After deploying the mission, Sokov felt that the battle would not start for a while, so he planned to find a place to lie down for a while to recuperate his energy so that he could better command the troops in combat at dawn.
Just when Sokov left the command post and was about to go to the room assigned to him by Smirnov, Second Lieutenant Khrus caught up with him from behind: "Comrade Commander!"
Sokov stopped, turned around and asked Khrus: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, what's the matter?"
"Comrade Commander, can I take a moment of your time to report something important to you?"
Sokov looked around and saw people walking around in the corridor. After seeing Sokov, these officers instinctively stopped and raised their hands to salute before continuing to move forward.
"This is not the place to talk." Sokov knew that Khrus came to him specifically. There must be something particularly important. It was obviously inappropriate in this corridor where people were coming and going. "Let's talk in my room." "
The room arranged by Smirnov was not large, but it had a lot of furniture: a writing desk, two armchairs by the window, and a bed covered with white sheets on one side of the wall. There was a small round table and four chairs in the center of the room, with an incandescent lamp hanging from the ceiling above.
Sokov pulled out a chair and asked Khrus to sit down: "Sit down, Lieutenant Khrus."
But Khrus stayed on the spot like a telegraph pole. Seeing that he didn't want to sit down, Sokov didn't force him, so he pulled out a chair and sat down directly. Then he looked up at him and said: "Second Lieutenant Herus, there are only two of us here. If you have anything, just tell me."
"Comrade Commander, the situation is like this. I met an acquaintance in the city today."
"An acquaintance?!" Sokov asked in shock, "What does he do?"
"His name is Aku. He used to be a corporal in the 9th fortification area and commanded a squad." Khrus explained to Sokov: "When our army's position was occupied by the Germans, he took His soldiers retreated with the large army until they reached Vinnitsa, and were ordered to hold on to a bunker in the defense fortifications."
"Second Lieutenant Khrus, your story sounds very long." Sokov interrupted Khrus and pointed his finger at the chair he had just dragged out: "You'd better sit down and talk slowly."
This time Khrus sat down obediently, ready to continue telling Sokov the story of Aku.
"There is nothing here, I can't serve you tea." Sokov made a gesture to the other party: "You continue, I want to know what happened to your friend."
"The bunker they were ordered to hold was at the very edge of the defense fortifications." Khrus continued: "In the first few days, the bunker they were in was not attacked by the Germans. But the gunfire coming from a distance The sounds of sound and explosions made him understand that the positions held by friendly forces were being attacked by the Germans.
After four or five days like this, no gunshots or explosions were heard nearby, and their communication with their superiors was also interrupted. But at this time, they did not realize that all the defense positions except theirs had been occupied by the Germans. "
When Sokov heard this, he already guessed the reason: "I think it may be that the bunker Aku and the others are holding is too remote, so it was not discovered by the Germans."
"Yes, that's it." Khrus nodded, and after confirming Sokov's statement, he continued: "The next day, they saw a group of German soldiers riding motorcycles. Passing more than fifty meters in front of the bunker, Aku finally saw the enemy appearing. He was willing to let them go, so he immediately ordered the soldiers to shoot.
As the order was issued, the three Deggarev light machine guns in the bunker fired simultaneously. The intensive firepower caught the unprepared Germans by surprise. Two motorcycles were immediately destroyed and seven or eight German soldiers were killed. The Germans who came to their senses immediately jumped off the motorcycle, used the motorcycle as a cover, and fired back at Aku and the others.
After more than ten minutes of fighting, except for one motorcycle that escaped, the rest of the motorcycles were destroyed and all the soldiers on the vehicles were killed. Seeing that the enemy had retreated, Aku immediately sent people out of the bunker to collect weapons that could still be used from the German corpses in preparation for a protracted war with the Germans. "
Just when Horus was getting into his words, there was a sudden knock on the door. Sokov stood up and walked over, reached out and opened the door, and saw that it was Koshkin standing at the door: "Koshkin, what can I do?"
"Comrade Commander," Koshkin replied, "there is a strange person outside looking for Lieutenant Herus."
"Second Lieutenant Khrus," Sokov turned to Khrus who was sitting at the table and said, "Someone is looking for you outside."
"Someone is looking for me?" Khrus stood up hesitantly and said with confusion on his face: "Who is looking for me?"
At this time, a middle-aged man in military uniform appeared from behind Koshkin, smiled and said to Herus: "Herus, I am looking for you."
"Aku!" Khrus couldn't help but exclaimed after seeing the person clearly: "Why are you here?"
"Herus, I would like to ask you to help me meet General Sokov."
Before Khrus could speak, Sokov said coldly: "I am Sokov, what do you want from me?"
The man in military civilian clothes heard that the general in front of him was Sokov. He hurriedly stood at attention. After raising his hand in salute, he said respectfully: "Hello, comrade general! I am Aku from the 9th fortification area of the former Southwest Front Army." corporal."
"It turns out to be Corporal Aku." Sokov figured out that the man in military uniform standing at the door was the Aku that Khrus was telling him, so he quickly greeted him: "Please come in and sit down, Khrus. Lieutenant Russ is telling me your story. Now that you are here, I hope to hear the whole story from your mouth. Is that okay?"
"Of course, Comrade General."
"Koshkin," Sokov turned around and ordered Koshkin: "Bring me some cups of tea. I've been sitting here for a long time and I haven't even had a drink of water."
Hearing Sokov say he wanted to drink water, Koshkin didn't dare to be negligent. He hurriedly turned around and left the room, returning to the headquarters to find a teapot.
"Comrade Aku," Sokov saw that Aku was wearing a washed-white military uniform and did not address him by his military rank: "Before you came, I was listening to Khrus telling you about your heroic deeds in Vinnitsa. Woolen cloth."
