Seeing that Karsokov was consistent with his own speculation, Sokov couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
I have more than 4,000 commanders and fighters under my command and combat, and well-equipped. If I rely on a complete defense system to defend, it would not be much of a problem to block the attack of a German division. Even if I launch a local attack, I should still win or lose 50 points against a regiment-level unit of the German army.
Belkin and Karsokov looked at each other and guessed that Sokov might be thinking about how to use this and make some noise. So both remained silent so as not to interrupt Sokov's thinking.
After a while, Sokov spoke, "Deputy Brigade Commander, Chief of Staff, I have a bold idea."
"Comrade Brigade Commander, what do you think?" Karsokov asked tentatively: "Are you planning to launch a counterattack against the Germans in this area?"
"Comrade Chief of Staff." Sokov couldn't help but smile when his chief of staff had such a bold idea, then shook his head and said, "With our strength, it is definitely unrealistic to launch a counterattack in this area. Not to mention that our troops are far less than the enemy, the supply of ammunition and materials is also a problem. Even if the counterattack we launched can we enter the German controlled area, but it will not last too long, and we will be repelled under the enemy's crazy counterattack."
"Then what did you think?" After Belkin said this, he found that his tone was a bit questioning and said apologetically: "Comrade Brigade Commander, don't get me wrong, I just want to know, what were you thinking just now?"
"It is certainly unrealistic to implement a counterattack, and it will also cause trouble." Sokov said cautiously: "According to my judgment, the Borodino battlefield on the left wing will not last long. Even if we want to help them, we may not play much role. The attacks suffered by the right wing are also very fierce, but with the combat effectiveness of the 316th Infantry Division, there should be no big problem for holding on for ten days and half a month. What we have to do now is to support them in the Volokoramsk area with our own methods."
"What are you going to do?" asked Belkin.
"Don't worry, comrade of the deputy brigade commander." Sokov said to Belkin: "Now we know nothing about the enemy's deployment. Even if we want to take some action, we don't know how to formulate a combat plan. So what we need to do now is to send a reconnaissance team to conduct reconnaissance nearby, figure out the enemy's deployment of troops, and then make targeted plans. Do you think this is OK?"
"Of course." Karsokov expressed his support in time: "Comrade Brigade Commander, I support your proposal."
Seeing his thoughts and receiving support from Karsokov, Sokov nodded with satisfaction and raised his hand to look at his watch: "Now there are still three hours before dawn, so everyone hurry up and take a rest."
After saying that, Sokov ignored the two of them and walked straight to a corner of the tent, laying on a blanket spread on the ground with his clothes.
When Sokov opened his eyes, he found that it was already dawn outside.
He sat up and looked at the chief of staff sitting at the table and asked, "Comrade Chief of Staff, is there anything happening?"
"No." Karsokov replied: "Our defense zone is still very calm, and no trace of the Germans were found." He paused for a moment and then continued, "I have sent three reconnaissance teams to reconnaissance the whereabouts of the Germans in three different directions at the same time."
Sokov got up and came to the table, stared at the map above, and then asked again: "Where is the deputy brigade commander?"
“He went to the field hospital.”
The location of the field hospital was arranged by Karsokov, and Sokov had no idea where it was. At this moment, when he heard Karsokov say that Berkin had gone to the field hospital, he asked curiously: "Where is the field hospital?"
"The deputy brigade commander said that if the location of the field hospital is too high, it is convenient to treat the officers and soldiers injured in the battle, but it is very unsafe. If it is covered by German artillery fire, the medical staff and wounded in the field hospital will suffer huge losses." Karsokov explained to Sokov: "Therefore, the field hospital is located in a forest 300 meters away from here."
"I get it." Sokov nodded: "I'll go over and take a look."
After Sokov left the tent, he walked in the direction Karsokov said, and he wanted to see how the field hospital was arranged.
Soon, he came to the forest where the field hospital was located.
He saw a lot of tents set up in the forest, with people sitting outside the tents, and even a cooking car parked not far away, with several cooks providing food to the wounded.
