"But, your Excellency, division commander." The division chief of staff heard this order and quickly reminded him carefully: "There are still many of our wounded in the hospital. If we fire, we may accidentally injure them."
The German division commander who was eager to eliminate the Soviet troops in the hospital did not care about the safety of the captured and wounded in the hospital. He said angrily: "Chief of Staff, do you think our wounded will still be alive when the Russians have occupied the hospital for so long? It must have been long ago." He was secretly shot by the Russians. Stop talking nonsense and order the artillery to fire immediately."
The division chief of staff thought carefully about the division commander's words and felt that they still made sense. It is said that when the Skeleton Division occupied Kharkov at the beginning of the year, they were able to kill all the Russian wounded in the hospital. Now that the Russians have occupied the hospital, it seems reasonable to kill all the German wounded.
With this thought, the division chief of staff no longer hesitated: "Yes, your Excellency, division commander, as you wish, I will immediately notify the artillery regiment to fire and level the buildings in the hospital."
The division commander nodded, and then said to the regiment commander: "Colonel, after the artillery regiment's artillery fire destroys the outpatient building, your troops need to rush into the hospital immediately, eliminate those Russians who are still alive, and avenge our killed wounded. "
"Don't worry, Your Excellency, Division Commander." The German Army Commander vowed: "I will make the Russians pay the price with blood."
Not long after, 16 105mm artillery pieces from the 106th Infantry Division Artillery Regiment began shelling the outpatient building of the hospital. The outpatient clinic building is a brick-concrete structure. How can it withstand the bombardment of artillery of such a caliber? Amidst the rumbling sound of artillery, the building was riddled with holes, and the commanders and soldiers who stayed in the building suffered heavy casualties.
Captain Narva saw that the situation was not good, and except for a few soldiers who stayed in the building to serve as observation posts, the rest withdrew into the basement of the building to reduce unnecessary casualties.
Guchakov, who was staying in the inpatient building, saw enemy artillery fire bombarding the outpatient building. The outpatient building became shaky under the baptism of artillery fire and was in danger of collapse at any time.
Seeing this, Guchakov secretly complained, and quickly ordered the Second Company to withdraw into the hospital building, preparing to rely on the terrain here for the final resistance.
After the German shelling lasted for seven or eight minutes, the outpatient building, which was bombed beyond recognition, collapsed. The German commander, who was hiding in a nearby residential area to observe, immediately ordered his men to launch another attack on the hospital.
The enemy who entered the hospital gate was about to rush into the outpatient building that was still shrouded in gunpowder smoke. Suddenly, sporadic gunshots were heard from the ruins, knocking down the German soldiers at the front and scaring the soldiers behind them to lie down quickly and shoot at the bullets. He fired back from the direction he was flying from.
Guchakov stood at a window of the inpatient building, looking at the figures of German officers and soldiers flashing out from time to time in the gunpowder smoke. He couldn't help but sigh secretly. He was worried that the entire company standing there had been lost.
"Comrade Battalion Commander," Yegor, the second company commander, saw that the outpatient clinic building was destroyed by enemy artillery fire, and the gunshots from assault rifles were very sparse in the ruins. He couldn't help but be anxious, so he took the initiative to ask Guchakov: "Now the first company's They are in danger, do you want me to take the Second Company up to reinforce them?"
"No." Guchakov refused him unambiguously: "Now the outpatient building has been destroyed by enemy artillery fire, and the situation of the first company is unknown. If you rush out rashly, you will die. I have no right to take your lives. adventure."
"But, Comrade Battalion Commander." Seeing that Guchakov rejected his request, Yegor stamped his feet anxiously: "Are we just going to watch a company being wiped out by the enemy?"
"Captain Yegor," Guchakov turned to look at Yegor and said seriously: "The situation of the company is unknown now. If you rush out rashly, you will die. I can't let you take the risk." Seeing Yegor As if he wanted to say something else, he straightened his face and said sternly, "Don't you know that orders from superiors can only be executed and not discussed?"
Having hit a wall, Yegor could only shut his mouth obediently, walked to the window next to him, raised his binoculars and looked towards the smoke-filled outpatient building, hoping to see his own figure in the smoke.
"Captain Seryosha," after sending Yegor away, Guchakov called Seryosha to him and said to him: "Go to the doctor and ask them to move all the German wounded to the basement. Said the Germans might soon be shelling us."
