red moscow

Chapter 2862 Please enter the urn

Time passed quickly and it was noon of the next day. There were only ten minutes left before the appointment between Babushkin and the German agent.

Sokov checked with Gerchikov and the captain of the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent by his superiors for the last time to see if there was anything missing.

"Major Sokov," the captain of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said to Sokov, "My men are already hiding around the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, waiting for your signal to open fire on the enemy and completely destroy them."

"Remember, tell those soldiers to hide well and never let the German agents find them." Sokov went to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier yesterday and found that there were only a few tombstones in the cemetery, and the rest were crosses. This means that there are not many soldiers who can hide in the cemetery, and most of them have to hide in the barracks or other places far away. When the battle starts, only a few soldiers hiding behind the tombstones can join the battle in the first time. Therefore, Sokov specifically asked the captain of the Ministry of Internal Affairs: "Comrade Captain, I have one last question for you. Once the battle starts, how long will it take for the soldiers hiding in the barracks or other places to rush to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?"

"No more than three minutes, Major Sokov," the captain of the Ministry of Internal Affairs replied.

Sokov thought that since he was pretending to be Major Babushkin and providing the Germans with a batch of unusable weapons, it shouldn't be a big problem to hold them back for three to five minutes, so he nodded and said, "Okay, go make preparations, and when the gunfire starts, make sure your men arrive within the specified time."

After the captain of the Ministry of Internal Affairs left, Sokov turned to Gerchikov and asked, "Comrade Major, have you arranged your people?"

In addition to the criminal police, Gerchikov's subordinates also include a group of military police, whose combat effectiveness is slightly weaker than that of the internal security forces. Therefore, when arranging the encirclement and suppression mission this time, Sokov arranged them outside the Kremlin, ready to block the nearby roads immediately after the enemy enters the Kremlin to prevent the enemy from escaping.

Hearing Sokov's question, Gerchikov immediately nodded and said, "Don't worry, Major Sokov. In order to avoid being discovered by German agents, I hid most of my men in St. Basil's Cathedral, and a small number of them on Arbat Street. Once they hear gunshots in the Kremlin, they will immediately block the nearby streets to prevent any German agents from escaping."

Seeing that the captain of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Gerchikov had followed his deployment and were ready for battle, Sokov nodded with satisfaction and said, "Okay, Comrade Major, it's getting late. The enemy's agents will be here soon. You should go back first."

After Gerchikov left, only Lieutenant Zhukov, Sergeant Zub and eight soldiers from the guard company were left with Sokov.

"Comrade Brigade Commander," Zhu Kewen asked tentatively, "After the German agents come in later, do you really not want us to stay here?"

"No, no." Sokov shook his head and said, "You guys just stay in the armory. I'll be fine here by myself."

"But, Comrade Brigade Commander, it's too dangerous for you to stay here alone." Seeing that Sokov was unwilling to let him and his men stay here, Lieutenant Zhu Kewen couldn't help but get anxious: "As far as I know, the Germans have no credibility at all. What if after you let them in, they want to kill and murder you?"

Sokov was shocked when he heard this, wondering how he had forgotten this. He had seen a movie about the assassination of Stalin before, in which German agents took a transport plane and landed in the forest outside Moscow. In order to prevent their whereabouts from being revealed, the agents even killed the pilot. They could kill even their own people, let alone outsiders who had defected to them.

But on second thought, even if he opened the door for the German agents alone and his life was in danger, it didn't seem to be a big deal. This time, his body had a super strong self-healing function. As long as he didn't die on the spot, his injuries would heal in a short time. Even if he was unfortunately killed on the spot by the German agents, maybe he would have a chance to return to the future. After figuring this out, Sokov said to Zhukov, "Comrade Lieutenant, don't worry, I have a way to deal with the Germans. Now, you go back to the armory and take out the weapons prepared for the Germans, so that I can hand them over to them later."

The appointed time arrived soon.

