red moscow

Chapter 2666: Unlucky, met again

"General Felix, I have no objection to moderate drinking." Sokov waited for Felix to finish speaking, then said with a straight face: "But if you make mistakes due to alcoholism, you must be dealt with seriously." In order to leave a deeper impression on the other party, he continued, "Before the war was over, the 300th Infantry Division and a tank brigade responsible for attacking the Feski collective farm occupied by the German army, defeated the enemy in the collective farm, and the soldiers found a large amount of fine wine in the cellar.

Because they had driven away the enemy and won the battle, the division commander, Colonel Atakuz, ordered the officers and soldiers to drink as much as they wanted. It was because of his order that the officers and soldiers of the entire division began to drink without any scruples. As a result, in less than half a day, the officers and soldiers of the entire division were drunk on the ground.

As the superiors could not contact them, they thought they were annihilated by the German 3rd Armored Division, so they sent out a reconnaissance team to investigate their situation. However, after the reconnaissance team entered the collective farm, they found that thousands of troops were drunk and unconscious, with drunk people lying everywhere.

The reconnaissance team confirmed that they were not annihilated by the enemy, but were just drunk, and reported the matter to their superiors. After the superiors learned about this, they were very angry and ordered the division commander Colonel Atakuz to be dismissed and investigated, sent to a military court, and asked the unit to be handed over to me for command.

Sokov's words made Felix break out in a cold sweat: "Comrade Commander, was Colonel Atakuz later sent to a military court?"

"No." As soon as Sokov finished speaking, he saw Felix heaving a sigh of relief, and added: "It was I who pleaded with my superiors to demote Colonel Atakuz and let him stay in the division as deputy commander, thus saving him from being sent to a military court."

Felix raised his hand to wipe the sweat off his forehead and said with a lack of confidence: "Comrade Commander, although I want you to inspect my troops, the actual situation may disappoint you. I wonder if you can give me a week?"

"What do you do in a week?" Sokov asked.

"I want to rectify the military discipline." Felix vowed: "Just give me a week, and I will restore the troops to the state during the war."

Sokov couldn't help but frown at Felix's request. He came here today to find out the actual situation of the troops. If he really had to wait a week to inspect, wouldn't his trip today be in vain?

Thinking of this, he slowly shook his head: "No, a week is too long."

Seeing that Sokov was unwilling to give him a week, Felix hesitated for a moment and held up five fingers: "Five days! If a week is not enough, then give me five days, Comrade Commander, how about five days?"

Sokov knew very well that if he wanted to reform the troops, he would not be able to achieve his goal without three to five days. In this case, he simply gave them enough time to reform: "Okay, I'll give you five days. I hope that when I come here again, I can see a completely new army."

"Don't worry, Comrade Commander." Seeing that Sokov was willing to give him five days, Felix was overjoyed: "After five days, if the troops that appear in front of you do not satisfy you, you can dismiss me."

After comforting Felix with a few words, Sokov felt that there was no need to stay here, so he got up and said goodbye.

Seeing that Sokov was about to leave, Felix was naturally secretly happy. As long as Sokov left, he could immediately start reorganizing the troops.

When Felix and his men escorted Sokov and the others to the door, Sokov, who was about to get in the car, suddenly stopped and turned to Felix and said, "General Felix, I want to ask you a favor."

"Comrade Commander, if you have anything to say, just tell me."

"It's like this. My guards are too weak." Sokov told Felix what happened on his way here, and finally said, "I'm worried that something similar will happen again when we return, so I want to borrow some people from you to take us back to the army headquarters."

"No problem, no problem." After understanding Sokov's request, Felix quickly said, "It is my duty to protect your safety." As he said that, he called a captain and asked him to bring a guard company to escort Sokov and others back to the army headquarters.

"General Felix, thank you so much." Sokov expressed his gratitude to Felix: "After we reach our destination, I will let your troops return as soon as possible."

