Chapter 2712 Return to the War Era

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 the strong smell of blood.

"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 surface, 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 fell directly. Then, Victoria, who was following closely behind, also fell down and hit herself, making herself unconscious.

He carefully cleaned the dirt from his eyes, opened his eyes with effort, 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 clods.

The carriage tilted on the side of the road, the dead horse, the suitcases and packages scattered in a mess... it was like a team of ordinary people fleeing, the tragic situation after being attacked. But according to Sokov's experience, everything in front of him is real, and it is definitely not a set for a drama.

Sokov stood up and took just two steps, but a drunken dizziness came over 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 all over the ground, the expressions of these fleeing people were numb, as if they were 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 Broiret." After the man finished speaking, he dragged his bicycle and prepared to continue walking forward.

"What, Broware?" Sokov couldn't help but be startled when he heard the place name: "The Broware east of Kiev?"

The man looked at Sokov with a strange look and said angrily: "You already know 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, then broke away from Sokov's hand and continued to push the car forward.

Looking at the group of refugees leaving in the distance, Sokov finally understood that he had traveled through time again.

It’s worthwhile to travel back in time, return to Vienna in 1946, and let Sokov, who has always been unconscious, regain consciousness. But God didn't care about martial ethics and sent himself directly to the vicinity of Kiev where a war was about to break out. Thinking that in a few days, the Germans would launch the largest encirclement and annihilation war in the history of human warfare, if they did not get out of the troubled place as soon as possible, they might be in danger of their own lives.

He felt that his physical discomfort had disappeared and wanted to follow the fleeing refugees and leave here as soon as possible. After walking a few steps, he thought of a question: After falling into the pit, he traveled through time. What about Vika? Could he have traveled through it with him?

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.

As he examined the body, he shouted Victoria's name loudly. But when his voice almost became hoarse, he didn't hear any response.

Sokov stopped searching and came to two conclusions: first, only he had traveled through time, and Victoria still stayed in the original time and space; second, Victoria had traveled through time 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 force. 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. What had turned into a blond guy in the town of Khimki was now a dark-haired Ukrainian guy wearing 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 wouldn't 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 the matter 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 sitting by the trees and resting in the forest. Judging from their clothes and mental appearance, they should be scattered small groups that 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 unshaven, middle-aged captain who looked a bit haggard 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 crossed over: "My name is Mikhail Mikhailnovitch Sokov. I am a Zhytomyr. I fled with a group of refugees. I was bombed by enemy planes on the way. Everyone else died, but I was the only one who survived. When your subordinates found me, I was washing my face by the river. Although I survived the bombing, my face was still wet. My hands are covered with dirt and I need to wash them off.”

"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 run away like a coward."

Sokov didn't 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 fear. Now is the war era. If he refuses to join the army, the captain will order himself to be shot. He will be innocent and no one will 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 he wants to participate in the battle, he must first arm himself: "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 Andrei walked away, he came over with a Mosin-Nagant rifle and a military uniform.

When the captain saw Andre 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 is it an old military uniform?”

"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 military uniforms of your comrades who died. After we regain supplies, we will definitely replace you with new military 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."

Sokov couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart as he held a rifle without bullets and an old military uniform stained with blood. Unexpectedly, I traveled back to the Great Patriotic War and joined a small army that was seriously short of ammunition. If they encountered the German army, they might not be able to escape the fate of 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 asked Sokov curiously: "Sokov, what did you do before?"

"A machine shop worker."

"Can you use weapons?"

Although Sokov could disassemble the Mosin-Nagant rifle with his eyes blindfolded, he shook his head and said, "No. The war broke out too suddenly. Our unit didn't have time to organize everyone to learn how to use 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 the weapon, he patiently explained to him how to use the Mosin-Nagant rifle. Finally, he emphasized: "Sokof, learn to use weapons early, and you will have a higher chance of surviving on the battlefield than others."

"Andrei, can you tell me where you retreated from?"

"Uman." Andrei said solemnly: "Our division was surrounded by the German army in the Uman area. After a series of fierce battles, only a few troops broke through the siege. There were more than 150 people in our company, but no more than 20 people walked here alive."

Sokof thought about it. From the time he entered the forest to now, he must have seen more than 20 people, so he asked curiously: "But when I just entered the forest, I saw more than 20 people?"

"I said that there are less than 20 original members of our company alive now." Andrei explained: "Now the entire company has more than 70 people, all of whom were supplemented along the way. Some are disbanded combat teams, and some are temporary recruits like you."

Sokof couldn't help but frowned after listening to Andrei. He was not optimistic about the prospects of this small unit. There was a shortage of ammunition and the quality of the soldiers was uneven. Although Andre did not say how many new soldiers were recruited, it must have accounted for a large proportion. These new soldiers who had never received military training and had no combat experience,

Seeing Sokov's sad face, Andre thought that he was afraid of going to the battlefield, so he raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder, smiling and said: "Sokov, when you go to the battlefield, just stay by my side, I will take care of you."

Socov was thinking, if he was killed on the battlefield, would he return to the future world again. Hearing Andre say this, he still felt warm in his heart. Although the other party caught him here and forced him to be a soldier, from what he said, he was still a warm-hearted person.

"Andrei, thank you so much." Sokov said gratefully: "I will rely on you when we go to the battlefield."

A soldier ran over and asked loudly after seeing Andrei: "Andrei, have you seen where the captain is?"

Andrei pointed in the direction of the captain and asked curiously: "You look so panicked, what happened?"

"Germans," the soldier replied a little breathlessly: "We found Germans on the road to the east."