Chapter 803

The three of us pondered for a long time, but we didn't come up with a reason. I'm not interested in guessing any more. I briefly told the two of them the course of the northward battle. After listing the meritorious service list of the commanders and fighters, I yawned and went to the wall. They prepared a march bed to sleep.

Perhaps because this period of time is too tired, so a lie in bed and then unconsciously fell asleep.

I didn't know how long I had slept, until someone was gently shaking his shoulder. At the same time, a familiar voice was shouting: "Comrade teacher, comrade teacher, wake up."

I recognized that the person calling me was chief of staff akhromeyev. I opened my eyes in a daze and asked weakly, "chief of staff, what's the matter?"

Akhromeyev leaned down, approached me and said in a low voice, "Comrade division commander, comrade military commissar of the front army is here."

It turned out to be the military commissar of the front army. When I heard ahlomeyev's identity, I just nodded and closed my eyes again. As soon as I closed my eyes, I repeated this duty again in my mind. My drowsiness suddenly disappeared. My God, the military commissar of the front army, isn't he Khrushchev himself? How long did I sleep? I didn't wake up when Khrushchev arrived at my headquarters.

I quickly opened my eyes again, lifted the blanket on my body and sat up. Khrushchev, kirilov and some commanders I didn't know very well were standing just a few steps away. Even Bantai leiev, who was distributing materials in the third regiment, was among them. I quickly jumped out of bed, not even care to put on my boots. I raised my hand and saluted Khrushchev. At the same time, I said, "I'm sorry, comrade military commissar, I fell asleep, so I couldn't meet you outside."

With a smile on his face, Khrushchev said amiably, "our female teacher, I should say I'm sorry. You are so tired at this time that you should have a good rest, but I'm sorry to disturb your rest. " With that, he came to me and reached out his hand.

Seeing Khrushchev's initiative to extend his hand, of course, I couldn't shake hands as casually as I did with my subordinates. I bowed half in a hurry and stretched out my hands to shake hands with him at the same time. When it was released, he bent his body lower and made a posture of please sit on his side. After he sat down, he put on his boots and told captain busmanov to pour tea for him.

After Khrushchev sat down, the burly general standing next to him also sat down, while the four Lieutenant officers who came with them stood upright behind Khrushchev.

Because I don't know Khrushchev's real intention this time, my heart is particularly uneasy. I took a close look at the major general sitting next to me, and recognized that it was major general varenikov, the logistics Minister of the headquarters of the front army. At that time, I felt a thump in my heart, saying that Khrushchev did not come here to ask us to hand in the seized materials, did he? So he asked cautiously, "Comrade military commissar, do you have any important business when you come to our independent division today?"

I didn't expect Khrushchev to wave his hand at me and say, "I'll talk about that later." Then he turned around and asked akhromeyev, "Comrade major, how long will it take to gather the company commander and the commander of the northern army here?"

Although akhromeyev did not understand the original intention of his question, he raised his hand and looked at his watch. Then he replied respectfully, "report to Comrade military commissar, it will take ten minutes at the most." After he finished, he seemed to be afraid that Khrushchev would not be satisfied, and he added assertively, "this is already the fastest speed. It can't be any faster."

"Comrade major, I'll give you twenty minutes." Khrushchev said magnanimously, "will you call these commanders here immediately?"

Akhromeyev agreed and began to contact the commanders of the regiments. Because Khrushchev was sitting at the table, instead of using the telephone on the table, he went to razumeyeva and contacted the regiments through walkie talkie.

While akhromeyev went to make a phone call, Khrushchev pointed to the general sitting next to him and introduced to me, "oshanina, I'd like to introduce you. Major general valennikov is the new chief of staff of the headquarters of the front army. I think you should be familiar with him."

Although I am also a major general, my gold content is obviously less than that of the new chief of staff in front of me. After listening to Khrushchev's introduction, I quickly stood up and took the initiative to extend my hand to the other side. At the same time, I said in a friendly way: "Hello, chief of staff, I'm glad to see you again. Welcome to the independent division to guide my work."

Major general varenikov also gave me a friendly smile and said warmly, "Hello, comrade oshanina. I didn't expect that we would meet again so soon. "

Kirilov, a little puzzled, asked: "Comrade division commander, did you know general varenikov before?"

"Yes, it is, comrade political commissar." In order to satisfy kirilov's curiosity, I briefly told him that I knew General varenikov when I withdrew to the East Bank of Volga river last time. Finally, I said, "when I met general varenikov last time, he was still the logistics Minister of the front army. Unexpectedly, he became the chief of staff in just a few days."

"As the higher authorities have made another appointment to the former chief of staff, major general Zakharov, major general valennikov has been appointed to replace him." Khrushchev raised his hand and looked at his watch. Then he looked up and asked akhromeyev, who was walking this way, "Hey, comrade major, have you informed all the people who should be informed?"

Akhromeyev quickly stopped, stood in the same place, respectfully said: "all the comrades of the military commissar have been informed." after answering, he went back to the table. Because his rank was too low, he did not sit down as usual, but stood behind me.

"Comrades of the military commissar, since they have already called, I believe those commanders will arrive in a short time." Kirilov, who didn't know the other party's intention all the time, tentatively asked, "can you tell us your intention while waiting for them?"

"Yes!" After Khrushchev said this, he turned to a captain commander behind him and said, "Comrade captain, please give me what you have in your backpack."

At his command, the commander on the far left stepped forward, took off his shoulder bag and handed it to Khrushchev. Khrushchev took the knapsack, gave thanks to the captain and put it on the table. He patted his knapsack with his hand and said to us with a smile, "you may not think it. I'm here specially to honor the troops going north."

