The afternoon sun was obscured by the steaming smoke from Stalingrad, and even the sky became a little darker. In the ruins of a building after the collapse of the building, the three of Wei Ran hid in the cracks of the collapsed ruins. Through the palm-sized hole, he secretly looked at the German tanks rumbling past a few meters away and the infantry following the tanks.
"Let's go"
After Lieutenant Lev whispered, he carefully lifted the blanket over his head and walked along the collapsed ruins towards another building in the distance. Crawling forward cautiously.
As the distance got closer, Wei Ran's heart almost jumped into his throat, because the two tanks that had just passed by them were parked not far away. They were firing in a certain direction in the city, and behind the two tanks, there were also a group of German infantrymen who fired from time to time!
"Boom!"
A shell almost flew past the edge of one of the tank's turrets, and hit the collapsed wall near the gap where they had been hiding. It stirred up a lot of smoke and dust, startling the German soldiers and the three guards following the tank.
Lieutenant Lev, who was at the front, took a breath, sped up, and led the two men behind him forward for dozens of meters before rolling into a trench filled with corpses of Soviet soldiers.
"Stop aiming, hurry up."
Wei Ran reached out and pressed down the rifle Oleg was about to raise, urging in a low voice, this kid is simply looking for death. , the straight-line distance between them and the German soldiers with their backs turned was less than 100 meters, so no one could escape with a single shot.
The three of them bent forward quickly along the trench. Occasionally, a tank came over, and they immediately lay down among the corpses and pretended to be dead. The rumbling tanks passed over their heads, and the rolling soil crashed. The three of them were smashed all over their heads and faces. But they did not dare to move at all, because the German soldiers following the tank also jumped over the trenches one after another and rushed to the front line.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, until there was no more movement above his head, Lieutenant Lev carefully stood up and took a look, then waved Wei Ran and Wei Ran to continue moving forward.
Under the cover of this trench, the three of them finally managed to get into a three-story building with dense craters on the wall. However, just as the leading Lieutenant Lev passed through the damage in the wall, a submachine gun was pressed against his head from the side.
Lieutenant Lev stiffened and slowly raised his hands. Before Wei Ran and Oleg behind him could raise their guns, they were followed by another man wrapped in a cloak. He was pointed at gunpoint.
"Come in" one of them whispered.
Lieutenant Lev glanced at the firefighter uniform the other party was wearing, finally let go of the submachine gun in his hand, took a few steps forward, and made way for the two people behind him.
"Uncle Gorsh! Are you still alive?" Oleg suddenly exclaimed.
"Oleg? Are you alive too?" Originally pointing a gun atLieutenant Lev, a middle-aged man, responded in surprise, "Where is your father?"
"He died more than a month ago." Suddenly meeting Oleg, an acquaintance, there was a cry in his tone. , he is just a fifteen or sixteen year old kid after all.
"Put your hands down"
The middle-aged man whom Oleg called Gorsh held Oleg in his arms and looked at Lieutenant Lev and Wei Ran calmly. said.
Wei Ran's tense nerves finally relaxed along with his drooping hands, but the scene fell into an eerie silence at this time.
"Gorsh, let's go back first." Another person said hoarsely.
Gorsh nodded, but did not let go of Oleg's hand throughout. He just walked forward and said, "Come with me, this building is safe for the time being."
p>Under the leadership of Gorsi, a group of five people walked to the stairwell and then stopped. Wei Ran looked up and saw that the stairs leading upstairs had completely collapsed, leaving only a A rope as thick as a finger hung quietly in the air.
But before his hand touched the rope, he was stopped by the man with a hoarse voice, "Don't touch that rope, there's a grenade tied to the other end."
Wei Ran quickly retracted his hand when he heard this, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. But Gorsch lifted a dusty door panel on the floor, revealing a round manhole cover.
The man with the hoarse voice tapped the manhole cover lightly with the muzzle of his gun. After a while, the manhole cover was pushed upward from the inside, revealing the dark wellhead.
"Come in quickly." Before Gorsh could finish his words, Oleg was already the first to go in along the ladder at the edge of the well.
Lieutenant Lev hesitated for a moment, then climbed down the ladder. Wei Ran, who was left at the end, naturally had no choice but to keep up. After Gorsi got in, the manhole cover above his head was covered again by the door panel, leaving only a gap less than ten centimeters high on both sides of the door panel that seemed to have been accidentally padded with bricks.
Under the dark wellhead, as an oil lamp lit up directly in front, everyone finally saw the structure here clearly.
It was unimaginable that the space under the wellhead was unexpectedly spacious. What surprised them even more was that there were at least seven or eight people who were no more than eight or nine years old scattered here. Children and several wounded people wrapped in bandages.
Between these quiet children and the wounded, there was a young woman who was constantly busy.
"This used to be the basement of the fire station. The beautiful lady is nurse Yuna. We rescued her and the wounded from the trenches outside."
Gorsh said this and pointed to the man with a hoarse voice who came down with him. "He is Valery. Like me, he used to be a firefighter here. The other one with the oil lamp is an electrician nearby." Sergey. Now tell me, why did you bring Oleg here?"
"Uncle Gorsh, let me tell you."
Oleg was quite excited and introduced the identities of Lieutenant Lev and Wei Ran, and then talked about his What's going on at home and what they're about to accomplish.
Gorsh frowned when he heard this and motioned for everyone to follow him to the innermost part of the basement. He sat down against the wall and whispered, "I know the artillery position you are talking about, the Germans There are several cannons deployed there, and there are tanks around for protection, but with just the three of you, you can't do much even if you get there."
Lieutenant Lev frowned when he heard this, "It's so far away from here. Far?"
"Less than two kilometers"
Golsh pointed to the top of his head, "Before this building was bombed to only three floors, when the weather was good, You can even see the position clearly from the top of the building, but since the Germans discovered our artillery observer here, the building has become what it is now."
"Comrade Lieutenant. , Maybe I can do something." A weak voice came from not far away, and then a wounded man with a bandage on his chest sat up with the help of the nurse.
"What can we do?" Lieutenant Lev asked quickly.