Sokov, who was blinded by the mud, sat up with difficulty, breathing heavily. Although his eyes could not see anything for the time being, he smelled the smell of gunpowder smoke, even mixed with strong blood.
taste.
"What on earth is going on?" Sokov thought to himself, "Is there really a biochemical laboratory underground, and there was an explosion not long ago? Otherwise, why would the air be filled with smoke and the smell of blood?"
He tried hard to recall what happened not long ago. When Sasha returned to the ground, he and Victoria dug a passage and got in. After walking forward for more than ten or twenty meters along the passage, the ground beneath his feet suddenly collapsed, and he
He fell down immediately. Then, Victoria, who followed closely behind, also fell down and hit herself, causing her to lose consciousness.
He carefully cleaned the dirt from his eyes, tried hard to open his eyes, and looked around.
Even though he was well-informed, he was still shocked when he saw his surroundings clearly.
He was sitting on a dirt road. There were dark craters everywhere on the road. Dead bodies in various shapes lay inside and outside the pits. Among these corpses wearing ordinary people's clothes, there were men, women, old people and children.
, their flowing blood has condensed the soil beneath them into reddish-brown soil.
The carriage tilted on the side of the road, the dead horse, the suitcases and packages scattered in a mess... they were just like a team of ordinary people fleeing, the tragic situation after being attacked. But according to Sokov's experience, everything in front of him was...
To be honest, it is definitely not a set for filming a divine drama.
Sokov stood up and took just two steps, but a drunken dizziness hit him, forcing him to sit down again to avoid falling to the ground.
Not long after, Sokov saw a group of people carrying large and small bags, supporting the elderly and the young, walking towards his location along the road. Although there were corpses everywhere, the expressions of these fleeing people were
Numb, it seems that he is used to this kind of scene.
When those people passed by Sokov, he struggled to stand up, grabbed a middle-aged man pushing a bicycle, and asked politely: "Friend, where is this place?"
"The outskirts of Brevard." After the man finished speaking, he dragged his bicycle and prepared to continue walking forward.
"What, Brevat?" Sokov couldn't help but be startled when he heard the place name: "That Brevat east of Kiev?"
The man looked at Sokov with a strange look and said angrily: "You already know this and you still ask."
"What's today's date?"
"August 19th."
"What year?" Sokov asked impatiently.
"Of course it was 1941." The middle-aged man muttered "crazy" in a low voice, broke away from Sokov's hand, and continued to push the cart forward.
Looking at the group of refugees leaving in the distance, Sokov finally understood that he had traveled through time again.
It was worthwhile to just travel back in time and return to Vienna in 1946, so that Sokov, who had been unconscious all this time, regained consciousness. But God did not care about martial ethics and sent him directly to Kiev where the war was about to break out.
Thinking that in a few days, the Germans would launch the largest encirclement and annihilation campaign in the history of human warfare, if he did not get out of the troubled place as soon as possible, he might be in danger of his own life.
He felt that his physical discomfort had disappeared, and wanted to follow the fleeing refugees and leave here as soon as possible. After taking a few steps, he thought of a question: after falling into the pit, he traveled through time, and what about Vika?
Will it pass through with myself?
He stopped, turned around and shouted loudly: "Vika, Vika, where are you?"
After shouting for a while but not hearing any movement, he began to check the bodies lying near the crater to see if Victoria was among them.
While he was inspecting the body, he shouted Victoria's name loudly. But when his voice almost became hoarse, he didn't hear any reply.
Sokov, who stopped searching, came to two conclusions: first, only he had traveled through, and Victoria still stayed in the original time and space; second, Victoria had traveled through with him, but might have landed in other areas.
.
No matter what the correct answer is, it is obviously unwise to stay here. In less than a week, the Germans will launch a full-scale attack on the Soviet army in Kiev. No one can guarantee that there are no Germans nearby.
A small group of troops. If you are unlucky and encounter them, you will only die.
On the way to escape, he passed a creek and Sokov quickly ran to the water to wash his face.
