Red Moscow

  Chapter 82 Whose flag is flying

   After the Istria camp entered Susinich, they found that the entire city was empty, and no one could be seen, whether it was the Germans or the local residents. Seeing this situation, Sokov quickly ordered the company commanders to use platoons as units to start a search operation in the city.

Sokov led the platoon of guards to search along the street. When he saw the trucks, sleds, weapons, ammunition, and various supplies discarded by the German army when they fled, he couldn't help thinking to himself: What happened in the city? The Germans didn't even have the courage to stick to it, so they threw away so many supplies and fled in a hurry?

  Several gunshots from not far away immediately aroused the vigilance of the soldiers. They hid nearby, checked around with the guns, and vigilantly observed whether there were enemies nearby. Sokov hid under the compartment of a truck and listened to the sparse mutual shooting, but soon found that the gunfire did not become more and more intensive, but stopped soon. He judged that it must be another search force, and encountered a single enemy, and a small-scale exchange of fire occurred.

Hearing that the gunfire had stopped, Sokov stood up, looked around, and then said loudly: "Comrades, it's all right. It should be a single German soldier who has been wiped out by our soldiers. Let's move on !” Following Sokov’s order, the soldiers stood up from their hiding places and continued to march along the street with their weapons in hand.

   During the search, Sokov suddenly saw a luxurious three-story building in front of him, and a black car was parked at the door. Not only Sokov saw it, but also the soldiers of the guard platoon. Seryozha quickly walked up to Sokov, and said emotionally: "Misha, it seems that this is the headquarters of the German army."

When Sokov saw the beautiful car at the door, he first thought that this must be an important institution of the German army. Hearing what Seryozha said, he quickly ordered: "Pavel, take a squad Stand guard outside, and the rest follow me in!"

   There is still no one in the building, the corridors and rooms are full of wine bottles, half-used first aid kits, **** bandages, empty bullet clips, and cigarette butts thrown everywhere. Sokov searched carefully for a long time, but did not find the maps and documents left by the Germans. It seems that even if the Germans withdrew hastily, they carefully took or destroyed these things, so as not to be leaked by the Soviet army. Deployment of its own forces and direction of action.

Seryozha came to Sokov's side, took out half a pack of German cigarettes he found somewhere, and handed one to Sokov, saying angrily, "Misha, I just went to the communication room to check. I want to see if I can get a code book or something, but the Germans have already blown up there."

   Seryosha struck a match and helped Sokov light a cigarette. Just as he was about to light a cigarette for himself, he accidentally saw a portrait of Hitler hanging on the wall, threw the match on the ground, and walked over with an unlit cigarette in his mouth. He took off the portrait, threw it on the ground and stomped it twice, probably still not relieved, then took out a dagger from his boots, and drew a **** on Hitler's face. After all this was done, he reinserted the dagger into his boot, struck a match and lit his cigarette, puffing and admiring his masterpiece.

   Sokov finished smoking, threw the cigarette **** on the ground, crushed it out with his toes, and said to Sergei: "Let's go, Comrade Platoon Leader, we will continue to search."

The two walked out of the headquarters with the soldiers. Sergey suddenly turned to face the building, pointed to the roof and said to Sokov: "Misha, since it is the German headquarters that our battalion occupied first, we should go to see you." The red flag was planted on the roof of the building."

Sokov once heard people say that according to the tradition of the Russian army, whoever is the first to plant a flag on the roof of the most important building in the city during a siege battle, even if the battle in the city is still going on, will be counted as such. The first army occupied the city. So after being reminded by Seryozha, he quickly said: "Seryozha, you go now. I don't care what you think of, but you must find a flag and insert it on the roof of the building."

Not long after Seryozha left, a soldier from the Second Company ran over panting and reported to Sokov: "Comrade Battalion Commander, we found a covered truck in the central square, which contained important Something, the company commander ordered me to come over and ask you to take a look."

Hearing that there was something important, Sokov replied unequivocally: "Let's go!" After walking a few steps, he suddenly remembered the red flag on the roof, so he stopped quickly and called two A more clever fighter, let them wait here for Seryozha's return. Then he led the guard platoon, followed the soldiers who came to report, and walked quickly along the street towards the city center.

   When he came to the central square, he followed far away, and Sokov saw Andre leading a dozen soldiers, surrounding a truck parked next to the black marble statue of Peter the Great. Seeing Sokov leading people over, Andre hurried forward to greet him.

   "Comrade Second Lieutenant," Sokov nodded at Andrei, and asked bluntly, "What is on the car?"

   "Comrade Battalion Commander," Andrei said a little excitedly, "You should come and see for yourself." After speaking, he acted as a guide in front and led Sokov to the rear of the truck.

  Sokov looked at the carriage with the tarpaulin open, and saw more than a dozen large wooden boxes neatly placed inside. Just as he was about to ask what was in the box, Andrei had climbed into the compartment on all hands and feet, bent down and extended his hand to Sokov, ready to help him get into the car.

  After Sokov climbed into the carriage, Andrei lifted the lid of a wooden box, pulled out a huge picture frame from inside, and said in an excited voice, "Comrade battalion commander, what is this?"

Sokov saw that what Andrey held in his hand was a portrait of a character: an old man with a long white beard and dressed in black, sitting in an armchair with his legs crossed, with a An open book. Sokov's gaze moved to the lower right corner of the portrait, where he saw a scrawled signature.

