As I sat on the bus to the hospital, I shook my head with a wry smile and said to myself that I had worked so hard to get back to deal with such trivial matters not long after I left the hospital. But then again, if Vasily wasn't one of my valued subordinates, maybe I wouldn't have made this trip, anyway, the military representative of that hospital was a lieutenant, and Yushchenko could have taken care of it.

As the car approached the entrance of the hospital, I noticed that the two fighters standing at the door were acting a little erratically. As soon as our car entered the gate, the two of them came together, gesturing in our direction, as if discussing something.

After I saw this scene in the rearview mirror, I asked Sergei, who was sitting next to me, with some dissatisfaction: "Comrade Sergei, why don't those two fighters stick to their posts and get together to chat?" ”

Sergei turned his head and looked at the gate, then shook his head, and said helplessly: "These are the soldiers sent to us by the garrison headquarters, and the jurisdiction is in the military representative, and our hospital has no right to intervene." ”

Our car stopped at the entrance of the inpatient department, and we were about to get out of the car when we saw a group of soldiers screaming out of the outpatient building, rushing through the open field covered with snow and rushing into the inpatient department.

"What the hell is going on?" Yushchenko, who had just gotten out of another jeep, walked up to me and asked Sergey in confusion: "Why are they acting so flustered?" ”

Sergei first shook his head, and said with the same puzzlement: "I don't know. You must know that although these commanders and fighters are responsible for the safety of the hospital, they usually only stay in the outpatient department and rarely come to the inpatient department. Could it really be that something big is wrong? ”

"Comrade Captain. Let's go in and have a look. "Finished. I led the way towards the building.

After entering the building. I immediately felt that it was a mess inside, and there were quite a few patients in hospital gowns standing in the hallway, discussing something in groups in the east and west. I walked up to a few of the patients closest to me and politely asked, "Excuse me, what's going on in the building?" ”

An elderly man glanced sideways at me, pouted at the ceiling, and said, "Comrade commander, it seems that there is something wrong with one of the wards on the second floor." The fighters in charge of hospital security went quite a bit. ”

"Do you know what it is?" Yushchenko waited for him to finish speaking, and immediately asked.

The old man shook his head and replied, "I don't know much about this. The staircase was guarded by soldiers, and we ordinary people couldn't go up at all. ”

Yushchenko, seeing that he could not ask for any valuable information from the old man's mouth, turned his head to look at me, waiting for my next instructions. I looked at the staircase not far away, and saw that there were indeed a few soldiers with weapons guarding it, and it seemed that something was really wrong on the second floor. So I shook my head and said to Yushchenko: "Let's go, Comrade Captain." Let's go to the second floor and have a look. ”

When we reached the top of the staircase, a guard soldier immediately raised his hand to stop us. He said politely: "Comrade commander, I'm sorry, you can't just go upstairs without the consent of the military representatives. ”

"What did you say?" Hearing these words of the warrior, Yushchenko, who was originally standing behind me, immediately broke out: "Didn't you see the rank of the general clearly? Not to mention your military representatives, even if your regimental commander comes, you must obediently obey her orders. ”

After saying that, he pushed the soldier aside with all his might, then turned sideways and said to me, "Comrade General, please." ”

I smiled and nodded at Yushchenko's rude handling of the situation, for such people who don't know the times, we should take some tough measures. Seeing me lift my legs, he walked upstairs, followed by Dr. Sergei and Yushchenko.

When we got to the second floor, we saw that the patients were so crowded that many of them were standing on the outermost side and looking inside on their tiptoes. Seeing this, my heart became even more unsteady, and I hurriedly instructed Yushchenko: "Captain, let these patients make way for us first." ”

Yushchenko agreed, and with several other guards, he squeezed forward, and at the same time shouted: "Comrades, please give way, please give way." As he spoke, he squeezed forward, and several people forced a passage out of the crowd for me.

I walked a few steps along the passage, and I realized that something was wrong, and the place surrounded by patients was actually the ward where Vasily lived. Seeing the several fighters standing in a row arm-in-arm at the door, I couldn't help but chuckle in my heart, and said in my heart that it couldn't be Vasily's problem.

