red moscow

Chapter 2853

After hearing Sokov's words, a soldier holding a gun came over, raised his hand to salute, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, Comrade Brigade Commander, I heard some noise here, so I came to check it out. If I accidentally disturbed you, please forgive my recklessness."

"It's okay, it's okay." Sokov was also shocked and broke into a cold sweat. If the soldier was a new recruit, he might have pulled the trigger when he was questioned just now. He had a super strong recovery ability, so he didn't have to worry about any danger after being shot. But it was different for Tonya. At such a short distance, if she was really shot, she would be seriously injured even if she didn't die. Fortunately, there was no danger, so Sokov said generously: "It's all a misunderstanding, don't worry about it."

After that, he turned to face Dongnia and said softly, "Comrade Dongnia, let me take you back."

Tonya had already gotten the answer she wanted, and when she heard that Sokov was going to send her back, she nodded in agreement.

As the two walked back, Tonya naturally held Sokov's arm and chatted with him: "Misha, where are you from?"

Although Sokov did not inherit the original memory of this body, he still learned some useful information based on clues after traveling through time, so he answered without hesitation: "Zhytomyr!"

"Oh, so you are from Ukraine." Dongnia took the initiative to say: "I am from Moscow. I was born and grew up in this city..."

"Now you have come to the front line to defend this city." Sokov said before Tonya finished speaking.

The two smiled at each other, and Tonya continued, "Misha, you are amazing. You even guessed what I was going to say."

Sokov didn't say anything, just laughed twice.

Tonya felt that she and Sokov were now closer, so she began to ask some personal questions: "Who else is in your family? Are you married?"

"Both parents are dead." Sokov thought of the freckled girl who almost exposed his identity when he disguised himself and went to the Mogilev prisoner-of-war camp to rescue Yakov, and said hesitantly: "There is also a younger sister, who has not yet married."

"Where is she?" When she heard Sokov say that she had a younger sister, Tonya immediately became interested: "Did she stay in Zhitomir, or was she evacuated to another place?"

"She should be in Mogilev now?"

"Mogilev, isn't that in Belarus?" Tonya asked in surprise, "Why would she go there?"

"I don't know. I don't know how she ended up in Mogilev." Sokov shook his head and said, "We escaped from Zhitomir together, but we were bombed by enemy planes on the way and we got separated in the chaos."

"Wait a minute," Tonya, who obviously had a good knowledge of geography, said thoughtfully, "When you escaped from Zhitomir, you should have passed through Kiev before entering Russia. How could she suddenly run to Belarus? It's not the same direction at all."

Sokov smiled bitterly and said, "I just said that I don't know what's going on either."

"Then how do you know she is in Mogilev?" Tonya said. "Maybe someone else made a mistake."

"There's no mistake." Sokov now recalls the situation at that time, and he can't help but feel a little scared: "Because I saw her in Mogilev with my own eyes."

"Since you have seen her, why don't you bring her back?" Tonya said puzzledly: "You can bring her back and settle her in Moscow. In this way, you don't have to worry about her safety."

"Donya, you may not know that I met her in a German prisoner-of-war camp." Sokov said with difficulty: "She was a cook for the prisoners."

Tonya looked at Sokov and asked in surprise: "Misha, how did you end up in a German prisoner-of-war camp?"

Sokov organized the words in his mind and briefly explained to Tonya: "I assisted the comrades from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, disguised myself and sneaked into the German prisoner-of-war camp to rescue an important captured person."

"Did your sister recognize you?"

"I recognized her." Sokov nodded and said with difficulty, "She rushed over to me, hugged my waist and called me brother. I broke out in a cold sweat. You know, the comrades from the Ministry of Internal Affairs who entered the prisoner-of-war camp with me were all disguised as German officers and soldiers. If our identities were exposed, we would not only fail to rescue the people we wanted to save, but we would also be implicated."

"Are you okay?" As soon as Dongnia asked this question, she realized that if Sokov had been exposed, he would not have the chance to stand here with her, so she quickly changed the topic and asked, "How did you escape later?"

