"How to assist?" Sokov asked in a teasing tone: "Do I need to send a force to escort them into the German occupied area?"

Alina showed a surprise expression on her face: "Since you said so, you must send troops to escort them through your defense zone."

Sokov's smile froze on his face. He didn't expect that Alina would really make such a request with the flow. For a moment, she didn't know how to answer the other party.

Unexpectedly, the next moment, Arina raised her hand and punched Sokov's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Misha, I'm teasing you. If you really want to send troops to escort it, it wouldn't be like telling the Germans, are there any problems with these prisoners of war who escaped from our army's prisoner-of-war camp?"

Sokov didn't say anything, just grinned.

Arina continued: "Misha, in order not to make the enemy doubt Comrade Kucenko's identity, you should send troops to escort him when these prisoners of war pass through the defense zone of your brigade." As soon as she finished speaking, she saw a puzzled expression on Sokov's face and quickly explained: "Don't get me wrong. The 'escort' I said is to send someone to pursue them behind them, which makes it more realistic."

"No problem." After figuring out what happened, Sokov answered very readily: "I asked Lieutenant Zhu Kewen to lead the team to carry out fake pursuit until they successfully pass through our defense line and enter the German-occupied area."

After discussing the details with Sokov, the two turned around and walked towards the tent.

On the way, Alina suddenly asked: "Misha, do you know Vasily Ivanovic Chabayev?"

Sokov was stunned after hearing this and wanted to ask who Arina was talking about. Suddenly, he remembered a famous movie called Xia Boyang, which was translated by Xia Boyang, and the protagonist's real name was Vasily Ivanovic Chabayev.

He asked tentatively: "Alena, are you talking about the excellent commander of the Civil War period?"

"Yes, I'm talking about him."

"He is a good commander, but unfortunately he died in the battle on September 5, 1919. Otherwise, even if he could not become a marshal, he would at least become a general."

"Although in history books, it is said that he died bravely in battle." Alina sighed softly and said, "His division headquarters encountered an enemy attack during the battle. He led members of the division headquarters to swim across the Ural River and disappeared from now on. Although it is said that he died, I sometimes think that he might still be alive."

Alina's words shocked Sokov, and he asked in confusion: "If Chabayev was still alive, why did he never show up in the past few decades?"

"Misha, do you think there is such a possibility?" Alina said: "He did break through successfully, but he lost his memory because of his injury and forgot his true identity, which made people mistakenly think that he had sacrificed?"

After hearing this, Sokov couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth, thinking that Arina was compiling an unofficial history about Chabayev? However, even if Chabayev was still alive, he might not be able to adapt to the current war and become an excellent commander. Budonni, Voroshilov, Temusingo, etc., who were at the same time as him, were entrusted with important tasks by Stalin in the early stages of the war, but as time went on, they gradually became marginalized.

Just when Sokov wanted to express his opinion, Romanlov ran out of the tent, quickly came to Sokov, and reported to him: "Comrade Brigade Commander, your phone number." Perhaps in order to attract Sokov's attention, he also emphasized specifically: "It was called by Comrade Commander."

Sokov was shocked after hearing this, and thought to himself that in the past, he had contacted the Army Command through telegrams, so why can he even use the phone now? Before leaving, he said to Romanov: "Romomov, take Lieutenant Arina to the guard company and let Captain Bobricov listen to her instructions."

Although Romanov didn't understand why Sokov issued such an order, he agreed without vaguely, and then said to Alina: "Comrade Lieutenant, please come with me, I will take you to the guard company."

Sokov returned to the tent and saw the microphone on the table. He didn't care about how he could contact the headquarters suddenly by phone. He walked over and picked up the microphone and put it in his ear, saying, "I'm Sokov!"

"Hello, Misha, I'm Rokosovsky."

"Hello, Comrade Commander." Sokov asked carefully: "I wonder if you have any instructions?"

"How is the situation there?" Rokosovsky asked, "Have the enemy's attack been repelled?"

