The two of them drove to the location of the military headquarters. They saw that there were many houses here, but there were no signboards. So Sukhalev opened the car door, stuck his head out and asked a soldier on the roadside: "Hey, soldier." Comrade, do you know where the commander’s forward headquarters is?”
"Drive along this road." The soldier on the roadside saw that the person asking for directions was a major. He hurriedly pointed ahead and said to Sukhalev, "Comrade Major, your car will drive along this road." About a hundred meters away, you can see a wooden house, where Comrade Commander’s forward headquarters is located.”
After thanking the soldier, Sukhalev closed the car door and told the driver to follow the other party's instructions and continue to look forward. And he turned sideways and said to Victor, who was sitting in the back row: "Victor, do you think it is too risky for the commander to set up the headquarters here? If the enemy's scouts discover the advance command, If we call for artillery fire from our headquarters’ position, I’m afraid it will cause huge casualties, right?”
But Victor had a different view: "Sukhalev, I heard that the Germans now have a weapon with a range of more than a hundred kilometers. If this rumor is true, then should the headquarters be placed behind or close to There’s not much difference in the frontier position.”
"Do the Germans really have such weapons?" Sukhalev said in a skeptical tone: "I don't believe it anyway."
As soon as he finished speaking, the car stopped.
"What's going on? Why did you stop?"
"Comrade Major." The driver spread his hands and said helplessly: "The checkpoint has arrived."
Sukharev looked forward through the windshield, and sure enough he found several soldiers blocking the way. Behind them was a checkpoint, and the road was cut off by a crossbar. Just now, because it was too dark, Sukharev didn't notice that there was a checkpoint here at all.
"Comrade Commander," a sergeant came to the passenger window and said to Sukhalev through the window: "What section are you in and what are you doing here?"
"I am Major Sukhalev, chief of staff of the 122nd Regiment of the 41st Guards Division, and this is Lieutenant Colonel Victor, the deputy commander." Sukhalev said to the sergeant: "I was ordered to go to the forward headquarters to see Sukhalev. Commander Koff.”
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, the sergeant did not order someone to lift the crossbar in front, but said expressionlessly: "I'm sorry, Comrade Major, I didn't receive any notice."
"We are really here under orders, Comrade Sergeant." Victor leaned forward slightly and said to the Sergeant outside through the car window: "If you don't believe it, you can call your superior and ask. ask."
The sergeant thought this was a good idea, asking other soldiers to keep an eye on the car, while he returned to the guard box nearby to make a phone call, trying to find out whether Sokov had someone come over overnight.
A few minutes later, the sergeant returned to the car and said with a straight face: "I'm sorry, two comrades, commanders, I just called the company commander, and he said he didn't know about it at all. If you can't show a valid pass, I have no right to let you pass the checkpoint."
Hearing what the sergeant said, Sukharev was about to get angry, but was stopped by Victor. He politely asked the sergeant: "Comrade Sergeant, I would like to ask, which part do you belong to?"
"I am a unit directly under the headquarters of the 18th Guards Corps." The sergeant didn't understand why Victor asked this, but he still answered truthfully: "Why are you asking this?"
"That's no wonder." After hearing the other party's explanation, Victor immediately guessed the possibility that Sokov brought too few soldiers to the front, so he had to borrow some of his men from General Afnin, and these personnel Not knowing himself and Sukhalev led to such a misunderstanding: "Comrade Sergeant, could you please contact Lieutenant Koshkin and tell him that we have arrived under orders and are waiting for further instructions from the commander. "
Seeing that Victor mentioned Lieutenant Koshkin, the sergeant couldn't help but become hesitant. He didn't know whether he should listen to the other party and contact Koshkin to let the other party identify whether the two of them could pass.
However, after thinking for a long time, he could not come up with any good solution. He could only say: "You guys wait, I will contact Lieutenant Koshkin now. But I have something to say first. If Lieutenant Koshkin doesn't know you, you You have to turn around and leave.”
"No problem, no problem." When Victor was at the Frunze Military Academy, he dealt with Koshkin every day. How could the other party not know him? So he said carelessly: "As long as Lieutenant Koshkin says he doesn't recognize me, I will immediately turn around and leave without stopping."
