Chapter 1586 Maintenance Station Relocation (Part 2)
The work efficiency during the war years was very high. Even the old man who always procrastinated in doing things showed amazing efficiency. From receiving the order to move the maintenance station to moving it all to the machinery factory, it took less than three days.
Hours.
When Sokov learned that the maintenance station had been relocated, he showed a surprised expression on his face: "The relocation has been completed so soon?" Then he said to Samyko, "Comrade Chief of Staff, I leave this place to you. I and the military
The committee member went to the machine shop to have a look."
When Managarov heard Sokov said he was going to the machinery factory, he quickly stood up and said, "General Sokov, I also want to go to the machinery factory. Let's go together."
Since Managarov had already made a request, Sokov naturally could not refuse, so he nodded in agreement: "Okay, Comrade General, let's go there together."
The three of them took a jeep and arrived at the machinery factory.
There were only two soldiers standing guard at the gate of the factory. When they saw Sokov and his convoy approaching, they did not check, but allowed them to drive straight into the factory. Seeing this situation, Sokov not only frowned, but
I didn't expect that the security of the machinery factory would be so lax.
In front of the factory office building, a second lieutenant officer was chatting and laughing with several female workers. When he saw a convoy approaching, he quickly stopped talking and walked towards the convoy.
The jeep Sokov was riding in stopped beside the officer. Sokov opened the door and walked out. He looked at the other person and asked: "Comrade Second Lieutenant, are you the military representative of the factory?"
Although the officer did not recognize Sokov, he recognized the general star on his shoulder straps. He quickly stood at attention and raised his hand in salute: "Hello, comrade general, I am Second Lieutenant Pierre, the military representative of the factory. I follow your orders.
Please advise!"
"I am Major General Sokov, commander of the 27th Group Army." After identifying himself to the other party, Sokov asked: "Which department are you in? How many soldiers are on duty in the factory?"
Knowing that the person in front of him was the commander of the group army, Second Lieutenant Pierre seemed extremely nervous. He stammered and replied: "Report...comrade commander, I...I am from the 98th Guards Division and I have been ordered to station in the machinery factory.
There are a total of 27 people in the platoon, responsible for protecting the safety of the machinery factory."
"Only 27 people?" Sokov scanned the factory area and found that the area of the factory was equivalent to a small town. It was a joke to use 27 people to serve as guards: "Why are there only so few people?"
Pierre didn't know the purpose of Sokov's question, but he still answered truthfully: "There are no important military facilities in the machinery factory. It is enough to arrange a platoon."
"That was before, Comrade Second Lieutenant." Sokov said with a serious expression: "From now on, this place will become an important military facility, and your security force must be strengthened. Especially at the gate, inspections must be strengthened. No one can
You can come and go as you please.”
Hearing Sokov's words, Pierre was a little confused. Although he understood that he had to carry out Sokov's order, he only had more than twenty people under his command. How could he strengthen the defense of the factory? He could only look at Sokov with a sad face.
Kokov said: "Comrade Commander, I have too few people, unless my superiors send me more people."
"Where can I make a phone call?" Sokov asked the other party: "I want to speak to your division commander."
"You can make phone calls in the factory director's office on the second floor." Pierre said with a smile: "Comrade Commander, please come with me and I will take you to make phone calls."
As Sokov followed Pierre into the building, he casually asked: "Where is the factory director?"
"Didn't a maintenance station move here just now? The factory director went to the factory to inspect it."
Arriving at the factory director's office on the second floor, Pierre greeted the female secretary sitting at the door, reached out and pushed open the closed door. However, he did not enter immediately, but stood by the door, leaning slightly towards
He leaned forward 15 degrees and stretched out his hand in a gesture of invitation: "Comrade Commander, please come in!"
Sokov walked into the door. In front of him was a long conference table, forming a "T" with the desk directly opposite. He walked along the left side of the conference table to the desk and put the phone on the desk.
The machine caught him in front of him. He put the microphone to his ear, dialed a number, heard a voice inside, and immediately said: "I am Sokov, please get close to Chuvasov, the commander of the 98th Guards Division immediately."
Colonel."
The call was quickly connected, and Chuvashov's voice came from the receiver: "Hello, Comrade Commander, I am Chuvashov. What instructions do you have?"
