Red Moscow

"Comrade medic," Sokov turned to Marina and asked, "Have you taken any measures?"

"Comrade General," Marina explained: "There are too many prisoners of war in our prison camp, and there is an extreme shortage of medicine..."

"I won't listen to your reasons." Sokov raised his hand to interrupt the other party and asked: "I just ask you, have you taken any treatment measures?"

"I plan to use physical cooling. Later, I will use a towel soaked in ice water and put it on his forehead to cool him down."

"Physical cooling alone is not enough." Seeing the anxious expression on Bayer's face, Sokov knew that he was worried about his son, so he continued to say to Marina: "You also need to give him medicine, you Where is the medicine cabinet?”

"Here, Comrade General." Lugovaya took the initiative to come over and led Sokov to a medicine cabinet by the wall: "All the medicines in the medical room are here."

Sokov looked through the glass on the medicine cabinet and looked at the medicines placed inside. Soon, he saw several small bottles filled with powder, with "Penicillin" written on them in English. He knew at a glance that it was Penicillin aided by the US military. He raised his hand to open the medicine cabinet, but unexpectedly found a lock hanging on the cabinet door. He turned to Lugovaya: "Where is the key to the medicine cabinet?"

"Marina, hurry up and get the key to the medicine cabinet." After Lugovaya took the key handed over by Marina, he hurriedly opened the lock and explained to Sokov: "Comrade General, in the infirmary there are usually People come and go, and if you don’t lock the medicine cabinet, it’s easy for medicine to get lost.”

"You are right. The medicine cabinet in the infirmary should be locked." When he said this, Sokov thought of an East German TV series "Death Files" he had watched. When Germany was about to fail, Su The army airdropped a reconnaissance team behind enemy lines to seize the German secret files. As a result, before reaching its destination, it was hit by German anti-aircraft fire, the plane was shot down, and a scout was unfortunately seriously injured while parachuting. In order to save his life, the remaining scouts pretended to be wounded soldiers and entered various medical points of the German army. While the doctors were prescribing medicine, they tried to steal the medicine stored in the medicine cabinet, but they failed. Later, the scouts kidnapped a German military doctor and healed their wounded comrades.

But for Sokov, the fact that the Soviet scouts went to steal the German medicine was worthy of praise. But he could not let this happen in a prisoner-of-war camp where German prisoners of war were held, so he praised Lugovaya for this approach: "You have done a good job in safety precautions and deserve praise."

When the medicine cabinet opened, Sokov took out a bottle of penicillin and asked Marina, "Comrade medic, what is this?"

"This is penicillin, Comrade General." Marina was worried that Sokov didn't know what kind of medicine it was, so she explained to him specifically: "It is said to be a better anti-inflammatory drug than sulfa."

"Since it is a better anti-inflammatory drug than sulfa, why don't you give it to this prisoner of war?" Sokov asked dissatisfied.

"I heard that this medicine has serious side effects. I heard that General Vatutin died after using this medicine after he was injured." Marina murmured, "So I don't dare to use this medicine casually. ”

"Comrade military doctor, who told you that this anti-inflammatory drug has serious side effects? And who told you that General Vatutin died because of the use of this drug?" Sokov said unhappily: "Tell the truth. You, I was seriously injured last year, and it was only through the extensive use of penicillin that I was able to prevent postoperative infection. You are right about one thing. This drug is indeed a better anti-inflammatory drug than sulfa, and in some places. , such a small bottle of medicine can be sold for 100 grams of gold. "

"What?" When Sokov said this, everyone present widened their eyes in surprise. Such a small bottle of powder could actually be sold for 100 grams of gold? Vaserigov even said in an unbelievable tone: "Comrade General, are you telling the truth?"

"I just heard about it." Sokov knew that in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, small yellow croakers were used in exchange for penicillin. This shows how expensive this drug is, but Marina, a military doctor, put such an expensive drug casually in the medicine box. Making decorations in the cabinet is simply a waste: "But the person who told me this has never lied, so it must be true."

