Past events in Beicheng

Hi/T/Le never considered Len/Nin/G/Le to be an obstacle, he needed to start attacking Moscow before the summer was completely over.The current state of affairs irritated him, and he had to rethink his strategy after the promise to take the city on July 21 turned into a mockery.

The commander of the Northern Army Group is 65 years old, and he had to quickly adjust his offensive thinking in the face of Hitler's merciless accusation.Finally, Reinhardt's No.40 Armored Army and Küchler's No.18 Army tore through the Luga line of defense.On August 21, the German Southern Route Army cut off the October Railway Line on the outskirts of Leningrad, and Leningrad's material transportation and water and electricity supplies were paralyzed.This big city with a population of 300 million is crumbling like a fallen leaf in the wind.

Occupying Schlüsselburg, this is the latest order from the Northern Army to Manstein, so that Leningrad will be completely surrounded. Apart from jumping to Lake Ladoga, Leningrad has no hope of life.

"We don't need Russia, we only need this land to the east, you must make him into nothingness, into dust, make him disappear from the face of the earth."

The commander of the Northern Army, Loeb, said to Manstein on the phone: "The above are the original words of the head of state. In addition," the commander paused and lowered his voice: "We must attack Leningrad before September [-]th." Otherwise, the air force and armored divisions will be transferred to Moscow. We deserve the honor of capturing the second capital of Russia. Manstein, how many people's futures and fates will be decided in these few days. Seize the opportunity, I I leave to you the honor of Schlüsselburg."

Schlüsselburg - a small town on the west bank of Lake Ladoga, from where the Neva River flows out of the lake, forming a large arc leading to Leningrad and the Baltic Sea.Since ancient times, it has been a fortress, just like his name, "the key fortress".From here, the northern gates of Leningrad could be closed completely, blocking all waterways between the Baltic Sea and Lake Ladoga, and cutting off the canal system connecting the city with the White Sea and the Arctic Ocean.

"How soon can we see the Baltic?" the orderly asked the men at the front.

"I think I can hear the waves already." An infantryman of the [-]th Infantry Division teased him.

The workers' village is in Schlüsselburg.

In the first attack, the Stuka formation of the German army had completely destroyed all the railway lines outside the city, but the Soviet army's well-armed machine guns and anti-tank guns were waiting for them, and it was difficult for the German army to advance for a while.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and Wang Yao and Belyayev were on the battlefield.In order not to get lost, they first walked along the road and railway tracks, but soon they heard the voice of Tan □ Long.

"It's kv!" Wang Yao heaved a sigh of relief.

An infantryman who was sitting on the armor plate jumped down: "Are you workers from the workers' village?"

"Yes!" Belyayev shouted.

"Back! Back!" the infantry waved them.

The two of them walked for less than ten minutes when there was a huge explosion behind them.

"Run into the dense forest, hurry up, professor! It may be that the army just now exchanged fire with the enemy."

Most of the farmland on the outskirts of Schlüsselburg had been plowed, and the two of them bypassed the main road, stepped into the field, and started running towards the dense forest and swamp.

"We'll get lost."

"It's better than being beaten to death now."

Not long after running into the dense forest, there was the roar of machinery on the road.

"German tank."

The two looked at the black iron cross on the tank and fell silent. It seemed that the group of young people they met just now may no longer exist.

"We have to rest for a while." Wang Yao helped Beryayev to sit down: "The enemy has already run ahead of us."

Beryayev took out the bread in his bag and threw a piece to Wang Yao. The hard black bread gave off a rancid smell.

"I forgot to change it." Belyayev explained apologetically.

From being hungry in the early morning to now, I can eat anything. The two of them have no water, so they can only force themselves to swallow it with difficulty.During this period, the sound of machine guns and artillery fire kept ringing in the dense forest behind, making people doubt the correctness of this route.

"Are we going to go through here?" Belyayev finally finished eating his own bread.

"Or else?" Wang Yao pulled his feet out of the mud with difficulty: "Walking on the road, we are living targets."

In fact, facing the dark forest, Wang Yao also had no idea: "I hope we won't get lost."

The dense forests and swamps seriously slow down the speed of travel, especially when the open area completely disappears from the sight, the continuous woods will make people constantly doubt their direction of travel.The two of them didn't have a compass, so they could only rely on experience and watch the sun go. The occasional gunfire in the woods sometimes became a kind of comfort, although it was likely to be an echo.

When the two stopped to rest for the third time, the sky had gradually turned dark, and Wang Yao didn't know how far he had gone and how far he was still.

"We can't rest anymore." Belyayev gritted his teeth and stood up: "The two of us can't spend the night in the woods, we can't make it through."

