Hearing Sokov's words, a soldier with a gun came over, raised his hand to salute, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, comrade brigade commander, I heard something happening here, so I came over to check it out. If you accidentally disturb you, please forgive me for your recklessness."
"It's okay." Sokov was also shocked and sweated. If the soldier was a recruit, he might have pulled the trigger directly when he was asked. He had super strong recovery, so he naturally didn't have to worry about the danger after being shot, but Tonya was different. At such a short distance, if he was shot, he would be seriously injured even if he didn't die. Fortunately, he was shocked and there was no danger, so Sokov said generously: "It's all misunderstandings, don't care."
After saying that, he turned to face Tonia and said softly: "Comrade Tonia, I'll send you back."
Tonya had already got the answer she wanted. When she heard Sokov was about to send him back, she nodded in agreement.
As the two walked back, Tonya reached out and took Sokov's arm naturally, and chatted with him: "Misha, where are you from?"
Although Sokov did not inherit the original memory of this body, after traveling through time, he learned some useful information based on clues, so he replied without hesitation: "Zhitomir!"
"Oh, it turns out you are from Ukraine." Donia took the initiative to say: "I am from Moscow, born in this city, 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 looked at each other and smiled, and Tonya continued, "Misha, you are so awesome. You even guessed what I want to say."
Sokov didn't say anything, but just laughed dryly.
Donia felt that she was close to Sokov now, so she began to ask some private questions: "Who else in your family? Are you married?"
"The parents have all passed away." Sokov thought of the freckled girl who almost exposed her identity when he put on makeup to the Mogilev prisoner-of-war camp to rescue Yakov, and said hesitantly: "There is another sister who has not yet been married."
"Where is she?" When Sokov said that she had another sister, Tonya immediately became interested: "Did she stay in Zhitomir or evacuate to another place."
"She should be in Mogilev now?"
"Mogilev, isn't that in Belarus?" Dongniya asked back with surprise: "How could she go there?"
"I don't know, I don't know how she appeared in Mogilev." Sokov shook his head and said, "We escaped from Zhitomir together, but we were bombarded by enemy planes on the way, and we were separated in chaos."
"Wait," Donniya's geography knowledge was obviously good. She said thoughtfully: "When you escaped from Zhitomir, you probably 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, and I don't know what's going on."
"Then how do you know she is in Mogilev?" said Tonya. "Maybe someone else is wrong, maybe."
"You can't make a mistake." Sokov couldn't help but feel a little scared when he thought of the situation at that time: "Because I saw her in Mogilev with my own eyes."
"Since you've seen her, why not bring her back?" Donia said in confusion: "You can bring her back and then place her in Moscow. In this way, you don't have to worry about her safety."
"Tonya, you may not know that I met her in the German prisoner-of-war camp at that time." Sokov said in a difficult tone: "She is in there as a cook for the prisoner-of-war."
Dongniya looked at Sokov and asked in surprise: "Misha, how could you run to the German prisoner-of-war camp?"
Sokov organized a word in his mind and briefly explained to Donia: "I helped the comrades from the Ministry of Internal Affairs at that time, put on makeup and got into the German prisoner-of-war camp to rescue an important captured person."
"Then did your sister recognize you?"
"Recognize it." Sokov nodded and said in a difficult tone: "She rushed up and hugged my waist and called me brother. My cold sweat was over. You know, the comrades in the Ministry of Internal Affairs who followed me into the prisoner-of-war camp were all dressed up as German officers and soldiers. If their identity was exposed, we would not only not be able to save the person we wanted to save, but we would even trap ourselves."
"Then are you okay?" As soon as Dongniya asked this question, she realized that if Sokov had been exposed at that time, she would probably not have the chance to stand here with her. She quickly changed her words: "Then how did you escape from danger later?"
