An hour later, rodim ZEV and I went back to the headquarters of the group army and reported to them the whole process of joining forces.
Although I have reported the meeting process I saw to trakov and gurov through the telephone for a long time, in the headquarters, I reported it to them and Krylov again. After all, no one wants to hear such good news of historical significance twice. After I finished, rodimzev told me the details of his division. He said excitedly: "after receiving the flag of division presented by us, Captain ushenko of Batov group army specially came to report to me:" Comrade General, the red flag given to us by your famous guards has been accepted. We swear that we will let the red flag fly forever, Long live the brave red army commanders and fighters, Wula! "
General Krylov couldn't help interrupting and asked, "general rojimzev, how do you answer this friendly guard captain?"
After looking at krailov, general rodimzev said with a smile: "I said to captain ushenko:" Comrade captain, please tell your commanders that today is our happiest day, because after five months of hard and tenacious fighting, we have finally joined forces! "
After the report, krailov went to the new map beside the wall, pointed to the red and blue arrows representing the enemy and us on the map with a detailed explanation stick, and told us the current situation in the city: "comrades commander, please see, with our meeting with the friendly forces, we are now trapped in Stalingrad City, running out of ammunition and food Hungry and cold, I raised my hand to rokosovsky. After saluting him, I took the initiative to extend my hand to Ruskin, who was beside me, and expressed my sincere congratulations to him in a friendly way: "chief Ruskin, I would like to express my sincere congratulations to you. Congratulations to you and your troops on the successful capture of German Marshal Paulus. " Although I said this with a smile on my face, my heart was bleeding constantly: the capture of Paulus was a great achievement. Unexpectedly, it was robbed by this acquaintance in front of me.
After I shook hands with Ruskin, rokosovsky took the initiative to introduce the general standing next to me: "Rita, I'd like to introduce you. This is general Voronov, deputy national defense people's commissar and artillery director."
Deputy national defense people's commissar, isn't that the Vice Minister of national defense? This is a big shot. With a smile on my face and leaning forward slightly, I reached out to Voronov and said respectfully, "Hello, comrade deputy national defense people's Commissar. I'm major general oshanina, commander of the 79th infantry army. I'm glad to meet you here."
"Hello, comrade oshanina." Voronov held my hand tightly and said kindly, "I've heard your name for a long time. I didn't expect you to be so young."
After greeting everyone, rokosovsky first asked me to sit down, then went to the door and said to someone outside, "go and bring him here."
After I sat down at the table, I asked rokosovsky curiously, "Comrade commander, do you have any important tasks for me to ask me to come to the headquarters?" After asking this, I know I shouldn't ask like this. Rokosovsky has always been a person who doesn't like to go over the command. If he really has a combat mission, he will give it to trakov first, and then trakov will assign it to me, instead of calling me directly to his headquarters.
"I want you here to meet someone." Instead of answering my question directly, rokosovsky said mysteriously, "someone you know."
"People I know?" I was racking my brains to figure out which acquaintance rokosovsky wanted me to meet when several people came in from outside. When I looked up, my doubts suddenly became clear. I saw Paulus, who was tall, thin and well proportioned. Beside him were two soldiers and a second lieutenant.
Rokosovsky waved at the two soldiers, sent them out, and then politely said to Paulus, "please do it, marshal Paulus." The second lieutenant standing nearby immediately translated this sentence to Paulus. Then I realized that the second lieutenant who was still in the room was a German translator.
"Marshal Paulus, although I've been looking forward to meeting with you," rokosowski said bluntly without introducing the people present to Paulus, "I didn't expect to meet you under such circumstances."
Paulus saw me sitting next to rokosovsky, and nodded to me politely with a smile. Then he stood up and said to rokosovsky, "Mr. general, although I am your prisoner, please don't force me to answer questions that violate the military oath, because then I will say to you: 'no comment!"
After listening, rokosovsky was not angry at all. Instead, he pushed the plate of cigarettes and cigars on the table towards Paulus. He said politely, "Marshal Paulus, please have a cigarette." With that, he picked up a cigarette and put it in his mouth. I quickly picked up the match on the table and lit the cigarette for rokosovsky.
See rokosovsky lit a cigarette, Paulus also picked up a cigarette, sat down. Voronov, who didn't smoke, picked up the teapot, walked up to Paulus and asked with a smile, "marshal, do you need a cup of hot tea?"
For Voronov's enthusiasm, he readily agreed and pushed the empty cup forward.