I came to the wall of warriors and asked with a serious expression: "Comrade warriors, what happened to you?" ”

The soldier I asked glanced at my epaulettes, then quickly straightened up and reported to me: "Comrade General, there is a wounded man inside who is about to commit suicide, and the military representative and the director of the hospital are trying to persuade him." ”

"What, there are wounded people who want to commit suicide?" The warrior's reply startled me, and I quickly ordered him: "Let me go and see." ”

"Comrade General." The warrior's face showed an embarrassed expression, "It's too dangerous inside, that wounded man has a gun in his hand, I'm afraid he will hurt you by mistake." ”

"Let's go away." Yushchenko also did not talk nonsense with the fighters, grabbed him by the collar and pulled him aside at once, opening a gap for me.

As soon as I walked into the room with curiosity, I was immediately stunned by what I saw. I saw Vasily still with gauze wrapped around his eyes. Zaitsev, sitting cross-legged on his own bed, brandishing a pistol in his hand, shouted emotionally: "Go away, you all go away!" Even if I die, I won't let you take my eyeballs off. As he shouted, the gun in his hand pressed against his temple, and then at the other in the room.

He was confronted in the house by more than a dozen heavily armed fighters, their rifles and submachine guns pointed at Vasily, and it seemed that they would immediately open fire if they noticed that something was wrong. And the two people closest to Vasily's bed, one was the dean Osiminin, and the other was a lieutenant, who should have been the military representative mentioned by Sergei.

I raised my hand and pressed the muzzle of a rifle next to me down hard while saying loudly, "What are you doing, who gave you the right?" Allow you to turn your guns on a hero who has achieved great results? All of them. Listen to my commands. Put the guns down. ”

Hearing my voice, the soldiers with guns looked at each other, but no one lowered their guns. And the military representative standing in front also turned around and looked at me curiously, an uninvited guest. At this moment, Osiminen leaned close to his ear and spoke a few quick words.

After listening to Osimmenen's introduction, the military representative hurriedly raised his hand and waved it down quickly, and then ordered his subordinates in a loud voice: "Your ears are deaf. Didn't you hear the general's orders? Put your guns down for me. ”

Osiminin trotted all the way to my side, glanced at Sergei who was standing behind me, then leaned forward slightly and asked flatteringly: "Comrade General, why are you here?" Be aware that although the stitches on your eye have been removed, it will take a long time to heal. You run around like this every day, which is very detrimental to your recovery. ”

Seeing Vasily, who was still emotional, I asked coldly: "Comrade Dean, can I ask what is going on here?" ”

Before Osiminen could speak, the military representative had already walked in front of me. After raising his hand and saluting, he asked politely, "Can I report it?" Comrade General? ”

"Okay, Comrade Lieutenant, please speak." In order to prevent him from rambling nonsense for a long time, I specifically told him: "Tell me in the shortest words, what is going on here?" ”

After turning his head and glancing at Vasily, the military representative replied honestly: "Comrade General, when I checked Comrade Vasily's case today, I found that the injury to his eye was deteriorating, so I consulted with the dean to remove one of his eyeballs. Who knows how this news was known to Vasily himself, so it made a fuss. At this point, he spread his hands, "In order to ensure the safety of other patients in the hospital, I can only take some special measures." ”

"Comrade Dean." After listening to the lieutenant's report, I just nodded noncommittally, and then turned sideways and asked Osiminen: "Is it really necessary to remove Comrade Vasily's eyeballs?" You must know that for a good sniper, becoming blind is psychologically unacceptable in any case. ”

"But Comrade General," said Osimin, with some embarrassment, "judging by the situation at hand, Comrade Vasily's right eye is seriously infected, and if the diseased eye is not removed in time, then the relatively intact left eye will also be affected." ”

I'm a complete layman when it comes to these medical things, so I can't help but hesitate to hear Osiminen say that. I turned my head and asked Sergei: "Comrade Sergei, is Comrade Dean right?" ”

