Red Moscow

Poledenko was very efficient. In less than half an hour, the bus Sokov needed was dispatched.

When he reported to Sokov, he specifically mentioned: "Comrade General, I have reported what happened here to Comrade Chief of Staff."

"Chief of Staff?" Sokov asked rhetorically: "Is it General Malinin or Lieutenant General Dratvin?"

"Of course it's Lieutenant General Dratvin." Poledenko replied: "General Malinin has gone to Austria a few days ago."

Sokov nodded: "Well, so Marshal Zhukov should also know what happened here."

"You are absolutely right, Comrade General." Poledenko said with a smile: "Everyone knows Marshal Zhukov's character and knows that he likes to know what is happening at the first time. Therefore, the information obtained by the staff will Report to Marshal Zhukov in the shortest possible time.”

As for Sokov, if Zhukov knew that he had recruited nearly 500 prisoners of war, he would probably not say anything. Instead, he would adopt a tacit approach and acknowledge the soldiers he had recruited. He called Vaserigov and told him: "Major, let your people get the prisoners into the car!"

When Lugovaya saw Vaserigov summoning his men and leading the group of recruited prisoners of war to leave the camp in an orderly manner, Lugovaya even ran over to ask Sokov for instructions: "Comrade General, do you need me to send someone to assist you?" ?”

"No, Comrade Captain, we have enough manpower." After Sokov declined Lugovaya's kindness, he reminded him: "You'd better take the prisoners back quickly, in case there are prisoners taking advantage of the chaos, If you get into my recruiting team, you'll be in trouble."

Lugovaya felt that what Sokov said made sense. After saluting Sokov, he turned around to arrange the manpower and bring the remaining prisoners of war back to their respective barracks to prevent them from taking advantage of the chaos and sneaking into the selected batch. Among the prisoners of war who came out.

Looking at the prisoners of war in the open space, led by the guards, heading towards his barracks, Sokov took another look at the prisoners of war boarding the train outside the camp, thinking that as soon as the boarding was completed, he would take the prisoners with him. Lead them to the designated assembly point.

"Misha," Agelina came over at this time and asked in a low voice: "Are you planning to bring Bayer's two sons with you?"

Agelina's words reminded Sokov that today's recruitment was so smooth because of Bayer's second son. If he and his sick eldest son were left alone in a prisoner of war camp, it would probably affect Bayer's career. mood. Thinking of this, he said to Agelina: "Go and tell Bayer to bring his two sons."

Just when Agelina was about to go find Bayer, Sokov remembered that it would not be good to take away two prisoners of war without saying hello to Lugovaya. He quickly grabbed Agelina's hand, led her to Lugovaya's side, and said, "Comrade Captain, I have something to tell you."

"Please tell me, Comrade General."

"I am going to take away two more prisoners of war." Before Lugovaya could ask, Sokov took the initiative and said: "They are the two brothers in the infirmary. The elder brother is still sick. I want to change him. A better environment.”

"Of course, Comrade General." Lugovaya nodded and said, "But you have to wait a moment. After my men bring all the prisoners of war back to the camp, I will arrange for someone to bring the two brothers over."

After expressing his gratitude to Lugovaya, Sokov came to Bayer and said to him through Agelina: "Bayer, I have already made an agreement with the director of the prisoner of war camp to wait for the prisoners of war here. After everyone returned to the barracks, he sent someone to pick up your two sons. "

In fact, when Sokov asked Vaserigov to arrange manpower and let the selected prisoners of war board the train, Bayer looked back at Sokov from time to time to see when he would let his son leave together. But seeing that the prisoners of war who had left the camp were about to board the train, but they had not yet mentioned the matter of his two sons, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. Just when he was hesitating whether to plead with Sokov to let his two sons leave together, he saw Sokov and Agelina coming to him.

When I heard Sokov say that his two sons would leave the prisoner of war camp with him, I was so excited that tears filled my eyes, and I thanked Sokov repeatedly!

After the prisoners of war outside the prisoner of war camp had boarded the train, Vaserigov came in and reported to Sokov: "Comrade General, the prisoners of war have boarded the train. Can they leave immediately?"

