Chapter 717

After Khrushchev's words, commander Ilya seemed to have guessed what the Military Commission in front of him said. He sat there with a calm face and did not move. However, political commissar Yaming showed the opposite. He stood up again and said loudly to Khrushchev, "Comrade military commissar, I can't agree with what you said. Although our soldiers are all recruits, without military training or weapons, their loyalty is guaranteed. I think the more unfavorable the situation is for us, the more we should send them to the most dangerous areas. "

After listening to major Yaming's speech, I immediately turned to Khrushchev to hear how he responded. After listening to Yaming's words, Khrushchev asked, "Comrade major, how many weapons are your regiment equipped with?"

This question of Khrushchev stunned Yaming. After a moment's hesitation, he said haltingly, "at present, the regiment has 20 pistols, 15 bobosha submachine guns and 40 mosinlagan rifles, which are distributed to commanders at all levels."

"With this weapon, how can we fight the enemy armed to the teeth?" Khrushchev said in a sarcastic tone: "I never thought that Khrushchev would dare to express his opinions so openly when facing the staff of the Ministry of internal affairs in the city. I can't help but feel a little more favorable towards him.

"Since you think that with a group of soldiers who are not unarmed, you can fight the enemy armed to the teeth," Khrushchev continued angrily, "then I will satisfy your wish. On the dock, there are a group of soldiers who have violated military discipline, about 200 people. Compared with your new soldiers, they not only have undergone strict military training, but also have rich combat experience. Now I will assign them to you and let you take them to the city to participate in the battle. "

Khrushchev's censure immediately silenced major Yaming. When he was embarrassed, Elijah, who was sitting beside him, stood up, looked at Khrushchev and asked, "Comrade military commissar, since our regiment does not need to enter Stalingrad for the time being, what is our task now?" At this point, he stopped for a moment, and then, according to the regulations, said, "please allow me to learn about the new task."

After sitting down, Khrushchev looked up at Elijah and said, "the next task of your regiment is to build fortifications near the wharf. At present, the situation in the city is very bad, and I don't know whether the Garrison who sticks there can finally block the enemy's attack, so we must prepare for the worst. "

"Then who should lead us?" When Elia asked, her eyes turned to me unconsciously, as if she was surprised that there were two female commanders in the tent.

Khrushchev pointed to me and said, "Comrade commander, I forgot to introduce you. This is major general oshanina, the independent division commander. You and your men are under her command from now on. What's this When he introduced razumeyeva, he couldn't help hesitating, because he didn't know who razumeyeva was.

I quickly took his words: "Comrade military commissar, this is lieutenant razumeyeva. She..."

Before I finished, Khrushchev said cleverly, "yes, this is lieutenant razumeyeva. She is the adjutant of oshanina."

When Khrushchev misunderstood razumeyeva as my adjutant, I didn't make any excuses. I just followed his meaning and said, "yes, Lieutenant razumeyeva is my adjutant."

I heard that I was their new leader. They were stunned at first, but soon recovered. They raised their hands to salute me and said politely, "Hello, Comrade General."

See two people salute to me, I also hastened to return a salute to them. Then he turned around and asked Khrushchev, "comrades of the military commissar, since we are going to build fortifications, we must have the necessary tools. I guess the comrades of the pioneer group didn't carry these tools with them. I don't know where we can get them

Khrushchev didn't answer my question immediately, but after thinking about it, he yelled out of the tent, "Yakubov, Captain Yakubov, come in."

With his shouts, Captain Yakubov opened the curtain and came in. After straightening up, he asked Khrushchev, "Comrade military commissar, do you have any instructions?"

"You take general oshanina to the headquarters, find the logistics minister, general varenikov, and get the tools they need." After explaining the matter to the captain, he kindly said to me, "Comrade o'shanina, after you get the tools, start the construction of the fortification as soon as possible. We must seize the time, because we do not know when the enemy will attack the east coast. "

"Comrades of the military commissar, please rest assured," as soon as Khrushchev finished speaking, I quickly expressed my determination to him: "we will finish the construction of the fortifications in the shortest time."

Khrushchev nodded with satisfaction, waved his hand to me, and said kindly, "go, take commander Ilya with them, and go to general varenikov to get the tools. I'm going to stay here and wait for the leadership of the new editor. "

Out of the tent, I saw the open space outside, neatly lined up with dozens of square. Then he curiously asked lieutenant commander Elia standing beside me, "Comrade commander, are these your subordinates?"

Elijah nodded hard and said, "yes, comrade general, they are all soldiers of our regiment."