Belyayev was right. Both of them had their feet soaked in the water, and they would be shivering every time they stopped. It was unrealistic to stay in the woods all night in the current state.

"Did you know? Wang Yao," Belyayev decided to find something to say: "When I was young, I often went here with a gun to hunt birds and stayed with Elizabeth."

"Ivan's mother?"

"Yes, I love her, and I still love her now." Belyayev looked at Wang Yao's expression, and laughed: "Wang Yao, you are so smart, you have already guessed it, why should you show your disgust now? What about your expression? Oh, serious Chinese, can’t you have some lovers? But Elizabeth is not my lover, and I am not her lover, she doesn’t like me.”

"Look, professor, you are talking nonsense, and your feet are stuck in the mud again." Wang Yao stretched out his hand and pulled Belyayev out of the mud.

"Ivan," Belyayev sighed, "if the old Ivan bastard hadn't gotten him into the army, he wouldn't be on the battlefield now, he should be a researcher, just like you, polite .”

Wang Yao suddenly smiled: "Do you know how Mr. Ivan won the heart of a beauty?"

"Oh, Wang Yao, you are on the road, tell me quickly, hahaha, your expression is very suitable for talking about this topic."

Wang Yao accepted Belyayev's ridicule: "When I was in his dacha, Ivan showed me a photo of his father on a horse and in a formal dress. I understood then, professor, you Lose."

"And then?" Belyayev exaggerated his teasing tone: "What does Ivan want to do now? He has a dress, so he can sit on the tank and take a picture, and then go to fascinate which beauty? Bah! I will I never saw him fascinate anyone, and I never saw him bring a girl back, he's a soldier for nothing, why not become a professor."

"Beauty..." Wang Yao couldn't help but read along. The endless woods in front of him actually made him very dizzy. He couldn't help but think about Ivan's appearance in military uniform. He held his arm and stared at himself. eyes, then ran out of the yard, and paused for a moment in his own shouting, leaving behind a silhouette.

"Wang Yao, what did you say?"

"Ah..." Wang Yao grabbed Belyayev's arm: "My foot got stuck again..."

After walking like this for an unknown amount of time, the two of them were too tired to speak anymore.Wang Yao supported Belyayev, the poor old man was exhausted.

"Professor, it's okay, take a rest."

Belyayev shook his head: "The sun is about to set, Wang Yao, if we can't hold on, we will get lost and be frozen to death."

In fact, now Wang Yao is not sure if they lost their way, because he hasn't heard gunshots for a long time.

"Will we ever see peace?" Belyayev murmured.

"Yes, Professor."

"Wang Yao..." Belyayev shook his head in frustration, "I think we got lost..."

The woods were so quiet that only the sound of each other's panting could be heard.

Wang Yao panted heavily and raised his head, he felt his hands trembling from exhaustion, and the gradually dimming light made him despair.

"Wait! What's that!" Wang Yao saw a shadow squirming in the distance: "Professor! Professor! The color of the clothes is ours! Look, a soldier! Look!"

Belyayev also saw it: "Yes! That's our color, let's catch up with him!"

With some power coming out of nowhere, the two of them started running again in the woods.

"Comrade! Comrade! Wait!" Wang Yao shouted.

But the soldier seemed to ignore it and sped up instead.

"Comrade! Wait!"

Wang Yao also quickened his pace, he didn't dare to miss this chance to survive.The soldier may have been injured, his speed was very slow, Wang Yao finally caught up with him.

"Comrade!"

Wang Yao put his arm on the opponent's shoulder, and the soldier finally turned his head. Wang Yao saw his blue eyes...and...the gray collar protruding from under the military jacket!

German army? !

"Raise your hand!"

Before the German soldier swung his rifle/gun, a pistol/gun was on his waist.

"Hands up!!" Wang Yao yelled again with a louder voice.

The German was obviously taken aback, he was shocked by the other party's pure Berlin accent.

Beryayev arrived a few steps late, and when he found out that the other party was a German, he couldn't help being frightened.

"Pick up the gun." Wang Yao kicked aside the rifle/gun that the German soldier used as a crutch.Belyayev ran over tremblingly and picked up the gun.

"Stand up! Stand up!! Don't look back!" Wang Yao carefully distanced himself from the other party.

The German struggled a few times before barely standing up. Wang Yao noticed that his lower leg was injured, and it was even a serious gunshot wound, because once the opponent moved violently, blood would gushes out from the edge of the bandage.

"Who are you? German?" asked the German soldier, raising his hand.

"Don't look back!" Wang Yao shouted again.

