Chapter 1077 Gunshots at Midnight (Part 2)

  But as soon as the platoon leader left, the captain standing at the window noticed something was wrong. The group of people in the distance did not stand still, but moved forward slowly, and at the same time, they also launched a battle formation.

  At this moment, the captain remembered again what Sokov had told him, that his people must not leave the hotel before dawn; and the nearby reinforcements would not rush over to reinforce them. From this point of view, 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 towards the door: "The lieutenant is back, they are Germans."

  Unexpectedly, the lieutenant could not wait to run down at this moment, ordered the soldiers to open the door of the hotel, and then led a few people towards the German army outside. Seeing this, the captain, in a hurry, snatched the rifle from the soldiers around him, raised his gun and fired at the crowd in the distance.

   Gunshots rang out, and someone in the crowd was shot and fell down.

   This shot stunned both the enemy and us.

  The platoon leader who led the team out turned his head and glanced at the hotel, thinking to himself: Whose gun accidentally went off?

   But it was the last thought on his mind, and then he heard a popping gunshot, followed by a sharp pain in his stomach and chest. Before he could figure out what was going on, the huge impact of the bullet had knocked 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. , Forcibly closed the door of the hotel, and blocked the door with tables, chairs and benches. In order to complete such work, three soldiers were unfortunately shot and died.

  The German officers and soldiers who tried to rush into the hotel were repelled by the intensive firepower in the building. They retreated into the ruins across the street again, and fired at the Soviet commanders and fighters in the hotel.

  The battle that took place here at the hotel alarmed Seryozha who was staying nearby. He had tried to back up his comrades at the hotel with long-range fire when the guns started, but the fighting over there had ended so quickly that his fighters hadn't even had time to mount their mortars. Hearing intensive gunfire from the direction of the hotel at this moment, he immediately realized that the German army was aggressively attacking, and quickly ordered the mortarmen to shoot towards that side.

  Several mortar shells fell into the ruins, and the blast blast turned masonry into a wounding weapon. The stones flying everywhere smashed some Germans hiding near the bombing point and screamed.

  Seeing that the situation was not good, the German commander immediately ordered the soldiers to charge. According to his thinking, as long as they rushed into the hotel, the Soviet army's mortars would definitely not dare to fire for fear of accidentally injuring their own people.

  After receiving the order to attack, the soldiers jumped out of their hiding places one after another, braved the mortar fire, and rushed towards the hotel with cats on their backs. , Although people were constantly being bombed into the sky by shells, knocked down by flying shrapnel, or knocked down by bullets protruding from the hotel, they still rushed forward without hesitation.

  The Soviet captain who directed the battle in the hotel knew what they were going to do. They had only one goal, and that was to kill Zhukov who was staying in the basement at the moment. This is obviously a well-planned assassination plan, and no expense was spared. First of all, at the cost of the lives of a dozen paratroopers, the defenders in the building thought that the attackers had been wiped out, and then unexpectedly made another surprise attack. The firefight in the ruins not long ago was probably just a show for himself.

   Just then, German soldiers rushed outside the hotel. After a failed attempt to ram the door, they changed tactics and smashed a ground-floor window and threw grenades in it. After the violent explosion, before the smoke cleared, the German soldiers jumped in from the window and fired at the place where there was movement, killing those 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 with our soldiers from room to room."

Knowing that the enemy had already stormed into the hotel, the captain broke out in a cold sweat. He knew very well that Zhukov was hiding in the basement. If the Germans found out where he was, even if they didn't have to rush in, they only needed to throw a few bullets into it. Hand grenades are likely to kill Zhukov. Thinking of this, the captain quickly shouted to the soldiers in the room who were still shooting out: "Leave two people and continue shooting at the enemy. The rest follow me!"

  The captain made a mistake in his busy schedule. He forgot, since the enemy has already rushed into the first floor, how could it be inconvenient for the soldiers on the second floor to go downstairs for reinforcements? At this moment, there were already two German soldiers, holding their submachine guns, aiming at the stairs. When they saw a rush of footsteps coming from upstairs, they immediately opened fire on the dark stairs.

  The Soviet soldiers who went downstairs did not expect that there were enemies at the top of the stairs. Immediately, several soldiers were shot and rolled down the stairs gruntingly. Seeing that the situation was not good, the captain hurriedly led the rest of the soldiers back to the second floor.

  A second lieutenant approached 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 second lieutenant: "Second lieutenant, I will give you three people to firmly guard the stairs and never allow the enemy to go upstairs. I will take the rest to rescue Comrade General."

"Yes, Comrade Captain." The second lieutenant replied loudly: "Please rest assured, as long as one of us is alive, we will never let the enemy charge up." After the captain left with a large number of people, the second lieutenant ordered several of his men , "Prepare the grenade, don't throw it after pulling the string. Wait for me to count to three, and then throw it together."

The second lieutenant listened attentively to the movement downstairs, and when he heard someone's footsteps going upstairs, he quickly ordered his subordinates: "Pull the string. One, two, three, throw!" After throwing it down, the soldiers next to him followed suit and threw the grenade down.

  Amidst a series of explosions, the German soldiers rushing up the stairs were either killed or injured, and the rest screamed and rolled down. Hearing the movement below, the second 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 before."

  The captain led the people 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 a favorable terrain and prepare to block the rushing enemy.

  The captain had just finished setting up the defense, when the voice of Adjutant Zhukov suddenly came from behind him: "Comrade captain, what is going on? Didn't you say that the entire hotel would be impenetrable with you here? Why did the enemy rush in?"

   "Comrade Adjutant," the captain instinctively glanced behind the adjutant, but found no one, he asked nervously, "Where is Comrade General?"

"I have had someone transfer him to a safe place." The adjutant said to the captain in a disdainful tone: "If the safety of Comrade General is really entrusted to you, I am afraid that something has happened to him by now. I just watched Let’s see, the number of enemies is not that many, there are at most a dozen people who rushed into the building, and you have more than a hundred people, can’t you still destroy them?”

  (end of this chapter)