Everything that needs to be seen has been seen, and everything that needs to be explained has been explained, and Sokov has no need to stay here anymore, so he and Yakov took their own security squad and left the Vasily Building, preparing to pass through
With the city full of ruins, return to Mamayev Hill to continue directing the battle.
But after the Vasily Building disappeared from everyone's sight, Yakov suddenly whispered: "Misha, you really shouldn't leave at this time."
Yakov's words surprised Sokov, and he asked in confusion: "Why?"
"You know, some of the areas we have to pass are the focus of competition between our army and the enemy. Who knows whether we will encounter our army or the Germans when we pass there." Yakov said with a worried look: "
If we wait until dark and use the cover of night, we may be able to avoid the enemy's eyes and ears and return to Mamayev Heights smoothly."
"Yakov, I understand your mood very well." How could Sokov, who came from a later generation, not know the situation in Stalingrad at this moment? The defense lines of both the enemy and ours were intertwined. Even in some buildings, Germans and
The Soviet soldiers occupied different floors and rooms respectively. The risk factor for him to leave the city at this time was really too high. However, in order to rush back to Mamayev Heights as soon as possible, he could only take one risk: "But if I keep
You can't command the troops if you stay at Mamayev Heights."
Yakov knew that Sokov was telling the truth, and after nodding, he added: "Misha, I also know that going out of the city during the day is very risky, but as the commander of the infantry brigade, you can't stay for too long.
Leave your combat post, so when you asked to leave the building, I didn't dissuade you."
"Okay, Yakov, stop talking, let's continue on our way." Sokov didn't want to waste time with Yakov on this matter, so he urged him: "We may encounter the enemy, and we must act at any time.
Ready for battle."
The road started smoothly. The areas the guard squad passed through were almost all under the control of the third battalion or friendly forces. Except for the gunshots and explosions not far away, not even a shadow of the enemy was seen.
.Seeing the hills of Mamayev Hill from a distance, Yakov's mood became relaxed. He pointed in front and said with relief: "Misha, Mamayev Hill is ahead. We can walk for ten minutes at most.
, we can get back to brigade headquarters."
Along the way, he saw no enemies, so Sokov couldn't help but relax his vigilance. He thought to himself: "Since we have not encountered enemies in the most intense fighting area, we can't help but relax in the remaining seven or eight hundred meters."
, I definitely won’t meet Germans either.”
Unexpectedly, just as he was thinking this, gunshots suddenly rang out from the front, and the two soldiers walking at the front fell down. "Battle alert, take cover!" The guard squad leader shouted when he saw his men were shot and fell to the ground.
Then he hid behind a pile of rubble.
Sokov and Yakov hid in a crater in the middle of the road, listening to the bullets flying overhead. Sokov was silently calculating in his mind how many enemies were ambushing him. Although the gunfire outside was loud,
And they are all firing sounds of German weapons, but according to Sokov's combat experience accumulated in more than a year, most of the firing sounds are made by soldiers in the guard squad, and there are only five people on the German side at most.
And the firepower is also very weak.
Not only did Sokov hear the details of the German army from the gunfire, Yakov also heard it. He turned to Sokov and said: "Misha, there seem to be only five Germans. From the sound of their gunfire,
Judging, with one officer with a pistol, one submachine gunner and three riflemen, your men are more than enough to take them out."
Hearing that Yakov's judgment was the same as his own, Sokov quickly and cautiously poked his head out from the edge of the crater to check the fighting situation outside. He saw a German submachine gunner hiding behind a half-man-high broken wall.
From time to time he would poke his head out and shoot a few times, then withdraw his body.
Sokov felt that among the five enemies, the enemy using a submachine gun was the greatest threat and must be killed first, so he placed the assault rifle on the edge of the crater and aimed at the location of the submachine gunner. However, he did not pull the trigger casually.
, but waited patiently for the opportunity, and then fired when the submachine gunner appeared.
After only waiting for a few seconds, the German submachine gunner stood up straight again and shot at the hiding position of the soldiers. Sokov, who had already locked onto him, pulled the trigger without hesitation and fired a burst. The bullet hit
Three blood flowers spattered on the submachine gunner's body. The huge impact caused the submachine gunner to lean back and fall straight into the rubble.
