Red Moscow.

Chapter 2733

Early the next morning, a black car pulled Sokov, Vlasov and his guards directly to a military airport.

There was an old-looking transport plane parked on the runway. The officer sitting in the co-pilot position turned around and said to Vlasov: "Comrade General, this is the plane that will take you to Kiev to take office."

"Yes, I understand." Vlasov said calmly.

After the car stopped next to the transport plane, a pilot wearing a flying hat came over and raised his hand to salute Vlasov: "Comrade General, please board the plane!"

After the pilot waited for the three people to board the plane one by one, he also boarded the plane, closed the door, and walked directly 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 for a moment, and then thought that his meeting with Victoria could not be hidden from other people's eyes. Someone must have told Vlasov about it before he asked this question. .

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

"Male or female?"

"Female." Sokov knew very well that since Vlasov asked this question, he might arrange for someone to investigate. If he didn't tell the truth, he might cause unnecessary trouble, so he answered truthfully. Said: "To be precise, she is a female police officer."

"Female police officer?!" Vlasov raised his eyebrows and asked, "How did you meet?"

"Captain Sokov," the guard said before Sokov could speak: "You are really not simple. Just two days after arriving in Moscow, you met a young and beautiful female police officer."

"I just met her the day before yesterday." Sokov quickly organized the vocabulary in his mind and said, "I was leading a team of soldiers out on patrol. When I passed a store, I saw residents queuing up to buy things. Some people were unconscious and caused chaos. I helped the police arrest these people and sent them to the nearby police station. It was under this circumstance that I met the female police officer. "

"Oh, that's it." Vlasov is a suspicious person. He has always had doubts about Sokov's origins. He is even worried that the other party is a spy deliberately planted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, especially after hearing about Sokov yesterday. The husband met in private with a policewoman, which deepened Fang Sokov's suspicion. Today, he planned to find out Sokov's identity through insinuations, and then decide whether to entrust him with important tasks after arriving in Kiev.

But Sokov's answer made him very satisfied. He almost always answered whatever he asked, without any intention of concealing his intentions. He couldn't help but think to himself: Could he be too suspicious?

After taking off, the plane flew west for two hours and landed at the airport north of Kiev.

After getting off the plane, we were immediately greeted by a car parked next to the runway.

A major got out of the car, raised his hand and saluted Vlasov and said: "Hello, Comrade General, I am sent by Bagramyan, the Chief of Operations of the Front Army. He asked you to go see him immediately after you arrive in Kiev. "

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

"They took the car at the back and went to the front army headquarters with us."

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

Sokov and Vlasov's guards got into the car at the back, followed the car in front, and drove towards the headquarters.

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

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

"Captain Sokov," the guard touched Sokov's arm with his elbow and whispered: "You see, the headquarters is heavily guarded. Even if the Germans rush here, they will not be able to break into the commander. The building where the department is located.”

To a layman, these deployments outside the headquarters should be very strict. But for Sokov, a veteran who has experienced hundreds of battles, this kind of defense does not even have anti-tank guns and tanks, and it has no defensive effect at all in the face of the German armored assault. But in order not to disappoint the guard, he followed the other person's words and 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 soldiers walking back and forth. The expressions on everyone's faces were serious and there was no smile at all, indicating that the situation in Kiev today is extremely serious.

The major took Vlasov to the Operations Department and met with the Minister 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 from nowhere. Seeing Sokov and the guard standing at the entrance of the combat department, he said to the two of them: "You two come with me."

Sokov looked at the unfamiliar lieutenant colonel and said politely: "Sorry, comrade lieutenant colonel, we came here with the new garrison commander General Vlasov. He is now talking to Minister Bagration inside , we can’t just leave.”

When the Lieutenant Colonel heard what Sokov said, he couldn't help but frowned and said dissatisfiedly: "Why have I never heard of the new garrison commander? You two come with me, I need help."

The guard wanted to say something more, but Sokov quickly stopped him, nodded and said to the lieutenant colonel: "Comrade lieutenant colonel, we can help you, but not for too long, otherwise we will wait until Frasso is released. If General Husband can’t see us when he comes out, he should be worried.”

The lieutenant colonel led the two of them to the underground floor. After walking along the corridor for a while, he stopped in front of a closed door. After raising his hand and knocking twice, a voice came from inside that made Sokov feel a little agitated. Familiar voice: "Come in!"

After the lieutenant colonel opened the door, he did not enter immediately. Instead, he turned to Sokov and the guards and said, "Come in with me!"

There were bundles of packed documents on the table, floor and stools in the room. An officer wearing a big-brimmed hat was tying up a bunch of documents with his back to the door.

"Lieutenant Colonel," the officer said without looking back, "Take them to move all these materials to the van outside. We have to move quickly, we don't have much time."

"Yes!" the lieutenant colonel agreed, and then ordered Sokov and the guards to carry the materials.

