Half an hour later, Sokov led the three-row warriors toward the factory area.
Shortly after leaving the tunnel in Mamayev hill, he heard a burst of gunfire and explosions coming from the front. He quickly called the platoon leader Samoilov and ordered him: "Comrade lieutenant, send a few people to the front to reconnaise and figure out what happened."
"Comrade Brigade Commander," Guchakov, who had been following Sokov, immediately volunteered after hearing the order he issued: "Let me take people to reconnaissance."
Although Guchakov has been demoted to a corporal now, he has rich combat experience and strong command ability. If he led the team to conduct reconnaissance, he would definitely be able to figure out what was going on ahead. So Sokov nodded without hesitation and told him: "Okay, comrade corporal, you take a few soldiers to reconnaissance. After knowing what happened, don't act rashly, and send someone to report to me immediately."
"I understand, comrade comrade commander." Guchakov agreed in a low voice, and led several soldiers to bending over and running forward.
After Guchakov walked away, Samoilov said to the soldiers next to him: "Pause down and rest in place!"
Soon his order was faithfully conveyed, and the soldiers of the guard company each chose to rest in a hidden area. Samoilov came to Sokov and asked tentatively: "Comrade Brigade Commander, Corporal Guchakov, can he do it?"
"Second lieutenant," Sokov said to Samoilov: "Although Guchakov was demoted, it is perfect to do such things with his ability. Wait, we will figure out what's going on soon."
Samoilov handed Sokov a cigarette and said, "Comrade Brigade Commander, we don't know how long we have to wait, let's smoke a cigarette first."
"Comrade Lieutenant, are you afraid of your life?" Sokov did not receive the cigarette handed over by Samoilov, and said in a stern tone: "Don't you know that the light of the cigarette butts can be transmitted far in the night? If it is discovered by the enemy's sniper, you and I will die. Immediately order the soldiers not to smoke or make any noise."
When Samoilov heard Sokov say this, he immediately realized that he had made a fatal mistake. If he was really discovered and killed by German snipers because of smoking, it would be really not worth it. He quickly put away his cigarettes and conveyed the orders given by Sokov to every soldier.
After about half an hour, suddenly a burst of rapid footsteps came, and then Sokov heard an anxious voice shouting: "Comrade Brigade Commander, where are the brigade commanders? Comrades, who did you see the brigade commander?"
Sokov guessed from the man's shout that it might be Guchakov who took back to report the situation, and quickly stood up and replied, "I'm here!"
The soldier heard Sokov's voice and hurriedly ran to Sokov, stopped his body and reported: "Comrade Brigade Commander, I have figured it out. It was the Germans who took advantage of the night to attack the assembly workshop. Our people are fighting with them."
"Comrade Brigade Commander," Samoilov immediately approached Sokov after listening to the soldiers' report and suggested to him: "Let's go and support immediately, and attack the troops in the factory for a front and back, and annihilate the enemy who came to attack."
"Comrade Lieutenant," Sokov turned his head and looked at Samoilov and said to him: "I want to ask you, can you tell me about the enemy in the dark? If we rushed to reinforce at this time, we might have misunderstandings with our own people. At that time, we will fight with our own people, and the Germans will benefit."
"What should we do?" Samoilov heard Sokov say this and thought carefully. It was really true. When the troops were attacked at night, the command system would be very chaotic. He would take his people over, and perhaps the other party would treat himself as an enemy. At that time, the two sides would fight together, which would make the Germans cheap. However, when he heard the gunshots and explosions in front of him, he always felt uneasy: "Are we doing nothing here?"
"Comrade Lieutenant," Sokov considered that he had not asked about the security company for a long time and did not know if they were also losing troops in the battle, so he asked Samoilov tentatively: "How many people are there in your platoon?"
"There are 58 people in the platoon. Corporal Guchakov took away five people, and there were 52 people left." Samoilov knew that Sokov would not ask this for no reason, and hurriedly asked: "Comrade Brigade Commander, do you have any plans?"
"Judged from the movements ahead, there are not many people sent by the enemy to attack, at most fifty or sixty people. With their little force, it is impossible to seize the position of the assembly workshop." Sokov had long thought about how to deal with these enemies who attacked: "In my opinion, they will retreat soon, and we will ambush on their way to pass and catch them off guard."
Hearing Sokov say this, Samoilov asked a little uneasy: "Comrade Brigade Commander, how do we know which enemies are and which are our own people?"
"Comrade lieutenant, after completing the sneak attack mission, the Germans will definitely withdraw their positions." Sokov explained to Samoilov: "But our soldiers will not leave their positions easily. Therefore, you see the shadows that leave our positions and flee in the direction where the enemy is, all the enemies are enemies, and the soldiers will shoot them as long as they shoot."
"It makes sense, it makes sense." After hearing Sokov's analysis, Samoilov couldn't help but nodded repeatedly and asked carefully: "Comrade Brigade Commander, are we going to ambush now?"
Sokov said to the warrior who came to report the news: "Go back and tell Corporal Guchakov, let him stay there and continue to observe the enemy's movements, and never act rashly. When the enemy is eliminated, I will send someone to contact you."
Sokov brought his men to the direction of the wall to ambush. As soon as the soldiers entered the crater, they saw a group of black shadows running towards their direction in the distance. Everyone hurriedly lay in the crater, raised their guns and aimed at the approaching shady shadows, and immediately fired when they heard the order.
Sokov and Samoilov lay in the same crater, lifted their assault rifles to aim at the shadows getting closer and closer. When they were running in the front, they were only more than twenty meters away from him, they shouted suddenly: "Let's fire!" and fired a first shot, knocking the locked shadows to the ground.
As Sokov's gunshots rang, bean-like gunshots rang around him. The black shadows running over didn't dream of an ambushing Soviet troops here, and they were caught off guard. Most of the soldiers didn't even have the chance to fire a shot, and they were hit by several bullets and fell to the ground.
The ambush lasted less than two minutes, and all the shadows that escaped from the assembly workshop fell to the ground. Samoilov looked outside and saw that there was no longer a standing shadow, so he asked Sokov tentatively: "Comrade Brigade Commander, should we go to clean the battlefield?"
"Don't worry, let the soldiers continue to lie in the crater. No one is allowed to stand up without my order." Sokov was afraid that there would be German soldiers pretending to be dead. If they went to clean the battlefield at this time, they might be fired coldly, so he decisively ordered: "Before dawn, whenever everyone sees the shadow of the event, they will shoot immediately."
They were not killed by nearby German soldiers. Some of them took advantage of the chaos and lay directly in the bullet crater, intending to use the night to cover the escape when the Soviet army cleaned the battlefield. Unexpectedly, after the gunfire stopped for a long time, the Soviet army came to clean the battlefield, which was far beyond their expectations. Some soldiers who could not hold back secretly crawled out of the bullet crater and wanted to escape from the factory as fast as possible. Unexpectedly, before they stood up, they were hit by bullets flying from somewhere, and fell into the bullet crater again. This time they could not get up again.
After several hours of waiting, the sky finally dawned. Sokov looked out of the crater, feeling that his visibility was now and he paid attention to distinguishing the enemy and us. He said to Samoilov: "Comrade lieutenant, give the soldiers orders to go out to clean the battlefield, not to capture prisoners, and after collecting the weapons and ammunition that can still be used, then return to the assembly workshop."
Chapter completed!