Red Moscow.

Chapter 2809

Sokov didn't know what happened in it after he left the headquarters. At this moment, he was only concerned about how to form an independent group with only himself.

"Comrade Chief of Staff," Sokov asked Malining politely: "How should the rest of the troops be supplemented except the guard company assigned to me by the commander?"

He asked this, not because he didn't know how to form a troops and enrich the troops by accommodating defeated soldiers and rescuing prisoners of war. He did a good job in his previous life. At this moment, Malining asked was just to show respect for his superiors.

Seeing Sokov's humble attitude, Malining was very satisfied, so he did not hide his own personal information. He told Sokov about the way he could quickly expand his troops: "Last time the commander went to Yarcewo to form a battle The fastest way to cluster is to contain all the troops you see. Since your level is too low, it is obviously unrealistic to copy his model directly, so you can only use the recruitment of defeated soldiers, adapted militias, and recruitment. The way to start a new recruit is to form your own troops.”

Sokov thought that the Viazima Battle was coming to an end, and the remnants of the Soviet army that were not annihilated by the German army would escape from the encirclement and retreat to Mozaisk and other places. Among them, the 19th Army had the most complete force. After retreating to the Mozaisk area, it was reorganized and later adapted into the 1st Assault Army. Most of the troops of the 16th and 20th armies were annihilated by the German army, and only a few troops jumped out of the German army's encirclement.

Among these three armies, the 19th Army has a relatively complete system and must not be incorporated. Otherwise, if you encounter commanders with a higher level than you, will you adopt them yourself or will they accommodate them? So the best choice is to incorporate the troops of the 16th and 20th armies.

"Comrade Chief of Staff," Sokov asked again, "How should weapons and ammunition be resolved after my independent regiment was formed?" He was worried that Malining did not understand what he meant, and he emphasized, "Those who escaped from the enemy's encirclement were siege?" The commanders and soldiers must have been out of ammunition and food. Without weapons, we cannot fight against the enemy. We can't let everyone carry a wooden stick and fight hand-to-hand with the Germans, right?"

"Major Sokov, don't worry." After hearing Sokov's concerns, Malining assured him: "You are only responsible for forming the troops. As for weapons, ammunition and various supplies, I will help you solve them."

"That's so thankful, Comrade Chief of Staff."

After a while, the two of them arrived at the command post of the guard camp.

Seeing the two of them enter the room, a captain sitting at the table stood up and saluted Malining: "Comrade Chief of Staff, what instructions do you have?"

"Major Sokov," Malinin turned to Sokov and said, "I'll introduce you to you. This is Captain David, the battalion commander of the guard battalion. This is Major Sokov, the Independent Infantry Regiment directly under the Army The leader of the group."

"Hello, Comrade Major." After saluting Sokov, Zhandarov asked Malining unexpectedly: "Comrade Chief of Staff, I only know that there is an independent tank regiment. When did an independent infantry regiment appear again?"

"It was just formed more than ten minutes ago." After Malining briefly said this, he went straight to the topic: "Sokov is now the only one in the Independent Infantry Regiment, the commander ordered you to draw from the guard battalion. A company, as the team of the infantry regiment.”

When Jendarov learned that Malining was going to draw his troops, he thrust his face. When he was about to complain to Malining, he heard the other party continue to say, "Comrade Captain, this matter was personally explained by Comrade Commander, so you Not only can we not refuse, we must hand over the strongest company to Major Sokov."

"Yes, Comrade Chief of Staff." Jandarov replied unwillingly: "I will arrange it as soon as possible."

"During the war, every minute is precious." Malining learned from Rokosovsky's tone, "Comrade Captain, call the company commander of the guard company who is ready to support Major Sokov now. Come here, I'll have a good talk with him."

Jandarov looked at Malining with a heartache. Although he was unwilling to accept it, he had to obey the order. He walked to the door, called a soldier, and ordered, "Go and call the third company commander over, just say I have something important to find him and let him run over immediately."

A few minutes later, a tall and thin captain appeared at the door and asked breathlessly, "Comrade Captain, can you come in?"

