Chapter 1714

The attack on the Croll opera house began after dark. Trekov and I were standing at the window on the fifth floor, looking through our telescopes at what was happening on the battlefield.

A battalion of tanks stopped more than 300 meters away from the opera house, bombarding the solid walls of the opera house with tank guns. Our infantry, on the other hand, were bending over to form a scattered formation under the cover of artillery fire, and quickly approached the opera house.

When the infantry were about 100 meters away from the opera house, the tank stopped shelling. The infantry, who had been pushing forward cautiously and bent forward, immediately straightened up and rushed up. When the broken wall of the Lige theater was more than 20 meters away, they threw the grenade in their hands through the open gap or open window.

In the violent explosion, several soldiers equipped with flame throwers rushed up and sprayed flames at the window where the smoke had not dispersed. After two successive sprays, they stopped to find a safe place to hide. And the soldiers who finished dropping bombs rushed to the gap or window, shot inside with their submachine guns, and then turned over and jumped in.

The German soldiers who held fast in the opera house were blinded by our way of fighting. They hardly made any decent resistance, so they let our troops flood into the opera house and fight with the enemy in every floor and room.

Seeing the troops rush into the opera house, trakov put down his telescope and said to me with some pride: "Rita, the Germans must have thought that our troops would attack the opera house in neat formation after the shelling, so that they could kill our commanders and fighters with their firepower calmly.

But they never dreamed that many of our soldiers had taken part in the defense of Stalingrad. In addition to the rich combat experience they had accumulated in the city's fortified battles in the past two years, it was really not difficult to seize such fortifications. "

When I saw that the commander who was in charge of the first rush into the opera house was a soldier of the shock engineering brigade, I thought of my intention to search for Hitler and his gang of culprits, and said to trekov, "general trekov, after the opera house is taken, you will transfer a battalion from the engineering brigade to me."

"A battalion for you?" "What are you going to do, Rita?" he said

"You should know that general Kuznetsov's third shock group army has successfully captured the new German Chancellery." I saw that trakov was nodding his head repeatedly to show that he knew about it, so I continued: "but they didn't catch any heavyweight in it. I was worried that the enemy might hide in some secret passage, so I planned to lead a troop to search and see if they could catch any valuable people."

After listening to me, trakov was silent for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "well, Rita, as soon as the battle in the opera house is over, I'll send you a battalion of shock engineers to accompany you to the new German prime minister's office for a search. But you have to promise me that you must ensure your own safety. You can't do anything as risky as this afternoon. "

"Don't worry, general trakov." I was very grateful for the concern of trakov for me, so I said to him with a smile, "if you want to see the victory, I don't want to be killed by the last bullet before the end of the battle. I will pay attention to safety."

But trikov seemed to be worried. He was silent for a while, and finally took the initiative to say, "Rita, if you really want to go to the new German chancellery, I suggest you report this to Marshal Zhukov first, so that he and general Kuznetsov can have a talk, so that you will not have a misunderstanding with the third shock group army who is staying there in the past."

Although searching for Hitler, I want to do something first and then, but since trakov has reminded me that it is obviously inappropriate to hide from Zhukov, so I can only call Zhukov and report to him about my plan to lead the troops to search the German new prime minister's office.

After hearing this, Zhukov didn't get angry with me. But after a long silence, he said to me, "go and have a look. Kuznetsov's troops had carried out heavy shelling when they occupied the imperial prime minister's office. Maybe the entrance of the bunker where Hitler and his assailants were hiding was crushed by the collapsed reinforced concrete structure, so we didn't find anything. I'll call Kuznetsov and ask him to send someone to help you

After these words, Zhukov was silent for a moment, and then added: "remember, if you find anything, you must inform me at the first time."

In order to keep in touch with Zhukov at any time, I took two radio stations with me when I left with the shock Engineer Battalion. Because the road was full of bricks and stones, we could not take a bus, we had to walk to the new prime minister's office. Led by a scout familiar with the terrain, we carefully bypassed the areas where sporadic fighting still took place and headed for the target.

After more than 40 minutes of trekking, we finally arrived at our destination. Still far away, I heard someone shouting: "Hello, are you comrades from the 8th group army of the guards?"

The engineer battalion commander quickly stepped forward and replied in a loud voice: "yes, we are from the 8th group army of the guards. Is the opposite from the 3rd assault group army?"

"Yes, it's us." In front of a pile of more than two people high ruins, suddenly out of a few people, walked quickly towards us, at the same time also said: "you can look forward to it!"