Red Moscow

  Chapter 593 Survivor

"Report to Comrade Brigadier," Bely's unhurried voice came out of the earphones: "In the bombing that just ended, only a dozen of our soldiers were wounded, but the injuries were not serious and would not affect Their actions. As for the tanks, they did not suffer any losses."

   Knowing that the tanks that played the leading role during the breakout were all intact, the boulder hanging in Sokov's heart fell to the ground again, and he said repeatedly into the microphone: "Very good! Very good! Very good!"

After finishing the call, Sokov said to Yakov with a smile on his face: "Yakov, you are right. In this bombing of the tank battalion, except for a dozen soldiers who were slightly injured, all the tanks were intact. , will not affect our breakout operation tonight."

   Hearing Sokov talk about breakout, Yakov frowned slightly and opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it.

  But Sokov noticed his strangeness, and asked curiously: "Yakov, do you have something to say to me? With our friendship, is there anything we can't say?"

"Misha, you didn't report the breakout to Chuikov because you were worried about leaking the news. I understand that." Yakov said hesitantly, "But you plan to break out in the direction of Rokossovsky's troops. Why? Didn't you notify them?"

   In fact, Sokov also considered for a long time whether to report the breakout to Rokossovsky, and finally decided that it is better to break out quietly and not shoot. When I heard Yakov ask about this matter at this moment, I explained to him: "Yakov, the reason why I didn't notify General Rokossovsky was because once they learned about our breakout plan, they would definitely send In this way, it is possible for the enemy to perceive our intentions. Once they strengthen the defense in these directions, even if there is support from friendly forces, it may not be easy for us to successfully break through. "

After listening to Sokov's explanation, Yakov nodded thoughtfully, and said, "Misha, what you said makes sense. If General Rokossovsky had been informed in advance, with his character, he would definitely send troops. Respond to us. In this way, the enemy can detect abnormalities from their mobilization and strengthen defenses in the corresponding direction, making our breakout operations more difficult."

   Yakov paused for a moment when he said this, and then continued: "But if we don't notify, where should we go to find General Rokossovsky's troops after breaking through the German defense?"

"After we broke through the enemy's line of defense and jumped out of the encirclement, we marched all the way north." Sokov said confidently: "As long as we go north, we will definitely meet our own people." Speaking of this, he couldn't help it Sighing, "I just don't know how many commanders and soldiers can jump out of the German encirclement with us."

"Misha!" Yakov stretched out his hand and patted Sokov on the shoulder twice, "War, there will definitely be sacrifices. Even if you and I can safely break out of the enemy's encirclement An unknown." When he said this, his eyes suddenly stopped in one direction, and he said with some surprise, "Misha, which army is coming towards us?"

   "Where is it?" Sokov looked in the direction of Yakov's finger, and sure enough, he saw a group of commanders and fighters in the south, bent over and running towards his position in a scattered formation. He couldn't help muttering in his heart: "The troops of the first battalion and the guard battalion stayed on the ground obediently; while Colonel Gurdiyev's troops are fighting the German army in the southeast, and the direction is not right."

   Without waiting for Sokov to give an order, Second Lieutenant Samoilov, the third platoon leader at the foot of the hill, greeted him with two soldiers. Looking at Samoilov's back, Yakov said to Sokov with emotion: "Misha, your guard platoon leader is not bad, although he is rarely by your side, but he can not Silently block those who try to harm you."

Regarding Yakov's evaluation of Samoilov, Sokov nodded slightly and said: "Yakov, you may not know that Second Lieutenant Samoilov used to be from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. For him, Being in charge of security is a piece of cake.”

   After meeting the group of people, Samoilov exchanged a few words with the leading officer. Then, Sokov saw Samoilov set up the group of soldiers in a nearby trench, and came towards him with only the officer.

   After Samoilov came to Sokov with his officers, he straightened his body and reported, "Comrade Brigadier, this is Captain Gesant, deputy commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 120th Guards Regiment."

"Hello, Lieutenant Colonel Sokov." Gesant obviously knew Sokov, and he called out Sokov's name without waiting for Samoilov's introduction, "I am the 120th Guards Captain Gesant, deputy commander of the third battalion of the regiment."

   "Hello, Comrade Captain." Sokov shook his hand and asked curiously, "I want to ask, where did you come from?"

"Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, the situation is like this." Gesant explained to Sokov: "Yesterday the German army launched a fierce attack on our defensive position after another. After asking the division commander for instructions, the battalion commander decided to abandon the position and retreat. .Therefore, we left a few engineers to detonate the explosives planted in the position, while the rest of the troops broke out to the south."

Hearing what Gesant said, Sokov couldn't help but think of the mushroom cloud he saw yesterday. At that time, he thought that the troops standing on the ground, except for those commanders and fighters who defected to Gurdiyev, all died. . Unexpectedly, a bunch of survivors appeared now, and he asked again: "Comrade Captain, since you chose to break out to the south, why did you appear here again?"

Gessant sighed and said: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, you don't know that the retreat to the south has been completely blocked by the Germans. The Germans repelled our several charges. The entire battalion was lost. Two-thirds of the troops, even the battalion commander was unfortunately shot and died."

   "Comrade Captain, how many people do you have under your command?" Sokov asked briefly.

   "There are 57 more people." Gessant quickly replied, "They are all fighters with rich combat experience."

   "How is your equipment?" Sokov continued to ask.

  Gesant smiled wryly, and replied: "We are equipped with rifles, no machine guns and submachine guns, and very few bullets. On average, each gun only has five or six bullets."

"What, each gun only has five or six bullets?" Sukov was stunned by this answer: he immediately realized how wise Gesant was in making the decision to lead his troops north to join him, otherwise he would have been killed. With the weapons and ammunition they have, it is only a matter of time before they are wiped out by the Germans.

   "That's right," Gesangte nodded, and replied affirmatively: "We consumed a lot of ammunition during the battle, but we failed to get replenished in time, and the result became what we are now."

  Considering that his own strength is seriously insufficient, Sokov has improved his strength to a certain extent with the addition of Gesant and the others. However, in order for this small surviving unit to play a role in the breakout battle, they must first be replenished with weapons and ammunition.

  He said to Gesant: "Comrade Captain, your equipment is too poor, so you can't fight like this. Let me ask you to replenish a batch of ammunition and give you two rotary machine guns..."

Gesant did not expect Sokov to be so generous and promise him so many things as soon as they met. He couldn't help but smile, and said to Sokov: "Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, with these weapons and ammunition, you can just look at us. As long as we have one person alive, we will never let the enemy rush into our position."

   "Comrade Captain, there will be opportunities to fight after the defensive battle." Sokov smiled and said to Gesant: "The first thing we need to consider now is the issue of breaking out."

"Breakout, which direction to break out?" Gesant heard Sokov mention the breakout, and his face immediately turned livid: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, please forgive me, it is definitely impossible to break out to the south, and the enemy will gather there Emphasis on soldiers, unless you can get support from artillery and tanks, it is impossible to break through the enemy's defenses and get back to our own people."

"As for which direction we are going to break through, you will know after dark." Although Sokov has accepted Gesant and others, he still maintains the necessary vigilance in his heart for this small army that suddenly appeared , so even if they replenished their weapons and ammunition, they did not tell the other party the direction of their breakout. He called Samoilov and said, "Comrade Second Lieutenant, take Captain Gesant and his men to collect weapons and ammunition."

  After Samoilov left with Gesant, Yakov couldn't help but said with emotion: "It's a miracle that so many people survived such a large-scale explosion yesterday."

Regarding Yakov's statement, Sokov did not agree: "Yakov, you can't say that, maybe Gesant and the others were already far away from the explosion area when the explosives were placed on the engineer's hidden position, so to survive.”

"This army is a bit strange." Yakov didn't seem to be optimistic about Gesant and the others, so he specifically reminded Sokov: "Colonel Gurdiyev's side, didn't some of them withdraw from the fourth line of defense?" Commanders and fighters, let them come over and identify them to see if these people are their comrades in arms."

   "Yakov, what do you mean, there is something wrong with this group of people?" Sokov heard Yakov say this, and asked with some surprise: "You don't think they were sent by the Germans, do you?"

"The Germans are very cunning," Yakov sneered, and said, "I heard that they recruited many people from our army's prisoners of war and formed several Eastern battalions to fight against our army. To be on the safe side, let Colonel Gurdiyev send someone to verify."

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