Chapter 498

Seeing that his battle plan had been adopted, he felt inexplicable guilty after a brief euphoria. Fighting is not a joke. As soon as the guns go off, there will be casualties. It can be said that the life and death of tens of thousands of people are in my hands. Thinking about this, I suddenly feel unprecedented pressure.

Trikov specially stopped me and said very kindly, "Comrade oshanina, general Zhukov said in the telegram that this counterattack will be under your full command."

When I heard that this heavy burden was on my shoulder, my heart became more and more uneasy. I was a little nervous and said, "general trakov, I think this counterattack should be under the command of you and commander shumilov. I'm only suitable to make some suggestions for you."

Trikov said with a smile: "oshanina, what's your ability? Other people don't know. Don't Zhukov know?"?! Since he is bold enough to give the troops your command, you must not be in the middle of this. You has the final say in the battle of the day. I am the assistant commander of Sumi Love. In a word, you can do as you wish. "

I glanced at shumilov, who sat at his desk with a blank face, looking down at a document in front of him, as if he had not noticed what I was talking to trakov. I looked back at trakov and asked cautiously, "general trakov, don't you worry about me commanding the troops?"

Trekov shook his head and sighed: "it's strange to say that I don't worry. If it wasn't for the fierce words of general Zhukov in the telegram, I and..." he said here. He turned to look at shumilov, and then said, "commander shumilov and I won't accept this order?"

"General trakov, do you know why the senior general did this?" Although I vaguely think Zhukov means to cultivate me, I can't understand why he did it. After all, in the current situation, it's a bit too risky to do it anyway.

Trekov patted me on the shoulder and said, "don't you see that? The reason why general Zhukov sent you to Stalingrad is to train you well and lay a good foundation for taking up a higher position in the future. What you lacked in the past was your qualifications and prestige. But now, as you have served in so many units, you are gradually accumulating your qualifications and increasing your prestige. It is also a test for you, senior general, to let you command the army alone this time. If you succeed, naturally, your prestige will soar in the shortest time; However, if you fail, I think your official career may stop here. Even if you continue to stay in the front line and serve as a division commander at most, you will almost reach the top. "

Listening to trekov's words, I'm more and more confused. After hesitating for a long time, I said cautiously, "general trakov, although I used to be the chief of staff of the group army, and I have also commanded divisions and regiments, I have never had the experience of commanding the whole group army alone. I'm afraid I can't do it well myself."

"No one is born to be a leader. He will not go to school. Besides, comrade trekov and I will check for you tomorrow." Shumilov put down his papers, got up and came over. He said to me, "it's not difficult to be a commander. First of all, you have to find out what the responsibilities of a commander are? It's to point at the place you want to capture on the map with your hand, and then order the Department to take it down. As for how to win and how the casualties of the troops are, they are all the things that the commanders should worry about. You just need to grasp the overall direction. If you can't grasp the big and let go the small, then you can't grow into a good commander. "

After listening to shumilov's words, I immediately had the confidence and a little more confidence in the battle of the dawn. I quickly straightened up and expressed my determination to him and said, "please two commanders rest assured that I will command the battle of tomorrow and give the Germans a lesson that will never be forgotten."

Trekov and shumilov both nodded and said with satisfaction, "yes, it seems that you are in a high fighting mood now. We are looking forward to seeing your performance in the next battle."

I pretended to be aggrieved: "two comrades, after fighting, you can give me more advice. If you see anything wrong with me, remind me in time. "

Trekov nodded, took over my topic and said, "come on, don't complain. Go to bed early." Then he turned his head and called to Raskin, chief of staff: "Comrade Colonel, please come here."

Raskin was talking to a staff officer at the door. When he heard trakov calling himself, he ran over and asked, "Comrade deputy commander, what's your instruction?"

Trekov pointed to me and said, "Comrade Colonel, go and arrange a place for lieutenant commander o'shanina to have a good rest. She's been running around all this time. She's very tired."

Raskin nodded, then came up to me and said politely, "Comrade commander, please come with me. I'll take you to the village to find a place to live."

Raskin took me to a house a little far away from the headquarters and said to me, "Comrade oshanina, this room is the residence of the female soldiers of the communication team and health team of the headquarters. You will have a rest here for a night."

Seeing the place he arranged, I politely thank him. After he left, I pushed the door open and went in.

There were three beds in the room. One of them was a female soldier in white underwear. Seeing me enter the door, she sat up from the bed and asked warily, "who are you? Comrade commander. "

Instead of answering her question immediately, I went to the bed opposite her and stopped to ask her, "is this bed taken, please?" Seeing her shaking her head, I sat down on the bed board, leaned my submachine gun on the bedside, and began to take off my armed belt. Then I answered the female soldier's question, "I'm lieutenant commander oshanina, chief of staff of the group army command. I don't know what to call you?"

