Vasily led a company of sailors, using the cover of bomb craters and traffic trenches, to cautiously move towards the nail factory building. Despite the fact that there were more than a hundred sailors in the company, when they marched among the ruins, they made no sound at all, but followed Vasily quietly. Vasily couldn't help but secretly sigh in his heart, the quality of this army is really too high.
When he was still two or three hundred meters away from the factory, Vasily made a gesture to signal the troops to stop advancing. The first company commander who was walking in the middle of the team saw that the team suddenly stopped. He hurriedly ran to Vasily's side and squatted down. He asked in a low voice: "Comrade Vasily, why did the team stop?"
"Comrade Company Commander," Vasily pointed to a piece of masonry rubble in the distance and whispered: "There is a German soldier hidden behind that pile of rubble. If we just break through like this, they will find out."
The company commander nodded, and then made a gesture to the back. A sailor quickly ran over, squatted next to the company commander and asked: "Comrade company commander, what are your instructions?"
The company commander pointed to the ruins that Vasily told him and whispered: "There is a German soldier hiding there. Go over and kill him!"
"Understood." The sailor agreed and handed the spear in his hand to the company commander. He only held a dagger, bent down and carefully touched the direction of the rubble. Vasily set up his gun and aimed at the enemy's hiding position, preparing to shoot the German soldier and cover the troops to rush over if the sailor's action failed.
Fortunately, what Vasily was worried about did not happen. The German soldiers on duty thought that even if there was a surprise attack by the Soviet army, they would appear in front of the station and they would be safe here. Smoking on the pile of rocks, otherwise Vasily would not have discovered him from afar.
After the sailors killed the sentries, they stood up from behind the rubble and waved their arms toward the hidden troops to signal that everything was safe. Seeing that his men had cleared the German sentries, the first company commander stood up and ordered the troops to continue advancing.
The German army stationed this platoon in the factory. At this moment, except for the four or five sentries placed inside and outside the building, the rest were lying in the room fast asleep. They were all exhausted from the continuous battle.
After clearing the sentries around the building, the sailors quietly entered the factory. Under Vasily's guidance, they entered the room where the German soldiers slept and killed them one by one with daggers.
Everything was going smoothly at first. More than 20 German soldiers living in four adjacent rooms were all killed by the sailors with daggers in their sleep. But when they went to the fifth room, something unexpected happened. A sleepy-eyed German soldier opened the door and walked out. He was going to go to the toilet. Unexpectedly, as soon as he went out, he saw A group of soldiers in black uniforms stood outside the door.
After a moment of daze, he immediately shouted: "Russians, Russians!" Just as he was trying to take off the submachine gun on his shoulder, a sailor had already cut his throat with a dagger in his hand. The German soldier groaned, covered the bleeding wound with both hands, staggered back a step, knocked open the door with his back, and fell to the ground on his back.
Although the German soldier who had woken up at night was killed, the noise he made had already alerted other enemies in the room. Several German soldiers sleeping on the bed got out of bed and prepared to grab their weapons, but they were killed by the sailors who took the lead.
After the German soldiers in other rooms were awakened, they did not rush out of the room immediately. Instead, they hid on one side of the door and pointed their guns at the door. The unprepared sailors kicked open the door and were about to rush inside when the German soldiers hiding by the door opened fire on them and immediately knocked down several sailors near the door.
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After the first company set off, the battalion commander led the second and third companies to lurk only a hundred meters away from the station square. According to the prior plan, after the first company captured the nail factory building, they would launch an attack on the station building at the same time. But after he heard the intensive gunfire coming from the direction of the nail factory, he immediately realized that the sneak attack had been detected by the Germans, so he decisively issued an attack order.
As the order was given, the sailors who were lying on the ground got up from the ground, held their weapons, bent over, and moved towards the station building in a dispersed formation. After they entered the square, the sailors discovered that the ground was littered with dead bodies in various postures. Some were killed by guns, some were killed by shells, and there were not even complete corpses. They took a closer look and found that almost all of them were corpses of Soviet commanders and soldiers. They should all be comrades who died during the storming of the station.
When the attacking troops came to the center of the square and approached the famous fountain, they were discovered by the enemies of the station building. A machine gun placed on the roof immediately opened fire on the sailors in the square. Several unlucky sailors fell to the ground immediately, and the remaining sailors immediately lay down, using the craters or corpses around them as cover to fire back at the enemy.
