We were ready to wait for the Germans to get any closer and then open fire.

Unexpectedly, I saw a strange scene: the Germans stopped when they were still 50 meters away from our position, and there was no attack or a place to hide. One of the soldiers who walked in front even took off the steel helmet on his head, turned around and handed the weapon in his hand to the soldier next to him. Then he strode towards us with his hands held high and a white handkerchief in his right hand.

"What's going on?" Seeing this scene, I stood up from behind the bunker, looked at Lukin next to me, and asked Lukin hesitantly for a while: "What are the Germans doing, do they want to surrender?" ”

Lukin slung the submachine gun over his shoulder and said, "I'll take a look." ”

"Do you know German?" I asked with some concern, if I didn't know German, I couldn't understand the intentions of the Germans in the past.

"No problem, I had dealt with the Germans in Brest back then, and I know some German." As he spoke, he walked around the fortifications and walked towards the German soldier.

The two chatted for a long time in the corpse-strewn streets, and then Lukin followed the German soldier to the German camp.

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, do we need to keep up?" Agumint, Aji, and Isayev asked me in unison.

I looked closely, and saw that the two men were walking unhurriedly, and the German soldiers leaning against the corner were standing there unusually honestly, not moving. He shook his head and said, "It's okay, let Lukin go over and see the situation, I also really want to know what kind of medicine these German devils sell in their gourds." ”

Agumint and Aggie listened to me, but did not say anything more, but crouched down, and vigilantly monitored the German troops in front of them with their weapons. Only Ishayev was still not at ease and walked back and forth in the bunker.

"Ishaev," I looked at his anxious appearance and quickly found a topic to divert his attention: "What are the casualties of the artillery battery?" How much ammunition is left? ”

This method worked, he stopped, thought for a moment and replied: "There are more than 70 casualties, and there are still two 50-caliber and three 82-caliber mortars, but there are no shells left; One 45-mm anti-tank gun, two shells. ”

I was taken aback by his answer, the only thing that threatened us the most in the battle just now was the German tank, and we paid such a big price. If the attacking Germans attacked us under the cover of a large number of tanks after the bombing of aircraft and artillery, would we be able to hold it?

While I was thinking about it, Aggie excitedly exclaimed, "Lukin is back!" ”

I quickly looked up into the street, and sure enough, Lukin had returned, and there was a German officer wearing a large-brimmed hat walking beside him, and behind the officer was the soldier who was not wearing a steel helmet, and the soldier was holding a white flag in both hands.

"I'm really here to surrender!" I said as I stepped out of cover and walked down the blood-soaked street. I was followed by Agumint, Aggie and several other soldiers from the guard platoon.

The streets were littered with corpses, and although I walked cautiously, I still stepped on the stumps and severed arms of the German soldiers from time to time. I endured my nausea and walked on, trying not to think about what I was stepping on, lest I might run to the side and vomit all the yellow gall.

After a few more steps, the ground was full of all kinds of internal organs and fragments of clothes, and there was not even a place to settle unless I stepped on them. So I stopped and shouted at Lukin, who was not far away, "Lukin, bring that German officer!" ”

Lukin and the officer walked up to me, pointed at me and introduced the officer, "This is our commander, Lieutenant Colonel Oshanina. ”

He was about to explain the German officer to me when the officer stepped forward, saluted me, and said, "Hello, officer, we meet again!" ”

See you again?! As soon as he said this, not only Lukin, but even I was stunned, when did I deal with German officers? And what surprised me even more was that the officer had just spoken Russian, and he spoke it very skillfully and standardly.

"When did we meet? I don't have any impressions! "I also figured out what was going on, so I didn't bother to ask them if they had come to surrender, so I went straight to the point and asked me what I was concerned about.

"Have you forgotten? On the Pulkovo Heights, outside St. Petersburg, I once led people to collect the bodies of our fallen soldiers, and you were there at the time. But you were a lieutenant then, and now you're a lieutenant colonel, which is amazing. He gave me a thumbs up.

