Chapter 1019

On the appointed day, rokosovsky's men came to my house to pick me up. I followed the major outside and saw a truck with a hood in addition to a jeep. He stopped and turned to ask the commander, "Comrade major, can you take my men with you?"

The major nodded and replied with a smile, "Comrade General, my order is to take you and your subordinates to join the commander of the front army."

After listening to the major's reply, I turned and looked at Yushchenko behind me, pointed to the truck in front of me and said, "Captain, you and your men, get on the bus." Yushchenko agreed and immediately asked the rest of the guards to get on the truck.

When we got to the meeting place, I saw rokosovs standing next to a jeep with a serious face. He quickly stopped the driver, got out of the car and ran towards him. I went up to him, raised my hand and saluted him politely: "Hello, comrade commander of the front army, I'm here on your order, please give me instructions!"

Seeing me, the expression on rokosovsky's face softened. He asked me with a smile, "how are your eyes recovering, Rita?" After asking, he looked at me carefully and frowned, "what's the matter? How big and small are your eyes? You're not very good-looking. "

I have found out what rokosovsky said for a long time. I even asked Sergei privately if my eyes will be so big and small in the future? Sergey comforted me that after the operation, it would return to normal in six months at most. At the moment, when I heard rokosovsky's question, I quickly replied, "Comrade commander, this is because of the operation. It will be back to normal in a few months."

After I finished, rokosovsky raised his hand to look at his watch, then called me and said, "OK, it's late. Let's go. There are still hundreds of kilometers left. If we don't hurry up, we can't reach Kursk in the dark. "

When I got on the bus, I found that the driver was a lieutenant, while the co driver was a major general, and he looked familiar. After rokosovsky settled down, he introduced the general sitting in front of me: "Rita, I'd like to introduce you to major general jerekin, the military commissar of the headquarters of the front army."

When rokosovsky finished speaking, jerekin took the initiative to extend his hand to me and politely said, "Hello, general oshanina, nice to meet you here!"

"Me too, general jerekin." I shook his hand gently and said politely, "we've met before, but it's too long. Please forgive me for not recognizing you in time."

After I shook hands with jerekin, rokosovsky immediately told the driver, "Lieutenant, drive. Try to keep the car steady. General o'shanina's eyes have just been operated on. If it's too bumpy, it's easy to break open the wound. "

"Yes, comrade commander." The lieutenant agreed and slowly started the car.

However, after the car situation stabilized, rokosovsky said to the front jieliejin, "Comrade military commissar, since Rita is with us on the front inspection, you can tell her about our central front army."

Jerekin nodded, leaned over and began to introduce the troops to me: "on the 11th of this month, our assembled 21st army was transferred to the south by the base camp to defend against the possible attack of Manstein. Although the 3rd, 48th and 13th army groups originally belonging to the Bryansk front army were put under our command at the same time, these forces had been disabled by the German army in the early fighting and lost their combat effectiveness completely.

In the next half a month, the German ninth group army counterattacked us, almost completely annihilating the cavalry group that we went deep behind the enemy. Then the German second armored group army attacked us from east to west, the German second group army from west to East, and the German ninth group army attacked us from the front. We tried our best to mobilize all the troops we could to meet the enemy, so as to avoid the threat of being cut off.

At present, our large-scale battle with the German army has come to an end, but our troops have been beaten back to the original attack site by the enemy. The 3rd, 13th, 48th, 65th and 70th group army, the 2nd tank group army and cavalry group of the front army lost nearly 300000 people, including 90000 people who were killed, missing and captured. "

After listening to the introduction of jerekin, I can't help but take a breath. I only know that our army was defeated by the German army, but I didn't expect such a terrible defeat and so many casualties. After a while, I woke up from the shock and tentatively asked rokosovsky, "Comrade commander, I don't know what caused this failure?"

Rokosovsky gave a wry smile and replied: "the main reason for this failure is that we are not well prepared for the attack. This can be seen from the fact that almost all the army groups join the attack from the March."

I was a little surprised when I heard rokosovsky's reply. Anyway, the Supreme Command had the unshirkable responsibility for this failure. If they had not transferred the 21st army from rokosovsky's hands without authorization, the situation would not have become so difficult to deal with. But even in the face of such a mess, rokosovsky still has no complaints about the headquarters, and still takes the responsibility to himself, which makes me look up at his character.

"Rita, general jerekin came back from the front line overnight." After finishing this sentence, rokosovsky asked the front row of jerekin: "Comrade military commissar, how is the construction of fortifications on the front line going?"

When jerekin heard rokosovsky's question, he could not help sighing and said helplessly: "Comrade commander, the progress of building defensive positions is not smooth. Now it's time for snow melting in spring. It's muddy everywhere. Many places planning to build fortifications can't start work at all. " At this point, he quickly glanced at me and added, "it's the oshanina trench that the supreme command ordered us to build. It's hard to dig a section. But the next morning, when he got up, he found that the anti tank trench had become a pool. If it wasn't too cold, the soldiers would have gone swimming."

Rokosovsky couldn't help laughing when he said this, and jokingly said: "it's good to become a pool. At least the German tanks haven't learned how to swim. Facing such an anti tank trench, they can't pass at all."

