Sokov didn't know what command, so he quickly stopped walking, raised his right hand high above his head, and signaled the troops following behind to stop moving forward. But he soon realized that this was wrong. It was so dark that there was no way for the sailors and soldiers behind him to see it, and quickly added: "Everyone listens to my command and stop moving forward!"
After the troops stopped, he took two steps forward and shouted to the sentry hiding in the dark: "I am the brigade commander Sokov, are you from the 192nd Battalion?" He did not say his rank, because he did not want to waste more time eliminating misunderstandings.
After hearing Sokov's answer, the other party hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Are you really the commander of Sokov?"
"Yes, I am Sokov." Sokov added in order to let the other party confirm his identity as soon as possible: "If anyone among you knows me, let him come and confirm it."
"No need, comrade comrade commander." An old voice suddenly came from the opposite side: "I know your voice, I will never make a mistake."
Hearing this voice, Sokov suddenly remembered that there was a guru who was almost sixty years old in the 192nd Battalion, and he should be the one who spoke. Fortunately, Sokov still remembered the name of this person, so he asked tentatively: "Is it the guru Peterevich opposite?"
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After saying that, Sokov heard a burst of rapid footsteps. The old master Peterevich whom he knew appeared before him. The master came to Sokov and stopped and said respectfully: "Hello, Comrade Brigade Commander, I'm very happy to see you."
Sokov held the other party's hand, shook it twice, and asked, "Petevich, how many of you are on duty in this direction tonight?"
"Report to the brigade commander, there are five people, including me." After answering this question, Petevich tilted his head and looked behind Sokov. Although it was dark and he couldn't see the color of the uniforms of the soldiers, Petevich also saw clearly the rifles in their hands and the bullet belts hanging on their chests, and asked tentatively: "Comrade Commander, are these soldiers behind you sailors?"
"Yes, this is the reinforcements sent by our superiors. They will help us defend Mamayev's hill together." Sokov did not intend to talk too much with an ordinary tutor here, so he asked directly: "Where is your battalion commander?"
"In the camp command post." Peterevich said respectfully: "Comrade Brigade Commander, I will take you to the battalion commander."
"Comrade Brigade Commander!" Seeing Sokov leaving with the Master Peterevich, Guchakov hurriedly asked, "How should these sailors arrange?"
Considering that after a long battle, the entire brigade suffered serious reductions in personnel, whether it was Beigang or Nangang, there was enough space to accommodate these newly arrived troops, so Sokov casually ordered: "Take them into the tunnel of Beigang and find a place to settle them."
When Sokov walked into the battalion command post, he was chatting with several subordinates. When he saw Sokov walking into the door, he hesitated for a moment, then stood up from his seat, walked quickly to Sokov, raised his hand to salute, and asked in surprise: "Comrade Brigade Commander, why are you covered in water? Did you swim from the other side of the Volga River?"
"Comrade Captain, your joke is not funny at all." If the troops were not bombarded by the German army when crossing the river, maybe Sokov would have joked with the other party, but when he heard Goriya say this, he said with a stern face: "When we crossed the river, we encountered German artillery intercepting, and the troops suffered considerable losses."
Although Goriya was Sokov's subordinate, he was just a battalion commander and had limited information. He only knew that Sokov led the fourth and first battalions to stay in the Red October factory, and he had no idea that Sokov led his troops to Orlovka, nor did he know that Sokov and his friends actually broke through the encirclement from the north and met with friendly forces. Therefore, he asked strangely: "Didn't you lead the troops in the Red October factory? How could you come from the other side of the Volga River?"
"This matter is a long story, and I can't explain it clearly in a few words." Sokov didn't want to waste more time here, so he asked straight to the point: "Have the German army launched an attack on Beigang these days?"
"No." Goria shook her head and said, "It's strange that the enemies who were stationed opposite us yesterday did not attack us, but actually drove northward."
"Even if the enemy goes north, you can't take it lightly." When Sokov learned that the enemy on the front of Mamayev's hill had gone north, he still dared not take it lightly. He continued to ask, "How many troops do you have?"
"There are about two hundred people." Goria replied: "Because our troops are seriously insufficient, many of the wounded soldiers have not yet recovered, and they have been reorganized into the combat force."
"I brought two hundred sailors." Sokov originally planned to take the sailors to Nangang to strengthen the defense there, but when he heard Goriya say that there were only two hundred soldiers left, many of whom had not recovered from injuries, he temporarily changed his mind: "I will leave them all to strengthen your defense here."
"That's great, this is really great." Goria naturally knew that the combat effectiveness of the sailors was far stronger than that of the army, and the combat effectiveness of the two hundred sailors was no less than that of one infantry battalion, so he repeatedly expressed his gratitude to Sokov: "Thank you, Comrade Brigade Commander. With these new forces, we are more confident in defending the Beigang of Mamayevgang."
After Sokov left all the sailors he brought to Goria, he brought Guchakov and came to Nangang through the tunnel connecting the two hills. Although it was already early in the morning, they still met many soldiers who had not yet fallen asleep along the way. Seeing his legendary brigade commander reappearing, the soldiers couldn't help but exclaim: "Brigade commander, he is a brigade commander!"
"Comrade Brigade Commander is back!"
The voices of these soldiers woke up the soldiers resting in the house. They rushed to the door and waved to Sokov passing by and said hello. For a moment, the entire tunnel became lively.
Vetkov, who was sleepy in the brigade command post, heard the noise outside, opened his eyes and ordered a correspondent soldier not far away: "Go out and see what happened, why is it so noisy?"
The communications soldier agreed and stood up and walked out of the command center. The kung fu was not very good, so the communications soldier ran back to the command center and reported to Vitkov excitedly: "The deputy brigade commander is the brigade commander, and the brigade commander is back!"
"What, the brigade commander is back?" Belkin, who was lying on the marching bed in the corner of the wall, heard that Sokov was back, turned over and got out of the bed, and didn't even care about wearing shoes, so he ran out barefoot to greet Sokov.
Bell King Kong rushed out of the command center and saw Sokov walking towards him along the corridor, with a group of soldiers following him. He quickly walked up to him. When he was seven or eight steps away, he opened his arms and said excitedly: "Comrade Brigade Commander, welcome you back!"
After a warm hug from Sokov and Belkin, he walked towards the command center with his arms around him. He asked curiously: "Comrade Political Commissar, are you the only one in the command center?"
Belkin knew very well that Sokov asked if he was the only one, not about the number of people in the command center, but was asking Vitkov and Cidolin in disguise whether they were also in the command center and why they did not come out to greet him. He quickly explained to him: "The deputy brigade commander is in the command center at this moment, and the chief of staff is not here."
"The Chief of Staff is not here?" Sokov's heart was shocked when he heard that Sidolin was not here. He couldn't help but think: In real history, Sidolin died in the Battle of Stalingrad. Did he die on the battlefield in the few days after he left?
Berkin saw Sokov's doubts and quickly said, "Comrade Brigade Commander, it's not what you think. Because we stayed in the wet tunnel for a long time, the Chief of Staff was infected with eczema. There was no job at this moment, so he went to the health team to apply medicine."
Chapter completed!