Chapter 254

Ten minutes later, Yushchenko and several soldiers, accompanied by a man and a woman and two children, came to my car.

I pushed the door open and went down. Looking at the two children struggling in the hands of the soldiers, I asked strangely, "Captain Yushchenko, what's the matter with these two children?"

Yushchenko came forward to salute and reported: "Mr. teacher, we just caught two children in the forest. They asked which village they were from, but they refused to say, so I brought them here. " Then he turned to the soldier behind and waved his head and ordered, "bring them here."

After the two children were pushed by the soldiers, they were still silent, just struggling desperately. I said to the soldiers who caught them, "let them go, they are just children."

When they were free, they both looked at me with hatred and anger in their eyes. I looked down at them and asked kindly, "children, what village are you from? Why are you in the forest?"

After a short silence, the girl on the right, who is a little bigger, asked timidly, "who are you?"

"My own people."

When I said that, their hostile eyes disappeared. The boy in the cotton hat even stepped forward and boldly asked, "can I touch your star badge?"

Touch the star emblem? Can't you see so close? Even though I thought so, I still bent down cooperatively and let the boy reach for the star badge of his hat. The girl also summoned up her courage and came up to me. She reached out and touched the two Venus that touched my bright red badge.

After touching the star emblem and the collar badge, the two children looked at each other. Then they threw themselves into my arms, burst into tears, and said intermittently, "I... we finally found you... You, comrade commander! The Germans... The Germans are killing people in the village. Please... Help me... My family! "

At a loss, I gently patted the two children on the back and asked in a soft voice, "child, child, don't cry, don't cry. Tell me quickly what happened? "

It took a while for the two children to stop crying. The girl stood up straight, wiping her tears and pointing to the deep forest, told me: "I'm from... Village." the girl spoke very fast, and with crying voice, I didn't understand what village she was talking about. "From this morning, the Germans in the village rushed the whole village to the church, and then took the people out in batches and shot them. My brother and I escaped from the window with the help of my mother and some kind aunts. Originally, we were reluctant to leave our mother and run away alone. It was our mother who asked us to come out and find our own troops, so we left the village and ran on the road. "

When I heard that the Germans were slaughtering the villagers in the village, I knew I could not delay any longer. I immediately ordered Yushchenko: "Comrade captain, you should gather your troops immediately. In addition to leaving a platoon to cover the engineers for demining, the rest of the people will follow me to the village to save people."

"Yes Yushchenko agreed to take several soldiers to carry out the mission.

I let the two children sit in the car, and I stood outside the door and asked them, "how many Germans are there in the village?"

"47. Five of them are officials. " The girl replied.

"What kind of equipment do they have?"

For my question, the girl did not answer, but turned her eyes to her brother. From her reaction, I guess that the boy is probably the one who knows the most about weapons knowledge, so I also looked at the boy and asked, "little friend, do you know?"

The boy nodded and replied, "they have a few submachine guns. The rest are rifles." Stop to think for a moment, and added: "officials are pistols."

"Do you have heavy weapons?" I asked again.

"Comrade commander, what is a heavy weapon?" The child asked me, puzzled.

Just at this time, several soldiers came, one of them carrying a mortar on his shoulder. I called the soldier who carried the gun to come over, then pointed to the mortar on his shoulder and asked the little boy, "this is the heavy weapon."

In order to let the boy see clearly, I let the soldiers put the mortar on the ground. The boy observed it carefully, and then looked back at his sister. Seeing her shaking her head, he looked back at me and said, "I've never seen her before."

I was relieved to know that the German army in the village had no heavy weapons. There are only 47 Germans in the village, and they are all light weapons. I can take hundreds of people to beat them later. That's not cutting melons and vegetables, and then I will clean them up.

After Yushchenko had assembled the troops, I took two children to the front of the team and said in a loud voice, "comrades, these two children escaped from the nearby village. They told me that there were a group of frantic Germans who were killing their relatives in their village. What should we do?"

"Go and destroy them!" Hundreds of voices called in unison.

Seeing everyone's high morale, I felt more confident in this battle, so I yelled, "OK, let's go!"

"Wait a minute, comrade teacher." Yushchenko suddenly stood up, open arms blocked my way, "the village is too dangerous, I'd better take the troops, you stay here and wait for the news."

I frowned, and my heart said that I had been waiting for so long, and I finally expected to fight a small battle with a high winning rate. In this way, you still want to take credit with me. So he put his face down and said to him coldly, "according to the regulations, there is no need to discuss the commander's orders. Please execute them as soon as possible." Then he added sternly, "let's go now!"