Sokov looked at it for a while and frowned and walked into the forest.
He called out to a nurse who ran past him and asked, "Comrade Nurse, do you know where the assistant military doctor Jenna is?"
The nurse recognized Sokov and quickly pointed to a larger tent not far away and said, "Comrade Brigade Commander, Jenna is in that tent."
After thanking the other party, Sokov quickly walked towards the tent.
As soon as I walked to the tent, someone lifted the curtain inside and walked out.
"Assistant military doctor," Sokov heard Belkin's voice: "If you have any needs, just speak to us, we will do our best to meet your needs."
"Comrade Deputy Brigade Commander, the quarantine officer provided us with enough medicine last night." Jenna's voice came from the tent: "But we lack medical staff, and it is quite lacking. You can see that there are only seventy or eighty wounded people here, and our nurses are so busy that they are not stuck. If a war really starts, the wounded people will be sent over continuously, and with our existing staff, we will be unable to get busy."
As they spoke, they walked out of the tent. When they saw Sokov standing outside, they were stunned for a moment.
"Comrade Brigade Commander, you are here!" Jenna greeted Sokov with a smile.
"Well, I'm here." Sokov glanced at Belkin beside Jenna and said lightly: "I'll come here to see if you have any needs here?"
"Comrade Brigade Commander, the deputy brigade commander was talking about this to me just now." Jenna said: "Our medicine is barely enough, and there is a big gap for any medical staff to be beaten. If we cannot supplement it in time, once the battle starts, we will definitely be too busy to handle the wounded people sent from the frontline."
"Before I came here, I had asked the Chief of Staff. He said he had sent a telegram to his superiors and asked them to send us a group of medical staff." Sokov said: "But no reply has been received yet."
Seeing Sokov's face dissatisfaction, Belkin asked quickly: "Comrade Brigade Commander, you seem a little unhappy. Has something happened?"
"Comrade Deputy Brigade Commander, you have been here for so long, haven't you found out that there is anything wrong with it?"
Hearing Sokov said this, Berkin couldn't help but be confused: "Comrade Brigade Commander, I don't understand what you mean, can you say it in detail?"
Sokov pointed his hand around and said bluntly: "Deputy Brigade Commander, there are wounded people everywhere here, but you have neither arranged the staff responsible for carrying stretchers nor arranged guards to ensure the safety of field hospitals. If there is a sneak attack by the Germans here, what consequences will be? Even if I don't say it, you can think of it?"
Sokov's words immediately made Belkin sweat. He had been here for a long time, but he was basically sitting in a tent and chatting with Jenna. He never thought about arranging a guard troops for the field hospital. He quickly apologized to Sokov: "I'm sorry, comrade brigade commander, it's all my fault, it was my negligence. I immediately arranged personnel to protect the safety of the field hospital."
Since Belkin has made his statement, Sokov will naturally not hold back. He said to Jenna: "Assistant military doctor, there is a small town seven or eight kilometers away from here. I wonder if you are interested in going to the town with me to see if there are any doctors there."
Jenna showed a embarrassed expression on her face: "Comrade Brigade Commander, I'm sorry, I may not be able to accompany you to the town. There are several wounded people in a bad condition. I need to perform surgery on them as soon as possible. You should ask someone else to accompany you."
Sokov, who was rejected by Jenna, was not angry either. He looked around and saw the head nurse Vera who was checking the situation among the wounded, and said to Jenna: "Assistant military doctor, since you can't accompany me to the nearby town, let the head nurse accompany me."
Jenna did not object to Sokov's proposal. She immediately called the head nurse and said to her: "Villa, the brigade commander is going to the nearby town to find a doctor. You can follow him to see if you can find the medicine again."
"Okay, Jenna." Vera nodded in agreement and turned around and asked Sokov: "Comrade Brigade Commander, when will we set off?"
More than ten minutes later, a truck drove away from the infantry brigade's station.
Sokov and Vera were sitting in the passenger seat of the truck, and Chursin and his machine gun team, as well as the five soldiers Zub, were crowded in the rear carriage.