Seeing the sergeant going to call again, Sukhalev turned to Victor and asked: "Victor, what is going on? Why didn't the sentry let us pass?"
"The reason is very simple." Victor said slowly: "These people should be temporarily transferred here to protect the safety of Comrade Commander. However, they are only the periphery. The core area inside is probably still led by Koshkin."
This time the sergeant had been gone for a longer time, almost ten minutes, and he still hadn't been seen back. Sukharev opened the car door and was about to get out of the car when a soldier standing next to the car shouted at him: "You are not allowed to get out of the car, sit back in the car."
Facing the gun pointed at him, Sukhalev could only sit back in the car obediently. He muttered: "I just want to go down and see where the sergeant went and why he hasn't come back for so long."
After waiting for a while, the sergeant finally appeared. But he was not alone, there was an officer accompanying him.
The officer came to the car, looked into the car, and said with a smile: "Lieutenant Colonel Victor, Major Sukhalev, it turns out it's you two. Who did I think it was?"
After hearing this, Sukharev said with some laughter and tears: "Lieutenant Koshkin, didn't this sergeant tell you who is here?"
Koshkin laughed and said: "The sergeant has forgotten your names. He only told me that two commanders from the 122nd Regiment were here, so I hurried over. Comrade Commander said that the 41st Guards Someone from the division will come over, it won’t be you two, right?”
Victor spread his hands, shrugged his shoulders, and said helplessly: "It's just us."
"Two comrades, commanders," Koshkin said to the two of them: "This place is only more than a hundred meters away from the commander's forward headquarters. We might as well walk there."
Victor readily agreed to Koshkin's proposal and directly opened the door and got out of the car. He said to Sukhalev, who was still sitting in the passenger seat: "Sukhalev, get out of the car quickly, don't keep Comrade Commander waiting."
When the two of them followed Koshkin towards the headquarters, Sukhalev asked Koshkin tentatively: "Comrade Lieutenant, do you know what the commander called us here for?"
"I don't know." Koshkin answered readily, "I am only responsible for the security of the forward command. As for what Comrade Commander asked you to come here for, I really don't know."
The two of them drove to the location of the military headquarters. They saw that there were many houses here, but there were no signboards. So Sukhalev opened the car door, stuck his head out and asked a soldier on the roadside: "Hey, soldier." Comrade, do you know where the commander’s forward headquarters is?”
"Drive along this road." The soldier on the roadside saw that the person asking for directions was a major. He hurriedly pointed ahead and said to Sukhalev, "Comrade Major, your car will drive along this road." About a hundred meters away, you can see a wooden house, where Comrade Commander’s forward headquarters is located.”
After thanking the soldier, Sukhalev closed the car door and told the driver to follow the other party's instructions and continue to look forward. And he turned sideways and said to Victor, who was sitting in the back row: "Victor, do you think it is too risky for the commander to set up the headquarters here? If the enemy's scouts discover the advance command, If we call for artillery fire from our headquarters’ position, I’m afraid it will cause huge casualties, right?”
But Victor had a different view: "Sukhalev, I heard that the Germans now have a weapon with a range of more than a hundred kilometers. If this rumor is true, then should the headquarters be placed behind or close to There’s not much difference in the frontier position.”
"Do the Germans really have such weapons?" Sukhalev said in a skeptical tone: "I don't believe it anyway."
As soon as he finished speaking, the car stopped.
"What's going on? Why did you stop?"
"Comrade Major." The driver spread his hands and said helplessly: "The checkpoint has arrived."
Sukharev looked forward through the windshield, and sure enough he found several soldiers blocking the way. Behind them was a checkpoint, and the road was cut off by a crossbar. Just now, because it was too dark, Sukharev didn't notice that there was a checkpoint here at all.
"Comrade commander," a sergeant came to the passenger window and said to Sukhalev through the window: "What section are you in and what are you doing here?"
"I am Major Sukhalev, chief of staff of the 122nd Regiment of the 41st Guards Division, and this is Lieutenant Colonel Victor, the deputy commander." Sukhalev said to the sergeant: "I was ordered to go to the forward headquarters to see Sukhalev. Commander Koff.”
