Red Moscow.

Chapter 2660

"Two gangsters climbed on the roof of the car and threw grenades into the dining car. Seryosha went up and killed them both." After Sokov briefly explained the matter, he asked with concern: "Kopalova, are you okay? Already?"

"It's much better now." Kopalova replied: "I was fainted by the thick smoke in the bathroom of the box just now. Fortunately, you rescued me in time, otherwise my life would have been lost by now." "

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

"But which box can we go to?" But after hearing this, Kopalova said with a wry smile: "The boxes in these carriages are basically full of corpses, and I don't want to be in the same box with the dead. "

"Have you forgotten that the box where Vaselgov and the two guards lived is clean and there are no corpses." Sokov said: "We will go there."

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

"I'm sorry, Misha. I had been squatting for a long time. When I stood up suddenly, I felt that my eyes were going black and stars were flying around, so I almost fell down." Kopalova tried her best to put a smile on her face: "Don't worry, I Just rest for a while.”

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, and she felt a little embarrassed. She blushed and said, "Misha, this is not good. I would be embarrassed if others saw her."

"You just said that on the way from our private room to this bathroom, almost all the private rooms were full of corpses. Who would laugh at you? Even if Vaseligov and the others saw it, they would not gossip. "

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

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

 But Kopalova reached out and grabbed his hand and said in a pleading tone: "Misha, stay and talk to me. It only takes a few minutes."

Sokov hesitated for a moment, feeling that given the current situation, the gangsters occupying the train might not launch an attack for the time being, so he should have no problem staying here to talk to Kopalova.

Sokov was sitting in the berth opposite Kopalova. When he began to think about what he should say to the other party, he heard Kopalova say: "Misha, there is something I haven't told you. In fact, I I went to Berlin in November last year.”

"Did you go to Berlin last November?" Sokov felt inexplicably panicked when he heard what Kopalova said: "What did you do there?" After asking this question, Sokov realized that he had asked a question. Stupid question, as a photojournalist, what can Kopalova do when she goes to Berlin? Of course, she is to follow the interview team and conduct interviews. "Are you going for an interview?"

“Well, I did go with the interview team.” Kopalova suddenly asked: “Have you heard of Johannes Henschel?”

Hearing the unfamiliar name spoken by Kopalova, Sokov shook his head and asked doubtfully: "Is he German?"

"Yes, he is an authentic German." Kopalova said: "On July 4, 1934, Henschel was hired as the chief electrical mechanic of Mustache's private apartment in the Chancellery. Years later, in During the Battle of Berlin, he was in charge of the engine room of the Führerbunker.

I learned during the interview that after Mustache’s death, Henschel and telephone operator Rochus Misch became the last two people left in the bunker complex. They exchanged letters to their wives in case something bad happened to either of them. Misch then left the bunker and tried to pass 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 Prime Minister's Office on the ground needed water and electricity, and there were still wounded people there. When our commanders entered the bunker, Henschel chose to surrender. "

"This is a man who is very responsible for his work." Sokov asked casually after hearing this: "Is he being held in a prisoner of war camp now?"

"Well, yes, he was locked up in a prisoner of war camp." Kopalova continued: "He told me that after dark, when our army stopped shelling near the bunker, he would come out of the bunker and check on the prisoners. Buildings destroyed by artillery fire, and the burned remains of the Goebbels..."

“Wait a minute,” Sokov couldn’t help but interrupt Kopalova after hearing this: “Are you talking about the remains of the Goebbels?”

"Yes, the burned remains of Goebbels and his wife." Kopalova looked at Sokov with doubtful eyes, and asked with some confusion: "Why do you ask this?"

"Child, where are Goebbels's children?" Sokov may have felt that his expression was not accurate enough, and added: "I heard that Goebbels's wife personally poisoned her when she learned that Germany's defeat was inevitable. Six of his children, five daughters and one son were poisoned to prevent the children from falling into the hands of our army."

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

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

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

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

Henschel was silent for a long time, and then slowly said: They are all the children of Dr. Goebbels. Because their parents were unwilling to let them become prisoners of the Russians, they poisoned them and then let the sentries kill them. himself and moved the body outside the bunker to be burned. When you came in, the two bodies burned in the crater near the door were the Goebbels and his wife. "

Although Sokov has always believed that Goebbels was not a good person, his children were innocent. Every time he saw scenes of Goebbels' wife poisoning the children in film and television works, he still felt a little embarrassed. I can't bear it. When the troops were advancing toward Berlin, he even had the idea that if his troops were fast enough, they might be able to occupy Mustache's bunker before the Goebbels poisoned their children. After capturing Goebbels alive and handing him over to the International Military Tribunal for trial, his children would survive.

