I've never been to Yasnaya Polyana, but I know that the name of the place, which means "bright glade" in Russian, was the largest dowry of Tolstoy's mother, who planted a large number of trees and shrubs here. When Tolstoy became an adult, he also planted linden, spruce, aspen, birch and other trees on the estate, which is now lush and green.

The fate of this ordinary Russian aristocratic estate was completely changed by the birth of Tolstoy, and it became one of the few cultural meccas in the world, and there is an endless stream of tourists who come here every year.

At noon, we finally arrived at Yasnaya Polyana, and made an approach to reconnoiter Tolstoy's estate, trying to find out where the headquarters of the various branches and units of the German army were stationed in the vicinity, and if conditions permitted, I also planned to capture a high-ranking officer, and find out what new movements the German army would have next.

Thick snow covered roads, fields, rivers, houses, and woods, blurring many targets. There is still an open area of open land dozens of meters between the woods in the manor and the forest where we are hiding, and if you want to detect the situation in the manor, you must pass through this open field and go to the forest opposite.

Several wrecked armored vehicles fell on the snow, and even days of heavy snow could not cover the blinding scorched black, and it seems that the Germans also took this place after hard fighting. However, I didn't see any dead soldiers on the snow, so I guess they were collected and buried by the Germans.

At the edge of the forest were a few birch trees that had been blown off by the barrage, and the crooked trunks of the trees had become natural shelters, and Agumint and I were lurking here, while Lukin and Sgolia were crawling through the open field, ready to approach the manor's woods to reconnoitre.

I raised my binoculars and looked to the right side of the woods, and soon saw that there were many trenches and communication ditches here, and there were strong pillboxes built behind the trenches, which should have been built by the Soviets and occupied by the Germans. In front of the trenches were rows of wooden stakes, pulling barbed wires. A few tanks, covered in thick snow, were neatly parked behind the trenches, and there were even anti-aircraft gun positions in the estate, and in addition to patrols of ten people who walked by from time to time, there were mobile sentries with rifles on their backs.

Seeing such a tight defensive position of the German army, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and now it seems how naïve and naïve the idea of ending the German headquarters and capturing Guderian alive. Although there were more than 400 of us, there were no heavy weapons, and there was no way to deal with the German tanks and pillboxes. The security in the manor is so tight, and the outside is almost there, and it is impossible to tell that there is a minefield outside the barbed wire. If we hastily launch an offensive, it is estimated that before we can storm the manor, the entire army will probably have suffered all casualties. If we don't end the battle in a short time, and when reinforcements from the German vicinity arrive, we will be left with only one end of total annihilation.

"Comrade Commander, there's something wrong with a sentry in the woods." Suddenly Aguminte's voice came from the side.

I put down my binoculars, turned to look at him and asked, "Where is it?" ”

"There!" He said and pointed in the direction of eleven.

I hurriedly picked up my binoculars and looked in the direction he was pointing, and saw a German soldier with a rifle swaggering in our direction, looking around as he went. As he walked, he suddenly stopped, craned his neck and looked to the side, as if something had attracted him. Oh no, could it be that Lukin was discovered by him, you must know that the traces of their crawling on the snow still look very obvious.

"Agumint, aim for him! I said shoot, and you will shoot him right away! I whispered to Agumint beside me.

"Understood, you can fire at any time!" Agumint replied to me very calmly.

The sentry looked left and right, then slung his gun to his back and strode in the direction he had just looked. I think it's a little strange, how did the sentry carry the gun on his back and not scream, could it be that I was so careful, he didn't notice Lukin lurking around there at all?!

The sentry walked under a tree and lifted his toes to pick something. The branches shook violently, the snow on them fell like an open bag of flour, and the sentry became a "white man" in an instant.

"He's picking apples," Agumint whispered, "this scoundrel is stealing apples grown by Tolstoy himself." ”

Hearing Agumint say this, I realized what the Sentinels were doing. I remember that there were also a lot of apple trees in Moscow, and in September, when the autumn wind blows, ripe apples fall all over the ground, but by the end of October there are very few apples still hanging on the trees. I saw through the binoculars that the sentry was casually dusting off the snowflakes with his hands, then rubbing a small red fruit on his body, and then began to bite it heavily.

The sentry ate the apple as he walked deeper into the woods, and soon disappeared from my sight. "This gluttonous guy scared me, I thought he had found Lukin and them. With this action, he almost lost his life. I also whispered a chuckle to Agumint next to me.

After more than half an hour, Lukin crawled back from the opposite woods with Sgolia and reported to me in a low voice: "This should be an important headquarters of the German army. I saw five black cars parked in front of the manor house, and in just twenty minutes, seven or eight more cars drove in front of and behind, and a dozen communications men on motorcycles entered the house. ”

"Who are the people in and out of that house?" I looked through my binoculars at the very simple, cream-colored two-story building in the thickest part of the woods, and asked Lukin very calmly.

"The rank of the officers who came in and out was quite high, either generals or colonels, and even lieutenant colonels were very few. I suspect that this was the headquarters of a German army. ”

"No need to guess," I put down my binoculars and affirmed to Lukin, "this is not some army headquarters, but Guderian's." ”

"Ahh Several of them whispered in surprise, and then looked at me suspiciously, "No, Guderian actually set up his headquarters here in Tolstoy's manor. ”

"Our reconnaissance mission has been accomplished," I said calmly to the three men, "and we will return at once the way we came, to the village where we camped last night, and send this important information back in time by telegraph." As he spoke, he took the lead and climbed back.

"Yes!" They said yes, turned in the snow, and cautiously crawled deeper into the forest. We climbed until we reached a position where the Germans could not find us, and then we got up and hurried back in great stride.

We walked back very quickly, and in less than two hours, we approached the village where we were camping. By this time I was tired enough to choke on it, so I announced, "Stop going and rest where you are." Then he sat down under a birch tree.

Lukin sat next to me and asked me in a low voice: "Comrade commander, our reconnaissance mission has been completed, and after sending the information, where are we going?" ”

"Are there any cities around here that are still in the hands of our army?" I knew what he was worried about, after all, it would take a day to get back to Volocramsk, and if we encountered a large number of enemy troops, we would be more than lucky, so he asked.

"Tula!" He replied: "That city is only 14 highways from here, and on the way I heard the sound of artillery coming from that direction, and the Germans should not have occupied it yet." ”

Tula was engaged in a fierce battle, and it was not worth it for us to rush through so recklessly, if we accidentally broke into the middle of the battlefield and were killed by the Germans, it was not worth it to die in confusion under the fire of our own men. So I briefly thought about it, and answered him in the affirmative: "Let's go back to Volokoramsk." ”

At this moment, a dense burst of gunfire suddenly came from the direction of the village. I stood up abruptly, looked in the direction of the village, and asked anxiously, "What's going on?" Where are the guns? "My heart beat again and again, and I wondered if the Germans had taken our back road and reoccupied the village.

The four of us ran in the direction of the village with our weapons in our hands, and ran about 200 meters. Suddenly, Agumint was heard shouting: "Get down, there are Germans ahead!" With his shouts, we collectively fell on our stomachs on the snow.

I hid behind a tree and watched with a telescope. I saw that someone was stumbling towards us, and when I looked closely, it turned out to be someone I had placed in the village to stay behind. The first two running forward were the telegraph operator Orlov and Saska, who kept running forward, Orlov staggered and seemed to be wounded; Running behind were Aggie and Leonger, who ran a few steps before stopping and firing a few shots in the back. At a distance of more than 50 meters behind them, more than a dozen German soldiers with submachine guns were in hot pursuit.

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