"The chief in the prisoner-of-war camp saw that the cook they had come to cook and rushed over and hugged my waist, and he would definitely be suspicious." Sokov continued: "Fortunately, I was smart and told the Germans that the girl had recognized the wrong person."
"That's how easily the German officer believed what you said?"
"The Germans are not fools, of course they would not easily believe my explanation. They interrogated me again, and only after seeing my answer was clear, they believed that I had not deceived them."
"Misa, hurry up and tell me, how did they interrogate you?"
"The German asked my sister, what did I do before?" Sokov explained to Tonya: "She replied that I was an ordinary factory worker."
"The German asked her again if I had ever been a soldier, and she replied that no. When the German heard this, he dispelled his doubts about me."
"Why did the Germans believe you so easily?" Dongniya asked in confusion.
Sokov smiled and then asked back, "Tonya, although I have not been in the army for a long time, do you think I am a new recruit?"
"Didn't you join the army for a long time?" Dongniya 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, Dongniya's chin almost fell directly to the ground: "What a recruit who had just been enlisted for two months actually won the rank of major and was promoted to brigade commander. My God, how did you do this."
"I have better luck and have made a lot of contributions, so the promotion speed is slightly faster than others."
The two chatted and unknowingly came outside the tent where Tonya lived.
Sokov originally wanted to say goodbye and leave, but Tonia couldn't bear to leave, and she still held his arm and refused to let go.
At this time, Bobricov trotted over, raised his hand to salute Sokov and said, "Comrade Brigade Commander, the Chief of Staff has something urgent to come to you, please go back immediately."
When he learned that Sokov had something important, Tonya did not try to keep Sokov anymore, but just said: "Misha, remember to come to see me if you have time."
"Okay, I'll come here when I have time."
When Sokov took Bobricov to the brigade command center in a hurry, the guard company commander asked curiously: "Comrade Brigade Commander, that's the female military doctor who has just arrived, right? I think she seems to be interested in you."
After hearing Bobricov say this, Sokov couldn't help but blush and then retorted: "Don't talk nonsense, we're just talking. By the way, do you know that the Chief of Staff is in a hurry to call me back. Is there anything important?"
Bobricov shook his head and replied truthfully: "Comrade Brigade Commander, I cannot enter the tent where the brigade is located until I get the order, so I have no idea what the Chief of Staff has to ask you for."
Seeing that he could not ask the information he wanted from Bobricov, Sokov did not force himself, but accelerated his pace and wanted to return to the brigade headquarters as soon as possible and ask the Chief of Staff himself.
"Comrade Chief of Staff," Sokov couldn't wait to ask when he saw Karsokov, "You are in a hurry to call me back. Is there anything important?"
"The Army Command has sent a telegram." Karsokov picked up a telegram placed on the table and handed it to Sokov, and continued: "It is said that Lieutenant Regalin has arrived in Moscow. After the door of the room was tested, he was very satisfied with him. The commander said, I hope you can search in the brigade again to see if you can find out a few more levels that are similar to Lieutenant Regalin."
Sokov couldn't help laughing when he heard Karsokov say this: "I said Comrade Chief of Staff, a commander as excellent as Lieutenant Regalin, may only be one out of a dozen or two hundred thousand people. There are only a few thousand people in our brigade. Not to mention finding a few more, I'm afraid that none of them can be found."
"Then how should we reply to the headquarters?"
"Answer truthfully," Sokov said briefly: "I believe that our superiors can understand our difficulties. This is simply an unsuccessful task."
After talking about Rhegalin, Karsokov picked up another telegram and handed it to Sokov: "Comrade Brigade Commander, this is the second telegram sent by the headquarters."
"Second telegram?" Sokov took the telegram and did not check it immediately, but asked back: "What instructions does the superior have on this telegram?"
"The headquarters said that based on the information they had, in order to seize Volokoramsk as soon as possible, the enemy dispatched another armored division." Karsokov explained: "According to the judgment of his superiors, the German armored division will pass through the defense zone of our brigade tomorrow. The headquarters ordered us to find a way to launch a strike against this German unit to reduce the pressure on friendly forces."
