Chapter 11: Seeing the Light Again
And one of the fighters next to Andrei asked, "Second Lieutenant Andrei, what are we going to do next?" β
Andre thought for a while and said, "Everyone rest in place first, be vigilant, and we'll act at night!" "Yes. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ ο½ο½ο½ο½β
In the encounter just now, more than fifty people were lost, now we have to let everyone recover their strength first, there is not much food to spare, and it seems that we will have to find an opportunity to attack the German camp at night, and after nightfall, the team arrived at the perimeter of the German barracks discovered by reconnaissance earlier. Andrei did not attack immediately, he had to wait for the opportunity, it was only nine o'clock in the evening, it was too early to attack, until two or three o'clock in the morning, when the Germans were sleeping like dead pigs, so it was easy to start, and Andrei was in Smolensk, but he was looking for someone to process some gadgets crossbows, arrowheads, daggers and other murderous weapons that the night wanted.
Andrei and his men quietly lay in ambush in the forest one kilometer outside the German barracks, taking advantage of the time when they had not yet launched an attack, Andrei and the soldiers looked for the German outposts one by one, before the attack was launched, those outposts were the targets that must be eliminated first, and the sentry posts were also targets that had to be killed.
Bright sentries are easy to spot, while dark sentinels hiding in trees and grass are difficult to spot. It was dark and the woods were so big that it was a bit difficult to find out the sentry one by one. But how did the German army's camouflage skills a few decades ago deceive Andrei, who had ideas and military skills that were decades more advanced than them!
With the help of the faint moonlight, any hint of clues in the woods was found by Andrei, who gestured to the special operators who were following him to tell them the location of the enemy.
From nine o'clock in the evening to two o'clock in the morning, five hours, Andrei was enough to find out all the secret sentinels. At two o'clock, the attack began. Andrei made a gesture, and the warriors crept towards their respective targets.
Andrei touched the vicinity of a big tree, he took out a bayonet, aimed at a tree twenty meters away and threw it hard, "whoosh", the throat of the secret whistle was pierced, and an upside-down onion fell from the tree.
This time is completely different from the last raid! As soon as Andrei shot the steel needle, another warrior who had already touched the tree fifteen meters away from the tree rushed over with an arrow and caught the corpse that fell from the tree.
A German sentry was patrolling back and forth, and when he walked to the grass, suddenly a black shadow jumped inside, covering the German soldier's mouth with one hand, and piercing his heart with a sharp spike.
Not far away, there was a German sentry hiding in the grass, and suddenly a crossbow machine made a slight "poof" sound, and a cloud of blood mist erupted from the grass.
Another sentry was killed by a warrior with a crossbow arrow, and his body was caught by another warrior who rushed as he fell from a tree.
There are two sentries on two trees in the same location, and they can look out for each other. But this did not stump the warriors, and the two crossbowmen crept over, "whoosh" two slight crossbow arrows, and the two sentries fell from the trees at the same time. Two other fighters rushed over and caught the bodies that had fallen from the trees.
In just fifteen minutes, all the open and dark posts on the southern periphery of the German barracks were silently eliminated by the soldiers.
There were also German sentries at the barracks entrance and in the barracks, and those were the next targets for Andrei and them. Bonfires were lit in the German barracks, and it was very difficult to get in without being noticed.
Andrei swaggered over with two soldiers in German uniforms to meet the two German sentries standing at the door.
Seeing "my own people" coming, a sentry asked, "What are you doing?" β
"Borrow a fire!" A soldier pulls a cigarette out of his pocket.
There were open and dark sentinels on the periphery, and the soldiers spoke fluent German, and the German sentry at the door did not suspect it, nor did he ask for any more orders, and one of them lowered his head and touched the match from his bosom. At this moment, Andrei and the three of them rushed forward like rabbits, and the two German sentries were pressed to the ground and died.
Before one of the sentries could react, a soldier used a crossbow arrow to leave a small bloody hole in the forehead of the Germans.
There was also a hidden sentry that was shot into the head with a crossbow arrow by a distant sniper.
The fighters hiding behind Andrei quickly rushed into the barracks, and several mobile outposts were easily and silently eliminated by them.
Comrade Andrey, over there! One of the fighters told Andrei with a gesture.
AndrΓ© looked in the direction of his finger and saw several antennas erected on top of a tent. That must have been where the telegraph corps of the German army was! There are telegraph men, then it will certainly not be far from the commander's tent! Thinking of this, Andrei made a gesture: 'Search the several tents nearby!' β
The soldiers began to search near the tent where the German telegraph soldiers were, and after getting into the enemy's tent, they used all kinds of cold weapons in their hands to send the sleeping German soldiers to hell one by one to be with Satan.