After listening to my identity report, the female soldier jumped out of bed, stood barefoot in front of me, raised her hand to salute and reported, "Hello, commander. I'm garka, the hygienist. I'm waiting for your instructions! "

I looked at the petite soldier in front of me, raised my hand and pressed it down. I said, "Comrade garka, don't be so polite. Sit down. I'm here to stay. If you are always so polite, I'm sorry to come again. "

With a smile, garka went forward, took the harness and briefcase I had taken off, hung them on the wall beside my bed, then went back to her bed, sat down and looked at me with a smile.

I took off my military uniform outside and left only my underwear inside. I sat face to face with her and chatted, "garka, how many people live in this room?" I asked because I was worried that there were three people living in the house. If the other two people came back in the middle of the night, they would not be able to live.

"It's just Lisa and I. she's a messenger and usually comes back in the middle of the night," she replied

"Is the health team busy?"

Garka shook his head and said, "there are very few battles in the headquarters, so there are basically no patients. Even if the wounded from other troops come here and stop for a few hours at most, they will be transferred to Stalingrad. "

Just then, the door was pushed open, and a woman soldier swaggered in. She went straight to garka's bed and sat down. She sat down beside garka and asked me, "Hey, comrade soldier, are you new here?"

I didn't care about her attitude. I nodded and answered faintly, "yes, I'm here today."

Garcara pulled her sleeve to remind her, but the woman soldier ignored her and continued to ask, "what do you do? A signalman or a health worker? "

"No, I'm the new chief of staff."

As soon as the voice fell, the female soldier jumped up from the bed and stood straight in front of me. Her hand, which was raised to her forehead, was shaking violently, and her mouth was shaking. She said, "report commander comrade, communication soldier Lisa, I don't know your identity. Please forgive me."

I laughed, got up, walked over, pulled her hand off her forehead, and whispered, "Comrade Lisa, I'm just staying here for a few days. Don't be too restrained." After I asked Lisa to sit down, I stepped back and sat down by my bed again, chatting with them.

Just then, the door was knocked, and a voice of a male soldier outside was shouting: "commander o'shanina, do you hear me? Commander o'shanina. "

I quickly got up and went to the door, facing the outside, asked: "who is outside, what's the matter?"

The male soldier outside stopped knocking on the door and reported, "Comrade commander, general trakov, please go to the headquarters immediately."

"I see. You report to general trakov that I'll be there in a minute

By the time I ran to the headquarters in full arms, trakov had been waiting in the jeep at the gate for half a day. See me run past, push open a car door, lean out half body from inside, shout: "o'xia Nina, get on the car quickly."

After the car started, I asked trekov curiously, "Comrade General, what's the matter?"

Trakov replied solemnly: "just received a call from Colonel lyudnikov, saying that in the process of troop mobilization, when passing through a small village, hundreds of refugee bodies were found outside the village, which seemed to be slaughtered."

"Massacre?" I was startled and asked casually, "has the enemy bypassed our line of defense and come back to our rear?"

Trekov shook his head and said in an uncertain tone: "from the situation reported by Colonel lyudnikov, it doesn't look like a large army, maybe it's a small German army with dozens of people. They happened to meet this group of retreating refugees and killed them all in order to prevent their whereabouts from being leaked. "

The site of the accident was not far from the headquarters, no more than ten kilometers away. Our jeep arrived soon. Trucks loaded with 138 and 157 division soldiers stopped at the roadside, forming a long line of several kilometers. Our jeep drove along the motorcade and soon saw a village. Under the light, we could see that many people were busy. It should be that the soldiers were converging on the remains of the refugees.

Lyudnikov and kuropatenko, who were commanding soldiers at the edge of the village, saw a car coming towards them and immediately guessed that it was trakov. They all came up to greet them and stopped in front of the car to salute.

After getting out of the car, trikov saluted the two teachers and asked, "Col. lyudnikov, Col. kuropatenko, why did you stop the motorcade? When are you going to get the troops into the attack position? "

Lyudnikov and trakov should be familiar with each other. He took over the topic and said, "report to commander, I'm ordering the soldiers to hold back the bodies of the refugees who were killed. I'm going to go on after burying them."

With these words, we have come to the village. At the sight of the mountains of corpses, trakov stood still, speechless, with fire in his eyes.

