Red Moscow

Chapter 2558

“Comrade General,” Poledenko asked Sokov, “how do you plan to select prisoners of war?”

"Comrade Major, I want to gather all the prisoners of war and let them sign up first." Sokov said: "If there are not enough volunteers, we will select suitable candidates from the prisoners of war."

"Captain Lugovaya, did you hear that?" Poledenko waited for Sokov to finish speaking, then turned and ordered Lugovaya who was standing next to him: "Gather all the prisoners of war immediately."

 Then it was time for the prisoners of war to assemble. Driven by the guards, it only took eight minutes for the prisoners to complete the assembly.

After the assembly was completed, Lugovaya came over and reported to Sokov: "Comrade General, the prisoners of war have been assembled. Please give your instructions!"

 “Is everyone here?”

"No, there are only about 10,000 people here." Lugovaya replied: "The rest are sick, lying in their barracks unable to move..."

Hearing this, Sokov couldn't help but frown slightly. According to Lugovaya, a large number of prisoners of war may die in the prison camp in the near future. He came here today only to select prisoners of war to form a guard unit, not to inspect. The life and death of these sick prisoners of war had nothing to do with him, so he chose to ignore what Lugovaya said later.

Since the prisoners selected this time will be under the jurisdiction of Hossenfel, Sokov gave the task of selecting prisoners of war to Hossenfel.

 Before the selection work began, Hosenfeld naturally had to give a speech to gain the approval of these German prisoners of war, so that more people would be willing to take the initiative to join his command.

When Hossenfel's impassioned speech resounded through the entire camp through loudspeakers placed everywhere, Sokov asked Agelina in a low voice: "Agelina, I don't know what Captain Hosenfel is talking about." ?”

"He told these prisoners of war," Agelina said briefly: "Although Germany failed in the war that ended not long ago, the country still exists. Now it is time to start post-war reconstruction work, but due to various reasons, the order in Berlin has It has not completely returned to normal, so it is necessary to form a German-dominated security command to restore order as soon as possible. This is what he basically meant. If you want to hear more details, I can translate it for you again. "

"No, no need." As long as Hosenfeld can recruit enough people, he doesn't care what he said to these prisoners of war: "As long as he can recruit enough people, today's mission will be completed ”

After Hosenfeld’s speech ended, it was time to sign up for volunteers. Ernst stepped forward and said loudly in German: "Soldiers who are willing to join the guard unit, please come out!" Perhaps fearing that someone would not hear, he repeated this three times.

Regrettably, out of a team of tens of thousands of prisoners of war, less than twenty volunteers came out, which made everyone look very embarrassed.

“Comrade General,” Poledenko came over and asked Sokov in a low voice: “There are less than 20 prisoners of war who volunteered to sign up. What is going on?”

 The scene in front of him reminded Sokov of the scene when Vlasov went to the Soviet prisoner of war camp to recruit people and prepare to form the "Russian Liberation Army." After the same propaganda and agitation, only a few people walked out of the queue. The vast majority of prisoners of war had no interest in such recruitment at all.

At present, there are less than 20 prisoners of war volunteering to join the guard unit, which makes Sokov feel a little unable to step down. Hearing Poledenko's question at this moment, he answered bravely: "Major, the German prisoners of war may think this is a conspiracy."

"Conspiracy?" Poledenko's eyes widened in surprise and he asked in confusion: "What conspiracy?"

"In my original unit, a large proportion of commanders and fighters were rescued from prisoner-of-war camps." Sokov began to talk nonsense seriously: "The Germans also often conducted recruitment in prisoner-of-war camps, saying that they were recruited But in fact, these recruited officers and soldiers of our army will be shot after completing their designated tasks. I think the reason why the German prisoners of war are unwilling to sign up is because they are worried about this situation. "

After listening to Sokov’s analysis, Poledenko nodded with a look of astonishment, and then asked Sokov: “Comrade General, what should we do?”

“Since there are not enough people to sign up, we will choose ourselves.” After Sokov said this, he said to Ernst: “Ernst, all of you come to me.”

