Chapter 617

After arranging the work for all the members of the second lieutenant's training team, I didn't ask them to leave immediately. Instead, I turned around and called Vera to her and told her in a low voice, "Vera, you should go to lieutenant razumeyeva immediately and ask her to inform all the leaders to report to me. Remember, tell them to move fast, or I'll assign those excellent commanders to other regiments. "

Willa gave me a knowing smile, turned around and ran up the hill. Just now because of the headquarters of the reconstruction division, when I took basmanov out for inspection, razumeyeva also took a walkie talkie and transferred to a hidden Department of the guard camp. The reason why I asked Vera to send orders was that she was familiar with the road.

After Vera left, I continued to speak to the formation of the second lieutenant's training team: "comrades, as we all know, the second lieutenant's training team and the junior commander's training company you have formed are the most effective units in the warhoff's front army. Now that you have been assigned to each regiment of the independent division to serve as platoon leader of the company, I believe you will turn your company into an elite division with the same fighting capacity as you are now. Do you have any confidence? "

"Yes! yes!! Yes! " The commanders and fighters in the square responded to me confidently.

I nodded with satisfaction at your reply. Then I turned around and asked kirilov in a low voice, "Comrade political commissar, would you like to say something?" Seeing that he nodded slightly, I said with a smile to the commanders and fighters of the second lieutenant's training team, "next, I'd like to introduce Comrade kirilov, the new political commissar of the independent division. Before the outbreak of the battle of Stalingrad, he was a member of the Central Committee and had a high level of political theory. You are welcome to speak to us." With that, I took the lead in clapping.

Under my leadership, all the people clapped for this unfamiliar political commissar. I know in my heart that the thunderous applause is due to politeness and kirilov's special status. After all, he worked beside the Supreme Commander himself.

Seeing kirilov take two steps forward, I quickly give way to make sure that he stands in the most eye-catching position in front of the queue. With a smile on his face, he scanned the square, raised his hand and pressed it down. The applause stopped suddenly. He waited until it was quiet before he said aloud, "Dear commanders, welcome to the independent division! The independent division is a newly formed force. Although it has a large number of soldiers, most of our soldiers have not received any military training or combat experience. Before I came to this unit, I was very worried, because I didn't know if I could help Mr. o'shanina lead this unit well. This is because the army is short of commanders, both military commanders and political workers. It is impossible to improve the combat effectiveness of this unit just by me, the division commander and a few commanders. " At this point, he once again scanned the square array with his eyes, sighed with relief, and then said happily, "but now it's OK, because you're here. As Mr. o'shanina said just now, you are all the best commanders in the Red Army. As long as you serve as commanders in the company, we can certainly turn our independent division into an elite division with strong combat effectiveness. " As soon as his voice fell, thunderous applause broke out in the square array.

After the applause subsided, kirilov said, "next, I'd like to introduce some political workers I brought from the Political Department of the group army, because many of you will work with them in the coming days." With that, he turned and called the twelve political workers to his side.

After twelve political workers lined up behind him, kirilov began to introduce the commanders of the second lieutenant's training team. Every time he said a person's name, the political worker stepped forward, raised his hand to salute everyone, simply said hello, and then retired to the ranks of political workers.

Before kirilov had finished introducing all the political workers, shejerikov and Pugachev, who had been informed by razumeyeva, had already run down the hillside breathlessly. When they came to me, they would salute me even before they could breathe. I raised my hand to stop them, and then told them in a low voice: "you stand by first, I have something to say to you later."

They nodded neatly and stood obediently behind me.

Seeing that kirilov had introduced all the political workers, I turned to shijerikov and Pugachev and said, "come with me." Then I went to kirilov.

After shejerikov and Pugachev also came, I announced to the commanders and political workers of the second lieutenant's training team in a loud voice: "comrades, I'd like to introduce to you the tall lieutenant commander next to me, comrade shejerikov, the head of the first regiment. Please send out the commanders and political workers assigned to a regiment! "

With my command, the commanders and fighters in the first row of the second lieutenant's training team collectively took a step forward, and the political workers behind me, including starilov, kruglov and kongan, also took a step forward. Seeing that the commanders and political workers assigned to a regiment were all complete, I said to Xie jerikov, "OK, comrade commander, take all your subordinates back." Speaking of this, I suddenly saw the political instructor oberstein standing beside akhromeyev. He quickly pointed with his hand and added, "and Comrade oberstein, the political instructor, will take up the post of political commissar in your regiment for the time being."

After listening to my introduction, xiejerikov was slightly surprised, but he soon regained his composure, went to oberstein, took the initiative to extend his hand to the other party, and said in a friendly way: "Hello, political commissar oberstein, welcome to the party."

