Chapter 1717

Seeing Hitler hiding more than ten meters under our feet, but we have nothing to do with him, I can't help but feel very anxious. Just then, a signalman who came with me from trekov headquarters ran up to me and reported to me, "Comrade General, your phone number is from the headquarters of the front army."

I heard that it was from the headquarters of the front army, so I guessed that it must be Zhukov. If we are attacking Hitler's bunker, I will be very happy to report the good news to him; But now, I feel guilty. After putting on the earphone, I said to the transmitter: "Hello, comrade Marshal? I'm o'shanina. Do you have any instructions? "

"What's the situation there? Have you found any clues?" Zhukov asked casually.

"Yes, comrade marshal, we have found the location of Hitler's bunker." I know that I can't hide this matter, so I can only report it to him truthfully, saying: "however, at the entrance of the new prime minister's office, the collapsed buildings are covered by ruins. Even if the lifting machinery is used, it will take several days to complete the cleaning work."

"What, did you find the entrance to Hitler's bunker?" What I said surprised Zhukov: "Rita, are you sure what you find is the real entrance to the ground?"

"No mistake, comrade marshal." I said in a positive tone, "I got the exact location of the entrance to Hitler's bunker from a captured German medical lieutenant colonel."

After a long silence, Zhukov tentatively asked me, "Rita, if I send you enough cranes, how long will it take you to dig the entrance to Hitler's bunker?"

Looking at the mountain like ruins in front of me, I replied with a bitter smile: "marshal, it's almost the ruins of the whole building, which is built at the entrance of the bunker. Even if you send us enough lifting machinery, it will take us several days to dig this place completely..."

Before I finished my words, the sharp whistling sound of cannonballs cutting through the air suddenly came from the air“ Shelling, lie down, lie down My ear rang out zinchenko's hoarse cry, and then I felt that someone was pulling me towards the building not far away.

After an explosion, countless bricks and stones were splashed on the top of the ruins, which made the soldiers around complain endlessly. Everyone started to run to safety. In the process of everyone running, there are successive shells falling down towards us, and the slow soldiers were blown down.

When we hid in the safe building, I heard Zhukov's anxious voice coming from the earphone: "Rita, can you hear me? What happened to you and how did I hear the sound of shelling? "

"We are being shelled by the German army," I said. Looking at the fire and smoke rising outside the building, I quickly judged that the other side was shelling with mortars, and quickly replied, "mortars. Maybe the Germans found us, so they sent mortar teams to fire on the upper floors of nearby buildings. "

After I finished, I waited for Zhukov's next order in a state of uneasiness. My brain was running fast, thinking about what I would do if Zhukov asked us to dig the entrance to the bunker?

But what Zhukov said surprised me: "Rita, since you can't clear out the entrance to the bunker, go back to trakov first and urge him to take the Capitol building as soon as possible. Do you understand? "

"Yes, comrade marshal, I obey your orders." I thought Zhukov would let me try to clean up the ruins, or send troops to search nearby to see if I could find another exit to the bunker. But he didn't expect that he wanted me to go back to trakov, so he quickly pushed the boat and said, "I'm going back to general trakov's headquarters."

By the time I got back to trekov headquarters, it was already dawn. Trikov was particularly surprised to see me come in from the door. He asked me with a look of surprise: "Rita, how did you come back and find Hitler's bandit nest?"

"Found it." I went to the table and sat down. I said weakly, "unfortunately, when our army attacked the prime minister's office, part of the building collapsed with heavy artillery. The falling reinforced concrete components just covered the entrance of the bunker. Even with the help of lifting machinery, it would take a long time to clean it up."

"Although the entrance is blocked, there must be other entrances." "Did you take anyone to search around for a new entrance?" trekov asked carefully

"No, after Marshal Zhukov knew that the entrance was blocked, he ordered me to come back directly." Looking around, I found that in the busy figure of the headquarters, I didn't see Pronin, so I digged off the topic and asked, "where did Comrade military commissar go? Why didn't he see others?"

"Rita, although we are still fighting with the Germans, we have to start the supply and medical work for the citizens of Berlin." Trekov explained to me, "in the German warehouses and food bases we occupied, there were only a few flour and canned fish left. There were no meat, rice and dairy products left. According to the report of the following troops, the German people are starving. Some brave children, for a small piece of bread, a spoonful of hot soup or a spoonful of porridge, even braved the gunfire and gunfire on the battlefield, came to our cooking cart to eat.

In order to have a good relationship with the German people, our soldiers took out the food from their lunch boxes and distributed it to the German children. They also put cans and sugar in their hands and let them take it back to their families. From tomorrow, we will send cooking trucks to provide the local residents with a fixed amount of food.

Besides the food supply, the most troublesome thing is medical work. Due to the shelling of our army and the bombing of the US Army, the water pipes and sewers have been damaged. Oil lamps are used for lighting and kerosene stoves and iron stoves are used for heating. Toilets, kitchens, hallways and even bedrooms are full of rubbish, stinking everywhere, dirty and dirty.

According to my instructions, military commissar Pronin and the Minister of logistics went to find a sufficient number of disinfection equipment, and mobilized German medical staff to work with us to control the possible plague. Their work these days is to restore the water supply to the water tower and clean up the sewers. For us, the war is coming to an end, and it's time to start restoring the damaged economy. "

After daybreak, our attack on the Capitol began again. Today, in addition to our attack on the Capitol from the south, the troops of the 79th army also launched an attack from the north.