On the way back to the headquarters, Vaseligov and Onishchenko were in the same car with Sokov.

Vaseligov sat in the passenger seat, while Onishchenko and Sokov sat in the back seat.

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," Sokov saw Onishchenko take the initiative to sit in his car. He guessed that the other party must have something important to say to him, so he asked first: "Is it like this for all the troops stationed in Austria?"

"That's right, General Sokov." Onishchenko said with a wry smile, "Since the Germans surrendered and the war in Europe ended, our military discipline has become lax. I think the military exercises to be held next month are just in time. If we allow the troops to relax like this, they will lose their combat effectiveness sooner or later. If the enemy takes the opportunity to attack us, I think we will be defeated even more miserably than in the early days of the Great Patriotic War."

Although the Soviet army had two to three million troops stationed in Europe, if the military discipline was lax, the combat effectiveness would plummet, and once a war broke out, they would be defeated. For example, the Soviet army in the early days of the Great Patriotic War was defeated. Ukraine, which had more than two million troops stationed, had almost all its troops destroyed in three months. If this happens again, the day when the entire country is occupied will not be far away.

The convoy came to the forest again, but was blocked by fallen trees again.

Seeing this situation, it is simply impossible to say that there is no problem in the forest.

After the car stopped, Sokov immediately asked Vaseligov to call the guard captain over and told him: "Comrade Captain, when we came here, we were blocked by a fallen tree trunk. Unexpectedly, we encountered the same situation when we came back. I guess there must be enemies hiding in the forest. You should take people to search immediately and catch the saboteurs. What do you think? Are you confident?"

"I have confidence, Comrade Commander." The guard company commander nodded vigorously and said seriously, "I will definitely catch the saboteurs."

Immediately, the guard company commander called the soldiers who had gotten off the vehicles and lined up to divide them into three groups. One group was responsible for moving the fallen trees on the road, and the other two groups, divided into left and right teams, searched the woods on both sides of the road to find the enemies hiding in the woods.

"General Sokov," Onishchenko said to Sokov, "On the way here, I thought we wouldn't encounter any attackers. But now it seems that I thought the problem was too simple. If we were still as few as we were when we went there, the enemies hiding in the woods might have already launched an attack on us."

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, tell me the truth, what is the situation in Austria?" "How should I put it, General Sokov," Onishchenko said with some embarrassment, "Logically, the war is over, so the hostile forces should have stopped. But in the past two months, attacks have occurred in many places. Although General Malinin has sent troops everywhere to seek advice, the results have been very limited."

"Oh, so that's how it is." After listening to Onishchenko's words, Sokov's expression became serious. "Perhaps before the exercise begins, I should organize forces to launch a clearing operation in this area to eliminate those hidden enemies."

"You are right, General Sokov." Onishchenko agreed with Sokov's statement: "Many people believe that General Malinin has been too weak since taking office, so that the hostile forces that were originally suppressed have begun to rise again."

"If I start a clean-up operation, I wonder if General Malinin will stop me?"

"General Sokov, I can't say for sure." Onishchenko shook his head and said, "The situation here in Austria is very complicated. After all, it is the hometown of the mustache. His followers are unwilling to fail. They dream of returning to the past."

As the two were talking, the sound of submachine gun fire suddenly came from the woods on the right side of the road, and from time to time there were two sounds of grenade explosions.

"There are indeed enemies in the woods." Sokov frowned and said, "I hope the guard company Felix sent me can eliminate these enemies."

Just as Sokov finished speaking, he suddenly heard the whistling sound of a shell piercing the air. Then, a mortar shell landed and exploded four or five meters away from the jeep, and the flying shrapnel pierced the car window. Vasherigov, who was sitting in the passenger seat, had his cheek cut by the glass shards, and blood immediately flowed out.

"Comrade General," Vaserigov covered his bleeding cheek with his right hand, turned around and shouted to Sokov, "It's a mortar, get out of the car and hide quickly."

