Chapter 440

He turned to korpakchi and said, "Dear Vladimir Yakovlev, let's go and see them off."

"OK, let's go," he nodded

So, trakov and kolpakchi took us all the way to the jeep near the observation post, and then they shook hands with us one by one. The driver had been waiting by the bus for a long time. When he saw that his teacher and political commissar were going to get on the bus, he quickly opened the back door for them.

After saluting trekov and kolpakchi again, I turned to open the front passenger's door and went in. As soon as I closed the door, biliukov told the driver to drive. I looked in the rear-view mirror outside the window and saw that the car was far away, and that they were still standing there.

After driving for five or six minutes, I heard biliukov in the back row say, "Comrade political commissar, I'll go back to the division headquarters first, and you'll accompany lieutenant commander oshanina to the 678 regiment." After the taciturn commissar agreed, biliukov told the driver, "driver, put me down outside the division headquarters."

The jeep stopped outside the division headquarters. After getting out of the car, division commander biliukov waved to us and turned to enter the headquarters. Our car moved on again. The command post of the 678th regiment was not far from the division headquarters. It was not long before we arrived.

The driver stopped his car near a trench. After he put out the fire, he turned to soboli and said, "Comrade political commissar, here we are." With that, he pushed the door and got off, ran to the back and opened the door for the Commissar. Seeing that the driver had got off the bus, I pushed the door open and got off the bus. Standing in the same place, soboli came over.

Sopolis led me along the trench, and saw the officers and men who were working on the shovel to reinforce the work. They saw us in the past. They stopped their work in a hurry, stood straight on the back of the ditch, and raised their hands to salute us. After we passed, they bent down and continued to work.

At the gate of a hidden headquarters where two soldiers were on guard, soboli stopped and asked the saluting sentry, "Comrade soldier, who is in the headquarters?"

"Report to the commander." The sentry he asked answered nervously, "it's the deputy battalion commander and several company commanders. They are having a meeting in there."

Soboli looked back at me, shook his head and said, "Comrade commander, let's go in." Then he stepped forward to lift the thick curtain and took the lead in. I also quickened my pace and followed him into the headquarters.

There was a wooden table in the middle of the headquarters, surrounded by seven or eight officers. When they saw us coming, they were stunned at first, and then rushed to us, raising their hands to salute us. I have a look. The first one is a captain, which should be the surviving deputy battalion commander of the regiment. The commander behind him is either a captain or a lieutenant. It seems that he is the company commander of each company.

Soboli raised his hand to return a salute and said with a smile: "Hello, comrades commander, nice to see you again. Let me introduce you. This is your new leader. " Then he turned to one side of his body and let me go to the front. "Lt. o'shanina is the acting commander personally appointed by commander trekov."

I stepped forward and said hello to the commanders with a smile: "Hello, comrade commander. I'm lieutenant commander oshanina, adjutant to general korpakchi, commander of the 62nd army, and commander trakov seconded me to your regiment as acting commander. "

As soon as my voice dropped, I heard two officers standing together muttering in a low voice: "why does the superior send a woman to be the commander? Is it because she is beautiful?"

"Yes, what's the use of being beautiful? What we need here is a commander who can direct the war, not a beautiful girl."

Since I left Moscow, I have been doubted and ridiculed by my superiors ever since I left Leningrad front army. Today, I was sent to the 678th regiment as head of the regiment. Unexpectedly, some people questioned my ability. As my future subordinates, they did not dare to challenge me face to face and had to express their views in private.

I glared at them fiercely, thinking that after the political commissar left, I would find some commanders who would destroy them and deal with them well. Soboli also heard their whispers. He frowned slightly, coughed and was ready to speak.

At this moment, the captain came up to me and said excitedly, "Rita mushdakova, is that really you? I didn't expect to see you here! "

The captain spoke very politely to me. He used all honorifics. He also called out my real name and my father's name. He was already someone I knew. I carefully looked at this familiar face, and I felt very familiar. In a hurry, I just couldn't remember where I had seen it.

Maybe I found that I didn't recognize him, and there was a trace of disappointment on the other side's face. He stepped back, took off his hat, spread out his hands and asked aloud, "don't you recognize me? Lt. oshanina, this is Lukin. Have you forgotten the past events of reconnaissance behind enemy lines, independent battalion and railway station? "

Reconnaissance behind enemy lines, independent battalion and railway station, these three seemingly unrelated words, immediately awakened my sleeping memory. I was so excited that my eyes were filled with tears. I rushed to him, grabbed his shoulder, shook hard and said, "it's you, Lu Jin, a company commander of independent battalion." If he was still in his winter uniform, I would have recognized him.

"Yes, comrade commander, it's me." When he said this, his eyes were red“ What the hell is going on? Comrade commander, you have confused me. " Soboly looked at it in bewilderment and asked. I quickly released my hands, wiped my eyes, tried to squeeze out a smile and said to soboli, "sorry, comrade political commissar, I met an old subordinate here. I thought he died. I didn't expect to meet him here, so I'm a little excited. Please forgive me. I'm so happy to see him I was afraid of being interrupted by soboli. I spoke so fast that I was a little incoherent“ Can you tell me what's going on? " Asked soboli in a friendly manner“ Please allow me to report to you, comrade political commissar. " Lukin stood upright in front of soboli and reported to him respectfully“ Go ahead. "“ During the period of the Moscow defense war, I went deep into the enemy to carry out reconnaissance and sabotage tasks with Comrade lieutenant colonel. On our return, we gathered hundreds of scattered officers and men to form a temporary independent battalion. Shortly after the establishment of the independent battalion, our commander led us to ambush a German company and annihilate it at a very low cost. Later, we went to volokoramsk to cooperate with the 316th division to eliminate the German troops attacking the station and defend this heroic city. "“ Captain Lukin, "there was a timid voice in the crowd. I went along. It turned out that it was one of the officers who had just talked about me. He asked," is this female commander oshanina, the commander of the eighth division of the guards? " I looked at the officer, nodded and said, "yes, I used to be a division commander of the eighth division of the guards." The officer pushed aside the left and right commanders, walked up to me, stood at attention, saluted me and said, "Hello, comrade commander. Captain Slaven reported to you that I didn't know your identity just now. I talked about you in private. Please forgive me Seeing that Slaven confessed his mistake to me, I couldn't investigate his impolite remarks any more, so I had to put on an air of indifference and say, "Comrade captain, don't worry about these little things, don't apologize to me." Seeing that I had known each other with the commanders of the regiment, and even met an old subordinate, soboli raised his hand to look at his watch and said with ease, "Lieutenant Commander o'shanina, since you and the commanders of the regiment have known each other, I'll go back to the headquarters now."“ Comrade political commissar, "Lu Jin asked politely," don't you have a cup of tea before you leave Soboli waved his hand and said, "no, there are still many important things to deal with in the division headquarters, so I won't delay here any more. Good luck to you, Soboli wanted to go back to the division headquarters. I sent him to the jeep specially. Although we came in the same car just now, there was no communication on the way. Before he left, he said to me, "Comrade commander, I will give you this regiment. I hope you can lead them to make great achievements in the future. I have faith in you. "