After Zalitzman rushed into the observation post, Omelichenko, who was on the phone with Zoludev, forgot to hang up the phone, so that Zoludev heard the whole thing clearly through the microphone. According to his idea, since Omelichenko has received a reinforcement of six to seven hundred people, there is no need to hand over the guard company of more than one hundred people sent by Chuikov to the other party. After all, there are no more at the division headquarters. Any guard unit, even if only one squad of Germans rushes in, it is possible to take away their own division headquarters.
But after he heard the conversation between Zalitzman and the switchboard operator through the microphone, he changed his mind, raised his voice and said into the microphone: "Colonel Omelichenko, I will immediately send you the security company from the headquarters. , you must organize manpower to rescue Building 4 as soon as possible, and we must not let our female operators be harmed."
"Understood!" Omelichenko agreed quickly, then put down the phone and said to Golya: "Comrade Captain, the division headquarters will send another company over soon. When they arrive, we can immediately launch an attack on Building 4. ?"
Golia knew that rescuing people was like putting out fires. If he delayed any longer, Building 4 might be completely occupied by the Germans. Whether he could regain it by then was still unknown. He nodded and said, "I'll call the fifth company commander here and assign him a combat mission."
In order to accept the task at any time, the fifth company commander, Lieutenant Zheliya, stayed not far from the observation post. Golia stood at the door and shouted, and he trotted over. He stopped in front of Goliath, straightened his body and asked, "Comrade Deputy Battalion Commander, what are your instructions?"
"Lieutenant Zhelia, this is Comrade Zalitzman, the deputy director of the tractor factory." Golya pointed at Zalitzman, who was on the phone with the female operator, and said to Zhelia: "He told me , saying that a building not far away is being attacked by the German army and hopes to get our help. Your task now is to lead the fifth company to the rescue and rescue the female operator in the building. "
"Understood!" Zheliya responded first, and then asked: "Comrade Deputy Battalion Commander, when will we set off?"
Golya turned his head and glanced at Omelichenko, and then said: "There is another company that will arrive in a short time. As soon as they arrive, you will immediately launch an attack on Building 4."
"Comrade Captain, I'm afraid you won't be able to wait for another company to arrive before you need to attack the enemy." Zalitzman, who was on the phone with Komarkova, suddenly turned his head and said: "The enemy has launched another attack on the third floor. "As he spoke, he put the microphone away from his ear and raised his hand towards Omelichenko and Goliya so that they could hear the sound coming from the receiver clearly.
Intensive gunshots and explosions came from the receiver, as well as Komarkova's crying voice: "Comrade Deputy Director, the enemy has launched an attack on the third floor again, and our comrades are fighting with them at the top of the stairs with bayonets. …
Oh my God, our comrades did not stop the Germans, they had already rushed to the third floor. Among them was a German soldier with a submachine gun, walking towards the switchboard room where I was... I was so scared, would I be beaten to death by him? "
"No, Komarkova." When Zalitzman heard this, he hurriedly put the microphone close to his ear and said loudly: "You won't die. I will take people to rescue you right away. Don't worry, you Won't……"
Before Zalitzman finished speaking, several crisp submachine gun shots came from the receiver, followed by Komarkova's weak voice: "Farewell, my dear comrades, for me..." She Before she could finish her words, two more crisp gunshots rang out, and then her voice was no longer heard.
Zalitzman seemed to have been drained of all his strength. He knelt on the ground, raised his head high, pulled his hair hard with both hands, and howled like a wounded beast. Seeing his painful expression, everyone else in the observation center couldn't help but shed tears.
Golya raised his hand and wiped it on his face, and said to Omelichenko: "Comrade Colonel, the situation in Building 4 looks very bad. I will order the fifth company to attack first, and wait for the other company to arrive. , and let them come and join us." After saying that, without waiting for Omelichenko to express his position, he bent down and pulled Zalitzman up from his knees on the ground, and said to him in a commanding tone, "Deputy Factory Comrade Chang, please be our guide now and take us to Building 4."
Zalitzman stood up, raised his hand to wipe away his tears, and said with red eyes: "Let's go, Comrade Captain, I will take you to Building 4 to eliminate these damn Faxi Temple bandits."
