Chapter 1713

  After class, Victor and Sukharev got up and pushed Sokov's wheelchair out of the classroom as usual, preparing to push him to the parking lot and hand him over to Lieutenant Koshkin to take him home.

  For some reason today, the three of Sokov arrived at the parking lot, but they didn't see Koshkin's car.

   "Strange, why didn't you see Lieutenant Koshkin?" Sukharev frowned and said, "Could it be that he was delayed by something?"

   "It's okay," Sokov said generously, "Anyway, I'm not in a hurry to go back to the hospital, so I'll wait for him here for a while."

  Victor looked up at the sky and said, "I think it's better to go back to the teaching building and wait. It's a gray day, and it looks like it's going to snow soon."

  When the two were pushing Sokov's wheelchair to the teaching building, Sukharev suddenly said, "I don't like winter, especially when it snows."

   "Why?" Sokov suddenly became interested when he heard what he said. He tilted his head and asked, "Sukharev, why do you hate winter and snow?"

"The Baltic Sea freezes every winter, and our warships will be frozen in the port and cannot leave the port." Sukharev said solemnly: "If it was a peaceful era, it would not matter if the warships were frozen, but now it is During the war, German planes would come out and bomb us while our warships were immobilized."

  Scenes immediately appeared in Sokov's mind. Countless ships were moored in the frozen port, and densely packed enemy planes swooped down from high altitude and dropped bombs on the ships frozen by the ice. The bombs landed on the ice or on the warships and exploded, setting off clusters of dazzling flames. Although the sailors in the fleet used anti-aircraft weapons to continuously shoot at the enemy planes in the air, they could only slightly weaken the bombing force of the enemy planes and could not Stop the fate of the warship from being hit by bombs.

   "I think," Sokov said after organizing the vocabulary in his mind, "the bombing by the enemy plane must have caused a lot of casualties to the sailors of the Baltic Fleet."

"Yes, in one bombing, seven of our ships of different types were sunk." Sukharev showed a painful expression on his face: "The sailors on the ship either sank with the ship or fell into it. They froze to death in the icy sea, and very few sailors were rescued in the end."

Sokov raised his left hand, gently patted Sukharev's hand on the back of the wheelchair, and comforted him, saying: "Sukharev, this is war. But don't worry, we will one day, sooner or later The Germans will pay this debt of blood."

  The three of them had just walked into the hall when a teacher hurried over. After seeing the three of them clearly, he asked, "Are you students in the Christonia teacher's class?"

   "Yes, Comrade Teacher." Seeing that the other party was carrying the rank of major on his shoulders, Sokov knew that there must be a reason for him to ask this question, so he asked politely, "Do you have any advice?"

   "I need someone to move a set of teaching aids from the storage room on the fourth floor." The teacher pointed at Victor and Sukharev with his hand: "You two follow me to move things."

  However, Victor and Sukharev did not immediately reply to the teacher, but turned their attention to Sokov, wanting to see what he meant. Sokov knew that if the teacher could find someone to help, he would definitely not grab the strong men as he is now, so he nodded at the two of them and said, "Since the teacher comrade needs your help, then you can go and help him."

   "But," Victor said a little worriedly: "We can't leave you here alone!"

   "It's okay," Sokov said with a smile, "I can take care of myself, so you can rest assured."

  Since Sokov said so, Victor nodded, and Sukharev followed the teacher to the fourth floor to move teaching aids.

   After the three of them left, Sokov turned the wheel of the wheelchair with his hands, came to the gate, and looked at the parking lot not far away to see if Koshkin had arrived.

   After waiting for a while, Koshkin did not arrive, but there were two hurried footsteps behind him. Sokov thought that Victor and Sukharev had returned, but when he turned around to greet them, he found that there were two strange officers, one was an elderly lieutenant colonel, and the other was a lieutenant.

   Seeing that it wasn't Victor and Sukharev, Sokov turned his head around, continued to look outside, and waited patiently for Koshkin's arrival.

At this moment, he heard a slightly old voice saying: "You are so outrageous, Lieutenant Morozka, how could you hook up a girl at random in a military store? Don't you be afraid Are you causing yourself unnecessary trouble?"

   "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I was wrong." A young voice sounded: "I just saw that girl was very beautiful, so I went up to strike up a conversation with her, but she came with a driver..."

