I don't remember how long I sat on the ground before being pulled up by a man. Mechanically followed the other party out of the subway station and was stuffed into a black car. Only then did I find out that it was Colonel Bezikov who pulled me onto the train, and I stupidly asked him, who was sitting next to me, what happened to the passengers on the platform, and if there were any survivors? He said impatiently, they were all beaten to minced meat, how could anyone still survive?

I seemed to be crying and asking him, "Why is this happening?" What are you doing? Dozens of people, dozens of people! There are also old people, women and children inside, who have been shot indiscriminately and their flesh and blood are blurred, what is this for? ”

Bezkov said unhappily: "It was the damned driver who was in trouble, who insulted Comrade Stalin in his words, which already angered the fighters." It just so happened that at that time, a dazzling white light appeared again, and almost all of them were white in front of them in an instant, and instinctively pulled the trigger. ……”

That's when I heard an alarm. The sirens were faint and distant at first, and then soon louder and louder, overpowering the voice of Bezkov's voice. He angrily shouted at the driver in the front seat, "What's going on? Wasn't the air raid siren lifted? Why is it ringing again? ”

The driver glanced out the window, then continued to stare intently at the car ahead of him, and replied indignantly: "Comrade Colonel, the Germans have learned to be particularly cunning now, they have divided the air raid group into two groups and taken off in batches. It was only after the first group of planes had left for some time that a second wave of bombers arrived and indiscriminately bombed people coming out of bomb shelters, resulting in heavy civilian casualties. ”

As I spoke, I caught a glimpse of the bronze statue of Pushkin passing through the car window, and I knew that the road was not far from the Kremlin, and that it would be a few minutes further to reach a safe place. However, German bombs were already whizzing down, and one exploded nearby, and there was a rumbling sound of houses collapsing. Before I could turn around to look at the bombed-out building, another bomb exploded on the side of the road in front of me, shaking our bodies. Bezikov was in a hurry, desperately urging the driver: "Hurry up, hurry, drive the car faster!" ……”

Before we could finish speaking, another bomb fell from the sky next to our car and exploded, and the huge impact overturned the car we were riding. In the process of the car rolling, Bezikov next to me slammed into my body, causing my eyes to turn black, and then my head hit the roof of the car so hard that I lost consciousness completely before the car completed its first turn. ……

When I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was a blinding white light. For a moment, I had the illusion that I was back on the corpse-strewn platform. I blinked desperately, trying to adjust to everything around me. As my vision returned, I realized that it was a snow-white ward. I looked left and right, there was a bedside table on the right, there was a row of yellow radiators under the window, and there was only one bed in the room, which seemed to be a single room.

I looked at my body and couldn't help but smile bitterly, the clothes on my body had been removed, and the left half of my body and chest were covered with bandages. I wanted to sit up and see what it was, but as soon as I moved, a sharp pain came from the left half of my body, and I couldn't help but hum out in pain.

My scalp was a little itchy, and the only thing I could move was my right hand, so I raised my hand to scratch it, but I felt the bandage wrapped around my forehead. I secretly sighed that my life was not good, and since I came to this world, I can't remember how many times I have been injured and how many times I have been in the hospital.

The door opened, and a nurse in a white coat walked in, and when she saw that I had woken up, she closed the door, and hurriedly ran to my side and squatted down, and asked happily, "How do you feel when you wake up?" ”

"I'm fine!" I wondered where I was and what was going on with Colonel Bezikov, so I asked, "How is Colonel Bezikov?" ”

"Don't worry, Comrade Colonel, he's fine!" The nurse comforted me and said, "When the ambulance team rescued you from the car, the driver died, and you were slightly injured. As for the Colonel, he injured one of his legs and was able to walk with the help of a cane. ”

"What is this place?"

"This is the 37th Military Hospital, and when you were admitted to the hospital, we were instructed by our superiors to provide you with the best ward and the best treatment, so we arranged for you to come to this special ward. ……”

I was talking to the nurse when there was a knock on the door, and the nurse got up and opened the door. Then I heard the nurse's voice: "Hello! Comrade Colonel! ”

"Has Lieutenant Colonel Oshanina woken up?" The voice of the questioner was familiar, and as soon as I heard it, I knew that it was Bezkov.

I hurriedly pulled up the sheet covering my body to cover my naked body, and then said to the outside: "Is Colonel Bezikov at the door?" Please come in and sit, don't stand at the door. ”

The nurse leaned sideways to get out of the way, and Bezzikov leaned on his crutches and limped in. He shouted at me, "Thank goodness you're finally awake!" ”

I stretched my right hand out from under the sheet, waved it at him, and said, "Comrade Colonel, my ear is not hurt, you don't need to speak so loudly. ”

The nurse went to the other side of the bed and whispered to me: "Comrade Colonel's ears were deafened by the sound of the explosion, and if he spoke too quietly, he could not hear it." ”

Since the nurse said so, I could only raise my voice to speak to him, and at the same time motioned for the nurse to go out and close the door, and I did not want the conversation between me and the colonel to be known to passers-by. I asked Bezkov, who was sitting on the chair next to the bed: "Comrade Colonel, how is the situation?" ”

I wanted to ask if the air raid outside was over, but he misunderstood me, slapped his thigh hard, and said, "It's terrible." I didn't expect the Germans to launch two air strikes in a row today, and according to the original schedule, at this time, you should have received Comrade Stalin in the Kremlin. I didn't expect you to be injured again and unconscious, and this interview has been temporarily canceled. ”

"What?" This news took me by surprise, and it was inconceivable that Stalin was going to receive me. I pointed my finger to my nose and asked in disbelief: "Comrade Stalin wants to see me?" ”

"Yes." Bezikov said in an affirmative tone: "Let you go back to Moscow, it is the order of Comrade Stalin." ”

Hearing him say this, I suddenly felt flattered, and secretly wondered if I was going to be added to the knighthood at this time, and I would be awarded two medals first, and then I would be given a general, which would be worthwhile.

I was dreaming about it, but what Bezkov said next made me feel like I had fallen into an ice cellar. "I have bad news for you," he said unhurriedly, "and our convoy was spotted by enemy planes shortly after it came out of the subway station." Perhaps the enemy had mistaken it as a new reinforcement, so the enemy planes attacked the convoy in turn, and all but a few wounded fighters narrowly escaped, and the rest were killed. ”

I asked incredulously, "Is it a convoy carrying passengers on subway trains?" ”

"Yes!" Bezikov said lightly: "Not only their convoy, but even the convoy of our guard regiment escorting those mechanics and workers was also bombed, and almost all of them were killed in the air raid. ”

I was stunned for a long time, and suddenly remembered that he used the word "almost", so I asked with luck: "What about Senior Engineer Floning?" There is also a ...... It's called Serekin, it seems that it's an engineer with that name? Were they all killed? After saying that, he stared intently at Bezikov to see how he would react.

Seeing that I shook my head as I expected, I secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and the big stone in my heart fell to the ground. He then said: "Although the car they were in did not go with the convoy, it was also bombed. ”

My heart suddenly rose to my throat, my breathing became involuntarily rapid, my right hand unconsciously clenched the sheets, and after a long time, I asked weakly, "Are they all right?" ”

"Engineer Serekin's head was cut in half by shrapnel and he died instantly. Senior Engineer Floning's life was so great that he was stunned by the air wave of the explosion, his head was negative, and his hands and feet were also fractured to varying degrees. After resuscitation, the doctor said that he was not in danger of life and was still in a coma for the time being. We've placed him in the next room, so you can visit him if you have time. ”