After seeing his reflection in the water clearly, Sokov couldn't help but be surprised that his appearance had changed again. He had turned into a blond boy in the town of Khimki, but now he was a dark-haired Ukrainian boy wearing a
A stained white jumper.
Sokov grabbed his hair with both hands and thought painfully: It's over, it's over, his appearance has changed again. Even if Victoria really traveled through time with him, she would not be able to recognize herself now.
"Don't move, raise your hands!" A sudden shout came from behind, startling Sokov.
He hurriedly raised his hands, slowly turned around and looked behind him, and saw two Soviet soldiers with backpacks on their backs, pointing their Mosin Nagant rifles at him.
He asked cautiously: "Two comrades, what is going on? Why are you pointing the gun at me?"
"Who are you?" asked an older soldier, "What are you doing here?"
"Comrade soldier," Sokov replied looking at the other party: "I am a refugee who happened to escape here."
The soldier looked Sokov up and down and said, "What's with the blood on you?"
"I was bombed by enemy planes on the way to escape." When Sokov was looking through the corpses, he judged based on his own experience that the craters were caused by enemy bombings. "Everyone who was traveling with me was dead.
I'm the only one left."
"Is that so?"
"Yes, that's it."
The soldier stepped forward, grabbed Sokov's collar, and dragged him forward: "Then come with us."
Under the escort of two soldiers, they soon came to a forest.
After entering the woods, Sokov saw many soldiers resting by the trees in the forest. Judging from their clothing and mental appearance, they should be small groups of troops who had just escaped from the enemy encirclement.
Two soldiers brought Sokov to a captain sitting on a fallen tree trunk. They raised their hands in salute and reported: "Comrade Captain, we caught a suspicious person by the river."
The middle-aged captain with an unshaven beard and a somewhat haggard look stood up and came to Sokov. After looking at him carefully, he asked: "What is your name, where are you from, and why do you appear by the river?
"
Sokov once checked his trouser pockets, which could hold things, but found no documents that could prove his identity. At this moment, when he heard the captain's inquiry, he said his name from the last time he traveled: "My name is Mikhail Mi
Khailnovich Sokov, a Zhitomir, fled with a group of refugees and was bombed by enemy planes on the way. Everyone else died, but I was the only one who survived. Your subordinates discovered
When I was there, I was washing my face by the river. Although I survived the bombing, my face and hands were covered with dirt and needed to be washed."
"So that's it." The captain nodded after hearing this, and then said: "Comrade Sokov, I formally inform you that from now on, you no longer have to flee."
"No need to flee?"
"Yes, because from now on, you are a soldier of our company." The captain stared at Sokov and said: "As a soldier, what you have to do is to take up arms and protect our motherland and people, rather than acting like a soldier.
He just wants to escape like a coward."
Sokov did not expect that as soon as he finished reporting his name, the captain would incorporate him into his team, and he couldn't help but have a look of astonishment on his face.
Seeing that Sokov did not speak, the captain asked with some displeasure: "What, Comrade Sokov, do you want to choose to stand by and watch when your motherland is attacked by the enemy?"
Pulling off such a big hat made Sokov tremble with fright. This was the war era. If he refused to join the army, the captain would have ordered him to be shot. He would be innocent and no one would show sympathy.
Sokov nodded quickly and hurriedly replied: "Comrade Captain, I am willing to join the team and take up arms to fight the invaders."
Regarding Sokov's answer, the captain nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "Well, from now on, you are a member of our company."
"Comrade Captain, since I am already your subordinate." Sokov may know the situation near Kiev better than the commander of the front army, General Kirponos. Even though this position is to the east of Kiev,
It is very likely that the vanguard of the German army has arrived nearby. Since I want to participate in the battle, I must first arm myself: "I wonder when you can send me weapons and uniforms."
"Andrei!" the captain called the soldier who captured Sokov and told him: "Go find weapons and uniforms for your new comrades."
