Chapter 837 Breaking the lock

  Sokov clearly heard Lyudnikov's shout, and was immediately scared to death. If the artillery really covered this place with rockets, it would be a dead end. The situation was critical, and Sokov didn't think too much about it, so he rushed out of the tool room and shouted at Samoilov and the others who were shooting at the enemy: "Hidden, find a place to hide quickly. It's coming soon!" shelled..."

   Just after shouting twice, Lyudnikov also rushed out of the tool room. Seeing that Sokov was waving his arms and shouting loudly, without saying a word, he stepped forward and hugged his shoulders, and pressed him to the ground forcefully. As soon as the two of them lay down, there was the sharp whistle of rockets and continuous explosions outside, and the rising smoke and dust covered the sky, as if the sky had suddenly become overcast.

Fortunately, the rocket only fired one round and then stopped. Sokov, who was shaken as if his internal organs were displaced, sat up from the ground with difficulty. Seeing Lyudnikov also sitting up, his mouth seemed to be talking to himself. He said something, but his ears seemed to be stuffed with cotton, and he couldn't hear anything.

Sokov reached out to pick up the assault rifle that had rolled aside, checked it, and found that it was still in use, so he used the body of the gun as a crutch, stood up with difficulty, and staggered towards Samoilov and the others. In the past, wanted to see how their casualties were.

   After walking twenty or thirty steps forward, a German soldier covered in dirt and bleeding from his ears, nose, and mouth suddenly appeared in the gunpowder smoke. He staggered towards him with a rifle in hand. But when he saw Sokov appearing in front of him, he hurriedly raised the gun in his hand, ready to shoot Sokov.

   Sokov fired first, hitting the German soldier in the stomach twice. The reason why he shoots at the enemy’s stomach is the experience Sokov summed up in countless battles. After the enemy’s stomach is shot, his body will bend instinctively. Even if he shoots, the bullet will hit the ground; and if he chooses to Shooting at the enemy's head, one is that the target is small and it is not easy to hit, and the other is that after the enemy is shot, the finger pulls the trigger, which will cause himself to be shot.

  The German soldier who was shot dropped the rifle in his hand, covered his stomach and fell to the ground. As soon as the German soldier fell to the ground, a man sprang out from the nearby ruins and rushed over with a bayonet. Sokov was startled, and he hurriedly aimed his gun at him. However, the opponent's target was not Sokov, but the German soldier lying on the ground rolling around. He stabbed the German soldier twice before retracting his gun, and asked Sokov something.

  Sokov saw clearly that the other party was a soldier from the guard platoon. He hurried over, approached his ear, and asked loudly, "Where is your platoon leader, Lieutenant Samoilov?"

The soldier's ears were also briefly deafened by the shelling just now. Although he couldn't hear what Sokov asked, he guessed that he must be asking about the whereabouts of the platoon leader. He hurriedly asked Samoilov. Pointing to the hidden position, he said, "Comrade commander, the platoon leader is there!" Seeing the soldier pointing out the direction for him, Sokov hurriedly walked there.

  Samoylov, who was shocked to the point of dismay, saw that the shelling had stopped and was struggling to get up from the ground. When he saw someone walking towards him, he quickly raised his gun and was ready to shoot at any time. After seeing clearly that it was Sokov, he sat up straight, looked at Sokov and asked, "Comrade Commander, why are you here?" After asking, Samoilov realized that he couldn't hear his own voice at all. , it seems that his ears were deafened by the shelling.

When Sokov saw Samoilov's appearance, he knew that the other party's ears must not work well, so he stopped yelling at him, but gestured to him to count the casualties and do a good job. Prepare for battle to prevent the Germans from rushing up again. After finishing all this, Sokov walked back to Lyudnikov's headquarters again.

When he entered the door, he saw Lyudnikov with earphones on his head, shouting loudly into the receiver: "I am Lyudnikov, I am still alive, it seems that your rockets have repelled the enemy ..."

   Sokov found a corner and sat down, raised his hands to cover his ears, pressed hard a few times, let the air pour into the earholes and impact the eardrums, trying to restore his hearing in the shortest possible time.

"Comrade Colonel," Sokov's hearing recovered somewhat, and he said to Lyudnikov who had just put down his earphone and microphone: "Although the shelling just now crushed the German attack, it won't be long before they are still on the way." Will attack again, what are you going to do?"

