Red Moscow

  Chapter 7 New Troops

  Lin Hua came out of the town Soviet office and saw Sergey and Christopher and another soldier chatting standing in front of a two-story building across the road. He hurriedly waved to the opposite side, and at the same time shouted: "Hi, comrades!"

  Hearing Lin Hua's shout, the three of them immediately stopped chatting. Seryozha came over first, and asked respectfully, "Misha, where are we going?"

  Lin Hua saw that it was getting late now, and there was no need to stay outside in the icy and snowy place, so he said to Seryozha, "Go back to our residence, it's too cold outside."

  The station of the garrison squad is in the church in the center of the town. Seryozha led the way, climbed the steps of the church and opened the closed wooden door. But he didn't go in immediately, but stood by the door and held the door, and politely said to Lin Hua: "Misha, please go first!"

  Lin Hua walked to the door and saw a short corridor inside, with another wooden door at the end, and a small room on the left side of the corridor. Lin Hua was thinking in his heart, the room we live in is not in this small room, is it? Then I heard Seryozha say from behind: "Misha, what are you doing here, come in quickly."

  Lin Hua quickly agreed, stepped into the corridor, quickly cast a glance into the small room, and found that there was only one chair inside, which should be a duty room or something, and the living place should be behind the front wooden door. He walked over and opened the door. What he saw this time was a hall, with many single beds neatly placed on one side of the hall.

   After Sergey came in, he asked Lin Hua: "Misha, there are only four people left in our class. Do you think there is still a sentry tonight?"

  Responding to this question from Seryozha, Lin Hua replied without hesitation: "It goes without saying that this is a time of war, and we must not relax our vigilance at any time."

  Hearing what Lin Hua said, Seryosha turned around and said to the soldiers who followed: "Oleg, you will be on guard tonight!"

Oleg was the soldier sent by Lin Hua to seek help from Kochetov before the battle started. Hearing Seryozha's order at this moment, he quickly agreed, walked out of the church with his rifle on his back, and went to watch outside up.

Lin Hua found a wooden bed near the door and sat down, raised his head and said to Sergey: "Sergey, Comrade General told me that soldiers from two squads will come here tomorrow to report, and we can live here. down?"

   "It should be possible." Seryosha nodded and said, "In addition to this hall, there is also a basement, let alone two shifts, even two platoons can accommodate them."

  Because of the battle with the Germans in the afternoon, everyone was very tired. After chatting for a while, they all went to bed. Seryozha and Christopher soon snored, while Lin Hua lay on the plank bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep for a long time. One reason is that the wooden bed on which he is lying is uncomfortable to sleep on. The old men are all tall and big, but the bed they sleep on is narrow and short. When tall people sleep on it, their feet hang down on the ground.

  The main reason why he can't sleep is the big counterattack that is about to start. He thought irritably: "With the start of the big counteroffensive, the battle line will be farther and farther away from Moscow. As the garrison of Khimki Town, I definitely have no chance to participate in the battle. Could it be that I can only fight in the entire Weiguo?" During the war, in this small town on the outskirts, performing this monotonous and boring garrison mission?"

  He didn't know when he fell asleep, so that Seryozha got up in the middle of the night to change the guard with Oleg outside, but he didn't hear it.

  But when he was sleeping soundly, he suddenly felt someone shaking his body constantly, and at the same time, a voice was shouting anxiously: "Misha, wake up. Misha, wake up!"

  Lin Hua tried hard to open his eyes, saw clearly that the person who was shaking him was Sergey Sha, and asked with some dissatisfaction, "Sergeysha, what's the matter?"

   "The troops are here, Misha." Seryozha said a little excitedly: "The troops our superiors have given us have arrived!"

   "The troops have arrived?!" Lin Hua, who was still a little confused at first, sat up suddenly when he heard what Seryozha said. He asked while putting on his boots, "Where are they?"

   "On the square outside the door!"

  Lin Hua put on his boots and trotted towards the outside of the church. As soon as he pulled the wooden door, before he had time to go down the steps, he heard a command of "stand at attention, rest". Then a sergeant stepped up the steps, looked at Lin Hua who had just come out, and asked tentatively, "Are you Sergeant Sokov?"

Hearing the other party call his military rank, Lin Hua remembered that he was still wearing the rank of corporal, and quickly smiled at the other party, explaining: "Yes, I am Sokov. As for the rank of sergeant, I just got it yesterday Yes, I haven't had time to change to a new rank yet."

After confirming that the person in front of him was Lin Hua, the sergeant raised his hand to salute him, and reported: "Comrade sergeant, the deputy platoon leader, Sergeant Andrei, is here to report to you, and the first and second squads are specially arranged to garrison here. Waiting for your order, please instruct!"

   "Please take a break!" After Lin Hua finished speaking, he came to the three-row line and turned to Andre who followed him: "Deputy platoon leader, how many people have you brought?"

"Including me, there are twenty-nine people in total." Andre explained to Lin Hua: "Squad 1 and Squad 2 each have ten people. Except for me and another female health worker, the remaining seven soldiers , is used to supplement the original garrison squad.”

"Oh oh oh, so that's the case, I understand." After Lin Hua finished speaking, he turned his head and looked back, only to see the three of them standing upright in front of the steps, and said to Andre: " Comrade deputy platoon commander, if you have no objection, I intend to appoint Sergei Sha to act as the third squad leader."

   "You are the supreme commander here," Andrei waited for Lin Hua to finish speaking, and said blankly: "It is up to you to decide who to appoint as the squad leader."

   Seeing that Andrei did not object to his opinion, Lin Hua said loudly to Sergey: "Comrade Sergey, from now on, you will be the monitor of the third class. Join the ranks!"

   Hearing that he was appointed monitor, even though he was acting as an agent, Sergei still had a look of surprise on his face. After he promised loudly, he took Christopher and Oleg to the last row of the team, standing with the newly added fighters.

  Lin Hua stood at the front of the queue and said loudly to the soldiers: "Comrades, we are an army and cannot be scattered among ordinary people's homes. Therefore, in the days to come, everyone will live here. Sergey Sha!"

  Xie Liaosha heard Lin Hua calling him, quickly agreed loudly, walked out of the queue, and waited for Lin Hua to give him an order.

  Lin Hua instructed him: "You take the new fighters to the church first, and help them arrange accommodation."

   After Xie Liaosha agreed and returned to the queue, Lin Hua said again: "The deputy platoon leader and the squad leaders of the first and second squads will stay, and the rest will be disbanded first."

   After the soldiers disbanded, they followed Sergei and the others and walked towards the church one after another, but the three whose names were called by Lin Hua stayed behind. When Andre was about to introduce the two squad leaders to Lin Hua, a female health worker with a medical bag ran over and asked Lin Hua, "Comrade platoon leader, what about me? Where should I live?" "

  Lin Hua glanced at the other party, and was immediately surprised to find that the female hygienist was actually the Asia whom she met yesterday. But he had business to do at the moment, and he didn't have time to catch up with the other party, so he said to Assia: "Assia, go to the church and find Seryozha, and ask him to arrange a place for you to live in."

After Asiya left, Andre began to introduce the two squad leaders to Lin Hua: "Comrade platoon leader, let me introduce you. This is Corporal Grisa, the first squad leader, and Corporal Geria, the second squad leader. "

   "Hello, comrades." Lin Hua shook hands with the two of them one by one, and said enthusiastically, "Welcome to Khimki Town."

  (end of this chapter)