Oberstein also held his hand in a friendly way and said politely, "Hello, Lieutenant sergeant chejerikov. We will be partners in the future. I hope we can cooperate happily!"

"Happy cooperation," said shijerikov, shrugging his shoulders and in a relaxed tone. "Of course, we can cooperate happily in the days to come."

When shejerikov left with his 34 newly assigned commanders, I shook hands with each one and wished them good luck.

After one group is allocated, I will continue to allocate two groups. As we all have the experience just now, after hearing the introduction of Captain Wan Pugachev's acting as the head of the second regiment, without my command, the 30 commanders under his command and three political workers, Xiao Ming, zuyev and safchenko, came forward one after another.

Seeing this scene, kirilov and I met with a smile, and then I said, "since the commanders all know what they should do, then you can go back to the position with commander Pugachev."

As soon as the commander assigned to regiment one and regiment two left, a jeep sped in from the direction of the residential area. I know that at this time, not Gaidar, or Oleg and verol, so I didn't care. The car didn't stop until it was only five or six meters away from me. As soon as the door was opened, Gaidar jumped out of the car and ran to me in a loud voice: "report to Mr. commander, commander of the fourth regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Gaidar, report to you and wait for your order."

Kirilov has just said hello to Gaidar, and everyone knows him. At the moment, seeing his bluster, I couldn't help but frown and criticize Gaidar sternly: "Comrade commander, please remember your identity. What's the order now?"

Gaidar, who was criticized by kirilov, quickly stopped, stood in the same place and laughed sheepishly, then timidly introduced: "sorry, comrade political commissar. Because when the division commander asked lieutenant razumeyeva to inform us just now, he specially emphasized that we should speed up, otherwise we would assign those excellent commanders to other regiments. "

"You're just afraid that you'll be late. All the commanders who should have been assigned to you are going away by other regiments. Is that right, comrade commander?" Although kirilov's tone was still very severe, the corners of his mouth were slightly up after he finished his speech.

"No, that's it, my dear political commissar." Gaidar replied sheepishly, and his words immediately aroused a friendly laughter from the commanders and fighters in the queue.

At this time, Oleg and veroll, who had just got off the jeep, came up to us. They stood at attention and saluted. Then they said respectfully, "report to Mr. commander, political commissar, leader of the fifth regiment, Oleg and political commissar veroll, who are on your orders to come and wait for your orders!"

As for their performance, kirilov nodded with satisfaction and asked with a smile: "chief Oleg, political commissar verol, why don't you come here like Gaidar? Aren't you afraid that it's too late. All the excellent commanders have been selected by the first regiment and the second regiment?"

Oleg did not speak, but turned to look at the next verol, motioned for her to answer kirilov commissar's words. At his instigation, verol stepped forward and replied loudly: "report to the political commissar, we believe that the division leaders will make overall arrangements in this respect. All we have to do is to obey. Therefore, whether we come early or late, we accept the commanders already arranged by the division leaders."

"In the end, political workers have a high level of speech." After praising verol, kirilov said to Gaidar: "see? Comrade commander, political commissar veroll can understand the intention of the superior. If you have a chance, you should learn more from her. Do you understand? "

"I understand, comrade political commissar." Gaidar replied reluctantly.

"I see you just say it, but you still don't understand it in your heart." Kirilov pointed out the real thoughts in his heart.

Hearing kirilov say so, Gaidar laughed with embarrassment.

Kirilov ignored him, but instead of me, he issued an order directly to the second lieutenant's training team: "the officers and men assigned to the fifth regiment, please come to me."

With his orders, the commanders who originally stood in the last row, crossed the colleagues in the first two rows and came to us in a neat line. Then kirilov turned to the line of political workers behind him and yelled, "rogulev, gurkin, come here, you two."

After all the members of the fifth regiment were equally distributed, kirilov pointed to Oleg and verol and said, "comrades, I'd like to introduce you. This is the leader and political commissar of the fifth regiment you are going to report on."

At the end of his speech, the 32 commanders raised their hands to salute Oleg and verol, and at the same time called out: "Hello, chief and commissar!"

Oleg and verol saluted and said to the commanders happily, "Hello, commanders, welcome to the fifth regiment! From today on, we will fight side by side and bury the potential criminals under Stalingrad. "

"Willing to serve the Soviet motherland!" The commanders replied neatly.

Looking at Oleg and verol, with 32 commanders assigned to them, walking in a neat step towards the direction of the settlement, Gaidar, who was standing nearby, was a little worried. He came up to me and asked in a low voice anxiously, "Comrade division, what about the commanders assigned to our regiment?"

