Because the journey for this raid is quite far, if there is no transportation, it will take at least five or six days to go back and forth. Sokov was deeply afraid of long nights and heavy dreams, so he ordered the six military horses captured during the surprise attack on the transfer station to be used to pull the sled.
Before leaving, he told Belkin: "Comrade Deputy Battalion Commander, this mission is of great importance. Before we come back, no matter who asks, you cannot reveal the slightest bit of information. Do you understand?"
"Don't worry, Comrade Battalion Commander, I will keep the secret." When Belkin shook hands with Sokov and said goodbye, he specifically told him: "Pay more attention to safety and look forward to your triumphant return!"
"Don't worry, we will come back safely."
Sokov came to the gathering of the squad, looked at the soldiers who were holding their heads high and chests high, nodded with satisfaction, then waved his hand and announced with great majesty: "Everyone listen to my command: stand at attention! Stand at attention! Turn back, get on the sled! Let’s go!”
Thirty-one commanders and combatants, including Lian Sokov, were sitting on six sleds pulled by German army horses, heading towards Dominici, which was dozens of kilometers away.
Seryosha, who was sitting on the same sled as Sokov, was eager to know what the specific mission of this operation was, so he approached Sokov and asked: "Hey, Misha, since we have already set off, you Always tell me, what on earth are we doing in Dominican?”
Unexpectedly, Sokov snorted and said to him in an official tone: "Second Lieutenant Seryosha, you are also an officer now. Don't you know what to ask and what not to ask?" Seryosha did not expect that he Hui hit a soft nail here in Sokov, so he could only laugh twice, lean back, and close his eyes to rest against the supply pile on the sled.
The route the team took was inaccessible. The snow in the forest was deep, and the sled pulled by horses could only cover four or five kilometers per hour. Sokov couldn't help but secretly rejoice that if there were no horses and sleds, the soldiers would be able to carry their own weapons and matching ammunition and march in waist-deep snow, which would take up to one or two kilometers in an hour. It will take at least two days to cover the fifty kilometers. Even when they arrive at their destination, the soldiers will be unable to fight immediately due to lack of physical strength.
When we arrived at our destination, it was already midnight. Fortunately, there was a moon in the sky, so Sokov and the others discovered the location of the concentration camp in time.
Sokov looked at the small concentration camp in the distance with a telescope. It was no different from the concentration camps he had seen before. The entire camp is surrounded by a double-layer barbed wire fence. Near the entrance, there is a four- to five-meter-high wooden sentry box with a machine gun mounted on it and a searchlight swinging back and forth, scanning the wooden houses in the prisoner of war camp to prevent prisoners of war from entering. Sneak out.
"Comrade Valerian," Sokov put down the telescope and asked puzzledly: "I don't understand, what's the point of the Germans building such a prisoner of war camp in this place with no store in front of Buba Village?"
"It is said that this is a place specially built by the Germans to detain officers." Although it was still five or six hundred meters away from the prisoner of war camp, Valerian habitually lowered his voice when speaking, "I was detained at that time. I also met two generals while I was here.”
"General, have generals been imprisoned here?" Seryosha, who was lying on the other side of Sokov, suddenly became excited when he heard that there were captured generals in the prison camp. "Misha, if we can rescue a general from here, , that would be a great achievement.”
Hearing what Seryosha said, Sokov couldn't help laughing, thinking that even if there were ten generals in this prisoner of war camp, they were not as important as Yakov alone. He turned to Seryozha and ordered: "Seryozha, you take two squads of soldiers, cut the barbed wire fence and enter the prisoner of war camp, and kill the guards inside. Do you understand?"
After receiving the order, Seryozha habitually asked: "How many guards are there?"
"There are only a dozen or so." Valerian rushed to answer: "Generally after dark, except for the sentries at the sentry box and the door, the rest of the guards sleep in the wooden house on the left side of the entrance."
Knowing that there were only about twenty guards in the prisoner-of-war camp, Seryosha grinned and confidently said to Sokov: "Misha, don't worry, I will let these guards see God in their sleep. "
Seryosha and his soldiers successfully approached the barbed wire fence. The two soldiers cut the wires with the pliers they carried, and then climbed in through the cut gap to prepare to cut the second barbed wire fence. Seryosha thought to himself, this operation was so simple. The enemy did not notice it at all and allowed us to enter the prisoner of war camp smoothly.
