The German troops who attacked the headquarters, just as Sokov suspected, robbed a truck. Everyone got on the car, and then the soldiers who knew how to drive drove at full speed, knocking away the horses along the way and rushing towards the headquarters at full speed.
Although brave soldiers continued to come out to intercept them along the way, many of them were beaten to pieces by the German soldiers in the carriage before they had a chance to shoot, and they were thrown directly to the roadside.
Even if some soldiers pulled the trigger at the speeding truck, the bullets they fired never hit the target. But the German soldiers in the carriage condescended to shoot them to death.
Several soldiers also lit grenades, but before they could throw them out, they were hit by bullets. The grenades fell to the ground, making an earth-shattering explosion. This was the explosion Sokov heard in the headquarters.
In this way, in just three to four minutes, the truck driven by the Germans knocked away more than 20 resisting horses, traveled more than 600 meters, and killed more than 40 Soviet soldiers.
When they were less than a hundred meters away from the building where the headquarters was located, machine guns started firing from behind a sandbag fortification in the middle of the road ahead. The dense bullets shattered the truck's windshield and seriously injured the German soldier driving the truck. But after being injured, the German soldier gritted his teeth and stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, quickly rushing towards the sandbag fortification.
Soon the truck crashed into a sandbag fortification. The huge impact knocked the two Soviet machine gunners who were shooting away seven or eight meters, and then fell heavily to the ground and became motionless. The seriously injured German driver also flew out of the front window with the broken windshield and hung directly on the horse frame.
Although the German soldiers in the carriage were not thrown out by inertia, the huge impact still caused everyone to roll into a ball in the carriage. Just as they struggled to get up and were about to get off the car and rush to the building, two machine guns set up on the roof opened fire on them.
Several German soldiers who had just stood up immediately became victims and were beaten to bloody gourds on the spot. Some fell directly out of the car, while others fell on top of their companions, becoming their shields. Seeing that the situation was not good, the surviving soldiers got out of the car one after another, knowing that they would definitely become targets of shooting if they stayed in the car.
After getting off the bus, these German soldiers did not gather, but broke into scattered formations and rushed towards the building. Some people were running and shooting at the rooftops.
In order to hit the German soldiers who were about to rush into the building, the machine gunners on the roof had to lean out and shoot below. Unfortunately, one of the shooters was hit by a German bullet. He screamed and fell directly from the roof. .
Although there were only fifteen or six German soldiers who rushed into the building, they were equivalent to the special forces of later generations. It was very easy to deal with a group of staff officers or communications personnel with mediocre combat effectiveness.
When Sokov heard the gunshots outside getting closer and closer, he couldn't help but frowned. He didn't expect that the security force deployed by the security chief was so poor. It only took the Germans less than ten minutes to rush to him. Near the headquarters. He shouted to the panicked staff and communications personnel in the room: "Listen, everyone, don't panic, our reinforcements will arrive soon! Now, everyone is looking for a suitable place to hide, do you understand?"
After hearing Sokov's order, the staff and communications personnel in the room looked for hiding places to avoid becoming targets of the Germans after they rushed in.
Sokov turned to Sidorin beside him and said: "Chief of Staff, you should also find a suitable place to hide."
"No, no." After hearing this, Sidorin shook his head and said stubbornly: "I am your chief of staff, so naturally I want to stay with you."
"Comrade Chief of Staff," Sokov became a little anxious when he saw that the other party was unwilling to hide: "I crawled out from the dead and have rich combat experience. A few Germans cannot threaten me. If If you stay here, I still need to distract myself from taking care of you, and maybe in the end, both you and I will be in danger."
Hearing what Sokov said, it was hard for Sidorin to say anything. After all, he had been working as a staff officer for a long time and had almost no chance to go to the battlefield. Combat experience is almost zero. In order to avoid becoming a burden to Sokov, he smiled apologetically at Sokov, then stood up and hid under a wooden table.
As soon as Sidorin hid, a soldier wearing a Soviet uniform appeared at the door. Sokov raised his hand and fired a single shot, knocking the opponent to the ground. In the current situation, Sokov had no time to distinguish between friend and foe. When he saw someone appearing at the door, he instinctively pulled the trigger.
