Chapter 2733

The next morning, a black car took Sokov, Vlasov and his guards directly to a military airport.

There was an old-looking transport plane parked on the runway. The officer sitting in the co-pilot seat turned halfway and said to Vlasov: "Comrade General, this is the plane that will take you to Kiev to take office."

"Well, I know." Vlasov said lightly.

After the car stopped next to the transport plane, a pilot wearing a flight cap came over and saluted Vlasov: "Comrade General, please get on board!"

After the pilot and the other three boarded the plane in turn, he also followed the plane, closed the cabin door, walked straight into the cockpit, and made preparations for takeoff with his companions.

While waiting for takeoff, Vlasov suddenly asked: "Captain Sokov, do you have any friends in Moscow?"

Hearing Vlasov's question, Sokov was stunned at first, and then he thought that his meeting with Victoria could not be hidden from others. Someone must have told Vlasov about this, so he asked this question.

"Yes, Comrade General, I do have a friend in Moscow."

"Male or female?"

"Female." Sokov knew very well that since Vlasov asked this question, he might arrange someone to investigate. If he didn't tell the truth, he might cause unnecessary trouble, so he answered truthfully: "To be precise, it's a female police officer."

"Female police officer?!" Vlasov raised his eyebrows and asked back: "How did you know each other?"

"Captain Sokov," the guard said before Sokov could speak: "You are really not simple. You have just been in Moscow for two days and you know a young and beautiful female police officer."

"I just met her the day before yesterday . "After quickly organizing the words in his mind, Sokov said, "I was patrolling with a team of soldiers. When I passed a store, I saw some residents queuing to buy things, some of whom were unconscious and caused chaos. I led people to assist the police in arresting these people and sent them to the nearby police station. And the policewoman was acquainted under such circumstances."

"Oh, so that's how it is." Vlasov is a suspicious person. He always doubts Sokov's background in his heart, and even worries that the other party is a spy deliberately planted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs around him. Especially yesterday, he heard that Sokov had met with a female police officer in private, which deepened his suspicion of Sokov. Today, he plans to find out Sokov's identity through indirect means, and then decide whether to entrust him with important tasks after arriving in Kiev.

However, Sokov's answer made him feel very satisfied. Almost everything he asked, the other party answered, without any intention of hiding his meaning. He couldn't help but think: Am I too suspicious?

After the plane took off, it flew west for two hours and landed at the airport north of Kiev.

After getting off the plane, the car parked beside the runway immediately greeted them.

A major got out of the car, raised his hand to salute Vlasov and said, "Hello, Comrade General, I am sent by the Chief of Operations of the Front, Baghramyan. He asked you to go to see him immediately after arriving in Kiev."

Before Vlasov got in the car, he glanced at Sokov and the guard standing next to him, and asked the major, "Where are my men?"

"They are sitting in the car behind us and going to the front headquarters with us."

After getting a satisfactory answer. Vlasov nodded, bent down and got into the car.

Sokov and Vlasov's guard got into the car behind, followed the front car, and drove towards the headquarters.

Half an hour later, the two cars drove to a tall building and stopped. After the major got out of the car, he quickly ran to the back and opened the door, asking Vlasov to get out.

After Sokov and the guard got off the car, they followed Vlasov and the major, walked through the sandbag fortifications outside the building and headed towards the building.

"Captain Sokov," the guard touched Sokov's arm with his elbow and whispered, "Look, the headquarters is heavily guarded. I guess even if the Germans rush here, they can't break into the building where the headquarters is located."

To an outsider, these deployments outside the headquarters should be very strict. But for Sokov, a veteran who has experienced many battles, this kind of defense position without even anti-tank guns and tanks, facing the German armored assault, has no great defensive effect at all. But in order not to spoil the guard's fun, he followed the other's words and said, "Yes, even if the Germans rush to the position, they will probably pay a heavy price."

When several people walked into the building, Sokov saw that the people coming and going were all soldiers. Everyone's expressions were serious, without the slightest smile, indicating that the current situation in Kiev is extremely serious.

The major took Vlasov to the Operations Department and met with the Operations Minister Bagration.

Sokov and the guards were not qualified to enter these offices, so they could only stand in the corridor outside the door and wait.

"Comrade Captain," a lieutenant colonel came from nowhere and saw Sokov and the guards standing at the entrance of the Operations Department, and said to them, "You two come with me."

Sokov looked at the strange lieutenant colonel and said politely, "I'm sorry, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, we are here with the new garrison commander General Vlasov. He is now talking to Minister Bagration inside, and we can't leave casually."

The lieutenant colonel frowned when he heard what Sokov said, and said dissatisfiedly: "What new garrison commander? I have never heard of it. You two come with me, I need help."

The guard wanted to say something, but Sokov stopped him and nodded to the lieutenant colonel: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, we can help you, but the time cannot be too long, otherwise when General Vlasov is released and cannot see us, he will be anxious."

The lieutenant colonel took the two to the basement. After walking along the corridor for a while, he stopped in front of a closed door. After knocking twice, a voice that Sokov felt familiar came from inside: "Come in!"

After the lieutenant colonel opened the door, he did not enter immediately, but turned to Sokov and the guard and said: "Come with me!"

There were bundles of packed documents on the table, floor and stool in the room. An officer wearing a wide-brimmed hat was facing the door and bundling a pile of documents.

"Lieutenant Colonel," the officer said without turning his head, "Take them and move all these documents to the van outside. Move quickly, we don't have much time."

"Yes!" The lieutenant colonel agreed, and then ordered Sokov and the guard to move the documents.