"Of course." Jandarov nodded at him: "Come in, Captain Bobricov."

Bobricov stepped into the house and unexpectedly found that Malining was also here, and he suddenly seemed a little panicked. After raising his hand to salute Malining, he said apologetically: "I'm sorry, Comrade Chief of Staff, I didn't see you just now."

Malining naturally would not care about such trivial matters, so he turned to Jendarov and said, "Comrade Captain, is this the best company commander under your command?"

"Yes, Comrade Chief of Staff." Jandarov nodded and said in a affirmative tone: "This is Captain Bobricov, the company commander of the Third Company. The company he leads is the best company in the guard battalion."

After looking up and down, Malining looked Bobricov slowly, then said to him: "Captain, from now on, you and your company will be officially assigned to the independent regiment directly under the group army. By the way, this Major Sokov, the leader of the Independent Regiment.

After learning that Sokov was his new superior, Bobricov hurriedly came over and saluted Sokov: "Hello, Comrade Commander!"

"Hello!" After Sokov returned the gift, he reached out and shook the other party, and asked directly: "How many people are there in your third company?"

"The whole company is 115 people."

Sokov originally thought that it would be good if he had seventy or eighty people temporarily transferred to his company. After all, Rokosovsky had a serious shortage of troops, otherwise he would not have gone directly to the Front Command to find Zhukov. A reserve team is coming. Unexpectedly, when I heard Bobricov say that there were 115 people, I suddenly became happy. Although there were not many people, I was fully capable of fighting with the German troops.

"Captain, from now on, you have officially become a member of the Independent Corps." Sokov asked, "Are you familiar with the surrounding environment?"

"I'm not very familiar with it." Bobricov didn't understand what Sokov asked, and asked back, "Comrade Commander, what is the mission of our company?"

“Is there a map?”

"Uh, no." Sokov was not angry when he saw that the other party had no map. Instead, he took out a map from his bag, expanded it and placed it on the table, pointing at Mozaisk and Volokoramsk. "You arrange manpower, set up checkpoints here to accommodate scattered troops removed from other places."

"What, to accommodate scattered troops from other areas?" Bobricov asked hesitantly: "Is this appropriate?"

"There is nothing wrong." Sokov said with a stern face: "Our independent regiment has just been established. There is no one else in the regiment except me and your Third Guard Company. Do you think it's up to us to do this? Can you be pulled to the battlefield to fight against the enemy?”

Regarding Sokov's problem, Bobricov thought about it, then shook his head and said, "If it was just a small group of enemies, we could still deal with it. If it was a large force strengthened by tanks, we could not resist much at all. Long time.”

"Since you understand this, it's great." Seeing that the other party understood his intention, Sokov stopped going around in circles, but urged: "Time is tight, gather your people immediately, and go to Set up a checkpoint at designated locations to accommodate sporadic troops retreating from the front. "

When Bobricov went out to assemble the troops, Sokov turned to ask Malining: "Comrade Chief of Staff, what do you think of my arrangement?"

"Not bad." Malining nodded with satisfaction and said, "The retreating scattered troops can be brought into combat power in the shortest time after reorganizing them. In addition, I think you can also recruit new recruits. To quickly expand the troops.”

After Malining finished speaking, Sokov smiled bitterly and said, "Comrade Chief of Staff, I also thought of adapting militias and recruiting new recruits in the city of Volokolamsk, but the actual situation is that with the arrival of the 316th Infantry Division , The militias from several factories have been incorporated by General Panfirov. It is said that they have also established more than a dozen recruitment sites in the city to recruit new soldiers. Even if I go to the city, I am afraid I will not be able to recruit the new soldiers I want. , so I can only build my hope of forming a force on the hostage of defeated troops.”

"Comrade Major, how do you know that General Panfirov is recruiting new recruits?" Sokov's words surprised Malining. He asked in surprise: "You know, so far, I have not received any relevant reports."

