Red Moscow

Sokov's operation lasted a full two hours before it ended.

Yakov, who was standing outside the door, saw the military doctor Pavlov lift the curtain and come out with a tired face. He hurriedly stepped forward and asked with concern: "Comrade military doctor, how is your brigade commander doing?"

"Because the shooting distance was very short, the bullet hit very deep, and it took me a long time to remove the bullet." Pavlov grinned, and said in a low voice: "Comrade Major, his life is not in danger. , you can rest assured."

"Thank you, comrade military doctor." Sokov said excitedly, holding the other's hand, "Thank you for saving Misha's life. Can I go in and see him now?"

"Comrade Major, you may have to wait a little longer." Seeing Yakov trying to rush in, Pavlov quickly stopped him, "Assia will take him to a special ward soon, you still Go to the ward to see him, there are still several operations to be performed here."

Yakov was stunned by Pavlov's words: "What, comrade military doctor, you just had a two-hour operation. If you don't go back to rest, you are going to continue the operation?"

"It's impossible, Comrade Major." Pavlov said with a wry smile, "There are only five military doctors in the health team, including me. Faced with so many wounded patients who need surgery, we simply can't handle it. Working twenty or thirty hours in a row in the operating room is commonplace..."

While the two were talking, the door curtain suddenly lifted, and a stretcher was lifted out of the operating room. Assia supported the stretcher with one hand, and held up a bottle of normal saline with the other, following behind the stretcher step by step. Seeing Sokov being carried out, Yakov didn't care to continue talking to Pavlov, but asked Assia directly: "Assia, how is Misha?"

Asya glanced at Yakov, frowned and said, "The anesthetic has not passed, and it may take a while to wake up. Comrade Major, if you are here to visit Misha, please follow us to the ward. Don't stand here in the way of the wounded who are about to be sent in for surgery."

Faced with Asiya's unfriendly attitude, Yakov was not angry at all. Instead, he put himself in the other party's shoes. If his relatives were injured in order to save Sokov, he would not give the other party a good look. After saying goodbye to Pavlov, he followed the stretcher to a separate ward not far away.

As early as when building the tunnel fortifications, Sokov considered that it would accommodate thousands of people, so he asked Ozor to divide the tunnel into upper and lower floors. The upper layer is where the headquarters and troops are stationed; and the lower layer, It is various warehouses and hospitals. Among them, there are nearly a hundred wards of various sizes, the small ones can only accommodate one person, and the large ones can accommodate ten wounded.

After the stretcher bearer entered the room, he put the stretcher on the ground, and then moved Sokov from the stretcher to the hospital bed under the command of Asiya. The medical environment in the tunnel is definitely not comparable to that of the military hospital behind. The so-called hospital beds are nothing more than wooden boards on two mounds, covered with sheets.

After the stretcher bearer left, Yakov walked to Assia's side and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, Comrade Assia, it's all my fault. Misha was injured to save me..."

Although Asiya was extremely dissatisfied with Yakov in her heart, considering the identity of the other party and his friendship with Sokov, she said politely on the surface: "Major Yakov, I can't blame you for this. Injuries are inevitable.”

Seeing that Asiya didn't blame himself, Yakov felt a little calm in his heart. He paused for a moment, and asked tentatively, "Asiya, when will he wake up?"

Assia raised her hand and looked at her watch, and said, "His anesthetic is about to wear off. If all goes well, he will wake up in a few minutes at most."

Asiya and Yakov stood beside Sokov's bed. After waiting for a few minutes, they suddenly heard Sokov moaning. , Misha, I'm here!"

Sokov slowly opened his eyes, and vaguely saw a person squatting beside him, listening to the other person's voice, a bit like Asiya. Sokov blinked vigorously a few times, looked at the other party intently, and found that the person squatting beside him was indeed Asiya. He tried hard to squeeze a smile on his face, and asked with some difficulty: "Asiya, why are you here?"

"Misha," Assia felt relieved when she saw Sokov wake up, but she still blamed him verbally, "It took you a few days to heal from your injury last time, but you got injured again so quickly. Why are you not careful on the battlefield?"

Seeing that Assia was so worried about himself, Sokov still felt very guilty. In order to reassure the other party, he deliberately said jokingly: "I'm sorry, my dear, I forgot to dodge when I saw the bullets flying towards me. gone."

Sokov's witty words made the worried Asiya smile through tears. She raised her hand and lightly punched Sokov's shoulder twice, pretending to be angry and said: "You have injuries on your body, why are you still like this?" It looks like it should hurt your mouth with a glib tone."

"It seems that the part of my injury is wrong this time." Sokov quickly pretended to be suddenly enlightened, and said to Asiya: "After the injury is healed, I will try it on the battlefield and see if I can let my mouth feel better." I was injured once too... Alas!" Before he finished speaking, Assia pinched his arm hard, and he couldn't help crying out in pain.

"Damn it, you're still a brigade commander, you know nonsense all day long." After twisting Sokov hard, Assia said with a blushing face, "Major Yakov is here too, and I'm not afraid of others laughing at you." .”

Sokov has been staring at Asiya beside him since he woke up, and he didn't even notice that there were other people in the room. After Assia reminded him, he saw Yakov standing in the room, and quickly asked him, "Yakov, why are you here?"

"Misha," Assia explained to Sokov after turning her head to look at Yakov, "When you were undergoing surgery, Major Yakov had been standing outside the operating room waiting for you for two full hours." .”

Hearing that Yakov had been waiting outside the operating room when he was undergoing surgery, Sokov was still very touched. He nodded at Yakov and said, "Thank you for your concern, Yakov. It's all right."