  Hearing Sokov's question, Lyudnikov replied with a determined expression: "All our commanders and fighters will stick to their positions. Even if we fight to the last person, we will never take a step back."

Seeing that Lyudnikov just said in general terms of standing firm without any specific plan, Sokov couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. He continued to ask: "Comrade Colonel, while the rocket bomb just now crushed the enemy's attack, it almost killed the enemy. We also killed it together. When the enemy attacks again later, you can't let the artillery fire at us again, can you? We can survive the first shelling, and if we do it again, it's up to anyone to say what the result will be I don't know."

Lyudnikov waited for Sokov to finish, shrugged his shoulders, spread his hands, and said helplessly: "There is no way, Colonel Sokov, the order given to us by our superiors is to do everything possible to hold on to the barricade factory." , can’t take a step back.”

"Comrade Colonel, I think you have misunderstood me. I am not telling you to retreat." Sukov saw that Lyudnikov had misunderstood himself, and quickly explained to him: "You guys are the most important in terms of numbers and equipment. , are at a disadvantage compared with the enemy, if you continue to fight this kind of positional warfare, I am afraid it will not last long. If you want to hold the position, you must adopt reasonable tactics..."

"I understand what you mean, Colonel Sokov." Lyudnikov said loudly: "Now that most of the factory area has fallen into the hands of the Germans, I can only concentrate my people in this area. Fighting against the enemy has exhausted the positions. Moreover, the artillery of the 295th Artillery Regiment of our division has long been lost in the early battles. Without heavy weapons, I can only use people to fill them..."

"Wait a minute, Comrade Colonel." Hearing this, Sokov quickly raised his hand to interrupt Lyudnikov's words: "Doesn't the barricade factory produce artillery? Doesn't the factory provide you with their products? ?”

"You are right. The barricade factory is indeed a factory that produces artillery." Lyudnikov said bitterly: "I once discussed this issue with the factory manager, but he said that the artillery in the warehouse is allocated Indicators for other fronts, not for us.”

"Damn it, when are you still discussing indicators or not? Is the factory manager planning to leave these artillery pieces in the warehouse and hand them over to the Germans who occupied the factory?" Sokov tentatively Question: "Comrade Colonel, do you know where the artillery depot is?"

   When asked these few words, Sokov felt guilty for a while. He was worried that the warehouse where the artillery was stored had already been occupied by the Germans, and his plan would come to naught. Without the support of artillery, facing the German tank force, even if Belkin's downsized regiment came to the top, it would probably be exhausted in a short time.

"It's at a pile of ruins 200 meters behind." Lyudnikov said with a wry smile, "It's an underground warehouse with a large number of artillery stored in it. There is a squad of internal affairs troops guarding the door. There is no order from the superior. No one is allowed to come near."

Knowing that there are a large number of artillery stored not far away, Sokov couldn't help but his eyes lit up, but he was worried that it would be useless to have artillery without shells, so he tentatively asked: "Comrade Colonel, apart from artillery, there are also ammunition in the warehouse." ?"

"Yes, yes." Lyudnikov nodded vigorously, and replied, "I heard that in order to make these artillery pieces useful as soon as they arrive on the battlefield, each artillery piece has at least one base number of supporting ammunition. .”

"I understand, Comrade Colonel." Sukov learned that there were artillery and a sufficient number of shells not far away, and he suddenly gained confidence in his heart. He said to Lyudnikov: "Leave this matter to me. , you just send a soldier to be my guide."

Lyudnikov guessed that Sokov was thinking about this batch of artillery, and originally wanted to persuade him, but then he thought, if he can really get the artillery out, his remaining artillery will be useful. landed. In any case, the combat effectiveness is really not very good when the artillery is changed to infantry, so it is better to let them engage in their old profession.

  Sokov left the tool room, found Samoilov, and said loudly to him: "Comrade Lieutenant, bring me a squad."

   "Comrade Commander," Samoilov heard Sokov's order, quickly summoned a squad of soldiers, and followed Sokov out of the warehouse. On the way, he asked curiously, "Where are we going?"

   "Not far from here, there is an underground warehouse that stores a large number of artillery and supporting ammunition." Sokov replied: "Our task is to get these artillery and use it against the Germans."

