Vasily led a company of sailors, using the cover of bomb craters and traffic trenches, and cautiously headed towards the nail factory building. Even though there were more than a hundred sailors in the company, they made no sound at all as they marched among the ruins.
He made no noise, but followed Vasily silently. Vasily couldn't help but secretly sigh, the quality of this army is really high.
When they were still two or three hundred meters away from the factory, Vasily made a gesture to signal the troops to stop advancing. The first company commander who was walking in the middle of the team saw that the team suddenly stopped and trotted to Vasily's side and squatted down, asking in a low voice
: "Comrade Vasily, why did the team stop?"
"Comrade Company Commander," Vasily pointed to a piece of masonry rubble in the distance and said in a low voice: "There is a German soldier hidden behind that pile of rubble. If we just break through like this, they will find us."
The company commander nodded, and then made a gesture to the back. A sailor quickly ran over, squatted next to the company commander and asked: "Comrade company commander, what are your instructions?"
The company commander pointed to the ruins that Vasily told him and whispered: "There is a German soldier hiding there. Go over and kill him!"
"Understood." The sailor agreed and handed the spear in his hand to the company commander. He only held a dagger, bent over and carefully moved toward the rubble pile. Vasily set up the gun and took aim.
The enemy was hiding in a position where he was prepared to shoot the German soldier and cover the troops to rush over if the sailor's action failed.
Fortunately, what Vasily was worried about did not happen. The German soldiers on duty thought that even if there was a surprise attack by the Soviet army, they would appear in front of the station and they would be safe here. Therefore, there was no need to be vigilant at all, and they actually sat on the ground.
Smoking on the pile of rocks, otherwise Vasily wouldn't have noticed him from all the way.
After the sailors killed the sentries, they stood up from behind the rubble and waved their arms towards the hidden troops to signal that everything was safe. Seeing that his men had cleared the German sentries, the first company commander stood up and ordered the troops to continue moving forward.
The German army stationed this platoon in the factory. At this moment, except for the four or five sentries placed inside and outside the building, the rest were lying in the room fast asleep. They were all exhausted from the continuous battles.
After clearing the sentries around the building, the sailors quietly entered the factory. Under Vasily's guidance, they entered the room where the German soldiers slept and killed them one by one with daggers.
Initially, everything went smoothly. More than 20 German soldiers living in four adjacent rooms were killed by the sailors with daggers in their sleep. But when they reached the fifth room, something happened.
Suddenly, a sleepy German soldier opened the door and walked out. He was going to go to the toilet. Unexpectedly, as soon as he went out, he saw a group of soldiers in black uniforms standing outside the door.
After a moment of daze, he immediately shouted: "Russians, Russians!" Just as he was trying to take off the submachine gun on his shoulder, a sailor had already cut his throat with a dagger in his hand.
The German soldier groaned, covered the bleeding wound with both hands, staggered back a step, knocked open the door with his back, and fell to the ground on his back.
Although the German soldier who got up at night was killed, the noise he made had already alerted other enemies in the room. When several German soldiers sleeping in the bed got out of bed and prepared to grab their weapons, they were beaten first.
The sailors were killed.
After the German soldiers in other rooms were awakened, they did not rush out of the room immediately. Instead, they hid on one side of the door and pointed their guns at the door. The unprepared sailors kicked open the door and were about to attack.
As they rushed inside, the German soldiers hiding by the door opened fire on them, immediately knocking down several sailors near the door.
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After the first company set off, the battalion commander led the second and third companies to lurk just a hundred meters away from the station square. According to the prior plan, after the first company captured the nail factory building, they would launch an attack on the station building at the same time.
But after he heard the intensive gunfire coming from the direction of the nail factory, he immediately realized that the German army had noticed the sneak attack, so he decisively issued the order to attack.
As the order was given, the sailors who were lying on the ground got up from the ground, held their weapons, bent over, and moved into a dispersed formation towards the station building. After they entered the square, the sailors discovered that the ground was full of people.
The dead bodies were in various postures, some were shot to death, some were killed by artillery shells, and there were not even complete corpses. They took a closer look and found that almost all of them were corpses of Soviet commanders and combatants. They should all be.
Comrades who died during the storming of the station.
When the attacking troops came to the center of the square and approached the famous fountain, they were discovered by the enemies of the station building. A machine gun placed on the roof immediately opened fire on the sailors in the square. A few unlucky sailors immediately
Falling to the ground, the remaining sailors immediately lay down, using the craters or corpses around them as cover to fire back at the enemy.
