Red Moscow

Chapter 2520 Farewell

“Hello, Comrade General.” The second lieutenant handed an envelope in his hand to Sokov: “Here are the train tickets for you and your wife!”

Hearing what the ensign said, Sokov couldn't help but blush, and quickly explained: "Comrade ensign, you are mistaken. This girl Agelina is not my wife, she just happened to go to Berlin with me."

"I'm sorry, Comrade General, I made a mistake." After the second lieutenant discovered that he had made a mistake, he quickly apologized to Sokov: "Please forgive me for my recklessness."

Naturally, Sokov would not argue with a second lieutenant over such a trivial matter. He opened the door and got out of the car, and asked the second lieutenant: "Comrade second lieutenant, I want to call home. Do you know where there is a phone?" "

"I know, Comrade General, of course I know." The second lieutenant said respectfully: "There is it in the station duty room. I will take you there."

Agelina knew that Sokov was calling Asya, so she did not follow him. Instead, she sat in the car and chatted with Yakov.

Sokov followed the second lieutenant to the door of an office. When the second lieutenant opened the door, he saw a sign hanging beside the office door that read "Station Army Representative", and asked curiously: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, what are you doing?" Are you the military representative here?”

“Yes, Comrade General.” The second lieutenant opened the door and made an invitation gesture to Sokov: “Please come in, Comrade General!”

Sokov walked into the room and saw a black phone on the table. "Can this phone make outside calls?"

"That's right, Comrade General." The second lieutenant gave Sokov a positive reply: "You can just dial the number."

Sokov thought that Asiya must not be at home at this time, but should be in the hospital. Thinking of this, I called Asiya's office.

After the call was connected, he heard Asiya's familiar voice coming from the receiver. Sokov said quickly: "Asiya, it's me, I'm Misha!"

 “Misha!” Asya looked particularly surprised when she heard Sokov’s voice: “Have you returned to Moscow?”

"Yes, I am in Moscow at the moment." Sokov said: "To be precise, I am at the Belarus Railway Station. In ten minutes, I will leave here by car for Berlin. I will give you a special call. , so you don’t have to worry.”

"What, you are going to Berlin?" Asiya was shocked after hearing this: "Didn't you already reject Marshal Zhukov and say you want to stay in Moscow?"

Sokov replied with some embarrassment: "This happened very suddenly. Due to confidentiality reasons, I can't say much to you."

Hearing what Sokov said, Asiya could not say anything else. After all, whether to go to Berlin or not was arranged by her superiors, and Sokov could only obey. She could only warn on the phone: "Misha, please pay more attention to your health and call me when you have time. Do you remember?"

"Remember..." Sokov originally wanted to say a few more words to Asiya, but suddenly he saw Agelina appearing at the door, smiling at him, and he swallowed back what he said and could only He said briefly: "I'll call you when I have time." After that, he hung up the phone.

“Should you call Asiya?” Agelina asked.

"Well, yes, I'm going to Berlin. It's still unknown when I can come back, so I have to explain something to her." Sokov came to Agelina's side and urged: "The train is leaving soon. Let’s get in the car.”

"Comrade General, please wait a moment." Just as Sokov was about to walk out of the military representative's office, the second lieutenant stopped him and handed him an assault rifle: "Please bring this."

Sokov looked at the assault rifle in the second lieutenant's hand, and asked with some confusion: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, I am going to Berlin, not to fight, so why should I bring a gun?"

"Comrade General, although the war has ended for more than half a year, there are still some remaining gangs in Poland and Germany." The second lieutenant explained to Sokov: "They continue to attack our roads and railways. You Bring a gun for self-defense, this gun is more powerful than the pistol you carry."

"You are right, Comrade Second Lieutenant." Sokov took the gun from the Second Lieutenant's hand and said with a smile: "You may not know yet, but I designed this gun. I didn't expect that your station would also be equipped with it. This kind of weapon."