I knew from kirilov's performance that he was going to tease Gaidar, so I raised my chin in kirilov's direction and said in an official voice, "well, ask the political commissar. I'm going to give these commanders the job of assigning them. "

When Gaidar heard this, he had to walk to kirilov with a bitter face and said in a low voice, "Comrade political commissar, I was wrong just now. I admit my mistake to you. Please don't be surprised that you have a large number of them. " Seeing that kirilov's face was less serious, he asked cautiously, "I don't know which commanders are assigned to our regiment?"

Kirilov turned to look at him. He did not speak, but coughed heavily. Then he looked up at the sky, as if something beautiful had caught his attention.

I heard kirilov's cough and understood that it was his signal to me, so I lost no time to step forward and help Gaidar to say a good word: "Comrade political commissar, you see, Gaidar is aware of his mistake and will not be so reckless again. Please forgive him this time."

When I finished, kirilov pretended to be very embarrassed, as if he wanted to continue to make trouble for Gaidar. Seeing this, I added in time: "OK, comrade political commissar, give him the commander assigned to the fourth regiment as soon as possible, so that he can take the commander back to the company as soon as possible."

At this time, kirilov felt that he had taught Gaidar a lesson. Then he nodded reluctantly and said, "well, commander Gaidar, since it's my teacher who interceded with you, I'll forgive you this time." Then he stepped forward, went to the two remaining rows of the second lieutenant's training team, and said to them in a loud voice, "comrades, come and meet me. This is lieutenant colonel Gaidar, the head of the fourth regiment. From today on, you will be assigned to work in the third and fourth regiments under his command. I hope that when you get to your new posts, you will continue to carry forward the fine traditions of the past and make new contributions to the motherland. "

"Willing to serve the Soviet motherland!"

Seeing that the remaining 60 commanders of the second lieutenant training team and four political workers were divided into three regiments and four regiments, Gaidar's bitter gourd like face showed a happy expression. He saluted kirilov and me repeatedly and said incoherently: "thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, Mr. political commissar!"

When he was about to leave with these commanders, I stopped him and asked with a serious expression: "commander Gaidar, after the third commander, commander kosga, was injured, the third regiment was entrusted to you. When there is no war, there is no problem. Once a fight starts, there will inevitably be a situation of poor command, so you need to find a suitable person within the scope of the third regiment as soon as possible to take over the position of commander kosga. "

Gaidar looked at dozens of commanders standing not far away and asked in a low voice, "Comrade division, can you choose from them?"

I shook my head without thinking, directly rejected his proposal, and gave my own reasons: "although they are all experienced commanders, they just arrived here and are not familiar with our troops. They just let them command the company or battalion combat units. It's not a big problem if they directly command the regiment units, I'm afraid their different style will make the soldiers in the company confused. So before October, I will not let any of them serve as regimental commander. Do you understand? "

"I see, sir." With that, Gaidar saluted me and turned away, taking the commanders with him to the settlement with neat steps.

After the new second lieutenant training team and political workers were taken away by the leaders of the five regiments, kirilov and akhromeyev didn't stop and went directly to the division headquarters.

On the way, I asked akhromeyev, "how are you, comrade captain and general?" Although I didn't say the name of the general, akhromeyev understood that I was talking about general meletskov of the front army of Volkhov, and quickly replied, "report to Mr. division commander, he is very good. Since you were transferred to the front army of Stalingrad, he has often talked about you. "

When I heard akhromeyev say that, whether it's polite or true, I feel warm in my heart. After leaving a place for a long time, if there are still people thinking about you from time to time, it proves that being a man is not a failure.

I nodded and said as I walked, "when I have a chance in the future, I will contact the senior general and personally express my thanks to him."

"Comrade division," said ahlomeyev politely, "don't wait. You can contact him today."

Although I would like to contact meletskov, I didn't know the call code of the other station, so I just said it casually. When I heard akhromeyev say this, I asked curiously, "Comrade captain, how can I contact you? You know, my level is too low to know his radio call code. "

With a smile on his face, akhromeyev said mysteriously, "Comrade division commander, if you want to contact the senior general, I have the call code that he personally gave me. You can contact me directly."

"Where's the code? Show me quickly." It's said that captain akhromeyev carries the calling code of volhoff's front army radio station. I can't wait to urge him.

He took out a piece of folded paper from his coat pocket and handed it to me. He solemnly said, "Comrade division commander, this is the call code of the general. Please destroy it immediately after you read it, so as not to fall into the hands of the enemy and cause incalculable consequences."

I grabbed the piece of paper in his hand and did not open it at all, so I asked Vera to take me to the hiding place where razumeyeva was.