After three car horns were heard outside the door, Sokov opened the small door and saw a man wearing a Soviet captain's uniform standing at the door.

When the man saw that it was Sokov who opened the door, he was slightly startled, and then asked: "Are you Major Babushkin?"

"Yes, I'm Major Babushkin." Sokov glanced at the covered truck parked not far from the door and asked in a low voice, "Are all the people here?"

"Well, we're all here." After the man finished speaking, he looked Sokov up and down and said with a fake smile, "I didn't expect that Major Babushkin was actually a young man. I thought he was at least a middle-aged man in his early forties."

The real Major Babushkin was indeed a middle-aged man in his forties. Sokov overlooked this point when he pretended to be him. At this moment, he heard a lot of suspicion in the other party's tone, and hurriedly explained: "Major Babushkin is just a code name, not my real name." Then he urged the other party, "Hurry up and call your people in, so as not to be discovered by the passing patrol."

The man turned around and gestured to the truck behind him. Then the tarpaulin at the back of the car was opened, and about twenty people jumped out one after another.

Sokov quickly invited those people in. He saw two people sitting in the cab, but they didn't move. He curiously asked the person knocking on the door, "Why don't the other two brothers come over?"

The man snorted coldly, then explained: "The driver stayed in the car to facilitate our evacuation."

Sokov couldn't help but frowned slightly after hearing this, thinking that if the two people in the cab didn't get out, they might take the opportunity to escape when the battle started. Faced with such a change, Sokov was anxious, but he could do nothing.

After the man entered the room, he closed the small door and asked two of his men to guard the door.

After doing all this, the man said: "Major Babushkin, I am Captain Tim of the Brandenburg Regiment." He spoke in German.

Fortunately, in this life, Sokov could speak German fluently. When he heard him say that, he quickly responded, "Hello, Captain Tim. I can't tell you my real name, so you should call me Major Babushkin."

Captain Tim glanced at the duty room next to the small door and frowned: "Major Babushkin, where is the guard at the gate?"

According to the prior agreement, after Babushkin killed the guard at the door, he opened the small door to let the German agents outside in. But now that the German agents have entered the door, the Kremlin guards who were guarding the door have disappeared, which makes people suspicious.

"Oh, you mean the guard at the door." When making the plan, Gerchikov once asked Sokov whether he should sacrifice the guard at the door to gain the trust of the German agent. But his proposal was rejected by Sokov. He didn't want a young soldier to lose his life in vain, so he promised that he would deal with the German agent. Hearing Captain Tim's question, he laughed and said, "Captain Tim, it's not difficult to kill the guard at the door. I'm worried that if someone comes to patrol and finds the body of the guard, your whereabouts will be exposed. So I sent him away just now. He is drinking with my men in the armory and doesn't know what happened here."

Seeing Sokov's serious tone, Captain Tim put aside his doubts and asked, "Where are the weapons for us?"

"Come with me, I'll take you to get the weapons." Soon, Sokov led the group of German agents wearing Soviet military coats to the place where the weapons were piled. He lifted the canvas covering the weapons and said to Captain Tim, "Captain Tim, these are the weapons you need."

The reason why Sokov piled the weapons here instead of letting the subordinates who took over the armory hand over the weapons to the German agents in person was that he was worried that the German agents would shoot at his subordinates after getting the weapons. So he ordered people to pile the weapons here and cover them with military canvas.

"Major Babushkin, where are your men?" Tim asked.

"I asked them to stay in the armory." Sokov was afraid that Tim would become suspicious and the plan would fail, so he said perfunctorily: "They should be having lunch now."

After seeing these weapons, Tim's suspicion of Sokov was reduced a little. He turned around and made a gesture to his subordinates, and those people rushed forward and picked out the weapons that suited them.

A few minutes later, the German agents who had obtained the weapons hid behind a building not far from the Cemetery of the Unknown Soldier, waiting for the target to appear.

The two mortars were also set up in a hidden but wide-view position. The two gunners each held a mortar shell in their hands, and as soon as the target appeared, they would put the shell into the barrel without hesitation.