"Military store, girl, driver." Sokov heard the young lieutenant say these three words, and instinctively thought of Asiya who went shopping in the military store yesterday, thinking that it couldn't be such a coincidence, The girl the lieutenant wanted to hook up with couldn't just happen to be Asia, right?

  In order to figure out what was going on, he tilted his head slightly, and stretched his ears to listen to the conversation between the two. The lieutenant continued: "It would be fine if it was an ordinary driver, but that driver is actually a second lieutenant from the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

  "Second lieutenant from the Ministry of Internal Affairs?" The lieutenant colonel asked in a questioning tone: "You are right?"

"You can't be wrong, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel." The lieutenant's voice was a little crying: "When they asked me to put the flour bag in the trunk of the car, I took a special look at the license plate of the car. The color of the license plate is Internal Affairs The blue color is dedicated to the ministry, and the number is the special car for ministerial leaders."

   "Lieutenant Morozka, you read it right, right? What you saw was a minister-level car of the Ministry of Internal Affairs?"

   "That's right, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I'm definitely not mistaken." The lieutenant pleaded bitterly, "If the higher authorities want to hold me accountable, I hope you can say a few good words for me."

  Hearing this, Sokov already understood what was going on. It must be that Assia went shopping in a military store in casual clothes yesterday, and met this young lieutenant. But the lieutenant coveted Asiya's beauty, so he stepped forward to hook him up. Unexpectedly, the driver who took Asiya to the military store appeared. Lunev was originally the deputy minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The license plate of the car he was riding in was naturally a special license plate for the ministerial level.

"My God!" The lieutenant colonel wailed: "Do you know how much trouble you have caused? If the superior really pursues this matter, even if I help you, it will not help the matter. You should just ask yourself .”

  Seeing that the lieutenant colonel was unwilling to help him, Lieutenant Morozka became anxious: "Comrade lieutenant colonel, I am your adjutant. Do you really want to die?"

"Don't save me?!" The lieutenant colonel said with a wry smile, "I want to save you, but you have caused too much trouble. That girl may be a relative of a minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, otherwise it would be impossible to sit in such a seat." The car went to the military store to do some shopping."

"What should I do?"

  When Sokov was about to hear what was going on with the lieutenant colonel, he heard a stern voice behind him: "Comrade Captain, what are you doing here?"

  Sokov thought to himself, where did another captain appear? Just when he was about to look back, he saw the lieutenant colonel appearing in front of him, and asked with a straight face, "Captain, what are you doing here?"

  Hearing what the lieutenant colonel said, Sukov suddenly realized that the captain he just mentioned was referring to himself. He quickly said with a smile on his face: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I am waiting for someone here."

  The lieutenant colonel was worried that his conversation with Lieutenant Morozka would be overheard by Sokov, so he asked vigilantly, "Waiting for someone? Waiting for someone?"

   "A friend." Sokov, who had never known the lieutenant colonel before, naturally wouldn't confide in him, but replied vaguely, "I'll wait for him to take me to the hospital."

After figuring out that Sokov was waiting for someone here, and the lieutenant colonel was not sure whether he heard the conversation between himself and Morozka, he began to criticize: "Comrade Captain, it seems that you have been in the army for a long time, right? "

   "Yes, I joined the army as soon as the war broke out."

   "Since you have been in the army for a long time, why don't you salute when you see a commander with a higher rank than you?"

  After being reminded by the lieutenant colonel, Sokov once again remembered the identity he was using now. It was not the Lieutenant General Sokov with great military exploits, but Captain Sokov, an ordinary student in the intermediate training class. He secretly smiled wryly, then raised his right hand to his forehead: "Hello, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel!"

   "No," the lieutenant colonel continued to criticize: "The salute posture is not standard, try it again."

  No way, under the current circumstances, the military rank on the opponent's epaulets is higher than his own, so Sokov can only compromise and raise his hand to salute the opponent again.

   Still this time the lieutenant colonel was not picky and barely let Sokov go. Just when the lieutenant colonel was about to turn around and leave, Sokov suddenly said: "The girl you met in the military store yesterday, was she wearing a black woolen coat and a white wool cap? Molo Lieutenant Zika!"

Lieutenant Morozka, who was standing beside him without speaking, suddenly heard the strange captain talk about the girl's clothes yesterday, and finally even called out his own name, and asked in shock: "You, who are you?" ? How do you know what color the girl is wearing? Also, how do you know my name?"