"Comrade General, I really didn't expect that this gun was actually designed by you." After hearing what Sokov said, the second lieutenant showed a surprised expression on his face: "I have used this kind of gun, and to be fair, this is the best gun I have ever seen. A great small weapon that can shoot as accurately as a Mosin-Nagant rifle and strafe like a submachine gun.”

Since Sokov learned that he might encounter remaining Polish or German gangs on the road, he realized how important it was to carry a handy weapon. He asked the second lieutenant: "Comrade second lieutenant, how many bullets do you have here?"

“Comrade General.” The second lieutenant looked at Sokov with strange eyes and muttered to himself: Didn’t the general say that he designed this weapon? Why didn’t he even know the ammunition capacity of the magazine? However, he still answered truthfully: "The capacity of this curved magazine is 30 rounds..."

"Comrade Second Lieutenant, I know better than anyone else what the ammunition capacity of the assault rifle's magazine is." After realizing that the Second Lieutenant had misunderstood what he meant, Sokov quickly explained his intention: "Didn't you say that on the way to Berlin? , is it possible to encounter an attack by the remaining gangs in Poland or Germany? I think one magazine is not enough, and I hope I can ask you for a few more magazines. "

After listening to Sokov's explanation, the second lieutenant realized that he had misunderstood Sokov's meaning, and quickly explained: "Comrade General, you also know that as the military representative of the station, I definitely have no chance to go to the battlefield with weapons, so Just one magazine.”

"Too little, too little." After waiting for the second lieutenant to finish, Sokov shook his head and said: "If we really encounter gangs on the road, only one magazine is not enough. Comrade Second Lieutenant, if bullets If it's all gone, this gun is no better than a fire stick. Then we will be shot to death by gangsters. Do you want to see this happen?"

Faced with this question raised by Sokov, the second lieutenant replied without hesitation: "Of course not."

“Since I don’t want it, can you help me find some more ammunition?”

 “How much ammunition do you want?” the ensign asked cautiously.

"Of course, the more the better." Sokov was born with a phobia of insufficient firepower. Thinking that he might have to fight the gangs who attacked the train on the way, he certainly hoped to carry as many ammunition as possible: "I think at least ten are needed. clip."

"What, ten magazines?" Hearing what Sokov said, the second lieutenant's eyes almost fell to the ground: "So many?"  "Not many, not at all." Sokov explained to the second lieutenant: "What if we If you really encounter gangs and fight with them on the way, the more bullets you carry, the higher your chances of escaping, right?"

"Yes, that's the case." The second lieutenant also figured it out. In order for Sokov to reach Berlin safely, he had to find a way to find more bullets, so he said to Sokov: "Comrade General, please Get in the car first, and I’ll send it to you after I find the ammunition!”

After Sokov thanked the second lieutenant, he left the military representative's office with Agelina and came to the platform. Yakov, who was standing by the car smoking, saw Sokov and Agelina approaching. He quickly threw away the cigarette **** in his hand and walked over: "Misha, are you done with the phone call?"

 “The fight is over!”

Yakov saw the assault rifle slung on Sokov's shoulder, with a look of astonishment on his face: "Where did you get the assault rifle?"

"It was the military representative at the station who gave it to me." Sokov was worried that Yakov didn't know who the military representative was, so he specifically explained to him: "That's the second lieutenant just now. He is the military representative at the station. He gave this gun to me. Self-defense.”

“Defend yourself, what to defend yourself from?” Yakov asked puzzledly: “The war is over, will there still be wars somewhere?”

"Yasha!" Before Sokov could speak, Agelina next to him interrupted: "I heard from the military representative that there are still many remaining gangs in Poland and Germany, and they attack roads and railways without restraint. He gave Misha a gun for self-defense on the road. "

"Oh, that's it." After Yakov figured out what was going on, he said with disgust: "Why is there only one magazine? If you accidentally adjust the switch to the burst position, the bullets can be fired in a few seconds. All lit.”

