Chapter 389

Although fejiuningsky had already given the name of Zhukov, turchinov relied on the fact that he was from the Ministry of interior and no one dared to provoke them easily, so he still said: "Comrade General, I have never heard of the deputy commander of Zhukov, and you have no right to stop me from executing prisoners."

"Comrade lieutenant," feijiuningsky said sternly in reply to the interior officer who did not get oil and salt, "I repeat that I came here on the order of deputy commander General Zhukov to stop your crime. You know, after Comrade Zhukov became deputy commander in chief, the Ministry of internal affairs was also under his jurisdiction. If you refuse to carry out my orders again, I have the right to take necessary measures against you. Even if your superior knows about it, do you think that he will take the risk of offending his immediate superior to stand up for your little Lieutenant? "

In my impression, the people in the Ministry of internal affairs are all bullies. In the face of the tough feijiuningsky, turchinov was defeated at last. After a short silence, he gave orders to the soldiers who were holding me up: "what are you still waiting to do, didn't you hear general feijiuningsky's orders? Don't untie major o'shanina as soon as possible. "

The soldier behind me quickly promised to untie my hands tied behind me, then loosen the knot and take the rope off my neck. After the release, the two soldiers quickly dodged to one side.

When the rope on my body was untied, I knew that I had been saved, and again, as in the case of rubiyanka in Moscow, I escaped from death. Although I was released only after Stalin called in person last time, if Zhukov had not come forward to plead for me, the people in the interior department would not have received the call to release me and bezikov. It is estimated that I would have become a pile of bones by now. This shows how important it is to find a stable backer!

As soon as the tense nerves relaxed, I no longer had the strength to support my body. As soon as the two soldiers holding me let go, I collapsed on the ground like mud. Seeing that I fell to the ground, fejiuningsky and seven or eight soldiers trotted over and came to me. He raised his hand to stop the soldiers who wanted to help me. Instead, he bent down and reached out to help me. He asked with concern, "are you OK, Rita?"

I had a sour nose and almost burst into tears. It took me a lot of effort to control my mood. I tried to squeeze a smile on my face. I looked at fejiuningsky with wet eyes and replied in a low voice, "I'm ok, but my legs are a little soft. Comrade commander, thank you for saving my life. "

Fejiuningsky helped me to stand up slowly. As I was about to speak, fejiuningsky suddenly pointed to the side and ordered turchinov: "and the two commanders, untie the ropes on them."

"But, Comrade General." Turchinov seemed to want to retort, but when he saw the serious expression on fejiuningsky's face, he had to obediently order the soldiers over there: "Hey, I say, what are you still doing? Untie the two commanders."

I turned my head curiously to see that the commander in turchinov's mouth was actually Peter valov and Sergey. Although they were still standing on the edge of the ditch by soldiers, the executioner had already stood by. At turchinov's command, the soldiers busily untied their ropes.

I turned my head and looked in the opposite direction, and saw a famous commander with his hands tied back on the other side, head down in a pool of blood. Only then did I realize that the shooting started from the far left. After shooting one, I shot the next. When I shot more than ten groups of people in front of me, I kept looking back. I didn't notice the shooting sequence. Fortunately, the gun that shot me got stuck. When fejiuningsky showed up in time, he not only saved me, but also saved their lives.

Fejiuninsky helped me to walk a few steps, looked at the remaining 40 commanders standing not far away, then stopped and said to turchinov in an irrefutable tone: "Lieutenant, let all those commanders go and let them all go back to their respective teams."

Turchinov turned to look at those people and said with some reluctance, "however, comrade general, these people are suspected of collaborating with the enemy. They can't be released without trial by our Ministry of interior."

"Trial?" Fejaninski repeated the word, then said sarcastically, "Lieutenant, you brought these commanders here to shoot them without trial. If I were a little late, you would have killed all these 100 commanders. Here, I need to remind you that they all went through a lot of hardships to break through the German encirclement. They not only have rich experience in fighting, but also have unlimited loyalty to the Soviet motherland. They are all valuable assets of our Red Army. But look at you, lieutenant, what did you do? You slaughtered the elites of the Red Army without fear. They didn't die in the battle against the Germans, but fell at the gunpoint of their own people. You know what? You're committing a crime. I will suggest to commander meletskov that you be removed from the post of chief of the secret service and replaced by someone else who is suitable for the post. "

Facing the righteous and awe inspiring fejiuningsky, turchinov did not dare to continue to be arrogant. He waved to his subordinates and weakly ordered: "let them all go!" With that, he raised his hand and saluted feijiuningsky, and left with his group of subordinates. Peter valov rubbed his swollen wrist, came up to me and asked, "where should we go now, sir?"