"Did you move all the German wounded to the basement?" Seryosha frowned and said, "I think we just let them stay in the ward and let their own shells blow them all to death."
Guchakov turned to Seryosha and said seriously: "Captain Seryosha, if we want to kill these German prisoners, we should kill them all when we occupy this building. Now that we agree to let If they continue to stay here to recuperate, we cannot break their promises and put them in danger."
After saying this, he reorganized the words in his mind and added: "If Comrade Commander were here, I think he would do the same."
Seeing Guchakov carrying Sokov out, Seryosha really couldn't refute, so he could only nodded and said: "Okay, comrade major, I will go to the doctor myself and ask him to transfer the wounded to Go to the basement.”
When Seryosha found the doctor in the changing pharmacy, he was operating on a wounded Soviet soldier. Seeing Seryosha barging in, he asked with an unhappy face: "Mr. Captain, what can I do for you?"
"Doctor," Seryosha said angrily to the doctor, "I'm here to inform you to move all the wounded to the basement immediately. Immediately, immediately, as fast as possible!"
After Seryozha said these words to the doctor, he said to the several lightly wounded people standing nearby waiting for treatment: "You are responsible for assisting the doctors and moving those German wounded to the basement one by one. You must move quickly. Understand?"
These wounded men were all Seryozha's subordinates. After hearing Seryozha's order, they immediately replied in an unambiguous manner: "I understand, comrade company commander."
When he heard Seryozha said that all the wounded German soldiers would be moved to the basement, the doctor was not only shocked, but then he put down the scalpel and said loudly to Seryosha: "Mr. Captain, you once promised me that you would Treat these wounded soldiers well, and you can’t break your promise.”
Seryozha asked in reply: "How can we fail to keep our word?"
"I know that you may not be able to withstand our army's attack, so you want to kill all the wounded before evacuating here." The doctor said angrily: "Otherwise, how could you move them all to the basement, where is The perfect place to store a body.”
After listening to the doctor's indignant words, Seryozha understood that the other party had misunderstood, and quickly raised his voice and said: "Doctor, you know, we are Sokov's army, how can we not be trustworthy? Since we agreed to let these wounded people go, , I will definitely embarrass them."
"Since you won't embarrass them, why take them to the basement for execution?"
"Who told you that we were going to take them to the basement for execution?" Seryosha explained with some laughter and tears: "The Germans have used artillery fire to destroy the outpatient building in order to occupy the hospital. I believe the next target is the inpatient building. Do you think that if the building is destroyed by your artillery fire, how many of the wounded living in the ward will survive?"
The doctor had just been treating the wounds of the wounded Soviet soldiers, and had no idea that the outpatient clinic building had been razed to the ground by German artillery fire. When I heard Seryozha say this, after a brief moment of astonishment, he asked tentatively: "You really don't know how to shoot our wounded?"
"No, doctor, I promise you on my own honor that we will never shoot these wounded people."
"But, your Excellency, division commander." The division chief of staff heard this order and quickly reminded him carefully: "There are still many of our wounded in the hospital. If we fire, we may accidentally injure them."
The German division commander who was eager to eliminate the Soviet troops in the hospital did not care about the safety of the captured and wounded in the hospital. He said angrily: "Chief of Staff, do you think our wounded will still be alive when the Russians have occupied the hospital for so long? It must have been long ago." He was secretly shot by the Russians. Stop talking nonsense and order the artillery to fire immediately."
The division chief of staff thought carefully about the division commander's words and felt that they still made sense. It is said that when the Skeleton Division occupied Kharkov at the beginning of the year, they were able to kill all the Russian wounded in the hospital. Now that the Russians have occupied the hospital, it seems reasonable to kill all the German wounded.
With this thought, the division chief of staff no longer hesitated: "Yes, your Excellency, division commander, as you wish, I will immediately notify the artillery regiment to fire and level the buildings in the hospital."
The division commander nodded, and then said to the regiment commander: "Colonel, after the artillery regiment's artillery fire destroys the outpatient building, your troops need to rush into the hospital immediately, eliminate those Russians who are still alive, and avenge our killed wounded. "
"Don't worry, Your Excellency, Division Commander." The German Army Commander vowed: "I will make the Russians pay the price with blood."