At this moment, there was a loud "boom" sound, and a dazzling fire appeared between the two barbed wire fences. A soldier holding pliers danced into the air, then fell heavily, causing an even bigger explosion.
"Hell, it's a minefield!" Seryosha never dreamed that the Germans would lay out a minefield between two barbed wire fences. According to his experience, the passage between the two barbed wire fences should be a patrol area. How could this happen? What about laying landmines?
The explosion of landmines alerted the sentries at the watchtower and at the door. The searchlight immediately swept towards the location of Seryosha and the others, and the soldiers of the two squads were exposed to the strong light of the searchlight in an instant. As soon as the target was locked, the machine guns on the watchtower and at the door aimed at Seryosha's position and opened fire.
Several soldiers who were caught off guard immediately fell under the intensive machine gun fire. The remaining soldiers quickly lay down on the spot and fired back at the German machine guns. The sound of gunshots alerted the sleeping guards in the cabin, who rushed out disheveled with guns in hand. While shooting, they approached in the direction of Seryosha and the others.
Sokov, who was on the other side of the prisoner of war camp, saw this situation and immediately ordered the soldiers around him: "Snipers, shoot down the machine guns and searchlights; machine gunners, use firepower to block the path forward of the German troops, and do not let them get close to the enemy." Liao Sha and the others."
As the order was issued, the searchlights on the watchtower were knocked off first. After the Germans lost their shooting target, the gunfire immediately became sparse. The guards who were rushing towards Seryosha and the others were blocked by machine guns. They could only lie down on the spot and fire back at Sokov's position.
Seeing that the enemy's firepower was weakened, Seryosha immediately ordered the soldiers to blow up the barbed wire fence with grenades, quickly rushed into the prisoner of war camp, and detoured from the rear of the guards.
The battle lasted for more than ten minutes, and all the guards in the prisoner of war camp were eliminated. But the team also paid a heavy price, with five people killed and seven injured.
Sokov came to the door of the prisoner-of-war camp and ordered Seryosha, who was directing the soldiers to open the door: "Second Lieutenant Seryosha, the sound of gunfire may have alerted the nearby enemies. We need to move immediately and let all prisoners of war immediately." Come out of the cabin.”
Sokov's order was quickly passed on. When the prisoners of war in the wooden house heard the gunfire outside, they guessed that it might be their own troops coming to rescue them. When they saw their comrades in Soviet uniforms, kicking open the closed wooden door and rushing in, they couldn't help but burst into tears.
But these soldiers did not bother to chat with them. Instead, they shouted loudly at them: "Comrades, get out of here quickly, the enemy is coming soon!" After shouting, they walked to the wooden bed where the prisoners of war slept. , and woke up those prisoners of war who were still asleep one by one.
Standing at the entrance of the prisoner-of-war camp, Sokov saw his soldiers leading groups of prisoners of war wearing vertical stripes, one after another, walking out of the prisoner-of-war camp and walking towards where the sleds were parked. He wanted Valerian to identify whether there was Yakov among these people, but he saw no one on the left and right. He couldn't help shouting loudly: "Valerian, Valerian, where are you?" ?”
"Comrade Battalion Commander," a sniper standing nearby replied: "He is dead. He was just killed by a German machine gun. His body was parked at the position where we were just lurking."
Hearing that Valerian had died, Sokov couldn't help but feel a headache. He said to himself that I don't know Yakov. I can't ask out loud here: Who is Stalin's son Yakov?
Seryosha and his men cleaned up the camp to make sure that no prisoner of war was missing, and then ran over to report to Sokov. Still far away, he shouted loudly: "Major Sokov, I have checked, and there is not a single prisoner of war inside."
At that time, several prisoners of war passed by Sokov. When one of them heard Seryosha's shout, he stopped and turned to look at Sokov. After looking at it for a moment, he asked tentatively: "Major Sokov? I would like to ask, is your name Mikhail Mikhailnovitch?"
