red moscow

Chapter 2733

The next morning, a black car took Sokov, Vlasov and his guards directly to a military airport.

There was a transport plane that looked a bit old parked on the runway. The officer sitting in the co-pilot seat half turned around and said to Vlasov: "Comrade General, this is the plane that will take you to Kiev to take up your post."

"Well, I understand." Vlasov said lightly.

After the car stopped next to the transport plane, a pilot wearing a flight cap came over and saluted Vlasov: "Comrade General, please get on board!"

After the pilot and three others boarded the plane one after another, he also followed suit, closed the cabin door, and went straight into the cockpit to make preparations for takeoff with his companions.

While waiting for takeoff, Vlasov suddenly asked, "Captain Sokov, do you have any friends in Moscow?"

Hearing Vlasov's question, Sokov was stunned at first, and then he thought that his meeting with Victoria could not be hidden from others. Someone must have told Vlasov about this, which is why he asked this question.

"Yes, Comrade General, I do have friends in Moscow."

"Male or female?"

"A woman." Sokov knew very well that since Vlasov had asked this question, he might arrange for someone to investigate. If he did not tell the truth, he might cause unnecessary trouble, so he answered truthfully: "To be precise, it was a female police officer."

"Female police officer?!" Vlasov raised his eyebrows and asked, "How did you two know each other?"

"Captain Sokov," the guard said before Sokov could speak, "You are really extraordinary. You have just been in Moscow for two days and you have already met a young and beautiful female police officer."

"I just met her the day before yesterday." Sokov quickly organized his words in his mind and said, "I was out on patrol with a team of soldiers. When I passed a store, I saw that some residents who were queuing to buy things were not conscious and caused chaos. I led people to assist the police in arresting these people and sent them to the nearby police station. And that was how I met the female police officer."

"Oh, so that's how it is." Vlasov was a suspicious person. He always had doubts about Sokov's background and even worried that he was a spy planted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Especially yesterday, he heard that Sokov had met with a female police officer in private, which deepened his suspicion of Sokov. Today, he planned to find out Sokov's identity through indirect means, and then decide whether to entrust him with important tasks after arriving in Kiev.

But Sokov's answer made him feel satisfied. He answered almost everything he asked, without any attempt to hide his meaning. He couldn't help but think: Am I too suspicious?
After taking off, the plane flew west for two hours and landed at an airport north of Kiev.

After getting off the plane, a car parked beside the runway immediately came to greet us.

A major got out of the car, saluted Vlasov and said, "Hello, Comrade General. I am sent by the Chief of Operations of the Front, Baghramyan. He asked you to go to see him as soon as you arrive in Kiev."

Before Vlasov got into the car, he glanced at Sokov and the guard standing next to him, and asked the major, "Where are my men?"

"They will ride in the back car and go with us to the front headquarters."

After getting a satisfactory answer, Vlasov nodded, bent down and got into the car.

Sokov and Vlasov's guards got into the car behind and followed the front car towards the headquarters.

Half an hour later, the two cars drove up to a tall building and stopped. After the major got out of the car, he quickly ran to the back, opened the door, and asked Vlasov to get out.

After getting out of the car, Sokov and the guard followed Vlasov and the major, walked through the sandbag fortifications outside the building and headed towards the building.

"Captain Sokov," the guard touched Sokov's arm with his elbow and whispered, "You see, the headquarters is heavily guarded. I guess even if the Germans rush here, they can't break into the building where the headquarters is located."

To an outsider, the deployment outside the headquarters should be very strict. But to a veteran like Sokov, this kind of defense without anti-tank guns and tanks is not very effective against the German armored assault. But in order not to spoil the guard's fun, he said: "Yes, even if the Germans rush to the position, they will probably pay a heavy price."

Several people walked into the building, and Sokov saw that those coming and going were all soldiers. Everyone had a serious expression on their face, without the slightest smile, which showed that the current situation in Kiev was extremely serious.

The major took Vlasov to the Operations Department and met the Chief of Operations Bagration.

Sokov and the guards were not qualified to enter these offices and could only stand in the corridor outside the door and wait.

"Comrade Captain," a lieutenant colonel came over from nowhere and saw Sokov and the guard standing at the entrance of the operations department, and said to them, "You two come with me."

Sokov looked at the strange lieutenant colonel and said politely, "Excuse me, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, we are here with the new garrison commander, General Vlasov. He is now talking to Minister Bagration inside, and we can't leave casually."

The lieutenant colonel couldn't help but frown when he heard what Sokov said. He said dissatisfiedly: "What new garrison commander? I have never heard of him. You two come with me. I need help."

The guard wanted to say something, but Sokov stopped him and nodded to the lieutenant colonel, "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, we can go and help you, but it can't take too long, otherwise when we release General Vlasov and he doesn't see us, he will be worried."

The lieutenant colonel led the two men to the basement. After walking along the corridor for a while, he stopped in front of a closed door. After knocking twice, a voice that Sokov felt was somewhat familiar came from inside: "Come in!"

After the lieutenant colonel opened the door, he did not enter immediately. Instead, he turned to Sokov and the guard and said, "Follow me!"

There were bundles of packaged documents on the table, floor and stools in the room. An officer wearing a wide-brimmed hat was bundling a pile of documents with his back to the door.

"Lieutenant Colonel," the officer said without turning his head, "Take them and move all this information to the van outside. Hurry, we don't have much time."

"Yes!" the lieutenant colonel agreed, and then ordered Sokov and the guard to move the materials.

