Chapter 829 Special gift

  Guchakov commanded the guerrillas to seize two important stations behind the enemy lines, causing problems with the German supply in the city. Therefore, after dawn, the German army did not attack the Barricade Factory and the Dzerzhinsky Factory as before. Since the Germans did not launch an attack, the Romanian army, as a slave country, naturally had a reason to be lazy, so they huddled in their positions and could not come out.

  Without the interference of the war, Sokov stayed in the health team to accompany Asiya with peace of mind. Anyway, he knew that if something important happened, Sidolin would definitely call or send someone to notify him.

As soon as the medical staff of the health team ate the dumplings sent by Anisimov, Sidolin called the health team, and he said excitedly on the phone: "Comrade commander, can you come back immediately?" ?” Without waiting for Sokov to ask what happened, he added, “Captain Guchakov and the others are back.”

  From Sidolin's tone of voice, Sokov knew that Guchakov and the others must have returned safely. At this time, it was obviously inappropriate for him to stay in the health team. He greeted Asiya, then got up and hurried back to the division headquarters.

  As soon as he entered the door, he saw three people in German uniforms standing in the room. Sokov instinctively stretched his hands to his waist, trying to draw his gun. At this moment, Sidolin saw Sokov standing at the door, and quickly got up to greet him, saying, "Comrade commander, you are back so soon."

  Hearing Sidolin and Sokov saying hello, the three men in German uniforms turned around, raised their hands to salute Sokov, and shouted in unison: "Hello, Commander!"

   Sokov heard the voices of the three before he recognized Guchakov, Samoilov and Tavlin. He nodded at Sidolin, then walked up to the three of them, shook hands with them one by one, and said, "Thank you, comrades, for your hard work. On behalf of the commanders and fighters of the division, I welcome you back!"

  After shaking hands with the three, Sokov looked at Guchakov and asked with a smile on his face, "Comrade Captain, is the journey back going well?"

   "It went well, Comrade Commander." After Guchakov answered Sokov's question, he continued: "We are on the way back, and we will prepare a special gift for you."

   "A special gift?!" Hearing Guchakov say this, Sokov began to wonder in his heart, what kind of gift could they bring me on the way back? With doubts, he asked curiously: "Comrade Captain, can you tell me what gift you prepared for me?"

"Lieutenant Samoilov," Guchakov did not answer immediately, but turned to Samoilov next to him and said, "Go and bring the gift we prepared for the division commander here." Samoilov Ilov nodded, turned and walked out of the headquarters.

Perhaps because he was worried that Sokov would continue to question him endlessly, Guchakov said with a mysterious face: "Comrade commander, don't ask any more questions. I won't tell you anything until the lieutenant brings the gift here. However, I Guess you will definitely like such a gift."

"That's not necessarily true." Ivanov, who was sitting opposite Sokov, said: "Captain Guchakov, even if you are an old subordinate of the division commander, it doesn't mean that the gifts you give will satisfy the division commander. "

Regarding Ivanov's statement, Guchakov did not refute, but smiled lightly and said with a normal expression: "Comrade deputy division commander, I think this gift is not only liked by the division commander, but even when you meet the chief of staff." Yes, I'll like it too."

   "Oh, is that so?" Ivanov showed a surprised expression on his face: "Then I have to wait and see what gift Lieutenant Samoilov brings."

   It didn't take much time, Samoilov re-entered the division headquarters, followed by a few people. After seeing the people behind him clearly, Sokov jumped up from his seat. Although the four people who came in behind were all wearing German uniforms, the one who caught Sokov's attention was following Samoilov Behind him is a German officer wearing a large-brimmed hat and a military overcoat. The eye-catching red collar patch on his collar shows his status as a general.

Seeing a German general follow Samoilov into the headquarters, not only Sokov jumped up from his seat, but Ivanov and Sidolin also stood up instinctively from their seats. I thought to myself: Is this the "special gift" that Captain Guchakov gave to the teacher? If so, this gift is a bit too heavy.

