Chapter 1006

I followed the captain into the checkpoint and headed for a car that was parked on the side of the road and painted gray green. Seeing us coming, the driver rushed out of the car, ran to the back, opened the door, and stood upright. The captain walked quickly to the door of the car and made a gesture of invitation to me. Then he said respectfully, "Comrade General, please get in the car!"

The car we took slowly drove forward along the simple road in the forest. Seeing that there are some fortifications like bunkers in the forest with continuous walls on both sides of the road, I can't help but ask the captain sitting in the co pilot's seat curiously: "Comrade captain, where are we going?"

Hearing my question, the captain immediately turned around and said faintly, "Comrade General, I've just been ordered to take you to the next checkpoint, and then someone else will take you to your destination."

I felt a little annoyed at the captain's reply, but it couldn't happen. After all, he was only acting on orders. Knowing that it was useless to ask further, I had to look out of the window again, looking at the primitive forest like a wall outside.

In the middle of the road ahead, there are two tall iron gates. On both sides of the gate are the earth yellow walls that extend to the depth of the forest, with dense barbed wire on the walls. There are three or five groups of patrols outside the wall blocking people's vision. Almost every Patrol has a military dog. Seeing all the soldiers on patrol as if they were facing the enemy made me curious about the base I was about to enter.

The car stopped just a few meters away from the gate, then the captain and the driver pushed the door open and got out of the car, standing upright on both sides of the car. Their behavior made me wonder to the extreme. I don't know why they didn't even call me, so they just got off the bus.

Before I decided whether to get off, I saw two people coming out of the small open door on the iron door. The captain, standing beside the car, saw the two men, quickly met them, raised his hand to one of them, pointed to me with his hand, and then led them to the car.

When they came to the car, I saw that it was a major coming with the captain. The major bent down and looked into the car. Then he raised his hand to salute me and said politely, "Hello, general oshanina. I've been ordered to wait for you here and take you to the base."

I nodded and said politely, "thank you, comrade major. Please get on the bus."

Originally, I thought the major would come directly to the back row, but I especially moved to the side. Unexpectedly, he directly opened the front door and sat in the co driver's seat, while the man he brought sat in the driver's seat. The major and other departments got on the door and ignored the captain outside. They directly told the driver, "drive!"

As soon as our car started, the door that was originally closed was opened. As soon as our car passed, the two gates closed again. I learned the lesson just now, and knew that the commander who led the way would not answer any questions, so I simply did not ask. Anyway, when I got to the place, I knew what was going on.

The car drove for about five minutes and turned right at a fork in the road. Sensing the driver's slowing down, I quickly looked out from the gap between the driver and the major. In the middle of the road ahead, there were two big iron gates with walls, and outside stood seven or eight fully armed soldiers. Seeing our car passing by, one of the officers went to the middle of the road and raised his right hand high to signal us to stop.

When the car stopped, the major opened the door, got out of the car and went to the officer who was in the way. After talking to each other for a few words, he showed them some identification. Then the officer put his body to one side and made a gesture of invitation. The originally closed door slowly opened again.

As soon as the major got back in the car, he immediately ordered the driver to go ahead

Our car drove into the iron gate at a slow speed. I saw a simple duty room behind the iron gate. The officer just now was calling someone with a telephone.

"Major, is there a checkpoint ahead?" After seeing the iron door behind me close again, I asked cautiously.

"Yes, Comrade General." The major leaned over and replied respectfully, "we have to go through a checkpoint to get to our final destination."

After a few minutes, the car turned a corner again, and the iron gate with a wall appeared in front of it. Maybe it's because behind the door is the secret base I'm going to arrive at, so the guard is more tight. In addition to more patrols and soldiers on duty, there are also permanent fire points of reinforced concrete on both sides of the road. From the firing hole of the fire point, the black muzzle of the machine gun was exposed.

This time the major didn't get out of the car, but sat in the car waiting for the officer on duty to come. The officer informed by his subordinates came through the side door of the iron gate. He opened the door, raised his hand to his forehead and said, "Comrade major, welcome back!"

The major handed him a document without saying a word. The officer took the certificate, simply looked at it and gave it back to him. After finishing this procedure, the officer bowed his head and asked me, "excuse me, general oshanina?"

"Yes I gave the officer standing by the car a positive answer.

After hearing this, he straightened up and stepped back, raised his hand and saluted me. Seeing that the iron door closed in front of him opened slowly, the major slammed the door and ordered the driver to drive again.

Soon, the car stopped next to a tall reinforced concrete bunker. At a glance, I saw four soldiers and an officer on duty standing outside the iron gate of the entrance.

The major opened the door first, jumped out of the car and took the initiative to open the rear door for me. I said thanks to the major and got off the train slowly. Looking at the tall building in front of me, my heart said, "is this the secret base that Marshal Zhukov asked me to come to? But it doesn't look very special, and the area of the building is too small. At best, it's the area of a swimming pool. "

While I was still looking at the building, the officer standing at the door came up, raised his hand to salute me, and politely said, "Hello, Comrade General. Please come in. Comrades of the people's Committee have been waiting for you for a long time. "

"Members of the people's Committee?" I heard that the person waiting for me inside was not Zhukov, but an unidentified member of the people's Committee. I couldn't help wondering, "who is the member of the people's Committee?"

