Chapter 1617

On the night of that day, a decisive armed uprising led by the Bulgarian workers' party broke out in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, and in some major cities where our army had not yet arrived.

For the sake of this uprising, the Bulgarian workers' party set up a special military Bureau, the director of which was in the charge of todov zhimikov, a famous activist of the workers' party. An hour before the outbreak of the uprising, Ivan bonev, a member of the military Bureau, came to the headquarters of the front army and brought a radio station to get in touch with the domestic uprising at any time.

The uprising took the lead in Sofia. As the Bulgarian workers' Party had done a lot of preparatory work in advance, the uprising went very smoothly. The rebel army took radio stations, police stations, posts and telecommunications offices and some important facilities without blood. Only when they attacked the barracks, sporadic exchanges of fire took place, causing negligible casualties. The troops in the barracks soon stopped resisting and declared their surrender to the rebels.

Because of the existence of bonev, we can know what happened in Bulgaria in time. After the success of Sofia's uprising, Sofia's radio station announced to the outside world that the Bulgarian monarchy and pro German government had been overthrown and replaced by the new government of the National Committee of the National Front led by Kimon Georgiev.

On the morning of the 9th, bonev hurried into the conference room and said to us in a loud voice, "comrades, according to the latest news, Georgiev will make an important speech on the radio."

After bolev finished, tolbusin turned his inquiring eyes to Zhukov. Seeing Zhukov nodding slightly, he immediately told the staff who stood by him to "find a radio and come here."

The staff officer agreed and ran out quickly. After a few minutes, he came into the conference room with two soldiers and a half man high radio, and put it in the place designated by tolbuhine.

Bonev turned on the radio. As soon as he tuned the band, I heard a low voice coming from the radio: "citizens of Bulgaria, I'm the new Prime Minister of the government, Georgiev. Now I'm speaking to you..."

Georgiev first announced the list of members of the new cabinet and read out a letter to the Bulgarian people. It announced that the government would send a delegation to the Soviet Union to sign an armistice agreement; At the same time, political freedom was restored at home, and those members of the former government who pursued anti people policies were arrested.

Zhukov and I were very happy to hear that, but I was frowning and Thinking: Why did I hardly understand the language of the representatives sent by the pro German government when I participated in the negotiation with Timoshenko last time, but I almost understood what Georgiev said today?

"What are you thinking, Rita?" Zhukov may find that I am very worried, so he asked casually. When he found out what I was thinking, he explained with a smile: "Bulgarian and Russian belong to the Slavic language family, and they have many similarities in language. They use 30 Cyrillic letters, only 33 special letters less than Russian letters.

Bulgarian has two dialects. The Western dialect can be divided into northwest and southwest sub dialects, and the eastern dialect can be divided into North, middle and South sub dialects. Bulgarian standard language is based on the eastern central sub dialect, which is the language used by Georgiev. As for the representatives of that day, they may use other dialects, so you can't understand them. "

After Zhukov's explanation, I realized that Bulgarian can also be divided into Putonghua and dialect. It's not surprising that the negotiators who came last time spoke dialect, which I can't understand.

As the pro German government of Bulgaria has been overthrown, and the newly established government is the pro Soviet motherland front, Stalin sent telegrams to Zhukov, Kuznetsov, torbhusin and okjabriski at the same time in the evening, informing them: "in view of the fact that the government of Bulgaria has severed relations with Germany and declared war on Germany, At the same time, it also requested the Soviet government to start the armistice negotiations. According to the instructions of the National Defense Commission, the supreme command ordered you to end the occupation of residential areas before 21:00 on September 9 and stop the military operations in Bulgaria from 22:00 on September 9. "

Soon after receiving Stalin's telegram, Antonov called Zhukov himself. "Georgi konstantinovic, I just received a call from Comrade Dimitrov. He said that the delegation of the new Bulgarian government is going to fly to the headquarters of the front army in torbhuin immediately, including Dimitar ganev, member of the Central Committee of the workers' party, His mission is to introduce the nature of the new government and the situation in Bulgaria to the Military Commission of the front army. I hope you can do a good job in reception. "

When Zhukov, tolbuhin, gertov and others were discussing how to receive a delegation from the new Bulgarian government, I saw that I couldn't get in the way, so I said hello and went to Kuznetsov's office alone.

Entering Kuznetsov's office, one sees him and his deputy, major sergo, sitting at their desks, looking down at some information with a serious expression. Hearing my footsteps, Kuznetsov looked up and said to me with a smile, "Rita, you're here. What's the matter today?"

I shook my head and said, "I have nothing to do but walk around. If it bothers you, I'll leave at once. "

"Nothing," Kuznetsov said magnanimously, "the supreme command has ordered us to stop all military operations in Bulgaria, and there is nothing important next. The major and I are studying how to deal with the captured German submarines. "

I had just sat down in the chair beside Kuznetsov's desk when I heard that he had seized the German submarine. I jumped up from my seat and scared them. Regardless of the surprised expression on their faces, I asked anxiously, "Comrade General, where is the captured submarine?"

Kuznetsov found out the reason why I was surprised and said with a smile: "of course, in the port, because the ships of the Black Sea fleet have blocked the port, our Marines have landed near the port. The German submarines had no choice but to raise the white flag and surrender to us. "

"Have our sailors captured the German submarines?" As soon as he finished, I asked anxiously.