The German troops occupying positions outside the building saw Soviet troops approaching and immediately opened fire to intercept them. According to Zalitzman's idea, the group of soldiers who followed him would definitely adopt a dense formation and bravely charge towards the enemy positions outside the building.
But what happened next surprised him. I saw machine gunners carrying MG34 machine guns, more than 300 meters away from the building, choosing craters or ruins as machine gun shooting positions, using firepower to suppress the German troops on the opposite side. The rest of the infantry, under the cover of machine gun fire, formed in groups of three to five and used short leaps to quickly approach the enemy's position.
When they were still twenty or thirty meters away from the enemy's position, they threw grenades one after another, and using the rising smoke as cover, they quickly rushed in front of the enemy, jumped into the trenches, and engaged in close combat and hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.
Seeing the soldiers and the enemy fighting for the outer positions of the building, Zalitzman instinctively raised his hand to look at his watch and found that it was only seven or eight minutes before he left the observation post. He was shocked that this unit could rush into the enemy's position so quickly. He asked Golia in surprise: "Comrade Captain, am I right? Your troops rushed into the enemy's position so quickly?"
"You read that right, Comrade Deputy Director." Golia nodded and said, "Facing a German position without solid defenses and heavy firepower, it usually doesn't take us long to take it down."
"Incredible, simply incredible." Zalitzman said unexpectedly: "I have never seen any army that can capture the enemy's position in such a short period of time."
"Comrade Deputy Factory Director," Golia said with a normal expression, "haven't you seen it now?" After saying this, he stared at his subordinates who were engaging in close combat with the Germans, frowned and added, "The enemy is fighting You must be quite tenacious, it seems like you still have to wait a few minutes before you can rush into the building, and I don’t know if we can rescue those female operators in time.”
"It should be in time." Zalitzman thought about what Komarkova had told him before she died, saying that the other female operators had moved to other places. No matter how fierce the German attack was, they would still have to rush to the fifth floor. I'm afraid it will take some time, so the remaining militiamen in the building will put up a desperate resistance: "I think as long as your troops can rush into the building within half an hour, they can rescue those female operators."
The one attacking Building No. 4 was part of the German 44th Infantry Division. They had just been transferred from other areas to participate in the attack on the Dzerzhinsky Factory. Today, a company of troops was used to launch an attack on Building 4. Since the battle was carried out very easily, when the German company commander saw the Soviet troops appearing, he did not take them seriously at all. He only used one platoon to block the attack, while the remaining troops used all their strength to seize the building.
But the German company commander never dreamed that the troops he faced were different from the Soviet troops he had fought against before. They were Sokov's direct descendants. They were not only well-equipped, but also extremely powerful in combat. Let alone a platoon of German troops. Even if the entire German company holds on to the outer positions, they are still sure of victory.
When the commanders and fighters of the fifth company broke through the German position and rushed towards the building, the German company commander was staying in an office on the first floor, interrogating a captured worker through a translator, trying to learn from his mouth what was going on in the building. Armed status. However, the captured worker behaved extremely toughly. No matter how the other party punched or kicked him, he gritted his teeth and said not a word.
Seeing that he could not get any information from the workers, the German company commander waved his hand to the soldier standing nearby and motioned for him to drag the workers out and shoot them. The soldier grabbed the worker's arm and was about to pull him up from the ground, drag him out and shoot him, when a soldier broke in from outside and reported in a panic: "Mr. Captain, something bad is going on. The Russians burst into the building.”
"Nonsense!" The German company commander glared at his men and said angrily: "I have deployed a company outside the building. The Russians have no chance of approaching here unless they pay the price of two to three hundred men."
"It's true, Mr. Captain." The soldier said with a sad face: "The Russians have already rushed in. If we don't move, it will be too late."
The German company commander listened to the gunshots outside and said dubiously: "Why do all I hear are the firing of German weapons?"
"The Russians who rushed in were equipped with German weapons." Seeing that the captain still didn't believe his words, the soldier almost cried: "Let's go quickly, Mr. Captain, it will be too late if it is later."
