Red Moscow.

Chapter 2755 Escape

According to Vlasov's plan, the troops would stay in the Yagotin area for one more day, and then take a train to leave this **** place.

But the plan could not keep up with the changes, and the German army launched an unexpected surprise attack on the Yagogin area in the early morning of the 26th. The Soviet army was caught off guard and had no time to organize effective resistance, and many areas were occupied by the German army. Among them was the train station that Vlasov planned to use to transfer troops.

Upon hearing the news that the railway station had been lost, Vlasov could not help but turn pale. Without transportation, it is simply a dream to leave the area blocked by the German army on two legs.

The train station was lost, and Colonel Del was equally anxious. According to the prior plan, as long as the soldiers could successfully evacuate to the train station, they would be able to jump out in half an hour at most after boarding the train and move northeast along the railway. The German army encircled the area and reached the vicinity of the friendly defense zone. Now that there are no trains, it is obviously impossible to break through the German blockade by simply marching on foot.

It is precisely because of this that Colonel Del said emotionally: "Comrade Commander, what should we do? The occupation of the railway station by the Germans means that our contact with the outside world is completely interrupted. If there is no way to get out of the current predicament as soon as possible, we will The headquarters may not be able to escape the fate of destruction."

Vlasov smoked desperately, thinking about what to do next? The area under his control was originally extremely small, but now with the fierce attack of the German army, this area is shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye. Maybe in another hour, no, half an hour, or less, the enemy may rush into the headquarters, and then wait for his fate, either to die in battle or to become a prisoner of the Germans, but in these two cases, These are all things he doesn't want to see.

At this moment, he heard someone shouting loudly outside: "Comrade Commander, where is Comrade Commander?"

Vlasov heard the shout and raised his head suddenly, thinking that the person shouting seemed to be Captain Sokov. Colonel Del also heard Sokov's cry and quickly said to Vlasov: "Comrade Commander, it seems to be Captain Sokov."

Then, Sokov's figure appeared at the door.

He stood at the door and took a look, quickly locked the positions of Vlasov, Colonel Del and Nikolsky, then walked over quickly and said to the three of them: "Comrade Commander, Comrade Chief of Staff, Military Commissar Comrade, the enemy is charging this way, I'm afraid my people won't be able to stop them for long, please follow them quickly."

"Go? Where to go?" Nikolsky said dissatisfiedly: There are enemies everywhere. If we go out now, it is tantamount to death. "

Seeing that Nikolsky seemed unwilling to leave, Sokov became anxious, turned around and shouted outside: "Someone, come quickly!"

Following Sokov's shout, seven or eight people poured in from outside, led by Lieutenant Konstantin.

Vlasov saw Konstantin with a bandage on his head, and a look of astonishment appeared on his face: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, didn't you sacrifice yourself? Why are you here?"

Konstantin looked at Vlasov and said calmly: "Comrade Commander, I was lucky enough to escape from Kiev again, and found Captain Sokov here, and became a member of the special company again. member."

"Now is not the time to reminisce about the past." Sokov was worried that Vlasov and Konstantin would not finish talking, so he rudely interrupted the two of them, and then said to the soldiers who followed in a commanding tone: "You guys Move in groups of two with the commander, chief of staff and military commissioner, as our comrades cannot hold off the enemy for too long."

When Colonel Del was being carried away by two soldiers, he shouted loudly: "Wait a minute, bring the radio and other communication equipment..."

When Sokov saw the communications staff officer who had followed him and escaped from Kiev, he said to him: "Comrade staff officer, it's enough to bring a radio. Don't ask for anything else. The Germans will be here soon. If you don’t leave, it will be too late.”

In this way, Sokov led a dozen soldiers, Vlasov, Colonel Del and Nikolsky, and quickly fled deep into the forest.

Although the Germans have aircraft, artillery and tanks, as long as everyone goes deep into the forest, the role of these equipment is limited. The only threat was the German infantry, but it was not easy for them to find a dozen of them in the forest.

The group of people ran for who knows how long. They came to the side of a lake. Sokov quickly ordered: "Everyone, please pay attention. Let's rest here for half an hour before continuing on our way."

