Red Moscow

  Chapter 716 Sergeants and Majors

"In the battle to defend Moscow, tens of thousands of our commanders and fighters died." Sokov sighed softly, and said regretfully: "In order to defend our great motherland, countless young soldiers sacrificed themselves. Precious life."

The secretary got up and walked in front of Sokov, and said in a low voice: "Comrade Colonel, this is the only relic belonging to the son of the factory manager Peter. He takes it out every day to have a look. Once when I went in, I forgot to knock on the door and saw He is holding this military coat and weeping silently."

Sokov's eyes quickly dimmed. He quickly turned his head and glanced at the closed door, then turned to the secretary and said, "Comrade Secretary, please tell Director Peter that we will avenge his son. Severely hit the Faxi Temple invaders." After speaking, he nodded to his secretary, turned around and walked out of the office with the soldiers waiting beside him.

   "Comrade Commander!" As soon as he walked out of the office, a corporal immediately asked, "Where are we going next?"

  Although Sokov couldn’t call out the corporal’s name, he knew he was the squad leader of the seventh squad, so he stopped and said, “Squad Seven, I just received a call from the commander, asking me to rush to the headquarters immediately.”

   "Go to the headquarters?" The seventh squad leader glanced at the soldiers beside him, and said with some embarrassment: "Comrade commander, we only have five people. If we encounter the enemy on the road, I am afraid it will be difficult to resist."

"Don't worry, squad leader No. 7." Sokov said disapprovingly: "From the factory headquarters building to the group army headquarters, it is only two or three kilometers away. This area is still under the control of our army. Even if we encounter the enemy, as long as we If we can persist for a few minutes, nearby troops will come to support us."

  Sokov and his party left the factory headquarters building, passed through the factory area, exited the east factory gate, and headed towards the group army headquarters. Seeing that they were only two or three hundred meters away from the headquarters, there was suddenly intense gunfire from ahead.

  As soon as he heard the gunshots, Sokov instinctively shouted: "Hidden!" Then he jumped into the bullet crater by the side of the road, put the gun on the edge of the crater, and observed his surroundings vigilantly.

   "Comrade Commander," the No. 7 Squad Leader, who jumped into the trench, said in a panic when he heard gunshots not far away, "Listening to the gunshots, it seems that the direction of the headquarters has been attacked."

  Because the location of the headquarters was blocked by the river embankment, Sokov could only hear gunshots and explosions, as well as rising flames and gunpowder smoke, but could see nothing. He felt that what the seventh squad leader said made sense, the headquarters must have been attacked. Cuikov is in danger, and as a subordinate, he must not stand idly by and must help.

  Thinking of this, he turned to the seventh squad leader and said: "The headquarters is in danger. We can't just stand by and follow me." After speaking, he jumped out of the crater with his gun in hand.

  Squad leader No. 7 heard the sound of gunfire and explosions in the distance, and guessed that the enemy must be quite large. He wanted to continue hiding here to observe the situation, but Sokov charged forward without saying a word. The division commander rushed up. As a security guard, he couldn't stay still in the crater. He could only curse Sokov in his heart, and he crawled out of the crater and rushed up after him.

   When they rushed to the embankment, they saw a dozen soldiers below, under the command of a major, shooting at a group of people wearing Soviet uniforms on the opposite side. Seeing that both sides were wearing Soviet uniforms, Sokov was taken aback for a moment, but soon realized that one of them must be disguised by the Germans.

   Before he could tell which side was his own and which was the Germans, he heard the seventh squad leader muttering from the side: "My God, why are our own people fighting with our own people?"

   "Squad leader No. 7, don't you see it yet?" Sokov immediately said with anger when he heard what the leader of the No. 7 squad said, "Are the Germans pretending to be our army and trying to sneak attack the headquarters?"

  Squad leader No. 7, who had no master in mind, asked in a panic: "Then what should we do?"

   "Go up and help our own people and destroy the incoming enemies."

   "However, how do we know which side is our own and which is the German?" The seventh squad leader said hesitantly: "If we fight with our own people, it will be troublesome."

Sokov pointed to the soldiers on his side and said: "Squad leader seven, the place fifty or sixty meters behind the soldiers here is the headquarters of the group army. Tell me, which side is the enemy and which side is ours?" One of our own?"

After being reminded by Sokov, the No. 7 squad leader immediately came to his senses. If the troops approaching him were disguised by the German army, they would definitely leave a small number of people to contain the troops on their side, and then the rest rushed directly to the commander. department.