The soldiers who were carrying trees on the road saw a shell fall and explode near Sokov's jeep, so they immediately stopped what they were doing, rushed over with guns in hand, and quickly set up a cordon around the jeep.

Seeing the deployment of the soldiers, Sokov couldn't help but smile bitterly. The enemy was not launching a violent attack, but using mortars for long-range strikes. With so many people crowded together, they would fall down if a shell came.

Just as he was thinking this, the whistling sound of artillery shells came from the sky again. He quickly opened the car door, jumped out of the car, and shouted to the soldiers who were setting up a warning circle: "Danger, scatter, scatter, and hide quickly."

The wounded Vaseligov rushed out of the car, and he and Onishchenko each grabbed Sokov's arm and dragged him to the other side of the road. They all knew that if they continued to stay on the road, they would be sitting ducks for the enemy's mortar fire.

The shells whistled to the ground, and several soldiers near the explosion point fell down. The rest of the soldiers hurriedly lay down on the ground to avoid being attacked again.

Seeing that two consecutive shells had missed the target, the enemy hiding in the woods immediately adjusted their tactics and increased the speed of their firing, doubling the speed of the mortar shells falling. Soon, several cars parked on the road caught fire.

Dragged by Vaseligov and Onishchenko, Sokov entered the woods on the left. Just as he was about to take a breath, he saw a man in German uniform coming towards him with an MP40 submachine gun in his hand.

Sokov's hands were held by Vaseligov and Onishchenko, and he was unable to draw his gun.

Before he could ask the two men to let him go, the man in German uniform opposite him had already pulled the trigger.

After a burst of crisp gunfire, Sokov and the other two fell to the ground.

The soldiers who were searching in the woods on the left heard the gunshots and rushed over to rescue.

Before Sokov lost consciousness while lying on the ground, he saw with his own eyes the enemy who shot at the three of them, with countless blood splattered on his body. He then dropped his weapon and fell straight into the bushes.

After an unknown amount of time, Sokov heard someone shaking his body and calling his name, but he couldn't open his eyes or speak, as if at that moment he had become a blind man who couldn't speak.

Seryokov personally led five or six soldiers to rush over, and when he saw Sokov lying in a pool of blood, his eyes suddenly turned red. He reached out to feel Sokov's breath and found that he was still breathing weakly. He quickly turned around and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and lift the commander comrade into the car."

When the soldiers were busy carrying Sokov to the car, Seryokov found Vaseligov and Onishchenko lying next to him, and quickly asked someone to lift them into the car as well.

After several people were lifted into the car, Shelyoerkov immediately ordered: "Drive back to the army headquarters."

The head of the logistics department, Major Shekhovtsov, reminded the other party, "Comrade Captain, the guard troops sent to us by Commander Felix are still searching in the woods. Do you think we need to wait for them?"

"What are you waiting for them to do?" Although Shekhovtsov's rank was higher than Seryoelkov's, when he saw that Sokov was seriously injured, Seryoelkov's temper flared up. He yelled at Shekhovtsov: "Don't you see that the commander's condition is very dangerous? If he is not treated in time, his life will be in danger."

After being yelled at by Seryoelkov, Shekhovtsov quickly came to his senses. Sokov had a special identity. If something really happened to him here, he, the head of the logistics department, would definitely be to blame. Therefore, he shut up obediently and let Seryoelkov arrange the next things.

When the car started, Seryokov asked Shekhovtsov loudly: "Where is the military hospital in Vienna?"

Shekhovtsov quickly replied, "On Graben Street, there is the best hospital." Without waiting for Shelyokov to speak again, he told the driver, "Go to the hospital on Graben Street as quickly as possible. If Comrade Commander is in any trouble, you are the only one I will ask."

When the driver heard this, he was frightened and immediately stepped on the accelerator and drove to the hospital on Graben Street as fast as possible, hoping that Sokov could receive treatment as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)