"Yes, Comrade General." Sergei first echoed Osimmenin's opinion, and then took the initiative to talk about his opinion: "But it has not yet reached the worst, and there is room for redemption." I'm going to do another operation on him tomorrow to remove the pus from his eyeballs and try to make sure he doesn't go blind. ”

Osiminen heard Sergei say this, but only looked at him with indifferent eyes, but did not say a word. However, the military representative was a little breathless and opened his mouth to defend: "Comrade General, I think it is better to follow Comrade Dean's diagnosis and perform surgery to remove the eyeball of Comrade Vasily. ”

To the military representative who suddenly interjected, I asked dissatisfiedly: "Comrade lieutenant, how many years have you been in the army?" ”

The military representative apparently did not expect me to ask him this suddenly, and after a short silence, replied loudly: "Report to Comrade General, I have been in the army for four years. He participated in the war to liberate Poland and crush the invasion of Leningrad by the Finnish White Army, and has a wealth of combat experience......"

"Comrade Lieutenant, I dare not be interested in your combat experience." Without waiting for the military representative to finish, I unceremoniously interrupted him and asked, "What kind of occupation did you do before joining the army?" ”

The military representative, who was a little panicked, hurriedly replied: "Before joining the army, I worked at the Kirov factory in Leningrad as a miller, a fourth-level miller. ”

"Miller, it's a mechanical worker." After repeating his old profession, I said angrily, "Since you were not a doctor before, what right do you have to ask about the treatment of patients?" ”

"Comrade General," the military representative said with some grievances, "but I am the military representative of the hospital." "I could tell from his voice-over that he wanted to explain that since he was the military representative who ran the hospital, he had the right to intervene in all the affairs of the hospital.

After snorting heavily through my nose, I said unceremoniously: "Comrade Lieutenant, I ask you to clarify a little. As the military representative of the hospital, your main task is to ensure the safety of the hospital, not to interfere with the doctor's treatment plan. The layman is not qualified to command the insider, understand? "When I said the last sentence, I deliberately accentuated my tone.

In response to my accusation, the military representative was so embarrassed that his face was flushed, and although he had the heart to refute it, he saw that my military rank was much higher than his, so he had no choice but to reluctantly agree: "Yes, Comrade General." I remembered that my task was to be responsible for the safety of the hospital, not to interfere with the doctor's treatment plan. ”

I was worried that if they continued to stay here, Vasily's mood would be unstable, so I waved at the military representative and said: "Comrade lieutenant, there is nothing to do here, you and your men should leave first." ”

"But, Comrade General." The military representative glanced back at Vasily again and said nervously: "This wounded man has a gun in his hand, and I am afraid that he will pose a threat to your safety." ”

"You're thinking too much," Seeing that he didn't want to leave, I hurriedly explained to him: "This wounded man is my subordinate, and he knows me well, so he won't pose any threat to me, so you might as well leave with your people first." ”

Seeing that my attitude was resolute, the military representative did not insist, and after saluting me, he left the ward with a dozen of his subordinates.

When only me, Osimin, Sergey, Yushchenko and a few guards were left in the house, I cautiously took a few steps forward, stopped two or three meters from Vasily, and said to him: "Vasily, I'm Oshanina!" Can you hear me? ”

Perhaps hearing that most of the people in the room had left, Vasily's mood became much more stable. He listened sideways and asked tentatively, "Comrade Commander, is that you?" ”

"Yes, it's me." Seeing him slowly lower his pistol, I hurriedly took a few steps forward and walked to the edge of the bed and sat down next to him. While gently snatching the pistol from his hand, he said: "Comrade Vasily, why are you so impulsive. This gun is used to fight the enemy, not to threaten one's comrades or end one's own life. ”

"Comrade Commander, I don't want to do that either. But," said Vasily, his voice choked up, "but they are going to have my eyeball removed by surgery, and I will be blind." A sniper turned blind, so what's the point, why don't you let me die. (To be continued......)