Chapter 553

Cosga quickly stood up and respectfully reported to me: "the first Italian equipment I received was assigned to unarmed soldiers of the first and second regiments; The second time I received Hungarian equipment, I allocated it to the third and fourth regiments. After these two days of adaptation training, the soldiers of the large army have mastered the use of weapons. "

"Well done!" After praising him, I turned my head and looked at the commanders present and asked, "general trakov is coming to the division tomorrow morning to hold the flag ceremony for us. What do you need to prepare for?"

"Mr. teacher," Gaidar said preemptively, "there are many people in our regiment who understand architecture. I'll go back immediately and arrange for people to set up a rostrum, which can be used when the flag is given tomorrow."

"What's more, we don't have broadcasting equipment. How can we make sure that every soldier can hear what general trakov said on the rostrum?" Next, I asked a crucial question. No matter how loud a person's voice is, it is impossible for him to let thousands of people hear what he said without the help of any equipment.

When I finished, all the people were silent, frowning and thinking about what I said. To tell you the truth, I have noticed this problem before, but I have never found a suitable solution. Now I put it forward in public, hoping that we can work together to come up with an effective solution.

After waiting for a long time, I didn't see anyone talking. I couldn't help but feel a little worried and said, "why, haven't we come up with a good way?" With that, I looked at shejerikov, Oleg, kosja and Gaidar. I didn't expect that they all shook their heads at me with regret.

Just as I was disappointed, Pugachev, who was sitting in the corner of the table, raised his right hand high, as if he had something to say to me. So I pointed to him with my hand and said, "Captain Pugachev, if you have any good ideas, let's hear them."

Pugachev stood up, looked left and right, supported the table with both hands, leaned forward slightly, and said with some embarrassment: "Comrade teachers, comrades in charge, I have an idea, but I don't know if it's OK."

"If you have any idea, just say it. Don't be so fussy." His former boss, Oleg, said impatiently.

I also said with great interest, "Comrade Pugachev, since you have come up with a solution, you might as well tell me. As for whether it is a good way, we can make a judgment after hearing it. "

After getting my encouragement, Pugachev confidently and boldly said what he thought of: "before the flag ceremony, we arranged some loud commanders and fighters in a certain order among the various squares, and they relayed general trakov's words to the commanders and fighters who could not be heard later. In my opinion, without a loudspeaker, this way can make general trakov's speech heard by every commander and fighter. "

After hearing this, I nodded with satisfaction and said, "yes, yes, Captain Pugachev's proposal is quite good." Then he looked around and asked the other officers and men, "do you have any different opinions on this plan?"

"It's a good idea. I don't mind." First of all, he agreed.

Then Oleg, kosja and gedar also agreed to the approach proposed by Pugachev.

"Since you have no objection, then the commanders will go back to their respective units. When you go back, you should convey to the commanders and fighters the matter of awarding the flag tomorrow. All right, break up

The commanders fished out, and when they saw Gaidar going out of the headquarters, I called him from behind: "commander Gaidar." Maybe he was not used to his new rank, but Gaidar didn't stop and went outside. I quickly raised my voice and yelled again. Then he stopped, turned around and looked at me blankly, trying to find out why I left him alone.

I went up to him and said to him, "Comrade gedar, when you go back, announce to him my appointment as second lieutenant Mikhail yev. At the same time, let him select professionals from the whole division and form a division engineer company. "

Gaidar saluted me and promised loudly, "yes!" Then he turned and left the headquarters.

The next day, just after dawn, I was awakened by a loud bugle.

I used to think that the Soviet army did not have a bugle. When they attacked, they relied on their commanders shouting slogans; When you get up, it's up to the commander to blow the whistle. At the moment, I feel quite fresh when I hear the bugle.

After cleaning up, I came to the outside of the headquarters and found that not only my guard group was standing outside, but also there were several lines of soldiers behind them. When they saw me coming out, Pugachev and Willa ran to me and raised their hands to salute me. Then Pugachev reported, "Comrade division, the guard camp is assembled, please give instructions!"

Pointing to the newly added soldiers in the rear rows, I asked Pugachev curiously, "Comrade captain, are these soldiers newly added to the guard camp?"

