Chapter 1558

   While Lunev was leaving, Sokov picked up the phone and ordered the communications soldier to help him connect to the Voronezh Front Army Command and find Marshal Zhukov.

   Soon, Zhukov's voice came from the receiver: "Hey, Misha, what's the matter?"

Hearing Zhukov's tone of impatience, Sokov realized that the other party might still be angry at himself for the counterfeit banknotes, so he said cheekily, "Comrade Marshal, I'm calling you for something very important! "

   "Very important thing?!" After repeating Sokov's words, Zhukov said disdainfully, "Are you going to do something stupid again this time?"

"Comrade Marshal, you misunderstood." Seeing that Zhukov was still angry about what happened last time, Sokov hurriedly laughed and said, "I'm calling you this time because I really have a very important matter, and stick to it." There is a direct connection to the right bank landing field."

  As soon as Sokov mentioned the landing site on the right bank, Zhukov immediately changed his attitude: "Is there any problem with the landing site on the right bank?"

"The Germans started to launch a frenzied attack on the landing field on the right bank." Sukov knew Zhukov's character, so he didn't go around in circles, but said bluntly: "In order to relieve the pressure on the defenders, I plan to let the artillery deployed on the left bank, They provided the necessary artillery support."

   "Well, it's absolutely necessary." Zhukov agreed with Sokov's approach, but then he asked in puzzlement, "But what does this have to do with you calling me?"

   "Comrade Marshal, if you want to bombard the enemy attacking our army's position from the left bank, you must use heavy artillery." Sokov explained: "But now the number of heavy artillery shells is limited, and I am afraid it will not last for two days."

   "Providing supplies to the frontier is a matter for Moscow's logistics department." Zhukov replied: "I can only give them suggestions, but I have no right to interfere with their supply plans. Regarding the shells, you can only figure out your own way."

   "I have a way to get heavy artillery shells." Sokov said with a smile: "But the difficulty now is that these shells cannot meet the front from the rear."

   "Is there no shells in Konev's place?" Zhukov asked back: "Do you still need to transport them from the rear?"

   "Yes, there must be. And they will get more supplies recently."

"Since you can get supplies, why are you in a hurry?" Zhukov said disapprovingly: "After the shells in the rear meet, I will ask Konev to allocate some to you. Anyway, there are less than a thousand dollars from Moscow to the Dnieper River." The distance of kilometers can be delivered in two days.”

"If some of the artillery shells from the rear could be assigned to us, I would definitely not call you." Sokov said helplessly: "But as far as I know, these heavy artillery shells from the rear will all be sent to us." For the attack on Poltava, we won't get any of it."

   "Then what can I do for you?"

   "Comrade Marshal," Sokov heard from Zhukov's tone that the other party was planning to help him, and quickly said: "I have already got enough heavy artillery shells. The difficulty now is the transportation problem."

"Have you got enough heavy artillery shells?" Zhukov was about to ask Sokov where he got them from, but suddenly remembered the friendship between the other party and Yakov, and asked tentatively: "Did you get them from Yakov?" Did you get it from your husband?"

   "Then how do you want me to help you?"

"Comrade Marshal, I want the Air Force's transport plane to deliver the shells for us." Before making the call, Sokov had already figured out how to communicate with Zhukov. Now that the other party had already asked, he no longer hesitated: " But for this kind of thing, my rank is too low, and I can't talk to the commander of the air force, so I can only ask you to come forward."

   "It turned out to be this matter." After hearing Sokov's request, Zhukov said disapprovingly: "I will greet the Air Force Commander as soon as possible and ask him to arrange a sufficient number of transport planes to transport heavy artillery shells for you."

  Sokov knew very well that since Zhukov had expressed his willingness to help him, it would not be long before groups of transport planes would land in Klemenchug. Before the arrival of the transport plane, a temporary building should be built in the airport to store the transported shells.

  After putting down the phone, Sokov returned to the lobby and asked Sameko: "Chief of Staff, how many transport vehicles can we call now?"

   "Comrade Commander, what are you planning to transport?" Sameko did not immediately answer Sokov's question, but asked instead: "Is it soldiers or supplies?"

