Chapter 5: two consecutive promotions

  Chapter 5 is promoted to two consecutive levels

  The rest of the German army fled to the place where the motorcycles were parked, and wanted to get on the car and escape, but before they could turn the motorcycles around, the militia fighters who rushed up like a tide surrounded them. Facing the dark muzzles of the guns all around, the German officers and soldiers hurriedly threw away their weapons and raised their hands high.

  Lin Hua and the three of them did not go to the chase. Sergey took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took out one and handed it to Lin Hua. After being rejected, he handed it to Christopher. While the two were puffing, Lin Hua looked over their heads at the militiamen who were leading the prisoners back and busy cleaning the battlefield, and thought to himself: "If Kocheto, the People's Commissar of the Township Soviet, Comrade Husband, if you can trust me, the militiamen will be brought over for defense as soon as possible, and the soldiers in the squad will not suffer all casualties."

   "Hello, comrades!" At this moment, a pleasant female voice suddenly came from above the head: "Are you not injured?"

  The three of them looked up, and saw a young female health worker wearing a short leather military coat and carrying a medical bag. She was of medium build, with an oval face and delicate facial features, making it hard to look away. Seeing the three of them staring blankly at her, the female health worker chuckled, squatted down and jumped into the trench, and came over to examine Lin Hua.

  Lin Hua quickly waved his hand at her, and said with a smile, "Thank you, Comrade Sanitation Officer, I am not injured." He pouted at Christopher next to him, "My soldier seems to be injured."

"That's right, comrade hygienist." Christopher threw the cigarette he had just smoked twice on the ground, crushed it out with his toes, and said to the female hygienist with a playful smile, "I just got shot in the arm, please check it for me." Take a look and see if it will be disabled?"

  Hearing that Christopher had been shot in the arm, and seeing that a part of his left sleeve was stained brown with blood, he quickly helped him unbutton his military coat. After seeing Christopher's injury clearly, the female hygienist showed a relaxed expression on her face. She cleaned the wound with alcohol, then applied iodine, and wrapped Christopher's wound with a bandage.

After finishing all this, she carefully helped General Christopher put on his coat, and while packing things, she said with a smile: "Don't worry, comrade soldier, it's just a small piece of flesh wiped off by the bullet, there is no Broken to the bone. It will grow well before marriage."

   "What did you say, comrade hygienist?" Lin Hua couldn't help asking curiously when he heard what the female hygienist said, "What does this mean?"

   "I said that the wound can heal before marriage," the female health worker looked at Lin Hua with a strange look and asked, "You don't even know this common saying?"

   "I know, I just didn't remember it for a while." When the female health worker reminded her, Lin Hua immediately remembered that there is indeed such a saying in Russia, which means that the wound will heal soon. He was afraid that the female hygienist would see the flaw, so he quickly changed the topic: "By the way, I don't know what to call you?"

  The female hygienist smiled and replied, "You can call me Assia."

   "Assia," Assia was the first beauty Lin Hua met after crossing, Lin Hua wanted to get close to her from the bottom of his heart, "Where are you from?"

"I'm from Moscow, Comrade Corporal." Assia glanced at Lin Hua's collar patch, and said, "My family lives in the instrument factory. I happened to go home today to visit relatives. There were casualties, so they followed."

   "Seryozha," Lin Hua waited for Asiya to finish speaking, and immediately turned to ask Sergesha: "What time is it now?"

  Seryozha took out his pocket watch, glanced at it, and then said to him: "Five minutes to go, and it will be four o'clock."

  Lin Hua calculated silently in his heart. He had no more than 40 minutes to stop the German army, and the instrument factory was several kilometers away. How could the militiamen come so timely? When he was about to inquire about Assia, he suddenly heard a familiar voice above his head: "Comrade Corporal, can I talk to you?"

  Lin Hua looked up and saw a middle-aged man wearing a gray military overcoat without a collar standing beside the trench with his hands behind his back. Lin Hua looked at the other party carefully before he recognized Kochetov, a member of the Township Soviet. Lin Hua hurriedly crawled out of the trench on both hands and feet, stood at attention in front of the other party, then straightened his back and raised his hands to salute: "People's Commissar Comrade! Corporal Sokov reports to you that our squad is on a combat mission. I am at your command, please instruct!"

"Please take a break!" Kochetov said to Lin Hua enthusiastically with a smile on his face: "Comrade Sukov, we are old acquaintances, so there is no need to be so polite. Let me call you Misha, you Call me Kochetov."

  Lin Hua heard that the other party's tone contained elements of flattery and friendship. Although he didn't know why the other party was condescending to him, he said smoothly: "Understood, Comrade Kochetov!"

Kochetov glanced at the militiamen who had finished cleaning the battlefield, and then said to Lin Hua: "Misha, it's too cold outside, it's not a place to talk, you come with me to the town Soviet's office first, and have a drink. Hot tea with honey warms the body."

  Hearing that Kochetov asked him to leave, Lin Hua looked at the remains of his comrades in the trench, and said with some embarrassment: "Comrade Kochetov, I want to bury our comrades first..."

Although Lin Hua declined Kochetov's kindness politely, the other party still stubbornly said: "No, you must follow me to the office immediately." He was afraid that Lin Hua and the others would not go, so he specially emphasized, "Sim You have reported the news of the German attack on Kizhen to General Artemyev, commander of the Moscow garrison, and he is on his way here now."