"Comrade Ustinov of the Ministry of weapons and equipment." The officer said to me respectfully, "Comrade General, please, I'll take you to the people's Committee."

I followed the officer and walked into the reinforced concrete building. Walking along the long corridor, I saw a fully armed soldier every ten or twenty meters. Seeing such a tight guard, I couldn't help chatting up with the officer and said, "your guard here is very strict."

With a polite smile on his face, the officer replied, "yes, comrade general, this is the core area of the base. It's natural that we are heavily guarded."

We walked forward for a long time, and even went down forty or fifty steps twice. The more I move forward, the more I become interested in this mysterious base. Although it's not too big to see from outside, most of the whole base seems to be deeply buried on the ground. If someone didn't lead me, I would never have thought that there would be such a big base underground even if I went to the periphery.

This is a tortuous long tunnel, with many large and small caverns on both sides. Many soldiers or technicians in white coats pass us in a hurry with documents or equipment in their hands.

But when we came to the outside of a room with sentries, the officer stopped, turned to me and said, "Comrade General, comrade members of the people's Committee are inside. Please come in quickly." With that, he pushed the door open and made a sign to me that I could go in.

After nodding my thanks to the officer, I opened the door and went in. The light in the room was much brighter than that in the corridor. As soon as I entered the door, I saw Ustinov sitting at the long table. I quickly walked up to him, raised my hand and said respectfully, "Hello, comrade member of the people's Committee."

Ustinov was talking to others. Hearing my voice, he quickly turned his head and said to me with a smile, "Comrade oshanina, you are here!"

"Yes, comrades of the people's Committee." I don't know where he called me to this mysterious base, so I can only honestly reply, "I've been ordered to report to you, and I'm waiting for your orders. Please give me instructions!"

"Come on, it's not the army here. There's no need for so much etiquette." Ustinov asked the staff next to him to bring me a chair and said to me, "Comrade oshanina, please take a seat. I'm sorry to have called you here before you fully recovered from your injury. "

As soon as I sat down and heard Ustinov say so, I quickly stood up from my seat again: "comrades of the people's Committee, thank you for your concern. I'm just a little hurt. I'm not in the way."

After I sat down again, Ustinov pointed to several engineers sitting around the table and said to me, "Comrade oshanina, they are all our military experts. Under the leadership of Comrade florin, they are responsible for the development of new weapons."

I nodded to those military experts and said that I knew nothing about weapons and equipment. What did you call me to do? Just as he was about to ask Ustinov the truth, he said, "Comrade oshanina, perhaps you are very strange. Why did I call you here all of a sudden?"

"Yes, comrades of the people's Committee." Seeing that he asked me so directly, I didn't hide what I thought in my heart. I said to him truthfully, "I'm a complete layman in the field of weapons and equipment. I don't know what's important about your calling me here?"

"As far as I know, Comrade General." A military engineer not far from me asked, "you are the first users of the assault rifle developed by Comrade Florin. I want to hear your comments on this weapon."

"Comrade engineer," I said politely to the engineer with a smile, "I think this new type of assault rifle is very good. In the process of using it, I have never had any jamming or other faults, and the shooting accuracy and power are also very good."

"Do you think that if this kind of weapon is installed in the army, the combat effectiveness of the army will go up to a higher level?"

I was overjoyed to hear that AK47 assault rifles might be installed in the army. He nodded to the engineer and said, "you are right, comrade engineer. My special guard company is equipped with such assault rifles. Although they only have more than 100 people, they can compete with the German troops of at least one battalion and win the final victory. But... "

When the engineer listened to my praise of the assault rifle, he showed a satisfied smile on his face. When he heard the "but" I said later, he suddenly became nervous again and quickly asked, "but what, Comrade General?" I sighed and replied, "it's a pity that there's not enough ammunition. Once the assault rifle has run out of ammunition, it can only become a decoration. If we can build a production line for this new type of short cartridge, then it will become a reality to load assault rifles into the army. " As soon as I had finished, Ustinov continued: "comrades, you have all heard what general oshanina said. The power of assault rifles on the battlefield is absolutely superior to our existing light weapons, so we need to complete the construction of short cartridge production line in the shortest time. Do you have any comments? "“ No! " Several military experts replied neatly. After a moment of silence, another engineer spoke. However, this time he said not to me, but to Ustinov: "comrades of the people's Committee, since a consensus has been reached on the bullet production line of assault rifles, should we consider the issue of new tanks next?"“ I think everyone can see the power of the new tank. " As if Ustinov had been prepared for the engineer's question, he immediately replied: "within 200 meters, not only our T-34 tank guns or anti tank guns, but even the captured German tanks can not cause any damage to the new tanks. But it can destroy the latest German Tiger tank at a distance of 1500 meters or more. "“ This kind of tank is good, but we can't meet the standard of some production technologies. " The engineer called kuliantiandi and said, "if we can produce a few cars, I think we will have to wait at least two years for mass production."“ What, two more years? " When I heard the engineer say this, I couldn't help but interrupt and say, "Comrade engineer, have you ever thought that in two years, the Germans will be defeated by us, and then we will use this kind of tank to train our troops, what's the significance?"