Chapter 1055

Stalin did not answer immediately, but took a sip of his pipe in his mouth, and then slowly said, "since Rita is only working for you temporarily, there is no need to arrange any specific duties. Let her go to the defense areas of rokosovsky and vatujing as a special commissioner to supervise and inspect the construction of fortifications. We don't know when the Germans will launch a sudden attack on us, so the construction of fortifications is the primary task at present. "

"Yes, comrade Stalin." Zhukov replied quickly“ I'll officially announce it to rokosovsky later. "

Stalin nodded slowly, looked at me and asked, "Rita, do you have any objection to this arrangement?"

objection?! I dare to disagree with his arrangement. I quickly pretended to be overjoyed and replied, "no objection, comrade Stalin, I will resolutely obey your arrangement!"

Stalin was very satisfied with my respectful attitude. He turned to khrushiev and said to him, "Comrade logistics minister, you should make a plan for the distribution of us aid as soon as possible."

On hearing this, khrushiev nodded and agreed. Suddenly he remembered something. He quickly stood up and said, "Comrade Stalin, there is another important thing I want to reflect to you."

"What's the important thing?" "Didn't you inform me in the telegram in advance?" Stalin asked

"No, comrade Stalin." "What I'm talking about has something to do with the Pacific Fleet," he replied truthfully

"Pacific Fleet?" Zhukov frowned when he heard what khrushev said, and asked discontentedly, "Comrade logistics minister, I don't know what complaint the fleet commander General youmashev has made to you?"

"Comrade Zhukov," khrushev heard Zhukov speak, quickly moved his eyes from Stalin, looked at each other and said, "general yumashev did not complain to me, but mentioned some difficulties faced by the Pacific Fleet." Then he gave Stalin and Zhukov a detailed account of what we had learned when we were in Vladivostok.

As an onlooker, Ustinov said in surprise, "general khrushiev, is what you said true? How could the Pacific Fleet lose most of its combat power because of the lack of supplies? "

"Yes, comrades of the people's Committee, what I said is true." Khluliov replied positively to Ustinov's question: "when our plane was shot down by Japanese fighters, it was one of the elite of the Pacific Fleet to rescue our Marine Corps, but the old weapons used in the first World War were still in the hands of the commanders and fighters. It's OK to use it as a deterrent to the Far East. Once we go to war with Japan, our poorly equipped troops will not be able to stop the enemy's fierce attack. "

When he heard that the matter was so serious, Ustinov's face became particularly ugly. He turned to Stalin and said, "Comrade Stalin, if this is really the case, we will make corresponding adjustments to the distribution plan of weapons and ammunition. Just because the troops in the Far East are strategic reserves, we should not reduce their supplies. "

"Comrade Ustinov, what you have said is quite reasonable. We have entered a crucial moment in our war with the Germans. There must be no problems in the Far East. By the way, the Japanese ambassador called on me last night and expressed his formal apology to us for the incident that they mistakenly hit your plane. "

"What, our plane was finally shot down by Japanese warplanes, and they wanted to put it off with a simple apology." If Stalin didn't say the above words, khrushiev might be furious, but even so, his tone was full of gunpowder“ Does that mean that after our bombers went to bomb the Japanese mainland, they apologized to them and said that if the pilot was drunk and dropped the bomb in the wrong place, it would be over? "

"Comrade khrushiev, don't be so angry. At present, we still have a treaty of friendship with Japan. We can't easily tear our faces apart, so as not to fall into the danger of fighting on two fronts. But don't worry. I've got it in my mind. We'll settle it with them sooner or later. " After comforting khrusholev, Stalin turned to Zhukov and said, "Comrade Zhukov, there's nothing wrong here. Take Rita back to your headquarters first. If I'm not wrong, rokosovsky and vatukin should still be waiting for you there."

Zhukov took me out of the Kremlin to his headquarters. Indeed, as Stalin had guessed, the two commanders of the front army, rokosovsky and vatukin, were sitting in their offices, drinking tea with the two generals. Seeing Zhukov enter the door, they quickly stood up, straightened up and said hello to Zhukov: "marshal, you are back."

"Are you still there?" Zhukov took off his military coat and said to them, "I have something to do with you. Since you are all here, I don't need to call you any more."

When I took off Zhukov's coat and hung it on the hat rack, I heard rokosovsky asking Zhukov, "don't you know what important instructions are there, marshal?"

"No," Zhukov said to me, who had just hung up his clothes, "Comrade Stalin appointed Rita as the special commissioner of the base camp to go to the defense zone of your two front armies to supervise and inspect the construction of your fortifications."“ Welcome, how welcome After listening to Zhukov's words, rokosovsky immediately said with a happy face: "Lida and many commanders of our central front army know each other, and I believe that she will not encounter any obstacles when carrying out her work."“ Comrade marshal, the same is true of our Voronezh front army. " "You know general o'shanina's original" yes, comrade marshal. " Seeing that Zhukov had guessed my intention, I also said with a smile, "instead of worrying about the piling up of these cinders, it's better to use these cinders to pave the road. In my estimation, fewer people will be needed to cut down trees, and cinder road is definitely more suitable for tanks and trucks than timber road. "“ Genius, genius After listening to this, watujing patted his thigh, gave me a thumbs up, and repeatedly praised and said, "Comrade oshanina, you are a genius. In this way, not only the problems of the municipal departments have been solved, but also the road conditions in our defense areas have been greatly improved. " At this point, he turned to Zhukov and said, "marshal, I plan to take general oshanina back to the headquarters of the front army overnight, so as to complete the survey of prohorovka area as soon as possible. Is that ok?"“ I agree with you With a big wave of his hand, Zhukov agreed to vatukin's proposal, and then announced to me, "Rita, you're going to take office now. You've just arrived at Voronezh's front army with general vatukin overnight."“ Yes, comrade marshal. " I made a loud promise.