Red Moscow

"Comrade General," Poledenko asked Sokov, "how do you plan to select prisoners of war?"

"Comrade Major, I want to gather all the prisoners of war and let them sign up first." Sokov said: "If there are not enough volunteers, we will select suitable candidates from the prisoners of war."

"Captain Lugovaya, did you hear that?" After Poledenko waited for Sokov to finish speaking, he turned around and ordered Lugovaya who was standing next to him: "Gather all the prisoners of war immediately."

Then, it was time for the prisoners of war to gather. Driven by the guards, the prisoners of war only took eight minutes to complete the assembly.

After the assembly was completed, Lugovaya came over and reported to Sokov: "Comrade General, the prisoners of war have been assembled. Please give your instructions!"

"Is everyone here?"

"No, there are only about 10,000 people here." Lugovaya replied: "The rest are sick, lying in their barracks unable to move..."

When Sokov heard this, he couldn't help but frown slightly. According to Lugovaya, a large number of prisoners of war may die in the prison camp in the near future. He came here today only to select prisoners of war to form a guard unit, not to inspect. The life and death of these sick prisoners of war had nothing to do with him, so he chose to ignore what Lugovaya said later.

Since the prisoners selected this time will be under the jurisdiction of Hossenfel, Sokov handed over the task of selecting prisoners of war to Hossenfel.

Before the selection work began, Hosenfeld naturally had to give a speech to gain the approval of these German prisoners of war, so that more people would be willing to take the initiative to join his command.

When Hossenfel's impassioned speech resounded through the entire camp through loudspeakers placed everywhere, Sokov asked Agelina in a low voice: "Agelina, I don't know what Captain Hosenfel is talking about." ?”

"He told these prisoners of war," Agelina said briefly: "Although Germany failed in the war that ended not long ago, the country still exists. Now it is time to start post-war reconstruction work, but due to various reasons, the order in Berlin has It has not completely returned to normal, so it is necessary to form a German-dominated security command to restore order as soon as possible. This is what he basically meant. If you want to hear more details, I can translate it for you again. "

"No, no need." As long as Hosenfeld can recruit enough people, he doesn't care what he said to these prisoners of war: "As long as he can recruit enough people, today's mission will be completed ”

After Hosenfeld's speech ended, it was time to sign up for volunteers. Ernst stepped forward and said loudly in German: "Soldiers who are willing to join the guard unit, please come out!" Perhaps fearing that someone would not hear, he repeated this three times.

But it is regrettable that out of a team of tens of thousands of prisoners of war, less than 20 volunteers came out, which made everyone look very embarrassed.

"Comrade General," Poledenko came over and asked Sokov in a low voice: "There are less than 20 prisoners of war who volunteered to sign up. What is going on?"

The scene in front of him reminded Sokov of the scene when Vlasov went to the Soviet prisoner of war camp to recruit people and prepare to form the "Russian Liberation Army." After the same propaganda and agitation, only a few people walked out of the queue. The vast majority of prisoners of war had no interest in such recruitment at all.

Today, there are less than 20 prisoners of war volunteering to join the guard unit, which makes Sokov feel a little unable to step down. Hearing Poledenko's question at this moment, he answered bravely: "Major, the German prisoners of war may think this is a conspiracy."

"Conspiracy?" Poledenko's eyes widened in surprise, and he asked in confusion: "What conspiracy?"

"In my original unit, a large proportion of commanders and fighters were rescued from prisoner-of-war camps." Sokov began to talk nonsense seriously: "The Germans also often conducted recruitment in prisoner-of-war camps, saying that they were recruited But in fact, these recruited officers and soldiers of our army will be shot after completing their designated tasks. I think the reason why the German prisoners of war are unwilling to sign up is because they are worried about this situation. "

After listening to Sokov's analysis, Poledenko nodded with a look of astonishment, and then asked Sokov: "Comrade General, what should we do?"

"Since there are not enough people to sign up, we will choose ourselves." After Sokov said this, he said to Ernst: "Ernst, all of you come to me."