"The officers in the prisoner-of-war camp would have been suspicious if they saw the cook they hired rush over to hug my waist," Sokov continued. "Fortunately, I was smart and told the Germans that the girl had mistaken me for someone else."

"The German officers believed your words so easily?"

"The Germans were not stupid. They certainly didn't believe my explanation easily. They questioned me again, and only after seeing that my answers were flawless did they believe that I had not deceived them."

"Misha, tell me quickly, how did they interrogate you?"

"The Germans asked my sister what I did before," Sokov explained to Tonya. "She replied that I was an ordinary factory worker."

"The German asked her if she had ever been a soldier, and she said no. The German dispelled his suspicions about me when he heard that."

"Why did the Germans believe you so easily?" Tonya asked puzzledly.

Sokov chuckled and asked, "Donya, although I have not been in the army for a long time, do you think I look like a new recruit?"

"You haven't been in the army for long?" Dong Niya asked in shock, "How long have you been in the army?"

"I joined the army in August, and it's been exactly two months now."

After hearing this, Dongnia's jaw almost dropped to the ground: "How can a new soldier who has only been in the army for two months be promoted to the rank of major and brigade commander? My God, how did you do this?"

"I'm lucky and have made a lot of contributions, so my promotion speed is a little faster than others." The two chatted and unknowingly came to the outside of Tonya's tent.

Sokov originally wanted to say goodbye and leave, but Tonya was reluctant to let him go and held his arm and refused to let go.

At this time, Bobrikov came trotting over, raised his hand to salute Sokov and said, "Comrade Brigade Commander, the Chief of Staff has something urgent to discuss with you. Please go back immediately."

Knowing that Sokov had something important to do, Tonya did not try to keep him, but just said, "Misha, remember to come and see me when you have time."

"Okay, I'll come over when I'm free."

When Sokov and Bobrikov hurried to the brigade headquarters, the guard company commander asked curiously: "Comrade Brigade Commander, is that the female military doctor who just came? I think she seems to be interested in you."

Hearing what Bobrikov said, Sokov couldn't help but blush, and then retorted: "Don't talk nonsense, we just get along well. By the way, you know the chief of staff is in a hurry to call me back, is there something important?"

Bobrikov shook his head and answered truthfully: "Comrade Brigade Commander, I cannot enter the tent where the brigade headquarters is located without orders, so I have no idea what the chief of staff wants to see you about."

Seeing that he couldn't get the information he wanted from Bobrikov, Sokov didn't force him. Instead, he quickened his pace, wanting to return to the brigade headquarters as soon as possible to ask the chief of staff in person.

"Comrade Chief of Staff," Sokov asked impatiently when he saw Karsokov after entering the tent, "Why are you in such a hurry to call me back? Is there something important?"

"There's a telegram from the army headquarters." Karsokov picked up a telegram on the table and handed it to Sokov, and continued, "It says that Lieutenant Jegarin has arrived in Moscow. After testing the door, the commander was very satisfied with him. He said that he hopes you can look around the brigade to see if you can find a few more people with the same level as Lieutenant Jegarin."

Sokov couldn't help laughing when he heard what Karsokov said. "Comrade Chief of Staff, a commander as good as Lieutenant Regarin can only be found once in a hundred or two hundred thousand people. There are only a few thousand people in our brigade. I'm afraid we can't even find one, let alone a few more."

"So how should we respond to the headquarters?"

"Answer truthfully." Sokov said briefly, "I believe our superiors can understand our difficulties. This is simply an impossible task."

After talking about Regarin, Karsokov picked up another telegram and handed it to Sokov: "Comrade Brigade Commander, this is the second telegram from the headquarters."

"The second telegram?" Sokov took the telegram and did not check it immediately. Instead, he asked, "What instructions does the superior have in this telegram?"

"The headquarters said that according to the intelligence they have, the enemy has sent out another armored division in order to capture Volokolamsk as quickly as possible." Karsokov explained: "According to the judgment of our superiors, the German armored division will pass through the defense zone of our brigade tomorrow. The headquarters ordered us to find a way to strike this German unit to relieve the pressure on friendly forces."