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," Sokov took a look at the packed documents in the room. There were at least two or three hundred bundles. Even if he and the guard could carry four bundles at a time, they would have to run back and forth dozens of times. After moving the documents, they would probably be exhausted, so he asked the lieutenant colonel: "Can you help us find a small cart? This way we can carry more each time." The officer who was sorting the documents turned around and faced Sokov and the guard. After he saw that there were only two people, he couldn't help but frowned slightly and said to the lieutenant colonel dissatisfiedly: "Lieutenant Colonel, why did you only find two people to help?"

"I'm sorry, Comrade Political Commissar of the Regiment." The lieutenant colonel replied with a wry smile, "Everyone was busy. Even for these two, it was not easy for me to find them."

When the officer turned around, Sokov saw his face clearly and was stunned. He found that the other person was Lunev, his partner a few years later. However, the other person's collar badge still had the rank of a political worker. Based on the rank, Sokov realized that he was only a regimental political commissar now.

Although he recognized the other party as his old partner, Sokov did not go up to him to recognize him. After all, he had been his partner for a year and a half, and at this moment, he did not know who he was. Even if he told the other party the truth, he would probably just think he was crazy.

"Lieutenant Colonel, go find them a cart." Lunev said to the Lieutenant Colonel, "There are indeed too many things here. It's unknown when they can move them all. I don't have much time."

When Sokov heard Lunev say that time was running out, he immediately guessed that Lunev might want to take the information away from Kiev. The German army was trying to encircle Kiev, and if the delay was too long, it would not be easy for Lunev to leave Kiev smoothly.

Soon, the lieutenant colonel found a cart, and Sokov swiftly threw bundles of information onto the cart, while urging the guard: "Follow my method and put all the bundles of information on the cart. Put as much as possible, so that we can make fewer trips."

After loading the car, Sokov turned to the lieutenant colonel and asked politely, "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, where should we take these materials?"

"Come with me, I'll take you there."

Led by the lieutenant colonel, they walked a long way and then left the building through a hidden exit. Outside the building was a dark green van, with two soldiers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs wearing blue hats standing next to the van. When they saw the lieutenant colonel coming, they immediately opened the door at the back of the van.

The lieutenant colonel pointed to the open door and ordered Sokov: "Comrade Captain, move all the documents on the cart into the van."

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Sokov agreed, and he and the guard threw bundles of information into the van one by one.

After throwing all the information on the cart into the van, Sokov pulled the cart and ran back quickly.

The guard caught up with him and said breathlessly, "Comrade Captain, why are you running so fast?"

"Comrade General, we don't know how long it will take for him to come out. You don't want to see us when he comes out, do you?"

After hearing what Sokov said, the guard thought it made sense and ran faster.

When they returned to the room and started loading the documents, Lunev, who was standing next to them, saw the Order of Lenin on Sokov's chest and couldn't help asking curiously, "Comrade Captain, can I ask how you got the Order of Lenin on your chest?"

Lunev asked this question because he had not received any medals so far. The medal on the captain's chest was the Order of Lenin, which represented the highest honor. Not to mention the commanders at the grassroots level, even some generals could not receive this level of medal, so he wanted to find out.

"Comrade Regimental Political Commissar," Lunev did not say his name, so even if Sokov knew his name, he could not call him by his name, and could only address him by his rank. "This is a reward given to me by the Supreme Command in recognition of my brilliant achievements in a battle."

"Comrade Captain, I am very curious about what kind of achievements you have made." Lunev asked with interest: "Can you tell me what kind of battle it was?"

Seeing that Lunev was interested in his affairs, Sokov was very happy. After all, the other party was his old acquaintance and old partner. Even Victoria could not compare to him. Therefore, he told Lunev in detail how he captured 12 German tanks in the small town and rescued a group of captured officers and soldiers.

After listening to Sokov's story, Lunev was shocked: "Oh my God, you captured 12 German tanks by yourself. Such a record cannot be achieved even by an ordinary company, no, it should be a battalion. You know, on the battlefield, due to our lack of sufficient anti-tank weapons, we have to sacrifice the lives of more than ten or twenty soldiers for each German tank destroyed. And you captured so many German tanks at once, which is equivalent to indirectly saving the lives of two hundred officers and soldiers. It's amazing. You are fully qualified to receive such a medal."

"You are too kind, Comrade Commissar of the Regiment." Sokov said modestly, "I am just lucky."

"Don't call me the regimental political commissar. My name is Lunev. You can call me by my name." Lunev took the initiative to ask in a friendly tone: "I don't know what to call you?"

"My name is Mikhail Sokov." Sokov said his name according to formal etiquette: "You can call me by my last name Sokov or by my nickname Misha."

"I'll call you Misha," Lunev said with a smile, "It's more intimate this way. By the way, you went back to Moscow, so why are you in Kiev again?"

"I came back with General Vlasov to serve as an officer in his guard."

"General Vlasov?" Lunev was much more informed than the lieutenant colonel, so he naturally knew about Vlasov's affairs. "You mean, you returned to Kiev with Major General Vlasov, the new commander of the 37th Army and concurrently the commander of the Kiev garrison?"

"Yes, Comrade Lunev."

"Can I ask, how long have you been in the military?"

"Less than a week."

"What, less than a week?" Lunev almost jumped up after hearing this. He asked in an incredulous tone, "How did you get promoted from an ordinary soldier to a captain in such a short time?"

"Comrade Lunev, I just said that I was awarded the Order of Lenin for my achievements in battle." Sokov said briefly: "At the same time as receiving the medal, I was also promoted to captain."

"It's incredible." Lunev shook his head and said, "I think the record you created will probably remain unbroken for quite a long time."

"Lunev, it seems that you are planning to leave Kyiv?"

"Yes, I have been ordered to return to Moscow with these materials as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)