If the Army encounters this situation when attacking, even if they lie on the ground and fire back, the possibility of destroying the enemy's machine guns will be infinitely close to zero. But at this moment, it is the sailors who are lying on the square and fighting back. They are similar to the Army.
They were not only well-trained but also had rich combat experience, and their marksmanship was far superior to that of the army that went to the battlefield without training for a few days. Therefore, when seven or eight sailors aimed at the machine guns on the roof and fired, the first one was killed.
The shooter and deputy shooter had just taken over his position. Before he could fire, he was killed by bullets flying from the square. The ammo man, desperate, grabbed the machine gun and tried to continue shooting, but he also failed to escape the fate of being shot.
Although the machine gun on the roof was killed, other German firepower points were activated. Bullets from machine guns, submachine guns and rifles fired from fortifications and bunkers in all directions formed a dense fire net, blocking the way for the sailors to charge.
Seeing how fierce the enemy's firepower was, Lemusev quickly blew his whistle. The sailors closest to the station building, after hearing the whistle, lit their grenades and threw them out. Taking advantage of the smoke from the explosion of the grenade, they quickly
He rushed forward and threw the grenade that was emitting smoke at the same time.
The second row of grenades fell on the fortifications and bunkers and exploded, sending up blood mist and gunpowder smoke. Taking advantage of the enemy's weakened firepower, the sailors rushed into the fortifications with bayonets drawn, as long as they saw the enemy, no matter it was
Whether you live or die, you need to stab two bayonets first.
Seeing that his men had rushed into the fortifications and started a close combat with the enemy, Lemusev got up from the ground, raised his pistol high and shouted loudly: "Go at full speed!"
The sailors who heard his shouts also jumped up from the ground, shouting "Full speed ahead!" Holding their weapons, they braved the enemy's bullets and bravely rushed to the station in front.
There were only forty or fifty German troops deployed outside the station building. They thought that they could repel the Soviet attack with their own strength. Who knew that these Soviet troops in sailor uniforms were extremely powerful and far from their imagination?
After being suppressed by several machine gun fires, they could quickly rush into the position and engage in close combat by continuously dropping bombs. After only four or five minutes, the outnumbered German troops were completely wiped out, and the sailors cheered again.
They rushed into the building to eliminate the enemies in the building.
Klimov and his guards lined up behind to watch the battle. When he heard the faint shouts from the front, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, because when the sailors attacked, they didn't shout "Ula" but "Full speed"
"Forward". He couldn't help but curiously asked a sailor radio operator next to him: "Comrade radio operator, when your troops attack, why do you shout 'full speed ahead'? Do they still think they are on a warship?"
When the operator heard what Klimov said, he grinned and then said: "Comrade Captain, this is the tradition of our sailors. Whether we are on a warship or on land, we will shout 'full speed ahead', just like the army
When attacking, it's a good idea to like to shout 'Ula'."
"So that's it." After figuring out what was going on, Klimov said to the radio operator: "Comrade radio operator, immediately send a telegram to your brigade commander, saying that the commanders and fighters of the first battalion have rushed into the station building."
After receiving the telegram from the First Battalion, Tanasolov couldn't help being stunned. He slapped the telegram in front of Vlasov and asked sternly: "Comrade Vlasov, please explain to me.
What's going on? Why did the First Battalion launch an attack on the station without my permission?"
Klimov had said that he would report to Tanasolov about the First Battalion's attack on the station, but the battle started soon and he had not had time to go to the brigade headquarters. Therefore, the brigade headquarters did not respond to this operation.
No one here knew. After reading the telegram, Vlasov couldn't help but frown slightly and thought to himself what Lemusev had done. The brigade headquarters had clearly given an order. Before getting the order, all the troops
They had to stand still, why did he launch an attack on the station without permission?
Although Vlasov was a little dissatisfied with Lemusev in his heart, he still had to speak for Lemusev when faced with Tanasolov's questioning: "Comrade Brigadier, I know Captain Lemusev.
He is not a reckless or impulsive person. Since he can launch the attack on the station at this time, he must have found the best fighter opportunity. I think we should express our support for this active offensive action taken by the grassroots commanders.
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Tanasolov, who originally wanted to launch an attack on Lemusev, heard what Vlasov said and knew that the other party was determined to defend Lemusev. If he had to hold Lemusev accountable, the other party might fight with him.
If there is a dispute, even if this kind of thing goes to the Army Headquarters, Chuikov may speak for them. After weighing it again and again, Tanasolov sighed and said helplessly: "Comrade Vlasov, please tell me
Captain Lemusev, forget it this time. If something like this happens again next time, I will definitely punish you severely."