But history has no ifs. The area where the 2nd Belarusian Front where he was located, and the right wing of the 1st Belarusian Front, which was responsible for covering Marshal Zhukov, had no chance of entering Berlin before Germany surrendered. The idea of ​​rescuing the children became a fantasy. Now when I heard Kopalova talking about Goebbels' children, I couldn't help but feel something in my heart.

 “Misha, what are you thinking about?” Kopalova asked. “I was thinking that even though Goebbels was a notorious war criminal, his children were innocent and should not die in vain.”

"Misha, I don't think you have many ideas." After hearing this, Kopalova said righteously: "The lives of Goebbels' children are lives, and the lives of those children who died in the war are... Isn’t it his fate? I think this is God’s punishment for him.”

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

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

Sokov didn't know what happened, so he quickly turned to look out the window. What he saw made him stunned. The sky at this moment was actually filled with parachutes, and underneath the parachutes were soldiers carrying weapons.

"Oh my God! The paratroopers are our paratroopers." Sokov exclaimed, quickly came to the window, raised his head and looked up at the sky, wondering who made such a bold decision and actually sent paratroopers to the front. To save yourself?

I saw the paratroopers landing in the target area as lightly as fallen leaves. After landing safely, they quickly retracted their parachutes, then picked up their weapons and rushed towards the location of the train.

When Sokov saw this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. He bent down and grabbed the submachine gun placed on the bed, and said to Kopalova: "Kopalova, you hide here for a while. The gangsters who occupied the train will be there soon." Destroyed by us all."

Sokov got out of the box and first rushed to the front of the car to find Vaserigov.

 After arriving at Vaselgov’s location, Sokov asked directly: “Major, how is the situation? Can we still maintain contact with the outside world?”

"Comrade General, I am ready to report to you." Vaserigov said: "I tried my best to contact General Malinin. When he learned that you were in danger, he was also very anxious. He said that the troops would come as soon as possible. Support us and let us hold on for another quarter of an hour or so.”

After saying these words in one breath, Vaserigov continued with a wry smile: "Comrade General, I think General Malinin may be trying to comfort us. Think about it, even if the nearest troops receive the news, it will take an hour to rush over. How could he have the troops arrive to reinforce us within a quarter of an hour?”

“If the troops come 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?” Vaselgov asked in confusion: “Comrade General, what do you mean, I don’t quite understand?”

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

Vaserigov only glanced out the window and suddenly showed an expression of surprise: "The paratroopers are really our paratroopers. Hahaha, comrade general, we are saved, we are saved. As soon as the paratroopers arrive, we will be rescued ”

"Major, although our reinforcements have arrived, they don't know much about the situation in the train and don't know where we are." Sokov reminded Vaseligov: "Even if they want to launch an attack, they will still be there because of Throw a rat into a trap, but don’t dare to do it easily.”

"This is easy to do." Vaserigov said: "I will find a way to use the radio to contact the troops outside, tell them our location, and then let them attack other carriages."

"This is a good idea. You ask them to find a way to eliminate the enemies at the front of the car first, so that they can join us as soon as possible." Sokov continued: "Now, I will 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's appearance, Seryosha couldn't wait to ask: "Misha, who sent the paratroopers?"

"Major Vaserigov told me that he had tried to contact General Malinin and informed him of our situation." Sokov explained to Seryosha: "General Malinin promised to send troops within a quarter of an hour. Come over for reinforcements, I think this paratrooper unit being airborne should be sent by General Malinen."

"Great, this is great." Seryosha felt like he was surviving a disaster. He quickly asked Sokov: "Misha, when will we launch a counterattack against the enemy?"

"Wait a moment, I asked Major Vaserigov to tell the reinforcements to attack from the front of the car. As long as we kill a few enemies hiding in the front of the car, they can join us. At that time, we will attack from the rear of the car and fight. It will go very smoothly." After Sokov said this, he pointed to the debris blocking the door and said: "Seryosha, ask the guards to clean up the debris at the door so as not to affect the attack later. ”

"Okay, Misha, I'll make the arrangements right now." After Seryosha finished speaking, he went to greet the other two guards and carefully began to clear the debris blocking the door. Sokov held his gun and stared at the other side of the dining car warily to prevent them from being suddenly attacked by the gangsters.

Before the mess in the dining car was cleared, Sokov heard the sound of gunfire and the explosion of grenades from the direction of the front of the car. He knew in his heart that it was the commander of the reinforcements who had received the notice from Vaselgov. An attack was launched from the front of the car.

The gunshots from the direction of the front of the car soon stopped, and not long after, Sokov heard a burst of chaotic footsteps. When he turned around, he saw that it was Vaserigov running along the carriage with a group of commanders and fighters.

Sokov rushed up to meet him and intercepted him at the junction between the dining car and another carriage.

Upon seeing this, Vaserigov quickly raised his hand to salute Sokov: "Comrade General, we have joined the reinforcements and are now here to destroy the enemy."

“Who is the commander of the reinforcements?”

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

 (End of this chapter)