Red Moscow

The most shocked person was Yakov. He pointed his finger at his nose and asked in an incredulous tone: "Are you here to save me?"

Sokov understood why Yakov had such a reaction. Although he was Stalin's eldest son, he had never been valued. According to relevant records, after he was captured by the German army, Stalin ordered his uncle and aunt who raised him to be shot, and his wife Yulia was also imprisoned for espionage. As a child who was not valued by his father, it was incredible that his father would order people to go deep into danger to rescue him after he became a prisoner of the German army.

"That's right." Alina was not like Sokov, a person from the future, so she naturally didn't know the true situation of Stalin's family. She only knew that the person she wanted to rescue was Stalin's eldest son, and that was enough. Seeing Yakov's reaction at this moment, although she felt strange in her heart, she still answered truthfully: "The order to rescue you was issued by your father himself, and we are just following orders."

Yakov turned his head and looked at Sokov, and asked in confusion: "You are from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but he is from the combat troops. Your combination is really strange."

Alina grinned and smiled silently, then replied: "Although Major Sokov is the military commander of the combat unit, his participation in this operation was instructed by his superiors." At this point, she couldn't help but turn her head to look at Sokov and continued, "If it weren't for his help, we might still be on our way here, let alone sneaking into the prisoner-of-war camp and rescuing you."

Romanov agreed with Alina's statement. When he was taken out of the prisoner-of-war camp, the first thing he thought of was that the enemy might take him out of the camp and shoot him, but he didn't expect that he would be sent to a German transport plane. When he boarded the plane, he thought he would be sent to a new prisoner-of-war camp, but when the plane took off, he realized that the entire plane was full of his own people and he was rescued in an unexpected situation.

"Comrade Major," Romanov couldn't help but ask Sokov curiously, "I'm very curious. You wore our military uniforms and swaggered into the German POW camp. Not only did the Germans not embarrass you, but on the contrary, they treated you with great respect and even allowed you to take a few of us away. What's going on?"

Sokov thought, do you think I want to take such a risk? There was no other way. The plane had just landed when it was discovered by the Germans. If we fought hard, we would definitely die. We could only improvise and pretend to be the German Brandenburg troops. He smiled faintly and replied, "Comrade General, when our plane landed, the guards of the prisoner-of-war camp were searching for the prisoners who escaped last night. When they saw the enemy surrounded us, I knew that we were no match for the Germans with just a few of us, so I suddenly had an idea and chose to pretend to be the German Brandenburg troops."

"Brandenburg Army?" Hearing Sokov's words, Romanov showed a confused expression on his face: "What kind of army is this?"

Sokov thought that although the concept of special forces can be traced back to 1936, few people in the Soviet army knew this term. Even if he said this term, Romanov might not understand it. After organizing the words in his mind, he said, "It is a unit that performs special combat missions, equivalent to our army's reconnaissance battalion or special forces company. Members of the Brandenburg Regiment can speak more than one foreign language and are familiar with the situation in their country. Their mission is to wear the uniforms of the enemy country, penetrate deep into the enemy's defense, and attack important political, economic, and military targets of the enemy."

After listening to Sokov's explanation, Romanov frowned and thought for a long time, and finally said: "Major Sokov, if I understand correctly, the so-called Brandenburg troops are equivalent to a well-trained and well-organized guerrilla force, am I right?"

Sokov didn't expect that Romanov actually understood the special forces in this way, but it sounded reasonable, so he nodded and said, "That's about it."

Following Sokov's instructions, the plane first flew westward, and after flying for a while, it turned around and flew eastward.

Fortunately, we did not encounter any enemy planes along the way. After flying for nearly two hours, the plane was about to enter the Soviet defense zone.

But at this moment, something strange happened. Suddenly, a lot of anti-aircraft artillery fire emerged from inside and fired at the planes flying in the air.

Anti-aircraft shells exploded around the plane, creating clouds of black smoke that were quickly blown away by the wind. Although the flying shrapnel did not hit the plane, the shock wave from the explosion still caused the plane to bump up and down.

Sokov, who was sitting in the cockpit, frowned and asked Yegor: "Yegor, can we get out of this area as soon as possible?"

"Comrade Major, this is hard to say." Yegor shouted to Sokov, "I don't know how big the area covered by this anti-aircraft fire is. I can only fly forward according to the original route. I hope God blesses us and lets us get out of this damn airspace safely."

Sokov looked at the black smoke that was constantly being blown away by the wind and couldn't help but mutter to himself: "What the hell, where did our army get so much anti-aircraft artillery?"

"Comrade Major, this is not our anti-aircraft fire." Unexpectedly, Yegor heard Sokov's muttering and immediately shouted to him, "This is the German 37mm anti-aircraft gun, which has a very fast firing rate and can be said to be the nemesis of transport aircraft. Whether we can safely leave this area depends on our luck."

"Comrade Major," Alina rushed into the cockpit and asked nervously, "What happened?"

"We have entered the German anti-aircraft artillery area." Sokov said to Alina, "You should go back and sit down quickly to avoid getting injured due to the turbulence of the aircraft."

After Alina left, Sokov began to pray secretly in his heart, hoping that the plane could leave this area full of death as soon as possible.

A few minutes later, the black smoke around the plane was decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Seeing this, Sokov couldn't help but feel secretly happy, because it meant that the plane was about to leave the German air defense zone.

Sokov breathed a sigh of relief, and then said to Yegor: "Thank God, we finally left that dangerous area."