   "Of course it's supplies."

   "There are less than a hundred trucks." Sameko replied with some hesitation: "I don't know if there are enough?"

   "Enough is enough." Sokov knew that even if Zhukov came forward, the Air Force would not be able to send too many transport planes to him at one time, so 20 or 30 trucks should be enough to unload each time. "Arrange these trucks at the airport in the north of the city, and they will be ready for use in a short time."

   "Send all the trucks to the airport in the north of the city?" Sameko asked in surprise when he heard Sokov's order: "Comrade commander, what do you plan to ask them to transport?"

   "Comrade Chief of Staff, you will know what to deliver when the time comes."

Seeing that Sokov didn't say anything, Sameko didn't ask, but changed the topic to other things: "Comrade Commander, there are many wounded sent down from the front, and they are all placed in the field hospital in the city. Now there are medical staff. How do you solve the serious shortage of personnel?"

"There are not enough medical staff, so we can ask the hospitals in the city for help, and ask them to send experienced doctors and nurses to assist us in the treatment of the wounded." Sokov said to Sameko: "As for the shortage of nursing staff, we can look to the city Residents are recruiting. Anyone who is willing to come to the hospital to take care of the wounded gets extra food every day."

  Sokov knew very well in his heart that in this kind of city, currency had lost its original function, and besides the rationing system, the things that the residents sought after were all kinds of food and daily necessities. If necessary food is provided to the citizens who help the hospital, I believe everyone will actively participate.

"This is a good idea." After Sokov finished speaking, before Sameko had any reaction, Managarov's eyes lit up, and he turned to his chief of staff, Derevyanko, and said: "Chief of staff Comrade, our field hospital has just been established. Although it hasn't received many wounded, there is still a shortage of medical personnel. You can refer to General Sokov's practice and recruit some nursing personnel from the city to solve the problem of insufficient manpower in the field hospital. .”

   "Understood, Comrade Commander." Derevyanko nodded and said, "I will pass on your order as soon as possible."

"General Sokov," General Tsarev, the military commissar of the 53rd Army, asked, "Your special company has been formed for some time. I wonder if they have eliminated the spies in the city? If not, I worry about waiting When the enemy planes carry out night bombing again, these spies will hide in the night and play flares."

  Tsarev’s words reminded Sokov that he was preoccupied with the defense of the landing site on the right bank during this time, and he hadn’t had time to ask how the process of purging spies in the city was progressing.

   "Chief of Staff," Sokov turned his head and asked Sameko, "I wonder if Lieutenant Samoilov's special company has made any progress recently?"

   "Comrade Commander," Hearing Sokov ask himself, Sameko quickly explained: "This matter has always been in charge of Comrade Military Commissar. I think he is the only one who can answer you."

   "Where is Comrade Military Commissar?"

  Sameko looked around, then pointed to the top of the church with his hand: "I seem to have seen him go upstairs just now, and he should be sending a report from the bell tower."

   Lunev owns an independent radio station, which is well known to everyone. Since Lunev had a good relationship with everyone and was very cooperative with Sokov's work, everyone didn't pay attention to his use of the radio to report to the higher authorities. As soon as Sokov heard that Lunev had sent a report, he immediately thought that the other party said he wanted to help him out, so he didn't ask him where he was going, but told Sameko: "Comrade Chief of Staff, give Samoy Lieutenant Love called and asked him to come and see me."

   Samoilov, who received the call, soon came to the headquarters.

  After he finished his salute, Sokov asked straight to the point: "Comrade Lieutenant, has your company made any progress in the recent work?"

   "Comrade Commander," Samoilov replied with some embarrassment when he heard Sokov's question, "With the assistance of the citizens, we have discovered several suspicious elements..."

"Where are they?" Seeing Samoilov's expression, Sokov knew they hadn't made any real progress, so he asked coldly, "You won't tell me that they all ran away? "

"That's right, Comrade Commander, they all ran away." Samoilov quickly defended himself and said, "The areas where they are active are all near the ruins that were blown up. The terrain is too complicated. Our soldiers I was not familiar with the place, so I found them several times, but they all escaped in the end.”