As soon as I got into the shelter, I blew out all the guards in the room except razumeyeva. Then I handed the paper to her and said in a hurry, "Comrade lieutenant, get in touch with this radio station immediately. Move fast, move fast, understand?"

Razumeyeva didn't know why I was in such a hurry, but she took the paper, opened it, looked at it, and started calling the radio station far away in Leningrad with the code.

After about five or six minutes, I got in touch with the radio station of the front army. Unfortunately, although the effective communication distance of this kind of telephone is more than 1000 kilometers, the distance between me and meletskov obviously exceeds the limited distance. I can only send a telegram to meletskov through the telephone to report that the training team of the second lieutenant has arrived safely and express my thanks to him at the same time.

When I left, I picked up the paper placed in front of razumeyeva, lit the paper by the candle on the table, and watched the whole paper almost turn to ashes before I turned and left here disappointed.

Kirilov and akhromeyev were both standing not far from the concealment department. When they saw me coming out of the room, the captain immediately asked with concern, "Comrade division commander, have you contacted Comrade General?"

I nodded and said dejectedly, "I've got in touch. Unfortunately, the distance is too far. It's beyond the effective communication distance. I can't talk to the general. I just sent him a telegram to report the news that you have arrived safely. At the same time, I thank him for his selfless support."

At this point, I turned around and asked kirilov, who was standing beside the captain, "Comrade political commissar, has our new headquarters been completed?"

Kirilov shook his head and replied, "I just asked Lieutenant Mikhail. He said it would take an hour at the earliest. We'll either stand here and wait, or we'll take this opportunity to walk around. I don't know what you think, Colonel o'shanina? "

I thought about it, and then I said, "well, it's getting dark. Let's stay here. If someone comes to us for something and can't find it, it's a problem. "

The three of us followed the trench newly dug by the second regiment and came to a place where there was no one around. We stopped and sat down to chat. Captain akhromeyev first asked, "division commander, political commissar, when we were crossing the river by boat, we heard that general Zhukov had organized three army groups. Since yesterday, he has been carrying out counter attacks against the German army in the northwest of the city. I don't know what the situation is now?"

Kirilov obviously did not understand the situation of the counterattack. When he heard akhromeyev's question, he said helplessly: "Dear chief of staff, we are only a division level unit. Military secrets like this are not known by people of our level."

Seeing that akhromeyev turned his eyes on me again, I waved my hand and pretended to say deeply: "Captain akhromeyev, although I have not received any information about this counterattack, according to my judgment, this hasty counterattack will not work."

Kirilov and akhromeyev were surprised by what I said. Kirilov asked in surprise, "Comrade oshanina, why do you say that? You know, we have three whole army groups, and the only positive side of the counterattack is the Sixth Army Group of the German army Paulus. Even if we can't eliminate them, it's not a big problem to drive them away from the existing occupied positions? "

"Comrade political commissar, your idea is good. However, the actual situation is that the counterattack was launched too hastily. Our military preparation was not enough, there were not enough artillery and tanks, and even the air supremacy in the battlefield was firmly held by the Germans. You can imagine that under the three-dimensional defense of the German army with planes on board and tanks and artillery under it, the attack launched by our army will not pose any threat to the German army except for increasing unnecessary casualties. "

"Comrade o'xanina, is your analysis too pessimistic?" Kirilov, though vaguely aware of the incident, strongly refuted me: "if the attack of the three army groups under the command of general Zhukov has no effect, then why does the enemy not attack our mamayev post, and why even the enemy planes attacking the dock almost disappear?"

"The enemy did not attack the mamayev post because most of their troops were transferred to the northwest to fight. As for the decrease of enemy planes attacking the dock, it may be related to the result that our anti-aircraft machine gun company has killed six of their enemy planes. The Germans are not stupid. They will never disperse their forces at such a time. Let's break them down one by one. "“ But... "When kirilov listened to me and wanted to refute me, a cry came from a distance:" where are you, teachers and political commissars? Comrade teachers, comrade political commissars,.... "when I heard the sudden cry, I couldn't help but feel nervous and said in secret: is there anything wrong? Before I could make a response, Captain akhromeyev stood up and yelled in the direction of the voice: "Hello, the division commander and political commissar are here. Let's talk about anything." I don't know much about it. There are five or six people walking along the trench. At the front is a political worker assigned to the second regiment. I remember his name is safchenko. He used to be in charge of the work of the regiment. He was followed by four soldiers. The hands of a soldier who did not wear a military cap and was not well-dressed were twisted behind him by two fully armed soldiers and escorted to our side. When I saw this scene, I was suddenly not famous. How did safchenko do it? On the first day when he arrived at the company, he found out about the big clean-up. Maybe the soldier just complained a few words, but he sent someone to arrest him and detain him as a prisoner.