I watched the sailors carry the bodies of the two dead pilots and the injured pilots onto the truck. Then I suddenly thought of another thing and called to smore, who was not far away: "Comrade captain!"
Hearing my cry, smoley turned around, walked quickly to me and politely asked, "Comrade General, do you have any instructions?"
I looked at the boat that was parked on the shore in the distance and asked, "Comrade captain, are those boats under your command?"
Smore looked around, nodded and said in surprise, "Comrade General, we have a truck to take you to the base instead of a speedboat. The reason why the speedboats were sent out was that the higher authorities were worried that your plane would crash into the sea and specially prepared for the convenience of search and rescue. "
At this time, khrushiev also came and asked curiously, "o'shanina, you don't want to go to the base by speedboat, do you?"
I shook my head and replied solemnly, "no, comrade minister, I have no intention of starting the base in a motorboat. The reason why I ask is that in the air battle just now, the pilot of the US fighter plane shot down jumped out of the umbrella and believed that he was soaking in the cold water. Time has passed for so long. If we don't send people to rescue in time, he will be very lucky. "
When he heard what I said, he nodded in agreement. "You're right. He just saved all our lives. You can't watch him die in the cold sea." At this point, he immediately ordered smore to say: "Captain, let those speedboats go to the sea immediately to search for an American pilot who parachuted. Even if he died, you should bring their bodies back. Do you understand? "
"I see, Comrade General." "I'm going to arrange it right away," smore replied loudly After that, he raised his hand and saluted, and then ran to the speedboat by the sea.
Looking at the speedboat stopping at the seaside heading for the sea, I asked khrushiev anxiously, "Comrade minister, do you think you can save the pilot who parachuted?"
After a moment's hesitation, khrushiev slowly shook his head and said, "I think the hope is very slim. After all, he has been parachuting for quite a long time. In such a cold season, running in the freezing sea water, at most half an hour, people can not support. It's good that the sailors can get his body back, so we can have an account for his family. "
Smore ran back to us, first reported that the search boat had started, then respectfully asked us to get on the jeep, and he would personally lead the troops to escort us back to the base.
After driving for more than 20 minutes, we finally arrived at Vladivostok, where the Pacific fleet is located, which I used to call Vladivostok.
The officer on duty at the gate of the base, after checking captain smoley's papers, just glanced at us casually, raised his hand, saluted and waved to let us go.
Captain smoley took me outside a gray three story building, parked my car not far from the sentry, then turned to us and said, "here we are, Comrade General. The commander of the Pacific fleet is on the second floor. My level can't enter here. You'd better go in yourself, and I won't accompany you. "
"I see." Khrushiev nodded, then reached out to captain smore and said friendly, "thank you, comrade captain. I wish you good health
When khrushiev and I got out of the jeep, a major immediately appeared at the door of the building. He ran down the steps, stopped in front of us, raised his hand and politely asked khrushiev, "are you general khrushiev, please?"
"Yes, major." He nodded, admitted his identity, and then asked, "do you know me?"
When the major heard khrushiev's question, he could not help answering nervously: "Comrade report minister, I have seen your portrait before, so I recognized you as soon as I met you."
"Do you know where the commander of the fleet, general youmashev, is?" he asked kindly, smiling at the major
"Of course, comrade minister." On hearing khrushiev's question, the major immediately returned to normal. He took one side of his body and made a gesture to the direction of the building. Then he said, "please let me show you the way."
"What are you still doing here?" With a smile, khrushiev patted the major on the back and ordered him to "lead us ahead."
As we walked into the building, across the hall, up the broad and luxurious stairs, we met some soldiers from time to time. When they saw us, they immediately raised their hands to salute us and put their bodies against the walls or stairs to make way for us.
When we arrived at the fleet commander's office, a big, middle-aged, Round faced general came over and hugged kheliev with a bear. He said, "Hello, dear Andre vasilijevich, welcome to my headquarters."
"Dear Ivan stepanovich, can you understand that in the near future, you are going to ask me for a batch of supplies to the Pacific Fleet
They talked and laughed for a while before they separated. Khrushev pointed to me and said to yumashev, "let me introduce you. This is general oshanina. She came back from America with me." Then he pointed to yumashev and said to me, "this is lieutenant general yumashev, commander of the Pacific Fleet." Although the other party's rank is the same as mine, his qualification is much older than mine. Besides, he once served in all the Red Navy fleets in turn, which is more worthy of my admiration. So as soon as khrushiev finished his introduction, I raised my hand to salute him and politely said, "Hello, comrade commander!"“ Hello, general oshanina After returning a gift to me, he reached out to me to shake hands with me. After we finished shaking hands, khrushev said to yumashev, "general yumashev, I hope you can send a telegram to the supreme command as soon as possible to report to Comrade Stalin that we were ambushed by Japanese planes on our way back."“ No problem. I'll do it right away. " He went to the table and rang a bell. Soon the door was opened and an officer stood upright at the door. After nodding at khrushev, yumashev quickly walked up to the officer and whispered to him.