The German soldiers finally gave up their plans to turn around and stood there obediently.

In the cold wind, the sun withdrew its last rays, and the icy light rain began to fall again.Wang Yao glanced at the German in front of him and his exposed gray collar. This is the German army uniform, which he had already known since he was in Germany.

"boom!"

The guns rang out and the German soldiers fell to the ground.

"Ah!" Belyayev cried out in fright at the sound of the gunshot: "You killed him, you killed him."

Wang Yao locked the pistol/gun safety, put it back into the gun/holster, then went to the corpse and found his ID: "Ludwig Beschmidt, he is only 20 years old."

"Let's go, Wang Yao, let's go!" Belyayev tried hard to control his emotions.

"Okay," Wang Yao tried not to look at the pair of blue eyes that could not be closed: "Let's go."

In the darkness, the two supported each other and continued to move forward. Fortunately, the light rain stopped soon and the moon appeared in the sky. Seeing Wang Yao's pale face, Belyayev couldn't stop comforting him: "It's okay, You did a good job, otherwise, why don't we take him back to Leningrad? If we leave him alone, maybe he will shoot us from behind."

"I, I'm fine." Wang Yao tried to suppress the strange feeling: "I was just thinking, we should look through it again, maybe we can find a compass or something."

"Ah! No need!" Belyayev suddenly felt his eyes light up: "Wang Yao! Look! Look! Let's come out!"

The silhouettes of plains, fields, and cities finally appeared in front of his eyes. Wang Yao breathed a sigh of relief, and the feeling of fatigue suddenly swept over him.Biryayev also knelt down and sat on the ground.At this moment, no one wanted to eat bread anymore. The wet and cold clothes and shoes had already taken over their consciousness. The cold wind blew, and the two of them shivered uncontrollably.

"We can't sit down, we will die from the cold." Wang Yao felt that his physical strength was close to the limit, and Belyaev, who was in his 60s, should be even more tired.While forcing himself to stand up, he tried his best to support Beryayev: "Professor, look, there is a shadow of a city in the distance. Hurry up, we're not far away."

In fact, it was still far away, so far away that Wang Yao felt that manpower alone would not be able to get there, but he still helped Belyayev up with difficulty: "Let's go."

The temperature dropped sharply at night, and a thin layer of ice even formed on the surface of some small ditches. The two of them continued walking with one foot deep and one foot shallow.Wang Yao couldn't help but think of the night when he arrived in Leningrad, the icy breath, the icy city, the chill from the inside out.Now, this familiar and warm city suddenly becomes strange again, like a friend who has forgotten you, looking at you with indifference.

The two of them were so cold and exhausted that they couldn't speak anymore, they could only walk forward mechanically.

Suddenly, Wang Yao felt that his foot was tripped, and the two people who were already unstable fell into the mud together.

"Oh!" Belyayev cried out weakly.

Only then did Wang Yao see through the moonlight that there was a dead man at his feet.This time, Belyayev turned the body over, revealing the young face, the face of the Soviet boy, his expression was very peaceful, as if he was asleep.

Wang Yao stared at him blankly, not daring to think about the name on his certificate, he was afraid that his name would also be Iwan, no matter what Ivan it was.

Kneeling halfway, Beryayev pulled out a jug from the waist of the young Soviet soldier. He shook it in his hand, opened the lid, and took a sip.

"You have to drink some too, Wang Yao."

Wang Yao took the jug and took a sip into his mouth, the spicy taste filled his heart with a sense of warmth.

"Cough cough cough." Wang Yao was choked and coughed: "Thank you, you can drink."

In fact, there were only a few sips of wine in the jug, and Belyayev took another sip, and the jug was empty: "Is it warmer?"

Wang Yao nodded, and the two of them helped each other to get up from the ground again. They did not look back in tacit understanding, but walked forward stubbornly.The further they walked, the more corpses of the Soviet army. Finally, they saw a few temporary trenches. The scattered corpses were extremely bleak against the backdrop of the moonlight. At this moment, they could no longer think about whether there were German troops in front of them. Where, they just supported each other, stepped over these corpses, and continued to move forward.

Finally, they encountered a group of Soviet armored troops who were about to return to the city. When they saw two people who were almost fainting, several infantrymen reported to their company commander.

"Look at their IDs, give them blankets if there is no problem, and let them get in the car." The company commander said with a cold expression.

When climbing onto the truck, an infantryman pressed Wang Yao's shoulder: "Take a good rest, comrade, you're safe, leave it to us, everything will pass."

Looking at that childish face, Wang Yao suddenly asked, "Excuse me, what's your name?"

"My name is Ivan, goodbye."