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," Sokov glanced at the packed materials in the room. There were at least two to three hundred bundles. Even if he and the guards could carry four bundles at a time, they would have to make at least dozens of trips back and forth. After moving the materials, he and I were probably paralyzed from exhaustion, so he asked the lieutenant colonel: "Can you help us find a small cart? This way we can move a little more each time." The officer who was sorting out the materials turned around. body, facing Sokov and the guards. After he saw that there were only two people, he couldn't help but frown slightly and said dissatisfiedly to the lieutenant colonel: "Lieutenant colonel, why did you only find two people to help?"

"I'm sorry, comrade regimental political commissar." The lieutenant colonel replied with a wry smile: "Everyone is busy, even the two of them, it was not easy for me to find them."

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

Although he recognized the other person as his old partner, Sokov did not step forward to recognize him. After all, he partnered with him a year and a half later, and at this moment he did not know who he was at all. Even if you tell the other party the truth, I'm afraid he will only think of yourself as a lunatic.

"Lieutenant Colonel, go find them a cart." Lunev said to the Lieutenant Colonel: "There are indeed too many things here. It's just the two of them. I don't know when they will be moved. My time Not much more.”

When Sokov heard Lunev say again that time was running out, he immediately guessed that the other party might want to leave Kiev with this batch of information. Now the German army is trying to encircle Kiev. If the delay is too long, it may not be easy for Lunev to leave Kiev smoothly.

Soon, the lieutenant colonel found a small cart, and Sokov quickly threw the bundles of materials on the cart. At the same time, he urged the guard: "Follow my method, put all the bundled materials into the cart." Put it in the car, put as much as possible, so we can save two trips. "

After loading the car, Sokov turned to look at the lieutenant colonel and asked politely: "Comrade lieutenant colonel, I wonder where we should take these materials?"

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

Under the leadership of the lieutenant colonel, they walked a long way and then left the building through a hidden exit. There was a dark green van parked outside the building, and two soldiers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs wearing blue hats stood beside the vehicle. When he saw the lieutenant colonel coming, he immediately opened the door behind the van.

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

Sokov agreed, and then he and the guard threw the bundles of information into the van one after another.

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

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

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

Hearing Sokov's words, the guard thought it made sense and accelerated his running speed.

When he came back to the room and started loading materials, Runev, who was standing next to him, saw the Order of Lenin on Sokov's chest and couldn't help but curiously asked: "Comrade Captain, can I ask, what is your chest?" How did you get the former Order of Lenin?”

The reason Lunev asked this was because he had not received any medals until now. The medal on the chest of the captain in front of him was the Order of Lenin, which represented the highest honor. Not to mention the grassroots commanders, even some generals could not obtain medals of this level, so he wanted to ask what happened.

"Comrade regimental political commissar," since Lunev did not say his name, Sokov could not call him by his name even if he knew his name, but could only call him by his military rank: "This is a commendation from the Supreme Command. It was awarded to me for the brilliant results I achieved in a battle."

"Comrade Captain, I'm very curious about what kind of feats you have accomplished." After hearing this, Lunev asked with interest: "Can you tell me what kind of battle it was?"

Seeing that Lunev was interested in his affairs, Sokov was also very happy. After all, the other party was his old acquaintance and partner. Even Victoria could not compare with him, so he put himself in the small town. , how he captured 12 German tanks and rescued a group of captured commanders and fighters, told Lunev in detail.

After listening to Sokov's story, Lunev was shocked: "Oh my God, you captured 12 German tanks by yourself. Such a record can be regarded as an ordinary company, no, it should be a battalion. It cannot be achieved, you know, on the battlefield, because we lack enough. With anti-tank weapons, every time a German tank is destroyed, we have to pay the lives of more than ten or twenty soldiers. And you have captured so many German tanks, which is equivalent to indirectly saving the lives of two hundred commanders and soldiers. It is really amazing. . You are fully qualified to receive such a medal.”

"Thank you, comrade regimental political commissar." Sokov said modestly, "I'm 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 and asked in a friendly tone: "I don't know how 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 you can call me by my nickname Misha."

"I'll call you Misha." Lunev said with a smile: "It's more friendly. By the way, didn't you go back to Moscow? Why did you come to Kiev again?"

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

"General Vlasov?" Luniev is much better informed than the lieutenant colonel. He naturally knows about Vlasov: "You mean, you are following the new commander of the 37th Group Army. Major General Vlasov, who is also the commander of the Kiev garrison, returned to Kiev together? "

"Yes, Comrade Luniev."

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

"Not even a week."

"What, less than a week?" Lunev almost jumped up after hearing this. He asked in an unbelievable tone: "In such a short time, you were promoted from an ordinary soldier to a captain. You How is it done?"

"Comrade Lunev, as I just said, I won the Order of Lenin because of my achievements." Sokov said briefly: "While receiving the medal, I was also promoted to captain with an exception."

"It's simply unbelievable." Lunev shook his head after hearing this and said, "I think no one can break the record you set for a long time."

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

"Yes, I was ordered to take this information and return to Moscow in the shortest possible time."

(End of chapter)