After hearing what Sokov said, everyone immediately found a place to sit down and began to breathe heavily.

After a while, someone took out the water bottle they carried with them and went to the lake to fill it with water to drink on the march.

"Captain Sokov," Vlasov called Sokov in front of him and asked politely: "Where are we now?"

"I don't know, Comrade Commander." Sokov replied truthfully: "I just ran away and now I can't figure out where I am."

"Comrade Chief of Staff," Vlasov turned to Colonel Del and asked, "Do you have a map there?"

"No, Comrade Commander." Colonel Del shook his head like a rattle: "I just left in such a hurry that I didn't even have time to bring the map."

"Where's the compass?" Vlasov asked reluctantly, "There's always a compass, right?"

"Sorry, no." Colonel Del replied with a grimace: "Who knew we moved so hastily and didn't have time to bring many things."

"Captain Sokov, it's a bit troublesome to figure out where we are now." Vlasov sighed and said, "If we don't know our specific location, it might be difficult to leave this forest smoothly. Not an easy task.”

"Comrade Commander, I think our first task is to get rid of the Germans." Sokov quickly replied: "As long as we can get rid of the Germans, it will not be too late to find a way to leave the forest."

"Without a map or a compass, we don't know how long we will stay in the forest." Vlasov continued to ask with a serious expression: "Captain Sokov, have you prepared enough food?"

"I asked everyone to prepare a batch of food yesterday, which is probably enough for us to eat for a week." Seeing that Vlasov was worried about the shortage of food, Sokov quickly comforted him and said: "In addition to the food we carried, we can also eat in the forest." Found a lot to eat.”

"Captain Sokov is right." Colonel Der added: "If we are lucky enough, we might be able to find potatoes left behind by the collective farm members after harvesting in the clearings at the edge of the forest."

Colonel Del's words reminded Sokov: "Comrade Commander, as we all know, there are many residents whose villas are built in the forests on the outskirts. They come to the villas every May to plant various vegetables, and then wait until September to harvest. Now, although It’s the end of September, but there are definitely a lot of vegetables stored in many country houses. As long as we find these places, we don’t have to worry about food shortages at all.”

Vlasov stopped talking, but listened to the sounds in the distance. Nikolsky, who was sitting next to him, asked curiously: "Comrade Commander, what are you listening to? Are you listening to the sound of gunfire from the area where the headquarters is located?"

"Yes, Comrade Military Commissar." Vlasov agreed with Nikolsky's guess and said with some worry: "I don't know how many of the commanders and fighters left to block the attack will successfully escape in the end. I really didn't expect that, okay A battle will end like this." "Comrade Commander, this is what happened. The result, let alone us, was probably not expected by the Supreme Command. "Colonel Del said: "We have 850,000 troops, while the Germans reportedly have 500,000 troops. If we can’t defeat the enemy, how can we fight the next battle?”

"As long as we can contain the German attack, we can gain time to accumulate strength." Facing the somewhat dejected Colonel Del, Vlasov said bravely: "When we once again gain the advantage in troops and equipment, we will To crush the German attack and drive them from our soil."

Sokov didn't want to listen to the nonsense Vlasov said, so he took off the backpack he was carrying, took out a piece of bread like moving bricks from it, and handed it to Vlasov: "Comrade Commander, you haven't eaten it yet. Let’s have breakfast. Eat something first so that you don’t have any energy when you have to go on the road.”

Vlasov took the bread, tore off two pieces, and handed them to Colonel Del and Nikolsky respectively: "Chief of Staff, Military Commissar, you didn't eat anything this morning. You must be starving. Eat something first. Let’s get something to replenish our strength so that we can go on our way.”

"Comrade Captain," Sergeant Zub, who was on guard, ran to Sokov and reported to him, "I saw someone in the distance coming towards here."

"See clearly whether it's the enemy or one of our own?"

Sergeant Zub shook his head and replied: "It is difficult to see clearly due to the obstruction of trees and bushes."

"How many people are there on the other side?"

"About twenty people."

When he learned that there were more than 20 people on the other side, Sokov couldn't help but frowned. He didn't have as many people as the other side. If he had a head-on confrontation, he would definitely suffer a big loss. The only way is to hide everyone and catch the other party off guard.