Sokov knew very well that the 316th Infantry Division, which defended Volokoramsk, had 15,000 troops, but had to face the successive attacks of several German armored divisions and infantry divisions. This force was far away. Far from enough. Therefore, Panfirov led his troops into the designated defense area and immediately expanded his troops. The method he adopted was to directly organize the militia annihilation battalions from several factories in the city into his troops and set up a Many recruits are recruited to join the army.

He thought Malining had known about this for a long time, but now he found that he was too presumptuous. As the chief of staff of the army, Ma Lining didn't know anything, and he, a low-level officer from other troops, knew about this, which inevitably made people wary.

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"Comrade Chief of Staff, this is the case." Sokov said pretending: "I am not the adjutant of General Potapov. Two days ago, he had sent someone to Volokoramsk, and the situation there was. , I heard it occasionally when the comrades who went to the city came back to report."

Sokov's reason is far-fetched, but Malining believed it deeply after hearing this. After all, as Potapov's adjutant, it seems that it is not strange that Sokov knows something he doesn't know. He stretched out his hand to Sokov: "Major Sokov, I'm going to go back to the headquarters soon, I wish you good luck!"

After seeing off Malining, Jandarov came over and asked curiously, "Comrade Major, why haven't I seen you before?"

"It's normal for me to have never seen me." Sokov said lightly: "I was originally from the 37th Army. Not long ago, I was transferred to the 5th Army and served as the adjutant who Potapov loved to feel. I'm now being accused by the 37th Army. General Rokosovsky was transferred to the 16th Army and served as the commander of the infantry regiment."

"Oh, so that's it." Seeing Sokov's behavior was so honest, Jandarov also introduced his guard battalion to Sokov: "My guard battalion has three companies, except for Bobricov's three The company was brought by me from Moscow, and the other two companies were composed of troops drawn from other divisions.”

When Sokov heard this, he immediately understood why Jandarov agreed to hand over the third company to him, and why he looked so painful. It turned out that this company was his direct line. If I change myself to his position, I may also feel heartbroken.

After the two chatted for a few more times, Bobricov returned to the house and introduced to Sokov respectfully, "Comrade Commander, the troops have been assembled and can set off at any time."

After Sokov said goodbye to Jandarov, he took Bobricov out of the command post to check on the third company commanders and fighters who had already assembled.

Seeing the three companies lined up in an orderly manner, Sokov was very satisfied. He could be considered elite in terms of equipment and weapons. He nodded, without saying anything, then waved his hand and announced, "Everyone sets off!"

After an hour of march, the troops arrived at the edge of a forest five or six kilometers away from the headquarters.

There is a fork next to the forest, leading to Volokoramsk to the north and Mozaisk to the south. Sokov felt that setting up a checkpoint in this place could block the vast majority of Soviet commanders and fighters retreating along the road.

After making up his mind, he called Bobricov and the three platoon leaders and ordered everyone to say, "You should set up three checkpoints on the road in terms of platoons, and be sure to intercept our commanders and fighters who retreated through the road. And put them into our troops.”

After arranging the checkpoints for the three rows, Sokov asked again: "Do you have any questions?"

"Comrade Commander," the platoon leader asked hesitantly: "What should we do if we meet commanders with higher ranks? Even if we want to accommodate them, they may not agree."

"This is easy to deal with." Sokov has rich experience in hosting defeated soldiers. After hearing the concerns of the platoon leader, he said carelessly: "If you encounter a commander with a higher rank, you can arrange someone to take it. He brought it to my command post and I will negotiate with the other party in person.”

"I understand, comrade commander." The platoon leader felt at ease. He quickly replied loudly, "If you encounter a commander who is unwilling to cooperate with us, I will arrange someone to hand him over to you."

Sokov nodded and continued, "To avoid accidents, you must dig trenches next to the checkpoint, set up fire points, and prepare for all combat."

Bobricov seemed very puzzled about Sokov's arrangement: "Comrade Commander, I don't understand why the firepower point should be set next to the checkpoint?"

"The reason is simple." Sokov replied: "If a German follows our retreating troops, our soldiers can use firepower points to defend themselves to prevent the enemy from entering."

(End of this chapter)