The tent of the telegraph soldier was touched by three soldiers, and one German soldier on duty and two sleeping German soldiers inside were all sent back to their hometowns.
After taking out the telegraph soldiers, AndrΓ© gave the order with a gesture: 'Take the telegraph and the codebook away!' We'll need these things! β
Telegraphs and codebooks are treasures! If it was in the field outside, when the Germans were defeated, they would first destroy the telegraph and the codebook.
Then the German commander's tent should not be far away, indeed, the tent of the German battalion commander is nearby, Andrei They quickly found it, neatly decapitated the German officer, Andrei also took away the military ID, this time it was really a huge harvest, not only moved enough food but also slaughtered a German major, got the code book and radio, through the action in the jungle Andrei They finally returned to the Soviet-controlled area.
And three days later, Moscow
Andrei was in Lubyanka, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and was actually received by Beria, and as soon as he met Beria read out the order: "...... In recognition of the heroic and tenacious fighting spirit shown by Second Lieutenant Andrei Yalen-Yakov in the defense of Smolensk, and the brilliant results achieved. The NKVD, after consulting the Supreme High Command, decided to award the Order of the Red Banner and promote him to the rank of the first rank. β
Beria hung up Andrei with a medal and said approvingly: "Comrade second lieutenant, oh no, now it is Comrade Lieutenant who wants you to make new contributions to the Motherland." β
When Beria hung the new Order of the Red Banner on the back of his chest, Andrei raised his hand to salute him and shouted in the film and television drama: "Serve the Soviet Fatherland!" β
And after the award, Beria actually talked to Andrei, "Andrei, your performance on the front line is very good, and you are proud of our internal affairs troops!" Beria was very pleased with the young officer who had given the Minister of Internal Affairs a face.
This made Andrei very uncalm, this is the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, a member of the National Defense Committee, Minister of Internal Affairs Beria, the head of the secret police who was once in power, and Andrei also paid great attention to mentioning what he saw and heard on the front line, and put forward the idea of special warfare. And Beria gave Andrei a big start, the Kremlin was going to hold a military meeting, and Beria arranged for Andrei to attend!
What kind of military meeting, yes, among our officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, you are considered to have a lot of combat experience, and at such an important meeting, the theory of guerrilla and special warfare that you put forward can also be put forward to Comrade Stalin!
So the next day, Andrei went to the Kremlin in a car of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, followed by a bus, and in the car, an officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs next to him said:
First, the current situation in Moscow is very difficult, and the High Command has transferred General Zhukov from Leningrad to a new appointment; Second, a tactical seminar will be held in the Kremlin to systematically summarize the operational situation of our army in the previous stage, and the participants will be the commanders of several front armies currently fighting the German army, except for those giants in the high command.
The bus in front of it came to a halt, and the captain-guide who was sitting in the front row stood up, turned around and said to everyone dryly: "Comrade commander, we have arrived at the place, please get off the bus." β
Later, Andrei also arrived, he got up and put on his military coat, and also got out of the car, and was surprised to find that the outside was actually the Red Square he saw in the materials, and the car door was facing Lenin's tomb at this time. Although Lenin's crystal coffin was moved to the rear soon after the outbreak of the war, the sentry at the gate was still not removed, and two tall and handsome men in brand-new tweed army coats stood there like nails with steel guns in their hands.
Everyone lined up on the viewing platform on the north side of Lenin's tomb, and when they passed by, Andrei couldn't help but look at them a few more times, and secretly jealous that these two soldiers were so handsome! The appearance is off the charts!
Between the tomb of Lenin, made of red granite and black feldspar, and the tall red walls of the Kremlin, there is a marble-paved clearing. Andrei looked at the famous Red Square with interest. To the north is the Historical Museum, a three-storey building built in red brick from the 19th century in a typical Russian style. To the east is the famous Gum Super Mall, which is staggeringly expensive, but its unique design and luxurious decoration are comparable to the most modern shopping malls in Europe and the United States. To the south is the distinctive Church of St. Basil's Church, made up of nine towers, large and small, nicknamed the Onion Dome, which is unique among Russia and Eastern European countries and is a landmark of Red Square. Next to the church is the Vasily slope, which stretches to the banks of the Moscow River.
And the officers who attended the meeting found that an officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs actually followed them all the way and remembered that the car of the Ministry of Internal Affairs had been following them, and they all had very bad expressions, looking at Andrei looking around, a colonel next to Zhukov whispered: "Geloki Konstantin, these people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs are really getting more and more arrogant, and they actually sent people to keep an eye on us at such an important military meeting!" And Zhukov said: "Bastov, don't care, don't be in a bad mood because of a few flies." β