I stood in the same place and looked at the soldiers in the queue curiously, perhaps because of the long journey. Most of them had tired faces, and even a few soldiers were still yawning quietly.

Elia waved in the direction of the line, and soon a short commander came up to us, raised his hand and said, "Comrade commander, Captain ramzin of the first battalion reports to you, what's your instruction?"

"This is major general oshanina, our new commander," Elia said to the captain after introducing me, "take your battalion with us, go to the logistics department to collect tools, and then build fortifications on the dock."

Iria's words stunned ramzin. He murmured, "why dig fortifications? Doesn't it mean that our regiment will cross the river into Stalingrad right away?"

Elijah glared at him and said discontentedly, "don't you know that the orders of the superior are not allowed to be discussed? Gather your men immediately and follow us

After leaving major Yaming in charge of the rest of the army, some of us, with about 500 soldiers, followed Yakubov and walked towards the wharf. When we arrived at the checkpoint in front of the dock, Yakubov asked us to stop for a while. He went to greet the officers and men at the checkpoint, and then he was led away by one of the sergeants.

The night before yesterday, when I got to the east bank, I didn't care about the situation on the wharf, but I stayed in the headquarters for the rest of the time, and I still didn't know what the wharf was like. After walking in today, I finally saw the true face of Lushan. In the open land more than 100 meters away from the wharf, all kinds of materials piled up like mountains. In order to prevent the German air attack, the cargo piles were covered with camouflage nets. Groups of soldiers are busy nervously, transporting the materials here to several ferries at the dock.

In a short time, Yakubov came back with a group of people. Among them was a burly general, who should be the logistics Minister of the front army, general walennikov. I hastened to meet him, but also across the way, I took the initiative to greet each other: "excuse me, is it general walennikov?"

"Yes, it's me, comrade oshanina." The general was really the one I was looking for. He took the initiative to reach out his hand and shake it with me. Then he turned his head and told a second lieutenant behind him: "Comrade second lieutenant, take these comrades to get the tools." After his subordinates left with the new soldiers, the general took me to one side and pointed out the location of the fortifications for me: "your task is to build two trenches at the back of the wharf, so that when the enemy launches a cross river battle, our troops can rely on this position to carry out the blocking."

"Yes, Comrade General." I answered him briefly.

Although I promised very readily, he still told me not to worry: "remember, the trench must be dug deeper, so that the soldiers can hide. Besides, it's close to the river. It's easy to accumulate water in the trench. You have to find a way to get some wood and lay it inside. Our soldiers can't even soak in the water when they are fighting. "

When I looked around, I could hardly see trees on the nearby hills except some bushes, so I asked walenikov with a wry smile, "Comrade General, I don't know where to cut down trees?"

After listening to my question, valenkov pointed to the north and said, "let your soldiers go to the north. About five kilometers away, there is a large area of forest where you can cut down trees and transport them here to reinforce the fortifications."

His understatement made me laugh and cry. It's not a big problem to cut down trees. But the forest is a few kilometers away, and we don't have any means of transportation. How can we transport the cut trees back? Thinking of this, I quickly complained to him: "Comrade General, we don't have any means of transportation for such a long distance. If we want to get the wood back, we must spend a lot of manpower and material resources. In this way, the construction progress of the fortifications will slow down."

Varenikov was silent and seemed to be thinking about how to solve the difficulties I raised. After a while, he said decisively, "well, I've transferred two trucks to you to specially pull wood." At this point, he slowed down and said carefully, "if you can repair two trenches before dark, maybe it will be decisive for us to stick to the east coast."

I frowned and calculated the quantity of the building in my heart. Thinking of laying wood under the trench after digging, I even doubted whether I could finish the task assigned by the superior within the prescribed time. While I was hesitating, valentinikov asked again, "Comrade oshanina, is there any difficulty?"

"No problem." After I finished this sentence, I almost wanted to slap myself in the face and scold myself for speaking without thinking. With such a large amount of work, if the number of builders can double, it may be completed on time, otherwise the construction period can only be extended according to the specific situation.

Seeing that I had made a promise, varenikov nodded at me, turned around and left with his group of subordinates. Yakubov came up to me and said, "Comrade General, the task assigned to me by the military commissar has been completed. It's time for me to return to my life."

To this friendly captain, I smile and extend my hand to him. "Thank you, comrade captain. Thank you very much for what you have done for us. Good luck Next, I began to give orders to commander Elia: "Comrade commander, our task, I think you have made it clear that we are going to build two trenches behind the dock before dark. Now you send a battalion of soldiers with axes and ropes to the forest five kilometers away to cut down the wood necessary for the fortification. As for the other three battalions, they immediately started digging trenches and building fortifications. "