Chapter 3: gunshots outside town

  Chapter 3 Gunshots outside the town

  The blocking position Lin Hua selected was a two-story brick-and-concrete building. The machine guns were mounted on the windows on the second floor, and the firepower could block the road into the town. Moreover, five or six meters away in front of the small building, there is a trench as deep as half a person. This is the fortification dug by the residents of the town in response to the call of their superiors after the outbreak of the war.

  Before the troops entered the blocking position, Lin Hua decided to mobilize everyone before the battle. After the nine soldiers stood in a row in front of him, Lin Hua took a deep breath, and then said loudly: "Comrades, I now give you a battle order: the enemy's strength is unknown, they are riding motorcycles, bypassing The line of defense of the 16th Army was moved towards the town of Khimki in an attempt to turn this place into the starting point of their attack. There are a total of ten people on our side, and the task is to stand firm here and prevent the enemy from rushing into the town."

   "Comrade squad leader," just as Lin Hua finished speaking, a soldier with a submachine gun standing in the middle of the line asked, "Will the Germans really rush to us?"

According to what Lin Hua learned from Sergesha, he recognized the speaking soldier as Christopher, who came from the 18th Militia Division of General Chernyshov. This unit has been renamed the 11th Guards Rifle Division, but ordered It is a pity that Christopher left this heroic unit because of injuries in the August battle. After being discharged from the hospital, he was assigned to the Moscow Garrison and became a soldier in his class.

  Christopher's question is also the question of all the soldiers. Everyone focused on Lin Hua, hoping to get a definite answer from him.

"Yes, comrades." Lin Hua couldn't tell the soldiers how he knew that the Germans would bypass the defense line and reach the town of Khimki. He could only say vaguely: "The Germans will rush here Yes. And our task is to resolutely block them and not take a step back. Do you understand?"

   "Understood!" The soldiers replied in unison.

Looking at the serious faces of the soldiers, Lin Hua coughed heavily, cleared his throat, and began to give orders: "Brother Sidolin, you put the machine guns on the windows on the second floor and block the area in front of us with firepower." The rest of the people, follow me into the trenches, and we will stop the enemy here."

  Following the order, the soldiers each entered their combat positions, lying there motionless and staring ahead. Seryozha asked Lin Hua in a low voice: "Misha, are the Germans really coming back? It's so cold, if the soldiers lie here for several hours, they might get frostbite."

  Lin Hua did not answer his question immediately, but instead asked: "What time is it?"

  Seryozha took out his pocket watch again, looked at it, and replied: "Two forty-five."

   In a quarter of an hour, the Germans will appear. Thinking of this, Lin Hua's breathing became short of breath. He hastily took two deep breaths, stabilized his emotions, and said to Seryozha: "Let Brother Xidolin pay attention to the surrounding environment, and report immediately if there is anything."

  Seryozha nodded, stood up and shouted to the Sidolin brothers upstairs: "Hey, Misha asked you two to observe carefully, and report in time if you find anything."

As time passed by, Lin Hua's heartbeat became faster and faster. He was worried that the history he knew was biased. Never been to Khimki town. No matter what the situation is, if the soldiers are frozen in the snow for several hours, but the Germans do not show up, then their prestige in the class will be affected in the future.

   Just when Lin Hua was worrying about gains and losses, he suddenly heard Sidolin from upstairs shouting: "Comrade Corporal, there are several motorcycles coming towards us from afar."

Lin Hua quickly stood up from the trench, looked at the road ahead, and saw a few black spots like beetles moving in his direction. He turned his head to the upstairs and asked loudly: "Sidorin, can you see clearly whether the car is our own or a German?"

The machine gunner Sidolin standing at the window on the second floor, after hearing Lin Hua's question, quickly squinted his eyes and tried his best to look at the motorcycle approaching in the distance, but he could clearly see that the other party was wearing a white camouflage suit. In addition, it is impossible to tell whether it is one of our own or the enemy. He turned his head and asked his younger brother, "Can you see clearly?"

  The deputy archer Sidolin shook his head when he heard his brother's question, and said with a wry smile, "It's too far away, I really can't see clearly."

  Machine gunner Sidolin leaned out half of his body from the window, and shouted at Lin Hua below: "Comrade Corporal, it's too far away, we can't see clearly."

  Hearing Sidolin's answer, Lin Hua thought painfully: "If there is a telescope, the Sidolin brothers on the second floor will be able to see clearly whether it is our own or the Germans."

   "Germans, here are the Germans!" The deputy shooter Sidolin shouted, he shouted hoarsely: "I saw their MG34 machine gun on the sidecar."

  Seeing that the Germans arrived as expected, Lin Hua raised his voice and shouted: "Battle alarm! Everyone listen to my password and make all preparations for battle immediately!"

  Seryozha looked at the approaching motorcycles in the distance, and murmured: "My God, the Germans are really here!"

Lin Hua lay on his stomach in the trench, aimed his gun at the German motorcycle, and said to Seryozha next to him, "Pass it down, no one is allowed to shoot without my order." Although he had already shot Greeting, in order to prevent the target from being exposed, no one is allowed to shoot before getting his order, but at this moment he was too nervous, and couldn't help repeating the order to keep himself calm.

