Chapter 955

The contents of this document were carefully transcribed in Juanxiu's handwriting. It says:

"To the Red Army headquarters, the collective farm Committee of droffia:

We sincerely ask you, on behalf of the brave Soviet Red Army who liberated us from the slavery of the Communist Party, to accept our supply of five tons of flour, ten tons of potatoes, fifteen frozen pigs and three Communist bandits who were captured and managed by us.

At the same time, please consider that those of us who have been bullied in the enemy occupied areas have a strong desire for revenge from the evil bandits and allow us all to join the Red Army. Please be sure to approve our request.

Katerina, vice member of the Soviet Union of zhuofeia collective farm

After reading this document, I am filled with emotion. The appearance of these women is in sharp contrast to their solemn tone in the document. You know, we are now in the enemy's rear. We just occupied several empty defensive cities of the German army. Immediately, members of the local collective farms risked their lives to provide us with materials. It seems that it is also the will of the people to drive away the German invaders.

I folded the document carefully and put it in my briefcase. I went up to hold Katerina's cold hands and said warmly, "Hello, comrade Katerina. I'd like to introduce myself. I'm major general o'shanina, commander of the infantry Army..."

Before I finished, there was a cry of surprise around me: "God, she's a general, a female general!"“ Yes, a commander! Sisters, it seems that we have a chance to join the Red Army... "

I coughed and said in a loud voice, "women, please be quiet, please be quiet!" When the people around me stopped talking, I pointed to kirilov and introduced to Katerina, "I'll introduce you to kirilov, my military and political commissar."

After listening to my introduction, Katerina immediately and warmly said hello to kirilov, then turned to me and said, "Comrade General, I want to ask you something. We have two seriously ill women here who need to be sent to the hospital in the city immediately for treatment. We have carried them here. Can we give them a lift? "

I turned to look at the jeep behind me and the trucks parked a little further away. Then I looked back and said decisively, "no problem, comrade Katerina. Where are they? Bring them here." Then he gave orders to Yushchenko, "Comrade captain, you take some soldiers to carry the sick women over and take them to the hospital in the city with your truck."

After listening to my arrangement, Katerina held my hand tightly and said thank you. Then she turned to her assistant and yelled, "Mila, you should go with me."

Tall Mira came up to us, looked at me, and asked Katerina in some embarrassment, "Comrade vice commissar, how can I go?"

"Take my car!" Katerina and they aroused my curiosity. I wanted to visit their village, so I turned to kirilov and said, "Comrade political commissar, please go to kirilovgrad with the motorcade first. I want to visit zhuofeia farm."

Originally, I thought kirilov would stop me, but after listening to me, he just nodded, then waved his head to Mila and said, "get in the car, comrades. We need you to be our guide."

As soon as kirilov's jeep and trucks left, I said to Katerina with a smile, "Comrade Katerina, take us to your village."

When I said that, Katerina had a smile on her face. She looked left and right, then cried out in her voice, "sisters, take our comrades back to the village. Go Then she took my hand and pushed towards the crowd.

Her words were like a clarion call. The women around her had dispersed. At first, two people held Yushchenko's arm, and the others also found their own targets. One or two people, holding a soldier of the guard company, happily walked to the distant village.

The cold wind lifted the scarf on Katerina's head and disordered her hair. At the moment, perhaps it is because she is in a good mood at happy events that she appears to be very energetic. I carefully looked at her from the side and found that she was not old, that is, she was in her thirties. She was very different from the old lady I saw for the first time.

When we came to the village, Katerina pointed to a large wooden house not far away and said to me, "Comrade commander, the German who was caught by us is locked up in that warehouse, and I have sent five people to guard it."

"Are they all women?" I looked at the women walking around me and guessed that there might not be any men in the village, so I asked.

"Yes, comrade commander, you are right." When Katerina said this, she sighed heavily, "there are no other men in the village. After the outbreak of the war, all the men went to join the Red Army, leaving only a few old men who could not even walk. In this way, when the Germans came to our village to collect food, they killed them all. "

"Comrade commander, look Yushchenko crowded to my side from behind, pointed to the front and said to me pleasantly, "look at the red flag on the top of the house. Good guy, I haven't seen our flag flying on the building for a long time."

I followed the direction of his fingers and saw a red flag flying in the wind on the top of the big wooden house. He stopped to ask Katerina what was going on.

Before I could speak, Katerina said, "Comrade commander, it was just dawn yesterday morning, and we heard the sound of guns coming from the direction of the city. I went to the window and listened to it. Judging from the voice, it was not like the guerrillas, because they could not make such a big noise. It must be our main force coming back. " Before we finished, we arrived at the door of the warehouse. At this time, Sergeant Lazarev, the platoon leader, and the five soldiers he brought were standing upright outside. Beside them were five young girls holding headscarves, German rifles and old-fashioned shotguns. Seeing us coming, they are still looking at us curiously.

I went up to Lazarev and asked, "sergeant, if I remember correctly, Captain Yushchenko's order to you is to take the German prisoners away from here."

"Yes, comrade commander," as soon as Lazarev opened his mouth, I smelled a strong smell of vodka. "Our order is to take the German prisoners back from here."

