Chapter 138: Return to Soviet Headquarters
If you want to talk about luck, in addition to the time and camp of the crossing, Lynn should be considered very lucky.
At the end of the stairs was a room with a black hole, different from the sewer dredging station before, with its old walls and thick pipes, it looked like a space on the lowest floor of a building that housed sewers and pumps, and no one would normally come to it unless it was malfunctioning.
There was a door in the room, but the one illuminated by the flashlight seemed to be completely rusted, and no matter how hard it tried, the thick doorknob still didn't move.
"Let me come!"
Wolfrum raised his assault rifle to his side and slammed it down with the butt—the only memento that Erik's predecessor, the tall officer, had left to Lynn.
"Knock", "knock" twice, just when Lynn was worried that these sounds would attract the attention of the Soviets outside, the doorknob fell off, and Wolfrum reached out and pulled, and the ironwood door creaked open.
Without saying a word, Frings was the first to squeeze through the crack in the door and walked up another staircase with an assault rifle with an infrared searchlight turned on.
There was no sound outside, and the silence was a little eerie.
The order of going out seemed to be linked to honor, and Brück also crowded in front of Lynn.
The wordless change made Lynn feel relieved and proud.
The staircase outside the door was only ten steps, and when you went up, the space suddenly became extremely large.
Despite the darkness in his sight, Brück whispered, "It's the subway station!" ”
Berlin's metro system is not as old as London's, but thanks to the powerful industries of the Second and Third Reichs, it reached a staggering scale in the first half of the 20th century, when many backward countries had not even seen what the metro looked like.
Walking up the steps, Lynn stood silently. Infrared night vision devices could not be used to detect terrain or other objects that were not hot, so he concentrated and listened with his ears pricked up.
Unfortunately, the footsteps of his soldiers disturbed him slightly, and when he heard nothing, he decided to turn on the flashlight.
The light from the two-battery portable flashlight is faint compared to the searchlights or car lights, and when you look around, this is indeed the platform of a subway station, but the sides of the track extending outward are blocked by the huge cement blocks that have collapsed, so you can't see a single subway car.
"The stairs are over here!" Titchmel's sharp-eyed gaze pointed to the concrete steps on the side, which looked wide enough to accommodate five or six people in parallel and staggered, and should have been a staircase leading to the subway entrance.
In this enclosed and quiet space, whispering is also very clear.
"I think it's clogged!" Lynn made a logical judgment and continued to search for other exits with a flashlight, and the soldiers who tried to find a way out quickly returned in a daze.
Brück and another soldier also turned on their flashlights, and three pillars of light swept back and forth in the deep dark space, and after a few minutes, someone said, "Hey, sir, there's an emergency passage here!" ”
Before Lynn could reply, the man walked over, pushed open the door and looked inside, "Maybe you can get to the ground!" ”
If the abandoned subway station was really closed, Lynn would have wanted to hide here until the end of the war, but a pre-knowledge of history made him abandon this fluke idea: even if Germany surrendered, Berlin would be occupied by both the Soviet army and the Western Allies, and it would be difficult to escape if he went out!
"I hope the exit isn't in an empty street!" Brewer muttered.
Unless they returned the same way, it looked like there would be no second passage, and the soldiers followed one by one through the emergency passage door, climbing several folded stairs, still showing no sign of air movement, and just as Lynn was about to give up hope, a creaking sound was heard from above. Suddenly, a cold wind came to the empowerment.
"Sir!" The soldier at the front lowered his voice and shouted, "There is a way!" ”
Not only Lynn, but almost everyone involuntarily quickened their pace, but was careful not to make a sound.
Outside the door is not an empty street, but inside a half-collapsed building. The complete destruction of the floor and interior furnishings, together with the partial collapse of the façade, makes it look like the ruins of the ancient Colosseum in Rome.
Lynn didn't have time to figure out why the emergency passage of the subway station was connected to the mall-like buildings, not to mention that the devastation of the war had turned the surrounding environment beyond recognition, and it was impossible to infer what they were from just looking at the ruins. Seeing that the two soldiers who came out before had already used the collapsed cylinders and the remaining pile of cement blocks as a cover for vigilance, they slowly walked forward and picked up the infrared night vision devices with the power turned on - I wiped them, there were many bright outlines!
Glancing at the fan, Lin En quickly pressed down with his right hand, signaling the soldiers behind him to be careful and hidden. Based on the size and brightness of the contours displayed by the infrared telescope, it was roughly inferred that the distance of the enemy soldiers was more than 50 meters, that is, across the street in front of the building, and the shaking figures could be seen on the first and second floors!
Could it be the command of the Soviet army?
Depression, worry, resentment, anger, sadness, these entangled complex feelings all have a strong gushing out from the bottom of the heart. Lynn flattened her assault rifle and turned to look at her soldiers, all of whom were already cautiously following their instructions.