Although I know that rokosovsky deliberately digs off the topic for fear of embarrassment, I still can't help saying: "Comrade commander, maybe it's not suitable to build this kind of anti tank trench in the current season. Otherwise, let's postpone the construction time a little and wait until May. "

I didn't expect that rokosovsky immediately frowned after listening to my proposal. He said to me sternly, "Rita, we don't know when the German army will attack us again, or how long they will leave us to improve the fortifications and assemble the troops. If we can't make use of the precious time of the truce to repair the fortifications, what can we do to stop the German armor flood when the German army attacks again

When I heard what rokosovsky said, I could hardly help telling him that the German army would not launch an attack in the short term. A real large-scale battle will not take place until early July. But when it came to my mouth, I swallowed it back. If I really said this, I might regard them as lunatics; When the battle of Kursk begins, I will be sent to some secret Research Institute, which will be handed over to the researchers to conduct thorough research and Analysis on me. In order not to suffer such a fate, I can only keep my mouth shut and keep silent.

"By the way, comrade commander." Jerekin, who has been listening to us all the time, suddenly remembered an important thing and said to rokosovsky: "I almost forgot that chernyahovsky, commander of the 60th army, is waiting for you in the headquarters. It seems that he has something important to discuss with you."

At first, I was a little absent-minded when I saw the negotiation between jerekin and rokosovsky, but when I heard the name of chernyahovsky, I felt refreshed. I can't wait to ask jellykin: "Comrade military commissar, I don't know what the full name of general chernyahovsky is?"

"Ivan danilovich chernyahovsky." After saying the name of the commander of the 60th army, jerekin asked me curiously, "do you know him?"

Hearing his question, I quickly shook my head like a rattle: "I don't know him. I've never dealt with him before. How can I know him?"

Although I tried my best to deny that I knew chernyahovsky, my mind immediately came up with the comments of later generations: "I have a decisive style, rich experience in organizing and commanding large regiments, good at concentrating a large number of troops in the main assault direction, good at using tank regiments, interleaving and circuitous, dividing and encircling. He is good at using rich practical experience to train the army, and has the outstanding ability of organizing and commanding the army. The major campaigns he organized and directed better reflected the military academic principles of the former Soviet Union. "

He is different from other generals in that he cherishes his officers and soldiers very much and never lets them make unnecessary sacrifices. This is quite like me. Otherwise, I would not be sympathetic to him. If he wasn't a bit out of luck and died near melsack, he would have been promoted to marshal.

The roads in Moscow are fairly smooth. As soon as they enter the suburbs, especially those roads opened up in the forest, they become muddy and difficult to walk because of melting snow and being crushed by countless vehicles. At the beginning, we could still get off and push for a while, but the more we walked, the more impassable the road became. In desperation, rokosovsky had to order his subordinates to go to the forest to cut down trees and use firewood to pave the road, so that the vehicles could continue to move forward.

When we were standing by the jeep and waiting for the soldiers to cut down trees, I asked lokosovsky curiously, "Comrade commander, I don't know where your headquarters are located?"

"Rita, come and see." Rokosovsky spread a map on the hood, pointed to a location and said to me, "this is yeletz, a railway hub."

I looked in the direction of his finger and saw that although this place was in a very convenient place, it was also a particularly conspicuous target, which did not attract the attention of the German people. Thinking of this, I immediately reminded him: "Comrade commander, I think it is very inappropriate to set the headquarters in such a position."

"Why?" Before rokosovsky spoke, jerekin rushed to ask, "Comrade oshanina, don't you see that the traffic in this place is very convenient? Comrade commander, do you think so? " Rokosovsky did not agree with his opinion, but laughed at me and waited for me to say what I thought. Because I may be in rokosovsky's headquarters for a period of time, for the sake of my own safety, I immediately expressed my views without hesitation: "commander, comrades of the military commissar, come and see. Yeletz is an important railway transportation hub, which we not only know, but also know compared with the German. " Seeing that the two men nodded their heads and agreed with me, they went on to say, "now that the enemy knows that our headquarters is here, they will surely send out air forces to bombard this area. However, our air force is unable to suppress the German air force under the current situation, so it should be transferred to other areas for the sake of the safety of the front command. " After listening to this, rokosovsky asked me in the tone of a teacher's examination: "Rita, if you were the commander of the front army, where would you set up your headquarters?" I looked down at the map and tried to find the familiar place. Then I pointed to it and said decisively, "this is it, comrade commander." Rokosovsky and jerekin put their heads together and looked at the position of my fingers. Jerekin also read out the place name: "Svoboda, comrade oshanina, do you mean that we should set our headquarters in this humble residential area north of Kursk?" Because the place I pointed out to them happened to be the site of a former headquarters of the central front army, I simply replied, "yes, comrade military Commissar. Not only is the safety factor here higher than yeletz, but it's also closer to the army, which is conducive to your control of the army. " After looking at what I put forward, rokosovsky made a decisive decision: "yes, Rita's position is very good. Comrade military commissar, then when we get back, we will immediately transfer the headquarters to Svoboda. "