   After distinguishing between the enemy and the enemy, Sokov led several subordinates and quickly approached the troops commanded by the major with the help of trenches and bomb craters. Not long after they ran, the major noticed a small team coming from behind. He thought it was an enemy, but when he saw clearly that these people were running, they didn't shoot at him, so he judged that they were his own people.

   "Hey, Sergeant!" The major leaned out half of his body from the crater and shouted loudly, "Come to me quickly!"

   "Sergeant?!" Sokov couldn't help being taken aback when he heard the major shouting that. He thought to himself, only the seventh squad leader and a corporal were around him, and the rest were private soldiers. Where did the sergeant come from? Being so distracted, his pace couldn't help but slow down a bit.

  Seeing that Sokov and the others slowed down, the major became a little anxious: "Hey, I said sergeant, I told you to come here quickly, what are you still dawdling about?"

   Hearing the major's roar, Sokov looked down at the military overcoat he was wearing, and couldn't help laughing. He was wearing Peter's son's military coat, no wonder the other party recognized him as a sergeant, but he didn't care about explaining because of the urgency of the battle, so he rushed into the trench ahead with a few soldiers and came to the major's side.

The major glanced at Sokov, pointed to the opposite position with his hand, and said in an orderly tone: "Sergeant, there is a group of enemies wearing our uniforms on the opposite side. They tried to touch our headquarters, but they were on the way. But we discovered it. I now order you to rush up with your people immediately and wipe them all out."

   Sokov took a look at the distance between the two positions. It was about 80 meters. Although there were many bomb craters in the middle, most of the places were open and unobstructed. In such a terrain, letting myself lead five soldiers to charge would be death. So Sokov shook his head and retorted: "I'm sorry, Comrade Major, I cannot carry out your order. The distance between the two positions is so far, and many areas are exposed to enemy fire. If I lead a charge , I’m afraid we’ll all be dead before we reach the enemy’s front.”

Unexpectedly, the major was unmoved after hearing this, and instead said in a more stern tone: "Sergeant, this is my order. Don't you want to disobey orders on the battlefield?" Looking at Sokov, it seems that if Sokov does not carry out his orders, he will not hesitate to enforce battlefield discipline.

"Major!" Sokov said unmoved: "If it is the correct order, I will definitely execute it without hesitation. But the order you issued is to send us to die. Sorry, I will reply again You, I cannot carry out your wrong order and let my soldiers die in vain."

   Seeing that Sokov still disobeyed his orders, the major couldn't help but become furious, wishing to shoot Sokov immediately. But seeing the several soldiers standing behind Sokov pointing their guns at him, he couldn't help but feel a little guilty. He lowered his gun and asked angrily, "Which part are you from?"

  Sokov didn't know the other party, so he didn't identify himself, but simply said: "We are from the 41st Guards Division, and we came to the headquarters to carry out the order."

"Come here!" The major turned to call a soldier and told him, "Go and call Second Lieutenant Samoilov over, and tell him that some soldiers of the Guards Division did not obey my orders. Let him come over quickly and discipline him."

   Seeing that the major sent someone to call for Samoilov, Sokov ignored him and lay down in the trench, looking towards the opposite side. In the opposite trench, there were a dozen Germans disguised as Soviet troops. They might have run out of ammunition. Seeing that the Soviet troops did not shoot, they also stopped shooting.

  Samoylov soon followed the major's subordinates, and he followed a long way, he asked loudly: "Major Gladshev, what do you want?"

   "Comrade Second Lieutenant," Major Gladshev said dissatisfiedly: "Come here and see if you know these members of the Guards Division. They dare to violate my orders again and again!"

   Samoilov came to the major, glanced at Sokov, immediately straightened up regardless of the danger, and asked in surprise: "Comrade commander, why are you here?"

"I came here after receiving a call from Comrade Commander." Sokov thought that he had sent Samoilov to **** a battalion commander over. There should be more than a dozen soldiers by his side, but at this moment he was alone. I can't even see it, is it a sacrifice? "Comrade Second Lieutenant, why are you alone, where are your subordinates?"

"They are all staying at the headquarters at the moment, responsible for protecting the safety of the army chiefs." Samoilov replied respectfully, "Major Gladshev sent someone to look for me, so I came to have a look. Who on earth has the guts to dare to disobey orders on the battlefield."

   "Comrade Second Lieutenant!" Seeing Samoilov's respectful expression towards Sokov, Gladshev couldn't help asking curiously: "Who is he?"

"This is our division commander, Colonel Sokov!" After Samoilov learned that the person Gladyshev was talking about was actually Sokov, his attitude towards him became indifferent: "He received the command from the commander. I came here because of my order."

  (end of this chapter)