Chapter 106

He bent down, put his arms on his knees, held his head in agony, and began to tell me about the unforgettable past:

On Sunday, June 22, 1941, at 3:40 a.m., 20 minutes before the outbreak of the Soviet German war, checkpoint 6, northeast of the Red Guard fortress.

From the Red Guard city where Lida and oshanin live, there is a road leading to the fortress. In order to ensure the safety of the fortress, the military set up several checkpoints on the road. Checkpoint 6 is one of them, only three kilometers away from the fortress. Because it is a permanent checkpoint, in addition to a two-story military dormitory building, reinforced concrete blockhouses with walls as thick as one meter were built on both sides of the road.

There have been two groups of troops stationed in the checkpoint for a long time. The highest commander is a lieutenant. Their task is to check the pedestrians and vehicles entering and leaving the fort every day to prevent saboteurs from entering the fort. Originally, according to the regulations, there were two posts on duty every night. At the same time, there must be one or two machine gun shooters on duty in the bunker. But the long-term peaceful life has made them slack off. Now they only have one sentry on duty every night. The rest of them, including the machine gunners, go back to the dormitory building to have a good sleep.

On duty that day was a recruit named Vassili, who was carrying a bayonet rifle and slouching back and forth in front of the wooden railings blocking the road. At the end of the week, it was my turn to be on duty. I watched my comrades in arms drinking and drinking, but I could only watch.

He walked for a while, feeling a little tired, then stopped, leaned on the railing, took out a packet of cigarettes from his pocket, took one out of his mouth, and struck a match to light it. Just after taking a good breath, I suddenly heard a quick step from the direction of the fortress.

It's early in summer in Russia. Although it's less than four o'clock, the light is enough to see the scenery one or two hundred meters away. Vasili saw a small team coming towards the checkpoint, threw away the cigarette, took off the rifle on his back, and met him with both hands flat. When there were more than ten steps between the two sides, Vassili called out: "stop, command!"

Although the detachment stopped, the leading officer came straight up to him and stopped. He took out his certificate and handed it to him. He said, "I'm lieutenant sobyanin. I've been ordered to go to checkpoint 6 to help you strengthen your defense. Because I was in a hurry, the fortress didn't have time to tell me the password for tonight. "

Vassily compared the photo on the certificate with the lieutenant in front of him. He felt that he had a certain truth, so he gave the certificate back to the lieutenant. At the same time, he kindly reminded him: "Comrade commander, it's better to ask for the password before coming next time, so as to avoid unnecessary misunderstanding."

"I see! Thank you for the reminder. " The lieutenant put the papers into his pocket and gratefully said thanks to the little soldier. Vassily put his rifle back on his shoulder. Suddenly he saw the Lieutenant's eyes glancing behind him. Then he was shocked. He pointed to his back and said, "what's that?"

Without thinking, Vassily turned and looked up the road. At this moment, the lieutenant rushed to his back with a lunge, holding his head in his hands and twisting it hard. Only a "click" was heard. Vassily's neck was abruptly twisted off, his head fell down powerlessly, and his whole body collapsed. The lieutenant quickly took hold of him, gently put the body on the ground, and then made a sign to the team that was not far away. Seeing the signal, more than a dozen soldiers immediately ran over. Without waiting for his command, they rushed into the two blockhouses with their weapons.

A sergeant ran up from the bunker and whispered to him, "Captain, there's no one in the bunker."

If Vasili, lying on the ground at the moment, was still conscious, he would be surprised to hear what the sergeant said, because the sergeant didn't speak Russian, but another foreign language he didn't understand. Unfortunately, at the moment, he has become a cold corpse. It is impossible for him to hear what the sergeant said and know that these people are German devils in Soviet uniforms who come to the rear to engage in sabotage activities.

The lieutenant nodded, looked at the dormitory building by the side of the road, and told the sergeant in a low voice, "go and kill all the people in the building. Remember, don't shoot, try to use a knife! "

"Yes The sergeant agreed and rushed to the dormitory building with about a dozen people who had just come out of the bunker.

Two soldiers came out of the bunker on the right. They first saluted the lieutenant. Then they bent down to lift Vassily's body and stumbled into the bunker. The lieutenant walked alone to the middle of the two blockhouses, stood in front of the wooden railings with both hands on his back, and silently looked at the empty road.

Gasping for breath, the sergeant ran out of the building, holding a bloody dagger in his left hand. As he ran, the blood dripped down the blade to the ground. Running behind the lieutenant, he stood at attention and said in a loud voice, "report to captain, all the enemies in the inspection station have been cleared by us. Please direct the next task."

The German captain in the uniform of a Soviet Lieutenant turned around and looked at the soldier who came to report. He frowned slightly and asked anxiously, "have you confirmed that there is any one who has missed the net?"

"It has been checked carefully. There are 25 officers and soldiers in the inspection station, all of them have been solved by us, and none of them has run away. This is their roster. " The sergeant said and handed over a book. The officer took over the roster, looked at it casually, gave it back to the soldiers, and said, "let's get into the fighting position. Maybe the Russians will send reinforcements after the war begins!"

"Yes The sergeant saluted and was about to turn to leave when suddenly there was an earth shaking explosion from the direction of the fortress, and the light of the fire from time to time turned half of the sky red.