"Comrade Colonel, I want to ask you, how many security forces have you deployed in the machinery factory?"
After hearing Sokov's question, Chuvashov was silent for a moment, and then said: "Comrade Commander, I don't know very well. I have to ask the Chief of Staff to find out. Chief of Staff," Chuvashov said next.
Uzhakov was asked, "How many troops have we deployed in the machine shop?"
Uzhakov quickly took out a small book, flipped through it, and then reported to Chuvashov: "Comrade division commander, we have deployed a platoon in the machinery factory, with a total number of 27 people."
"Comrade Commander, everything is clear." After listening to Uzakov's report, Chuvashov immediately said to Sokov: "A platoon has been deployed in the factory, with a total number of 27 people."
"Comrade Colonel, I want to ask you. In such an important unit, why are only such a small number of troops deployed?"
Chuvashov was stunned for a moment, and then reported to Sokov: "Comrade Commander, there are no valuable military facilities in the machinery factory, because I only sent one platoon to serve as a guard."
"The previous machine factory did not have any valuable military facilities, but from now on, this will be the key area for your division to guard against." Sokov said on the phone: "You immediately mobilize a battalion and rush to the machine factory.
Strengthen the defense work here and make sure nothing goes wrong."
"Comrade Commander," Chuvasov was confused when he heard Sokov ordered him to deploy a battalion to strengthen defense work. He asked puzzledly: "Can you tell me the specific reason?"
When Sokov thought about the change of the maintenance station, he seemed to have not communicated with Chuvasov. It was inevitable that the other party did not know the specific situation, so he said to him: "Comrade Colonel, I have understood that the maintenance station will be moved to the machinery factory.
In this way, our comrades workers can repair our damaged tanks on the battlefield faster and better."
After learning that the maintenance station responsible for repairing destroyed tanks on the battlefield has now been stationed in the machinery factory, Chuvashov immediately understood the purpose of Sokov's call and quickly replied: "Don't worry, Comrade Commander, I will immediately
Deploy troops to the machinery factory and raise the alert level there."
Sokov was very satisfied with Chuvashov's answer. He nodded and said, "Then I'll wait for your good news." After saying that, he put down the phone.
"Comrade Commander," Pierre saw Sokov put down the phone and asked quickly: "Do you need me to be your guide and take you to the workshop?"
Sokov originally wanted Pierre to stay and answer the phone, but then he thought that without a guide, he might not be able to find the location of the factory for a long time, and it would definitely waste a lot of time, so he
He nodded and agreed to Pierre's suggestion: "Okay, Comrade Second Lieutenant, I would like to ask you to be our guide. As for the phone call inside, let the female secretary at the door answer it and let her tell Qiu where we are going.
Colonel Vashov."
Pierre agreed and communicated with the female secretary at the entrance of the runway. Soon, he returned to Sokov again, nodded and bowed and said: "Comrade Commander, everything has been arranged, we can set off to the factory now.
"
When Sokov followed Pierre out of the office building, he saw Managarov and Runev standing next to the jeep chatting, so he walked towards them and greeted them from a distance: "You two are here.
what's the topic?"
Hearing Sokov's voice, the two stopped talking. Managarov said to Sokov: "General Sokov, General Lunev and I were talking about the security force here at the machinery factory being too weak. If
A sneak attack by the Germans would probably cause huge losses."
Although Managarov's words were addressed to Sokov, Pierre, who was following Sokov, turned red with embarrassment because what he said was true.
"You are right, Comrade General." Sokov agreed with Managarov's statement: "The defense force in the factory is indeed a bit weak now, let alone being attacked by the German army, even if it is just
I'm afraid they won't be able to deal with a few spies sneaking in to cause damage. But I have already called their division commander, and reinforcements will arrive soon."
After Lunev waited for Sokov to finish speaking, he asked tentatively: "Comrade Commander, where should we go next?"
"Let's go to the factory and have a look." Sokov said to the two of them: "See if the comrades in the maintenance station have installed all their equipment."
Seeing Sokov and others about to leave, Pierre quickly said: "Comrade Commander, the factory is one or two kilometers away from here. If you walk, it may take a lot of time. I think it is better to take a car."