"What, award?" When I heard this news, I jumped up from my seat, and Khrushchev, who was observing carefully, noticed my little action. After he and major general valennikov looked at each other, he said to me with a smile, "Comrade oshanina, the last time was the last time, this time is like this. We can't mix it up. Besides, it was only the headquarters of the group army that honored you last time; But this time, I, the military commissar of the headquarters of the front army, was in charge of the award, and the Supreme Commander himself told me that. "

Khrushchev's words made me even more puzzled. How could the Supreme Commander himself have time to pay attention to such a small teacher as me? But in front of so many people, I can't ask in detail.

Just then, one after another, some commanders who had been informed by major akhromeyev entered the headquarters. I quickly turned around and winked at akhromeyev, signaling him to receive these commanders.

Akhromeyev nodded, turned and walked towards the commanders who entered the headquarters. One or two minutes later, akhromeyev walked back to us, straightened up and reported to me, "Comrade division, all the commanders have assembled and are waiting for your order. Please give us instructions!"

I stood up, held the table in my hand, and said to Khrushchev opposite, "Comrade military commissar, all the commanders have assembled. Please give them instructions." Then he made a gesture of please.

There were more than 20 commanders called to the headquarters. They stood in two rows in the room, with regimental and battalion commanders in the front row and company commanders in the back row. I took Khrushchev to the far right of the team and began to introduce his subordinates to him: "Comrade military commissar, this is lieutenant colonel xijerikov, head of the first regiment. His regiment is the main force of the troops going north this time."

"Good job, good job, comrade commander." Khrushchev took his hand and said in a loud voice, "the results you have achieved this time have greatly boosted the morale of our army. Not only the whole front army knows about this, but even Comrade Stalin has learned about it in our report. He is very satisfied with the results you have achieved."

Even the Supreme Commander himself knew about the achievements of the regiment. The commanders could not help but get excited. Seeing that someone in the queue began to whisper, I coughed heavily to remind them to pay attention. After all, there were superior leaders standing in front of them.

After the team calmed down, I introduced the commander on the left side of shijerikov, "this is Lieutenant Colonel Ilya, the deputy commander. He is a new editor from Colonel bantailev. I believe you have met him on the East Bank of the Volga River."

Khrushchev took commander Elia's hand and said with a smile, "yes, of course. I talked to him at that time." Then he said to Elijah, "I didn't expect that you made great achievements not long after you arrived at the independent division. It's not easy."

When I next introduced the third commander, Lieutenant Colonel kosja, Khrushchev frowned involuntarily, and then said to me, "Comrade oshanina, what's the matter? Why is there no political commissar in the regiment?"

"Yes, comrade military Commissar." Kirilov, who followed me, quickly explained: "Comrade oberstein, the political commissar of the first regiment, was transferred to be specially responsible for the political guidance of the recruits, so he did not stay in the army for the time being."

Khrushchev nodded and then shook hands with the third commander, major kosja, and the second commander, major vatorak. When I introduced him, I was standing in front of him and awarded the Suvorov Medal of the third rank, including the commander of the first regiment, Lieutenant sergeant chejerikov, the deputy commander of the first regiment, Lieutenant Ilya, the commander of the third regiment, Lieutenant coaska, the deputy commander of the third regiment, major vatorak, and the commander of the second battalion of the first regiment, Captain shereblenne;

The order of Alexander Nevsky was awarded to captain Nikolay, commander of the first battalion of the first regiment, Lieutenant pruli, commander of the installation force, Captain dubrovsky, commander of the first battalion of the third regiment, Captain Rosenberg, commander of the first company, and others;

To the commander of the Third Battalion of the first regiment, major jerenkov, the commander of the guard battalion, Captain basmanov, and all the commanders above the company level in the northward army, the second class Patriotic War Medal. " After major general varenikov read out the commendation order, Khrushchev personally wore the medal for us, while the four Lieutenant officers picked up the medal box on the table and followed. When Khrushchev was going to say this to him, I didn't know how to answer. I just laughed, then raised my hand to salute him, and said aloud, "serve the Soviet motherland!" At the end of the award, the commanders who won the medal unexpectedly left one after another happily. Seeing that the commanders were almost gone, Khrushchev turned to the four commanders and said, "you go outside and wait. The chief of staff and I will go out later." In response to Khrushchev's order, the four Lieutenant officers did not say anything, but raised their hands and saluted. They turned around neatly and walked out of the headquarters. When I saw Khrushchev's arrangement, I wondered if he had anything to say to me, so I said to razumeyeva, who had been sitting in front of the telephone: "girls, it must be very hard for you to stay in the headquarters every day. Now go out for a breath of fresh air, and come back when I call you." Razumeyeva and Najia agreed, got up and left. Seeing that there were only me, Khrushchev, varenikov, bantailiev, kirilov and akhromeyev left in the headquarters, he asked frankly, "Comrade military commissar, there are only so many of us left in the headquarters. You can say anything boldly." Then I added, "don't worry, what you said today will never be disclosed." After listening to my words, Khrushchev and major general varenikov looked at each other, and they laughed. When the laughter stopped, Khrushchev said to varenikov, "well, comrade chief of staff. I still remember that on the way here, I told you that as long as I drove some of my staff out of the headquarters, comrade o'shanina could guess that I had something to say to her in private and would make corresponding arrangements. Am I right? "“ That's right, that's right. You're very predictable. " Major general valennikov said flatteringly, "it seems that you know Comrade oshanina best."