"Great! We're going to attack! " Seeing this scene, the sergeant couldn't help shouting excitedly.

The lieutenant looked at the distant fortress shrouded in fire and smoke, with a satisfied smile on his face. He patted the sergeant on the shoulder and said, "go and get the soldiers in a good position. If we meet the enemy who escapes from the fort, we can stop them."

The German bombardment and bombing of the fortress lasted for two hours and began to weaken slowly. From time to time, sporadic Soviet soldiers retreated from the direction of the fortress, including drivers, horsemen, and even walkers. But when they passed the checkpoint, they were all detained by disguised German soldiers, and soon became corpses, which were piled up in the dormitory of the dormitory building. Although the lieutenant was still far away from the dormitory building, he also smelled the thick smell of blood in the air.

In the distance, the roar of automobile motors sounded, and military vehicles came along the road from far to near.

"One, two, three... Nine, ten. There are ten military vehicles." The sergeant stood beside the lieutenant and counted in a low voice. Then he asked anxiously, "the enemy should go to reinforce the fort. There are almost 200 people, but we only have 15 people. Can we stop them?"

"Shut up! I know that. " The lieutenant gave him a hard look. See Sergeant obediently closed his mouth, then continue to say: "call machine gunners are ready, later I'll get them out of the car, wait for them to gather in front of the open space, you order machine gun fire.". As long as more than half of them are wiped out, the rest will not be able to pass through the checkpoints. "

The ten trucks full of Soviet soldiers came from the Red Guard city. Oshanin sat in the cab of the sixth truck. Although the driver drove fast, he still felt that the car was driving slowly. He wanted to get to the post early to see what was going on. Is it true that the war broke out, or did he inform his duty officer to panic and regard the saboteurs' bombing of the armory as an enemy attack?

As he got closer and closer to the fortress, his suspicion began to waver. The dense explosion coming from the front didn't sound like the explosion of an ammunition depot. Did the Germans really dare to risk the world's great injustice, tear up the non aggression treaty between the two sides and launch a brutal aggression against the Soviet Union?

The car suddenly began to slow down and then slowly stopped by the side of the road“ What's going on? Why did you stop? " Aoxianing discontented to ask the driver, you know everyone is the emergency end of the holiday back to the fort, can't delay time on the road.

"The checkpoint is here!" The driver just pointed to the checkpoint not far ahead and added, "it was the people at the checkpoint who stopped our car." Oshanin apologized to the driver with a smile, opened the door, jumped down, and walked in the direction of the checkpoint.

As the lieutenant walked out of the checkpoint, he called out, "all of you get off and gather in front of the checkpoint. We will prepare our own documents and be ready for our inspection. "

Oshanin stood by the cab and looked around. He saw the soldiers jumping off the car one after another and gathering in the open space of the checkpoint. He took Sasha, the army dog who had just jumped out of the carriage, in his hand. He was hesitating whether to join the soldiers, but he heard the voice of quarrel coming from the front: "we are in a hurry to get to the fortress. Why do you stop us?"

Oshanin saw that it was a second lieutenant under his command, who was arguing with the lieutenant at the checkpoint. The lieutenant said solemnly, "it's ordered that all vehicles and personnel going in and out of the fortress should go through strict inspection, and no one can be excepted."

O'hsianing took two steps forward, and wanted to give some quiet advice. By the way, he reminded the lieutenant that if we stay in the car, we can also check the documents, so that we can gather together to check, which will delay the mobilization of the troops. Just as he was about to open his mouth, he lowered his head to see that the laces of the Lieutenant's right boot had loosened, so he kindly reminded him, "Comrade lieutenant, your laces have loosened."

Listening to o'shaning's words, the lieutenant looked down at his feet and found that the shoelaces had opened, so he squatted down to tie the shoelaces. The second lieutenant who quarreled with him looked down at the lieutenant squatting beside him angrily. He inadvertently looked at the sole of his left foot, and immediately exclaimed, "they are German! They're German!... " While shouting, he reached to his waist to draw the gun. But the lieutenant, who had been in a high nervous state, moved much faster than him. He pulled out his gun and fired two shots at the position of the second lieutenant without turning back. The second lieutenant's cry stopped abruptly. All eyes were fixed on the second lieutenant. He lowered his head, his body trembled slightly, his knees bent slowly, and finally he knelt down. Then he shook a few times, and finally he fell to the left. The blood from the wound flowed to the ground and accumulated into a red stall.

The lieutenant turned the muzzle of the gun and aimed at oshanin standing in front of him. As he was about to pull the trigger, Sasha jumped forward and bit the wrist of the lieutenant holding the gun. A loaded bullet flew directly into the sky. At this moment, oshanin also recovered. He pulled out his pistol and pulled the trigger repeatedly at the lieutenant, beating him all over the face. The lieutenant lay on his back. O'shanin squatted down and looked at the soles of his shoes carefully. Then he understood why the second lieutenant could recognize that the lieutenant was a fake of the enemy. The spikes on the bottom of the Soviet Army's boots were generally round, while the German boots had the same appearance, but their soles used square spikes“ Dada, dada... "The machine guns in the blockhouse suddenly roared, and the soldiers near the checkpoint fell under the muzzle one after another before they could recover“ Lie down! Lie down O'shanin cried out, then fell to the ground, aimed at the blockhouse and fired twice.