When I saw this scene, I was very sad. Looking at the soldiers who were carrying corpses, I had a sudden idea in my heart. I thought of a way to boost my morale. I quickly turned to lyudnikov and kuropatenko and said, "two division comrades, I ask you to immediately order each truck to send a soldier to come here."

Lyudnikov looked at me and asked, "Comrade commander, what's your purpose?"

"Cut the crap, comrade colonel." Trekov gritted his teeth and said, "don't you know that the orders of the superior are not allowed to be discussed and can only be carried out? Do as commander o'shanina says immediately. "

Lyudnikov and kuropatenko reluctantly agreed to turn around and leave. I quickly stopped them.

"Is there anything else? Comrade commander. " Asked lyudnikov coldly.

I pointed to the soldiers who were carrying the corpses and said, "let the soldiers leave first, and order the motorcade stopping at the roadside to start immediately. Those soldiers who have been transferred, when trucks pass here, just let them out of the car. " After listening, lyudnikov and kuropatenko asked the soldiers to stop working immediately and leave with them.

The soldiers, who had been summoned, formed a neat line by the side of the road. When the others came, I went to the front of the queue. Looking at the angry eyes of the soldiers and the grinding teeth of hatred, I pointed to the remains of the refugees and said to them in a loud voice: "comrades, do you know who these dead people are?"

The whole team was quiet and there was no answer.

I went on to say, "these are the common people of the Soviet Union who were brutally killed by the aggressors on their own territory. As a soldier, we should be ashamed because we can't defend them... "

At first, the soldier standing in front of me was quietly wiping tears. At this time, someone was already sobbing.

"Who is crying?" I yelled, and I scanned the hundreds of officers and men standing in front of me. "Today, what these people need is revenge, the blood of the enemy, not our tears."

My cry stopped the crying in the line.

I gritted my teeth and said, "now that they have come to our land to do evil, they will pay the price of bleeding. I ask you, in the coming battle, to use your weapons to avenge these dead people and eliminate the bandits. Can you do it? "

"Yes Hundreds of throats roared in unison, "resolutely avenge our common people!"

"Resolutely eliminate all evil bandits!"

After everyone's slogans were finished, I continued to shout: "now, let's act immediately and bury the bodies of these killed people. We can't let their bodies be exposed."

Since lyudnikov left behind his division commissar Titov, I gave him the responsibility for burying the body and returning the troops. Then I and trakov drove back to the headquarters.

On the way, trakov said with deep feeling: "Comrade oshanina, I think what Comrade bandulin said is reasonable. Maybe you should be a political worker, because you know how to cheer up the soldiers and boost their morale. Originally, I was a little worried about the counterattack after dawn. Now it seems that it is not a big problem to solve the Romanian army with the troops of lyudnikov and kuropatenko. "

I gave a wry smile and replied, "Comrade General, I can play a guest role as a political worker once in a while. If I am allowed to be a full-time political worker, I think I am not qualified for this job. I am still willing to command the troops and fight with the enemy at the front line." It's true that I say so. At least I know who my enemy is on the front line. In the rear organs, I may lose my life for no reason. After all, the last time I was in Moscow, Colonel bezikov and I almost died in the Ministry of interior because of Stalin's stand in.

The jeep pulled up to the gate of the headquarters, and trekov and I got out. Trekov was afraid that I couldn't see the road when I went back, so he asked the driver to give me a flashlight. After thanking the driver, I went back with the help of the flashlight.

When I came to the wooden house where I lived, I was relieved and said, "thank God, I'm back at last.". Then he pushed the door open and strode in.

Maybe the sound of pushing the door was too loud. Just as I entered, a scream came from the room. Then someone asked warily, "who is it? Who's at the door? "

I was startled by the scream, and then I flashed the flashlight at the sound. In the light, I saw the most beautiful scene. Garka and Lisa were lying naked on the bed, their legs entangled. I quickly turned off the flashlight, pulled the door, walked to my bed with my memory, and said, "I'm lieutenant commander o'shanina. I'm sorry, I opened the door so loudly that I woke you both up. Go on sleeping. " Like a thief, I came to my bedside, leaned my submachine gun to the bedside, and I lay on the bed with my clothes.

Tired for a day, I wanted to close my eyes and go to sleep. As a result, I was thinking about the Xiangyan lens I saw just now and couldn't sleep. After a while, I heard someone get out of bed quietly and walk outside. After a few steps, I heard the sound of going to bed again. Although I didn't open my eyes, I understood that Lisa had quietly returned to her own bed. I lay in bed for more than an hour and couldn't sleep. Since I couldn't sleep, I simply got up, picked up the submachine gun placed by the bed and went out. I was ready to go to the headquarters first and discuss with them about how to improve today's combat deployment.