Burning Moscow

Chapter 84

We're ready to fire when the Germans get closer.

Unexpectedly, we saw a strange scene: the German army stopped 50 meters away from our position, and there was no move to attack or find a place to hide. A soldier walking in the front even took off his helmet, turned around and handed over his weapons to the soldiers next to him. Then he held his hands high, with a white handkerchief in his right hand, and strode towards us.

"What's the matter?" Seeing this scene, I stood up from behind the bunker and looked at Lukin face to face. After a while, I hesitated and asked Lukin, "what is the German army doing? Do you want to surrender?"

Lukin slung his submachine gun over his shoulder and said, "I'll go and have a look."

"Do you know German?" I asked with some concern that if I did not understand German, I would not understand the intentions of the German army in the past.

"No problem. I dealt with the German army in Brest and knew some German." Then he went around the fortification and met the German soldier.

They chatted for a long time in the street covered with corpses. Then Lukin followed the German soldier to the German camp.

"Comrade commander, do we need to keep up?" Aguminte, Aji and Ishayev asked me in one voice.

I looked carefully and saw that they were walking slowly, and the German soldiers leaning against the corner were standing there with no movement. He shook his head and said, "it doesn't matter. Let Lu Jin go and have a look. Besides, I really want to know what medicine these German devils sell in their gourds."

After listening to me, agumento and Aji didn't say anything more. They squatted down and watched the German army in front with weapons. Only issayev was still not at ease, walking back and forth in the bunker.

"Isayev," I looked at him anxiously and quickly looked for a topic to divert his attention: "how are the casualties of the artillery company? How much ammunition is left? "

This method was really effective. He stopped, thought for a moment, and answered me: "more than 70 soldiers were killed and wounded. There are still two 50 caliber mortars and three 82 caliber mortars left, but there are no shells left; One 45mm anti tank gun and two shells. "

His reply surprised me. In the battle just now, the German tank was the only one that threatened us most, but we paid such a high price. If the attacking German troops attack us under the cover of a large number of tanks after the bombardment of airplanes and cannons, can we hold on?

While I was thinking, Aji exclaimed excitedly, "Lukin's back!"

I quickly looked up into the street and saw that it was Lu Jin who had come back. Next to him was a German officer in a big cornice hat. Behind the officer was the soldier without helmet. The soldier held a white flag in his hands.

"I've come to surrender!" I said out of the bunker, along the blood soaked streets to meet forward. Behind me were aguminte, Aji, and several other soldiers in the guard platoon.

The streets were strewn with corpses. Although I walked cautiously, I still stepped on the broken limbs and arms of the German army from time to time. I forced nausea to continue to move forward, trying not to think about what I stepped on, lest I would run to the side and spit out yellow gall.

After a few more steps, the ground was covered with all kinds of internal organs and pieces of clothes. Unless I stepped on it, I didn't even have a place to stay. So I stopped and yelled at Lukin not far away, "Lukin, bring that German officer here!"

Lu Jin and the officer came up to me, pointed to me and introduced to the officer, saying, "this is our commander, Lieutenant Colonel oshanina."

As he was about to explain the German officer to me, the officer stepped forward, stood at attention, saluted me and said, "Hello, officer girl, we meet again!"

I meet you again?! When he said this, not only Lu Jin, but also I was stunned. When did I deal with German officers? What's more surprising to me is that the officer actually spoke Russian just now, and he spoke it very skillfully and standardly.

"When did we meet? Why don't I have any impression at all! " I also found out what was going on, so I didn't bother to ask if they had come to surrender, so I went straight to the subject and asked my concerns.

"Have you forgotten? On the high ground of Pulkovo outside St. Petersburg, I took people to collect the bodies of our dead soldiers, and you were there. But you were a lieutenant then, and now you're a lieutenant commander. It's amazing Then he gave me a thumbs up.

When I heard this familiar place name in Pulkovo highland, I immediately remembered it. At that time, it was an officer holding a white flag and a lame interpreter wearing a boat hat who came to negotiate. I remember that the officer holding the white flag was somewhat similar to the officer in front of me. Thinking of this, I nodded and said to him, "I remember that when I went to the front of the battlefield with you, it was a very poor Russian translator."

"Yes, at last you remember. After that, my troops were transferred to the middle line to take part in the attack on Moscow. "

I coughed, cleared my throat and asked coldly, "what are you going to do now? Do you want to surrender? "

When the officer heard what I said, he immediately saluted me and said respectfully, "major von torman, commander of the 139th regiment of the 35th infantry division of the German army, led the remaining troops of the 139th regiment to surrender to the Soviet Army!"