"Yes, the enemy's attack has been shattered by us." Sokov replied in a suffocating manner: "Seven tanks and fifteen armored vehicles were destroyed, and more than three hundred German bodies were left in front of the position."

"Good job, good!" Rokosovsky praised and asked, "How is the casualties?"

Hearing Rokosovsky's question, Sokov remained silent for a moment, and then replied in a heavy tone: "There were originally 600 people in the Fourth Battalion, and 600 casualties in the battle, and now there are still 600 troops."

"What, what, what, what do you say?" After listening to Sokov's report, Rokosovsky asked in confusion: "There were six hundred people in the Fourth Battalion, and six hundred people were injured and killed in the battle. Where did the six hundred people appear now?"

"Comrade Commander, this is the situation." Sokov explained: "My deputy brigade commander, Lieutenant Colonel Belkin, was deployed in the forest behind the Fourth Battalion's position with a reserve force. When he learned that the Fourth Battalion's personnel were severely reduced, Lieutenant Colonel Belkin promptly dispatched personnel to supplement the Fourth Battalion so that there would always be enough troops on the position to fight against the German attack."

"How many people are there in your reserve team?"

"There are two thousand people in the reserve team." Sokov replied: "I originally planned to form the fifth and sixth battalions, but I found that the troops deployed on the frontier would suffer considerable casualties after each battle. After research by my deputy brigade commander and the chief of staff, I decided to cancel the plan to draw personnel from the reserve team to form the fifth and sixth battalions. Once I found that the frontier troops had suffered too much loss, I would immediately supplement it."

"So that's how it is." After figuring out what happened, Rokosovsky smiled and nodded with a smile: "Misha, I really envy you. I have so many reserves in my hands. You know, I, the commander of the group army, have no extra troops beside the members of the headquarters and two guard companies. Sometimes I think that if the enemy breaks through the defense line of our group army one day and rushes to the vicinity of the headquarters, we have no strength to compete with them, and then we can only find a way to retreat."

"Comrade Commander, please inform me in time if you encounter danger." Sokov expressed his opinion to Rokosovsky and said, "I will lead the troops to rescue you."

"If so, that would be great."

The conversation between the two was originally just a joke, but unexpectedly it became a fact after a few days. But this is a later story, so I won’t say it for now.

After dark, Alina came over to say goodbye to Sokov: "Misha, I'll take people to carry out the mission."

Sokov knew that the mission she was to carry out was to take a group of people to pretend to pursue fleeing German prisoners of war, so that Kuzenko would not arouse the enemy's suspicion after following the enemy into the German-occupied area. He nodded to Alina and said, "Be careful, I'll wait for you to return safely!"

Alina grinned and said, "Don't worry, I can come back alive for a more dangerous mission than this, let alone this mission, there is no danger at all."

Sokov remembered that in the movies and TV series that he had watched later, if he would not encounter danger in his last action this time, then the chance of his lunch box was basically 100%. Alina was a comrade-in-arms who had fought side by side with him. Naturally, he didn't want her to have an accident, so he said with a stern face: "Lieutenant Alina, if you think the task this time is simple and you take it lightly, maybe..."

Before Sokov finished speaking, Arina restrained the expression on her face and said seriously: "Misha, I understand what you mean. I will be careful in the action tonight."

After Arina took Zhukovin and a guard platoon, Karsokov couldn't help but ask Sokov with some concern: "Comrade Brigade Commander, they won't be in any danger, right?"

"I don't think so." Sokov shook his head and said, "After all, they are performing missions in the defense zone of our brigade, and the chance of encountering danger is not high. I just told Lieutenant Alina that I was just worried that she would underestimate the enemy and lead to an accident."