Purkovo Heights, as soon as I heard this familiar place name, I immediately remembered. It was an officer with a white flag and a crappy interpreter in a boat-shaped hat who came to negotiate at the time, and I remember that the officer holding the white flag had some similarities with the officer in front of me. Thinking of this, I nodded and said to him: "I remember, the person who negotiated with you in front of the position at that time was a particularly lame translator of Russian. ”

"Yes, yes, you finally remembered. After that time to collect the corpses, my unit was transferred to the central line and took part in the assault on Moscow. ”

I coughed, cleared my throat, and asked coldly, "What are you going to do now?" Surrender with your troops? ”

When the officer heard me say this, he quickly stood up and saluted me, and said respectfully: "Major von Tolmann, commander of the 139th Regiment of the 35th Infantry Division of the German Army, led the remnants of the 139th Regiment to surrender to the Soviet Army!" ”

"Ulla!" Suddenly there was cheering behind me. I turned around to see several guards behind me, holding their weapons aloof, shouting and running backwards, shouting as they ran: "The German devils have surrendered!" The German devils have surrendered!! ”

With their shouts, the warriors who had been hidden in the fortifications and bunkers also stood up, raised their weapons in their hands and cheered in unison, shouting "Ula! When someone couldn't help but pull the trigger to the sky, the sound of firing weapons of various calibers suddenly became a ring.

I watched the warriors' revelry with a smile and did not stop it with an inopportune word. In the midst of the intense gunfire, I felt someone touch my shoulder, and when I turned my head, it was Lukin. He leaned into my ear and said in a loud voice: "The German devils have surrendered to us, and you have not yet answered them." ”

I was a little embarrassed to hear Lukin say this, and I was so happy that I forgot that the Germans were still waiting for my reply. Quickly straightened up, put on a serious ground face, and replied: "Major von Tolmann, on behalf of the 316th Infantry Division of the Soviet Army, I accept the surrender of the German army. Now, you bring all your troops over and go to the station ahead to disarm. Then he said to Lukin: "Take a platoon of fighters and go and talk to the troops who are coming from the city, say that the Germans have surrendered, and tell them to stop attacking." Remember, go with the military flag to avoid misunderstandings. ”

"Yes!" Lukin agreed, and ran back to our positions to gather men.

Von Tolmann, with his troops, followed me to the open space in front of the station building. This place was already full of our soldiers, and the first acquaintances I saw were Gélia and Ferstov, and I immediately stopped Ferstov: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, the Germans have come to surrender, and you are responsible for leading people to collect weapons and arrange for their evacuation. ”

"Yes!"

"Where are Pavlov and Sapochuk?" I haven't seen anyone from the 2nd Company since the end of the battle, so I'm especially worried that they all died in the battle.

"Comrade commander, here we are!" Pavlov and Sapochuk crowded through the crowd not far away and came to me in front of me and saluted.

Seeing the two of them standing in front of me alive, my worries suddenly turned into surprise and comfort, I reached out and patted them on the shoulder and said, "It's good that both are alive." ”

Then he turned around and asked Géria, "Is there any quiet place around here?" ”

"Yes, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel!" He pointed to the gap and said, "There is a conference room of the station on the first floor, which has not been destroyed by artillery fire and is still functional. ”

"Take us there!" Then I greeted Pavlov, Sapochuk and von Tolmann: "Let's go!" ”

When I walked in through the gap in the wall, I curiously asked Gelia, who was leading the way: "Gelia, how did you get to the 1077th regiment?" What the hell is going on? ”

Gelia replied to me: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I am under your order and a few fighters to escort the rescued fighters back to the defense area. I happened to meet the division commander, and he said that the strength to defend the station was weak, so he added all our people to the 1077 regiment, because the company commander of the first battalion and three companies died in the battle, so I acted as the company commander. ”

As he spoke, he came to the door of the conference room, and Gelia pushed open the crumbling door and walked in first. When I went inside, the walls of the room were empty, and there was not even a single portrait of Stalin, presumably taken by the station staff when they were transferred. In the middle of the room was a long wooden table, surrounded by benches with a thick layer of earth. Gelia stepped forward and dusted the soil from the stool with his sleeve, then stretched the stool in front of me, and said earnestly: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, please take a seat." ”

I'm not welcome, beckoning everyone to sit down. Everyone found a stool, dusted off the dirt and sat down, because some people moved more heavily, and the result was that the room was dusty, and it took a while to return to normal.

I asked von Tolmann, who was sitting next to me: "Mr. Major, listen to your name, is your family a Germanic nobleman?" ”

"No," he hesitated for a moment, then said hesitantly, "my father is just an ordinary government official, and I'm ...... I'm a Social Democrat. I was anti-war, very war-weary, and had lost any hope of the propaganda of so-called 'victory', and Hitler saw that it was going to be over, and I would lead my troops to surrender to the Soviets. ……”

"That's enough, put away your rhetoric." A voice from the door interrupted his words, and I looked in the direction from which the voice came from, the commander of the 16th Army, Rokossovsky, and the commander of the 316th Division, Panfilov, and the commissar Yegorov were standing at the door, and I quickly stood up and saluted him, saying: "Hello, comrade commander! ”

Rokossovsky nodded at me and said as he walked into the room: "All the German officers and soldiers who were caught by us, who were afraid of being shot by us, said that they were Social Democrats. After standing at the table, he instructed the soldiers he led at the door: "Take this major to Ustnova." ”

Hearing him say this, I understood in my heart that this Ustinovo should be the new station of the headquarters of the army group. Oddly enough, since the last time I saw the real Leda in a dream, many inexplicable place names have come to my mind, including Volokramsk and this Ustinovo.