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, the sergeant did not order someone to lift the crossbar in front, but said expressionlessly: "I'm sorry, Comrade Major, I didn't receive any notice."
"We are really here under orders, Comrade Sergeant." Victor leaned forward slightly and said to the Sergeant outside through the car window: "If you don't believe it, you can call your superior and ask. ask."
The sergeant thought this was a good idea, asking other soldiers to keep an eye on the car, while he returned to the guard box nearby to make a phone call, trying to find out whether Sokov had someone come over overnight.
A few minutes later, the sergeant returned to the car and said with a straight face: "I'm sorry, two comrades, commanders, I just called the company commander, and he said he didn't know about it at all. If you can't show a valid pass, I have no right to let you pass the checkpoint."
Hearing what the sergeant said, Sukharev was about to get angry, but was stopped by Victor. He politely asked the sergeant: "Comrade Sergeant, I would like to ask, which part do you belong to?"
"I am a unit directly under the headquarters of the 18th Guards Corps." The sergeant didn't understand why Victor asked this, but he still answered truthfully: "Why are you asking this?"
"That's no wonder." After hearing the other party's understanding, Victor immediately guessed the possibility that Sokov had brought too few soldiers to the front, so he had to borrow some people from General Afnin, and these personnel Not knowing himself and Sukhalev led to such a misunderstanding: "Comrade Sergeant, could you please contact Lieutenant Koshkin and tell him that we have arrived under orders and are waiting for further instructions from the commander. "
Seeing that Victor mentioned Lieutenant Koshkin, the sergeant couldn't help but become hesitant. He didn't know whether he should listen to the other party and contact Koshkin to let the other party identify whether the two of them could pass.
However, after thinking for a long time, he could not come up with any good solution. He could only say: "You guys wait, I will contact Lieutenant Koshkin now. But I have something to say first. If Lieutenant Koshkin doesn't know you either, you You have to turn around and leave.”
"No problem, no problem." When Victor was at the Frunze Military Academy, he dealt with Koshkin every day. How could the other party not know him? So he said carelessly: "As long as Lieutenant Koshkin says he doesn't recognize me, I will immediately turn around and leave without stopping."
Seeing the sergeant going to make a call again, Sukhalev turned to Victor and asked: "Victor, what is going on? Why didn't the sentry let us pass?"
"The reason is very simple." Victor said slowly: "These people should be temporarily transferred here to protect the safety of Comrade Commander. However, they are only on the periphery. The core area inside is probably still led by Koshkin."
This time the sergeant had been gone for a longer time, almost ten minutes, and he still hadn't been seen back. Sukharev opened the car door and was about to get out of the car when a soldier standing next to the car shouted at him: "You are not allowed to get out of the car, sit back in the car."
Facing the gun pointed at him, Sukhalev could only sit back in the car obediently. He muttered: "I just want to go down and see where the sergeant went and why he hasn't come back for so long."
After waiting for a while, the sergeant finally appeared. But he was not alone, there was an officer accompanying him.
The officer came to the car, looked into the car, and said with a smile: "Lieutenant Colonel Victor, Major Sukhalev, it turns out it's you two. Who did I think it was?"
After hearing this, Sukharev said with some laughter and tears: "Lieutenant Koshkin, didn't this sergeant tell you who is here?"
Koshkin laughed and said: "The sergeant has forgotten your names. He only told me that two commanders from the 122nd Regiment were here, so I hurried over. Comrade Commander said that the 41st Guards Someone from the division will come over, it won’t be you two, right?”
Victor spread his hands, shrugged his shoulders, and said helplessly: "It's just us."
"Two comrades, commanders," Koshkin said to the two of them: "This place is only more than a hundred meters away from the commander's forward headquarters. We might as well walk there."
Victor readily agreed to Koshkin's proposal and directly opened the door and got out of the car. He said to Sukhalev, who was still sitting in the passenger seat: "Sukhalev, get out of the car quickly, don't keep Comrade Commander waiting."
As the two followed Koshkin towards the headquarters, Sukhalev asked Koshkin tentatively: "Comrade Lieutenant, do you know what the commander called us here for?"