"I have already told the military representative about this, and he promised to help me get some more ammunition." Sokov sent an invitation to Yakov: "Anyway, it will take a while to drive, so let's go and sit in the car first. "

Although there was a conductor checking tickets at the door, after seeing Sokov and Yakov's epaulettes clearly, he not only did not ask them to show their tickets, but respectfully invited them to get on the train. Sokov once again felt the convenience brought by his military rank. After he got on the train, he whispered to Yakov: "Yasha, if we are not generals, but two ordinary soldiers, what do you think of the conductor?" Will they let us get on the bus without checking the tickets?”

"Needless to say, they will definitely do it business." Yakov said: "Not only do we need to show the tickets, but they even ask you to show your ID and compare it with the information on the ticket. If there is a slight error, I won’t let you get in the car.”

Arriving at the box, Sokov was attracted by the decoration inside the box. The box was very elegantly decorated, with exquisite oil paintings hanging on the walls, the bed covered with soft sheets and quilts, and a comfortable sofa. There is a bathroom connected to the side, which is equipped with an exquisite sink and mirror.

"The environment here is really good." After Yakov came in and walked around, he said with emotion: "If I lived in such a luxurious box, I wouldn't feel bored even for 33 days, let alone 33 hours. "

Hearing what Yakov said, Sokov couldn't help but think of a later movie "Snowpiercer". A sudden climate change wiped out most of the human beings on the earth, and everyone who survived the glacier disaster boarded the A train, like Noah's Ark, keeps running on the endless rails. However, no matter how nice the environment on the train is, if you stay in such a narrow space all the time, you will probably go crazy within a few months.

“Comrade General!” the second lieutenant’s voice came from the door: “Can I come in?”

"Yes, of course." Sokov knew that the second lieutenant appeared to bring ammunition to him, so he quickly said: "Please come in quickly."

After the second lieutenant entered the door, Sokov found that his hands were empty. He couldn't help but frown slightly: "Comrade second lieutenant, didn't you find the ammunition I wanted?"

 “Found it, Comrade General.”

“But I see you have nothing in your hand?”

The second lieutenant turned towards the door and said: "Bring the things in!"

Following his order, the two soldiers carried two wooden boxes through the door with great difficulty, and then placed them in the open space of the box.

"Comrade General," the second lieutenant said to Sokov after sending away the two soldiers: "There are fifty magazines here, which must be enough for you."

"Enough is enough." Sokov silently calculated in his mind that the weight of each 7.62x39mm intermediate-power bullet used by the AK47 is 16.4g. 1,500 rounds is 24.5kg. Plus the weight of the magazine and wooden box, the total weight should be At about 40 kilograms, no wonder it was so difficult for the two soldiers to lift it.

“30 magazines, a total of 1,500 rounds of ammunition.” Yakov exclaimed: “With this much ammunition, you can fight a small-scale encounter.”

Sokov was thinking about another thing. He looked at the second lieutenant and asked: "Comrade second lieutenant, if these ammunition are not used, what should I do with them after they arrive in Berlin?"

Sokov's words reminded Yakov, and he quickly asked the second lieutenant: "Yes, comrade second lieutenant, if so much ammunition is not used, what should Misha do with it after he arrives in Berlin? Look at his body. It’s impossible to carry so much ammunition.”

The second lieutenant smiled slightly after hearing this, and then said to Sokov: "Comrade General, I will contact the Berlin station. Since the ammunition is not used or used up after you arrive at the destination, then leave it in the box. They will arrange manpower to do the recycling.”

"Okay." Sokov nodded and said, "If these ammunition are not used or used up, I will leave the things in the box when I get off the car."

The second lieutenant nodded, then saluted Sokov and said, "Comrade General, I wish you a safe journey!"

Shortly after the second lieutenant left, the sound of the train's whistle came outside. A young female conductor appeared at the door and said to the box: "Comrade generals, the train is about to leave. Please hurry up and get off the train to see off your relatives." ”

"Misha," Yakov stood up, shook hands with Sokov, and said, "I wish you a safe journey. If you are coming back one day, remember to call me first and I will drive here to pick you up. your."