I looked at turchinov and his men in the distance, and replied without expression, "where else can I go? Of course, go back to the division and go back to your combat post. "

"I see, sir." Petrov straightened up, saluted me and left with Sergei.

I followed fejiuningsky and his guards, and slowly approached the group of commanders. Looking at the sparse line, fejiuningsky said bitterly: "comrades, you are all experienced commanders and treasures of our Red Army, but today you have suffered a lot because of Vlasov, a traitor of our motherland. I came too late, and many excellent commanders fell at the muzzle of their own guns without knowing it.... "

Before he finished, the commander immediately began to yell: "Comrade General, it's not your responsibility. Please don't blame yourself. If you hadn't arrived in time, we would have been shot by the interior department. "

"Yes, Comrade General. If it wasn't for you, we would all be shot

"The people in the Ministry of internal affairs have gone too far. We have only been in the 2nd shock group army. We have never seen what general Vlasov looks like. How can we become vlasovs?"

Fejiuningsky patiently listened to the commanders to vent their dissatisfaction. After a long time, he raised his hands and pressed them down. When no one in the team spoke, he said solemnly: "Comrade commander, it's all right now. Go back to your respective teams. I promise you, there will be no more secret service people to harass you. "

After listening to fejiuningsky's words, the group of commanders stood at attention, saluted him solemnly, and then scattered in groups.

After everyone left, I asked fejiuningsky, "Comrade commander, where are we going next?"

"Follow me to the headquarters of the front army. General meletzkov will be back soon." With that, he turned to his guards and waved his head, "let's go."

Leaving this dead place in the forest, fejiuningsky and I sat in the back of his jeep and rushed to the front army headquarters of meletskov.

On the way, it suddenly occurred to me that how could fejiuningsky suddenly appear on the execution ground? You know, I'm not his subordinate now. Even if I'm caught, it's not his turn to rescue me? So I asked curiously, "Comrade commander, I want to ask why..."

Before I finished, he had interrupted me and took over the topic on his own initiative: "Rita, do you want to ask me how I knew you were captured by the interior department and appeared on the execution ground in time to rescue you?"

I nodded and looked at him intensely, waiting for him to say what I wanted to know.

"It's a long story. After you were captured yesterday, Captain boroda immediately called the headquarters of the front army to ask general meletzkov to protect you. However, the duty officer of the headquarters told him that the senior general and the chief of general staff had gone back to Moscow and did not know when they would be back. He had no choice but to call kolovnikov, commander of the 59th army, for help. Kolovnikov originally wanted to take charge of this matter, but when he heard that the people in the secret service were arrested in the name of catching vlasovs, he immediately shrank back. Fortunately, he knew that you and I were old acquaintances, so he called me specially. When I learned about this incident, I was immediately shocked. According to my experience, the Ministry of interior has only one way to deal with this kind of case. Anyone who is arrested will be executed in the shortest time.

Rita, as you know, as a special security department, the people in the interior department have great power. Although I am a general, I may not be able to command a junior officer in the interior department. You have just seen this. Just when I was in a dilemma, comrade Zhukov called to ask about the preparations for the campaign of the bulge. I had an idea and told him about you. "

Listen to feijiuningsky said here, I can't help but put in a word: "Comrade commander, general Zhukov still remember me?"

Feijiuningsi looked serious. When I said this, he was happy: "Rita, you think too much. Zhukov has always had a good impression of you. Every time he calls me, he should inquire about you. No, as soon as I heard that you had an accident, the general was in a hurry. Let me take someone to the secret service department to rescue you immediately. I told him my worries at that time. After listening to them, he was silent for a long time. He only said one thing: wait, I'll solve this problem. I'm going to see Comrade Stalin. Then he hung up.

I didn't know when he would call again, so I stayed by the phone and didn't dare to leave. It wasn't until dawn that he called and confidently said, "dear fejaninsky, go to the secret service and let Rita out.".

At that time, I asked what I would do if the internal affairs department of the secret service ignored me?

He thought about it for a moment and replied: if the secret service people make trouble for you, tell them that you are on the order of general Zhukov to release the so-called vlasovs who have been arrested. If they don't listen, you can tell them that Comrade Stalin has just appointed general Zhukov as deputy commander in chief and has the power to administer the Ministry of internal affairs.

After I congratulated him at that time, he told me to take you to the headquarters of the front army as soon as possible after you were rescued from the secret service. General meletzkov has completed his mission in Moscow and will return to his headquarters this morning to deploy the upcoming campaign of the bulge. "

Although fejaninski downplayed the whole thing, I still understand that without him, I would be finished this time. Of course, I would also like to thank boroda. Without him, the news of my arrest would not have reached fejuninsky so soon. But at the moment, I would like to thank first of all, or sitting next to me, because he saved me from the hand of death. I grabbed his arm and said gratefully, "Comrade commander, thank you. Without you, I have been shot by the secret service."