Shortly after Andre walked away, he came over with a Mosin-Nagant rifle and a military uniform.
When the captain saw Andrei coming, he motioned for him to hand over his weapons and uniforms to Sokov.
Sokov took over the military uniform first and found that there were several bullet holes on it. The bullet holes were surrounded by brown blood stains. They were obviously the bloody clothes taken from a sacrificed soldier. He couldn't help but asked in surprise: "Comrade Captain,
Why are they old military uniforms?”
"Comrade Sokov, we have now lost contact with our superiors and cannot get any supplements for the time being, so we have to ask you to temporarily wear the old uniforms of your comrades who died. After we regain supplies, we will definitely replace you with new uniforms."
After taking over the Mosin-Nagant rifle from Andrei, he still didn't see the other party giving him bullets. Sokov quickly reminded the other party: "Andrei, the bullets haven't been given to me yet."
"Sokov, I just said it." The captain next to him continued: "We will not get any supplements until we resume contact with our superiors. But I assure you that once we get supplements, the new uniforms you want will be
There will be ammunition and ammunition."
Holding a rifle without bullets and an old military uniform stained with blood, Sokov couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. He didn't expect that he would travel back to the Great Patriotic War again and join a small unit with a serious shortage of ammunition. If he encountered the Germans
, I’m afraid we won’t be able to escape the fate of the entire army being annihilated.
"Okay, Sokov, go and rest." The captain said to Sokov: "We have to go on a journey later."
Andrei took Sokov to a deserted place nearby, sat down against a tree, and then curiously asked Sokov: "Sokov, what did you do before?"
"Worker in a machine shop."
"Can you use weapons?"
Although Sokov could blindfold himself and disassemble the Mosin-Nagant rifle in his hand, he shook his head and said: "No. This war broke out so suddenly that our unit has not had time to organize everyone to learn how to use it.
Weapons, the enemy reached the edge of the city, and then I escaped."
Andrei was an enthusiastic person. Seeing that Sokov didn't know how to use weapons, he patiently explained to him how to use the Mosin-Nagant rifle. Finally, he emphasized: "Sokov, learn to use weapons as soon as possible, and you will be better on the battlefield."
The chance of survival will be higher than others."
"Andre, can you tell me where you withdrew from?"
"Uman." Andre said with a solemn expression: "Our division was surrounded by German troops in the Uman area. After successive fierce battles, only a few troops broke out of the encirclement. Our company originally had more than 150 people, but we escaped alive.
There are no more than 20 people here."
Sokov thought for a while and realized that he had definitely seen more than 20 people since he entered the forest, so he asked curiously: "But when I first entered the forest, I saw more than 20 people?"
"I said that there are less than 20 original members of our company alive now." Andre explained: "Now there are more than 70 people in the entire company, all of whom were added along the way. Some are broken up combat groups, and some are temporary recruits.
A recruit just like you."
After hearing what Andre said, Sokov couldn't help but frowned. He was not optimistic about the prospects of this small unit at all. There was insufficient ammunition and the quality of the soldiers was uneven. Although Andre did not mention recruiting
How many recruits there are, they must account for a large proportion. These recruits have never undergone military training and have no combat experience.
Seeing Sokov's frowning face, Andre thought that the other party was afraid of going to the battlefield, so he raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Sokov, when we get to the battlefield, you can just follow me.
By your side, I will take care of you."
Sokov was thinking about whether he would return to the future world if he was killed on the battlefield. Hearing Andre say this, his heart felt warm, even though it was the other party who caught him here.
He forced himself to become a soldier, but judging from what he said, he was still a warm-hearted person.
"Andrei, thank you so much." Sokov said gratefully: "When I get to the battlefield, I will rely on you."
A soldier ran over, saw Andre, and asked loudly: "Andre, have you seen where the captain is?"
Andre pointed in the direction of the captain and asked curiously: "You look so panicked, what happened?"
"Germans," the soldier replied breathlessly, "Germans were found on the road to the east."