"One, two, three..." After delivering the order, Seryozha counted the number of German motorcycles in a low voice: "...seven, eight. Misha, the Germans have eight motorcycles , there are three people in each car, a total of twenty-four people, twice as many as us, can you stop it?"

After knowing the exact number of German troops, Lin Hua's face changed, and he quickly called a soldier: "Go to the police station immediately, go to the director and the People's Commissar of the Township Soviet, and tell them that there are more than 20 soldiers. Germans, coming towards town on motorcycles. Please send militia to support us as soon as possible."

  The soldier agreed, walked out of the trench with his gun in hand, and ran towards the town.

Looking at the backs of the soldiers, Seryozha said with mixed feelings: "I hope the militia troops from the instrument factory can get here as soon as possible, otherwise we will be finished. Using nine people to deal with twenty-four Germans who are armed to the teeth It's almost an impossible task."

"That's right, the enemy is stronger than us." Lin Hua nodded his head and said to Seryozha's statement: "With our strength alone, it is impossible to stop them, but it is also impossible not to block them." Yes. Because, behind us are the Red Square and the Kremlin, and we have nowhere to go. The battle we are fighting here is to buy precious time for the militia to arrive."

  Due to the snow on the road, the German motorcycles drove very slowly. After seven or eight minutes, they reached a place 100 meters away from the blocking position. Lin Hua had played with the Mosin Nagant rifle with a group of army fans before, so he was very familiar with this weapon. He locked the machine gunner sitting in the sidecar of the first motorcycle with his front sight, held his breath and pulled the gun. trigger.

  The German machine gunner sitting in the sidecar was shocked, and a flower of blood bloomed on his left chest. Under the huge inertia of the bullet, his body leaned back, and then he sat crookedly in the sidecar.

  The sound of gunfire was an order. Two submachine guns, five rifles on the blocking position, and machine guns on the second floor started shooting at the German motorcycle team at the same time. The motorcyclist on the first motorcycle was instantly smashed into a sieve by random gunshots, and the out-of-control motorcycle slammed into the snowdrift beside him. Before the surviving German soldiers had time to find a place to hide, they were shot several times, covered their chests with their hands and fell into the snowdrift.

Although the sudden shooting of the Soviet army wiped out the German soldiers on the first motorcycle and killed a few German soldiers on the motorcycles behind, most of the German soldiers hid behind motorcycles or snowdrifts. Start to fight back.

  The gunshots from the north of the town alarmed Kochetov in the police station. He stood up abruptly, looked out through the window, and asked with a frown, "What's going on, where did you shoot?"

  The director walked to his side and looked in the direction of the gunshot, but he couldn't see anything because of the blocking of the building. He could only call the policeman sitting in the room and tell him, "Go out immediately and see what happened over there."

   Before the police left, the soldiers sent by Lin Hua rushed into the director's office panting. Out of breath, he said to the director: "Comrade Lieutenant Lieutenant, Germans were found on the north...north of...the town..."

  Soldier's words shocked both the director and Kochetov: "What, German?"

   After taking a few breaths, the soldier gestured and said, "There are twenty-four of them, and they all came by motorcycle."

   "Damn, what's going on here?" After hearing this, Kochetov shouted at the soldiers: "Where did the Germans come from?"

  Kochetov's cannibalistic expression frightened the soldiers. Fortunately, the director was able to respond to the soldiers in time: "Comrade soldiers, I heard intensive gunfire from the north of the town. Is someone fighting the Germans?"

"Yes, Comrade Lieutenant." The soldier nodded and said, "It is our squad leader, Corporal Misha, who is leading the whole squad of soldiers to stop the Germans. But the Germans outnumber us, so Comrade Corporal sent me here Calling on you for help."

   "Misha, does this name sound familiar?" Kochetov frowned and asked the director, "I seem to have heard it somewhere?"

Hearing what Kochetov said, the director smiled bitterly and said: "Comrade People's Commissar, have you forgotten that when we were eating, a corporal came here and said that Germans were going to rush to the town of Khimki?" , I request you to send the militia to strengthen the defense in that direction."

After being reminded by the director, Kochetov immediately asked who Misha was: "It turned out to be him!" But he quickly raised his own question, "How did he know that the Germans would rush to Shim today?" What about Kee Town?"

"Comrade People's Commissar," the chief also had doubts about Misha's prophecy, but he heard the dense gunfire from outside, and he didn't care to delve into the matter, so he hurriedly urged Kochetov: "Misha and the others The small number of people may not be able to stop the German attack, I think it is better to call the instrument factory immediately and ask them to send militiamen to support."

Kochetov nodded, went to the desk, first grabbed the handle of the phone and shook it vigorously to continue, picked up the receiver and put it to his ear, and when he heard the voice of an operator inside, he immediately said loudly: "I am Kochetov, a member of the town Soviet, immediately connect me to the instrument factory and find their military representative."

  (end of this chapter)