Fejaninsky patted me on the back of my hand and comforted me by saying, "Rita, don't worry. It's all over. I listen to general Zhukov's point. He intends to adjust your position. It seems that you can't be the commander of the 378th division. Maybe he will transfer you to other positions. "

"Up there?" I don't understand to ask a way: "up is to point to who?"

Feijiuningsky laughed and said: "who else can it be? Only Comrade Stalin can hold a higher position than general Zhukov. You can't even imagine how your brain reacts so slowly. "

I can tell from fejiuningsky's words that because of Zhukov, comrade Stalin, who is superior, thinks of me again. I thought to myself, if I am not allowed to continue to serve as division commander, is it the intention to transfer me to other group armies to serve as chief of staff or other posts? Even if I can't serve as chief of staff of the group army, it's a good choice to go back and continue to serve as division commander of my eighth guard division.

In my wishful thinking, our jeep stopped at the gate of the headquarters of the front army. Fejaninski touched me with his shoulder and reminded me, "Rita, don't be in a daze. We're here." With that, he pushed the door open and went out. I hastily also pushed open my side of the door, followed by the car.

When we came to the door, fejiuninski asked a second lieutenant on duty at the door, "Comrade second lieutenant, is general meletzkov back?"

The second lieutenant seemed to know fejiuningsky. After saluting him at attention, he replied, "Hello, Comrade General. The senior general just called from the airstrip and said that he had arrived safely and was driving to this side. He also told us that if you come, please wait for him in the headquarters first. "

"OK, I see." With these words, fejiuningsky turned to me and said, "come on, Rita, let's go to the headquarters and wait for the general."

In general meletskov's headquarters, there was only a captain, who looked like a staff officer. Seeing me and fejiuninsky go in, he quickly got up to salute and politely asked, "Hello, Comrade General. Is that general fejiuningsky and major oshanina? "

Fejunins nodded and replied, "yes, I am fejuninsky." Then he pointed to me and said, "this is major oshanina."

The captain picked up a pile of documents on the table and handed them to us. At the same time, he said, "this is the latest war report. The senior general has an order that you and major oshanina have a look first. When you come back later, he will ask you what you think of the current war situation."

Fejiuningsky took the battle report from the captain's hand, nodded to him with a smile and said, "I see. Thank you, comrade captain. Major o'shanina and I will stay here and read the war report slowly. Go and do your work

The captain saluted us and strode out of the headquarters.

Feijiuningsky looked over for a while, threw the thick war report on the table, and said impatiently, "we are going to launch the bulge campaign soon. General meletskov asked us to see what these southwest front army's war reports are doing. We need to know that the Don river is far away from us."

Don! As soon as I heard this word, my heart suddenly jumped wildly, and I immediately thought of a familiar city name Stalingrad. Are these war reports related to the coming famous Stalingrad? Thinking of this, I quickly picked up the war report, searched for the contents related to Don river, and picked out these war reports.

It can be seen from the war reports that after the German forces defeated the counterattack of the southwest front army led by Marshal Timoshenko in the battle of Kharkov in May, they surrounded and annihilated the 6th, 9th and 57th army groups of the southwest front army. On June 30, the German sixth group army broke through the lines of the 21st and 28th group armies of the southwest front army in the direction of Voronezh, and severely damaged the two groups. On July 4, Manstein's troops captured Sevastopol, our military fortress in the south. The German southern army group, which has won a series of victories, is advancing towards the East. However, in the process of arduous retreat, the Soviet Army constantly lost its troops at the expense of the army. The exhausted troops had become frightened birds, and it was difficult to organize an effective defense line.

However, I still found a gratifying report: the German tank group army 4 had already arrived at the Don river line. With only one strong attack, it could capture Stalingrad with empty troops and weak defense at the moment. However, Hitler, who was very successful, made a wrong decision and transferred the tank group army to the Caucasus.

Seeing that I was absorbed in the war report, fejiuningsky couldn't help asking curiously, "Rita, do you see anything in the war report?"

Looking at a map spread on the table, I quickly picked up the war report, went to the side of the map, and politely said to fejiuningsky, "Comrade commander, please come here. I'll tell you my analysis of the enemy situation on the map."

Fejaninski went to the table, bent down, looked at the map on the table, fixed his eyes on the position of our front army, and said, "I'm ready. Go ahead."

