red moscow

Chapter 2660

"Two gangsters climbed onto the roof and threw grenades into the dining car. Seryosha went up and killed them all." Sokov briefly explained the situation and asked with concern: "Kopalova, are you okay?"

"I'm much better now." Kopalova replied, "I was just in the bathroom of the box and fainted from the thick smoke. Fortunately, you rescued me in time, otherwise I might have died by now."

Sokov looked at the layout of the bathroom and couldn't help but frowned: "Kopalova, the gangsters on the roof have been eliminated. Let's not stay here. Let's find a suitable box to rest for a while. This will help your recovery."

"But which compartment can we go to?" But after hearing this, Kopalova smiled bitterly and said, "The compartments in these carriages are basically full of corpses. I don't want to stay in the same compartment with the dead."

"Have you forgotten that the box where Vaseligov and the two guards lived was clean and there were no bodies inside." Sokov said, "Let's go there."

But as soon as Kopalova stood up, her body swayed. If Sokov hadn't supported her in time, she would have fallen to the ground.

"I'm sorry, Misha. I squatted for too long. When I stood up suddenly, I felt dizzy and had stars in my eyes, so I almost fell down." Kopalova tried to force a smile on her face: "Don't worry, I'll be fine after a rest."

Sokov didn't say anything, he just bent down and gave Kopalova a princess hug, then carried her to the box where the guards were staying.

Kopalova was suddenly picked up by Sokov, feeling a little embarrassed. She blushed and said, "Misha, this is not good. I will be embarrassed if others see us."

"You just said that there are corpses in almost all the boxes on the way from our box to this bathroom. Who would laugh at you? Even if Vasherigov and the others saw it, they wouldn't say anything."

The two men came to the box where the guards lived. All the facilities here were intact, even the car window glass was not broken.

Sokov carefully placed Kopalova on the berth and said to her, "Kopalova, lie here for a while. I'll go out and take a look."

But Kopalova reached out and grabbed his hand, saying in a pleading tone: "Misha, stay and talk to me. Just for a few minutes."

Sokov hesitated for a moment and felt that under the current circumstances, the bandits who occupied the train would probably not launch an attack for the time being. It should be no problem for him to stay here and talk to Kopalova.

Sokov sat in the berth opposite Kopalova and began to think about what he should say to her, but then he heard Kopalova say, "Misha, there is something I have never told you. In fact, I went to Berlin in November last year."

"You went to Berlin last November?" Sokov was inexplicably nervous when he heard Kopalova say this: "What did you go there for?" After asking this question, Sokov realized that he had asked a stupid question. As a photojournalist, what could Kopalova do in Berlin? Of course, she would follow the interview team to conduct interviews. "You went there to interview, right?"

"Well, I did go with the interview team." Kopalova suddenly asked back: "Have you heard of Johannes Hentschel?"

Hearing the strange name Kopalova said, Sokov shook his head and asked in confusion: "Is he German?"

"Yes, he was a genuine German," Kopalova said. "On July 1934, 7, Hentschel was hired as chief electrical mechanic in the private apartment of the moustache in the chancellery. Many years later, during the Battle of Berlin, he was in charge of the machine room in the Führerbunker.

I learned from the interview that after the death of the mustache, Henchel and the telephone operator Rochus Misch were the last two people left in the bunker complex. They exchanged letters to their wives in case any of them met with misfortune. Then Misch left the bunker and tried to break through the encirclement of our troops in the city center.

Henchel stayed alone in the bunker full of corpses. He did not choose to leave because the field hospital in the Chancellery above ground needed water and electricity, and there were still wounded there. When our officers and soldiers entered the bunker, Henchel chose to surrender.

"He is a man who is quite responsible for his work." Sokov asked casually, "Is he being held in a prisoner-of-war camp now?"

"Well, yes, he was imprisoned in a prisoner-of-war camp." Kopalova continued: "He told me that after dark, when our army stopped shelling the area near the bunker, he would go out of the bunker to check the buildings destroyed by the artillery fire and the remains of Goebbels and his wife that had been burned..."