Pugachev nodded hard and said with certainty, "yes, sir. I see that the number of your guard class is too small, so it is difficult to ensure your safety, so I transferred some soldiers from the troops who participated in the battle to form a guard company temporarily. When there are more people with combat experience in the division, I'll fill the other two

"Good job, comrade captain." After I praised him, I asked, "do you know where the rostrum they set up, Lieutenant Colonel Gaidar?"

"Report, sir, I know." After answering my question, Pugachev asked cautiously, "do you want me to take you to check it?"

"Well, yes, I want to see it." I nodded and said, "well, comrade captain, let the new soldiers disband first, take the guard class and go with me."

Under the leadership of Pugachev, I came to a newly opened forest clearing. The area of this open space is not large, only more than 200 square meters. There is a newly built wooden platform on the edge of the open space. Perhaps because of the lack of time, the wooden platform made of logs is very simple. It is only about one meter higher than the ground. Small stairs are built on both sides to facilitate the stage.

In the distance, Mikhail yev was taking a group of soldiers to clean up the fallen trees. When he saw me bringing people to inspect, he ran over. From a distance, he raised his hand to salute me and said in a loud voice, "Comrade division commander, Second Lieutenant Mikhail, commander of the engineering company, reports to you that our company is being ordered to clean up the remaining trees in the open space!"

I also a gift, said: "at ease, work a lot?"

"Many, sir. We cut down the trees in this area overnight and built a simple rostrum for today's flag ceremony. And now we're taking the rest of the wood out of the open space At this point, he stopped for a moment and asked cautiously, "are you allowed to continue, sir?"

"Of course, there's no need to say that." I hastened to reply, "go on."

I took Pugachev and the guard class to continue walking in the forest, and by the way, I checked the regiment's location and the training situation of the troops.

After walking around the whole camp for hours, I feel quite satisfied. Judging from the training situation of the troops, although they were set up for a short time and their equipment was relatively backward, the soldiers of several regiments were barely well-trained and their morale was high due to the influence of successive battles and victories.

After touring the camp, I called several commanders to the headquarters for a temporary meeting before trakov came.

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Shejerikov quickly stood up and replied, "everything is ready. However, our regiment had a relatively large reduction in personnel in the early stage of the battle. I don't know when the superior will be able to supply us with new personnel. "

"Yes, sir." Oleg also stood up and echoed, "in the battle a few days ago, our regiment reduced its personnel to five companies. In addition, we have deployed personnel to form a guard camp, which means that we are now nearly 600 fewer than when we were full."

I raised my hands and pressed them down. They sat down and said, "when general trakov called me last night, he only talked about the establishment of our division, but didn't mention whether he would add new soldiers for us, so don't hold too much hope."

Hearing what I said, kosga said with some melancholy: "our division is so short of staff, didn't the superior consider to supplement it for us?"

"That's not what I said, commander kosga." I heard his complaints, quickly stopped him, and sternly said: "compared with other divisions of the group army, we have the largest number. As far as I know, some divisions have only one or two hundred people left after the cruel fighting. If the superior wants to supplement the troops, the priority will be given to these troops. You can think of your own way to recruit our troops that are short of units, such as those small units that have been scattered, or those militia units that have temporarily joined our division after retreating to the city. "

"I see, sir."

Just then, the telephone rang in the corner. Sitting next to her, razumeyeva picked up the phone and politely said, "Hello, this is division headquarters. Where are you?"

Don't know what the other party said, she quickly covered the microphone, looked at me and said in a loud voice: "report to Mr. commander, comrade, the sentry called and said that she found a convoy of 40 trucks approaching the station of our division."

"Can you see the number of the troops coming?"

Razumeyeva quickly moved her hand away and asked the other side in a loud voice: "teacher asked, can you see the other side's serial number?" Soon, she said "I know", then hung up the phone, looked up and said to me: "Sir, the sentry report says that there are three jeeps in front of the convoy. It seems that general trakov is coming."

I nodded and said to the commanders here, "comrades, it seems that general trakov is here. Come on, come with me outside the forest to meet you. "

We have just walked out of the forest, and the motorcade has stopped. A group of commanders from three jeeps, surrounded by a general, came to us. I fixed my eyes and saw that it was not others, it was trakov.