"Comrade General," Lugovaya pulled Sokov aside and asked in a low voice: "If what you say is true, is it worth using such expensive medicine on this prisoner of war?"

"It's worth it. Of course it's worth it." Sokov responded: "The father of this prisoner of war is now working for me, and I don't want him to be distracted by his son's affairs. Comrade Captain, do you understand what I mean? ?”

"I understand." After Lugovaya said this, he immediately called to Marina: "Marina, why are you still standing there, why don't you quickly inject penicillin into this prisoner of war."

Marina quickly agreed, walked over and took the penicillin from Sokov's hand, preparing to inject Philip.

When Sokov handed Penicillin to Marina, he specifically asked: "Can you use this medicine?"

"Yes, Comrade General." Marina nodded and said, "We received special training when distributing medicines to us."

Marina took out a syringe, filled it with distilled water, pierced the rubber seal on the bottle, injected the distilled water in, then grabbed the medicine bottle and shook it vigorously. After shaking it a few times, she also wanted to check whether the powder inside had dissolved.

After the powder in the bottle was mostly dissolved, she pierced the rubber seal with a needle again and sucked out the solution inside.

Lugovaya looked at the undissolved sediment left in the bottle and asked curiously: "Marina, why is there so much powder that has not been dissolved?"

"That's what this medicine is like." Marina, who was about to inject Philip, heard Lugovaya asking herself, and turned back and said: "After shaking, there will be a lot of residue left. Unless the injection is released one day, This can be avoided.”

When Sokov and others were talking in the room, the Bayers and his son could not understand what everyone was saying because they had no one to translate for them. But Bayer speculated that they might be discussing how to treat their son. Sure enough, after a while, he saw the female military doctor taking the vial from Sokov's hand and starting to inject his son.

After Marina finished the injection, she said: "Wait half an hour and see if his body temperature changes. If not, it's not too late to cool down physically."

Agelina, who was standing nearby, quickly translated Marina's words to the Bayers and her son, and comforted them: "The military doctor said that the effect of this medicine is quite good. After the injection, the patient's high fever will subside soon." Go down."

After Agelina finished translating for Bayer, Sokov came over and asked: "Officer Bayer, what are you going to do next? Are you going to stay here with your son, or are you going to go back and choose the right candidate?"

When Bayer heard Sokov's question, he only hesitated for a moment, and then said loudly: "Comrade General, I will accompany you back to continue selecting people. As for Philip, his brother Zolda can stay with him. ”

Sokov nodded after hearing this, and then asked Marina: "Comrade military doctor, can you understand German?" The purpose of Sokov's question was that he was worried that Marina did not understand German, which would be detrimental to her. To communicate, he could only leave Agelina to accompany them.

"Don't worry, Comrade General." Unexpectedly, Marina replied, "I understand German. There is no need to keep anyone with me. I can handle the things here." She heard the implication of Sokov and knew that the other party planned to stay. He asked Agelina to help him, but considering that they still had work to do outside, it would definitely not work without a suitable translator, so they politely rejected Sokov's kindness.

"Well, since you can handle things here, I won't leave anyone to accompany you." After Sokov finished speaking, he said to Lugovaya and others: "Let's go back and continue working."

When Sokov arrived at the area where the prisoners of war gathered, he was surprised to find that the open space was densely packed with people. After a rough count, he found at least four to five hundred people, which was far more than the number of people he planned to select.

Sokov called Ernst, Hosenfeld, Denaris and others in front of him and asked curiously: "What happened? Why are there suddenly so many people?"

"Comrade General, you may not have thought of it." Before anyone could answer, Poledenko walked up to Sokov and said with a smile: "Not long after you left, many prisoners of war asked to join us. , after screening, there are still so many people left.”

Knowing that the hundreds of prisoners of war in front of him were all leftover after selection, Sokov was even more surprised: "What on earth did you do, and why did this happen?"

