Sokov opened his mouth but made no sound, because he didn't know in his heart whether the bomb on his head would suddenly fall down, and he exploded himself to pieces with a "boom".
"Not good!" Ciedorin looked up at the bomb on his head and couldn't help but exclaim: "The bomb seems to be shaking. Is it about to fall? Comrade Commander, this place is too dangerous, you'd better leave first."
Sokov looked up and saw that the bomb hanging on the top of the corridor was indeed slightly shaking. It should have been caused by the bombing outside. He was worried that the bomb would be shaken down and he would die without a complete body, so he quickly reached out to hug it to prevent it from falling down.
After holding the bomb, Sokov immediately realized that he was doing stupid things. If a bomb weighing hundreds of kilograms really fell, let alone oneself, even if five or six more people came, he would still be overestimating his ability to be a mantis. However, since he had already hugged the bomb, he did not dare to let go easily. Originally, the bomb was swayed slightly because of the bombing outside, and he hugged it tightly and let it go, maybe he would toss the bomb down.
Sokov, holding the bomb, asked Cydollin with a smile on his face: "Chief of Staff, how long will the engineers arrive?"
"When I called the Engineer Company, I had already told them about the situation here." Sidolin quickly replied, "Company Commander Lieutenant Vasia said that it would take ten minutes for his men to come at the earliest." Speaking of this, he raised his hand and looked at his watch, adding, "If he was right, the comrades in the Engineer Company will arrive in two minutes."
As soon as Cidolin finished speaking, he heard a burst of rapid footsteps at the corner of the corridor. After a while, he saw five or six commanders and soldiers appearing around the corner and jogging all the way. Seeing this, Cidolin was shocked and quickly shouted to the people: "Slow down, you move slowly, you run so fast, do you want to shake this bomb down?"
The commanders and soldiers who were running over heard the shouts of Sidolin, quickly slowed down and walked over gently. After they came to Sokov, an officer raised his hand to report to Sokov: "Comrade Commander, Lieutenant Vasha, the commander of the engineer company, reported to you, we are ordered to come and remove the bomb, please instruct!"
Sokov urged the other party impatiently: "Okay, comrade Lieutenant, stop saluting, you should find a way to solve this bomb as soon as possible."
Lieutenant Vasia nodded, then turned around and ordered the two soldiers behind him: "You two go and help the division commander." The two soldiers who received the order quickly stepped forward and held the bomb hanging in the air, allowing Sokov to let go and retreat.
Sokov took a few steps back, his legs could no longer support the weight of his body, and he fell directly to the wall of the corridor. Sidolin hurriedly stepped forward and squatted down and asked, "Comrade Commander, are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Sokov shook his head and replied, "It's just that my legs are a little weak, I'll just sit and rest for a while."
Sidolin never dreamed that Sokov's legs were weak, but it actually started from the moment he saw the bomb. He thought he was too nervous when he was holding the bomb just now, so he quickly comforted him and said, "Then you have a good rest, and the engineer comrades will be able to eliminate the bomb soon."
Vasia stared at the bomb for a moment, then ordered the other two soldiers who did not hold the bomb: "You check it carefully, how many fuses does this bomb have?"
While the soldiers were carefully checking the bomb's fuse, Sidorin, who was squatting beside Sokov, said to Sokov with a smile: "Comrade Commander, maybe this bomb will not explode at all, we were just a false alarm. Maybe before it left the factory, the anti-Faxi Temple soldiers in the factory made it invalid. I remember some time ago, I found a bomb that had not exploded, with no ammunition in it, only a note with a note that read in German: 'We are anti-Faxi Templeists'."
Sidolin's words made Sokov feel a little more at ease. He stared at Vasha tightly, wanting to see how the engineer company commander eliminated the bomb. Vasha reached out and gently hugged the bomb, pressed his ears on it, as if listening to something.
After a moment, Vasia loosened the bomb, took a step back, and said to the warrior who was investigating the fuse: "Brothers, we are lucky, there is no timer in the bomb. That is to say, as long as the bomb does not fall, we have enough time to remove the fuse of the bomb."
"Comrade Commander," a soldier reported to Vasia after carefully examining the bullet body: "I found two fuses, one on the side of the bomb and the other on the head of the bomb..."
As soon as the soldier finished reporting, another soldier added: "Comrade Commander, I have also carefully checked it. There are only two fuses, but no third one."
"Okay, since you have figured it out, then prepare to demolish it." Vasia said, bent down and opened the toolbox that the soldiers placed on the ground, and took out the tools used for dismantling bullets.
Just as Vasia was holding a tool to remove the bomb fuse, a soldier holding the bomb suddenly spoke, "Comrade Commander, what type of fuse does this bomb use? As far as I know, one is a mechanical fuse; the other is a chemical fuse. There is a glass tube containing sulfuric acid in the bomb. As long as the glass tube breaks, the bomb will explode..."
"This bomb does not use chemical fuses," Vasia said confidently: "The glass tube cannot withstand vibrations. The bomb fell from a height of hundreds of meters. If the glass tube had been broken long ago, can we wait for us to dismantle the bomb?"
Vasia placed the blade of the changer in the groove of the fuse, took a deep breath, and slowly turned counterclockwise. Sokov saw Vasia starting to remove the fuse, and his heart couldn't help but raise his throat. He knew very well that if the operation was wrong, everyone present would turn into ashes after a loud bang.
After Vasia rotated the changer counterclockwise for half a circle, she stopped the movement in her hand. He took the changer back, took a step back, raised his hand to wipe away the sweat from his forehead, and said calmly: "Brothers, I have changed the fuse on the side from waiting to not waiting to go. Next, I should deal with the remaining fuse."