"Wula There was a sudden cheer behind me. I turned around and saw that several guards behind me, holding high their weapons, ran back and yelled: "the German devils have surrendered! The German devils surrendered! "

With their shouts, the soldiers who had been hidden in the fortifications and bunkers also stood up, raised their weapons and cheered in unison, shouting "Wula!" When someone couldn't help pulling the trigger on the sky, the sound of various calibre weapons suddenly became one.

I looked at the soldiers' carnival with a smile, and I didn't say anything untimely to stop it. In the dense gunfire, I felt someone touched my shoulder. I turned to see that it was Lu Jin. He came close to my ear and said in a loud voice, "the German devils have surrendered to us. You haven't answered them yet."

I was a little embarrassed to hear what Lukin said. I was so happy to patronize myself that I forgot that the German army was still waiting for my reply. He quickly stood up, put on a serious face, and replied, "major von Tolman, on behalf of the Soviet 316th infantry division, I accept the German surrender. Now, you bring your team here and go to the station ahead to disarm. " Then he said to Lukin, "you take a platoon of soldiers to contact with the troops who are fighting from the city, saying that the German army has surrendered and asking them to stop attacking. Remember to go with the flag in case of misunderstanding. "

"Yes Lu Jin agreed, and ran back to our army to gather people.

Von torman, with his troops, followed me to the open space in front of the station building. There have been many soldiers of our army here for a long time. The first acquaintances I saw were gelia and felstov. I immediately stopped felstov and said, "Comrade lieutenant, the German army is here to surrender. You are responsible for taking over the weapons and arranging for their evacuation."

"Yes

"Where are Pavlov and sapochuk?" I haven't seen anyone from the second company since the end of the battle, so I am particularly worried that they have all died in the battle.

"Comrade commander, we are here!" Pavlov and sapocchuk came to me from a crowd not far away and stood at attention.

When I saw them standing in front of me, my worry suddenly turned into surprise and comfort. I reached out and patted them on the shoulder and said, "just be alive."

Then he turned and asked gelia, "is there any quiet place around here?"

"Yes, comrade commander!" He pointed to the gap and said, "there is a meeting room in the station on the first floor, which has not been destroyed by gunfire and can still be used normally."

"You take us!" Then I said to Pavlov, sapocchuk and von Tolman, "let's go!"

When I went in through the gap in the wall, I asked the guide gelia curiously, "gelia, how did you come to the 1077 regiment? What's going on? "

Gelia said to me, "Comrade commander, on your order, I will escort the rescued soldiers back to the defense area with some soldiers. I happened to meet the division commander. He said that the strength of defending the station was weak, so he added all of us to the 1077 regiment. Because the company commander of the first battalion and the third company died in the battle, I acted as the company commander. "

Then he came to the door of the conference room, and gelia pushed open the rickety door and went in first. I went in to have a look. The walls of the room were empty. There was not even a common portrait of Stalin. It was estimated that the staff of the station had taken the portrait away when they moved. In the middle of the room is a long wooden table with a lot of benches around it, on which there is a thick layer of soil. Gelia came forward and dusted the stool with her sleeve. Then she put the stool in front of me and said politely, "Comrade commander, please sit down."

I'm not polite either. I asked everyone to sit down together. We all found a stool, dusted off the soil and sat down. Because the individual's movements were relatively big, the house was dusty and it took a long time to return to normal.

I asked von Tolman, who was sitting next to me, "Mr. major, listen to your name. Are you a German aristocrat?"

"No," he hesitated for a moment before saying, "my father is just an ordinary government official, and I... I'm a social democrat. I'm anti war. I hate war very much. I have lost any hope of the so-called "victory" publicized. However, Hitler is going to die before I lead the troops to surrender to the Soviet army. "

"That's enough. Put away your story." A voice from the door interrupted him. I looked in the direction of the voice. The commander of the 16th group army, rokosovsky, and the 316 division commander, Panfilov, and political commissar, yegorov, were standing at the door. I quickly stood up to salute him and said, "Hello, comrade commander!"

Rokosovsky nodded at me, walked into the room and said, "all the German officers and men who were caught by us, afraid of being shot by us, said they were Social Democrats." After standing at the table, he told his soldiers at the door, "take this major to ustinovo."