"The reason is very simple." Poledenko glanced at Bayer behind Sokov and explained with a smile: "When we started recruiting, the reason why there were no volunteers was probably, as you said, that the German prisoners of war were worried This is a trap. After completing a certain task, the selected people will be killed by us one by one. Therefore, everyone is full of fear and dare not take the initiative to sign up.

But as the old policeman behind you reunited with his son, the German prisoners of war realized that their guess might be wrong. We were really recruiting people to form a new guard unit, so their thoughts changed. Change, from initial avoidance to active registration. "

"Oh, that's it." After listening to Poledenko's words, Sokov couldn't help but secretly rejoice. If he hadn't seen Bayer when he went to Wilhelmstrasse in the morning, he wouldn't have invited him to type in the new guard. Detachment 3 and took him to the prisoner of war camp to select prisoners of war. It seems that everything has God's will. Without the scene where Bayer and his son reunited, I am afraid that the only way to collect the manpower to form a security detachment is through coercion.

"Comrade General," Ernst stepped forward to ask Sokov for instructions: "According to the original plan, we only needed 150 people, but now there are nearly 500 remaining prisoners of war to select. How should we deal with them? Please give us your instructions! "

"Yes, Comrade General." Poledenko also continued: "How do you plan to arrange them?"

Sokov began to calculate in his mind that although the security detachment only needed 150 people, there were now nearly 500 people. It would probably take a lot of time to select qualified soldiers.

He came to the front of the team and swept his eyes over the bodies of the German prisoners of war, checking their physical condition and mental outlook.

When the prisoners of war in the queue saw Sokov's eyes looking towards them, they held their heads high and showed their best side to Sokov.

Poledenko walked to Sokov again and asked him for instructions: "Comrade General, shall we start the screening again now?"

"Comrade Major, I don't think it's necessary." Sokov shook his head and said, "I think we can put them all into the guard detachment."

"What, all into the guard detachment?" Poledenko said in surprise, "Will there be too many people?"

"No, Comrade Major." Sokov considered that although Poledenko's rank was much lower than his, he was the commander in charge of this area after all. It was necessary to inform him of the decision he was going to make. "Marshal Zhukov only asked me to form a company-level guard detachment, but he didn't specify the specific number of people. I think it shouldn't be a big problem to put these nearly 500 people into the guard detachment."

Poledenko knew that Sokov was not only Zhukov's favorite general, but also had a close relationship with his former boss Malinin. The decision he made would definitely not be opposed by his superiors. Since the people above did not object, there was no need for him to be a bad guy, so he went with the flow and said, "Comrade General, since you plan to accept them all, I have no objection, and I will resolutely obey your decision."

"Before I came here, I only considered recruiting 150 people." Seeing that Poledenko did not object to his idea, Sokov smiled and said, "So I only brought three buses. You see, there are nearly 500 people now, and the buses we brought are definitely far from enough. I wonder if the major can solve the problem of vehicles for us?"

"No problem, Comrade General." Poledenko agreed to Sokov's request very readily: "How many cars do you want? I will arrange them for you immediately?"

"I don't know either." Sokov replied casually: "Anyway, try to arrange as many as possible for me, so that I won't be unable to sit later."

Vaseligov was surprised by Sokov's decision. He waited for Poledenko to leave and approached Soko Sokov asked in a low voice: "Comrade General, are you going to take all these prisoners back? Isn't the number a bit too much?"

"Yes, the number of prisoners this time is indeed a bit too much." Sokov did not deny that the number of selected prisoners was relatively large, but he continued: "But if our detachment wants to become the most powerful detachment in the entire garrison command, we must first have an advantage in numbers.

Think about it, a large number of people means that the superiors assign us more tasks. With more tasks, various merits will naturally follow.

The newly formed garrison command now belongs to the second-level garrison command. According to my judgment, more second-level garrison commands will be added in the future. If this detachment performs well, Marshal Zhukov may directly promote it to the second-level garrison command. Do you understand?"

After listening to Sokov's explanation, although Vaserigov did not quite understand, he still nodded and replied: "I understand."