"Wait a minute." Sokov said this, and when he saw a puzzled expression on Vaserigov's face, he explained to him: "We still have to wait for Bayer's two sons. When they arrive, it’s not too late to set off.”

As he was talking, a group of people walked out of the barracks area in the distance, with a stretcher in the middle.

Sokov pursed his lips in that direction and said to Vaserigov: "Well, isn't that coming?"

Bayer saw the group of people appearing in the distance and the stretcher in the crowd, and quickly ran over to greet them.

Agelina said worriedly: "I wonder if Philip's fever has gone away?"

"Don't worry, Agelina." Sokov comforted him and said: "I have used penicillin before, and I know best how effective that drug is. Philip used other drugs to reduce fever, and I don't know how effective it is. Clear. But since he has used penicillin, his fever should have gone away by now."

After a while, the group of people came forward, and Sokov saw clearly that it was Philip lying on the stretcher. Bayer and his second son were beside the stretcher. In addition to a few soldiers carrying stretchers, there was also a female military doctor named Marina.

"Comrade medic," Sokov asked Marina, "How is the situation? Has the fever gone?"

"The fever has gone away, Comrade General." Marina said with emotion: "I didn't expect that penicillin can reduce fever so well."

Sokov walked to the stretcher and looked at Philip lying on it. Seeing that the other person's eyes were closed, he asked cautiously: "Comrade military doctor, is he asleep or has he fainted?"

"Of course he fell asleep, Comrade General." Marina explained to Sokov: "After his fever subsided, I checked him and found that his breathing was steady and his heartbeat was not fast. He fell asleep due to fatigue. ”

Hearing Marina say this, the muscles on Sokov's face couldn't help but twitch a few times. He was thinking, it seems that not only the environment in this prisoner of war camp is not good, but the labor intensity is also very high. It is estimated that there are many people every day. Prisoners of war died due to overwork or illness. Unfortunately, there were too few people to choose from, otherwise more lives could have been saved.

After confirming that Philip's fever had subsided and that he was still asleep, Sokov felt at ease. He waved to the soldiers carrying the stretcher and said, "Send him to the bus outside the camp."

After Sokov got in the car and was about to leave, he suddenly saw a jeep driving towards him.

The car stopped a few meters away from his own car, and the rear door opened, revealing Poledenko's face. He said to Sokov: "Comrade General, I have been ordered to accompany you to the placement of prisoners of war." point."

Sokov nodded, indicating that he understood, and then told the driver: "Let's drive!"

After more than half an hour of turbulence, the convoy arrived at the resettlement point arranged by the superiors. It turned out to be a primary school. Since the Soviet army arrived at the city, the school has been suspended indefinitely. At this moment, it is used as the barracks of the 3rd Security Detachment.

As soon as Sokov's car stopped, Poledenko, who got out of the car first, had already trotted over, opened the door for Sokov, and said to him: "Comrade General, Marshal Zhukov said that he will be here soon, let him You wait for him here."

When Sokov heard what Poledenko said, he was quite surprised and wondered why you didn't mention this when we set off from the prisoner of war camp.

Poledenko saw Sokov's thoughts and explained to him: "The person in charge here told me about this."

"The person in charge here?" Sokov was stunned: "Where is he?"

"Hello, Comrade General." Hearing Sokov's question, a short lieutenant with a big belly walked up next to him. He raised his hand and saluted Sokov and said: "I am such a person in charge of military supplies. Lieutenant Breliska."

Seeing the other person's big belly, Sokov nodded slightly, feeling that his appearance was worthy of the position of quartermaster. After all, this was a lucrative position, so it was reasonable for him to be fatter than others. .

"Second Lieutenant Breliska," Sokov called the other party's name and asked, "Have you arranged accommodation for the prisoners of war?"

"Not yet, Comrade General." Breliska was worried that Sokov would be angry, and specifically explained to him: "I was originally notified that more than a hundred prisoners of war were coming here, so I only prepared four rooms. Classrooms, and more than 100 sets of quilts. But now there are nearly 500 people. Not only the number of classrooms has also increased, but the quilts they need also need to be urgently transported from other places.”