   "Captain Guchakov," Sokov quickly recovered from the shock, turned to look at Guchakov who was standing beside him and asked, "Is this the gift you gave me?"

"Yes, Comrade Division Commander." Guchakov nodded vigorously and replied, "Please allow me to introduce to you, this German general is Georg Glaeser, the division commander of the 29th Motorized Rifle Division. We captured it on our way back to Mamayev Kurgan."

   "Comrade Commander," knowing that a division commander of the German army had been captured, Sidolin quickly grabbed the phone and asked Sokov for instructions: "Do you need a German translator to assist us in interrogating the prisoners?"

   "No need." Sokov waved his hand, pointed to Tavlin who was standing next to Guchakov, and said, "Sergeant Tavlin's German level is enough to act as our translator."

  Although Lazer has become his own prisoner, he is still a general anyway, and he should be given at least some respect. Sokov quickly ordered someone to bring a stool to Laize, let him sit down and rest, and brought him a cup of hot tea. After doing all this, Sokov asked Guchakov curiously: "Comrade Captain, tell us, how did you capture this German general?"

"On our way back to Mamayev, we encountered a small convoy of three barrel cars," Guchakov reported to Sokov, "Seeing this, Sergeant Tavlin Suggest to me that there may be some important tasks of the Germans on the car, it is better to take advantage of the enemy's inattention, catch them by surprise, and capture the important tasks on the car."

  Sokov knew that the "barrel car" that Guchakov referred to was a small car produced by Porsche. An officer who could sit in such a car must have a high position, and it was absolutely necessary to take an attack. He did not interrupt Guchakov, but made a gesture to let the other party continue. "... After discussing with Lieutenant Samoilov, I decided to pretend to be a patrol, stop the convoy and disarm the enemy.

  After we surrounded the convoy in a fan shape, a German major emerged from the passenger cab of the first car and yelled at us. I couldn't understand what he was yelling, but Sergeant Tavlin was there to deal with it. After negotiating for a while, the sergeant told me in a low voice that the person in the second car was General Lazer, the commander of the 29th Motorized Rifle Division.

  I thought it was a colonel at best, but I didn't expect it to be a general, so I sent a signal to the other two cars. Everyone worked together and disarmed the Germans on the armored vehicles and barrel cars. "

"Where are the other prisoners?" Sokov glanced at the men in German uniforms standing behind Laize, and found that they were all members of the squad, so he asked tentatively, "You won't kill them all. Bar?"

"No, Comrade Commander, I didn't kill them." Guchakov quickly replied: "Since they have put down their weapons and we are not executioners, how can we massacre unarmed prisoners? We have taken these people and the captured vehicles , all brought back to Mamayev Gang.”

   Knowing that not only a German general was captured, but also a group of prisoners and three barrel carts were brought back, Sokov couldn't help but nodded in satisfaction with such a result. He glanced at Lazer who was drinking tea, turned to Taflin and said, "Comrade Sergeant, I intend to interrogate this prisoner immediately, please translate for me."

  Hearing that Sokov was going to interrogate the prisoners, Ivanov and Sidolin quickly sat up straight, and took out a pen and paper to record. Seeing that everyone was ready, Sokov walked up to Lezer, bowed his head and said to him, "General Lezer, let me introduce myself first. I am Colonel Sokov, commander of the 41st Soviet Guards Rifle Division."

"What, you are Sokov?" Lezer, who was drinking tea from a teacup, couldn't help but tremble after hearing Tavlin's translation, and a lot of water in the teacup spilled out: "Didn't you lie to me? "

   "General Lazer!" Although the opponent is his enemy, Sokov still maintains enough politeness to him: "I, Sokov, am not a great big shot, do I need to pretend?"

"I don't know how well-known you are in the Russian army, but in our place, all officers above the battalion level know your name." After confirming Sokov's identity, Lezer said with a wry smile: "Paul Commander Si even gave an order that anyone who can kill or capture you will be promoted two ranks. Unexpectedly, I became your prisoner."