Soon, Ernst, Hosenfeld, Denaris, and Bayer arrived in front of Sokov.

After sweeping his eyes over the four people, Sokov said slowly: "Comrades, there are a few people volunteering to sign up, but don't be discouraged. This is because they don't understand our recruitment actions. Since In this case, I can only trouble the four of you to choose it yourself."

"Comrade General." Denaris asked, "I wonder what the selection criteria are?"

"As long as they are healthy prisoners of war, the rest of the conditions can be relaxed." Sokov saw the prisoners in the queue in front of him. They were all skinny, with dull eyes and numb expressions. It seemed that the torture of prisoners in the Soviet prisoner of war camps was worse than The U.S. prisoner-of-war camps were even more serious. Therefore, he set the primary condition for selecting prisoners of war as "good health": "Everyone take action immediately and strive to complete today's work as soon as possible."

After listening to Ajelina's translation, the four people agreed loudly, and then each of them took a guard and entered the prisoner's queue.

They took a fancy to a prisoner of war, and patted him on the back, signaling him to leave the queue and line up outside. Although the selected German prisoners of war were unwilling, they saw the guards standing behind them, so they could only walk out of the queue obediently and line up in the open space outside. Many of these selected prisoners of war had fear on their faces. They were worried that the selected people would be taken to the prisoner camp by the Soviet guards and shot.

Sokov's eyes were fixed on Bayer in the distance, and he wondered in his heart: Can Bayer find his two sons in this prisoner of war camp?

At this moment, Sokov suddenly saw Bayer, who was walking in the queue, stopped and seemed to shout at a prisoner of war not far away. The prisoner heard someone calling his name and instinctively looked in the direction of the voice. But when he saw Bayer in a police uniform, he showed a shocked expression on his face, and then he shouted and rushed towards Bayer. The two guards behind Bayer saw the prisoner rushing towards Bayer, worried that he would harm Bayer, and immediately stepped forward to stop him, and raised the butt of the gun to knock him down, but their actions were stopped by Bayer.

What happened here immediately caused a chaos. Seeing this, Lugovaya was worried about bigger problems, so he personally led a dozen guards and rushed there. But Sokov knew it well, and hurriedly said to Adelina: "Adelina, if I'm not wrong, Bayer should have found his son." Then he nodded to Vaseligov, "Major, follow me."

When Sokov came to where Bayer and others were, he saw Bayer and a ragged prisoner with a full beard hugging each other, and the two were wiping tears.

"Captain Lugovaya," Poletenko, who came with Sokov, saw this and asked dissatisfiedly: "Explain to me, what happened here?"

"Major Poletenko, I think I can give you a satisfactory answer." Sokov said before Lugovaya could speak: "If I am not mistaken, the prisoner hugging the police officer should be the police officer's son."

"Ah?!" Poletenko asked in shock: "Comrade General, is this true?"

"Of course it is true, Major Poletenko." Sokov saw Lugovaya and his guards standing by and did not move. He thought that the other party must have known about this, so he said to him: "Captain Lugovaya, do you think I am right?"

"Absolutely correct, Comrade General." Lugovaya said with a smile on his face: "I just learned about the situation, and it is indeed as you said As it was said, the prisoner of war was the son of the old policeman. It was inevitable that they were a little out of control when they met again. "

At this time, Bayer also noticed Sokov's arrival, and quickly let go of the prisoner of war, wiped his tears, and then said to Sokov: "Comrade General, let me introduce you, this is my second son Zorda. Zorda, this is General Sokov I told you about. Without his help, I would not be qualified to enter this prisoner-of-war camp, let alone find you. "

After Sokov waited for Adelina to help him translate, he asked curiously: "Officer Bayer, you found your second son, so what about your eldest son? Is he in this prisoner-of-war camp?"

