Red Moscow

  Chapter 23 Not one missing

   "The health worker of the garrison platoon?!" After hearing about Asiya's identity, Ivan couldn't help but frowned, "Then why didn't you participate in the battle with the comrades in the platoon?"

Ivan's question immediately stopped Asiya. Seeing her embarrassed expression, Lin Hua hurried forward and replied on her behalf: "Comrade battalion commander, I ordered her to send the wounded to the rear." Field hospital, that's why she didn't rush to Kryukovo with us."

  After Lin Hua finished his report, Ivan glanced back and forth between the two of them, making Lin Hua feel hairy. But at this moment, a smile suddenly appeared on Ivan's face: "Misha, it can be seen that Asiya is very concerned about you. In order to find you, she is not even willing to stay in the field hospital. I ran to the city to look for you. It's fine here, go and have a good chat with her." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and gently pushed Lin Hua's shoulder.

   "Yes!" Lin Hua raised his hand to salute Ivan, then turned to Assia and said, "Assia, let's go!"

  Axia nodded with a blushing face, but she did not forget the basic etiquette. She first saluted Ivan, then took Lin Hua's arm and walked towards the Sanlian's garrison.

   Leskov walked to Ivan's side, looked at Lin Hua's back as they left, and said with emotion: "It looks like a pretty good couple."

  Ivan nodded in agreement, and replied: "Yes, they are a good match. I hope they can live until the day the war ends."

  The residents of Kryukovo were evacuated long before the German army occupied the city, and only soldiers could be seen in the city. Those patrolling soldiers saw a man and a woman walking slowly on the street arm in arm, they couldn't help but look at them curiously, and cast envious glances at Lin Hua beside Assia.

  Asiya was a little embarrassed by the soldiers on the street, she asked Lin Hua in a low voice: "Misha, where are we going next?"

   "Where else can I go, of course back to the company." Lin Hua replied casually: "The soldiers in the garrison platoon are all there. I think they must want to see you."

  Hearing what Lin Hua said, Asiya couldn't help hesitating: "Misha, I'll follow you to the company, will your company commander say anything?"

  Lin Hua was taken aback for a moment, but then he remembered that he had become a company commander, and he hadn't had time to tell Assia; while the regiment leader Xie Dulin handed him the rank of lieutenant, which was still in his pocket at the moment. Seeing that Asiya didn't even know that the company commander she was talking about was herself, Lin Hua decided to tease her. He deliberately pretended to be indifferent and said: "He dares! If he dares to speak of you, I will definitely beat him up."

"I hate it!" Hearing what Lin Hua said, Assia raised her hand and thumped his arm lightly twice before continuing, "Misha, if your company commander doesn't agree with me staying in the company, you can Be sure to speak well for me."

   "Don't worry, Asiya." Lin Hua patted his chest and assured Asiya, "I assure you, I will definitely let you stay in our company as a health worker."

  Lin Hua took Asiya to the third company's garrison. A sentry with a rifle was standing at the door, stomping his feet non-stop because of the cold weather. Seeing Lin Hua approaching, he quickly stood at attention, held his head high and raised his hands in salute. After Lin Hua returned the courtesy, he walked quickly to the door and opened the closed wooden door, but instead of going in immediately, he made a gesture of invitation to Asiya. He waited for Asiya to enter the door before he followed and closed the door behind him.

  The fighters of the third company lived in a coffee shop. The soldiers of the garrison platoon were standing or sitting near the door. When they heard someone coming in from the outside, they all instinctively turned their heads to look at the door. Lin Hua took Asiya to the front of the crowd and said loudly, "Comrades, who do you see coming?"

   "Assia!" It was Seryozha who saw Assia clearly first. He quickly threw the cigarette in his hand at the enemy, walked over quickly, and asked curiously, "Why did you come here?"

   "Hello, Seryozha." Seeing the acquaintance who appeared in front of her, Asya became a little emotional, and grabbed Seryozha's hand, "I am so happy to see you are still alive."

Then Andre, Grisa, Gelia and others all came over to say hello to Assia. While shaking hands with them, Assia said excitedly: "Comrades, it's great that you are all alive. I On the way here, I was worried that I would never see you again."

  Lin Hua said with a smile on the side: "Assia, don't worry, the comrades are all alive. Of the twelve people from Kryukovo Village, none of them is missing now."

After Asia greeted everyone, Lin Hua said to everyone: "Comrades, Asia is worried about the safety of all of us, so she came here from the field hospital on a special trip. But she didn't know our exact location, so she asked people everywhere. If I hadn't just passed by and brought her here, she might have traveled all over Kryukovo to find out where we are."

  The soldiers of the garrison platoon had been with Asiya for a while, and they already had a good impression of her. Now that Lin Hua said that Asiya was going around asking about everyone's whereabouts, their affection for her inevitably increased a bit.

  Asiya looked at the twenty or so people on the other side of the coffee shop, and asked tentatively, "Misha, is Comrade Company Commander right there?"

   Before Lin Hua could finish speaking, Seriosha had already spoken first: "Assia, are you looking for the company commander?"

   "Yes, Seryozha." Assia nodded and said, "I want to stay in this company, but I don't know if he will allow it."

Seryosha waited for Asiya to finish speaking, and immediately pouted at Lin Hua next to him, and said with a half-smile: "Aren't you looking for the company commander? Well, our Comrade Sokov is the new company commander of the third company." long."

"What, Misha is the company commander." Assia looked at Lin Hua in disbelief and said, "How is this possible? When you left Kryukovo Village in the morning, he was only the platoon leader of the garrison platoon. How could it be possible? Become a company commander so soon?"

"Assia, I have to say that Misha has been lucky since he was stunned by the bomb last week." Seryozha said a little jealously: "First stopped the Germans in Khimki town, was promoted As a sergeant, he served as the platoon leader of the garrison platoon. Before we finished fighting today, we received an order from our superiors to appoint him as the commander of the third company and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant...”

  After hearing Sergey's words, Asiya looked at Lin Hua and asked tentatively, "Misha, is what Sergey said true?"

"It's true." Lin Hua nodded, took out the lieutenant's rank from his pocket, handed it to Assia, and said a little embarrassedly: "Assia, this is the new rank given to me by the regiment commander , can you sew it on the collar for me?"

Asiya took the military rank in Lin Hua's hand, sneered, and said, "Misha, you became a company commander and you didn't tell me just now, which made me embarrassing in front of my comrades. You should sew this military rank yourself." .” After finishing speaking, he threw it at Lin Hua. While Lin Hua was bending over to pick it up, she quickly walked past him, came to the soldiers of the third company on the other side, and said to them with a smile: "Hello, comrades, I am the health worker Asiya, Does any of you need bandages?"

  (end of this chapter)