After killing the German submachine gunners, the remaining four Germans became nothing to worry about. A dozen submachine guns from the security squad beat them to the point where they could not even lift their heads. A soldier took the opportunity to throw a bullet at their hiding place.
After a loud bang from a grenade, there was no more movement in the enemy's hiding place.
With the help of soldiers, Sokov and Yakov climbed out of the crater and came to the rubble where grenades exploded. They found only the bodies of three German soldiers, and the guns they used were scattered nearby.
Yakov carefully said that there were only three corpses here. Including the enemy who was killed by him after breaking the wall, there were only four people. Did he and Yakov get it wrong?
Yakov saw that there were only three corpses here, and he felt quite puzzled: "It's strange, there are three corpses here, plus the submachine gunner behind the wall, there are only four enemies in total. Did I hear it wrong?"
The guard squad leader walked up to Yakov and said with a smile: "Comrade Major, I looked carefully and found that there are only four enemies fighting with us. You must know that there are sometimes errors in judging the enemy's strength based on hearing.
…”
"Comrade squad leader," Yakov said with some frustration: "Even if there are only four Germans, how did they appear here?"
The guard squad leader glanced at the corpses on the ground and said thoughtfully: "I think they got lost in the battle and came here by mistake."
While Yakov and the guard squad leader were talking, Sokov's eyes were searching everywhere. He felt that when he and Yakov were hiding in the crater, they really heard the sound of five guns shooting, and one of them was definitely
Pistol. Just as he was frowning and thinking, he suddenly heard the sound of someone knocking down bricks. This sound was covered up by the gunshots and explosions nearby, but it was covered up by Sol who was on high alert.
Cove heard it.
He looked in the direction from which the sound came, and saw a pistol slowly stretching out from behind a pile of rubble not far away, aiming at Yakov's position. "Yakov, be careful."
Seeing this situation, Yakov instinctively rushed to Yakov's side. While blocking him with his body, he pulled the trigger towards the location of the pistol. The bullet fired by the assault rifle immediately hit the location of the pistol.
The position was hit so hard that mud flew everywhere.
The guards standing around were stunned for a moment when they saw Sokov shooting to the side. Then they turned their guns and fired wildly there. But the soldiers ran out of bullets in their magazines.
Finally, the hand holding the pistol fell to the ground, and the pistol fell aside.
The guard squad leader ran behind the rubble in person. After taking a look, he raised his head and shouted to Sokov: "Comrade Brigadier, he is a German second lieutenant. He has been shot to death by us indiscriminately."
Hearing what the guard squad leader said, Sokov couldn't help but feel a little proud. He felt that his hearing was still very good. He heard five enemies shooting, and it turned out to be five enemies. At this moment, the man who was standing next to him
Yakov suddenly screamed: "Misha, are you injured?"
Sokov looked at Yakov blankly, and asked with some confusion: "Yakov, where am I injured?"
Yakov supported Sokov and said anxiously: "Misha, you were shot in the abdomen, can't you feel it?"
After hearing what Yakov said, Sokov quickly looked down and saw a dark wet mark on the military uniform on his abdomen, and it was still expanding. The danger just now made Sokov at the peak of adrenal secretion.
It was a strong moment, so he didn't feel any pain after being shot. As soon as his mind relaxed, he suddenly felt a sharp pain. He felt as if all the strength in his body had been drained out, and his whole body immediately fell softly.
Yakov tried his best to hold him up, but failed to hold him up. He only made him fall down slowly and slowly sit on the ground. Yakov saw Sokov's face turned pale and quickly laid him down.
On the ground, he shouted to the soldiers who were surrounding him: "Who has a first aid belt? Give me a first aid kit."
Following his shout, the soldiers hurriedly took off the backpacks they were carrying, took out the first-aid kit from it, and handed it to Yakov. Yakov casually grabbed a first-aid kit, took out a bandage from it, and pressed it on the rope.