"Comrade Brigade Commander," Vera couldn't help but say, seeing Sokov traveling, seeing that he had put on such a big scene, Vera couldn't help but say, "If we were to go to the town to find a doctor, driving a jeep would be enough, and there would be no need for a truck."
"How could so many people be seated if you don't drive a truck?"
Vera calculated the number of people silently in her heart, and then said with a bitter face: "To go to the town to find a doctor, two or three people are enough, but we have more than a dozen people, and there are too many people."
"Not much, not much at all." Sokov immediately understood that the head nurse had no battlefield experience at all, so he explained to her: "We went to the town to find a doctor. Although from the infantry brigade to this area in the town, we were under the control of our army. But if a German bypassed our defense line and penetrated into the rear of our army, if we encountered it, we had too few people, we would suffer a great loss."
As for what great losses were, Sokov didn't say, but the head nurse understood. Thinking of the Germans who might appear at any time, she couldn't help but chill, shut her mouth obediently, and no longer questioned Sokov's decision.
After entering the town, Sokov found that there were no pedestrians except for the traffic police who were directing traffic at the intersection.
"Driver!" Sokov said to the driver: "Drive to the side of the traffic policeman and stop."
The driver agreed and soon drove the car to the traffic police and stopped steadily.
"Comrade Traffic Police," Sokov rolled down the window and poked his head out to ask the traffic police: "Do you know where the hospital in the town is?"
When the traffic police saw that the person who was asking was a major, he quickly stood at the spot, raised his hand to salute, and pointed to the west with his baton: "Comrade Major, you drive along this road. After about three or four hundred meters, you can see the town hospital on the right side of the road."
After thanking the traffic police, Sokov ordered the driver to continue driving.
Soon, the truck stopped at the entrance of the town hospital.
After getting off the car, Sokov stepped up the steps and walked into the outpatient hall.
However, it was empty and there was no figure.
Vera followed Sokov into the hall. After seeing the scene in front of her, she smiled bitterly and said to Sokov: "Comrade Brigade Commander, there is no one in the hospital. It seems that the medical staff inside have either been evacuated or have been summoned to the army."
Sokov couldn't help but smile bitterly. Whether the medical staff in the hospital were evacuated or recruited into the army, it means that his trip was in vain.
But he was not worried, so he asked Zubu to instruct, "Sergeant Zubu, take people to the pharmacy to see if there is any medicine left there."
Zubu agreed and was about to take people to the pharmacy, but Vera interrupted and said, "I'll go with you."
In the open hall, the footsteps of several people seemed particularly loud.
Sokov was about to go outside for some breath, but he saw an old lady wearing a turban breaking in. After she came in, she couldn't wait to shout, "Doctor, where is the doctor?"
Seeing the old lady looking anxious, Sokov said, "Old man, the doctor in the hospital has long left, and there is no one here."
"Impossible, this is impossible." The old lady said unwillingly: "I saw a doctor in the hospital last week. Why did the doctor disappear in a blink of an eye? Comrade Commander, you must be lying to me, right?"
Sokov couldn't help laughing and crying when he heard the old lady say this, thinking that I don't know who you are, is it necessary to lie to you?
When the old lady saw Sokov ignored her, she began to check in one clinic after another to see if there were any doctors inside.
After struggling for a long time, the old lady who had found nothing returned to the hall and stood there and wiped her tears.
Seeing this, Sokov felt unbearable, but he was not a doctor. If the old lady really wanted to treat the disease, she would not be able to help, so it would be better to remain silent.
Vera, who came back from the pharmacy, saw an old lady standing there wiping her tears in the hall, and hurried up to ask with concern: "Old man, what happened?"
The sad old lady heard Vera's voice and raised her head. When she was about to say something, she suddenly saw the red cross sleeves that Vera was wearing, and she suddenly became excited. She grabbed Vera's arm and asked with a shaking voice, "You are a doctor, you are a doctor, right?"
Vera, who could not break free, said with some amusement and cry: "Old man, please see clearly. I am not a doctor, I am just a nurse."
Chapter completed!