Lin Hua walked out of the town Soviet office and saw Seryosha, Christopher and another soldier standing in front of a two-story building across the road chatting. He quickly waved to the other side and shouted: "Hi, comrades!"
Hearing Lin Hua's shout, the three of them immediately stopped chatting. Seryosha came over first and asked respectfully: "Misha, where are we going?"
Seeing that it was getting late now and there was no need to stay outside in the ice and snow, Lin Hua said to Seryosha, "Let's go back to our place. It's really cold outside."
The garrison squad is located in the church in the center of the town. Seryosha led the way, climbed the steps of the church, and opened the closed wooden door. But he did not go in immediately. Instead, he stood by the door, holding 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, the room we live in is not in this small room, right? I heard Seryosha say from behind: "Misha, what are you doing here? Come in quickly."
Lin Hua agreed quickly and stepped into the corridor. He quickly glanced into the small room and found that there was only one chair in it. It should be a duty room or something. The living room should be behind the wooden door in front. He walked over and opened the door. This time he saw a hall with many single beds neatly placed on one side of the hall.
After Seryozha followed up, he asked Lin Hua: "Misha, there are only four people left in our class. Do you think there will be sentries tonight?"
In response to Seryosha's question, Lin Hua replied without hesitation: "It goes without saying that this is during a war and we cannot relax our vigilance at any time."
Hearing what Lin Hua said, Seryosha turned to the soldiers who followed him and said, "Oleg, you will be the sentinel tonight!"
Oleg was the soldier who was sent by Lin Hua to ask for help from Kochetov before the battle started. When he heard Seryosha's instructions, he quickly agreed, walked out of the church with his rifle on his back, and went to stand guard outside. .
Lin Hua found a wooden bed next to the door and sat down. He raised his head and said to Seryosa: "Seryosa, Comrade General told me that two squads of soldiers will report here tomorrow. We can live here." Do you want to get off?"
"It should be possible." Seryosha nodded and said: "In addition to this hall, there is also a basement. Not to mention two classes, even two platoons can live in it."
Everyone was very tired due to the battle with the Germans in the afternoon. After chatting for a while, they all went to bed. Seryosha and Christopher soon snored, while Lin Hua lay on the wooden bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep for a long time. First, it was uncomfortable to sleep on the wooden bed. Lao Maozi was a tall man, but the bed he slept on was narrow and short. When tall people slept on it, their feet would hang down on the ground.
The main reason why he couldn't sleep was the upcoming counterattack. He thought irritably: "With the beginning of the major counterattack, the battle line will be farther and farther away from Moscow. As a garrison in Khimki Town, I will definitely have no chance to participate in the battle. Can I only fight in the entire Patriotic State?" Performing this monotonous and boring garrison duty in this suburban town during the war?"
He didn't know when he fell asleep, so much so that Seryosha got up in the middle of the night to change guard with Oleg outside, but he didn't even hear him.
But when he was sleeping soundly, he suddenly felt someone shaking his body, and at the same time there was a voice shouting anxiously: "Misha, wake up. Misha, wake up!"
Lin Hua tried his best to open his eyes and saw clearly that the person shaking him was Seryosa, and asked with some dissatisfaction: "Seryosa, what's the matter?"
"The troops are here, Misha." Seryosha said excitedly: "The troops our superiors gave us to supplement are here!"
"The troops are here?!" Lin Hua, who was still a little confused, suddenly sat up when he heard what Seryosha said. He asked while putting on his boots: "Where are they?"
"In the square outside the door!"
Lin Hua kicked on his boots and trotted towards the outside of the church. He had just opened the wooden door, and before he had time to go down the steps, he heard a command to "stand at attention and take a 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 address his military rank, Lin Hua remembered that he was still wearing the rank of corporal. He quickly smiled at the other party and explained: "Yes, I am Sokov. As for the rank of staff sergeant, I just got it yesterday. Yeah, I haven’t had time to change to a new military 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, Sergeant Andre, the deputy platoon leader, is reporting to you that Special Platoon One and Two are stationed here. Awaiting your orders, please give instructions!"
"Please rest a moment!" After Lin Hua said this, he came to the team lined up in three rows and turned to Andre who was following him: "Deputy platoon leader, how many people did you bring?"
"Including me, there are a total of twenty-nine people." Andre explained to Lin Hua: "There are ten people in the first class and the second class. Except for me and another female health worker, the remaining seven soldiers , is used to supplement the original defensive squad."
"Oh oh oh, that's it, I understand." After Lin Hua finished speaking, he turned and looked behind him. He saw Seryosha and the others standing upright in front of the steps, and said to Andre: " Comrade Deputy Platoon Commander, if you have no objection, I intend to appoint Seryozha as acting third squad leader."
"You are the supreme commander here," Andre waited for Lin Hua to finish and then said expressionlessly: "You have the final say on who to appoint as the squad leader."
Seeing that Andre did not object to his opinion, Lin Hua said loudly to Seryosha: "Comrade Seryosha, from now on, you will be the squad leader of the third squad. Join the ranks!"
When he heard that he was appointed squad leader, even though he was only acting, Seryozha still had a look of surprise on his face. After he agreed loudly, he took Christopher and Oleg to the last row of the team, standing with the newly added soldiers.
Lin Hua stood at the front of the queue and said loudly to the soldiers: "Comrades, we are an army and cannot be dispersed to ordinary people's homes, so in the next few days, everyone will live here. Seryosha!"
When Xie Liaosha heard Lin Hua calling him, he quickly agreed loudly and walked out of the queue, waiting for Lin Hua to give him an order.
Lin Hua ordered him: "First take the new soldiers to the church and help them arrange a place to stay."
After Seryozha 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 dismissed first."
After the soldiers were disbanded, they followed Seryozha and others towards the church, but the three people 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 carrying 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 health worker was actually Asiya whom he had met yesterday. However, he had business to do at the moment and had no time to reminisce with the other party, so he said to Asiya: "Asiya, go to the church to find Seryosha and ask him to arrange a place for you to live."
After Asiya left, Andre began to introduce the two squad leaders to Lin Hua: "Comrade platoon leader, let me introduce you. This is the first squad leader, Corporal Grisa, and this is the second squad leader, Corporal Zheliya. "
"Hello, comrades." Lin Hua shook hands with the two of them one by one and said warmly: "Welcome to Khimki Town."