"Yes, we finally left." Yegor also said in a relaxed tone: "The German 37mm anti-aircraft gun has a fast rate of fire. Not to mention this slow-flying transport plane, even fast fighter jets are in danger of being shot down when encountering such an anti-aircraft fire network. It is God's blessing that we can leave safely." Although the phrase "God bless" is taboo in today's era, many people still like to say it in private.

Alina came to the cockpit again and asked tentatively: "Comrade Major, have we escaped the enemy's air defense area?"

"Yes, Lieutenant Alina, we have successfully escaped the enemy's air defense zone." Sokov glanced at the cabin behind and asked tentatively: "Is anyone injured?"

"No." Alina answered very simply: "No one was injured."

"And you," Sokov turned to Alina and said, "Your rank may be promoted after you go back this time. When I see you again in the future, I will not call you Second Lieutenant Alina, but Lieutenant Alina."

When Alina heard what Sokov said, she naturally smiled and said casually: "Comrade Major, when you go back, do you need to add a vertical bar to your collar badge?"

Sokov's collar badge now has two vertical bars, plus one, which means the rank of lieutenant colonel. He shook his head slightly and said, "Lieutenant Alina, I was promoted to a higher rank not long ago. How can I be promoted again in such a short time? I think I can get a medal at best."

While several people were chatting and laughing, the fuselage suddenly shook again.

Sokov's smile froze on his face. He asked Yegor loudly, "Yegor, what happened?"

"Anti-aircraft fire. Damn it! Anti-aircraft fire again!"

Hearing Yegor's shout, Sokov realized that something was wrong and quickly told Alina: "Lieutenant Alina, go back to the cabin and sit down. Remember, you must protect Yakov and don't let him have any accidents, otherwise it means that our operation has failed."

"Don't worry, Comrade Major." Alina said solemnly, "Even if I sacrifice my life, I will never let Yakov get into trouble."

A black cloud of smoke appeared outside the window and was soon blown away by the wind. The fuselage also shook violently. Sokov could clearly feel that the shaking of the fuselage was more intense than last time. He asked Yegor, "Yegor, the air defense force should not be using 37mm anti-aircraft guns this time, right?"

"Of course not." Yegor, who was flying the plane, shouted, "This is a damn 88mm anti-aircraft gun."

Hearing that the plane was being hit by 88mm anti-aircraft guns, Sokov's mouth twitched. You know, the German 88mm anti-aircraft guns, in addition to air defense, can also be used to attack tanks when laid flat, which is a very good weapon. If the plane is hit by an 88mm anti-aircraft gun, the result will be the destruction of the plane and the death of the people.

Sokov kept silent, so as not to affect Yegor's normal driving and bring disaster to the entire plane. He looked nervously at the black smoke outside the window. For the first time, he felt so close to death, and he could only sit and wait for death, and his heart was filled with fear.

Although Yegor was a highly skilled pilot, it did not seem to be an easy task to escape safely by flying a slow-flying transport plane through the enemy's anti-aircraft fire.

Two minutes later, the fuselage was hit and a large hole was blown out on one side of the fuselage. A prisoner sitting next to the hole died on the spot, and another was seriously injured.

When Sokov heard the news, he could no longer sit still. He immediately followed Alina, who came to report the news, to the rear cabin to check.

After seeing the dead and wounded prisoners of war clearly, Sokov couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the wounded and dead were not Yakov and Romanlov, but the two prisoners that Alina had rescued from the POW camp on a whim. Yakov and Romanlov were sitting safely in another corner.

Before the plane escaped the anti-aircraft gun firing area, the right wing was unfortunately hit by shrapnel and the fuselage began to shake violently.

Sokov saw the plane shaking from side to side, looked outside, and saw that the right wing was seriously damaged. He hurried to the cockpit and said to Yegor: "Yegor, it's bad, the right wing was hit by artillery fire and is burning. You have to find a way to land quickly, otherwise we are in danger of crashing."

"Comrade Major, please sit down quickly." Yegor said loudly to Sokov, "I am going to prepare for an emergency landing."

Just like that, the transport plane, dragging black smoke, flew diagonally downwards, approaching the ground rapidly.

Fortunately, Yegor had good skills and successfully landed the plane on the ground. Then, under the huge inertia, the entire plane slid forward rapidly. After sliding for several hundred meters, it finally stopped.

As soon as the plane came to a stop, Yegor rushed to the cabin door, quickly opened it, lowered the gangway, and shouted to everyone, "Get off the plane quickly, the plane is about to explode."

Hearing Yegor's shout, Alina and others did not dare to delay and hurriedly helped Yakov and Romanov get off the plane.

When Romanov got off the plane, he turned his head to look at the two prisoners still lying in the cabin and asked hesitantly, "What about them?"

"Comrade General, they are already dead." Seeing that Romanov was still hesitating, Alina hurriedly dragged him off the plane and shouted, "The plane is about to explode. We must get off the plane as soon as possible."

The last person to leave the plane was Sokov, who walked over to the two prisoners and examined them carefully. One of the prisoners had already died when a hole was blown into the fuselage, and the other prisoner was also wounded in many places and bleeding profusely. Now, due to excessive blood loss, he was already dying and could not be saved.

After confirming that the surviving prisoners could not be saved, Sokov did not waste any more time and quickly got off the plane. He shouted to the people still standing by the plane: "What are you still doing here? Hurry up and leave. If the plane explodes, none of us can escape."

After hearing what Sokov said, everyone supported Yakov and Romanov and ran quickly to a safe place.