From Laize's mouth, he learned that his social status is not low, and he can actually make the German officers and soldiers who captured him or killed him promoted two ranks. After being surprised, he couldn't help asking curiously: "I want to ask, how can the captured German soldiers be promoted two ranks?" What kind of rewards can people who live with General Chuikov get?"

  Lize probably never dreamed that Sokov would ask such a question. After a long pause, he said: "Chuikov is the commander of your army group. Those who capture him will get at least a week's vacation."

  Lize's reply stunned everyone. The officers and soldiers who captured Sokov could be promoted two ranks, while those who captured Chuikov could only get a week's vacation. This difference is too big. Sokov turned around in embarrassment and looked at Sidolin and Ivanov who were sitting at the table. Seeing that they were busy recording, he quickly said, "Don't record these words."

Sokov turned his head again, looked at Laize and asked with a serious expression: "General Laize, if I remember correctly, your troops are now in the southwest of Stalingrad, not far from where you were captured. It's so far away, why did you suddenly appear there? You know, even if it is a patrolling force, you are far away from your defense zone."

   "I was ordered to report to the headquarters of the Group Army." Laize said with a wry smile, "I didn't expect that on the way, I encountered a small army disguised as our army, and I became a prisoner in such a daft way."

"General Laiser, for you, the war is over. You can stay in our prisoner-of-war camp with peace of mind and stay until the day the war really ends, and then you can return to your hometown." Sokov thought of the other party He was captured at the end of January of the following year, and the current capture time is two and a half months earlier than in history, "Also, I believe it will not be long before you can see General Paulus in the prisoner-of-war camp and many of his men."

   "General Lazer," Sidolin saw Lazer's astonished expression, and asked before he could speak, "Why did Paulus suddenly recruit you to his headquarters?"

Hearing Sidolin's question, Lezer smiled wryly again, and replied: "Yesterday your guerrillas occupied the Kotluban station and the 564th kilometer station, which annoyed Commander Paulus. He I feel that the commander of the 113th Infantry Division, Lieutenant General von Arnim, and the commander of the 60th Motorized Rifle Division, Major General von Aronstorf, are simply useless. They will be played around by a group of guerrillas. In order to prevent them from making similar mistakes, It was decided to switch their troops and mine, and I went to the headquarters to accept the task of switching defenses."

  Lezer's confession made Sokov understand why he suddenly appeared far away from the defense zone. It turned out that he was going to Paulus's headquarters to accept the task. He would have asked where Paulus's headquarters was before sending Guchakov's detachment to take it out. But as soon as this idea came up, he immediately denied it. The Germans are not stupid. Once they know the news of Leizer's capture, they will definitely take precautions, strengthen the vigilance near the headquarters, and then send Guchakov's Even with the assistance of the new rockets, the small team would probably be close to death.

After asking Leizer a few more questions, Sokov turned around and walked to the table, and said to Sidolin and Ivanov: "Chief of Staff, Deputy Division Commander, ask all the questions that need to be asked, and then leave him with us. Here, it doesn't make much sense, I think it's better to send someone to the headquarters, as a special gift from us to the commander. What do you think?"

   "I agree." Ivanov was the first to speak. Before Lezer appeared at the division headquarters, he questioned Guchakov's gift, which did not satisfy Sokov. After seeing Laize, he felt that God had appeared, so he gave such a special gift to the 41st Guards Division. At this moment, when Sokov heard that he would **** Laize to the headquarters of the Army Group, he immediately agreed, and volunteered to say, "I think I will personally **** him to the headquarters."

Seeing that Ivanov offered to invite Ying, Sokov did not object, but nodded and said to him: "Okay, Comrade Deputy Commander, on behalf of the Guards Division, you will personally deliver this special gift to the Army Group Command, hand it over to the commander and chief of staff, and make them happy too."

  (end of this chapter)