Chapter 259

After the new year's day, the development of the war, as Florin said, the main force of our group army, with the cooperation of the 1st assault group army and the 16th group army, surrounded three armored divisions, one motorized division and two infantry divisions of the 9th group army and the 4th armored group army in vyazima.

When the commander of the 7th Division of the guards, Col. gritznov, joined the 4000 paratroopers who had been airdropped and cut off the retreat of the besieged German army. The matter was immediately reported to commander Vlasov by telephone in an excited, incoherent, but clear voice. As soon as the captain's voice fell, all the people in the headquarters immediately blurted out and yelled "Wula!"

I was responsible for reporting this to Zhukov. When Zhukov heard the news, he was very happy and said in a low voice, "just surround, Rita. Please tell Comrade Vlasov that he will organize troops to attack the encircled enemy immediately. Don't let them have any breathing space. I will send planes to cooperate with you."

Put down the phone, I said Zhukov's original words to Vlasov, he nodded, and then directly verbally issued a new combat order. Then the telegraph and telephone in the headquarters rang one after another, and the staff officers and signalmen began to send telegrams or telephone calls to their respective responsible troops according to their division of work to convey Vlasov's orders to the commanders of their subordinate troops.

When the orders were sent to the army, the headquarters gradually calmed down. Seeing that Vlasov was in a good mood, I summoned up the courage to say to him, "Comrade commander, I have a request. I don't know if you can agree?"

Vlasov was looking down at the map. When he heard me say this, he said without looking up: "Rita, if you have any idea, just say it. As long as I can do it, I will promise."

"I plan to lead the eighth division of the guards to carry out the task of suppressing the areas that have just been recovered, and to wipe out the scattered enemies hidden in those villages or settlements."

Instead of answering me directly, Vlasov looked at President Lin and asked, "Comrade deputy commander Lin, what do you think of Comrade Lida's proposal?"

After listening to Shi Zhe's translation, President Lin nodded and said, "I think Lida's idea is good. Although there are not many enemies left in the liberated areas, if we don't thoroughly eliminate them, it will be a headache for us to let these scattered soldiers attack our logistics supply lines."

"Not bad at all." In his voice, Vlasov said with satisfaction, and then added: "these disabled generals are not reconciled to their defeat. When they are unable to win in the face of our army, they will certainly poison our unarmed collective farm workers or residents, so it is necessary to eliminate them." Then he said to me in a decisive tone, "Rita, it's up to you to clear up the enemy."

"Yes I was relieved that not only did I keep my distance from Vlasov, but also I was able to escape the fate of being completely annihilated with my own troops in the name of eliminating the remaining enemy.

After saluting Mr. frasov and Mr. Lin, I turned to leave. As soon as he got to the door, he was stopped by Vlasov. He said with a smile, "in two days, I will let Comrade ellenburg come to your division to interview you. You must receive him well."

Originally just relaxed mood, after hearing the news that the reporter who made me feel disgusted was coming to my division to interview, it became bad. But on the surface, I had to squeeze out a smile and say to Vlasov, "thank you, comrade commander. When ellenburg comes to our division for an interview, I will receive him well."

Back in the eighth division of the guards, I asked yegorov, chisgakov and sherebriakov to lead one unit each to clear up the remaining enemies in the north, South and East, while I myself took major resdayev's battalion and Yushchenko's guard company to the West.

In a short period of three days, we liberated 89 villages and 11 residential areas from the hands of the bandits, wiped out more than 400 enemy soldiers and captured nearly 200 people. Because of the early experience in eliminating the remaining enemy, the casualties of the troops were not large in destroying the enemy in these areas.

At noon on the 15th, major resdayev's troops captured the village of petrissevo. After destroying more than 100 German troops who had resisted tenaciously, they forced the remaining 84 men to lay down their arms and surrender to our army.

Half an hour after seizing the village, under the protection of Yushchenko and the guard company, I got out of the car at the entrance of the village and walked into the village. The liberated villagers stood outside the wooden houses on both sides of the road, watching our marching troops in silence.

The villagers stood numbly on the side of the road. No one welcomed our own team. As I walked, I thought, what's wrong with these villagers? Why are they so indifferent? Don't they know we're here to liberate them?

Just as I was daydreaming, suddenly a middle-aged woman with a headscarf rushed out of the road. Captain Yushchenko's quick reaction, in front of me at the same time, has pulled out the pistol, the muzzle of the gun at the woman rushed out.

The woman stepped back in a panic and asked me in a loud voice, "comrades, are you the commander of this army?"

I pushed Yushchenko out of my way, raised my hand, pressed down the pistol he was holding, and kindly said to the middle-aged woman, "yes, comrades. I'm the top commander of this unit. What can I do for you? "

Seeing that the muzzle of the gun pointing at her was removed, the woman patted herself on the chest with her hand, took a deep breath, and then answered me, "my name is Polina, the wife of villager Vassily Kulik. A month and a half ago, the Germans who occupied the village hanged a girl they had caught in the village square. " The news surprised me, so I quickly went up to her skirt and asked, "you said they hanged a girl. Do you know who she is? Where is the body now? " Polina was a little overwhelmed by my series of questions. After a while, she said, "I'm not sure. I just heard that the German said that he was an arsonist and was hanged in the square by them. The corpse was hanging on the gallows for more than a month, and we were not allowed to collect it. It was only two days ago that several German soldiers took down the gallows and dug a pit to bury the corpse. "“ Take me to have a look. " My mood was inexplicably agitated, and I repeatedly urged Polina to lead us to the body of the girl who was killed. Polina led us to the square. The captured German soldiers were squatting in the middle of the square, surrounded by the soldiers of major resdayev. Yushchenko and I followed Polina to a corner of the square. Polina stopped, pointed to a place on the ground and said to us, "Comrade commander, the body is buried here." I turned to Yushchenko and said, "Comrade captain, get someone to dig this place right away."“ Yes Yushchenko agreed, and then gave an order to the soldiers of the guard company not far behind: "come on, find tools to dig this place."