Sokov thought that his decision had brought a lot of inconvenience to the quartermaster, so he apologized and said: "Comrade quartermaster, this is all my fault. I did not consider your actual situation and did not communicate with you. Without communication, we rashly increased the number of personnel several times, thereby increasing your workload. "

"Look at what you said, Comrade General." Breliska said with a smile: "This is my responsibility. Let alone 500 people, even if it is 5,000 people, I can find a way to solve their accommodation problem. ”

"By the way, Comrade Quartermaster." Sokov thought that it was not enough to solve the problem of a place to live, but also the problems of eating and bathing. He quickly asked: "I plan to arrange for these prisoners of war to take a bath, shave their faces, and then change Wear clean clothes. Do you have enough bathrooms?”

"No." Bryliska answered quite simply this time: "But we can arrange for the prisoners of war to take baths in batches."

Hearing that the prisoners of war were allowed to bathe in batches, Sokov realized another problem. Many of the prisoners of war who came here must have stayed in the concentration camps they established. They had seen Jews being allowed to bathe under the guise of being allowed to bathe, but the result was that Sending them to the gas chambers. If I directly ask them to take a shower, will anyone be resistant? It seems that this matter still needs to be communicated with Hosenfeld and the others. They can explain it to the prisoners of war to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings.

"Major Vaserigov," Sokov shouted to the side: "Go and call Captain Hosenfeld and the others."

"Okay, Comrade General." Vaserigov agreed loudly, then turned around and ran towards the location where the prisoners of war got off the bus and gathered.

A few minutes later, Hoshenfeld, Denarius, Ernst and Bayer all ran over after Vaselgov.

"Comrade General!" After the four people saluted in unison, Ernst asked: "Call us over. What can you do?"

"Ernst, I called you here because there is something that needs you to take care of."

"whats the matter?"

"You have also seen the condition of these prisoners of war." Sokov pointed to the prisoners of war in the distance and said to Ernst: "I plan to arrange for them to take a bath, have a shave, and then change into clean clothes. I hope You go and explain to them.”

Hearing what Sokov said, Ernst couldn't help but look shocked. He asked in confusion: "Comrade General, I don't understand. Isn't it normal for them to take a bath, shave their faces and change clothes after they get here?" , why do we need to explain it to them specifically?”

Sokov was stunned at first, and then he understood that Ernst probably knew nothing about the situation in the German concentration camps, and Hossenfeld, who knew about this situation, could not understand what he said, so Ernst did not Understand why you asked him to explain to the prisoners of war. He could only explain to the other party: "Ernst, you have been away from Germany for too long, so naturally you don't know about the death camps established by Germany. The guards asked the Jews who newly entered the camp to go to the designated place to bathe and disinfect. As a result, The room these people entered was not a bathroom, but a gas chamber. I think many of the prisoners of war recruited today would know about it, and if they were allowed to take a bath rashly, they might end up in the concentration camp. If you think of the gas chambers, it may cause unnecessary chaos."

After Ernst understood what Sokov wanted to express, he did not immediately express his position. Instead, he turned around and repeated what Sokov said to Hosenfeld and others in German.

After hearing this, Hossenfeld nodded and said: "Ernst, Comrade General's concern is correct. In the concentration camps, we did use this method to trick the Jews or prisoners of war into entering the gas chambers and put them All of them were poisoned. If these prisoners of war were allowed to take a bath directly, many of them would think that the comrade general was planning to trick them into entering the gas chamber, and then they would all be poisoned. There is a riot, so it is absolutely necessary for us to explain.”

When Ernst and others returned to the prisoners of war to explain, Sokov asked Bryliska: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, I wonder how long it will take for new bedding to be delivered?"

Breliska raised his hand to look at the time and replied: "Comrade General, all of them can be delivered within an hour at most. By then, the prisoners of war who have taken a bath can go back to rest in the classroom prepared for them. By the way, I want to ask, do you plan to dress them in our army’s military uniforms or in German army uniforms?”

"Comrade Second Lieutenant," Poledenko said before Sokov could speak this time: "Although they are a unit led by our army, according to the instructions of their superiors, they are still wearing German military uniforms. Why? So, can you get German military uniforms here?”