After the German army rushed into Building No. 4, they rushed directly along the stairs in the hall, so they ignored the stairs in remote locations. The maintenance worker and the sergeant and others headed towards this remote stairs. Perhaps it was because the road they were walking was so remote that they did not encounter many German soldiers along the way. Even if one or two occasionally appeared, they were shot dead by the sergeant and his soldiers.
Seeing that he came to the stairs, the sergeant asked the repairman in a low voice: "Is the person guarding this stairs yours or Germans?"
"I don't know!" the maintenance worker shook his head and replied, "My combat post is outside the gate, and it's unclear whether there have been any battles here."
Fortunately, the Sergeant is a veteran with rich combat experience. After seeing the stairs not far away, he breathed a sigh of relief. Then he said to the maintenance worker: "It seems that we are lucky, and there has been no battle here."
Seeing that the sergeant said so affirmatively, the maintenance worker asked in wonder: "Comrade Sergeant, how do you know?"
"Look," the sergeant pointed to the location of the stairs: "Although the wall next to the stairs was blown through a hole, the bricks and rubble were piled on the stairs, and they should have been bombed by German shelling or bombing. In addition, there were no bodies on the stairs, so I boldly speculated that there had been no battle here."
"It makes sense, it makes sense!" The maintenance worker nodded and echoed: "After you said that, I also think that we should be guarding this staircase."
As soon as he finished speaking, something with white smoke fell from the sky and landed on the stairs. The sergeant's eyes were sharp and he shouted: "Grenade, lie down quickly!" After shouting, he pressed the repairman beside him to the ground.
With a loud "boom", the explosion of air waves lifted up the gravel on the stairs, and the goddess scattered flowers in all directions, with many of them hitting the sergeant and the sergeant lying on the ground. The sergeant and the others were better, wearing thick cotton uniforms and steel helmets. The gravel hit their bodies and heads, and they couldn't feel any pain. But the repairman suffered. Although he was lying on the ground, he held his head with both hands, but he was still screaming with gravel.
"Comrade Sergeant," a soldier who followed the Sergeant, whispered to the Sergeant as he climbed up from the ground: "Can there be Germans on the stairs?"
"It shouldn't be a German." The sergeant waved his hand and said, "Didn't you see the grenade that just fell on the stairs? That is the standard grenade used by our army. For the Germans, this kind of grenade is not only cumbersome to use, but also not very powerful, so they disdain to use it."
The repairman rubbed the back of his head, which was so painful that he was hit by the gravel, and stood up and asked the sergeant: "Comrade Sergeant, do you think it is possible that ours is ours?"
"This possibility is very high." Don't see the sergeant analyzing his subordinates well, but he was really not sure whether the person guarding the stairs above was a German or his own. He could only say vaguely: "But we still have to find a way to confirm."
"Leave this to me." After the repairman said that, he walked straight towards the stairs. He came to the stairs and raised his head to shout, "Hey, whoever is on it, don't throw grenades, it almost exploded his own people."
After a moment of silence, a voice came from the upper floor: "Who is downstairs?"
"I am Ye Feim!" The maintenance worker heard the sound above and walked a few steps up the stairs and asked excitedly: "You are Lesaudi, are you?"
"It's me, it's me." The person above asked again: "Aren't you guarding outside the gate? What are you doing when you run inside?"
Perhaps to prevent misunderstandings, the pipe repairman who claimed to be Yefim did not tell Lesaud upstairs that he had been captured by the Germans. He turned his head and looked at the sergeant standing not far behind him, then raised his head and said to him: "I have brought several comrades from the Guard Division and want to go up here to beat the Germans."
"Come up quickly." Lesaud said to Yefim, "I was scared by two Germans just now. Fortunately, there were gunfires and explosions sounded from the main stairs, and they turned back."
When the sergeant and others followed Ye Feim to the second floor, they saw an old man in casual clothes and gray hair standing at the entrance of the stairs on the second floor, holding a Mosinnagan rifle without a bayonet, and two grenades were inserted on the belt around his waist.
The sergeant smiled at him and said, "Old man, fortunately you didn't throw grenades while we were going up the stairs, otherwise none of us would have been able to go up to the second floor alive."
The old man named Lesaudi grinned after hearing the sergeant's words and replied, "I'm sorry, comrade Sergeant, I heard someone talking downstairs and thought it was a German, so I threw a grenade down."
The sergeant looked at the surrounding environment and found that it was just a staircase connecting the first and second floors, and it could not lead to the third floor. He couldn't help but frown and asked, "What, can't this staircase go up to the third floor?"
"That's right, Comrade Sergeant." Lesaud replied: "It is precisely because this staircase can only lead to the second floor. People who are not familiar with the terrain in the building can really not find it. Therefore, when the defense is arranged, my superiors only arranged for me to guard it." He reached out and pointed to the long corridor next to him, "Follow this corridor, you can find the main staircase leading to the third floor."
After thanking Lesaud, the sergeant took the two soldiers and prepared to rush along the corridor to the main stairs to participate in the ongoing battle there. After he walked a distance, he saw Yefim following closely behind him, and stopped and said to him: "Comrade Yefim, you don't have to go. You and Lesaud are just guarding the entrance of this staircase, don't let the Germans escape from here."
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The German army, who had just occupied the third floor and had an unstable foothold, immediately launched a counterattack when they saw the Soviet army attacking from the downstairs. They thought that the troops that had just rushed in must have the same combat effectiveness as the troops that were defeated by themselves, so they did not defend themselves with the condescending terrain, but rushed down the stairs and tried to fight back to drive the Soviet army out of the building.