After saying that, Vasia half-squatted down, looked up at the fuse on the head of the bomb, and repeated the movement just now. After only half a minute, he turned the fuse into a state of non-ready waiting to be sent again.
"Comrade Lieutenant," Sokov saw clearly that Vasia had changed the state of both fuses from waiting to waiting to be sent, and asked tentatively: "Have the bomb been removed?"
"Comrade," Vasiah quickly turned her head and replied, "I just adjusted the state of the fuse to a non-ready state, and the risk of explosion has been greatly reduced. However, if you want to completely solve the problem, you still need to take out the fuse inside."
When Sokov learned that the next work was just to take out the bomb fuse, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He waved to Vasia and signaled the other party to continue working. Then he said to Cydolin: "Chief of Staff, please help me. Let's not stay here to interfere with the work of the engineers. Let's go back to the command center first."
With the help of Sidolin, Sokov staggered back to the command center. After sitting down at the table, he accidentally found that the microphone was still on the table. Then he remembered that when the bomb fell, he was talking to Krelov. He quickly grabbed the microphone and put it in his ear. He unexpectedly found that the other party had not hung up the phone.
"Hey, Comrade Chief of Staff." Although he heard a sound from the receiver, Sokov asked deliberately for peace of mind: "Are you still here?"
A moment later, Krelov's anxious voice came from the receiver: "Col. Sokov, what happened there? Why did I get messy when I hear it?"
"Comrade Chief of Staff, please listen to my explanation." Sokov saw Krelov asking about this matter, and quickly explained to him: "A bomb just penetrated the soil layer and fell into the corridor outside the division command..." He reported to Krelov in detail what happened not long ago.
After listening to Sokov's report, Krelov was stunned at first, and then furious: "Col. Sokov, don't forget your identity. You are the commander of the first division and have thousands of commanders and soldiers under him. Who gives you the right to take risks with your life? What if something happens to you, what will the troops do?..."
Faced with Krelov's series of questions, Sokov did not say anything, but waited for the other party to finish his sentence, and then he said slowly: "Comrade Chief of Staff, when he saw such a large bomb hanging on the top of the corridor, it would fall down at any time, he would be afraid. If I evacuate first in this situation, the remaining staff and correspondents would likely fall into chaos when they saw that the commander was not there. If they were scrambling the bomb down while rushing to escape, it would cause huge casualties in the tunnel. It was precisely because of this that I decided to stay temporarily so that other members of the command would not panic when evacuating."
When Sokov reported to Krelov, Trekov kept standing beside Krelov's side and listened. After listening to Sokov's explanation, he took the microphone from Krelov's hand and said to the microphone: "Col. Sokov, I've already made it clear. This situation is special. In order not to cause panic among the comrades, you should stay and stabilize the hearts of the people. This is worthy of praise. But I would like to remind you again that you are now a division commander, not a company commander or battalion commander. Such a thing is enough once, so I won't be an example. Do you understand?"
"I understand!" Seeing that Cui Kov was unwilling to pursue the matter, Sokov quickly agreed loudly.
As soon as he put the microphone on the base of the telephone, he saw Vasia walking into the door with a cup object in one hand. Vasia came to Sokov, reached his hand holding the thing in front of Sokov, and reported to him: "Comrade Commander, the bomb fuse has been removed smoothly."
Sokov had never seen what a bomb's fuze looks like. At this moment, he heard Vasia say that the thing in his hand was a fuze, and he couldn't help but look at it curiously. The fuze of the bomb was in the shape of a cup, with threads on the upper part, for fixing, while the lower part was completely smooth.
Cidolin picked up a fuse, looked at it carefully for a long time, then looked up and asked Vasia: "Comrade Lieutenant, is there no danger of bomb explosion?"
"Yes, Comrade Chief of Staff." Vasia nodded vigorously and said in a affirmative tone: "The fuse has been removed and the bomb will not explode again. The only danger now is that when the bomb falls, it may hurt people passing by."
"Thank you, Comrade Lieutenant." After returning the fuse in his hand to Vasia, Cidolin said to him in a grateful tone: "Please thank your soldiers on behalf of me, thank you for removing the greatest threat for us."
After Vasia left, Sokov was considering how to inform those who had left to return to his post, but saw Ivanov coming in from outside. As soon as he saw Sokov and Cidolin sitting at the table, he reached out and drew a cross on his chest and said loudly: "Thank God, it would be great to see that you two are fine."
"What can we do? The bomb disposal was done by the comrades of the engineer company. We were just watching from the side." After Sokov said this, he suddenly realized that he had not sent anyone to call Ivanov, and he actually ran back. He asked quickly: "Comrade Deputy Division Commander, where have you just stayed, why did you come back so soon?"
"Don't worry, comrade Commander, I firmly obey your orders and took the comrades of the command to Beigang." Ivanov was very afraid of Sokov's misunderstanding, so he quickly explained to him: "But I sent someone to observe nearby. If there is any new situation, he will call me in time. But after I learned that the engineer had successfully removed the fuse, I knew that the danger had been lifted, so I took the comrades back from Beigang."
As soon as he finished speaking, the staff and correspondents who had just left walked in from outside the door. They lined up in an orderly queue not far from Sokov and Cidolin, and somebody shouted in the queue: "Salute!" Everyone raised their hands to Sokov and Cidolin according to the command and saluted a solemn military salute to Sokov and Cidolin.
After Sokov and Cidolin raised their hand to give them a gift, Cidolin smiled and said, "Comrades, the danger has been eliminated. You all go back to their respective positions to work."
When everyone returned to their jobs, Sokov picked up the phone and called the guard battalion, asking Selyosha to bring a squad of soldiers over and stayed in the corridor to observe the bomb with the dismantled fuse. Once the bomb fell from the sky above the corridor, people would immediately organize to move the bomb away.
Chapter completed!