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Chapter 2387

It was obviously not enough to rely on the radio he carried to figure out what happened to Melehov, so Sokov found Chumakov and asked him to take him to his temporary communications office, using the 57th The military radio station contacted Melekhov.

Arriving at the temporary communications office in the tent, Chumakov immediately walked quickly behind a telegraph operator and said loudly to him: "Hurry up, help me contact Melekhov of the 49th Army. General."

"Comrade Commander." The operator looked up at Chumakov and asked, "Should we send a telegram or make a direct call?"

"Now that the war is over, even if you call in plain language, you don't have to worry about being eavesdropped by the enemy." Chumakov replied without thinking: "Call directly!"

The operator agreed, picked up the microphone and started calling loudly.

Chumakov turned to Sokov and said: "Comrade Commander, I think it would be a bit slow to get information about the situation from General Melekhov through a telegram. It is better to talk to them directly. We can figure them out in the shortest time." What happened there."

Soon, the operator contacted Melekhov.

Sokov took an earphone from the operator's hand, first handed it to Lukin to put on, then put another one on his head, and said loudly into the transmitter: "Is this General Melekhov?" ?I am Sokov and I will speak to you now."

Hearing Sokov's voice, Melekhov seemed a little excited: "Comrade Commander, I finally found you. I just contacted the headquarters. The staff officer on duty said that you, the deputy commander and the chief of staff are all here. Why did Zhengjiatun go to participate in the surrender ceremony of the Kwantung Army..."

"Okay, General Melekhov, there's no need to talk about this nonsense." Sokov interrupted Melekhov's words and went straight to the point and asked: "Tell me quickly, what's going on with typhoid fever?" ?”

"That's it, Comrade Commander." Melekhov said: "Colonel Oleg said that when their troops were stationed in a mountainous area, they heard gunshots and explosions coming from behind the mountain, thinking that there was an ambush in the Kanto area. The army was heavily armed, so he sent a battalion to conduct reconnaissance. Unexpectedly, when they reached the top of the hillside, they saw an unexpected scene."

At this moment, Sokov was upset. He felt that Melekhov's answer to his question was a bit like telling a story. At the critical moment, "If you want to know what happened next, let's listen to the explanation next time", so he said impatiently: "Come on, what did they see?"

"It's the Kwantung Army who is killing people." After Melekhov said this, he felt that he had not stated clearly enough, and quickly added: "To be precise, they are killing their own citizens and committing suicide."

Lukin, who was wearing another earphone, asked in surprise: "They are killing their own expatriates and committing suicide. What is going on?"

"That's right, Comrade Deputy Commander." Melekhov recognized Lukin's voice and quickly explained: "Our soldiers saw that the soldiers of the Kwantung Army herded the foreigners together and fired with machine guns. Or throw grenades to kill or blow them up. Or distribute a grenade to the elderly, women and children, and let them detonate and commit suicide. A soldier of the Kwantung Army may have seen a two or three-year-old The child was too young to commit suicide, so he pulled the string of a grenade and stuffed it into the child's hand. After a loud bang, the child was blown to pieces. And these soldiers were massacring their own compatriots. At the same time, they were also committing suicide. The method they used was to aim their guns at each other's vital points at the same time, and then pull the trigger together to kill each other..."

When Lu Jin heard this, he couldn't help but gritted his teeth and said: "How come these damn Kwantung Army are like animals and are so cruel to their own people. Even the elderly and children are not spared."

"The little devils are not human in the first place. They are just a group of two-legged beasts." After Sokov gritted his molar teeth and said this, he continued to ask: "General Melekhov, what was your army doing at that time?" What kind of action was taken?”

"The battalion commander who led the team immediately ordered all the soldiers to attack the Kwantung Army soldiers." Melekhov said: "He believed that as long as these soldiers were eliminated, the suicide behavior of the expatriates would stop. But he What I didn't expect was that after they eliminated all the soldiers and were about to rescue the elderly, women and children, many people actually hugged each other, fired grenades, and blew themselves up to pieces."