After hearing this, Sokov couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth, thinking that his superiors really valued him. The Germans were an armored division, and the ones he commanded were only an infantry brigade. Both sides were not the same size at all. Isn't it an egg to touch a stone when he asked himself to take the initiative to attack the German armored division?
Belkin, who had not spoken, also asked at this moment: "Comrade Brigade Commander, do you have any plans?"
"Since it is the order of the superior, we can only implement it unconditionally." Sokov said with some headache: "After the enemy's armored troops enter the artillery strike range of our brigade, use heavy artillery to launch artillery bombardment on the enemy's tanks."
After Sokov reminded me, Belkin immediately remembered that there were two artillery regiments under the Infantry Brigade, one was the 76.2mm cannon battalion, and the other was the 122mm heavy artillery battalion. If the firepower of the two artillery battalions was concentrated and artillery fire strikes on the marching German armored troops would definitely cause them a considerable loss.
"If we really want to say this, then it is necessary for us to send artillery observers in front of the position so that we can provide shooting parameters for the artillery in the rear in a timely manner." After Karsokov said this, he picked up the phone on the table and said to the microphone: "I am Chief of Staff Karsokov, and let Lieutenant Artyom, the artillery officer, come to the brigade command immediately."
A few minutes later, Lieutenant Artem appeared in the tent.
As soon as he saw Sokov, he asked urgently: "Comrade Brigade Commander, do you have any combat tasks that you have to hand over to our artillery to complete?"
"Yes, comrade Lieutenant of the Artillery." Sokov said to Artem with a smile: "According to reliable information, tomorrow there will be a German armored unit passing through the front of the defense zone of our brigade. The task of your artillery is to use artillery fire to eliminate German tanks and armored vehicles."
"That is, we need to send artillery observers to step forward in front of the position so that we can provide accurate shooting parameters to the artillery behind in a timely manner?"
"Yes, it's true." Sokov nodded and asked back, "How is it, are there any difficulties?"
"No problem," Artem said carelessly: "I will send the best artillery observers. As long as the communication can be ensured, our shells can accurately smash the Germans' heads and cause huge casualties to them."
"Comrade Chief of Staff," Sokov turned and asked Karsokov: "Are you ready for the fake artillery positions and the fake tank assembly points I asked you to arrange?"
Before Karsokov answered, Artem asked in confusion: "Comrade Brigade Commander, what should I do to set up a fake position?"
"If you start to launch violent artillery bombardment on German troops, the enemy will definitely not be able to wait for death." Sokov replied: "In addition to using artillery fire to counter, they may also dispatch air forces to bombard our artillery positions. If we set up fake positions in advance and wait for enemy planes to attack them deliberately, so that you can avoid unnecessary losses."
"Oh, so that's it." After figuring out what was going on, Artem turned his head and looked at Karsokov, wanting to hear what the chief of staff said.
"Comrade Brigade Commander, you can rest assured about this." Karsokov saw that everyone's eyes were focused on him, and quickly replied: "I have set up three fake positions, and they are all away from real artillery positions. In this way, when the enemy attacks, they will not affect real artillery positions."
"You did a good job, Comrade Chief of Staff." Sokov was very satisfied with Karsokov's arrangements. He nodded and said, "After the enemy bombed the fake positions, we must rebuild the new fake positions as soon as possible to cope with the new round of German bombing."
"Don't worry, I know it."
When Artem left and the few people were about to lie down to rest, Belkin suddenly asked: "Comrade Brigade Commander, you just went to the field hospital. Are you looking for Comrade Tonya?"
Sokov didn't expect that Belkin would suddenly ask this question, and his face turned red. When he was thinking about how to answer the other party, Belkin laughed: "Comrade Brigade Commander, I'm just kidding, don't mind."
Chapter completed!