Koff's abdomen, trying to stop his blood from pouring out from the wound.
When the guard squad leader saw that Sokov was injured, he was a little panicked at first, and then calmed down. He first collected the first-aid kits in the hands of the soldiers one by one, and then ordered a soldier to return to Mamayev Heights immediately to report, and then ordered a few more
A soldier set up a stretcher. After arranging these, he squatted down and assisted Yakov in treating Sokov's wounds.
After the soldiers tied up the simple stretcher, Yakov had already bandaged Sokov's wound with the help of the guard squad leader. He grabbed Sokov's hand and said with red eyes: "Misha, if
If you hadn't blocked this shot for me, I would probably be the one lying here now."
Sokov looked at Yakov in front of him and thought to himself: If anything happened to Yakov, it would definitely arouse Stalin's thunderous wrath. Not to mention himself, even Chuikov and the others might be implicated.
Now that he has taken a shot for Yakov, although he will suffer a little, it is not a bad thing for him. On the contrary, it will make the friendship between himself and Yakov solid.
He forced a smile and said: "Yakov, you and I are friends. It is right to take bullets for your friends on the battlefield." As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly felt that his throat was itchy and he couldn't help but cough twice. He coughed.
The wound involving his abdomen was so painful that he could not help grinning.
"Misha, from now on, you are my brother, a real brother. As long as I am alive, I will never treat you badly." After Yakov expressed his opinion, he said to the guard squad leader: "Squad monitor
Comrade, hurry up and send your brigade commander back to Mamayev Heights and let military doctors treat him as soon as possible."
Soldiers from the guard squad worked in groups of four, lifted Sokov's stretcher, and rushed towards Mamayev Heights at a sprint speed of 100 meters. When the first group got tired, they immediately changed to the second group. They were originally going to leave.
It took them only three minutes to reach the ten-minute journey.
When the panting soldiers carried Sokov to Mamayev Hill, they found that a group of people had been waiting in front of them. It turned out that the soldier who reported the news ran to the duty post outside the hill and called Sidorin and others by phone.
Belkin reported Sokov's injury. When Belkin heard that Sokov was injured and could not stay any longer, he asked Sidorin to stay and continue to command, while he called people from the health team to come out immediately to greet him.
Seeing the stretcher carrying Sokov coming, Belkin rushed forward and asked the stretcher bearers from the health team to replace the angry and out-of-breath soldiers. He trotted along with the stretcher carried towards the entrance.
At the same time, he asked Sokov, who was lying on the stretcher, with concern: "Comrade Brigadier, how do you feel?"
"Comrade Political Commissar," Sokov replied weakly: "I may not be able to command the troops for a while, so I will leave everything to you and the Chief of Staff..."
"Comrade Brigadier, don't worry." Seeing Sokov like this, Belkin's nose couldn't help but feel sore. He quickly expressed his position: "There are me and Lieutenant Colonel Sidorin in the brigade, so just take care of yourself."
Recuperate."
When the stretcher arrived at the health team, Asya, who had not rested for several days, heard that Sokov was injured again. She suddenly felt her eyes darken and fainted. When she woke up, she saw herself lying on the bed.
She quickly sat up on the stretcher and asked the health worker beside her: "Misha, where is my Misha?"
"Asia, don't worry." The health worker quickly grabbed her and comforted her and said, "Don't worry, Comrade Brigade Commander only suffered an abdominal injury and has been sent to the operating room. It was the military doctor who performed the surgery himself.
, there shouldn’t be any life-threatening danger.”
However, Asya, who was concerned about Sokov's comfort, couldn't sit still at all. She still struggled to stand up, staggered out and said, "No, I want to see him."
When she arrived at the door of the operating room, Asiya found many people standing here, including the political commissar. Asiya came to Belkin in a few steps, grabbed his arm, and asked nervously:
"Comrade Political Commissar, what happened? How could Misha be injured for no reason?"
Belkin did not answer Asiya's question immediately, but turned his gaze to Yakov aside and said to him: "Major Yakov, this is Asiya, the brigade commander's wife. I think it's up to you to