Thinking of this, he immediately issued a command to everyone: "Disperse, hide, and prepare for battle."

After seeing everyone disperse and find a suitable location to hide, Sokov added: "No one is allowed to shoot without my order."

Ten minutes later, a group of people appeared in Sokov's field of vision.

Although the other party was wearing Soviet military uniforms, Sokov lay motionless on the ground. The other party was wearing Soviet military uniforms, which did not mean that he was a Soviet army. You know, Germany's Brandenburg troops like to disguise themselves as Soviet troops and go deep into Soviet defense areas to cause damage. Who can guarantee that these people in front of them are not disguised as Brandenburg troops.

When the soldiers saw a lake here, they immediately rushed to the water's edge, threw their weapons aside, and then lay there to drink water or wash their faces.

Second Lieutenant Constantine, who was lying next to Sokov, said in a low voice: "Comrade Captain, look at them, they should be our own."

Sokov was thinking that if these people were disguised as Brandenburg troops, their first reaction after seeing the lake should not be to drink water or wash their faces, but to immediately search the area to see if there was anything hidden around them. enemy. But when these people arrived at the lake, they directly threw their weapons aside to drink water or wash their faces, indicating that they were most likely Soviet commanders and fighters who had fled.

Thinking of this, Sokov, hiding behind the bushes, shouted to those people: "Hey, comrades!"

The man who was drinking water and washing his face heard Sokov's shout and immediately grabbed the weapon beside him and pointed it in the direction of the sound.

One of the leading second lieutenant officers shouted towards the place where Sokov was hiding: "Don't move, raise your hands and stand up slowly, otherwise we will shoot."

Sokov heard that this man spoke Russian very proficiently, without any accent at all, and that he was probably not pretending to be a German. He slowly stood up, raised his hands to a position parallel to his shoulders, and shouted at him: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, Don't shoot, throw it yourself, you are one of your own."

Although Sokov had already said that he was one of his own, the second lieutenant still did not lower the gun in his hand: "You said that he was one of our own, what can you prove?"

"I am Captain Sokov, commander of the special company of the headquarters." Sokov cautiously took two steps forward, then stopped and said, "If you don't believe it, you can come and check my ID in person!"

Before the second lieutenant came forward, a voice suddenly came from the group of people: "Captain Sokov, is that you?"

Sokov looked around and found Qurxin standing in the crowd. He couldn't help but asked in surprise: "Aren't you Qurxin? Why are you here?"

"Yes, Comrade Captain, it's me, I'm Qursin." Qursin quickly came to the second lieutenant and proved Sokov's identity to him: "I am from the special company, and he is from my company." Captain Sokov."

The second lieutenant escaped here with Chulsin, and the two had communicated on the road. He did not feel that Chulsin had the need to deceive him, so he quickly put down the gun in his hand and said apologetically to Sokov: "I'm sorry, Comrade Captain, I mistook you for a German."

"Comrade Second Lieutenant, did you escape from Yagogin?"

"Yes, Captain." The second lieutenant nodded and replied, "More than twenty of us are from different units. We all met them while escaping in the forest after being dispersed by the Germans."

"Comrade Second Lieutenant, we are here to cover the evacuation of the head of the group army." Sokov turned to the bushes not far away and shouted: "Everyone, come out, we are our own people."

Following Sokov's shout, Vlasov, Colonel Der, Nikolsky, and the rest of the soldiers all stood up from their hiding places.

The second lieutenant couldn't help being startled when he saw so many people suddenly appearing around him. When he was about to draw his gun, he thought that these must be his own people, so he put down his gun again.

"Comrade Second Lieutenant," Sokov introduced to the second lieutenant: "This is the Army Commander, Chief of Staff and Military Commissar. You must know them all."

While the second lieutenant was saluting Vlasov and others, Sokov quickly came to Chursin and asked directly: "Chursin, why are you alone? Second Lieutenant Zhukovin, Jiubro Where are Romanov and the others?"

"I'm sorry, Comrade Captain, I don't know." Qiusin lowered his head and said with shame on his face: "We were scattered during the battle. I really don't know where they are now. Maybe they were sacrificed. Maybe still alive."

(End of chapter)