Chapter 406

After turchinov and I walked out of the headquarters, he looked up at the sky, then turned to me and said, "Comrade major, follow me!" With that, he went to the forest opposite the road.

As there was a precedent that someone from the secret service took me to the forest to be shot a few days ago, I had a strong resistance to going into the forest with the people from the interior department. I stopped at the edge of the forest and asked turchinov warily, "Comrade lieutenant, what are you taking me to the forest for?"

Turchinov looked at me blankly and asked, "Comrade major, are you going back to the headquarters of the front army in the village of little Visera? We're going to the parking lot. "

When I heard that I was going to the parking lot, I felt a little more confident. I laughed at myself for being a soldier of all kinds. Meletskov specially ordered him to escort me back to the headquarters of the front army. Even if he had the courage, he would not dare to embarrass me any more.

After walking for a while, I saw seven or eight vehicles covered with camouflage nets in front of me, which is probably the parking lot that turchinov said. There were several sentries with guns walking back and forth in the parking lot. Seeing us passing by, a sentry immediately came to meet us and asked, "Comrade commander, do you have any instructions?"

Turchinov snorted and replied arrogantly, "I'm turchinov, chief of the secret service section of the front army. I have an urgent task to rush back to the headquarters of the front army and come here to find a car."

After listening to his identification, the sentry immediately yelled at the parking lot: "Comrade lieutenant, please come here. There is a commander of the interior department who wants to use the car." As he yelled, a second lieutenant got out of a truck on the edge of the parking lot and trotted all the way to us. He raised his hand to salute me and turchinov and reported, "Comrade commander, I'm the second lieutenant on duty. Do you want to use the car?"

Turchinov nodded and said, "yes, we need to go back to the front command immediately. Can you help us find a ride?"

The second lieutenant shrugged his shoulders, shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, comrade lieutenant. At this time, I can't find a free ride to the headquarters of the front army."

"Can't you find one?" turchinov asked

"None, comrade lieutenant." However, when the second lieutenant saw tulchinov's disappointed look, he added: "but if you can drive, you can drive one directly back to the headquarters from here."

Turchinov asked incredulously, "Oh, comrade lieutenant, do you have a car available here?"

"Yes, please follow me." The second lieutenant took us to a corner of the parking lot, pointed to a small jeep with two doors and said, "Comrade lieutenant, this is the car. It's just full of gas. If you can drive, you can go straight back to the headquarters. "

Turchinov was not polite either. He opened the door and sat down in the driver's seat. He looked out and said to the second lieutenant, "I said, comrade second lieutenant, how can I drive without a car key?" The second lieutenant hurriedly took out a bunch of keys from his pocket, selected them for a while, took down one and handed it to turchinov.

When I started the car in tulchinov, I went around the back of the car to the other side, opened the door, got on the car and sat next to him. After the car started, turchinov said thanks to the second lieutenant. As soon as he stepped on the gas, the door started along the simple dirt road in the forest.

Sitting side by side with a man who almost killed himself, starting a journey of several hours, no one would be happy. After the car started, I turned my head aside and focused on the scenery outside the window.

After driving for more than an hour, turchinov may feel that the atmosphere in the car is too embarrassing, so he began to talk to me on his own initiative: "I said, major oshanina."

Although I didn't want to talk to him, since others had already spoken, I couldn't ignore him, so I turned my head and asked with a smile, "Comrade lieutenant, what's the matter?"

As he tried to drive smoothly, he said apologetically, "I'm sorry about last time. As you know, everything I do is within my authority. "

Listening to him say that, although I still have some feelings against him, my impression of him is much better. I pretended to be magnanimous and said, "Comrade lieutenant, I understand what you said. Now that the matter is over, please don't take it to heart

After a few simple words, the hatred between us was resolved, at least on the surface. Turchinov and I also started a chat with each other. Our topic has been around the battle today. From what he said, he knows nothing less than the busy staff in the command department. It seems that the interior department's eyes are everywhere. I should be more careful in the future, so as not to know how to die.

Then, I don't know how to talk about the 140th brigade commander. When he mentioned the brigadier who was shot by him, he still had an expression of indignation: "at that time, when I received the order and went through all kinds of hardships to find the 140th infantry brigade, the troops were marching on the muddy road. However, the brigadier was sitting in his jeep, waiting for the soldiers to pave the road for him because he was afraid of soiling his newly polished boots, I didn't think that such delay would delay the fight. So I went over and pulled him out of the car, announced the order of the front command, and shot him in the head. "

After listening to him finish the process of executing the brigade commander, I also feel that the brigade commander should be damned. Just because he was afraid of soiling his boots, he dared to ignore the command and delay entering the designated position.

