Vasily led a company of sailors, with the help of the cover of the bullet craters and traffic trenches, and carefully headed towards the nail factory building. Although there were more than 100 sailors in the company, when they were marching in the ruins, they did not make any sound, but followed Vasily quietly. Vasily couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the quality of this army was really high.
When there were two or three hundred meters away from the factory, Vasily made a gesture to signal the troops to stop moving forward. The company commander who was walking in the middle of the team suddenly stopped and hurriedly ran to Vasily squatted down and asked in a low voice: "Comrade Vasily, why did the team stop?"
"Comrade Commander," Vasily pointed to a brick and stone rubble in the distance and whispered: "Behind the pile of rubble is a German soldier. If we just broke through like this, they would have discovered it."
The company commander nodded, then made a gesture to the back. A sailor hurriedly ran over and squatted beside the company commander and asked, "Comrade Commander, what instructions do you have?"
The company commander pointed to the ruins that Vasily told him and whispered: "There is a German soldier hidden there, and you go and kill him!"
"I understand." The sailor agreed and handed the spear in his hand to the company commander. He only held a dagger and bent over and touched carefully in the direction of the rubble. Vasily set up the gun and aimed at the enemy's hiding position, preparing to shoot the German soldier if the sailor failed and rushed over to cover the troops.
Fortunately, what Vasily was worried about did not happen. The German soldiers on duty thought that even if the Soviet army attacked, they would appear in the front of the station and they would be safe and sound. Therefore, they had no vigilance at all. They actually sat on the pile of gravels and smoked, otherwise they would not have been discovered by Vasily from afar.
After the sailor killed the sentry, he stood up from behind the rubble, waved his arms at the hidden troops, indicating that everything was safe. Seeing that his subordinates had eliminated the German sentry, the first company commander stood up and ordered the troops to continue advancing.
The German army stationed this platoon in the factory. At this moment, except for the four or five sentries arranged inside and outside the building, the rest were lying in the room and slept soundly. The battles for several days made them exhausted.
After clearing the sentries around the building, the sailors quietly touched the factory, and under Vasily's guidance, they entered the room where the German soldiers were sleeping, and used daggers to deal with them one by one.
Everything was going smoothly. More than 20 German soldiers living in four adjacent rooms were killed by the sailors in their sleep with daggers. But when they touched the fifth room, an accident happened. A sleepy German soldier opened the door and walked out from inside. He was about to go out to the bathroom. Unexpectedly, as soon as he went out, he saw a group of soldiers wearing black uniforms standing outside the door.
After a moment of daze, he immediately shouted: "Russians, Russians!" Just as he tentatively took off the submachine gun that was slapped on his shoulder, a sailor soldier had cut his throat with the dagger in his hand. The German soldier groaned, covered the bloody wound with both hands, staggered back and then knocked open the door with his back, and fell to the ground with his back.
Although the German soldier who got up at night was killed, the movements he made had already alarmed the other enemies in the house. When several German soldiers who were sleeping in the bed turned over and got out of bed to get their weapons, they were killed by the sailors who took the lead.
After being awakened, the German soldiers in other rooms did not immediately rush out of the room, but hid on the side of the door and pointed the gun at the door. The unprepared sailors kicked open the door. Just as they were about to rush inside, the German soldiers hiding by the door opened fire violently at them and immediately knocked down several sailors near the door.
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After the first company set out, the battalion commander led the second and third companies to lurking only one hundred meters away from the station square. According to the previous plan, after the first company captured the nail factory's factory building, he also launched an attack on the station building. However, after hearing the dense gunfire from the nail factory, he immediately realized that the sneak attack was noticed by the German army, so he decisively issued an offensive order.
As the order was issued, the sailors lying on the ground climbed up from the ground, held their weapons, bent over, and advanced toward the station building in a scattered formation. After they entered the square, the sailors found that the ground was full of dead bodies in various postures, some were shot to death, some were bombed by artillery shells, and even had no complete corpses. They looked carefully and found that almost all the corpses of Soviet commanders and fighters, and they should have been comrades who died when they attacked the station.
The attacking troops came to the center of the square and approached the famous fountain, they were discovered by the enemy in the station building. A machine gun arranged on the roof immediately opened fire at the sailors located in the square. Several unlucky sailors fell to the ground immediately, and the remaining sailors immediately lay down, using the craters or the bodies beside them as cover to shoot at the enemy.