Soon, Ernst, Hosenfeld, Denaris, and Bayer arrived in front of Sokov.

After sweeping his eyes over the four people, Sokov said slowly: "Comrades, there are a few people volunteering to sign up, but don't be discouraged. This is because they don't understand our recruitment actions. Since In this case, I can only trouble the four of you to choose it yourself."

“Comrade General.” Denaris asked, “I wonder what the selection criteria are?”

"As long as they are healthy prisoners of war, the rest of the conditions can be relaxed." Sokov saw the prisoners of war in the queue in front of him. They were all skinny, with dull eyes and numb expressions. It seemed that the torture of prisoners in the Soviet prisoner of war camps was worse than The U.S. prisoner-of-war camps were even more serious. Therefore, he set the primary condition for selecting prisoners of war as "good health": "Everyone take action immediately and strive to complete today's work as soon as possible."

After listening to Agelina's translation, the four of them agreed loudly, and then each took a guard and entered the queue of prisoners.

They took a fancy to a prisoner of war and slapped him on the back to signal him to leave the queue and line up outside. Although the selected German prisoners of war were unwilling to do so, they could only obediently walk out of the queue when they saw the guards standing behind them, and formed their formation in the open space outside. Many of the faces of these selected prisoners of war were full of fear. They were worried that the selected people would be taken outside the prisoner of war camp and shot by Soviet guards.

Sokov kept his eyes fixed on Bayer in the distance, secretly wondering: Can Bayer find his two sons in this prisoner of war camp?

At this moment, Sokov suddenly saw Bayer, who was walking in the queue, stop and seemed to shout at a prisoner of war not far away. The prisoner of war heard someone calling his name and instinctively looked in the direction of the sound. But when he saw Bayer in a police uniform, his face showed a shocked expression, and then he shouted and rushed towards Bayer. The two guards who were following Bayer saw the prisoner rushing towards Bayer and were worried that he would be harmful to Bayer. They immediately stepped forward to stop the prisoner and raised their rifle butts to knock him down, but their actions were stopped by Bayer. .

What happened here immediately caused a chaos. Upon seeing this, Lugovaya was worried that there would be a bigger problem, so he personally rushed there with more than a dozen guards. But Sokov knew it well and quickly said to Agelina: "Agelina, if I guessed correctly, Bayer should have found his son." Then he rushed to Vaserigo. The husband shook his head and said, "Major, follow me."

When Sokov arrived at where Bayer and others were, he saw Bayer and a ragged, bearded prisoner of war hugging each other, and the two were wiping away tears.

"Captain Lugovaya," Poledenko, who came with Sokov, saw this and asked dissatisfiedly: "Can you explain to me, what exactly happened here?" "Major Poledenko, I I think I can give you a satisfactory answer." Sokov said before Lugovaya could speak: "If I guess correctly, the prisoner hugging the police officer should be the son of the police officer."

"Huh?!" Poledenko asked with shock: "Comrade General, is this true?"

"Of course it's true, Major Poledenko." Sokov saw Lugovaya and his guards standing nearby and didn't move. He thought that the other party must also know about this, so he said to him: "Captain Lugovaya, do you think I'm right?"

"Exactly, Comrade General." Lugovaya said with a smile on his face: "I have just learned about the situation. It is indeed as you said. This prisoner of war is the son of the old policeman. It is inevitable that their father and son will meet again. Somewhat gaffeful.”

At this time, Bayer also noticed Sokov's arrival, quickly let go of the prisoner of war, wiped his tears, and then said to Sokov: "Comrade General, let me introduce to you, this is my second son." Son Zolda. Zolda, this is the General Sokov I told you. Without his help, I would not be qualified to enter this prisoner of war camp, let alone find you. "

After Agelina finished translating for him, Sokov asked curiously: "Officer Bayer, you found your second son, what about your eldest son? Is he in this prisoner of war camp?"

After Sokov's reminder, Bayer immediately remembered the purpose of his visit to the prisoner of war camp. One was to help select prisoners of war to join the guard unit, and the other was to find his two sons. Now the second son has been found. Although he looks haggard, he is still alive, which is better than anything else. Bayer grabbed Zolda's arm and asked nervously: "Where is your brother? Where is your brother Philip? Is he also in this prisoner of war camp?"