When Sokov heard that the factory was a kilometer or two away from here, he gave up the plan of walking there. So he waved his hand and ordered: "Get in the car!"
Under Pierre's guidance, the jeep quickly arrived outside the factory.
Seeing several destroyed tanks and armored tractors parked at the door, Sokov knew he had arrived.
He saw a worker smoking next to the armored tractor, so he waved to him and said, "Comrade worker, please come here."
When the worker heard Sokov's shout, he immediately threw away the unfinished cigarette butt in his hand and trotted up to Sokov. Although he was not a soldier, he still stood at attention and saluted Sokov.
He gave a non-standard military salute: "Hello, Comrade General, is there anything I can do for you?"
Sokov nodded at the destroyed tanks and asked curiously: "Did you drag these tanks back?"
"Yes, Comrade General." The worker gave Sokov an affirmative answer: "When I was pulling one of the tanks back, I suddenly received a message from the station commander's comrade who asked me to take the tank I had dragged back and directly
Tow it to the machine shop. I saw that the distance was not far away, so I dragged the tank wreckage directly here, and then turned around to tow another tank. No, I towed two of the tank wreckage here."
"Thank you, comrade worker." After thanking the other party for his hard work, Sokov then asked: "Do you think the two tanks you dragged back can be repaired?"
"How do you say this?!" Hearing Sokov's question, the worker hesitated for a moment, and then replied: "If the maintenance station is still at its original location and has not been moved to the machinery factory, what awaits the fate of these two tanks?
Send it back to the steelmaking plant for re-melting.”
Sokov heard from the other party's words that there was a possibility of repairing these two tanks, so he asked tentatively: "Comrade worker, according to your opinion, these two tanks can be repaired?"
"Of course. Since I towed these two tanks back, I must know their situation best." The worker nodded and said, "According to my observation, their only turrets were destroyed. They will be towed to the factory later."
Here, use a crane to lift away the damaged turret, then replace it with a good turret, and you can basically get back into battle."
After chatting with the workers for a while, Sokov took Managarov, Runev and others into the factory.
The factory was a busy scene at the moment, with people standing in front of all the machines and equipment. Everyone was busy with their own work and did not even notice the arrival of Sokov and his team.
Pierre looked around, and then said to Sokov with a face of surprise: "Comrade Commander, where are the factory director and station director."
After expressing his gratitude to Pierre, Sokov came to Adil and asked with a smile: "Comrade Adil, what do you think of the working environment here?"
"It's great, it's simply great." Seeing Sokov's arrival, Adil said happily: "I didn't expect the equipment here to be so complete." He pointed to the truck that was lifting things on the roof and continued.
Said, "In the past, when we wanted to remove the turret of a tank, we had to build a frame out of logs, and it took seven or eight people to work together to complete the work. But here we have a ready-made crane, and we only need one person below to tie the steel cable."
, you can complete the disassembly of the turret.”
Sokov looked up at the cars moving back and forth on the roof track, and thought of something in his mind, so he called the factory director and asked: "Comrade factory director, how many hours of electricity supply do you have here every day?" Although this place in the city is
Power supply has been restored to some areas for a period of time, but due to limited power, power must be supplied as planned.
Hearing Sokov's question, the factory director quickly replied: "Comrade General, we can get two hours of power supply here every day. In the past, such a long power supply time was enough. But now the maintenance station has been moved to us
Here, I’m afraid this power supply time is far from enough.”
"Yes, Comrade General." After the factory director finished speaking, Adil agreed: "Such a short power supply time is very detrimental to our work. Think about it, there was a power outage just after the tank turret was hoisted.
The work we are doing has to be temporarily stopped until the power supply is restored."
"I understand, Comrade Adil." Sokov knew very well that only by ensuring the power supply to the machinery plant, the work efficiency of the maintenance station will be improved. He assured Adil: "I assure you, starting from today, the mechanical
The power supply time of the factory will be increased from the original two hours to eight hours."
"Eight hours?!" The factory director originally thought that Sokov could give him one more hour of power supply time, and he was already thankful to God. He didn't expect that the other party was so generous and actually increased the power supply time from two hours to eight hours: "This is really too much.