"Comrade Lieutenant," Sameko saw the unnatural expression on Sokov's face, and was worried that he would reprimand Samoilov, so he hurriedly said, "You have more than two hundred people, and you can't even catch a few German spies. Are you there?"

"Comrade Chief of Staff," Samoilov saw that Sameko was trying to smooth things over for him, and after giving him a grateful glance, he continued to explain: "We got the news and rushed to the place where the German spies were. Our encirclement circle is formed, the enemy has already sensed that something is wrong, they drilled into those ruins, and by the time we chased them in, they had already disappeared without a trace."

   "Then have you locked in a new target in the past two days?"

   "Yesterday, the owner of the bakery, Julius, gave us a clue."

   "What clue?"

   "He said that the family opposite him seems to have more people visiting recently." Samoilov reported to Sokov: "And these people who come to visit do not come during the day, they come at night."

   "So what did you do?" Sameko asked.

   "I sent two smart fighters to watch nearby." Samoilov replied: "Once there is any movement, they will come back and report to me in time."

"Comrade Lieutenant," Sokov not only frowned when he heard this: "Since Julis told you that his neighbors are suspicious, why don't you immediately lead someone to arrest them all. Instead, just send two people To monitor?"

  Samoilov replied with some embarrassment: "Comrade commander, am I afraid of arresting the wrong person, so I sent people to monitor them first, and if I found out that there was something wrong with them, it would not be too late to arrest them."

"Comrade Lieutenant, you are very wrong." Sokov said angrily, "Who's home will be visited by many people after dark? I really can't think of any other people besides German spies." reason.

  Also, you only send two people to monitor. If someone comes out of the house, will the person you are responsible for monitoring follow or not? If you choose to follow, there will only be one person left to watch, and you will not be able to report back if you want to report. If you don't follow, what if the other party is an important person and wants to go to other places to contact other spies? In this way, didn't you miss the opportunity? "

Although the weather in September was already very cold, the sweat on Samoilov's forehead kept coming out. After wiping the sweat with his sleeve, he respectfully asked Sokov for instructions: "Comrade Commander , so what should we do next?"

"What should I do, what else can I do?" Seeing that Samoilov hadn't understood what he meant by now, Sokov slapped the table fiercely angrily, and then said: "To arrest someone, it must be Arrest people. Not only the owner of the house, but also those who went to him, I will arrest them all. After they are arrested, they will be interrogated slowly. I don’t believe that there are no German spies among them.”

   "Understood, Comrade Commander." Samoilov quickly straightened his body and replied, "I will send someone to arrest him immediately."

"It's not sending people to arrest, but you lead people to arrest yourself." Sokov stopped Samoilov who was about to leave, and told him: "Remember, bring more people over, first put All their possible escape routes are blocked, and then they go into the house to arrest people, and make sure that none of them slip through the net."

   "Comrade Commander, please rest assured." Samoilov expressed his determination to Sokov: "If one escapes, you will dismiss me after I come back."

   As soon as Samoilov left with his front foot, Lunev came down from the bell tower with his back foot. He quickly came to Sokov, waved a telegram in his hand, and said with some pride: "Comrade Commander, this is the reply I just received, and the matter has been resolved."

  When Sokov took the telegram to the side to browse, Sameko asked Lunev in a low voice: "Comrade Military Commissar, what happened, what telegram did you send to Comrade Commander?"

Lunev knew that even if he didn't say anything about this kind of thing, the people present would learn about it through their own channels in the future. It's better to explain it first, so that no one will suspect that he has concealed many things in the future, so he lowered his voice and told Ah The matter of Thea was told to several commanders present.

  Although General Derevyanko of the 53rd Army is somewhat resistant to Sokov in commanding operations. But when he learned that Sokov's wife was being bullied, he was still filled with righteous indignation: "It's outrageous, it's really outrageous. Our commander is fighting **** battles on the front line, while his wife is being bullied in the rear. It’s too much. I suggest sending a joint telegram to the headquarters of the front army, asking the relevant departments to severely punish this black sheep.”

  (end of this chapter)