When I saw our troops approaching the Capitol building with the help of ruins and craters, accompanied by tanks, it suddenly occurred to me that it was the commanders and fighters of the 150th infantry division who first planted the red flag on the top floor of the Capitol building, so I reminded trakov, "general trakov, don't you think our troops are short of something?"

Trekov, who was looking into the distance with his telescope, immediately put down his telescope, turned to look at me and asked in surprise, "what's missing?"

I pointed to the dome of the Capitol in the distance and said to him with a smile, "general trakov, don't you think we should put our red flag on the top of the Capitol as soon as possible?"

My words reminded trakov. He nodded and told Vladimirov standing behind us: "Comrade chief of staff, call general vagin of the 79th division of the guards immediately, ask him to prepare the red flag immediately, and then ask our soldiers to put the red flag on the dome of the Capitol building."

According to the tradition of the Soviet army, to put a red flag on the top of an important building in a city means to occupy the city, and the troops who put the red flag first will receive meritorious service. As a result, upon my reminding, both trakov and Vladimirov took active action to inform the commanders at the front to give the troops flags to be planted on the Capitol.

Soon general wakin called. He reported to trakov, "Comrade commander, the flag is ready. Sergeant Nikolay masalov, the flag bearer of the 220th regiment of the 79th division of the guards, and two deputy flag bearers are going to insert the flag on the top floor of the Capitol."

The tanks heading for the Capitol became the main target of German attack. Before long, the seven or eight tanks that accompanied the infantry charge were destroyed by the tanks and anti tank guns deployed in the fortifications in front of the building, as well as the anti-aircraft guns on the roof of the building. The infantry, who had lost the cover of tanks, could not break through the dense fire blockade of the German army, and could only retreat back in ashes.

Seeing that the army's attack was repulsed, trikov snorted, left the window and went to the table. He said to bozarsky who was sitting there, "Comrade artillery commander, use heavy artillery to blow up the enemy's artillery positions in front of the building and on the top of the building."

As soon as bozarsky left, trakov told Vladimirov, "chief of staff, find a way to transfer two more tank battalions. I don't believe the German army can wipe them out."

After these two orders were issued, trakov directly called the front-line headquarters of the 79th division of Jinwei and asked, "general wakin, what happened just now? Why didn't I see the red flag in the attacking troops?"

"Comrade commander, please listen to me." Standing not far from trekov, I could clearly hear the voice coming from the phone: "the 220th regiment of guards was suppressed by German fire during the attack. When masalov, the flag bearer, fell down, he saw a German woman lying there killed by stray bullets in the ruins nearby. A little girl was lying beside her mother crying. So he let his comrades in arms cover himself and crawled over. The enemy in a nearby building found him and shot him with machine gun, but he continued to climb forward bravely, cleverly avoiding the bullets and mines, and climbed to the weeping little girl. Waiting for the little girl's side, he bravely stood up, holding the child bent back and ran back to the division headquarters. "

When I heard about the flag bearer's rescue of the little girl, I suddenly remembered that in the streets of Berlin, there was a 13 meter high statue of the Soviet Army: a huge Soviet soldier holding a lonely little German girl in his left hand, a heavy double edged sword in his drooping right hand, and a stamp of the Communist Party.

I didn't expect that the prototype of this sculpture was actually a flagman in trakov's army. It's really interesting. I quickly took out a pen and paper and wrote down this incident. I planned to let Pronin publicize this heroic story when he came back.

Before the new attack, bozarsky's artillery troops launched a heavy shelling on the Capitol building, first silencing the anti-aircraft gun position on the roof. Then, the intensive fire destroyed the German anti tank guns and two Tiger tanks in the fortification in front of the building.

After the shelling, the tanks of the two tank battalions rumbled into the square in front of the Capitol building, launched the battle formation, stopped four or five hundred meters away from the target, and began to bombard the fire points emerging from the building to cover the infantry charge. Although the commanders and fighters of the offensive troops were constantly hit by bullets or shrapnel and fell on the road of charge, our soldiers were getting closer and closer to the steps of the Capitol building. Seeing this situation, I can't help holding my breath, because the soldier in the front is only 50 or 60 meters away from the building. As long as he runs faster, he can enter the building in 20 seconds at most. Who knows, the soldier just rushed up the stairs, as if hit an invisible wall, the whole body suddenly stopped, and then fell back slowly on the stairs. The soldier who didn't know his name just fell down, and another four or five soldiers rushed up, but soon, they also fell down beside their comrades in arms one after another. After they fell down, more soldiers flooded in. Although there were still soldiers falling down, more people rushed into the building“ That's great. That's great! " Vladimirov exclaimed excitedly, "Comrade commander, do you see that? Our soldiers rushed into the Capitol. They rushed in. That's great The troops of the 8th group army of the guards rushed into the Capitol building. Not long after, a troop came from the other side of the building, and then rushed in. Seeing this scene, Vladimirov couldn't help looking silly. He was surprised and asked, "where did this army come from? What are they going to do? Don't they know that the task of seizing the Capitol has been handed over to our group army? "“ Chief of staff, don't get excited. " I quickly put down my telescope, turned to Vladimirov and said, "you don't care which army is coming, just need to know that they are our friendly forces and are here to cooperate with us in the elimination of the German Communist Party." When I said this, Vladimirov murmured a little discontentedly, "you know, our troops rush into the Capitol first. If their flag is put on the roof first, whose credit is this victory?"