Chapter 1077 Gunshots in the middle of the night (Part 2)
But as soon as the platoon leader left, the captain standing at the window found something was wrong. The group of people in the distance did not stand in place, but slowly moved forward. At the same time, they also launched a battle formation.
At this moment, the captain remembered again what Sokov told him that before dawn, his people would never leave the hotel; and reinforcements nearby would not come to reinforce. In this way, the people who appeared in front of the hotel were definitely not their own people, but Germans in disguise.
The captain quickly turned around and shouted at the door: "The lieutenant is back, they are Germans."
Unexpectedly, the lieutenant could not wait to run down, ordered the soldiers to open the door of the hotel, and then walked towards the German army outside with a few people. Seeing this, the captain was in a hurry, and snatched the rifle from the soldiers beside him, raised his gun and fired a shot at the crowd in the distance.
Gunshots rang out, and someone in the crowd was shot and fell down.
This shot stunned everyone on both sides of the enemy and us.
The platoon leader who led the team turned his head and looked at the hotel, thinking to himself: Did his gun accidentally get fired?
But this was the last thought in his mind. Then he heard the sound of gunfire like a bean-like bursting sound, and then a sharp pain came from his abdomen and chest. Before he could figure out what was going on, the huge impact of the bullet had already overturned him and several other soldiers to the ground.
What happened suddenly made the soldiers in the building stunned, but they soon realized that these so-called "guard battalion soldiers" who came out of the ruins were actually disguised by the German army. They hurriedly braved the enemy's dense firepower to forcefully close the hotel door and blocked the door with tables, chairs and benches. In order to complete such a work, three soldiers were unfortunately shot and died.
The German officers and soldiers who tried to rush into the hotel were repelled by the dense firepower in the building. They retreated back into the ruins across the street and shot against the Soviet commanders and fighters in the hotel.
The battle that took place in the hotel alarmed Selyosha who was staying nearby. When the gunshot just now, he tried to use long-range firepower to support his comrades in the hotel, but the battle over there ended too quickly, and his soldiers had not even had time to put the mortar rack. At this moment, when he heard the dense gunshots coming from the direction of the hotel, he immediately realized that the German army was attacking a large-scale attack and quickly ordered the mortar rack gun to bombard the other side.
Several mortar shells fell into the ruins, and the explosion of air waves turned bricks and stones into weapons to injure people. The stones flying everywhere made some Germans hiding near the explosion site scream.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the German commander immediately ordered the soldiers to start charging. According to his idea, as long as he rushed into the hotel, the Soviet mortars were worried that they would accidentally hurt their own people, so they would definitely not dare to fire them.
After receiving the order to attack, the soldiers jumped out of their hiding place and braved the fire of mortars and rushed to the hotel. Although people were constantly bombed into the sky by shells, hit by flying shrapnel, or knocked down by bullets stretched out from the hotel, they still rushed forward without hesitation.
The Soviet captain who was commanding the battle in the hotel knew what they were going to do. They had only one goal, that is, to kill Zhukov who was staying in the basement at the moment. This was obviously a carefully planned assassination plan, and he spared no expense. First, he used the lives of more than a dozen paratroopers to make the defenders in the building think that the sneak attacker had been eliminated, and then suddenly attacked again. The exchange of fire in the ruins not long ago was probably just a gesture for him to see.
At this moment, the German soldiers rushed outside the hotel. After failing to hit the door, they changed their tactics, smashed the window on the ground floor, and threw grenades in. After the violent explosion sounded, before the smoke of gunpowder was dissipated, the German soldiers jumped into the window, shot at the movement, and killed the Soviet soldiers who were only wounded.
"Comrade Captain," a soldier ran downstairs to report to the captain: "The enemy has rushed into the building and is fighting for the house to go with our soldiers."
When the captain was frightened into the hotel, he was immediately scared and sweated. He knew very well that Zhukov was hiding in the basement. If the German army found his place, even if he didn't have to rush in, he could kill Zhukov. Thinking of this, the captain quickly shouted to the warrior who was still shooting out of the room: "Leave two people behind, continue shooting at the enemy, and the rest of the people will come with me!"
The captain made a mistake in his busy schedule. He forgot that since the enemy had rushed into the first floor, how could it be inconvenient for the soldiers on the second floor to go downstairs to reinforce? At this moment, two German soldiers had already raised submachine guns and aimed at the entrance of the stairs. Seeing a burst of rapid footsteps coming down from the upper floor, they immediately opened fire to the dark stairs.
The Soviet soldiers who were going downstairs did not expect that there was an enemy at the entrance of the stairs. Several soldiers were immediately shot and rolled down the stairs. Seeing that the situation was not good, the captain hurriedly took the remaining soldiers back to the second floor.
A second lieutenant leaned into the captain's ear and asked, "Comrade Captain, what should we do next?"
The captain was worried about Zhukov's safety, so he said to the lieutenant: "Lieutenant, I will give you three people and firmly guard the stairs. We must not let the enemy go upstairs. I will take the rest of the people to save the general."
"Yes, comrade Captain." The lieutenant replied loudly, "Please rest assured that as long as there is one person alive, we will never let the enemy rush up." After the captain left with a large number of people, the lieutenant instructed several of his men, "Prepare the grenades and don't throw them after pulling the strings. Wait until I count three times before throwing them together."
The second lieutenant listened to the movement downstairs and heard the footsteps of someone going upstairs. He quickly ordered his subordinates: "Take the string. One, Two, Three, throw it!" After shouting, he threw the grenade with blue smoke in his hand first. The soldiers next to him also followed suit and threw the grenade down.
Amid a series of explosions, the German soldiers rushing up the stairs were either dead or injured, and the rest were screaming and rolling down. When they heard the movement below, the lieutenant felt that his method was very effective, so he said to the soldiers: "Listen to the movement below, if the enemy comes up again, we will throw it like we did just now."
The captain took his men down the stairs on the other side. Here, they were lucky and did not encounter the enemy. However, the enemy was also coming towards the entrance of the basement. The captain quickly ordered the soldiers to seize the favorable terrain and prepare to block the rushing enemy.
As soon as the captain set up his defense, the voice of Adjutant Zhukov suddenly came from behind him: "Comrade Captain, what's going on? Didn't you say that with you here, the entire hotel is solid? Why would the enemy rush in?"
"Comrade Adjutant," the captain looked behind the adjutant instinctively, but did not find anyone. He asked nervously: "Where is Comrade General?"
"I have someone transferred him to a safe place." The adjutant said to the captain in a disdainful tone: "If the safety of the general is really handed over to your hands, I'm afraid something happened to him at this moment. I just looked at it and there were not many enemies. There were at most a dozen people rushing into the building, and you had more than a hundred people. Can't you destroy them?"