Chapter 271

My experience in Moscow can be called a legend. Just by chance, in just a few months, I was promoted from a small corporal to a major general level, and even directly commanded a main division. In the whole process of telling, I told my story in a flat tone, without any artistic processing. What I have experienced is really incredible to the uninformed outsider. The answer based on the facts will make people feel that the arrogance has been blown to the sky. If we add more oil and vinegar, it will be even more unbelievable.

Although they had long suspected that my experience in Moscow was unusual, they still exclaimed from time to time when they really listened to me. Especially when I heard that I was interviewed by Stalin, Orlova screamed excitedly like an innocent little girl.

But I didn't tell them everything. I just mentioned some things that I didn't think were of any importance. I didn't mention the strange subway trains and Florin engineers at all. After all, no one can know such secrets, even the closest ones.

In the course of my story, Orlova got up to add coke to the stove in the corner of the tent twice, and from time to time she added hot tea to our cups. Because it was a little hot in the tent, I got up and took off my coat outside, revealing my uniform inside.

When the two men saw the medal hanging on their chest, there was another cry of surprise. Kiriyanova looked away from the medal to my face and asked curiously, "Rita, can you tell us more about how you got these medals?"

Although I feel that she regards me as the king of stories, I still have to say something about the medal. So I pointed to one of the red flag medals and said to them, "this red flag medal was won by me on the eve of the October Revolution Day, and my partner, instructor krochkov, won the medal at the same time. We also led the troops to participate in the parade in red square the next day. Unfortunately, he died in the battle to defend volokoramsk soon

"Krochkov?" Kiriyanova repeated the name, frowning and trying to recall where she had heard it: "it's a familiar name. I seem to have heard of someone before."

"Comrade company commander, of course you are familiar with the name." "Do you forget that two months ago, our superiors called on us to learn from him. He said that he led 28 soldiers to tenaciously block the attack of German tank troops, and all of them died bravely in the end. His slogan at that time: although Russia is big, we have no way back, because Moscow is behind us. This is a famous saying that we all remember. "

After her reminding, kiriyanova suddenly realized: "yes, yes, there is such a thing. Comrade instructor, I can't remember what you didn't say. " Then he looked at me with envious eyes and said, "Rita, I envy you for being a partner with such a great hero."

I didn't want to keep talking to them about my own affairs, so I tried to get out of the way and asked, "kiryanova, tell me about the army."

Kirianova turned her eyes to Orlova and said, "let the instructor introduce the situation to you."

Orlova nodded and said, "let me first talk about the importance of ice transportation lines. You may have heard in Moscow that Leningrad suffered from famine because of the siege, and thousands of people were starved to death. " Said here, she stopped for a moment, pay attention to my expression changes, see I nodded thoughtfully, just continue to say.

In fact, I nodded, not as she imagined, to know that Leningrad was besieged by the German army, and thousands of citizens were starved to death. I didn't hear from others in Moscow, but learned from later history books.

"After the outbreak of the war, according to the meeting of the residents evacuation Committee. The children and old people in the city should be sent out of the city anyway. It's not only to save their lives and protect them from hunger and cold, but also to free the city from "idle people", because every piece of bread is very precious now.

Evacuate those who do not need to stay in the front-line cities, and evacuate those experts. Without them, some factories and enterprises in Leningrad, which began to move to the East soon after the outbreak of the war, would be difficult to start. At first people went out by rail, then by Lake Ladoga. But evacuation has been suspended since Lake Ladoga began to freeze and shipping stopped.

Now, after opening up the ice transportation line, the evacuation work has officially resumed. "

I took a sip of the slightly cool black tea in front of me and said, "go on."

"Four road construction regiments, three independent bridge construction camps, two workers' camps and two independent workers' companies initially guaranteed the safe transportation of the ice transportation line of Lake Ladoga. Later, in order to ensure the safety of the ice transportation line, the front army sent a infantry regiment. In addition to the concentration of strong anti-aircraft artillery on both sides of Lake Ladoga and on the island of jelenitz; At the same time, on the ice, portable rapid fire guns are mounted every three kilometers, and multi barrel anti-aircraft mechanism guns are mounted every five hundred meters. The planes of the front army and the Navy patrol around Lake Ladoga day and night

When Orlova finished, kirianova added: "as our location is the focus of German aircraft bombing, our company moved here two days ago." Time passed unconsciously in our chat, until a voice outside the tent suddenly interrupted our conversation“ May I come in? "“ It's a soldier in the cooking class. " Orlova explained to me, then said out loud, "come in." The man standing outside lifted the curtain and stooped into the tent. I saw that she was a woman soldier with a tray in one hand. She was of medium build and had black hair. Maybe it was because she often smelled oil fumes in the kitchen. She looked a little chubby. She straightened up and told us, "comrades, breakfast is ready."“ Put it on the table. " Kirianova said lightly. The woman soldier agreed, came over and was about to put down the plate when she suddenly screamed, which scared us. She cried out cheerfully, putting the plate on the table, then freeing her hands to reach out to me. For her gaffe, several of us were stunned, and we didn't know why she had such a sudden performance“ You don't know me, Rita? " The woman soldier asked excitedly. I carefully looked at the female soldier in front of me. I felt that I had never seen her before. I could only smile awkwardly and shake my head“ Comrade Liu Da, what are you doing? " Asked Orlova sternly. Instead of looking at her, Liuda grabbed my hand and shook it, saying, "Rita, you really don't remember? We're neighbors. In bocchinook, your mother and I are neighbors. " When I heard her mention the place name of pochnock, I knew that most of what she said was true. Maybe it's true that Rita and she used to be very familiar neighbors, but I, a fake, didn't know anything about it. In order to hide my panic, I pretended to be suddenly aware and said, "it's you, Liuda. You see, I can't recognize you in your uniform. " Before she could answer, I asked, "do you know what happened to my mother and children?" The real Rita once asked me to take care of her children. I just took this opportunity to inquire about his whereabouts“ Before the fall of portinock, your mother had left there ahead of time, and now she and her children are living in an apartment on the Neva River. I'll go back and look for the address later, and I'll give it to you when I find it. "