  Knowing that the garrison commander was going to come to Khimki town in person, Lin Hua didn't dare to neglect, so he called Seryozha and Christopher, and followed Kochetov to the town Soviet's office. After bypassing the two-story building, Lin Hua saw more than a dozen open trucks parked on the street behind.

Seeing Lin Hua staring at the trucks in a daze, Kochetov explained to him with a smile: "Misha, without these trucks, the militia comrades would not have been able to get here in such a short time. You know, the meter The factory is not close to the town."

"Comrade Kochetov," Lin Hua knew that in real history, the militiamen of the instrument factory launched the attack more than two hours after the German army occupied the town, but today they were able to attack in time before the German army rushed into the town. Arrived. Now that Kochetov was talking about the militiamen of the instrument factory, Lin Hua couldn't help asking the question in his heart: "Did you inform the instrument factory to send them to support us?"

"That's right, Misha, that's exactly how it is." Kochetov said with some pride: "As soon as you started outside the town, the soldiers you sent to report arrived. After I learned that the enemy was coming fiercely, Immediately called the military representative of the instrument factory and asked him to send a militia company to support. In addition, I also called the Garrison Command and reported to them the situation of the enemy." After saying this, he paused After a while, he blushed and apologized to Lin Hua, "I'm sorry, Misha, when you came to warn me, I shouldn't have doubted you, I'm sorry, please forgive me!"

  Kochetov's voluntary confession made Lin Hua feel good about him. Lin Hua quickly waved his hands and said, "Comrade Kochetov, as the leader of the Town Soviet, you were absolutely right to do that. I was too reckless."

   As soon as the group returned to the office, General Artemyev, the commander of the garrison, walked in, and several staff officers from the garrison headquarters came in with him. Seeing Artemyev come in, Kochetov hurriedly stood up to greet him, and offered his hand: "Hello, Comrade General!"

   "Hello, Comrade Kochetov!" Artemyev held Kochetov's hand and asked anxiously: "How is the current situation? Have you blocked the enemy?"

   "Yes, Comrade General!" Kochetov replied with a smile on his face: "We have wiped out the invading enemy."

   "Where are the soldiers who took the lead in deploying defenses outside the town?" Artemyev asked, searching around the room with his eyes. When he saw Lin Hua and the others standing upright by the wall, he pointed with his finger and asked, "Is that them?"

   "That's right, it's them." After Kochetov finished speaking, he winked at Lin Hua, signaling him to come forward and say hello to General Artemyev.

  Lin Hua stepped forward knowingly, raised his hand to salute Artemyev, and at the same time reported loudly: "Comrade General, Corporal Sokov reports to you that our squad has successfully completed the task of stopping the German army!"

   "Sokov?!" Artemyev repeated Lin Hua's surname, nodded, and then asked in a friendly tone: "I wonder what your real name and father's name are...?"

  Lin Hua, who has been in Russia for more than ten years, naturally knows that it is polite to use his real name and father's name when addressing each other, so he quickly replied: "Mikhail Mikhailovich."

"Misha," after finding out Lin Hua's real name and father's name, Artemyev called Lin Hua by his nickname affectionately: "You are a good guy, if you don't take timely and decisive actions, the enemy will Rush into our town." After speaking, he embraced Lin Hua, Seryozha, and Christopher, and said excitedly, "Thank you, thank you!"

After embracing the three of them, Artemyev turned around and said to a staff officer standing behind him, "Bring the medal!" The staff officer quickly took out three red suede boxes from his satchel , and handed it to Artemyev. Artemyev took the box, shook hands with Lin Hua and the others one by one, and distributed the box containing the medals to them.

Seeing Lin Hua and others holding the medal box in their hands, Kochetov came over with a ceramic tea mug, and said to Artemyev with a smile: "Wait a minute, Comrade General, have you forgotten our Tradition in the army?"

"Yes, yes, I almost forgot if you didn't tell me." Hearing what Kochetov said, Artemyev nodded quickly, and then said to Lin Hua and others: "Put your medals in In the mug."

  Lin Hua quickly took out the medal from the box and put it in the tea mug. Seryozha and Christopher followed suit, taking out the medals from the box and putting them in the mug. Artemyev took a bottle of wine handed over by the staff officer, and while pouring wine into the mug, he explained to them: "According to the tradition of the Russian army, the medal is soaked in wine to show that this is not the last one."

  After pouring most of the vodka in the mug, Artemyev handed the mug to Lin Hua, and said with a smile, "Drink, Comrade Sokov."

Lin Hua took the tea mug, glanced at the vodka inside, grinned, lifted the tea mug high, and said: "For victory!" After speaking, he brought the tea mug to his mouth and took a drink. After taking a small sip, he handed the tea mug to Seryozha next to him.

After the three of them drank the vodka in the tea mug, Artemyev took out the medals inside and gave them back to the three of them, and then said to Lin Hua: "Comrade Sokov, after research, in order to avoid similar Regarding the matter, we plan to send two more squads to the town of Khimki to form a special platoon. After the research and decision of the Garrison Command, you will take up the post of platoon leader and you will be promoted to the rank of sergeant.”

  (end of this chapter)