"The reason is very simple." Sokov did not answer the questions in the order of the other party's questions, and said to himself: "I know your name because I happened to overhear the conversation between you and the lieutenant colonel. And the reason I know what that girl is wearing because she is my wife."

  After listening to Sokov's words, Morozka was shocked, and the lieutenant colonel was also shocked. He realized that the captain in front of him might have a background, and he had offended him just now.

"Lieutenant Sokov," Koshkin, who arrived late, appeared at the door when the scene was in an embarrassing situation. He curiously asked Sokov who was sitting in a wheelchair, "Why are you sitting here alone, Vic?" Where are the Colonel and Captain Sukharev going?"

"A teacher asked them to move the teaching aids." Sokov briefly introduced the situation to Koshkin, and then said: "When the two of them come back, I will tell them before leaving. In case they can't see I, would be worried."

   "Okay, Captain Sokov." After Koshkin agreed, seeing the Lieutenant Colonel and Lieutenant Morozka standing aside, he couldn't help asking curiously: "Who are these two?"

   "Maybe they are from the advanced training class." Sokov said disapprovingly, "Who knows, I don't know them."

Koshkin has worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for more than ten years. It is common for him to observe the situation. When he saw the eyes of the lieutenant colonel and Lieutenant Morozka flickering, he immediately realized that there might be something unpleasant between them and Sokov. , He walked up to the lieutenant colonel and asked: "Comrade lieutenant colonel, what is your name, and which unit do you come from?"

  If it was another lieutenant who spoke to a lieutenant colonel in such a tone, he would definitely be reprimanded. But Koshkin was wearing a blue hat symbolizing the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so the lieutenant colonel had to lower his figure and replied in a low voice: "Comrade Lieutenant, I am Lieutenant Colonel Udanov, the deputy commander of the 210th Guards Regiment. I don't know who you are?"

   "I am Lieutenant Koshkin, the adjutant of General Lunev, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs." Koshkin raised his chin and asked arrogantly: "Did you just have a conflict with Captain Sokov?"

   "No, no." Lieutenant Colonel Udanov quickly denied: "Comrade Lieutenant, you must have made a mistake. We didn't say a few words in total. How could there be a conflict?"

  Sokov raised his eyebrows when he heard the familiar number, and then asked, "Are you Sivakov's subordinate?"

  Udanov heard what Sokov said, and asked in surprise: "Comrade Captain, do you know our division commander?"

   "Yes, we have fought side by side together." Sokov asked: "Is your 71st Guards Division now part of General Chistyakov's 6th Guards Army?"

  Udanov was only transferred to the 71st Guards Division during the Battle of Kursk. Naturally, he did not know Sokov, the former commander of the 21st Army. Listening to Sokov's tone of voice, he seemed to be familiar with Sivakov, but he still despised Sokov in his heart, saying that you, a captain, are qualified to fight side by side with a major general and division commander?

   But for the sake of Koshkin's face, he still replied with a smile: "Yes, the original designation of the unit where our division is located is the 21st Army. On April 16 this year, it was officially reorganized into the 6th Guards Army."

   "I know the chief and deputy commanders of the 71st Guards Division, but I have never met you." Sokov looked at Lieutenant Colonel Udanov and asked, "Did you transfer there later?"

   "That's right, Comrade Captain. After the Battle of Kursk, I was transferred from the reserve force to the 71st Guards Division and served as the deputy commander of the 210th Guards Regiment."

   "That's no wonder." After confirming that his guess was correct, Sokov waved at the two and said, "It's okay, you two can leave."

  Udanov couldn't help showing anger on his face, and said in his heart that I am the deputy head of the lieutenant colonel, you are a little captain, what right do you have to tell me what to do? He wanted to have an attack, but when he saw Koshkin standing next to Sokov, he could only try his best to control his emotions, nodded and said, "Okay, then we will leave first."

Just when Udanov was about to leave with Morozka, Sokov said again: "Lieutenant Morozka, I will not pursue the matter of you hooking up with my wife, and you don't need to have any psychological burden. "

  Morozka came to the academy today to find Udanov because he was worried that what happened yesterday would cause endless trouble. Unexpectedly, after Udanov figured out what was going on, he wanted to stay out of it, which made him feel chilled. Hearing what Sokov said at this moment, he immediately said with amnesty, "Thank you, thank you, Comrade Captain! I will always remember your kindness in my heart."

  (end of this chapter)