After von Tolmann was escorted away by the soldiers, everyone who had been sitting in the conference room retreated, except for me. Rokossovsky laid a map on the table and discussed the current situation with Panfilov and Yegorov. And I stood by and waited for their latest orders.

Rokossovsky looked up at me and asked, "Comrade Oshanina, did you gain anything from this reconnaissance trip behind enemy lines?" ”

"Yes!"

"Then let's report it."

"Yes!" I agreed, and then began to report in detail to the commander the reconnaissance intelligence: "As far as reconnaissance knows, in the presence of the 16th Army, the Germans concentrated the 5th Army, the 4th Tank Cluster of the 46th and 40th Motorized Armies. The 106th and 35th Infantry Divisions took up starting positions north of Volokolamsk. To the west and southeast of Volokolamsk, on the left flank of our army, the Germans deployed four tank divisions: the 2nd, 11th, 5th and 10th tank divisions and an SS motorized division. What's more, Guderian's headquarters was located in the estate of Count Tolstoy. ……”

Among the information reported to Rokossovsky, except for the information that Guderian's headquarters was in the manor, which I personally detected, the rest of the content seemed to have come out of thin air in my mind, and I don't know what was going on. However, judging from the situation at the time of the report, it is estimated that it will not be fake, and I don't know that there are so many troop numbers in the Lu Daode Army.

"The situation is dire, comrades!" Rokossovsky tapped the map with a pencil: "Judging from the current distribution of German troops, the Volokramsk station will be the focus of the German offensive, can Division Commander Panfilov draw troops from other places to strengthen the defense here?" ”

Panfilov shook his head: "It's very difficult, comrade commander, I really can't draw troops!" Dubosekovo will also give way to the station is also dangerous, and the 1075 regiment defending there is only more than five hundred people left. ”

Rokossovsky was silent, his brow furrowed into knots, and after a while, he bit his bruised lip, left the map, and walked straight in front of me.

"Lieutenant Colonel Oshanina."

"Here!"

He tapped his fingers on the wooden table and asked, "If I hand over the station to you, can you hold it for five days?" ”

Originally, I was still full of confidence in holding the station, but after the battle just now, I have a rational understanding of the strength of both sides, in the face of the surging German offensive, it is already very good to be able to hold for one day, and it is a joke to hold for five days. I opened my mouth, and was about to speak, but I didn't think it was appropriate to say that, so I didn't say anything.

"Ask you! Can you keep it here for five days? "Rokossovsky was a little anxious when he saw that I didn't answer.

"I ...... I can't guarantee it." It seems that I can't do it without speaking, so I can only reply in a slurred manner.

"What about four days?"

I still shook my head: "After the battle just now, I ...... I had less than 400 men left, and the consumption of weapons and ammunition was very large, and there were no heavy weapons, so I could not withstand the strong attack of the German army. ”

"What about three days?"

Seeing Rokossovsky so aggressive, I almost cried: "Comrade commander, it's not that I don't want to defend, but really...... I can't hold it. We didn't have strong fortifications, and as long as the Germans bombarded them with bombardment, by the time they attacked, there wouldn't be many people left on our positions. ”

"You!" Rokossovsky was so angry that he raised his slap in the air, but it didn't fall for a long time, and I thought to myself that if it was not me who was standing in front of him, but a man, I guess he would have slapped him twice.

"I really didn't see it, it turns out that our heroine is also a coward who is greedy for life and afraid of death." Yegorov, who was next to him, said such a sentence through gritting his back molars.

Since he said such ugly words, I had to refute them, and I said very unceremoniously: "I am not afraid of sacrifice in order to defend the motherland." Since you want me to guard the station, I will keep it. But I don't dare to guarantee that I will be able to hold it for a few days, only that I will not retreat after the battle is at the end of the battle. ”

Hearing me say such cruel words, Rokossovsky couldn't help but be a little moved, he took two steps forward and put his hand on my shoulder, comforting: "Comrade Oshanina, I hope that you will live well to victory, and not die here with your soldiers." You must know that behind us is Moscow, and we have no way back. ”

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