“Yes, father,” Zolda replied, “He is also in this camp.”

"Where is he?" Knowing that his eldest son was also here, Bayer looked around, trying to find his other son among the surrounding crowd.

"He's not here," Zolda said. "He's sick and didn't come out to gather."

"Is he sick?" Bayer asked nervously, "What kind of illness is he? Is it serious?"

Facing a series of questions from Bayer, Zolda looked very hesitant when he saw the people standing around him, wondering whether he should tell his father the truth.

"Major Poledenko," Sokov turned to Poledenko and said, "I plan to go and see Officer Bayer's son in person. I would like you to take responsibility for the work here. Captain Lugovaya, please take the lead." I go to where the sick people are.”

In this way, Poledenko stayed to continue the selection of prisoners of war, while Sokov, Adelina, Vaserigov, Beyer and his son, under the leadership of Lugovaya, moved toward the prisoners of war. Advance where the patient is.

Sokov found that Lugovaya and a few of his people were walking around among the many wooden houses, seeming to be delaying time. After Sokov noticed this situation, he didn't say a word. He knew very well that Lugovaya might have secretly sent people to transfer Bayer's eldest son to a separate room. After the transfer was completed, he would bring him back. Go straight to your destination.

"Comrade General," Vaserigov also noticed that Lugovaya and his group were taking a detour in the middle of the wooden house, so he approached Sokov and reminded: "Why do I feel that Captain Lugovaya is leading us? Are you taking a detour?"

"Major, you observed very carefully." Sokov replied with a smile: "I think the place where Bayer's eldest son lived must have been very bad. The captain knew that I was going to visit him, so he secretly sent someone to move him. . Once the transfer is in place, we will be able to meet Bayer’s eldest son.”

At this time, a guard hurried over and whispered a few words into Lugovaya's ear. After hearing this, Lugovaya kept nodding.

After Lugovaya waved the guard to stand aside, he turned to Sokov and said: "Comrade General, I remembered that Philip had a fever this morning and we had sent him to the infirmary. If it hadn't been for my subordinates to remind me , I almost forgot about this and took you somewhere else."

Sokov saw through it but did not reveal it, and said: "Then take us to the infirmary."

 Led by Lugovaya, Sokov and others arrived at the door of the infirmary.

Sokov took one look at the size of the infirmary and knew that there could not be too many people standing in it, so he said to Vaselgov: "Major, you don't have to go in, just stay at the door and wait for us to come out."

 “Okay, Comrade General.”

Seeing that Sokov left his guards outside the house, Lugovaya naturally did not bring the guards behind him into the house. He also ordered them to wait outside, and then said to Sokov respectfully: "Comrade General, please!"

In the infirmary, there was a female military doctor wearing a white coat and a military uniform. When she saw Lugovaya entering, she immediately raised her hand to salute him. When she was about to report, she was interrupted by Lugovaya raising her hand. , then pointed at Sokov and said: "Marina, let me introduce to you, this is General Sokov. He came to inspect the prisoner of war camp and came here to visit Philip. How is his situation? "

"The fever is 41 degrees," Marina said to Lugovaya with a serious expression: "I don't have suitable antipyretics here, so I can only use physical cooling to try to get his body temperature to drop first, otherwise he may burn his brain. bad."

 Sokov was shocked to learn that Philip had a fever of 41 degrees. Normally, when a person has a fever of 39 degrees, his whole body feels hot, but this Philip's temperature actually reached 41 degrees. If the fever cannot be reduced as soon as possible, it may burn out his brain and turn him into an idiot.

 “Where are they?” Sokov asked.

Marina pointed to a screen not far away and said, "It's right there."

Sokov stepped forward and opened the screen, and saw a hospital bed behind him. Lying on the bed was a haggard, bearded prisoner of war. His face was red, his eyes were closed, and he had a painful expression on his face. Sokov only took one look and knew that Marina was not lying and that Philip was indeed suffering from a high fever.

 (End of this chapter)