Smelling the smell of the wine coming from his mouth, I could not help frowning. After a step back, I asked, "why, sergeant, did you drink?"

Lazarev replied with a smile: "Comrade commander, it's too cold. The girls took two bottles of wine from home to protect us from the cold, so I took two drinks."

"Comrade commander, it's all my fault." Yushchenko may see that I have the premonition of anger, quickly came forward to admit his mistake to me, "I'll lock them up later."

"No," in the current situation, as long as they are not drunk, I don't want to be too harsh on them, so I raised my hand and said with disapproval, "as long as it doesn't affect the war, it doesn't matter to drink." I looked at the locked door and asked Lazarev, "won't the prisoner escape?"

"Don't worry, comrade commander." Razalev said carelessly: "we just went in to check. The prisoners were tied to the posts with hemp ropes. They can't run away."

After listening to his confident reply, I nodded: "sergeant, before we leave, you and your people will continue to stay here, absolutely can't make any mistakes, understand?"

Seeing that I would not punish him for drinking, razalev quickly and loudly agreed, "I see, comrade commander."

After a while, we sat in the former village Soviet office. Except for a wooden table and a few benches, we were destitute. According to Katerina, the better things were robbed by the Germans. Although the room was cold and uncomfortable, I sat patiently and chatted with Katerina, trying to get useful information from her mouth.

"Comrade commander, I want to ask you," Katerina asked cautiously, seeing that there were only me, Yushchenko and a few women with whom she had a good relationship in the room. "Are the Germans going to be defeated by us soon?"

Her question made me feel a little embarrassed. You know, we won't be here long, because of the approaching of the German army, after a little resistance, we will move to other areas. But at the moment, I can't tell the truth to the new village Soviet vice commissar in front of me, so I said vaguely, "Comrade Katerina, we have two powerful front armies fighting fiercely with the German army on the other side of the Dnieper River. We are seven or eight times as strong as the German army. I think our final victory should not be too far away. "

Katerina, after listening to me, turned to the women standing beside her and said excitedly, "did you all hear that? Two front armies, how can there be hundreds of thousands of people? Can we not fight against the German people who are much smaller than us? Wait, before long, the whole territory of Ukraine will be wiped out. " The women nodded in agreement when she said so.

When Katerina looked back at me again, I hesitated for a moment, then asked cautiously, "Comrade Katerina, are there any Germans near you?"

"German?" Katerina hesitated for a moment when I asked her this question, and then replied positively, "there are Germans stationed in the town more than ten kilometers west of the village, but they don't seem to have many troops."

There are German and Katerina's intelligence in the nearby town, which makes Yushchenko nervous. I noticed that he gently pulled the corner of my coat beside me, as if he had something to say to me. I gave Katerina a a smile and said politely, "I want to have a word with my battalion commander." Then he leaned over to Yushchenko and asked, "what's the matter?"

"Comrade commander, there are too few of us," Yushchenko said in a low voice. "If the Germans detect us and send troops to rush here, we can't stop them with more than 20 of us."

"Don't be nervous. I know it." Having said this to Yushchenko, I sat up straight again and asked Katerina across the street, "Comrade Katerina, is there any forest in the middle of the open land between the village and the German town?"

Although my words were more obscure, Katerina understood them. She quickly replied, "Comrade commander, there is an abandoned defense line two kilometers west of our village. In addition to a two kilometer trench, there are also many reinforced concrete blockhouses. "“ Yes, comrade commander. " A woman nearby, waiting for Katerina to finish, immediately added: "when I went to visit my relatives two weeks ago and came back, I encountered a blizzard and spent the night in one of the blockhouses. In addition to knot a lot of spider webs, but clean up, or can use When I heard what the women said, I secretly applauded that if this fortification could be used, then I could arrange an army here to slow down the German army's advance towards kilovgrad. I talked with Katerina for more than half an hour to learn more about the surrounding villages. Just then, I heard someone outside asking, "is Comrade commander here?" Yushchenko heard the voice, quickly stood up from his seat, went to the door, and asked, "the commander is here. Where are you from?" After a while, Yushchenko came in with two soldiers. The soldier on his left was carrying a submachine gun on his chest, and the soldier on his right was carrying a walkie talkie behind him. Without waiting for them to speak, I guessed their origin, so I stood up and asked, "are you the signalmen sent by the political commissar?"“ Yes, comrade commander. " The soldier with the submachine gun raised his hand to salute me and reported, "we are the communication soldiers of the 22nd division of the guards. We are ordered to accept your command. This operator is from Kazakhstan. " The reason why the soldiers emphasize that the operators carrying the telephone are Kazakhs is that kirilov trained a group of operators to talk in emergency in the early stage. Because their language is incomprehensible to the German people, they don't have to worry about being eavesdropped by the German army even if they talk in Ming language. After the telegraph operator had set up the walkie talkie, I gave him the first order: "order general Bantai leiev to transfer the pelsteen tank battalion, the artillery battalion of the second division, and two infantry companies with strong combat effectiveness to the collective farm of cheffia."