Not long after, 16 105mm artillery pieces from the 106th Infantry Division Artillery Regiment began shelling the outpatient building of the hospital. The outpatient clinic building is a brick-concrete structure. How can it withstand the bombardment of artillery of such a caliber? Amidst the rumbling sound of artillery, the building was riddled with holes, and the commanders and soldiers who stayed in the building suffered heavy casualties.
Captain Narva saw that the situation was not good, and except for a few soldiers who stayed in the building to serve as observation posts, the rest withdrew into the basement of the building to reduce unnecessary casualties.
Guchakov, who was staying in the inpatient building, saw enemy artillery fire bombarding the outpatient building. The outpatient building became shaky under the baptism of artillery fire and was in danger of collapse at any time.
Seeing this, Guchakov secretly complained, and quickly ordered the Second Company to withdraw into the hospital building, preparing to rely on the terrain here for the final resistance.
After the German shelling lasted for seven or eight minutes, the outpatient building, which was bombed beyond recognition, collapsed. The German commander, who was hiding in a nearby residential area to observe, immediately ordered his men to launch another attack on the hospital.
The enemy who entered the hospital gate was about to rush into the outpatient building that was still shrouded in gunpowder smoke. Suddenly, sporadic gunshots were heard from the ruins, knocking down the German soldiers at the front and scaring the soldiers behind them to lie down quickly and shoot at the bullets. He fired back from the direction he was flying from.
Guchakov stood at a window of the inpatient building, looking at the figures of German officers and soldiers flashing out from time to time in the gunpowder smoke. He couldn't help but sigh secretly. He was worried that the entire company standing there had been lost.
"Comrade Battalion Commander," Yegor, the second company commander, saw that the outpatient clinic building was destroyed by enemy artillery fire, and the gunshots from assault rifles were very sparse in the ruins. He couldn't help but be anxious, so he took the initiative to ask Guchakov: "Now the first company's They are in danger, do you want me to take the Second Company up to reinforce them?"
"No." Guchakov refused him unambiguously: "Now the outpatient building has been destroyed by enemy artillery fire, and the situation of the first company is unknown. If you rush out rashly, you will die. I have no right to take your lives. adventure."
"But, Comrade Battalion Commander." Seeing that Guchakov rejected his request, Yegor stamped his feet anxiously: "Are we just going to watch a company being wiped out by the enemy?"
"Captain Yegor," Guchakov turned to look at Yegor and said seriously: "The situation of the company is unknown now. If you rush out rashly, you will die. I can't let you take the risk." Seeing Yegor As if he wanted to say something else, he straightened his face and said sternly, "Don't you know that orders from superiors can only be executed and not discussed?"
Having hit a wall, Yegor could only shut his mouth obediently, walked to the window next to him, raised his binoculars and looked towards the smoke-filled outpatient building, hoping to see his own figure in the smoke.
"Captain Seryosha," after sending Yegor away, Guchakov called Seryosha to him and said to him: "Go to the doctor and ask them to move all the German wounded to the basement. Said the Germans might soon be shelling us."
"Did you move all the German wounded to the basement?" Seryosha frowned and said, "I think we just let them stay in the ward and let their own shells blow them all to death."
Guchakov turned to Seryosha and said seriously: "Captain Seryosha, if we want to kill these German prisoners, we should kill them all when we occupy this building. Now that we agree to let If they continue to stay here to recuperate, we cannot break their promises and put them in danger."
After saying this, he reorganized the words in his mind and added: "If Comrade Commander were here, I think he would do the same."
Seeing Guchakov carrying Sokov out, Seryosha really couldn't refute, so he could only nodded and said: "Okay, comrade major, I will go to the doctor myself and ask him to transfer the wounded to Go to the basement.”
When Seryosha found the doctor in the changing pharmacy, he was operating on a wounded Soviet soldier. Seeing Seryosha barging in, he asked with an unhappy face: "Mr. Captain, what can I do for you?"
"Doctor," Seryosha said angrily to the doctor, "I'm here to inform you to move all the wounded to the basement immediately. Immediately, immediately, as fast as possible!"
After Seryozha said these words to the doctor, he said to the several lightly wounded people standing nearby waiting for treatment: "You are responsible for assisting the doctors and moving those German wounded to the basement one by one, and you must move quickly. Understand?"