"So that's how it is." Karsokov nodded after hearing this, and then asked Sokov: "Comrade Brigade Commander, the Fourth Battalion is repairing fortifications overnight and preparing to face the enemy's new attack. However, the artillery officer Lieutenant Artyom reported that there were not many shells left in the artillery, especially the 122mm heavy artillery of the Second Artillery Battalion. There were only less than ten shells left in each artillery. I'm afraid that it would not be able to provide powerful artillery support for the Fourth Battalion tomorrow."

"Have you sent us weapons, ammunition and supplies?"

"No." Karsokov shook his head: "The weapons, ammunition and various materials we used were obtained from the two arsenals."

After hearing this, Sokov did not speak, but just tapped gently on the table with his fingers. He knew very well that Malining had greeted him, saying that because the supply in the rear was very small and slow, it could not meet the needs of all troops. Therefore, the weapons, ammunition and various supplies obtained for the supply could only be given priority to those important areas where the war was fierce, and the ammunition and materials needed by the infantry brigade could only rely on himself to find a way to solve the problem.

"Comrade Brigade Commander," Karsokov was a little anxious when he saw Sokov not speaking for a long time: "Our existing ammunition and materials can last for up to two or three days. If it is not available for supplementary purposes, when the enemy launches an attack on us, our commanders and soldiers will have to fight bayonets with the enemy."

Karsokov's words reminded Sokov of the last time he traveled through time. He led his troops to stand on Mamayev's hill. Because he had no ammunition and food, he could only lead his troops to fight hand-to-hand combat with the enemy with his troops. Although he repelled the enemy's attack with his tenacious fighting will, the troops also paid a very heavy price. He lived a life of resurgence, and he did not want the same thing to happen again.

Thinking of this, he told Karsokov: "Comrade Chief of Staff, the supply side must not count on the Army Command, and must rely on our existing forces to solve the problem."

"How to solve it?" Karsokov asked back, "Can you continue to search for the arsenals hidden in the forest?"

"Comrade Chief of Staff, maybe this is the only way for us to solve the supply problem." Seeing Karsokov's bitter face, Sokov quickly explained to him: "As far as I know, in order to fight the German attack, many secret arsenals were established in the forest near Moscow. All we found were two of them. If we sent people to search carefully, we would definitely find more arsenals."

"Comrade Brigade Commander," Karsokov said with a bitter face: "Other cities are greening in the city, while Moscow is a city in the forest. The forest covers more than a quarter of the area, let alone the dense forests in the suburbs. It is not easy to find a hidden arsenal in the forest."

"Comrade Chief of Staff, I also understand how difficult it is to find one or several hidden arsenals in such a vast forest." Sokov sighed and said helplessly: "But beyond that, we cannot obtain supplies. We can't send people deep behind enemy lines to loot the German material transfer points, right?"

The speaker is unintentional and the listener is intentional. Sokov said it casually, but he didn't expect that after hearing this, Karsokov's eyes shone: "Comrade Brigade Commander, this is a good idea. If we can seize the German material transfer points, we can not only supplement the weapons, ammunition and various materials needed by the troops, but also weaken the Germans' strength."

"We have sent people to attack the enemy's material transfer points. In order to avoid similar situations again, they must have strengthened their defense." Sokov shook his head and said, "It is simply impossible to seize materials from their material transfer points."

"How can I know if I don't try it?" Karsokov had already determined in his mind that as long as he found the German supply point, he could obtain weapons, ammunition and supplies from there to replenish the troops. So he said stubbornly: "I suggest sending a reconnaissance team immediately to go deep into the German-occupied area to find out where the enemy's material transfer point is."

Sokov looked at Karsokov and asked, "Comrade Chief of Staff, what should we do if our scouts found the enemy's material transfer point, but it is too far from us, and the weapons, ammunition and supplies inside cannot be transported back?"

"This is easy to deal with." Karsokov replied without thinking: "If the material transfer point discovered by the scouts is very close to us, we can naturally find a way to transport it back. Even if it is far away, it doesn't matter, just blow it up. If we can't get it, we can't let the Germans get it. After blowing it up, they can still weaken their strength."
Chapter completed!