When Aku heard what Sokov said, he couldn't help but blush, and then said sheepishly: "Comrade General, I don't know where he went, so I can continue."
"He just said that you repelled a German motorcycle squad and you sent people out to collect weapons and equipment from the corpses."
"So that's it for now, let me continue." Aku said: "The Germans thought that our troops stationed in the defense fortifications had been eliminated by them. As a result, after we fought, the Germans discovered that There was still one surviving firepower point, so a company was specially assigned to deal with us.
Our bunker was made of one meter thick concrete. The attacking Germans only had machine guns and mortars, so there was nothing they could do to take out the bunker. In the next two days of the attack, they sacrificed at least fifty soldiers, but they were never able to get close to the position ten meters away from the bunker.
One day, we had just repelled a German attack when the roar of aircraft engines suddenly came from the air. I looked out from the firing hole and saw two planes in the sky. Flying in front was a reconnaissance plane of our army, and behind it was a German fighter plane. "
When Sokov heard this, he couldn't help but remember that he once took a reconnaissance plane to hang out over the German-occupied area. As a result, it attracted German fighter jets. Although the pilot was highly skilled, he was eventually shot down by the enemy plane.
Thinking of the past, Sokov couldn't help but ask: "Did our military plane escape?"
"No, Comrade General." Aku naturally didn't know that Sokov had been shot down by an enemy plane, and he said to himself: "The plane was still shot down by an enemy plane. Fortunately, the pilot was skilled and successfully shot down the plane." The plane made an emergency landing about two hundred meters away from our bunker.
I couldn't help but be stunned when I saw the two people stumbling out of the smoke-filled plane. Because I found out that the pilot was a woman and the other passenger was a general.
In order to prevent the female pilot and general from being captured by the Germans, I immediately sent three soldiers to meet him outside the bunker. But the Germans in the distance obviously also discovered our general, and immediately blocked the road to the bunker with machine guns and mortars. Unfortunately, two soldiers died, and the remaining soldier was also injured, but fortunately the general Both the pilot and the female pilot returned to the bunker safely.
When the general entered the bunker, I saw that the briefcase he was carrying was handcuffed to his wrist. In my experience, this is a general on a secret mission.
As soon as I said a few words to the general, a soldier shouted loudly that a German assault gun was coming. Comrade General, you should know that the German assault guns are used to support infantry in attacking fortresses, and we lack anti-tank weapons and cannot deal with them at all. If we wait until they consider our bunkers, we will be doomed. "
Sokov secretly thought to himself that if he saw an enemy general entering the bunker, he would definitely not order an assault gun to attack the bunker, lest everyone inside would be killed. You know, a living general is more valuable than a dead general.
Thinking of this, he asked casually: "Did the German assault guns turn around and leave without firing a single shot?"
Aku had a shocked expression on his face. He didn't expect Sokov to have guessed the situation at that time. However, he still forced himself to say calmly: "You are right, Comrade General. When I saw the German assault guns getting closer and closer to our bunker, I felt a little scared and thought it must be over. , as long as the assault gun fires two shots at our shooting holes, we will all be finished.
Just when I fell into despair, I suddenly saw the German assault gun stopped thirty meters away. After a few minutes, the assault gun actually turned around and drove away, which completely confused me. "
"Comrade Aku, the German assault guns suddenly chose to leave. I think they just discovered that there were important people in the bunker. It would be a pity if they were accidentally killed, so they stopped the bombardment." Sokov smiled. Said: "If it were me, I would take a political offensive next and persuade you to lay down your weapons and surrender. In this way, not only can the casualties of the troops be reduced, but a big fish can also be caught."
"Comrade General, you are so right!" Aku saw Sokov analyzing the problem in an orderly manner, and he couldn't help but feel a little awe for him: "The Germans hid behind a rock and shouted with a loudspeaker. We laid down our arms and surrendered, promising to treat ourselves as a prisoner of war."
Sokov sneered twice, and then said: "Come on, Comrade Aku, this is a trick used by the Germans. After deceiving the defenders, they don't care whether you are sincere in the sneak attack, or whether you are pretending to be a coward, whether you want to stay or not. Shoot you, it all depends on their mood."
"You are right, Comrade General." After listening to Sokov's words, Aku nodded vigorously and continued: "The general also told us the same thing, saying that the defenders in some places were killed because they resisted for too long. After the Germans captured them, they shot them directly, so it was right not to surrender."
"Comrade Aku, what does that general do?" Sokov was eager to know what happened next, so he asked with some urgency: "What is in the briefcase in his hand?"
"I don't know either." Aku shook his head and said with a wry smile: "I just saw a thick stack of documents. I really couldn't tell what they were. I asked the general tentatively, and he answered He said that he was sending information to another unit and was preparing to launch a counterattack behind the enemy's rear in order to drive the enemy out of our city."
In Sokov's impression, since the Soviet-German war broke out, the troops of the Southwest Front have been retreating steadily without any decent counterattacks. Even if the general sends the information to the designated troops, he may not be able to execute it as planned and deal a thunderous blow to the enemy.
"Comrade Aku, you were surrounded by enemies at that time. How did you escape in the end? How did you arrange the general and the female pilot?"
Before Aku could answer Sokov's question, Koshkin came in from outside, holding a tray in his hand. There was a pot of tea on the tray, four teacups, and a small saucer filled with sugar cubes.
After Koshkin put the contents of the tray on the table, he picked up the teapot and poured a cup for Sokov first, then poured a cup of tea for Khrus and Aku each: "Please have some tea, Aku!" Comrade Ku, please drink some tea to moisten your throat, and then tell us what happened next.”