When the conversation between us became casual, he couldn't help asking curiously, "Comrade major, is it an urgent task for you to rush back to the headquarters of the front army?"

As for his question, I hesitated for a moment, thinking that if I told him that I was going to be transferred to the new Stalingrad front army, would it be a leak? But after a short time, I still intend to tell him the truth. After all, he is from the interior department. Even if I don't tell him, he will soon know“ Just now the Supreme Command called general meletzkov and transferred me to work in the front army of Stalingrad. "

"Stalingrad?" Turchinov exclaimed in surprise: "will the city named after the Supreme Commander also be besieged by the Germans?"

I have to admit that turchinov, an officer of the Ministry of interior, had a very keen judgment. Just hearing that I was going to be transferred to Stalingrad, he guessed the possible danger to the city. Although I knew that the battle of Stalingrad was imminent, I couldn't tell him what was going to happen, otherwise I would become a god stick. So I just answered vaguely, "from the current situation, we can't rule out the possibility of German attacking Stalingrad."

Unconsciously, the village of little Visera appeared in front of us. Turchinov gently touched me with his arm and reminded me, "Comrade major, you see, the headquarters of the front army is here. There's a jeep parked at the checkpoint at the entrance of the village. Isn't it coming to pick you up? "

I looked at the entrance of the village, but no, as he said, next to the checkpoint, there was a two door jeep, a captain in a helmet, smoking with his back against the body. Seeing that our car was heading towards the village, he threw his cigarette butt on the ground, stepped on his feet, pulled the hem of his uniform, and came to meet us.

The captain walked more than ten steps forward, stopped, raised his right hand in white gloves high, and motioned us to stop. I quickly told turchinov: "Comrade lieutenant, park the car by the side of the road. Maybe he really came to pick me up."

When the car was quite stable, I opened the door and jumped out of the car. I was just about to ask the captain if he had come to pick me up. Unexpectedly, he first asked tentatively, "is it major oshanina?"

"Yes, I'm o'shanina. Who are you

The captain came up to me, saluted at attention and said, "Hello, comrade major. My name is aratori. General Zhukov sent me to pick you up After that, he made a gesture of "please" with his side: "your car will stop at the checkpoint, please follow me, we will start immediately."

"Wait a minute, Captain alatory." I stopped the captain, who was going to lead the way, and murmured, "shall we start now? I'm going to go back and pack some things before I leave. "

The captain stopped, stood straight in front of me, and said solemnly, "Comrade major, I have been ordered to send you to general Zhukov's headquarters at seven o'clock tomorrow morning. It's six o'clock in the afternoon. We have to catch more than 700 kilometers of road in 13 hours. If we don't hurry up, we won't be able to reach our destination on time. "

I have a deep understanding of laomaozi's rigid attitude. I know that since the captain has received the order to send me to my destination before seven o'clock, he will carry it out to the letter. It's more than 700 kilometers away, and the road condition is bad. If I delay in the village for a while, the captain will regard the Jeep as a formula car in order to be in a hurry. When I arrive at my destination after more than ten hours of bumping on the road, it will be smashed.

I turned to turchinov, who was still in the jeep, and said, "Comrade lieutenant, please go back and tell the commander that I'm going out with the man who picked me up. Thank you for driving me back. "

Captain alatoli's car really has the style of formula one. After driving for less than two hours, I never got carsick. I got carsick. When I was tumbling in the window, he just gave me a casual look and continued to drive the jeep on the bumpy dirt road.

Zhukov's headquarters is located in the city of Ryazan, southwest of Moscow. When the jeep stopped in front of a three story marble building, Captain alatoli turned and told me, "Comrade major, general Zhukov's headquarters are here."

I said in my heart that it had finally arrived. If it didn't arrive again, I would be broken up. When I pushed the door open, I felt my feet softened as soon as I touched the ground. I was afraid that it would be embarrassing to fall in public, so I squatted down beside the car and took a deep breath with my head in my arms.

When it was relieved, Captain alatory came over, pulled me up and urged me in a low voice: "Comrade major, let's go. General Zhukov is still waiting for you."

With his help, I walked into Zhukov's office building. After walking in the corridor, he took me up the second floor. There was a table by the stairs, behind which sat a famous major without a military cap. When he saw aratori helping me up, he quickly stood up and asked with concern, "is it major oshanina?"

I replied feebly, "yes, I am oshanina."

"Come in, please! Senior general has been waiting for you all night. " Then the major turned and opened the door behind him.