I quickly stepped forward, raised my hand to trikov, and said in a loud voice, "Hello, comrade commander, welcome to the independent division."

"How did you come out in person, comrade oshanina?" Trekov asked curiously.

Before I could answer, a familiar voice rang out: "what's the matter, comrade oshanina? You only welcome general trakov, don't you welcome me?"

I looked in the direction of the voice and saw sergeuk, military commissar of the group army.

"It's you, comrade military Commissar." I raised my voice and said, "excuse me, I didn't pay attention to you..."

"I understand that in your mind, general trakov is the most important, and the rest are just the foil." His kind sarcasm immediately aroused the laughter of the commanders around him.

Trekov was afraid that I would not be able to get off the stage. He said quickly, "well, let's not stand here. Let's go to the headquarters of the independent division first." With that, he took the lead and went on. After a short walk, he saw Xie jielikov standing upright on the side of the road. He stopped and asked me, "o'shanina, have I seen these commanders before? Why do they look so familiar?"

"Yes, comrade commander," I quickly came to trakov's side and introduced to him, "last time I accompanied you to the division headquarters of the 208 th division to receive their division, you have met them. I'd like to introduce you once again. This is the first group leader, Lieutenant Colonel xiejerikov, and this is the second group leader, Lieutenant Colonel Oleg... "Every person I introduce, who is named, raises his hand to trikov.

When trakov walked forward again, I quickly told several commanders, "go back to your respective teams immediately and lead your troops to the open space. Do you understand?"

"I understand!" The four agreed, turned and trotted away.

As soon as the commanders left, a familiar voice came from the side: "Mr. oshanina, do you really ignore me?"

I turned to see that it was little sidtorin, who was looking at me with a smile. I reached out and patted his helmet and asked with a smile, "little guy, are you not angry with me?"

Sidtorin shook his head hard and said apologetically, "sister oshanina, later the commander told me that you drove me away from the independent division not because you hated me, but for my safety. I'm wrong. Don't blame me! "

"Look what you said, little sidtorin. I regard you as my little brother. How can I blame you. Let's go to my headquarters. " With that, I took his shoulder and walked forward together.

Only little sidtorin could enter the headquarters with me, except for trekov and sheldyuk. The rest of the commanders stayed outside. Trikov sat down and said to sidtorin, "I said, comrade Herald, go and bring in the flag of the independent division."

Sidtorin agreed, turned and ran out of the headquarters. After a little effort, he came in again, followed by a captain with a rolled flag on his shoulder.

Trekov put the captain's general flag on the table to show me what it looked like.

When I was looking at the flag, the captain was still introducing it to me: "this flag is made of red silk with gold fringes on the edge. The size is 145x115cm. A hollow Venus with a diameter of 60 cm is embroidered in the center of the front, with sickle and axe patterns in the middle. Above Venus is the slogan "destroy the German invaders" and below is the name of the independent division. On the back of the flag, there is an embroidered head of Lenin in the center, 48x46cm in diameter. The slogan "for the motherland" is on the top, and the Russian abbreviation of the Soviet Union is on the bottom. The flagpole is made of wood, 2.5 meters long, 4 cm in diameter, dark brown in color, with metal hoops on the top and two gold ribbons. "

I reached out and stroked the new flag belonging to the independent division. I couldn't help feeling passionate. I finally had my own army and my own flag.

Trekov saw that time was up. He asked the captain to roll up the flag and wave him to leave first.

After the captain left, sheljiuk said to me, "Comrade oshanina, there is no outsider here. I have a few words to say to you. In fact, according to your ability and merits, you should have been promoted to the rank of colonel for a long time. However, due to various reasons, we have been suppressing your promotion. I hope you don't blame us. "

I was thinking about the flag that I had taken away, and I didn't get over it for a moment when I heard that. It was a moment before I understood what sheldyuk had just said. He quickly stood up and replied, "Comrade military commissar, Napoleon once said: a soldier who does not want to be a marshal is not a good soldier. Although I also want to get promotion, frequent promotion is not necessarily a good thing for me. Just as if I want to build a high-rise building, I must lay a solid foundation. If I want to get a senior rank and a higher position in the military, I must have a solid network, so that my official career in the military can go further. "

On hearing my answer, trikov nodded with satisfaction and said with approval, "yes, you'd better think that way." At this point, he raised his hand, looked at his watch, and said to sheljiuk, "Comrade military commissar, it's late. It's time for us to hold the flag ceremony."