If the Army encounters this situation when attacking, even if they lie on the ground and fire back, the possibility of destroying the enemy's machine guns will be infinitely close to zero. But at the moment, the ones lying on the square fighting back were the sailors. Compared with the army, they were not only well-trained but also had rich combat experience. Their marksmanship was far better than that of the army, which went to the battlefield without training for a few days. Therefore, when seven or eight sailors aimed at the machine guns on the roof and fired, the shooter was killed first. The deputy shooter just took over his position and was killed by bullets flying from the square before he could fire. The desperate ammunition man grabbed the machine gun and tried to continue shooting, but he also failed to escape the fate of being shot.
Although the machine gun on the roof was killed, other German firepower points were activated. Bullets from machine guns, submachine guns and rifles fired from fortifications and bunkers in all directions formed a dense fire net, blocking the way for the sailors to charge.
Seeing the enemy's fierce firepower, Lemusev quickly blew his whistle. The sailors closest to the station building lit up their grenades and threw them out after hearing the whistle. Taking advantage of the smoke from the grenade explosion, they rushed forward quickly and at the same time threw the grenade that was emitting smoke.
The second row of grenades fell on the fortifications and bunkers and exploded, sending up blood mist and gunpowder smoke. Taking advantage of the enemy's weakened firepower, the sailors rushed into the fortifications with bayonets drawn, as long as they saw the enemy, no matter it was Whether you live or die, you need to stab two bayonets first.
Seeing that his men had rushed into the fortifications and started a close combat with the enemy, Lemusev got up from the ground, raised his pistol high and shouted loudly: "Go at full speed!"
The sailors who heard his shouts also jumped up from the ground, shouting "Full Speed Ahead!" Holding their weapons, they braved the enemy's bullets and bravely rushed to the station in front.
The number of German troops deployed outside the station building was only forty or fifty. They thought that their own strength would be enough to repel the Soviet attack. Unexpectedly, this group of Soviet troops wearing sailor uniforms had extremely strong combat effectiveness. Far from what they imagined, they could actually rush into the position and engage in close combat by dropping bombs continuously while being suppressed by several machine gun fires. After only four or five minutes, the outnumbered German troops were completely wiped out, and the sailors rushed into the building to eliminate the enemies in the building.
Klimov and his guards lined up behind to watch the battle. When he heard the faint shouts from the front, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, because when the sailors were attacking, they were not shouting "Ula", but "Full speed" go ahead". He couldn't help but curiously asked a sailor radio operator next to him: "Comrade radio operator, when your troops attack, why do you shout 'full speed ahead'? Do they still think they are on a warship?"
The operator heard what Klimov said, grinned, and then said: "Comrade Captain, this is the tradition of our sailors. Whether we are on a warship or on land, we will shout 'full speed ahead', just like the army When attacking, it's a good idea to like to shout 'Ula'."
"So that's it." After figuring out what was going on, Klimov said to the radio operator: "Comrade radio operator, immediately send a telegram to your brigade commander, saying that the commanders and fighters of the first battalion have rushed into the station building."
After Tanasolov received the telegram from the First Battalion, he couldn't help being stunned. He patted the telegram in front of Vlasov and asked sternly: "Comrade Vlasov, please explain to me. What's going on? Why did the First Battalion launch an attack on the station without my permission?"
Klimov once said that he would report to Tanasolov about the First Battalion's attack on the station, but the battle started soon and he had not had time to go to the brigade headquarters. Therefore, the brigade headquarters did not respond to this operation. No one here knows. After reading the telegram, Vlasov couldn't help but frowned slightly, wondering what Lemusev had done. The brigade headquarters had clearly issued an order. All troops must stand still until the order was received. How could he? Attacked the station without permission?
Although Vlasov was a little dissatisfied with Lemusev in his heart, he still wanted to speak for Lemusev when faced with Tanasolov's questioning: "Comrade Brigadier, I know Captain Lemusev. He is not a reckless or impulsive person. Since he can launch the attack on the station at this time, he must have found the best fighter opportunity. I think we should support this kind of active offensive action taken by the grassroots commanders. .”
Tanasolov, who originally wanted to accuse Lemusev, heard what Vlasov said and knew that the other party was determined to defend Lemusev. If he must pursue the responsibility, the other party may have a dispute with him. Even if this kind of thing goes to the army headquarters, Chuikov may speak for them. After weighing it again and again, Tanasolov sighed and said helplessly: "Comrade Vlasov, please tell Captain Lemusev, forget it this time. If something similar happens again next time, I will definitely Severe punishment will not be tolerated."