Not long after, the side door of the building in the distance opened and three people walked out.

The one walking in front was an old man wearing a grey military coat and a wide-brimmed hat without a badge, holding a cigarette butt in his hand, walking slowly towards the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Following behind him were two guards with pistols on their waists, looking around with vigilant eyes as they walked.

Captain Tim was immediately excited when he saw this man. He quickly took out a photo from his pocket and compared it with the old man. Sokov was sharp-eyed and saw at a glance that the person in the photo was Stalin. Captain Tim led his men to risk sneaking into the Kremlin to assassinate Stalin.

After confirming the identity of the person coming, Tim turned around and gave an order to the gunner squatting next to the mortar: "Fire!"

The two gunners agreed, loosened their grip on the shell, and let the shell slide into the barrel.

But the next moment, there was no sound of a shell whistling out of the barrel.

The two gunners were stunned when they saw this, then they laid the gun barrel flat, carefully poured out the shells inside, re-set the gun barrel, and loaded new shells, but the result was still the same, the shells did not whizz out of the barrel.

"Damn it, what's going on?" Tim noticed something was wrong and immediately turned around to ask Sokov beside him: "Why didn't the shells explode?"

Sokov pulled out his pistol, pointed it at Tim, and said sternly: "Captain Tim, you have been surrounded by us. Put down your weapons and surrender immediately, and I can spare your lives."

"Damn Russians." At this point, Tim didn't understand that he had been cheated. He reached for his pistol at his waist, but Sokov fired two shots at his chest before he could pull out his pistol.

I thought Captain Tim would fall to the ground after being shot, but he just stepped back a few steps, pulled out his pistol from the holster, and fired at Sokov continuously.

When Sokov saw that he failed to kill Tim, he was stunned at first. When he saw the other party aiming a gun at him, he quickly rolled sideways on the spot and barely avoided the bullet shot from Tim's gun.

When Tim saw that he had missed Sokov, he shouted to his other men, "What are you still standing there for? Go up and kill Stalin!"

Hearing Tim's shout, the German agents immediately rushed forward with guns, ready to shoot Stalin at close range.

But they soon discovered that the weapons in their hands did not fire at all.

After a brief moment of shock, they threw away their Soviet-made weapons, unbuttoned their coats, took out the MP40s hidden in their clothes, and shot at Stalin who was standing in front of the tombstone.

Sokov, who was hiding behind a pile of wood and engaging in a shootout with Tim and others, saw with his own eyes that after the intensive gunfire, Stalin and two guards standing in front of the tombstone had more than a dozen bleeding holes all over their bodies, and then their bodies fell limply to the ground.

Sokov could not help but frown. He had originally planned to eliminate the German agents from the Brandenburg Regiment at the cost of zero casualties. However, plans could not keep up with changes. These German agents were so cunning that they knew that he would provide them with weapons, but they secretly brought their own weapons when they came, resulting in unnecessary casualties.

At this time, the soldiers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who were hiding behind the tombstones shot at the German agents. However, the bullets from the guns only made their bodies shake, but could not make them lose their combat effectiveness. Seeing this, Sokov immediately understood why he could not kill Captain Tim, because he was wearing a bulletproof vest that could block bullets.

However, the German agents' good luck ended there. As more and more soldiers arrived, their firepower was suppressed. The sharpshooters hiding in the tower also used their weapons to call out the names of the German agents who showed up one by one.

The bulletproof vests worn by the German agents could block bullets fired at their bodies, but they had no way of blocking bullets fired at their heads. After just a few minutes, most of the German agents fell under the sharpshooter's gun.

Captain Tim, who was still alive, saw that the situation was not good and shouted loudly: "Retreat, retreat quickly!"

Zhu Kewen and others who were hiding in the armory rushed out when they heard the intensive gunfire outside, and assisted Sokov in blocking the retreat of the German agents with firepower, preparing to annihilate them all here.

(End of this chapter)