Chapter 256

On the new year's day of 1942, the Soviet army and the German army stopped all their military operations. In this way, I had a chance to have my first lunch in the new year with Vlasov, President Lin and translator zhe at the headquarters of the group army in shahovskaya.

Ellenburg, to my disgust, went to the army to interview. The staff officer and signalman in the headquarters were also turned out by Vlasov. There were only four of us in the room, enjoying a big lunch around the table.

Perhaps for the sake of the new year, this lunch prepared by Vlasov is very rich. Besides the essential dry cheese, bread, ham and fried eggs, there are beef soup, caviar, vegetable salad, duck, roast chicken, black coffee and black tea.

As we ate and talked, Vlasov brought the topic to yesterday's battle in the small village“ Comrade chief of staff, although the battle you commanded yesterday has wiped out dozens of enemies, the cost is a little higher. " Vlasov's criticism made me feel a little embarrassed. In yesterday's battle, 115 people were killed and injured due to wrong command, of which 41 were killed and 27 were seriously injured. If there were not only 47 German soldiers and no heavy weapons, maybe I would be totally destroyed.

Mr. Lin took a cup of unsweetened black tea from Shizhe's hand, sipped it gently, and said calmly, "Rita, the commander has a point. If, before launching an attack, the German army was first given manpower to suppress its firepower, and then charged, then there would not be so many casualties in the process of charging. "

"Yes Vlasov added: "at that time, the distance between you and the enemy was no more than 100 meters. Rita, if you organized dozens of sharpshooters, at such a distance, you would certainly be able to eliminate all the German soldiers at the village entrance with zero casualties."

When I heard what Vlasov said, I couldn't help beating the table. Yes, organize some sharpshooters to kill the German soldiers at the entrance of the village with rifles, and then we attack again, so that the casualties of our army can be negligible. You know, in the process of charging, I also killed two German soldiers with my rifle.

Mr. Lin put the cup on the table and said in a low voice, "Comrade Lida, I have something to criticize you. It's said that you have shot all the German soldiers who surrendered. It's a terrible thing to do so. We will give preferential treatment to those who surrender their guns. "

Mr. Lin's words immediately brought to my mind several scenes from the red movies: the Eighth Route Army commander with a rifle in his hand, shouting to the desperate Japanese pirates with a righteous face: lay down your arms, surrender your guns, we will treat the prisoners favorably. Then the Japanese pirates with the 38 big covers put down their weapons and raised their hands to surrender.

"Comrade deputy commander Lin," said Vlasov suddenly, "I think Comrade Rita has done the right thing in shooting the prisoners."

"But the enemy has laid down their weapons. We should give preferential treatment to the prisoners."

"The crimes committed by those bandits against our people should be paid with their blood. Didn't you listen to Rita? Those two legged animals will drive our sisters to the village and shoot them after they have ruined them. If it were me, I would shoot all these damned Krauts. "

"But Comrade commander, I still think we should treat the prisoners better than shoot them..." Lin and Vlasov began to argue about my shooting of the prisoners. I can only sigh in my heart that this is the cultural difference between the East and the West. Li Yunlong, however, shot and killed a few wounded Japanese soldiers who were willing to die, and was demoted from the regimental commander to the battalion commander. I've killed so many German prisoners. If I'm in the domestic base area, I will not be reduced from division commander to company commander.

Just as they were arguing under Shi Zhe's translation, Yushchenko called for a report at the door. "Is that Captain Yushchenko out there?" I yelled? Come on in

When Yushchenko opened the door and came in, the dispute between Vlasov and President Lin had been heard, and everyone's attention was focused on my company commander.

Because Yushchenko was my subordinate, I asked, "Comrade captain, what's the matter?"

"Report to the commander, deputy commander and chief of staff." On such occasions, he did not address my division commander, but my position in the headquarters of the group army, "there are commanders from Moscow outside. They want to see you."

This time it was Vlasov: "commander from Moscow, please come in."

Minutes later, an energetic commander and an old man in a dark blue coat followed Yushchenko into the headquarters.

After the commander came in, he passed Yushchenko and came to us. He stood at attention and saluted us. He said, "good new year, comrades commander. I'm Colonel bezikov of the central guard. I've been ordered to give you presents

"Gift, what gift?" While Vlasov was still talking to himself a little confused, I had already stepped forward two steps, walked up to Colonel bezikov, saluted him, and said with a smile, "Hello, Colonel bezikov. I didn't expect that we would meet again. Are you all right? "

Bezikov reached out to me and said with a smile, "Hello, Rita. Thank you for your concern. My leg has been healed a long time ago. I haven't seen you for a long time. I didn't expect that you are a general now. " As I shook hands with him and looked at the old man who came in with him, I felt a little familiar. But I couldn't remember where I had met him. So I asked curiously, "Colonel bzikov, who is this old man?" "What's the matter?" bzikov asked with a smile? After just over a month, you don't know the old man? " Then I released my hand, went forward to shake hands with Mr. Vlasov and Mr. Lin in turn, and then pointed to the old man and introduced him to us, saying, "this is a senior engineer of vronen, who invented and launched a new rifle under his guidance. After testing, the performance of this kind of rifle exceeds that of the rifles currently equipped in our army. Therefore, comrade Stalin personally ordered that all the 100 rifles produced in the first row be equipped with your 20th army. " The old man, who had been standing behind Yushchenko, came up to us when he heard bzikov talking about his name and said excitedly, "Hello, commanders! Nice to meet you After Vlasov, Lin and the old man shook hands, I went forward to shake hands with the future senior engineer of Florin. I was just about to speak, but the old man said, "Hello, Comrade General. I have heard from Colonel bezikov that you have saved my life. Here, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you. As a token of my gratitude, I give you the assault rifle I made myself. " He turned to bezikov and said, "Comrade Colonel, please give that assault rifle to my life-saving benefactor." Bezikov took the gun off his shoulder and handed it to me. As soon as I took the gun, I was stunned. You know, I not only saw the picture of the gun, but also saw the real object in the museum. It turns out that the newly invented assault rifle is the later famous AK47 assault rifle.