, and the machine gun battery, and launched an attack on the warehouse area from the outside. The two machine guns at the entrance to the west of the German army were no match for the dozen machine guns of the machine gun battery. In less than five minutes, the two machine guns were killed.
Seeing that the enemies at the entrance were eliminated, Saviev stood up from the tree stump where he was hiding, raised his pistol high above his head, and shouted: "Comrades, charge!" Under his leadership, hundreds of soldiers Soldiers rushed into the warehouse area like a tide.
The number of German troops in the warehouse area was not superior to begin with, and they suffered heavy casualties during the counterattack. Now that they saw the large Soviet troops rushing up from behind, they had no courage to continue fighting. Some immediately threw away their weapons and raised their hands in surrender; some fled towards the east entrance in an attempt to escape to a safe place.
Seeing the enemies in the warehouse area scurrying around like headless flies, Sokov led dozens of soldiers and launched an attack on the wooden house where the German major was located, preparing to capture it in one fell swoop. Unexpectedly, the German army deployed a machine gun in the wooden house, and the soldiers who rushed forward suffered more than a dozen casualties.
Seeing this situation, Sokov quickly ordered the 1st and 3rd companies to capture prisoners in the warehouse area, while he led the machine gun battery to surround the wooden house. At the same time, he also asked Ernst, who came after hearing the news, to shout into the house and order the German major inside to immediately put down his weapons and come out to surrender.
After hearing Ernst's shouting, the dozen or so German officers and soldiers in the room instinctively turned their attention to the major, wanting to see what decision he would make. Unexpectedly, the major sneered and said: "This house is made of logs. If the Russians don't have artillery support, they won't be able to rush in even if the corpses are all around the house."
When the German soldiers saw that the house was surrounded, they were a little uneasy at first, but when they heard the major speaking so confidently, they all gave up the idea of surrender and prepared to continue to resist.
Through the window, the major saw four to five hundred Soviet troops outside. He couldn't help but frown slightly. He realized that no matter how strong the house he was in, if he did not get foreign aid, he would be unable to escape sooner or later. The end of the army's destruction. Thinking of this, he quickly ordered the communications soldier: "Send a report immediately, saying that the logistics warehouse has been attacked by the Russians. If troops are not sent to support immediately, the warehouse is in danger of being lost."
Vasily outside also found that the house was solid and it was not easy to take it down. He walked to Sokov and whispered: "Comrade Battalion Commander, this house is made of logs. If there is no artillery fire, Support, if we rush in, we will definitely pay heavy casualties."
Sokov stared at the wooden house for a while and agreed with Vasily's view. He thought for a while and then said to Vasily: "Comrade Lieutenant, you immediately gather eight machine guns and shoot at the gate!"
Upon hearing this strange order, Vasily asked curiously: "Comrade Battalion Commander, what is going on? Why are we aiming at the gate and shooting?"
Sokov did not explain to him, but urged him: "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and execute the order."
Vasily muttered and returned to his soldiers, selected eight machine gun groups and ordered them to aim at the gate and shoot. The machine gunners lay on the ground, pointing their guns at the wooden door. With an order, everyone pulled the trigger at the same time.
The German soldiers hiding in the house didn't pay much attention when they saw the Soviet army setting up eight machine guns. They thought that bullets would not penetrate the logs so easily and they should be safe hiding in the house. But when the machine gun fired, they were immediately dumbfounded. After the closed wooden door was hit by a dense barrage of bullets, splinters of wood flew up like feathers.
"What the hell, what the hell." The major saw the closed wooden door shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye under the heavy bullets, and couldn't help shouting: "Concentrate so many machine guns just to deal with a wooden door. , this Russian commander must be crazy."
Seeing this, one of his subordinates quickly grabbed him and begged: "Mr. Major, let's surrender. If there is no wooden door, even if the Russians don't have artillery, they can throw countless grenades in and blow us up alive." dead."
"Yes, yes, Mr. Major." Seeing someone speak first, several soldiers immediately echoed: "The Russians' firepower is too strong, we should surrender!"
The major saw that as the wooden door was destroyed by the Soviet machine gun fire, the soldiers in the room had lost their fighting spirit, and there was no point in forcing them to resist. He stamped his feet, closed his eyes and said painfully: "Okay, we - surrender!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a German soldier pushed open the window sideways, stretched out a rifle tied with a white shirt, and waved it desperately.
"The Germans have surrendered!" Vasily, who was crying, saw the white flag sticking out of the window. His eyes suddenly lit up and he quickly ordered the machine gun to stop shooting. Then he pulled out his pistol and rushed to the soldiers on standby and said: "Brothers , it’s our turn, all come with me to capture the prisoners!”