After Sokov reminded him, Bayer immediately remembered the purpose of his visit to the prisoner-of-war camp this time, one was to help select prisoners of war to join the guard detachment, and the other was to find his two sons. Now the second son has been found. Although he looks haggard, he is still alive, which is better than anything else. Bayer grabbed Zolda's arm and asked nervously, "Where is your brother? Where is your brother Philip? Is he also in this prisoner-of-war camp?"

"Yes, father." Zolda replied, "He is also in this camp."

"Where is he?" Knowing that his eldest son was also here, Bayer looked around, trying to find his other son from the crowd around him.

"He's not here." Zolda said, "He's sick and didn't come out to gather."

"He's sick?" Bayer asked nervously, "What disease is he sick with? Is it serious?"

Faced with Bayer's series of questions, Zolda looked at the people standing around him and seemed very hesitant, not knowing whether he should tell his father the truth.

"Major Poledenko," Sokov turned his head and said to Poledenko, "I plan to go and see Officer Bayer's son in person. I'll trouble you to take charge of the work here. Captain Lugovaya, take me to where the sick prisoners are."

In this way, Poledenko stayed to continue the selection of prisoners, while Sokov, Adelina, Vaseligov and Bayer's father and son, led by Lugovaya, headed towards the place where the prisoners were.

Sokov found that Lugovaya was taking him and his men around among the many wooden houses, as if delaying time. After Sokov noticed this situation, he did not say a word. He knew very well that Lugovaya might have secretly sent people to transfer Bayer's eldest son to a separate room, and after the transfer was completed, he would take him straight to the destination.

"Comrade General," Vaseligov also noticed that Lugovaya was taking his group of people around the wooden house, so he approached Sokov and reminded him, "Why do I feel that Captain Lugovaya is taking us around?"

"Major, you observe very carefully." Sokov replied with a smile: "I think the place where Bayer's eldest son originally lived must be very bad. The captain knew that I was going to visit him, so he secretly sent someone to move him. After the transfer, we can see Bayer's eldest son."

At this time, a guard hurried over and whispered a few words in Lugovaya's ear. After listening, Lugovaya kept nodding.

After Lugovaya waved his hand to let the guard stand aside, he turned his head and said to Sokov: "Comrade General, I remember that Philip had a fever in the morning and we have sent him to the infirmary. If it weren't for my men to remind me, I almost forgot about it and took you to another place."

Sokov saw through it but didn't say it, saying: "Then take us to the infirmary."

Under the leadership of Lugovaya, Sokov and others came to the door of the infirmary.

Sokov took a look at the size of the infirmary and knew that not too many people could stand inside, so he said to Vaseligov: "Major, you don't have to go in, just wait for us at the door."

"Okay, Comrade General."

Seeing that Sokov had left his guards outside, Lugovaya naturally would not bring the guards behind him into the house. He also told them to wait outside, and then said to Sokov respectfully: "Comrade General, please come in!"

There was a female military doctor in the infirmary wearing a white coat on the outside and a military uniform on the inside. When she saw Lugovaya coming in, she immediately raised her hand. When he saluted him and was about to report, Lugovaya raised his hand to interrupt him, then pointed at Sokov and said, "Marina, let me introduce you, this is General Sokov, he came to inspect the prisoner-of-war camp and came here to visit Philip. How is he?"

"High fever of 41 degrees," Marina said to Lugovaya with a serious expression, "I don't have a suitable antipyretic here, I can only use physical cooling methods to try to lower his body temperature first, otherwise it may burn his brain."

Sokov was stunned when he learned that Philip had a high fever of 41 degrees. Usually, when a person has a fever of 39 degrees, his whole body will be hot, but Philip's body temperature has reached 41 degrees. If the fever cannot be reduced as soon as possible, it may burn his brain and turn him into an idiot.

"Where is he?" Sokov asked.

Marina pointed to a screen not far away and said, "It's right there."

Sokof went forward and pulled open the screen. He saw a bed behind it. On the bed lay a haggard, bearded prisoner with a red face and closed eyes. He had a painful expression on his face. Sokof only took a glance and knew that Marina was not lying. Philip was indeed running a high fever.