With the order given to him by Colonel Del, Sokov has a sword of admiration. He can go to any recruitment office in the city to recruit the recruits he needs.
After coming out of the headquarters, Sokov called Konstantin and Zhukovin in front of him, raised the order in his hand to them, and then said: "I have obtained the commander and chief of staff.
With the authorization, you can go to any recruiting office indoors to recruit new soldiers. Which of you is willing to go with me?"
"Me!" The two agreed in unison, and took a step forward in unison.
After the two looked at each other, Constantine chose to withdraw: "Comrade Company Commander, I think it is better for Second Lieutenant Zhu Kewen to accompany you. He is from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. With him by your side, he can solve many unnecessary problems."
trouble."
When Sokov heard this, it seemed to make sense, and he nodded in agreement: "Then let Second Lieutenant Zhu Kewen lead the second platoon to act with me."
After the second platoon was assembled, Sokov called them to board the truck parked nearby.
Zhu Kewen came over and said to Sokov: "Comrade Captain, our platoon only has 35 people, so we don't need so many trucks."
"Second Lieutenant, have you forgotten what we are going to do?" Sokov reminded the other party: "You can't let the new recruits you recruit later come back on foot."
After Sokov's reminder, Zhu Kewen immediately understood the other party's intention, ran back to his men, and shouted at them: "Four people in a car, the empty seats are reserved for those we recruit.
Recruit."
The first place the convoy went to was a recruiting office two kilometers away from the headquarters.
According to Sokov's idea, there should be a long queue at the entrance of the recruitment office. As long as men meet the conditions for enlistment, they will rush here to queue up and ask to join the army and participate in the war against the German attack.
Unexpectedly, when I arrived at the recruitment office, I found that it was deserted. Under the recruitment advertisement posted on the wall, there was only a listless soldier standing.
The soldier saw a convoy parked in front of him. After a group of soldiers got off the bus, two officers leading the team came over. One of them was an officer from the Ministry of Internal Affairs wearing a blue hat. He couldn't help but look a little flustered and hurriedly defended himself.
: "I'm sorry, Comrade Commander, I've been a little too tired these past two days and just took a nap. Please don't punish me."
When Sokov heard what the soldier said, he couldn't help laughing. The other party regarded him as a person checking military discipline. He quickly raised his hand and patted the soldier on the shoulder, and asked with a smile: "Comrade soldier, I want to ask
Are you, is this the recruiting office?"
"Of course, Comrade Captain." Seeing that Sokov was not planning to punish him, but was just asking for directions, the soldier felt much more at ease and quickly answered truthfully: "This is the recruitment office."
“Since it’s a military recruitment office, why can’t there be any residents coming to enlist in the army?”
After hearing this, the soldier shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "Comrade Captain, when the war first broke out, there were indeed residents who were eager to join the army and lined up at the recruitment office every day. But as time went by, those who could enlist were
All have joined the army, and the remaining people have their own jobs, so the recruitment office has become deserted. To be honest, it has been more than a week since the 15th of this month to today, and only more than 100 people have been recruited.
Man, these recruits still live in a nearby school."
Hearing that there were more than a hundred recruits at this recruitment station, Sokov couldn't help but feel secretly happy. He quickly asked the soldier: "Comrade soldier, is the person in charge of this recruitment station here? I have something to do with him."
"Yes." The soldier nodded and said, "After you enter, walk straight along the corridor. There is a conference room at the end of the corridor, and the person in charge is in there."
After Sokov thanked the soldiers, he walked in with only Zhu Kewen and two soldiers.
Along the corridor, we came to the conference room at the end.
Looking in from the open door, an officer was sitting behind a desk. The desk was covered with various paper documents. Maybe no one was here, so he was looking down at something. I heard something in the corridor.
At the sound of footsteps, he stood up, walked over to Sokov and asked: "Comrade commander, who are you looking for?"
Sokov clearly saw the political rank on the opponent's collar badge. He was a first-level political instructor, equivalent to the rank of captain, one level higher than himself. He quickly stood at attention, raised his hand in salute and said: "Hello, comrade first-level instructor,
I am Captain Sokov, commander of the special company of the 37th Army Headquarters, and I was ordered to come here to receive new recruits."