I quickly put the war report on the map, covered the position where he was looking, and reminded him: "Comrade commander, don't look at warhoff, we will soon lose the attention of the headquarters, they will turn all their energies to the new battlefield."

"The new battlefield?" "Where is it?" he asked

I pointed to Voronezh on the map and said to him, "Comrade commander, please see, according to the war report, Voronezh was captured by the German army on June 30, and now they are launching a fierce attack on the sector from Voronezh to kretscaya on the west side of the Don river, intending to break through our defense line from this sector."

Listening to me, fejiuningsky understood my meaning almost instantly. He pointed to Stalingrad on the east side of the Dun River on the map and asked tentatively, "Rita, do you mean the next main target of the German southern army group? It may be here - Stalingrad?"

I gave him a thumbs up for his quick reaction speed. Sure enough, there are no weak soldiers under the strong general. He is worthy of Zhukov's right hand. I just mentioned it briefly, and he guessed that the next main attack direction of the German army might be Stalingrad on the east side of the Dun River. I nodded slowly and said, "Comrade commander, it's not possible. The next main target of the German army must be Stalingrad."

Feijiuning Skelton was shocked, but still some unconvinced to ask: "you only read a few war reports, how can you be so sure that the German army will attack in Stalingrad?"

In my heart, man, I think at least three versions of the battle of Stalingrad are the most familiar part of the history of the Soviet Patriotic War. But I can't say these words clearly, otherwise I will definitely be regarded as a psychopath. I can only say vaguely: "Comrade commander, this is just my intuition, and it's based on the analysis of these war reports."

"Intuition!" Fejiuningsky listened to my answer, nodded and said: "I once heard a rumor that you once told Comrade Stalin that you dreamt that rokosovsky would be in danger and nearly captured by the Germans. Comrade Stalin, however, though he thought it very absurd, sent an army to the village you said. It turns out that everything you see in your dreams is true. I want to ask you, is this rumor true? "

I nodded and answered honestly, "Comrade commander, this is true."

Fejaninski sat down at the table, looked up at me and didn't speak. At least a minute later, he made his final decision and said, "all right, Rita. Since Comrade Stalin believed in your intuition, I also chose to believe in you this time. "

After listening to feijiuningsky's statement, I was relieved to know that these things are incredible. He can say what he believes in me, which shows how much he trusts me. I picked up the important war reports on the table and asked him for advice: "Comrade commander, do we need to report this to commander Zhukov or commander meletzkov?"

"What do you want to report to me?" A familiar voice came from the door. I followed it. It turned out that general meletzkov and several generals came into the headquarters from the outside.

Seeing meletskov enter the door, fejiuningsky quickly stood up, raised his hand to salute him, and politely said, "Hello, comrade commander of the front army, welcome back from Moscow."

After finishing the ceremony, I quickly stepped forward to salute him and reported, "Hello, comrade general, welcome back to the headquarters."

After meletskov returned the salute, he came to me, put his hands on my shoulders and asked with concern, "major oshanina, I heard in Moscow that you were captured by the secret service, so I came back all night. Are you ok?"

I tried to squeeze a smile on my face, pretended nothing happened, and replied, "general fejiuningsky rescued me. I'm fine now. Thank you for your concern."

After a simple greeting, meletskov turned his words to the main topic: "by the way, when I came in, what were you talking about just now, and you said you would report to me."

"Comrade General," without waiting for me to speak, fejiuningsky had come to meletskov's side and said, "it's up to me to report this matter to you. Major oshanina has just analyzed the targets that the German army may attack in the next step according to the war report. " At this point, he made a gesture of "please come to the map, I'll explain it to you in detail."

Meletzkov and the generals with him followed fejaninski to the table and bent over the map. As fejiuningsky was about to begin his explanation, meletzkov suddenly looked up and said to me, "by the way, major oshanina, I forgot to tell you that the supreme commander has personally removed the post of division commander of your 378th division and asked you to be a combat staff officer at the headquarters of the front army."

As soon as I heard of the new position, my heart sank. From acting division commander to combat staff officer, it was obviously a demotion. Although dissatisfied with the heart, but the appearance can not reveal, I face bitterly replied: "I obey the arrangement of the superior." At this time, fejiuninsky began to explain my analysis to meletzkov. When he heard that the German army was attacking Voronezh kretskaya section, which might break through our Don River defense line from this area, meletzkov interrupted fejiuninsky and said in a heavy tone: "Comrade fejiuninsky, your analysis is very right. On my way back to the headquarters just now, I got the latest war report. The Germans have broken through the area and approached the Don river. It seems that their target of attack will really be Stalingrad. This situation is very important. I want to report it to Comrade Stalin immediately. "