After the man fell, Sokov saw clearly that there was a white towel tied to his left arm, and he immediately understood that he had not hit the wrong person. Who among his subordinates would tie a white towel to his arm for no reason?
Sokov has always disagreed with the idea of tying a white towel on his arm as an identification mark during night raids. You know, when fighting at night, everything is dark. When you see a figure appearing in front of you, you would normally shoot directly. Who would be so embarrassed to check whether there is a white towel on the other person's arm?
If he had time to check the towel, he would have been killed by the enemy long ago. Moreover, if you move too much during a night battle, the white towel tied to your arm may fall off, and you will be beaten to death as an enemy.
Sokov killed the German soldiers who rushed to the door and did not find a place to hide, because he knew that if he stayed in the house, even if he could block the door with firepower, the Germans could also throw grenades into the house. You know, there were at least a dozen people in the room. If a grenade was really thrown in, there would definitely be casualties, so Sokov chose to rush out of the room.
When he came to the corridor, he saw someone coming towards him along the corridor. He quickly shot at the person. After knocking down one person, he ran forward along the corridor, preparing to find a suitable position to continue shooting.
A female operator hiding in the next room was so nervous that she could hardly breathe. She opened her mouth wide and breathed heavily. She felt like she couldn't control the trembling all over her body. She was really scared to death and just wanted to get out of this damn place quickly.
When Sokov shot at the Germans in the corridor and then ran into the distance, and the "dong dong dong" footsteps of the Germans chasing after him, the female operator's fear was pushed to the point of collapse. On the edge, she was panting rapidly, her face was pale, and her forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat.
At this time, several more German soldiers came over, and they were about to enter the rooms on both sides of the corridor to search to see if there were any hidden Soviet commanders and fighters. The female operator felt that her heart was about to explode. She could no longer control her emotions. After screaming, she rushed out of the hiding room and passed through the gap between the two German soldiers. , running along the corridor as if flying.
After a brief moment of shock, the German soldier shot her in the back. The female operator fell to the ground in response, blood pouring out of her body. The German soldiers walked forward slowly with guns in hand. They looked at the corpses on the ground with some surprise. They felt that the other party's behavior was so abnormal that he would take the initiative to run out of his hiding place.
At the same time, Koshkin was leading a large group of soldiers towards the building where the headquarters was located. At this moment, he was extremely upset. He really didn't expect that the Germans would dare to take risks and drive their cars directly towards the headquarters. He felt particularly heavy from the remains of soldiers lying on the roadside along the way.
He was worried that something might happen to Sokov. Although everyone was running as fast as they could, Koshkin still felt it was too slow and kept urging: "Hurry up, run faster!"
The Germans had long guessed that troops would arrive for reinforcements after the headquarters was attacked. They placed two soldiers at the door and blocked the road with firepower to buy precious time for their companions in the building.
When Koshkin and the others were still more than fifty meters away from the building, two German soldiers at the door opened fire. The few soldiers who rushed to the front fell to the ground, and the rest dispersed in a hurry, each hiding in a safe position to avoid being hit by enemy bullets.
"Come on, charge forward!" Seeing that the troops were suppressed by the enemy's firepower, Koshkin shouted while shooting at the enemy's firepower point.
A soldier crawled over, more than 20 meters away from the fire point, lit a grenade and threw it over. After a loud "boom", two German soldiers in the sandbag fortification at the door were killed on the spot.
Seeing that the firepower point was cleared, Koshkin got up from the ground, waved the assault rifle in his hand, and rushed forward shouting: "Brothers, follow me! Charge!"
Infected by Koshkin's actual actions, the soldiers who had been hiding came out of their hiding places one after another and rushed towards the building with weapons in hand. They had only one idea at the moment, which was to rush into the building as soon as possible and rescue the commander. He must not be harmed in the slightest.
As soon as they rushed into the building, a German soldier ran over from the other side of the corridor. The soldier who rushed in front saw that the other person was wearing the same military uniform as himself, and thought that the other person was a survivor who had been shot by the enemy. When he was about to ask a question, the other person had already fired first, knocking down the two unsuspecting soldiers. .