After speaking, Sokov took out the order signed by Colonel Del and handed it to the other party.
The first-level instructor took the order, looked over it over and over for a while, frowned and said, "Comrade Captain, I'm really sorry. I haven't received any orders from my superiors and I can't hand over these recruits to you."
Sokov said patiently: "Didn't you see that the order I gave you was signed personally by Colonel Del, the chief of staff of the group army?"
"Comrade Captain, when we recruit a certain number of new soldiers, they will be handed over directly to the recruiters at the front army headquarters, who will then distribute them to each group army." Unexpectedly, the first-level instructor still refused to cooperate: "
This order was only issued by a group army-level commander and is of no use to me."
"Comrade Level 1 Instructor," seeing that the other party was still unwilling to hand over the recruits to him after reading the order, Sokov couldn't help but feel a little unhappy, but he still said patiently: "You may not know yet, the 37th
The commander of the group army, General Vlasov, is also the garrison commander of Kiev. His position was personally appointed by Comrade Stalin. In other words, we are not only recruiting soldiers for the 37th Group Army, but also replenishing and maintaining the city for the garrison headquarters.
Law and order officers.”
Hearing what Sokov said, the first-level instructor seemed very hesitant. He didn't know whether he should follow the order and hand over the more than 100 recruits in his hand to Sokov to take away; or stick to the principle.
, wait for the recruits from the front army headquarters to arrive, and hand over the new soldiers to them.
"Comrade first-level instructor," Zhu Kewen was a little anxious when he saw that the person in charge of recruiting did not agree to hand over the recruits: "I suggest you call your superiors immediately, report the situation here to them, and listen to what they mean.
how."
The person in charge of recruitment is of a higher rank than Sokov, and he can take the initiative. But the person speaking at this moment is Zhu Kewen. Even though he is just a second lieutenant, the blue-top military cap he is wearing indicates that he is from
The person in charge of recruitment at the Ministry of Internal Affairs dared to offend people from the headquarters, but did not dare to offend people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He said nervously: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, please wait a moment. I will call my superiors right away to hear about it."
What do they think?"
Seeing the person in charge of recruitment starting to make a phone call, Sokov couldn't help but cast an approving look at Zhu Kewen. If the person who followed him here was not Zhu Kewen but Constantine, I'm afraid the other party would continue to speak in an official tone.
Prevaricate yourself.
Soon, the call was over.
The person in charge of recruiting put down the phone and said to Sokov with a grimace: "Comrade Captain, the superiors have agreed to hand over all my recruits to you." He picked up the order placed on the table and continued,
"The order you brought needs to be kept, otherwise I will not be able to deliver it to my superiors."
Sokov originally planned to take this order and go to several more recruiting offices to recruit new soldiers. If he could really recruit hundreds of recruits here, there would be no need to go to other recruiting offices. So he readily agreed to the other party's request.
Leave the order signed by Colonel Del.
After the recruiting director put away the order signed by Colonel Del, he picked up the roster on the table and said to Sokov: "Comrade Captain, the recruits live in the school at the back. I will take you there to receive them."
When they arrived at the school where the recruits lived, an officer and two militiamen in plain clothes and carrying rifles came up to them. They looked at the person in charge of recruitment and asked: "Comrade first-level instructor, why do you have time to come here today?"
"
The person in charge of recruiting pointed his hand at Sokov and Zhukov and said: "This is Captain Sokov from the 37th Army Headquarters. He is specially from the recruiting camp."
Upon hearing this, the officer immediately asked: "According to the orders from our superiors, shouldn't the new recruits we recruit be handed over directly to the recruiters at the front army headquarters?"
"Stop talking nonsense and carry out the order." The person in charge of recruiting said impatiently: "Call everyone out."
More than a hundred recruits wearing new military uniforms lived in three classrooms respectively. After receiving the officer's order, they immediately ran out of them. Since they had not received systematic military training, they crowded together in a noisy manner and did not even know how to line up.
not understand.
Fortunately, Second Lieutenant Zhu Kewen came forward and instructed the recruits on how to line up. It took a long time, but the recruits finally stood in line.
"Comrade Captain," Zhu Kewen returned to Sokov and whispered: "These new recruits have not undergone military training and have been directly integrated into the army. Are they qualified for daily work?"
