Red Moscow

  Chapter 383 Important Information

"Comrade Gumyev," Sokov felt that Samoilov had expressed his feelings, so he said to Gumyev: "We are waiting for you here, you go and say hello to the comrades of the guerrillas first." , to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings.”

  Gumyev also realized the problem at this moment, nodded quickly, and walked forward at a faster pace. After walking about 70 or 80 meters, he suddenly stopped, imitating the duck call "quack quack quack!"

   A moment later, the same voice came from not far away: "Ga~ga~ga!"

  Sokov couldn't help but secretly rejoice when he heard this voice, which meant that Gumyev was receiving a signal from his comrades. Soon, he heard people's voices coming from there, but because the light in the forest was too dark, he couldn't see people clearly, only some faint shadows could be seen.

   Not long after, Sokov saw Gumyev walking over with a few people. Gumyev pointed to the short but strong-looking bearded man beside him, and said, "Comrade commander, this is Pilishin, the captain of our guerrilla team."

"Hello, Comrade Pilishin." Sokov waited for Gumyev to finish speaking, and immediately extended his hand to him, and at the same time said politely: "I am Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, commander of the 73rd Infantry Brigade, Came here on a special mission."

"Hello, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel." When Pilixin saw Sokov wearing a German uniform, he was still vigilant enough, but when he heard the other party's proficient Russian and self-reported identity, his face suddenly revealed Smiling, he quickly held Sokov's hand, and said with a smile: "On behalf of all the comrades in the guerrillas, I welcome you."

   "Comrade Captain." After seeing Pilixin and Sokov shake hands, Gumyev reminded Pilixin in a low voice: "Let's go back to the camp as soon as possible."

   Just like that, Sokov and the others followed the guerrilla comrades to their station. In the depths of the forest, there are several wooden houses with fires in them. A thick curtain was hung at the door for fear that the fire would expose the target. Sokov followed Pilixin, and after entering a room, he immediately felt warm all over his body.

"Please sit down, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel." There are simple wooden tables and benches in the room. After Pilixin greeted Sokov to sit down, he personally poured hot tea for them with a samovar, and then asked: "Lieutenant Colonel Comrade, can I ask, what is your special mission this time?"

"Our mission is to find a missing female scout here, and bring her and her important information back." Sokov thought that since he had told Gumyev about the mission, even if he didn't say it, maybe the Lixin also knew about it, and said straight to the point: "I heard from Comrade Gumyev that you once rescued a female scout. Maybe she is the person we are looking for."

After hearing this, Pilixin did not speak, but turned his head and glanced at Gumyev who was sitting next to him. After seeing the other party nodding slightly, he continued: "Yes, we did rescue a female scout. There is an important piece of information, I hope we can send someone to the city."

  Knowing that the female scout was indeed here, Sokov's heart beat faster, and he asked tentatively, "Comrade Captain, can we meet her?"

   "Come here." For Sokov's request, Pilixin did not refuse, he stood up and shouted towards the door.

  As soon as he finished speaking, a young guerrilla opened the curtain and walked in. He straightened his body and asked, "Comrade Captain, do you have any instructions?"

   "It's like this," Pilixin said to the team members: "Go immediately and invite the **** we rescued today, and someone said that someone wants to see her."

  Not long after the team members went out, they came in again and reported, "Comrade captain, she is here."

   "Quickly invite her in!"

  The team members agreed, opened the curtain, and made a gesture of invitation with their hands: "Please come in, comrade female scout."

A well-proportioned, slightly plump female scout strode into the room and found three German officers and soldiers sitting at the table. She was shocked and pulled out her pistol, aiming at Sokov. them. At the same time, he asked Pilixin loudly: "Comrade Captain, please explain to me why there are Germans here?"

"Don't get excited, Comrade Maria Videneeva." Seeing that the female scout was so excited, Sokov did not do anything to provoke her, but sat down and said to her: "Put the gun down." Well, we are our own people, and we came to look for you under the order of our superiors."

  Maria was shocked when she heard what Sokov said, but she didn't lower her gun. Instead, she asked vigilantly, "Who the **** are you? Why do you know my name?"

  Sokov felt a lot more at ease when he heard Maria admit her identity. He said unhurriedly: "I am Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, commander of the 73rd Infantry Brigade under the 62nd Army, under the order of General Krylov, Chief of Staff of the Army, to look for a woman named Maria Vigne. Yeva's female scout..."

  Maria lowered her gun, but still asked vigilantly, "Are you really sent by General Krylov?"

Sokov stood up, put the assault rifle in his arms on the table, walked up to Maria and said, "He told me that when you sent him a telegram, the word 'top secret' just appeared in the telegram." After speaking, the contact was suddenly cut off. He was worried about what happened to you, so he ordered me to send someone to look for you. I was worried about entrusting this important task to others, so I personally brought someone to look for you."

"My dear ones, I am looking forward to you coming." Maria waited for Sokov to finish speaking, hugged him tightly, and said emotionally: "I knew that the superior would not give up on me, so I will I know..." As he spoke, he burst into sobs.

  Sokov patted Maria on the back lightly a few times, comforting her and said: "Maria, don't worry, you are safe now, we will take you back to Stalingrad immediately."

   "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," Maria took a step back after letting go of Sokov, looked up at Sokov and said, "Do you have a radio station? My information needs to be sent out immediately."

  Sokov heard Maria say this, and he couldn't help but asked in surprise: "Comrade Maria, where is the radio station you used to contact your superiors?"

"After I got the enemy's information, I originally wanted to hurry up and send out the telegram, but I was discovered by the enemy just as soon as I turned it on." Maria replied: "The enemy fired at my position with machine guns, and the bullets smashed the radio station, causing The communication between me and my superiors was cut off. If it hadn’t happened to meet the guerrillas led by Captain Pilixin, you probably wouldn’t be able to see me anymore.”

   "Where is the information?" Sokov said quickly: "There is a radio station in the armored vehicle we are riding in. You can use that radio station to send out the information."

  Maria took out the information from her body, handed it to Sokov, and said, "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, the information is here."

Sokov took it over and took a look, only to see that it read: "...the enemy forces currently active in front of the 62nd Army and 64th Army's defense lines have a total of 9 infantry divisions, 3 tank divisions and 1 motorized division. This The enemy group has a total of 500 tanks, and it is provided with air support by more than 1,000 aircraft of the 4th Air Force.

  In addition, they plan to storm the junction of our two armies along the railway from Karpovka station to Sadovaya station, and take Stalingrad at all costs..."

  For Sokov, who knows the history of the Stalingrad Defense War, it is the same whether there is such information or not. But for the currently battered 62nd Army Command, it is crucial. Therefore, as soon as he read the contents of the telegram, he said to Pilixin: "Comrade Captain, this is an important message, we need to send it on the radio immediately. Regarding your rescue of Maria, on behalf of the commander of the 62nd Army I would like to express my thanks to you." Then, he raised his hand and saluted Pilixin and Gumyev.

   Pilixin and Gumyev also hastily returned the salute, and said politely: "It's no big deal. Everything we do is to defend our great motherland."

Sokov reached out to shake hands with the two of them one by one, "Goodbye, comrades, I hope we can meet again on the day when the Japanese invaders are defeated." Then he waved to Christopher and the others who were standing aside He shook his head, "Comrades, it's time for us to go back." After speaking, he took Maria's hand and walked out of the house.

  (end of this chapter)