As soon as the door was opened, I heard Zhukov's familiar and dignified voice: "Comrade major, what can I do for you?"

The major immediately straightened up at the door and reported, "Comrade General, major o'shanina is here."

"Ask her in."

The major agreed, came out of the room, stood at the door with his body on his side, made a gesture of invitation to me, and said, "major o'shanina, please come in."

I broke away from alatory, arranged my uniform, took a deep breath, and walked into the room.

The room was not big. There was a wooden table in the middle. Zhukov, who I knew well, was sitting at the table studying maps. Hearing someone enter the door and looking up to see me, he quickly stood up and welcomed me. At the same time, he extended his hand to me and said happily, "Rita, you're here! Nice to see you again. "

Although Zhukov showed great enthusiasm, I didn't immediately shake hands with him. Instead, I raised my hand to salute him after standing at attention. According to the regulations, the report said, "report general Comrade, major oshanina is here at your command, waiting for your instructions."

Instead of paying back, Zhukov pulled my hand down from my forehead, held it tightly in his hand, and said in a low voice, "Rita, I'm relieved to see you alive." At this point, he paused for a moment, and then said, "I got the news too late, so I didn't send someone to rescue you in time, which made you aggrieved."

When I heard Zhukov's words, I could not help but feel my nose ache and tears almost burst out of my eyes.

Zhukov asked the major outside to close the door, pulled me to the table, pointed to the map on the table and said to me, "Rita, I heard that you told general meletzkov a few days ago that the target of German attack on the south line was not oil in the Caucasus, but Stalingrad. Now, facts have proved that your judgment is completely correct. The German troops are constantly rushing towards the Don river, and our troops are constantly moving to the area. I think we're going to have an unprecedented battle with the Germans here. "

As soon as he talked about the war, Zhukov became excited. He said to himself, "now we know that in the south of the Soviet German battlefield, from Orel to Sevastopol, it is the German southern army group. At present, it is divided into "a" group and "B" group. Their task is to annihilate all our troops on the West Bank of the Don river.

At present, the deployment of the two army groups is as follows: "a" army group is under the command of Marshal William Liszt. It has the first tank army, the 11th and 17th field army and the 8th Italian army.

The "B" group is under the command of Marshal von bock. It has the fourth tank group army, the second and sixth field group army, and the second Hungarian group army. In addition, the Romanian third army is coming day and night.

At present, our 62nd, 63rd and 64th army groups have set up new lines of defense along the Don river, preparing to stop the German attack here. "

He stopped, looked at me and said, "Rita, I'm going to send you to one of the army groups. I remind you that when you get to the grass-roots units, you will face great danger. If you don't want to go, I can leave you in my headquarters. "

Almost without thinking, I replied, "Comrade General, I'd like to go to the combat forces."

My answer seemed to have been expected by Zhukov. He nodded with satisfaction, and then asked, "which group army do you think of?"

The battle of Stalingrad was not only the main turning point of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union in the Second World War, but also the achievement of trakov's prestige. Since Zhukov asked me which army I would like to go to, of course, I did not hesitate to choose trakov's army, so I did not hesitate to reply, "senior general, I want to go to the 62nd army."

"62nd army?! Are you sure? " When Zhukov heard my choice, he asked me a question. Seeing that I nodded in affirmation, he continued: "major general kolpakchi, commander of the 62nd group army, is a commander with rich combat experience. If you go to him, with your ability, you should be able to stand out very soon."

How could it be major general korpakchi, not lieutenant general trakov? But I clearly remember that during the battle of Stalingrad, the 62nd army was under the command of trekov. How did it become someone else? Thinking of this, I hesitated to ask Zhukov, "Comrade General, isn't the commander of the 62nd Army General trakov?"

"Trakov, he's now deputy commander of the 64th army. In May, he was appointed deputy commander of the reserve army in Tula by the supreme command. After the army was reorganized into the 64th group army last month, it has gone to the Don river front. "

When I heard that trakov was not in the 62nd group army, but in the 64th group army as deputy commander, I was immediately dumbfounded. I finally wanted to make contributions with the future marshal, but I found the wrong place. However, since I have already said what I said, if I want to go back on my words, it is estimated that even if Zhukov promised to change the army for me, his good will for me would be greatly reduced.

Zhukov didn't notice my depressed expression and continued to introduce the situation of the 62nd Army: "according to the pre War deployment, the 62nd army should organize defense at the front lines of kretskaya, kalmekov, surovigino, peshelskaya and suvolovsky on the right bank of the Don river. The headquarters is located in carmesh village on the left bank of the Don river, about 60 kilometers away from the troops. "