Yakov squatted down on the other side of Sokov, and said, "Misha, you were injured to save me. It is only natural that I waited for news from you outside while you were undergoing surgery." .”

Sokov asked curiously: "Yakov, you must be bored waiting outside by yourself."

"It's not too boring." Yakov replied: "At the beginning, Political Commissar Belkin was waiting outside the operating room like me, talking with me and so on..."

Sokov glanced around the room quickly from the corner of his eye, but couldn't find Belkin at all, so he couldn't help asking, "Where did the political commissar go?"

"While your operation was still going on, a soldier came to find the political commissar." Hearing Sokov's question, Yakov immediately thought of the soldier who came to report the news. He whispered to Belkin, and they went Where and what to do? He didn't know anything about it, so he could only say euphemistically: "I guess something might have happened in the brigade. Anyway, the political commissar left as soon as he heard the report."

Sokov thought to himself: Logically speaking, if Sidolin can handle the affairs of the brigade headquarters alone, the political commissar and Yakov will wait outside the operating room for the results of his operation. But Belkin left suddenly in the middle, something must have happened, otherwise he wouldn't even have time to explain to Yakov.

Thinking of this, he turned his head to look at Asiya, and said in a stern tone: "Asiya, you should call the political commissar immediately, inform him of my situation, and ask him to come to me immediately." Seeing Sokov's serious expression, Assia immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, agreed quickly, got up and walked out of the ward, and went to the duty area to make a call.

Yakov watched the back of Asiya leaving, and couldn't help asking curiously: "Misha, I forgot to congratulate you, and you got married without saying a word."

Sokov smiled, and continued: "Before the German army approached the city, one day I took Asiya to the city to inspect the defense, and when I passed by a marriage agency, I took Asiya to register on a whim. marry."

"A temporary decision to get married?" Yakov couldn't help but widen his eyes in surprise when he heard Sokov say this: "Misha, you are too hasty, you should at least say hello to your mother for this kind of thing, and even You have to report to the superiors, but you actually ran to register without saying a word."

"Yakov, this is a time of war, and many things cannot be measured by pre-war standards." Sokov said unhurriedly: "I have also seen some soldiers and women who only knew each other for a few hours. Just go to the marriage registration office to register. After they got the marriage certificate, they separated immediately, and they might never have the chance to meet again. Even if both parties lived to the war and got married, it may be difficult to remember what the other looks like. It's an unknown."

"Misha, have you ever thought about it?" Yakov reminded Sokov: "Asiya is a nurse. Now that the war is so fierce, if she is pregnant, how will she work?"

After listening to Yakov's worries, Sokov stared at him for a long time, feeling a little embarrassed at the other party, and then he continued: "Yakov, we are only registered at the marriage registry, and now we are still registered in the name of marriage. The couple on the Internet have not had any substantive contact, tell me, how could she be pregnant?"

"My God," Yakov said with an exaggerated expression when he heard Sokov say this, "I didn't expect that you are not a real husband and wife until now,..."

Before he could finish speaking, Sokov heard footsteps coming towards his ward, coughed twice quickly, and reminded Yakov: "Asiya is here!" As Ya came over, Yakov hurriedly shut his mouth.

After a while, Asiya walked into the room quickly. She said to Sokov with a look of panic: "Misha, it's not good, something serious happened!"

"Ah, something went wrong?!" Sokov heard Assia say this, and instinctively wanted to sit up, but as soon as he moved, he felt a needle-like pain in his abdomen. He snorted and lay down again , asked in a panic: "Asiya, what happened?"

"Misha, don't move around, and be careful to open the wound." Asiya rushed to the bed, and after Sokov lay down, she said, "I heard that the superior has appointed a new brigade commander. to take your place."

Sokov heard that the superior had appointed a new brigade commander, and said disapprovingly: "Asiya, the superior knows that I am injured and will not be able to command the troops in a short period of time, and appoint a new brigade commander to take over my position, It’s a perfectly normal thing, so there’s nothing strange about it.”

"I heard from a lightly wounded person that the reason why the superior appointed a new brigade commander may be because he is dissatisfied with you and intends to take the opportunity to remove you." Asiya told Sokov what she had heard Those rumors: "It is said that after the battalion commanders got the news, they took their people to the brigade headquarters to ask for an explanation. They brought hundreds of people and immediately surrounded the brigade headquarters."

"Damn it, these battalion commanders have taken the courage to lead people to besiege the brigade headquarters. Do they want to rebel?" Although Sokov was furious after hearing this, he learned the lesson just now, Still lying motionless on the wooden board, he asked Assia, "I told you to call the political commissar, did you?"

"Fighted!" Assia nodded vigorously, and replied: "Comrade Comrade Political Commissar said that he will come over in five minutes at most and report the ins and outs of this matter to you."

"Misha, leading troops to surround the brigade headquarters, the nature of this matter is a bit serious." As a senior soldier, Yakov has stayed in the army longer than Sokov, so he naturally knows that the consequences of this matter are serious. , and reminded Sokov: "You have to think about how to deal with those troublesome officers. If you don't handle it properly, I am worried about the negative consequences."

"Yakov, I understand what you want to say. If the superiors pursue this matter, the battalion commanders involved will be in danger of being sent to a court-martial." Before knowing the truth, Sokov said He didn't express his opinion easily, but said ambiguously: "I think it's better to wait until the political commissar arrives here, we can figure out what's going on, and it's not too late to study countermeasures."

Hearing what Sokov said, Yakov guessed that the other party must have thought about it in his heart, so he didn't say anything more, just nodded, then got up and moved a wooden pier by the wall, sat next to the hospital bed and waited for Belgin's death. arrival.