Blood Red Army by David Bishop

Author:David Bishop
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Abaddon Books

It was another ten minutes before I had skimmed through all the official papers, sorting a quarter of them into a separate pile. Eisenstein paced back and forth impatiently behind me, eager to get out of the Univermag. I rested a hand on top of the documents I had chosen.

"These look the most current. I haven't had time to sort them properly, but I can't find any evidence of an imminent German attack planned for our part of the front line. There are papers mentioning something called Operation Feuerzauber, which roughly translates as 'Fire Magic'. That requires the Wehrmacht to capture Leningrad by early September, but there are no other details. Perhaps the Germans have another intelligence HQ nearby?"

Eisenstein shook his head. "No, this is the Ivanovskoe command centre. It's as I suspected - Brodsky sent us to be killed, to get his revenge. There never was an imminent German attack planned from this position. It was just a story the captain manufactured. I thought it sounded wrong the moment I first head it. He was a prisoner of war, how would he have access to such facts?"

"So all of this is a trap?"

"No, but it is a suicide mission, like Yuri said. We're fortunate the Germans have been distracted by their new orders from Berlin otherwise we'd never have made it this far."

Eisenstein grabbed the papers I had selected and shoved them into my knapsack before striding towards the staircase. "Come on. We've got to get back across no-man's-land before sunrise. That's less than an hour away."

I followed him down the stairs and we met the others by the front doors. Uralsky and Antonov were still standing guard outside. They checked the street in either direction for approaching troops, and then we all crossed to where Sophia waited with her radio.

"We haven't triggered any alarms yet," she reported while Uralsky and Antonov shed their German helmets and tunics.

"Let's hope it stays like that," Eisenstein agreed. "Back the way we came."

But we travelled only a few hundred metres before our path was blocked by a squad of Germans. They were halted directly in front of us by a command from an authoritative voice with an accent that chilled my blood. I recognised the voice instantly.

"It's him," I whispered when the officer had stepped into view from the shadows. "It's Constanta!"

The Rumanian officer emerged in front of the squad, his face twisted into a cruel smile. "Is this the best you could find, Obergefreiter?" he sneered.

"Yes, Hauptmann," the German corporal replied. "You've already had the pick of our enlisted men. These are our finest fighters from those that remain."

"Very well," Constanta reluctantly agreed. "Take them to my quarters." The corporal saluted crisply, then marched his squad towards the southern part of Ivanovskoe, away from the front line. The vampyr leader watched them depart but remained where he was. He glanced about himself and sniffed the air, as if he could detect a scent on the wind. The hand holding my PPSh

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