Sokov impatiently knocked on the table and said impatiently: "General Melekhov, I asked you how the injury came about, but you said that you didn't get to the point even after a long time."

"Comrade Commander, don't be anxious, I'm going to get to the point soon." Melekhov sped up and said, "The battalion commander who was leading the team felt soft-hearted when he saw several injured women lying on the stretchers. , I ordered people to carry them back for treatment. But starting yesterday, some soldiers in the camp began to have symptoms of fever. According to the military doctor’s report to me, they had chills and shivering before the fever. The body temperature reached The temperature was above 40 degrees, accompanied by general fatigue, fatigue, headache, dry cough, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Yesterday there were only a dozen people, but today the number increased to more than 100. I thought this was unusual, so I immediately Report to the headquarters and hope to get a solution."

Although Sokov is not a doctor, he also knows the most basic step for acute infectious diseases such as typhoid fever, which is to isolate the infected person to avoid infecting more people.Thinking of this, he said into the microphone: "General Melekhov, your first task is to send people to isolate all these infected people. In addition, the number of people who have had close contact with them must also be limited to a certain number." Activities within the area will prevent them from infecting more people when they show symptoms of infection.”

"Don't worry, Comrade Commander." Melekhov said: "Not only were all the commanders and fighters of the battalion isolated, but even the 639th Regiment to which the battalion belonged was moved to an uninhabited area to ensure that they would not The harm spreads to more people.”

"You did the right thing, General Melekhov." Sokov said helplessly: "Isolate first, and I will send medical personnel and medicine to support you as soon as possible."

When Sokov handed the earphone and microphone back to the operator, Lukin asked curiously: "Misha, where do you think this typhoid fever came from?"

"I think patient zero should be one of the injured women." Sokov said: "They may have been infected with this damn virus elsewhere and were sent here. Originally, the Kwantung Army organized a suicide party. If everyone died, the virus would naturally not spread. But we did not expect that our soldiers would arrive while they were committing suicide and rescued many people, which caused typhoid fever to begin to spread among our army."

"Then what are you going to do?" Lukin reminded Sokov: "If there are not enough drugs for treatment, the mortality rate will be as high as 20%. That is to say, of the more than 100 soldiers infected today, there will be 30 People would die from typhoid fever.”

Sokov let out a long sigh and said: "I immediately reported the matter to the front army headquarters to see if they can provide us with enough medicine and medical staff to treat the soldiers infected with typhoid." "Let's call on the radio. ." Lukin said to Sokov: "In this way, maybe the assistance from our superiors can come faster."

When the radio operator began to call the front army headquarters, Sokov suddenly realized that Yakov had not been seen for a long time, and asked Chumakov in surprise: "General Chumakov, have you seen the chief of staff?" "

"Colonel Yilin stopped you before you entered the tent. Maybe there was something going on."

When Sokov was considering whether he should send someone to find Yakov, the dispatcher reported to him that he had contacted the front army headquarters and that the chief of staff, General Zakharov, was online and waiting to speak with him.

Knowing that the radio operator had contacted Zakharov, Sokov did not dare to neglect, took the earphone, put it on, and said into the transmitter: "Hello, Comrade Chief of Staff of the Front Army, I am Sokov."

"Misha." Zakharov did not know that a serious incident had occurred in the 49th Army at the moment. He thought that Sokov contacted him to report on the surrender ceremony held in Zhengjiatun, so he said with a smile: "You are Don’t you want to tell me how you accepted the surrender of the Kwantung Army’s 44th Army in Zhengjiatun?”

"No, Comrade Chief of Staff of the Front Army." Sokov said seriously: "A serious incident has occurred, which is related to the safety of our unit."

Sokov's words startled Zakharov, and he asked with some lack of confidence: "Misha, what happened? Did the Kwantung Army set some kind of trap for you at the surrender site, causing you to suffer a big loss?" Can’t do it?”