If the army encountered this situation during the attack, even if they were lying on the ground and firing back, the possibility of destroying the enemy's machine guns would be infinitely zero. But at this moment, the sailors were lying on the square. Compared with the army, they were not only well-trained but also rich combat experience, and their shooting skills were far better than those of the army who had been on the battlefield after training for a few days. Therefore, when seven or eight sailors aimed at the machine guns on the roof and fired, they first killed the shooter. The deputy shooter had just taken over his position and had not had time to shoot, they were killed by bullets flying from the square. The ammunition hand, who was ignorant of life and death, grabbed the machine gun and tried to continue shooting, but did not escape the end of being shot.
Although the machine gun on the roof was killed, other German fire points were activated. Machine guns, submachine guns and rifle bullets fired from all directions, forming a dense fire net, blocking the sailors' charge.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Seeing the enemy's firepower so fiercely, Lemusev quickly blew a whistle. The sailors closest to the station building fired grenades and threw them out after hearing the whistle. Taking advantage of the smoke rising from the grenades, they rushed forward quickly, and at the same time threw out the grenades that were emitting blue smoke.
The second row of grenades fell into the fortifications and bunkers and exploded, causing blood mist and smoke. Taking advantage of the weakening of the enemy's firepower, the sailors rushed into the fortifications quickly with bayonets. As long as the enemy they saw, whether they were dead or alive, they would stab two bayonets first.
Seeing that his subordinates had rushed into the fortifications and fought melee with the enemy, Lemusev got up from the ground, held up his pistol and shouted loudly: "Go ahead at full speed!"
The sailors who heard his shouts also jumped up from the ground, shouting "Go forward at full speed!" Holding weapons, bravely braved the enemy's rain of bullets, they rushed to the station ahead.
There were only forty or fifty German troops deployed outside the station building. They thought that with their own strength, they could repel the Soviet attack. Unexpectedly, these Soviet troops in sailor uniforms were extremely combat-effective, far from their imagination. They could, under the suppression of several machine gun fire, quickly rushed into the position by continuously dropping bombs. Just four or five minutes later, the German troops, who were at a disadvantage, were completely wiped out, and the sailors rushed into the building again to clear the enemies in the building.
Krimov took the guards 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 were attacking, they were not "Ula", but "going forward at full speed". He couldn't help but ask a sailor next to him curiously: "Comrade Radio, how do you shout "going forward at full speed" when your troops attack? Do they think they are on the warship?"
The radio operator grinned when he heard Krimov say this, and then said, "Captain, this is our tradition of sailors. Whether we are on warships or on land, we will shout 'go ahead at full speed'. It is the same as the army likes to shout 'Ula' when attacking."
"So that's how it is." After figuring out what happened, Krimov said to the radio operator: "Comrade Radio operator, send a telegram to your brigade commander immediately, saying that the commanders and soldiers of the first battalion had rushed into the station building."
After receiving the telegram from the first battalion, Tanasolov was stunned. He took the telegram in front of Vrasov and asked sternly: "Comrade Vrasov, explain to me what's going on? Why did the first battalion launch an attack on the station without authorization before I got my permission?"
Krimov once said that he would inform Tanasolov of the first battalion of attacking the station, but the battle began soon. He had not had time to go to the brigade command, so no one in the brigade command knew about this operation. After reading the telegram, Vrasov couldn't help but frowned slightly, thinking about what Lemusev did. The brigade headquarters had clearly issued an order. Before receiving the order, all troops must remain unmoved. Why did he launch an attack on the station without authorization?
Although Vrasov was a little dissatisfied with Lemusev, he still had to help Lemusev in the face of Tanasolov's questioning: "Comrade Brigade Commander, I understand Captain Lemusev. He is not a reckless and impulsive person. Since he can launch an attack on the station at this time, he must have discovered the best fighter. I think we should support this active offensive action taken by the grassroots commander."
Tanasolov, who originally wanted to indict Lemusev, heard what Vrasov said, and knew that the other party was determined to protect Lemusev. If he had to hold him accountable, the other party might have a dispute with him. Even if such a thing hit the Army Headquarters, Cuikov might have helped them. After repeated weighing, Tanasolov sighed and said helplessly: "Comrade Vrasov, please tell Captain Lemusev, forget it this time. If something similar happens next time, I will definitely punish you severely."