After hearing this, Sokov's mouth twitched, thinking that his superiors really thought too highly of him. The Germans had an armored division, and he was only commanding an infantry brigade. The two sides were not of the same size at all. Asking him to take the initiative to attack the German armored division was like an egg hitting a stone.

Belkin, who had been silent, now asked, "Comrade Brigade Commander, what are your plans?"

"Since it is an order from our superiors, we can only carry it out unconditionally." Sokov said with a headache: "After the enemy's armored forces enter the artillery range of our brigade, we will use heavy artillery to bombard the enemy's tanks."

After Sokov's reminder, Belkin immediately remembered that there were two artillery regiments under the infantry brigade, one was a 76.2mm cannon battalion, and the other was a 122mm heavy artillery battalion. If the firepower of the two artillery battalions was concentrated to launch artillery attacks on the advancing German armored forces, it would definitely cause them considerable losses.

"If that's the case, then we need to send artillery observers to the front of the position so that we can provide firing parameters to the artillery in the rear in a timely manner." After Karsokov finished speaking, he picked up the phone on the table and said into the receiver: "I'm Chief of Staff Karsokov. Ask Lieutenant Artyom, the artillery staff officer, to come to the brigade headquarters immediately."

A few minutes later, Lieutenant Artyom appeared in the tent.

As soon as he saw Sokov, he asked eagerly: "Comrade Brigade Commander, is there any combat mission for our artillery to complete?"

"Yes, Comrade Lieutenant of the Artillery." Sokov said to Artyom with a smile, "According to reliable intelligence, a German armored unit will pass through the front of our brigade's defense zone tomorrow. Your artillery mission is to destroy the German tanks and armored vehicles with artillery fire."

"In other words, we need to send artillery observers to the front of the position so that they can provide accurate firing parameters to the artillery in the rear in a timely manner?"

"Yes, that's right." Sokov nodded and asked, "How is it? Are there any difficulties?"

"No problem." Artyom said carelessly, "I will send the best artillery observers. As long as we can ensure smooth communication, our shells will accurately hit the Germans and cause them huge casualties."

"Comrade Chief of Staff," Sokov turned to Karsokov and asked, "Are the fake artillery positions and fake tank assembly points that I asked you to set up ready?"

Without waiting for Karsokov to answer, Artyom asked in confusion: "Comrade Brigade Commander, what is the purpose of setting up a fake position?"

"If you start to launch a fierce artillery attack on the German troops, the enemy will definitely not sit idly by," Sokov replied. "In addition to using artillery fire to counterattack, they may also send out the air force to bombard our artillery positions. If we set up fake positions in advance and wait for the enemy planes to attack, we can deliberately guide them to attack the fake positions, so as to avoid you from suffering unnecessary losses."

"Oh, so that's how it is." After figuring out what was going on, Artyom turned his head and looked at Karsokov, wanting to hear what the chief of staff had to say.

"Comrade Brigade Commander, you can rest assured about this." Seeing that everyone's eyes were focused on him, Karsokov quickly replied, "I have set up three fake positions, and they are all far away from the real artillery positions. This way, when the enemy launches an air strike, it will not affect the real artillery positions."

"You did a great job, Comrade Chief of Staff." Sokov was very satisfied with Karsokov's arrangement. He nodded and said, "After the enemy bombs the fake positions, we must rebuild new fake positions as soon as possible to cope with the new round of German bombing."

"Don't worry, I know what's going on."

When Artyom left and they were about to lie down to rest, Belkin suddenly asked, "Comrade Brigade Commander, you went to the field hospital just now. Did you go to see Comrade Tonya?"

Sokov didn't expect Belkin to ask such a question suddenly. His face turned red. When he was thinking about how to answer him, Belkin laughed and said, "Comrade Brigade Commander, I was just joking. Please don't mind it."

Although he said this, he realized from observing Sokov's expression that his guess was correct. The other party did meet Tonya when he went to the field hospital.

(End of this chapter)