Hearing that there was an underground warehouse for storing artillery nearby, Samoilov asked in amazement: "Comrade Commander, since there are a large number of artillery stored nearby, why were these artillery not used in the battle to defend the factory? "

Sokov snorted coldly, and said angrily: "You think everyone is as caring as Factory Manager Peter, knowing that providing the factory's products to the troops guarding the factory without authorization will be criticized by the superiors, but still The overall situation is the priority, and priority is given to providing weapons and equipment to the troops defending the factory."

   A group of people, led by the guide sent by Lyudnikov, came to the entrance of the underground warehouse. There is a sandbag fortification at the entrance, on which is a Jeggarev light machine gun with a large disc. Seeing someone approaching, a stern voice came from behind the sandbag: "Who is it, stop!"

   "My own people!" Sokov continued to walk forward while answering.

Unexpectedly, he just took two steps forward, but he heard the sound of pulling the bolt from the front, and then the voice came again: "This is an important warehouse, no one is allowed to approach without permission, otherwise we About to shoot."

   "I am Colonel Sokov, the commander of the 41st Guards Division," Sokov stopped and said loudly facing the sandbag fortification in front of him, "Who is in charge here, come out and talk to me immediately."

  Hearing that he was a division commander, the sergeant of the Internal Affairs Department who guarded the warehouse did not dare to neglect, and hurried out from behind the fortifications. He came to Sokov, straightened his back and said: "Comrade Colonel, Sergeant Gusin of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is reporting to you that our squad is guarding the defense warehouse. Please give instructions!"

"Comrade Sergeant," Sokov looked at the Sergeant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in front of him, and said without humility: "In order to defend the barricade factory, I need to use the artillery stored in the warehouse. I order you now to open the warehouse immediately and let us go in."

  Unexpectedly, after Sokov finished speaking, Sergeant Guxin said in a blunt tone: "I'm sorry, Comrade Colonel, no one is allowed to enter the warehouse without the permission of the National Defense People's Committee."

"What did you say?" Facing such a rigid Sergeant Guxin, Sokov hadn't spoken yet, and Samoilov next to him couldn't hold back any longer. He stepped forward and grabbed Guxin's lapel, angrily Said: "The Germans are only a few hundred meters away from here. Don't you plan to leave all the artillery in the warehouse to the Germans?"

   "I'm sorry, Comrade Lieutenant." Guxin glanced at Samoilov's military rank, and said in a blunt tone: "We belong to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so we don't have to follow orders from other army commanders."

"Hmph!" Samoilov sneered a few times, and said to Guxin: "Since you said so, then I will now issue an order to you as an officer of the Tenth Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to immediately move the warehouses Open."

Seeing Sergeant Guxin's bewildered expression, Sokov added next to him: "Before Lieutenant Samoilov became my subordinate, he was indeed in the Internal Affairs Force. Also, we need to use the Artillery, to attack the enemy attacking the factory area. If your superior wants to be held accountable in the future, let him come to me, and I will give him a satisfactory explanation."

  Guxin is not a rigid person either. He just said that out of his own responsibility. Seeing that the enemy has rushed several hundred meters away from the warehouse, and there is a division commander of a friendly army who intends to take responsibility for himself, he no longer insists on his own opinion, but takes Sokov around the sandbag fortifications to come When he arrived at the warehouse door, he pointed to the big lock on the door and said with a look of embarrassment: "Comrade Colonel, we are only ordered to guard the warehouse, and we don't have the key to the warehouse. Do you need to get in touch with the leaders of the factory? Tell them to send someone to open the door?"

   "It's too late. When the factory sends people over, I'm afraid the enemy will also rush to the door." After finishing these words, Sokov turned his head and told Samoilov: "Comrade Lieutenant, break the lock."

"Yes!" Samoilov agreed, handed the submachine gun in his hand to a soldier, took the Mosin Nagant rifle from the soldier's hand, and smashed a few times against the padlock with the **** of the gun. Down. With a bang, the lock was smashed open. Samoilov hurriedly handed the rifle back to the soldier, took off the padlock, and pushed open the door of the warehouse.

Since the power supply in the factory had been cut off a long time ago, and the warehouse was deep underground, after opening the door, Sokov saw that it was pitch black and he couldn’t see anything. Do you have a flashlight? If so, find some for me."

  (end of this chapter)