But they quickly paid the price for their underestimation. Some soldiers who rushed down the stairs were killed by dense bullets on the stairs. Seeing that the situation was not good, the soldiers behind quickly retreated, hid at the entrance of the stairs and shot and dropped bombs downwards.
Lieutenant Geria, the fifth company commander who personally commanded the battle in the building, saw several soldiers trying to rush up the stairs, being knocked down by bullets shot from the upstairs or being blown down by grenades. He quickly organized fire cover and used dense firepower to prevent the enemies upstairs from daring to emerge, while the attacking soldiers took advantage of this time to rush up.
There was only one German company that attacked Building No. 4, and a platoon deployed outside the building had already been wiped out by the soldiers of the fifth company. After a fierce battle with the militia in the building, there were only fifty or sixty people left, and they were distributed on the second and third floors respectively, so how could they stop the Soviet army several times their number? Within ten minutes, as the commanders and soldiers of the fifth company rushed to the third floor, the gunshots in the building became sparse.
When Geria carried a submachine gun to the third floor, a platoon leader came to report to him: "Comrade Commander, my platoon caught several prisoners, including two wounded people. How should we deal with them?"
"No one will be left, all will be shot!" Geria had long learned from Zalitzman's mouth that the female radio operator Komarkova was cruelly killed by the enemy, so she hated the Germans to the core. In response to the platoon leader's request for instructions, he gritted his teeth and said, "We will never accept the surrender of these two-legged beasts."
"Yes, comrade of the company commander!" Before attacking Building 4, Geria made a brief combat mobilization against the soldiers, and specifically mentioned that the female radio operator in the building was killed by the Germans. Therefore, all the commanders and soldiers of the fifth company were filled with hatred for the Germans. Hearing Geria's order, the platoon leader quickly agreed loudly: "I will go and execute your order immediately."
Geria ordered the communications soldiers behind him: "Go to the deputy battalion commander immediately and tell him that we have wiped out all the German soldiers and recovered the building." After the communications soldiers went downstairs, he reached out and grabbed a soldier who ran through him and told him, "Go and find a militia, and I want to learn about the situation in the building from him."
In less than two minutes, Ye Feim, who had just come from the second floor, appeared in front of Geria. After raising his hand to salute an unstandard military salute, he asked respectfully: "Comrade Commander, what can I do to serve you?"
"I want to ask," Geria asked straightforwardly without even asking the other party's name: "Can you tell me where your computer room is?"
"Comrade Commander," Ye Feim, as a regular visitor of Building 4, knew where the station computer room was. When he heard that the commander in front of him wanted to go to the main computer room, he thought the other party was going to call, so he volunteered and said: "I am very familiar with this place, I will be your guide."
Yefim took Geria to the door of the main room. Seeing the open door and several corpses on the ground, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then shouted loudly into the room: "Komarkova, where are you?"
When Geria was stunned when she heard Yefim calling Komarkova, she asked tentatively: "Minister comrade, do you know Komarkova?"
"Yes," Ye Feim nodded vigorously and replied, "She is my girlfriend and works in the host room."
"This comrade," after learning about Yefim and Komarkova's relationship, Geria raised his hand and grabbed one of his arms, and said in a heavy tone: "I want to tell you some bad news that your girlfriend Komarkova has been brutally killed by the Germans."
"Impossible, how is this possible." Ye Feim's face showed a shocked expression when he heard Geria say this: "Comrade Commander, you are talking nonsense. You don't even know where the main computer room is. How could you know that Komarkova was killed by the enemy? Fake, what you said is fake, you must be lying to me."
"If you don't believe it, you can go in and take a look." Geria let go of her hand, lowered her head and said to Yefim: "The other female operators in the switchboard room were transferred before the enemy rushed to the third floor, leaving Komarkova alone on duty. As a result, she was killed by the German soldiers who rushed in."
Yefim didn't believe what Geria said, so he rushed into the switch room quickly. After looking around for a moment, he saw a female operator in a white shirt lying in a pool of blood. From the other party's figure, he recognized his girlfriend Komarkova at a glance. But he still walked over with a lucky mentality, helped Komarkova sit up with one hand, shook it hard, and shouted loudly: "Komakova, what's wrong with you? Wake up quickly, I am Yefim, I am Yefim!"
Geria walked behind Yefim, looked down at Komarkova, covered in blood, and found that there were at least seven or eight bullet holes on her body, and the blood had already dried up. Even if the most intelligent military doctor was here, she could not save her life. He squatted beside Yefim, raised his hand and patted the other party's shoulder, and said in a low voice: "Comrade Yefim, Komarkova has sacrificed, you can be mournful and follow the changes."
"No, she is not dead." Ye Feim turned his head and looked at Geria, shouting in tears: "Comrade Commander, she is not dead yet. I beg you, hurry up and find your health officer, maybe you can save her."
"Comrade Yefim," Seeing that Yefim was so sad, he fell into madness. Geria suddenly stood up, looked down at him, and said in a stern tone: "I'll tell you the truth. She was killed by the enemy long before we attacked Building 4. We even used this to boost morale and make every warrior's heart full of hatred for the enemy. Otherwise, how could we rush into the building so quickly and destroy all the enemies?"
Geria's roar made Yefim feel a little more awake. He looked up at Geria for a long time before asking with difficulty: "Comrade Commander, do you know what her last words are?"
"She said, she said," Geria suddenly felt sour when she retelled Komarkova's last words. Fortunately, he controlled his emotions in time and tears did not burst out from his eyes. However, he still said a few "she said" to express his meaning: "She said: Goodbye forever, dear comrades, save it for me! She may have more to say, but the damn German guy beat her to death before she could finish her words."
Chapter completed!