"OK, let's go!" Sheldyuk said and stood up.

When we came to the open space where the flag ceremony was held, we saw that there was no one above the rostrum, but there were 30 unarmed soldiers on each side of the rostrum. Trikov saw these soldiers and asked me curiously, "oshanina, what do these soldiers do?"

When I pondered a little, I understood that it was arranged to deliver a message to trikov. I hastened to introduce him and said, "Comrade commander, there is no loudspeaker in the division. In order to let every soldier hear what you said, I found some soldiers with loud voice to convey your words." We walked up the stairs to the rostrum, and I saw that the soldiers of the division were arranged neatly in the forest, and the middle of the open space was filled with the weapons of the Italian army and the Hungarian Army captured in the two battles. No wonder the open space that Gaidar let the engineer company level out was so small. Originally, it was only for placing weapons. I heard someone whispering behind me: "you see, the independent division has captured a lot in these battles."“ Yes, there are not only heavy and light machine guns, but also 20 or 30 mortars... "Trikov looked back, did not speak, but raised his hand in the first step. With the raising of hands, the commander who originally spoke on the stage closed his mouth, and there was a little commotion in front of the wooden platform. The commanders and fighters were silent and quiet. The soldiers standing on both sides of the wooden platform quickly ran out and arranged among the companies according to a certain number of orders. Their purpose was to transmit the sound to trikov on the wooden platform. This way is the most effective way for every soldier to hear trikov's speech without a loudspeaker. Trikov yelled to the commanders and fighters below: "comrades, I am very excited when I know that today I can hold the flag ceremony for the independent division, which has won many victories. If there is more, I will not say it. I just want to say that I hope the comrades of the independent division can make persistent efforts and make new contributions in the future. " At this point, he stopped for a moment. After the soldiers passed on his words, he announced in a loud voice: "I declare that the flag ceremony of the independent division begins. The flag giver, comrade sheljiuk, military commissar of the group army, flag receiver, commander of the independent division, Colonel oshanina. Please give the flag to the military commissar! " With his command, the captain, carrying a brand-new flag, followed by two flag bearers with neat military appearance, walked forward to me. He stopped a few steps away from me, and the general flag was handed over to sheljiuk, who had just come out. Sheldyuk took the flag, unfolded it and waved it a few times to let the brand-new flag fly in the wind. I took a deep breath and walked towards him with a non-standard forward step. After saluting, I heard serdyuk roar: "Colonel oshanina, grant you this banner of Lenin. I hope you can hold this banner high and strive for greater victory!" After I received the flag, I held it in my left hand and raised my right hand to salute sheldyuk and trakov. At the end of the ceremony, I glanced down the stage and saw Pugachev and Willa standing under the stage, winking at them. Vera's reaction was slow. When she was still standing in a daze, Pugachev had already stepped on the stage and took over the flag in my hand. Then he stepped down with the flag high, took two soldiers, took standard steps, and walked around the forest clearing where weapons were placed, and came back to me again. I turned to face the flag and stood at attention. A soldier beside Pugachev called out: "all stand at attention!" Facing the flag, I raised my hand to my forehead and said aloud, "now let's take the oath in the name of the independent division and our great motherland!"“ We swear The soldiers below roared in unison“ We will mercilessly crack down on the scum until the last German invader is eliminated on the territory of the Soviet Union. " I continue to speak on behalf of the independent division's commanders and fighters“ We swear The soldiers roared together again“ We will fight for the final victory with our own blood and even our lives. "“ We swear This time, even trakov and the soldiers he brought with him were shouting in unison“ Vow that the sacred flag of the independent division will one day fly high over Berlin“ We swear“ Victory will surely belong to us“ Victory will surely belong to us All the people are following me to repeat the last oath. When I took the flag in Pugachev's hand and waved it vigorously, the forest erupted into a tsunami like cry: "Wula! Wula!! Wula