"Take them all back first, and we'll talk about the training later."
After the formation was completed, the officer in charge of the new recruits began to call the names. The recruits whose names were read walked out of the queue and were taken to the parked truck by the soldiers from the second row who had just arrived.
"Gregory Romanov!"
"Here we go!" A young recruit promised loudly and then walked out of the queue.
When Sokov heard this name, he couldn't help but trembled. Could it be that this Romanov was the Romanov he knew? Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at the other person twice more.
On those young cheeks, one can vaguely see the shadow of that famous person in later generations.
Sokov began to mutter in his heart. He remembered that the famous Romanov had just turned 18 when the Great Patriotic War broke out, and then joined the army. He retired from the army in 1946 and worked in the Ministry of Shipbuilding Industry of the Soviet Union. He graduated from Leninger in 1954.
Shipbuilding
Academy. In the 1960s, because he won Brezhlev's respect, he replaced Shelepin and held important positions. Later, at his daughter's wedding, a drunkard broke several pieces of palace tableware borrowed from the museum.
, and lost the opportunity to climb to the top.
Seeing young Romanov boarding a truck with the help of his companions, Sokov couldn't help but make up his mind to find a way to keep him by his side and try to ensure his safety. In case something happened to him
Three long and two short may affect the future direction of history.
"Comrade Captain," Zhu Kewen saw that Sokov's eyes were always staring at the recruits boarding the train, and he couldn't help but asked curiously: "What do you always look at those recruits for?"
Naturally, Sokov would not tell Zhu Kewen that one of these recruits included a future boss, and he was the kind who almost reached the top. He could only casually say: "The war is coming, I think after these recruits are incorporated into the army,
, may be sent to the front line, I wonder how many of them will survive until the day of victory."
"I think there should be quite a few." Although the current war situation is not good for the Soviet army, Second Lieutenant Zhu Kewen is still full of optimism: "I believe that after we completely crush the German attack on Kiev, we can launch a major counterattack
, drive the enemy out of our land, so that we can achieve final victory."
"It is not enough to drive them away from our land." Sokov said to Zhukoven: "We must also go straight to their home base and completely dismantle their war capabilities, so as not to wait for them to recover.
They launched a new attack on us again."
"Comrade Captain, you are right." The recruiter heard the conversation between Sokov and Zhukovin, came over and said with a smile: "It is not enough to drive the Germans out of our land, we have to attack them directly.
We will beat them until they completely surrender. Just like in World War I, we asked them to surrender unconditionally and sign a letter of surrender."
When Zhu Kewen heard what the person in charge of the recruitment said, he immediately felt that he had found a close friend, and he quickly said to him: "Comrade first-level instructor, how long do you think it will take us to defeat the enemy?"
"I think the Battle of Kiev will be a turning point." The person in charge of recruiting said confidently: "Although our army has been retreating in the early stage, but with the retreat to Kiev, there is no need to retreat again. Our strength here is far beyond
The enemy is on the defensive and there is no problem in defeating the enemy."
Seeing that the two of them were so optimistic about the current war situation, Sokov couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, secretly saying that he hoped they could still say such things in a month.
Soon, the recruits were called, and the officer handed the roster to Sokov: "Comrade Captain, this is the roster of recruits. Please keep it from you."
Sokov took the roster, flipped it through, and handed it to Zhu Kewen: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, put this away!"
After doing all this, Sokov turned around and saluted the person in charge of the recruitment: "Comrade first-level instructor, thank you!" After putting his hand down from his forehead, he took the other's extended hand and said, "We will see you later!"
On the way back to the group army headquarters, Zhu Kewen asked Sokov: "Comrade Captain, with the addition of this batch of new soldiers, the total number of our company has reached 200. How do you plan to allocate the troops?"
"I plan to divide the entire company into four platoons." Sokov said: "After the personnel are assigned, I will ask the security chief to send me two more officers to serve as the third and fourth platoons respectively.
Platoon leader."
"Comrade Captain, you are very thoughtful." After Zhu Kewen listened, he said approvingly: "We have too few officers. We should ask our superiors to replenish them as soon as possible. With enough officers, you can command the troops in a different way in the future."