Katyusha

Chapter IV

Interesting thing to know, Red square got it's name from the blood bath and blood shed that was the square itself, any who. Happy reading!:)
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The shell explodes and the shrapnel cuts down a few men and leaves the survivors of the blast sprawled out on the floor with ringing ears, or blurs of darkness dancing across their eyesight. Blinking multiple times to clear her eyesight from the creeping darkness, she cautiously gets up and looks around to see who survived.

"Get up boys, we're not dead yet!" She yells as she encourages her squad to stand back up and fight, since they don't have anti tank grenades there's only one true way to rush this tank and take it out.

"Soldier get up stairs and give that tank something to focus on!" She orders and the man nods heading up stairs to begin peppering the top hatch of the Panzer. As the tank pulls back a little, Kat hands over one of the grenades she looted to a soldier and gives the third to another, armed with one herself.

They all quickly rush the door heading out and spreading out while the tanks distracted by the soldier on top. The bow machine gun however opens fire and everyone gets into cover and continue their advance forward, once Katya has flanked them. The squad moves in for the kill as they rush the tank as it's trying to back up to escape.

Running up Katya and one of the soldiers climb onto the tank and while Katyusha opens the hatch the soldier covers her spraying his PPSH into the commanders hatch. She then throws the cooked grenade down the hatch and they close it. Both of them jump off to escape the incoming explosion and as they touch ground the grenade explodes inside killing the men inside and disabling the tank.

Their job isn't over as they run back down the street and Katyusha orders the squad to gun down the unsuspecting fixed machine gun position so they do so, clearing a way when they mow down the mg crew.

The wave then finally advances again as a NKVD officer has everyone stop a half mile up where there's collapsed buildings leading into something. Everyone finds cover and line up on the other side of the open square, that's what Katyusha can make out on what this is.

There's a distant rumble that follows a shriek as the first shell of the new artillery barrage begins as the Germans have started up their bombings again.

Katya was forced to give command over to another Lieutenant as her Captain assigned a spotter to her when he found out she was in the sniper unit. Both of them quickly introduced and she learned the name of her newest companion as Nikolai, however her slight happiness was shot down as soon as she heard what came next.

"Assemble! All comrades of the army, assemble!" A gruff, baritone voice thundered, snapping Katyusha back into present after her mind slightly started to wander off while she was looking out into the empty open square.

Looking back to the commotion, there's four Sergeants standing by the Senior Commissar and he's next to Bargov and the NKVD officer. Her eyes widen seeing the four Sergeants armed with the national flag banners of Soviet Russia.

"Oh no...." She whispers dreading about what's coming as she thought she'd never have to be part of such thing.

"Today we're taking Red Square by order of high command! With the newest order from Comrade Stalin, there's only victory today Order .227 is in effect!! Not one step back comrades there's only forward and victory!" The NKVD officer yells over the thundering of artillery that's raining down on them.

A lot of the soldiers here are armed with shovels, wood cutting axes, broken bottles, anything with a point or sharp they found along the way up the embankment has been made into a weapon. While those with weapons are so depleted that they have five bullets between them, even Katyusha's rifle only has 5 bullets in it. That's why she's using her more loaded pistol.