Before he could recognize whose signature it was, Andrei said in a voice slightly distorted by excitement: "Comrade Battalion Commander, did you recognize it? The person in the painting is Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy One of the many portraits of Tolstoy painted by Binn, and the most famous."

"My God," Sokov couldn't help exclaiming in a low voice after listening to Andrei's explanation, "it's actually a painting by Repin." He pointed to the other boxes, "Could it be that these boxes It also contains famous Russian paintings?"

"That's right, that's right." Andre carefully put Repin's oil paintings into the wooden box, and continued: "In addition to Repin's paintings, there are also Ivan Kramskoy, Victor Var Works by Sheletsov et al...”

   As for the great Russian painters, Sokov only knew Repin, and even if he had heard the names of the rest, he forgot them in a blink of an eye. He patiently waited for Andrei to finish speaking, and then told him: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, you personally lead someone to take good care of these oil paintings. Without my order, no one is allowed to come near here. These are precious Russian oil paintings. Wealth must not be lost in the slightest, understand?"

   "Understood, Comrade Battalion Commander." Andre straightened his back in the carriage and replied, "I will protect these precious cultural relics like I protect my eyes."

  Sokov got down from the carriage and saw a large group of soldiers coming from the other side of the square. He thought it was the follow-up troops of the 11th Guards Division who had arrived, so he greeted them.

   There was a colonel in the crowd. When he saw Sokov approaching, he quickly stopped him: "Comrade Captain, which part are you from?"

   "Hello, Comrade Colonel." Sokov stood at attention and saluted the colonel first, and replied: "We are the Istria Battalion, currently under the command of the 11th Guards Division, and we have just completed the search of the city."

   After listening to Sokov's report, the colonel nodded slightly, and then said: "I am Colonel Sergeych, commander of the 972nd Regiment of the 324th Infantry Division. Do you know where the Germans have gone?"

Although the colonel's tone was a bit aggressive, Sokov replied politely: "Comrade colonel, after our battalion entered the city, we found no trace of the enemy. Although there were sporadic exchanges of fire in individual areas, we have not yet captured them." captive."

  Just as the colonel left with his men, a soldier Sokov left behind at the entrance of the German command department ran over in a hurry and reported to him, "Comrade battalion commander, the division commander has entered the city. Please go and see him."

  Sokov followed the soldiers on the way to the German headquarters, and asked casually: "Is the red flag on the roof?"

   "Yes, Comrade Battalion Commander, it's plugged in." The soldier replied in a panic.

  Sokov thought that the soldier was so flustered when he answered his question because he was excited, so he didn't think much about it. When we arrived outside the German Command, many commanders and fighters had gathered outside the gate, including General Chernyshov, commander of the 11th Guards Division, all of them were looking up at the red flag flying on the roof.

Seeing that the red flag was already flying on the roof, Sokov hurriedly ran behind Chernyshov, raised his hand in salute and said loudly: "Comrade Commander, Captain Sokov of the Istria Battalion has been ordered to come, please You instruct!"

Chernyshov turned around, without a smile on his face, but asked with a straight face: "Captain Sokov, what is going on? Since your battalion was the first to rush into Sukhinich , why not put the red flag on the roof of the building?"

  Sokov looked up at the roof. A red flag with Lenin's head embroidered in the middle was fluttering in the wind. He pointed at the flag with his hand and said puzzledly: "Comrade commander, isn't that the red flag?"

"That's the flag of the 324th Infantry Division." Chernyshov said in a tone of hatred: "Now the flag of the friendly army is flying on the roof. That is to say, the honor of being the first to occupy the city belongs to the infantry. From the 324th Division. Do you understand?"

   Sokov waited for Chernyshov to finish speaking, then looked around the crowd on the left and right, trying to find the trace of Seryozha. But there were too many people, and he didn't see anyone for a while, so he shouted at the top of his voice, "Seryozha, where are you?"

"Comrade battalion commander," Seryozha, holding a piece of red cloth in his hand, tried his best to squeeze in front of Sokov, and said with a dejected expression: "When I found the flag and came back, I found that the flag of the friendly army was already flying on the roof of the building. gone."

"What the **** is going on here?" Sokov turned his attention to the soldiers leading the way again, and asked angrily, "Didn't I tell you to guard the door? Why do you want people from the 324th Infantry Division to plant their flags on the ground?" On the roof?"

  The soldier replied with a blushing face: "A colonel led people in at that time. I couldn't stop... I couldn't stop it!"

   Recommend a few books from friends:

   "The Strongest National Defense Student" by Lian Qiuji: Upon waking up, Shen Yun became a national defense student of Shuimu University in another world. Accidentally assigned to a certain type of field division, facing the importance of his superiors, the disdain of his colleagues, and the recruits who are generally known as sheep-herding squads under his command, with a system, let's see how he can become a generation of soldier kings.

   The dark form of "Hands and Eyes Reaching the Sky": a big game of chess, the north and the south are balanced. All living beings in the world are in the game.

   There are bicycles colliding directly, there are horses stepping on company camps;

   There are national scholars who are unparalleled, and there are elephants without form. In the turbulent times, the man in white clothes crossed the river like a **** crossing the river, one person with one sword, going forward indomitably.

   Guanbu's "Daqin Dragon Bird": Readers said: I want to see the three kingdoms of Qin, Rome, and Persia contend for hegemony! Hence this book!

   (This book is empty, empty, empty, and important things are said three times.)

  (end of this chapter)