Red Moscow

"Report to Comrade Commander!" Probably because he could answer Sokov's question, the second lieutenant's voice was extraordinarily high-pitched because of his excitement: "At 1:30, we got out of the sewer where we were hiding, and went to the workers who occupied the new village. The enemy attacked."

"The attack was launched at 1:30?" Peter had a surprised expression on his face when he heard this: "But we haven't heard any movement for such a long time?"

The second lieutenant didn't know Peter's identity, but seeing him rushing to interrupt, Sokov didn't say anything, so he guessed that the other party might be the factory leader of the Red October factory, so he said to Peter: "We are in the process of seizing the workers' new village. , did not shoot, but used cold weapons to destroy the enemy.

There are about two platoons of enemies occupying the Workers' New Village. Their sleeping tents are placed in the central square. Although a few sentry posts have been set up, their attention is all towards the factory area. They never thought that we would emerge from behind them. come out. After we took out the sentries, we went into the tent in groups of three and took out the sleeping enemies with our knives.

... I guess by now, the enemy commanders are still not aware that we have recaptured the new workers' village. "

After listening to the second lieutenant's report, Sokov said angrily: "If Lieutenant Colonel Papchenko hadn't sent you back to report, let alone the enemy commander didn't know, even we didn't know that the Workers' New Village had been taken back! "

After listening to the second lieutenant's report, Peter made a fist with his right hand and hit the palm of his left hand with a "snap". He said excitedly: "Comrade second lieutenant, you did a great job. To tell you the truth, a few minutes ago, I was still thinking in my heart whether the soldiers of the Guards could recapture the workers' new village before dawn. Now it seems that my worry is completely unnecessary. You actually clean up without making a sound The workers' new village was recovered neatly."

He turned to Sokov and asked tentatively, "Comrade Colonel, do you think we should report this good news to Commander Chuikov immediately?"

"Yes." Sokov readily agreed: "Yesterday's battle did not go well, and the chiefs of the group army must be anxious to get angry. Let them hear the good news." After a short pause, he proposed to Peter again. Request, "Comrade factory director, since the workers' new village has been recovered, in order to make it easier for me to get in touch with Lieutenant Colonel Papchenko, would you like to arrange manpower to restore the telephone connection between here and the workers' new village as soon as possible?"

"No problem." Zinchenko hurriedly replied: "The communication cables from the factory area to the workers' new village are all buried underground, and they were not seriously damaged during the battle. I immediately asked the switchboard to dispatch manpower to restore the communication lines. .”

"Comrade Colonel," Peter picked up the phone and was about to dial, when he suddenly realized that it was more appropriate for Sokov to report this kind of thing than himself, so he turned his head and said to Sokov with a smile: "I think the matter of recovering the workers' new village It's up to you to report to Commander Chuikov."

Sokov heard what Peter said, and didn't refuse, just nodded and agreed. Seeing that Sokov had no objection, Peter quickly dialed a number, got through to the switchboard, and said to the operator, "This is Peter. Please connect me to the headquarters of the 62nd Army Group and find General Chuikov or General Krylov."

Although the battle in the city is going on 24 hours a day, in any case, the army headquarters will be much quieter at night, and the staff officers and signal soldiers who have been busy all day can even find time to take a nap. Hearing the sudden ringing of the phone, the on-duty communications officer who had just closed his eyes sat up straight, and before he even had time to open his eyes, he had already grabbed the receiver, put it to his ear, and said loudly: "This is the group army. Commander, where are you?"

"I'm Peter, the director of the Red October Factory." Peter is the master who often calls the army headquarters, and he said familiarly: "If there is an urgent matter, call Commander Chuikov or Chief of Staff Krylov."

The communications officer on duty knew about Peter, and heard that he had urgent matters to call for the commander or the chief of staff, so he dared not neglect, and quickly said respectfully: "Comrade factory director, please wait a moment, I will immediately ask the chief of staff to answer the phone." .”

Hearing the report from the communicator, Krylov was about to get up to answer the phone, but Chuikov took a step ahead. Chuikov took the microphone from the communicator, and asked bluntly in a stern tone: "I am Chuikov, director Peter, is there something wrong with you?"

"It's good news, General Chuikov." Factory manager Peter replied with a smile: "I think it's better for Colonel Sokov to report the specific situation to you." Cove.

Just as Sokov put the microphone to his ear, he heard Chuikov's voice coming from the receiver: "Is it Colonel Sokov? Director Peter said you have good news. What is it?"

"Hello, Comrade Commander, I'm Sokov." Sokov waited for Chuikov to finish speaking, and said respectfully: "My troops have regained the Workers' New Village."

"What, you took back the Workers' New Village so quickly?" Chuikov said with a look of astonishment, "It's just unbelievable. I thought you would have to wait at least until morning to drive out the enemies who occupied the Workers' New Village."

Seeing that Chuikov, like Peter, didn't have much confidence in his troops, Sokov couldn't help but laugh. After he laughed twice, he reported to Chuikov the battle of the 122nd Guards Regiment.

"If you can achieve such results every day, I don't think it will be long before the enemies near your defense zone should be wiped out." Cuikov waited for Sukov to finish speaking, and said excitedly: "When At that time, I will be able to draw enough troops from you to strengthen the critical areas."

"Comrade Commander," Sokov immediately coughed violently upon hearing Chuikov's words, and after coughing for a while, he said bitterly: "My troops do not have the support of the air force or artillery, and only rely on limited It may not be a problem to block the enemy's attack with a few tanks, but if we want to destroy more enemies, I think it will be impossible."

"All right, all right, stop complaining in front of me." Chuikov interrupted Sukov impatiently: "I just said that casually, I didn't really want to mobilize your troops, after all Mamayer Both Fugang and the Red October Factory are important defensive support points for our army. Once captured by the German army, our defense line is in danger of collapse.

The task I give you now is very simple, that is, to do everything possible to resolutely defend Mamayev Post and the Red October Factory, and prevent the enemy from detouring into our rear. Can it be done? "

"Please rest assured, Comrade Commander." Sokov quickly straightened his body and assured Chuikov, "We promise to complete the task."

After putting down the phone, Sokov said to Zinchenko: "Comrade deputy factory director, when you send switchboard staff to the workers' new village to restore the telephone line later, can you send someone to deliver another batch of sacks?"

"Sack? What do you want for the sack?" Zinchenko frowned and asked, and immediately guessed the purpose of Sokov, nodded quickly and said, "Are you planning to use the sack to block the passage in the sewer? Don't worry." , I will organize the manpower later to send sacks to the worker's new village."