"Today's surrender ceremony went very smoothly." After Sokov said this briefly, he gave Zakharov a detailed report on the fact that many soldiers in Melekhov's 49th Army were infected with typhoid fever. report, and finally said: "Chief of Staff of the Front Army, our current number of medical staff and drugs is not enough to control this infectious disease. We hope to get the cooperation of the Front Army Headquarters."

After listening to this, Zakharov pondered for a long time, and then said: "Misha, this matter is of great importance. I can't make the decision. I need to ask Marshal Malinovsky for instructions immediately. Only with his consent can I transfer The resources of the front army will be used to help you."

"Comrade Chief of Staff of the Front Army, please hurry up." Sokov said to Zakharov in a pleading tone: "Every minute now is precious. If it is delayed longer, it will be more detrimental to us. There may be many soldiers who will pay the price with their lives."

"Don't worry, Misha." Zaharov knew that the Soviet army's work efficiency was slow, but this matter was a matter of life and death, and he couldn't afford to be careless, so he said in a positive tone: "Two hours at most, I will support you. Medical staff and medicines will be ready to go.”

"Thank you, thank you so much." After expressing his gratitude to Zakharov, Sokov took off his earphones, put the microphone next to him, and then said to Lukin: "Comrade Deputy Commander , General Zakharov has promised that the medical staff and medicines to support the 49th Army will be ready to go within two hours at the latest. I believe that with the help of the Front Army Headquarters, the typhoid fever prevalent in the army will definitely be eliminated. be effectively contained."

Lukin said: "Misha, we can't just point to the front army headquarters to provide us with help. We must also rely on our own strength to save ourselves."

"How to save yourself?" Sokov asked puzzledly.

"Immediately contact the director of the group army field hospital and ask him to dispatch personnel to the 49th Army," Lukin said to Sokov: "Let them treat the infected first, so that they can wait for the medical staff sent by the front army headquarters. When they arrive, those infected officers and soldiers will be able to receive further treatment, which will be very helpful for their recovery."

"Comrade Deputy Commander, what you said makes sense." Sokov once again ordered the operator: "Contact the group army field hospital for me. I want to talk to the director."

But this time Sokov was unlucky. When the field hospital was connected, the director was not there. It was said that he was personally presiding over an operation in the operating room.When he learned that the dean was not there, Sokov couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, so he casually asked: "Who are you?"

"I am the political commissar of the hospital." The familiar voice of the political commissar came from the earphone: "Comrade Commander, do you have any instructions?"

Sokov thought that although the director was not here at the moment, the political commissar was the second-in-command in the field hospital, and told him the same thing, so he told him in detail about the outbreak of typhoid fever in the 49th Army, and finally said : "Comrade Political Commissar, you must organize elite troops as soon as possible and rush to General Melehov's troops to treat those soldiers infected with typhoid fever. Now that the war is over, these soldiers did not die on the battlefield. If they were infected with the disease, And if we lose our lives, how will we explain to their families in the future?”

The political commissar heard the importance of this matter and quickly expressed his position: "Comrade Commander, please don't worry, I will immediately organize manpower and medicine. After the director completes the operation, I will immediately report the matter to him and let him Be aware of it.”

"Comrade Political Commissar, time is life." Sokov did not notice that he said a famous saying casually, and was still talking to himself: "Your medical staff and medicines arrived at the 49th Army a moment earlier to remove the infected commanders and soldiers from The chance of being rescued from the hands of the God of Death is greater. Do you understand?"

"I completely understand, Comrade Commander." The political commissar said: "I will start organizing manpower and preparing medicines now. It will only take four to 10 minutes at most. Our temporary medical team can rush to the 49th Army."

"Very good, Comrade Political Commissar, what you said is very good." Sokov nodded and said: "On behalf of the soldiers who were infected with typhoid fever, I would like to express my gratitude to you and the medical staff of your hospital, and extend my heartfelt thanks. Respect."

(End of this chapter)