"No," Kuznetsov said, shaking his head, "anyway, they have surrendered, and the port is blocked by our Black Sea fleet. They have no way back even if they want to escape. What's the difference between early boarding and late boarding?"

"Comrade General," I said anxiously when I heard him say this in a tone of disapproval, "please immediately order people to occupy the submarines in the harbor overnight, drive all the German sailors out of the submarines and take strict care of them."

Who knows Kuznetsov after listening to my words, a trace of displeasure appeared on his face, as if he thought I was a little nosy. Sergeant sergo, who is good at observing words and expressions, quickly added: "general oshanina, it's so late, and the comrades of the fleet are very tired after a long battle. Let them have a good rest. Let's talk about boarding the ship tomorrow."

"It will be late tomorrow." seeing that they didn't pay any attention to my words, I burst into tears. "Don't you forget the German Navy's Rainbow operation at the end of World War I?"

If I say "operation rainbow" to the commander of the army, maybe the other side will be at a loss, but for the commander of the Navy, what this code means is very clear. No matter Kuznetsov or shelgo, after listening to my words, their faces suddenly turned black.

Although I knew in my heart that it was a suspicion to talk about "operation rainbow" in front of them, in order to arouse their sufficient understanding, I still said while the iron was hot: "on June 21, 1919, the German high seas fleet detained in Scarpa Bay, while the British fleet was training at sea, The flagship cruiser Emden sends a predetermined signal to all ships - rainbow. The naval officers immediately ordered to raise the banned fleet flag, battle flag and Z signal flag, open the sea valve and watertight cabin door to prepare for self sinking‘ The battleship Frederick the great sank first, followed by the rest of the warships, and the Battlecruiser Hindenburg sank last. The British fleet rushed back from the training and tried every means to remedy it, but it could not stop such a large-scale collective sinking.

The most solemn and stirring sinking operation in the history of the Navy lasted about six hours. Of the 74 German warships detained, 52 sank to the bottom of the sea, including 10 of the 11 battleships and all five battlecruisers. The tonnage of the sunken warship is 95% of the total tonnage of the seized fleet. "

Kuznetsov couldn't sit any longer. He suddenly got up from his seat and walked restlessly back and forth in the room. Without waiting for him to give any orders, shelgo picked up the phone on the desk, dialed a number, and said, "get me the Black Sea fleet, find general oakjabinski, in a hurry!"

After about two or three minutes, the Black Sea Fleet was connected. Kuznetsov took the microphone from Serge's hand and asked in a loud voice, "where's octabriski?"

The person who answered the phone was startled by his loud voice and hesitated for a moment before answering: "Comrade commander is resting. Who are you, please?"

Kuznetsov said angrily, "this is Kuznetsov. Let him answer the phone immediately."

"All right, comrade commander in chief, please wait a moment. I'll call the commander immediately."

Knowing that it was Kuznetsov who called in person, okjabriski came as quickly as he could. He might have thought that he was looking for him at this time because of Stalin's telegram. He said in a hurry: "Comrade commander in chief, after receiving the telegram issued by the Supreme Commander himself, I have obeyed the order to stop the troops."

"Comrade okjabinski," Kuznetsov said solemnly, "I now give you an urgent order to immediately order our sailors or Marines to occupy the German submarines, drive all the German sailors down and take strict care of them."

"But Comrade commander in chief." Hearing Kuznetsov's order, okjabinski asked, "why on earth is this? You know, it's getting dark. If we deploy troops to occupy German submarines at this time, I'm worried that something will go wrong. You see, can we postpone the operation until tomorrow morning? "

"No, it will be too late tomorrow morning." Deeply afraid that his subordinates would not realize the seriousness of the problem, Kuznetsov added: "don't forget the" Rainbow operation "carried out by the German Navy after World War I!"

"Operation rainbow" is more effective than explaining the order a hundred times in the Navy. Oakjabinski immediately replied without hesitation, "Comrade commander in chief, I will immediately dispatch a battalion of the Marine Corps to carry out the submarine occupation mission."“ Good. I'll wait here for your further information. " Kuznetsov put down the phone and said to me anxiously, "Rita, I'm not thoughtful about this. I hope it's time to take action." In order not to let him blame himself too much, I deliberately turned away from the topic and asked serge, "Comrade major, I don't know how many submarines the Germans have?"“ The German Navy used to have six submarines in the Black Sea, but the u-9 submarine was sunk by a deep-water bomb dropped by our navy plane in the naval battle on August 20. " "There are five U-18, U-19, U-20, U-23 and u-24 submarines captured by our army in the port," sergo told me eloquently. U-24 is said to have been sunk by our navy's destroyer in the battle on August 25. However, when our army occupied the port, it unexpectedly found this submarine. I think it was only wounded but not sunk at that time. " Although we had taken action in time, by the time okjabriski's Marine Corps arrived at the designated position and prepared to forcibly board the captured German submarine, the submarine had begun to sink slowly. Since our Marines could not save the sinking submarine, they could only stand on the shore like the German sailors and watch five submarines sink to the bottom of the sea. Kuznetsov sighed after receiving the report from okedjabirsky, and then said to me, "Rita, although the German Navy is our enemy, for the sake of the honor and dignity of the German Navy, the sailors of the submarine force, regardless of the orders not to destroy weapons and self sinking warships, once again spread the code word" Rainbow "privately, I still admire the tragic act of letting all the submarines captured by our army sink to the bottom of the sea. "