"Wait a minute," Sokov interrupted Kopalova, "Are you talking about the remains of Goebbels and his wife?"

"Yes, the remains of the cremated Goebbels and his wife." Kopalova looked at Sokov with a puzzled look and asked, "Why are you asking this?"

"Children, what about Goebbels' children?" Perhaps feeling that his expression was not accurate enough, Sokov added, "I heard that Goebbels' wife learned that Germany's defeat was inevitable, so she personally poisoned her six children, five daughters and one son, to prevent the children from falling into the hands of our army."

"I was just about to say something about Goebbels' children," Kopalova continued. "Hentschel told me that the first people to enter the bunker were a group of female medical soldiers. After they found Hentschel, they couldn't wait to ask where Eva's wardrobe was. He said he could take them to the room where the wardrobe was.

But when they passed a closed room, a female soldier tried to open the door, but was stopped by Henchel, who told them with a serious expression that there was nothing they were looking for in the room.

But the female soldier stared at Henchel for a while, and finally opened the door. As the door opened, five or six female soldiers rushed into the room. But what caught their eyes were the bodies of several children lying on the beds. Although their bodies were covered with white cloth, their exposed feet were covered with corpse spots.

The team was led by a female military doctor. After seeing the bodies of the children in the house, she immediately asked Henchel in a stern tone: Who are these children and why did they die here?

Henchel was silent for a long time before he slowly said: They are all Dr. Goebbels' children. Because their parents did not want them to be captured by the Russians, they poisoned them to death, then had the sentry kill them, and moved the bodies outside the bunker to burn. When you came in, you saw the two bodies burned in the crater near the door. They were Goebbels and his wife. "

Although Sokov always believed that Goebbels was not a good person, his children were innocent. Every time he saw the scene of Goebbels' wife poisoning the children in film and television works, he still felt a little bit sorry. When the troops were advancing towards Berlin, he even had the idea that if his troops were fast enough, they might be able to capture the bunker of the mustache before Goebbels and his wife poisoned their children. After capturing Goebbels alive and handing him over to the International Military Tribunal for trial, his children would survive.

But there are no ifs in history. The area under the charge of the Second Belorussian Front, which was responsible for covering the right wing of Marshal Zhukov's First Belorussian Front, had no chance to enter Berlin before Germany surrendered. The idea of ​​rescuing the children became a fantasy. At this moment, hearing Kopalova talking about Goebbels' children, I couldn't help but feel a little touched.

"Misha, what are you thinking about?" Kopalova asked. "I'm thinking that even though Goebbels was a heinous war criminal, his children were innocent and should not have died in vain."

"Misha, I don't think you have many ideas." Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Kopalova said righteously: "The lives of Goebbels' children are lives, but the lives of those children who died in the war are not lives? I think this is God's punishment for him."

For a moment, Sokov felt that he was speechless in response to what Kopalova said.

At this moment, Kopalova suddenly widened her eyes in surprise, and she shouted to Sokov: "Misha, look out the window quickly, what is that?"

Sokov didn't know what was going on, so he turned his head and looked out the window. What he saw stunned him. The sky was full of parachutes, and under the parachutes were soldiers with weapons.

"Oh my God! Paratroopers, they are our paratroopers." Sokov exclaimed, walked quickly to the window, looked up at the sky, and wondered who made such a bold decision to send paratroopers to rescue him?

The paratroopers landed in the target area as lightly as fallen leaves. After landing safely, they quickly folded their parachutes and rushed towards the train with their weapons in hand.

Sokov was overjoyed when he saw this. He bent down, grabbed the submachine gun on the bed, and said to Kopalova, "Kopalova, you hide here for a while. It won't be long before we kill all the bandits occupying the train."

Sokov left the box and rushed to the front of the car to find Vaseligov.