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel," Sokov took a look at the packed documents in the room. There were at least two or three hundred bundles. Even if he and the guard could carry four bundles at a time, they would have to run back and forth at least dozens of times. After moving the documents, they would probably be exhausted, so he asked the lieutenant colonel: "Can you help us find a small cart? This way we can pull more each time."

The officer who was sorting the documents turned around and faced Sokov and the guard. After he saw clearly that there were only two people, he couldn't help but frowned slightly and said to the lieutenant colonel dissatisfiedly: "Lieutenant colonel, why did you only find two people to help?"

"I'm sorry, comrade political commissar of the regiment." The lieutenant colonel smiled bitterly and replied: "Everyone is busy. Even if it's just the two of them, I found them with great difficulty."

When the officer turned around, Sokov saw his face clearly and was stunned. He found that the other party was actually Lunev, his partner in a few years, but the other party's collar badge still wore the rank of a political worker. According to the rank, Sokov saw that he was only a regimental political commissar now.

Although he recognized the other party as his old partner, Sokov did not step forward to recognize him. After all, he and his partner were partners for a year and a half, and at this moment he didn't know who he was. Even if he told the other party the truth, I'm afraid he would only think he was a psychopath.

"Lieutenant Colonel, go find them a cart." Lunev said to the lieutenant colonel: "There are indeed too many things here. It's not known when they will move them all. I don't have much time."

When Sokov heard Lunev say that time was running out again, he immediately guessed that the other party might want to take the materials away from Kiev. Now the German army is trying to encircle Kiev. If the delay is too long, it will not be easy for Lunev to leave Kiev smoothly.

Soon, the lieutenant colonel found a cart. Sokov threw bundles of materials on the cart with his hands and feet, and urged the guard: "Follow my way, put all these bundled materials on the cart, try to put as many as possible, so that we can run less than two times."

After loading the cart, Sokov turned to the lieutenant colonel and asked politely: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, where should we take these materials?"

"Come with me, I'll take you there."

Led by the lieutenant colonel, they walked a long way and then left the building from a hidden exit. There was a dark green van parked outside the building, and two soldiers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs wearing blue hats stood beside the van. When they saw the lieutenant colonel coming, they immediately opened the door behind the van.

The lieutenant colonel pointed at the open door and told Sokov: "Comrade Captain, move all the information on the cart into the van."

Sokov agreed, and he and the guard threw bundles of information into the van one by one.

After throwing all the information on the cart into the van, Sokov pulled the cart and ran back quickly.

The guard caught up with him and said breathlessly: "Comrade Captain, why are you running so fast?"

"Comrade General, I don't know how long it will take for him to come out. You don't want to see us when he comes out, right?"

Hearing what Sokov said, the guard thought it made sense and ran faster.

When he returned to the room and started loading the documents, Lunev, who was standing next to him, saw the Order of Lenin on Sokov's chest and couldn't help asking curiously: "Comrade Captain, can I ask how you got the Order of Lenin on your chest?"

The reason Lunev asked this question was that he had not won any medals until now. The medal on the captain's chest was the Order of Lenin, which represented the highest honor. Not to mention the commanders at the grassroots level, even some generals could not get this level of medal, so he wanted to find out.

"Comrade Regimental Political Commissar," Lunev did not say his name, so even if Sokov knew his name, he could not call him by his name, and could only call him by his rank: "This was awarded to me by the Supreme Command in recognition of my brilliant achievements in a battle."

"Comrade Captain, I am very curious about what kind of merit you have made." Lunev asked with interest after hearing this: "Can you tell me what kind of battle it was?"

Seeing that Lunev was interested in his affairs, Sokov was also very happy. After all, the other party was his old acquaintance and partner. Even Victoria could not compare with him, so he put himself in the small town. , how he captured 12 German tanks and rescued a group of captured commanders and fighters, told Lunev in detail.

After listening to Sokov's story, Lunev was shocked: "Oh my God, you captured 12 German tanks by yourself. Such a record can be regarded as an ordinary company, no, it should be a battalion. You know, on the battlefield, because we lack enough. With anti-tank weapons, every time a German tank is destroyed, we have to pay the lives of more than ten or twenty soldiers. And you have captured so many German tanks, which is equivalent to indirectly saving the lives of two hundred commanders and soldiers. It is really amazing. . You are fully qualified to receive such a medal.”

"Thank you, comrade regimental political commissar." Sokov said modestly, "I'm just lucky."

"Don't call me the regimental political commissar. My name is Lunev. You can call me by my name." Lunev took the initiative and asked in a friendly tone: "I don't know how to call you?"

"My name is Mikhail Sokov." Sokov said his name according to formal etiquette: "You can call me by my last name Sokov, or you can call me by my nickname Misha."

"I'll call you Misha." Lunev said with a smile: "It's more friendly. By the way, didn't you go back to Moscow? Why did you come to Kiev again?"

"I came back with General Vlasov to serve as an officer in his guard."

"General Vlasov?" Luniev is much better informed than the lieutenant colonel. He naturally knows about Vlasov: "You mean, you are following the new commander of the 37th Group Army. Major General Vlasov, who is also the commander of the Kiev garrison, returned to Kiev together? "

"Yes, Comrade Luniev."

"Can I ask, how long have you been in the army?"

"Not even a week."

"What, less than a week?" Lunev almost jumped up after hearing this. He asked in an unbelievable tone: "In such a short time, you were promoted from an ordinary soldier to a captain. You How is it done?"

"Comrade Lunev, as I just said, I won the Order of Lenin for my achievements." Sokov said briefly: "While receiving the medal, I was also promoted to captain with an exception."

"It's simply unbelievable." Lunev shook his head after hearing this and said, "I think no one can break the record you set for a long time."

"Lunev, it seems like you are planning to leave Kyiv?"

"Yes, I was ordered to take this information and return to Moscow in the shortest possible time."