"Alfred! Brewer! Gut! ”
Lynn tapped the name of the person carrying the infrared night vision gear, and they walked up to the commander together.
Taking advantage of the distance from the enemy, Lynn arranged his battle plan in a low voice and said: "After the attack begins, except for Brewer and two people who stay here to guard and respond, the rest of the people will follow me!" Alfred, you and Gut are one left and one right, shoot fast, be accurate, and pick the ones that are most likely to fight back! ”
This order sounded simple, and the three night soldiers accepted it without objection, but it was not easy to do - even Lynn himself did not dare to pack the ticket, but with the quality of the Soviet officers and men in 1945, such a battle must have been won by the brave who met on a narrow road.
Next, Lynn said to the soldier who was using the "Tank Killer" bazooka alone: "Noah, listen to my instructions for a while, you first bombard the window on the second floor on the opposite side with a rocket, understand?" ”
According to his own words, six Soviet tanks and armored vehicles had been destroyed in the previous battles, but Lynn was not easy to judge what this number was. The deputy assigned to Noah did not have special training, but no one else here except Lynn could use anti-tank weapons, so he had to receive temporary training on the way, and the effect of Lynn was also unknown.
Eventually, Lynn summoned Tethermel, the youngest and weakest member of the Night Task Force, and although there was an initial opportunity to get Motchig to help him change to a more experienced one, perhaps it was his youthful and effeminate appearance that aroused Lynn's eldest brother's heart, and he eventually brought the private with him.
"Hey, man, listen up, you can throw a grenade well and smash it at any Russian who tries to attack us!" As Lynn spoke, she patiently made a string throwing motion, which didn't take a few seconds.
Titchmel nodded jerkily, "Okay, sir, don't worry! ”
Lynn tapped him on the shoulder with his left hand, and when he retracted it, he pulled down the bolt of the gun and ordered without hesitation: "Attack!" ”
In the dilapidated hall of the mall, fourteen black shadows moved forward quickly, some directly across the glassless floor-to-ceiling windows, some bowed down and followed the leader to rush out of the gate, and another carried an extraordinarily thick cannon barrel with a small shield in both hands (the original large shield was too heavy, so many German soldiers preferred to use small shields or remove shields and wear masks to fire), knelt on one knee in front of a hole in a wall larger than an adult, and quickly aimed through the glass window on the shield. Then, a long spindle-shaped object with a bright tail flame and thick white smoke flew across the street.
Leng Buding saw a group of people rushing over, some of the Soviet soldiers on the other side of the street tried to shoot with machine guns mounted on sandbags, and some directly picked up their submachine guns and turned towards each other, but before they could pull down the bolt and pull the trigger, the German 88 mm caliber Panzerschreck anti-tank rocket launcher was enough to penetrate the 200 mm armor plate The rocket came first, and its hollow charge warhead contained 660 grams of fierce explosives, equivalent to six M24 long-handled grenades, Moreover, the attacked Soviet soldiers had no chance to pick it up and throw it back - only a loud bang was heard, and three of the seven Soviet soldiers within five meters were directly swept away by the powerful explosion, and none of the other four escaped the catastrophe!
The smoke from the rocket explosion provided cover for Lynn and the attacking German soldiers, and he held the assault rifle with the infrared searchlight turned on, and when the flames from the explosion disappeared, he raised the assault rifle to shoulder level, slowed down his feet, and switched to a very rhythmic alternating progress. Affected by the explosion, the infrared scope was bright at first, but it dimmed in an instant, and the shiny outlines of those human figures appeared, leaving aside those who were already lying or lying on the ground, and he aimed at a bent guy with two thump shots. In the scope, the man seemed to have been slammed by the invisible man's fist, and he immediately raised his upper body and fell backwards, and his hands were spread out to the sides uncontrollably.
Immediately after, another bright figure appeared in sight, but before Lynn could pull the trigger, he was hit by several bullets that followed, and his body trembled and fell like a dead leaf in the wind.
Smelling the strong smell of gunpowder wafting through the air, Lynn suddenly roared: "Soldiers, attack!" ”
If time had stopped in this second, the glorious image of Lynn and his night soldiers would have become the brightest sight of the German camp at the end of the war, but none of them expected that just diagonally opposite the building they were attacking, in the blind corner of their line of sight, where they could not directly observe, there were a bunch of tanks and armored vehicles, and Soviet soldiers wearing boat-shaped beanies or leather tank caps were replenishing their combat vehicles with ammunition and fuel in preparation for the battle deep into the city of Berlin. They were all stunned by the appearance of this small group of German soldiers, followed by intense indignation - wasn't this a slap on the ass of a tiger?
(To be continued)