But no matter what decision the German company commander would make next, it was already too late. The soldiers of the fifth company who rushed into the building found German soldiers standing at the door of the office, and rushed over while shooting. The one who rushed at the front was a sergeant. He led two soldiers to kill the soldiers guarding the door, then quickly rushed to the door and fired a burst of fire into the room, killing the German company commander and several of his subordinates. Knocked to the ground.
Seeing that there was no one standing in the office, the sergeant was about to take his men to the next room to search when he suddenly heard someone shouting in a weak voice: "Comrades, help me!"
The sergeant quickly stopped and turned to tell a soldier behind him: "Go in and take a look." After saying that, he faced the room again and pointed the muzzle of his gun at a pile of corpses on the ground to prevent any German soldiers who were pretending to be dead. Will jump up and shoot.
After the soldier removed a corpse that was pressing on the worker, he turned to the sergeant and shouted in surprise: "Comrade sergeant, there is one of our people here, and he is still alive."
"Hurry up and help him up." The sergeant ordered: "Ask him what he does?"
The injured worker was supported by the soldiers and came to the door. He took the initiative to report to the sergeant: "Comrade Sergeant, I am still a pipe repairman in the factory. I was transferred here to guard Building No. 4 last night. All my colleagues with me I died in the battle, and I was stunned by the shells. When I woke up, I found that I had been captured by the Germans. They brought me here and wanted to know from me the defense situation in the building... However, Don’t worry, I didn’t say anything.”
When the sergeant saw the pipe repairman eloquently defending himself, he guessed what he was worried about. He just smiled faintly and then asked, "Are you familiar with the terrain in the building?"
"Before the enemy attacked Stalingrad, I often came here to repair pipelines." The maintenance worker quickly replied: "I am very familiar with the terrain in the building."
"Can we still walk?" the sergeant asked tentatively: "If you can still walk, how about you be our guide?"
"No problem, no problem." The maintenance worker originally thought that the sergeant would order someone to take care of him, and after the battle was over, he would be handed over to the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. But he didn't expect that the other party didn't mention it at all, and even asked him in a negotiating tone whether he would like to be a guide, so he hurriedly said: "It's just a skin injury, it's not a problem. Comrade Sergeant, don't worry, I will take care of it for you." Guide.”
The sergeant bent down and picked up a submachine gun from the ground, handed it to the maintenance worker, and asked again: "Can you use it?"
"Yes, yes," the maintenance worker replied: "The military instructors sent by our superiors taught us how to use weapons. But I used to use Mosin-Nagant rifles, and I have never used German submachine guns."
After the sergeant briefly introduced how to use the MP40 submachine gun to the maintenance worker, he deliberately added: "This gun has only 32 rounds of ammunition. When you shoot, don't use up all the bullets in one go. Without bullets, this gun will It’s just a pile of scrap metal.”
When the maintenance man led the sergeant and the others towards the other side of the building, he asked tentatively: "Comrade Sergeant, are you General Zoludev's army?"
"No," the sergeant replied while vigilantly observing the surrounding environment: "We are from the 41st Guards Division."
"The 41st Guards Division?!" After the maintenance man repeated the number mentioned by the sergeant, he frowned and replied, "Why have I never heard of this unit?"
After the sergeant raised his gun and knocked down a German soldier who rushed out of the front room, he lowered his head and said to the maintenance worker who was squatting on the ground to hide from the bullet: "You haven't heard that this is normal. Our division has been stationed at Mamayev Heights. , was ordered to come to reinforce you."
When the maintenance man saw that the enemy who rushed out was knocked down by the sergeant, he quickly stood up. He was worried that the sergeant would think that he was greedy for life and afraid of death, so he quickly explained: "I'm sorry, comrade sergeant, that German suddenly popped up just now and scared me. Believe me, I am not afraid of death at all. Today In the battle, I even killed a German devil with my own hands."
"Okay, stop talking." The sergeant didn't know where the enemy would appear in front, and he didn't want to continue chatting with the maintenance man, so he said in a stern tone: "Pay attention to the surrounding environment and be careful of the enemy's plot. "