"Yes Yushchenko reluctantly agreed, and then yelled at the soldiers: "all of you, listen to my command: turn right, form three columns, march together!"

In the sound of his command, the armed soldiers walked into the forest with neat steps. I also followed with my two children, grissa, armed with a submachine gun from the car, followed me as a guard.

After entering the forest, the neat team walked slowly through the knee deep snow. Seeing this, Yushchenko adjusted the queue in time and let everyone move forward in a scattered formation.

On the way to the small village, I started chatting with my two children. I knew that my sister's name was marina, and she was ten years old; My brother's name is Anton. He's just eight years old. After walking for a while, I felt a little too tired to breathe.

After walking for more than ten minutes, Marina pointed to the front and said, "our village is in front of us. If we walk a few minutes further, we can see the entrance of the village."

It was then that I heard women howling and screaming in the direction of the village, but then after a dense gunshot, everything was quiet.

"Comrade captain," I called out to Yushchenko when I saw that he was not far ahead of me on the left. After hearing this, he turned back and added breathlessly, "did you hear the gunshot just now? It must be the Krauts slaughtering the villagers again. Let the troops speed up their advance. "

"I understand!" Yushchenko agreed, and then issued an order to the left and right soldiers: "comrades, we can no longer let the bandits continue to harm our people, speed up to eliminate them."

Around the soldiers agreed, and then speed up the pace, in the snow deep one foot shallow one foot to run up.

Before long, we got close to the edge of the forest, and the village had already appeared in our sight. Yushchenko, who just ran in the front, ordered the troops to stop moving and stand by.

I went up to him and asked angrily, "Comrade captain, why did you stop?"

Yushchenko, with an angry look on his face, handed me the telescope in his hand and gritted his teeth and said, "Sir, have a look, these damned German beasts!"

I picked up the telescope and looked in the direction of Yushchenko's finger. I saw dozens of bodies piled up in the snow under the corner of a large wooden house near the entrance of the village. Among them, on the top are more than a dozen young girls in their infancy. They are all naked and naked. Their white chests are stained red with blood. Seven or eight German soldiers in military coats and bayonet rifles were walking back and forth in front of the body.

Seeing this terrible scene, I smashed my fist on the snow in front of me, which made Yushchenko and his sister and brother startled. I bit my back teeth and said: "Captain Yushchenko, send one to go around the back of the village. Don't let any of these animals escape."

"Yes Yushchenko agreed and immediately ran to the side to give orders.

I turned around and found that the soldier carrying the mortar was not far away from me. I immediately called him: "Comrade soldier, you set up the mortar right away. When our people get around the village, you will fire immediately!"

When the soldier heard what I said, he replied with some embarrassment: "report to our division commander, the snow here is too deep to set up mortars."

Listen to his words, I almost kick in the past, you sb, the snow is too deep, you don't know how to get rid of the snow.

I took a deep breath, restrained my anger, bent down and began to plow the snow in front of me. Seeing what I did, my sister and brother and the soldier were stunned at first. Then they immediately understood my intention and began to help me dig away the snow.

As he was about to dig out a field where mortars could be set up, a soldier suddenly called out in a low voice: "look, the Germans are escorting the villagers out again."

I quickly raised my telescope and looked at the entrance of the village. Seven or eight naked young girls with their hands over their chests were driven out of the village by a dozen German soldiers with submachine guns. There was a German soldier at the back, his coat open, and he was wearing a belt as he walked.

Seeing this, I suddenly understood that the German soldiers who were not as good as beasts had ruined these girls and then drove them outside to shoot them. At this moment, I don't care to wait for the signal of the army around the village. No wonder it will expose the target. I yell at Yushchenko: "Captain Yushchenko, I can't delay any longer. I will lead the army to attack at once."

For my order, Yushchenko was obviously stunned. After all, it was nearly 200 meters from here to the entrance of the village, and there was thick snow. Soldiers charging knee deep in the snow, speed will be affected, but also pay huge casualties. Perhaps because of this reason, Yushchenko became hesitant after hearing my order.

Seeing that these young girls are about to be poisoned by the Germans, I can't care much. Since Yushchenko stays in the same place, I will lead the charge myself. I grabbed grissa's submachine gun, held it high above my head, and yelled, "comrades, follow me!" Then, in the knee deep snow, he dashed forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow.