Romanov had a good impression of Sokov, so when he went to the Kozelisk area, he invited him to the same car. Perhaps because he often did political propaganda for the commanders and fighters, Romanov was very good at talking. During the more than an hour's drive, he was almost alone, and Sokov couldn't even put his mouth in.

From Romanov's chat, Sokov learned a lot of things that did not involve leaks but could not be understood at his level. For example, Sokov only knew that the left-wing troops of the Western Front were cut off after the German army occupied Suxinic, and thus fell into the German encirclement, but he did not know which unit was this.

After Romanov's introduction, he finally figured out that the troops west of Suxinich were the 322nd and 323rd infantry divisions of the 10th Army commanded by General Golikov. However, with Golikov being dismissed, these troops were assigned to Rokosovsky for command. Now the troops of the 10th Army are newly added to the base camp and are commanded by General Popov.

Hearing this, Sokov couldn't help but smile and said to Romanov: "Comrades in the battalion-level political commissar, the left wing of the army is the 10th Army commanded by General Popov, and the right wing is the 61st Army commanded by General Popov. We are between the two Popovs, which is so interesting!"

"That's right, right!" Romanov nodded and said, "We are between two Popovs, which is exactly the old saying: a sign of good fortune."

Sokov was about to ask indirectly why the car stopped when it was a sign of auspiciousness between the two Popovs. He quickly looked out the window and found that he had arrived at the destination.

The person in charge of the prisoner-of-war camp was a major. He had received the order from General Popov and was very enthusiastic about Romanov and his party. After a simple greeting, he began to identify prisoners of war.

There are five small tables outside a large wooden house, and there are hundreds of people in front of each table. The political workers brought by Romanov sat behind these tables. They asked the prisoners of war with expressionless faces about their names, ages, troops they used to be, and the reasons for their capture, and recorded them one by one. The prisoners who passed the review will obtain a small note with their own name and go to the wooden house to check their bodies. For those prisoners of war who failed the review, as long as the political workers waved their hands, there will be soldiers on duty to take the prisoners of war away.

It has to be said that the work efficiency of the Romanov team was still very high. In just one hour, it completed the identification of thousands of prisoners of war in this prisoner of war camp. After picking up prisoners of war, Romanov arranged two staff officers to take these prisoners back to Sushinic, and he and the rest continued to go to the new prisoner of war camp. In this way, before dark, Romanov selected 8,000 qualified soldiers from the six prisoner of war camps in the Kozelisk area.

Before watching the staff and political workers assemble prisoners of war and prepare to return to Suxinich, Sokov finally asked the question he wanted to ask: "Comrade of the battalion-level political commissar, I wonder how many soldiers our battalion can get from these rescued commanders and fighters?"

Several prisoners of war who stood close to Sokov could not help but wet when they heard the other party's name, "Power War" that made people feel humiliated, but instead used the word "commander". They thought to themselves secretly: How great would it be if we could follow this captain.

Sokov naturally couldn't guess what the prisoners of war were thinking. He was waiting for Romanov to answer him. Unexpectedly, Romanov hesitated for a moment and replied: "Captain Sokov, I really don't know this. I am only responsible for identifying and selecting prisoners of war. As for the allocation of troops, Chief of Staff Malining should be responsible for."

Romanov's reply disappointed Sokov. He was worried that he would be useless, so he asked tentatively: "Comrade of the battalion level political commissar, can I recruit a group of commanders and fighters here by myself?" He turned his head and looked at the prisoners of war that were screened out in the distance, and continued, "If you agree, I want to choose from those commanders and fighters who were screened out."

"This is no problem." Romanov agreed readily about Sokov's request: "I will tell the commander who manages the prisoner-of-war camp, there should be no problem."

Romanov asked the captain who managed the prisoner-of-war camp and told him that Sokov wanted to pick another group of prisoners of war. After hearing this, the captain scratched the back of his head and said to Sokov in a negotiated tone: "Comrade Captain, after the screening just now, there are still 617 prisoners of war left in the prisoner-of-war camp. Otherwise, if you take them all away, I can return to the army as soon as possible."

Sokov participated in the entire screening process. He knew the reason why these more than 600 prisoners of war were screened out. He could not make them put down their weapons and surrender to the German army in the battle without resisting. At that time, he saw so many strong prisoners of war were screened out, so he felt quite regretful. He heard the captain say this, and he couldn't help but feel ecstatic. However, he did not have the right to take his own initiative in this kind of matter, so he could only look at Romanov for inquiries.

"Captain Sokov," Romanov said rationally: "If you think you can control these prisoners of war, put them into your camp." Hearing Romanov's permission, Sokov was overjoyed and hurriedly pulled the captain and walked towards the group of prisoners.

The sifted prisoners were already desperate and didn't know what fate would be waiting for him next. Seeing Captain Sokov was willing to incorporate him, he agreed without hesitation.

Because it was getting late, Sokov stayed in the prisoner-of-war camp for a night, and by the way, he had a heart-to-heart talk with these commanders and soldiers who were about to become his subordinates to increase their sense of identity with him.

The next morning, Sokov pestered the captain who managed the prisoner-of-war camp and asked him to provide him with thirty trucks to send the commanders and fighters to the nameless highland. Fortunately, there were many vacant shelters in the position at the foot of the mountain, so Sokov placed them all there and sent people to deliver food and water to them.

When he saw the battalion commander go out, he brought back hundreds of people. The company commanders of each company could not sit still and ran to the battalion command post to find Sokov, hoping to replenish his company.

Thinking of the addition of more than 600 soldiers in the battalion, Sokov rarely generously and announced in public: "From now on, the quota for each company is 200. The company commanders of each company will pick people later."

When the company commanders heard Sokov's decision, they immediately cheered and shouted in unison: "Ula!Ula!"

After Berkin and others calmed down, they asked curiously: "Comrade Battalion Commander, you brought back more than 600 people this time. Even if the number of people in each company is increased to 200, there are still many people left. What do you plan to arrange it?"

On the way back, Sokov had already thought about the issue of how to allocate: "The guard platoon and engineer platoon have increased to fifty people; in addition, the soldiers who have been health workers and communication squads will be selected to be included in the health team and communication squads." Speaking of this, he looked at Maxim, who was sitting in front of the phone, and raised his voice and said, "The communication squad has been upgraded to a communication squad, and Corporal Maxim serves as the platoon leader."

"In addition, we have to select soldiers who have been artillery and tank soldiers," Sokov continued to say with great enthusiasm: "To form artillery platoons and tank platoons..."

"Wait a minute, Comrade Battalion Commander." Belkin felt that Sokov's more and more talked was becoming less and less pronounced, so he interrupted him quickly and reminded him carefully: "We have no artillery and tanks at all now. Is it unnecessary to set up artillery platoons and tank platoons? Besides, according to your expansion method, will the superior agree?"
Chapter completed!