Koshkin quickly pulled the trigger on the German soldier and killed him. Then he stepped forward cautiously, first kicked the gun away from the body with his feet, and then kicked the other person twice. When there was still no movement, he was sure that the person had been killed by him.
After a short observation, he found a white towel tied to the left arm of the corpse. He turned around and said to the soldiers behind him: "Everyone, please note that the Germans all have a white towel tied to their left arms. As long as you see the arm Anyone who ties a towel should be shot immediately, do you understand?"
The soldiers were worried about how to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy. After all, they were all wearing the same military uniform. When they heard what Koshkin said, they quickly replied loudly: "Understood!"
Sokov ran to a corner, stopped, and then squatted directly on the ground, pointing the muzzle of the gun at the corner, ready to shoot. He did this because he considered that when the Germans were searching for targets, they would first pay attention to targets parallel to their line of sight, and would not pay attention to targets below their own line of sight. Sokov could use these precious few seconds to time, decisively shoot at the enemy.
The German never dreamed that there would be someone squatting at the corner, so that he didn't even have time to react and just received the lunch box after two crisp gunshots. Seeing a good paratrooper knife on his body, Sokov stepped forward and picked it off as his trophy.
Sokov continued running down the corridor, gun in hand. Just as he ran to the next corner, a man suddenly rushed into his arms. The two men's guns were pressed against each other. Sokov pulled the trigger without seeing anything clearly. After the gunshot, a body fell heavily to the ground. Sokov looked down and saw a white towel tied to the other person's arm, proving that he had not killed the wrong person.
When he came to the stairs, Sokov saw that there was no one here, so he walked down carefully, preparing to go to the door to see if he could meet any rescue troops. Unexpectedly, just halfway through, he saw a German soldier with a white towel tied to his arm, holding a gun and standing at the top of the stairs with his back to him, looking around.
Sokov jumped down from the stairs, threw the German soldier to the ground, grabbed his hair with his left hand, pulled his head back, and aimed the sharp paratrooper's knife at the German soldier's neck. The German soldier didn't have time to shout, so he covered the wound with his hand. As he continued to breathe heavily, streams of blood came out of the wound.
As soon as Sokov stood up, a strong German soldier rushed over from the side. He raised the gun in his hand and aimed at Sokov, but when he pulled the trigger, he found that the bullets had been fired. He threw away the gun in his hand and rushed towards Sokov. Soon the two were wrestling with each other, rolling on the ground, fighting to the death.
The German soldiers knocked Sokov's paratrooper knife out of his hand and strangled him. The two men rolled around on the ground, but Sokov could never gain the upper hand. As the force on the German soldier's hand became stronger and stronger, Sokov felt difficulty breathing. He struggled to grab the German soldier's hand, but failed.
The German soldier smiled ferociously, pulled out the paratrooper knife from his waist, and stabbed Sokov. Sokov took the man's hand and tried to stop him. But the opponent's power was much greater than his own, and Sokov could only watch as the tip of the knife got closer and closer to his heart.
At this critical moment, only two gunshots were heard, and then the German soldier's body shook, and then pressed on Sokovdo's body like a broken sack. Soon Sokov felt his face splashed with hot liquid. According to his experience, this should be the blood of German soldiers.
Sokov raised his hand to push away the corpse of the German soldier that was pressing on him. At a glance, he saw Koshkin standing aside. He asked nervously: "Comrade Commander, are you okay?"
Seeing his reinforcements arriving, Sokov's whole body seemed to be drained of all his strength. He shook his head and said, "I'm fine. How many of you are here?"
"There are more than a hundred people." Koshkin obviously saw that Sokov had no strength to get up from the ground, and quickly handed the assault rifle in his hand to a soldier beside him, and then leaned over to help Sokov. But he exerted some force and found that Sokov's body was as soft as noodles and could not be lifted up by his own strength. He quickly turned around and said to the soldiers next to him: "Everyone, help me, help Comrade Commander up."
In this way, Sokov finally stood up from the ground with the help of everyone.
(End of chapter)