After arriving at Vaseligov's location, Sokov asked directly: "Major, what's the situation? Can we still maintain contact with the outside world?"

"Comrade General, I am going to report to you." Vaseligov said, "I have found a way to contact General Malinin. When he learned that you were in danger, he was also very anxious. He said that he would send troops to support us as soon as possible. Let us hold on for about a quarter of an hour."

After saying all these words in one breath, Vaserigov smiled bitterly and continued, "Comrade General, I think General Malinin may be trying to comfort us. Think about it, even if the nearest troops received the news, it would take about an hour to rush over. How could he send troops to reinforce us within a quarter of an hour?"

"If they are troops coming from the ground, they may not arrive within a quarter of an hour." Sokov said with a smile, "But what if the reinforcements come from the sky?"

"From the sky?" Vaserigov asked in confusion, "Comrade General, what do you mean? I don't quite understand."

"Don't you understand that the rescue troops sent by General Malinin are paratroopers?" Sokov walked to the window, raised his hand to open the curtains, and said loudly: "Don't you see that our paratroopers are airdropping and will soon rush to the train?"

Vaseligov only glanced out the window and immediately showed a surprised expression: "Paratroopers, they are really our paratroopers. Hahahaha, Comrade General, we are saved, we are saved. Once the paratroopers arrive, we will be rescued."

"Major, although our reinforcements have arrived, they don't know the situation in the train and don't know where we are." Sokov reminded Vasherigov: "Even if they want to launch an attack, they will not dare to act rashly because of fear of the consequences."

"That's easy," said Vaserigov. "I'll find a way to use the radio to get in touch with the troops outside, tell them where we are, and then have them attack the other carriages."

"That's a good idea. Let them find a way to eliminate the enemy at the front of the train first, so that they can join us as soon as possible." Sokov continued, "Now, I'll go to the dining car and tell Seryosha the good news."

When Sokov came to the dining car, Seryosha also discovered the paratroopers falling from the sky.

Seeing Sokov appear, Seryosha couldn't wait to ask: "Misha, who sent the paratroopers?"

"Major Vaseligov told me that he had found a way to contact General Malinin and told him about our situation." Sokov explained to Seryosha, "General Malinin promised to send troops to reinforce us within a quarter of an hour. I think this paratrooper unit that is being airborne should be sent by General Malinin."

"Great, this is great." Seryosha felt like he had survived a catastrophe. He quickly asked Sokov, "Misha, when will we launch a counterattack against the enemy?"

"Wait a moment. I'll have Major Vaseligov tell the reinforcements to attack from the front of the train. Once they eliminate the enemies hiding there, they can join us. Then we can attack from the rear of the train, and the battle will go very smoothly." After saying this, Sokov pointed at the debris blocking the door and said, "Seryosha, have the guards clear the debris at the door to avoid affecting the attack later."

"Okay, Misha, I'll arrange it right away." After Seryosha said that, he went to greet the other two guards and carefully began to clear the debris blocking the door. Sokov held his gun and watched the other side of the dining car vigilantly to prevent them from being suddenly attacked by the gangsters.

Before the debris in the dining car was cleared away, Sokov heard gunshots and grenade explosions from the front direction of the car. He knew that the commander of the reinforcements must have received Vaseligov's notification and launched an attack from the front direction.

The gunfire from the front of the train stopped soon, and soon after, Sokov heard a chaotic sound of footsteps. Turning around, he saw Vaseligov and a group of officers and soldiers running along the carriage.

Sokov rushed forward and intercepted the man at the junction of the dining car and another carriage.

Upon seeing this, Vaseligov quickly raised his hand and saluted Sokov: "Comrade General, we have already joined the reinforcements and are now rushing over to destroy the enemy."

"Who is the commander of the reinforcements?"

A commander with the rank of captain stepped out of the team and reported to Sokov: "Comrade General, I am Captain Meglin, deputy commander of the 1st Battalion of the Airborne Brigade. What instructions do you have?"

(End of this chapter)