Chapter 1057

Originally, I thought that a commander like apanashchenko should take at least one platoon of security soldiers, divided into trucks and jeeps, to protect his safety. Who knows, after I got on the bus, I found that there was only one jeep, with the driver and kazakov sitting in the front and me and him sitting in the back, not even a guard.

After driving for a certain distance, apanashchenko suddenly leaned forward, patted the driver on the shoulder and ordered, "stop!"

As he suddenly gave the order without warning, the driver immediately braked when he was nervous. I was caught off guard and bumped into the front. If I didn't hold the back of the chair in time, I would be bruised and bruised. After the adventure, I nervously asked apanashchenko, "Comrade deputy commander, what's the matter?"

"What's the matter with that truck in the back?" Apanashchenko asked, looking at karzakov in the front row.

Kazakov looked back, then shook his head and said, "Comrade General, I don't know. It may be the guard sent to you by the commander. "

"Nonsense, it's nonsense." Hearing what kazakov said, apanashchenko said angrily: "we are not behind the enemy now. Where do we need someone to protect us?" After complaining, he told khazakov, "general khazakov, you go to inform the commander in the car behind, let them go back, and say that we can protect ourselves."

When I heard what apanashchenko said, I couldn't help looking back curiously. I just saw a commander coming down from the truck cab not far behind. I fixed my eyes on it. It turned out that it was my "guard monitor" Captain Yushchenko, so I quickly stopped karzakov who was pushing the door to get off the bus: "general karzakov, please wait a moment."

"Comrade oshanina, what can I do for you?" After hearing what I said, he was still sitting in his seat. Apanashchenko asked curiously, "why don't you let general khazakov out of the car?"

I pointed to the truck behind me, and Yushchenko, who was coming towards us, and explained to apanashchenko, "Comrade deputy commander, that truck is my guard." Seeing his displeasure on his face, he quickly added, "Marshal Zhukov sent me to protect my safety."

Apanashchenko heard me say that, but he couldn't get angry any more. He had to wave his hand and said helplessly, "since it's the guard team that Marshal Zhukov sent to you, let them follow."

I nodded, turned, pushed the door open, leaned out half of my body, rushed to Yushchenko, who had just come to the car, and said, "Captain, you and your people are following us to protect our safety. Do you understand?"

"I see." Yushchenko was going to ask me why I stopped. After listening to my mindless words, he looked into the car with a puzzled look on his face. After a loud promise, he turned and walked towards the truck behind him.

As the car continued to drive forward, I felt very sorry for apanashchenko's careless character. Although the area we drove belonged to our army's defense area, we didn't bring any guards, which was a bit too big. Not to mention the last attack, even if there were three or five stragglers who threw a grenade at us, we could all be reimbursed.

Thinking of this, I tentatively asked apanashchenko: "Comrade deputy commander, do you go out without a guard every time?"

"Guard? Why the guards? " When apanashchenko heard my question, he raised his eyebrows and asked in surprise, "Comrade oshanina, why do you suddenly ask this question?"

"Comrade deputy commander, this is the front line after all." I didn't expect that he would ask such a question. I couldn't help laughing bitterly, shrugging my shoulders and answering helplessly: "because we don't know whether we will encounter German attack on our way out, we should take some guards."

"Comrade oshanina, you are wrong." As soon as I finished, apanashchenko flatly refuted me and said, "even if it's dangerous, when we go out for inspection, we shouldn't go out with a group of soldiers. In this way, if you are seen by the commanders below, they will think that you are timid and afraid of death, and will not really respect you... "

Listening to apanashchenko's long speech, although I always kept a smile on my face and pretended to listen to the instruction, I was laughing bitterly in my heart. It turned out that every time he went out without a guard, he didn't want the commanders and fighters below to think that he was a man who was greedy for life and afraid of death. It's estimated that watujing had the same character. No wonder they both died young.

Today, I don't think it's proper for vatukin, Khrushchev or apanashchenko to discover the German army in the 69th army. As the main commander of the front army, you should at least wait for the people below to figure out the situation before deciding what to do. How can you rush to prohorovka like apanashchenko without a guard.

Apart from apanashchenko, I am also dissatisfied with kazakov sitting in the front. As commander of the 69th group army, when you hear that the traces of the German army have been found in your own jurisdiction, the first thing you need to do is to call your deputy or chief of staff to get the general situation. Instead of asking nothing, following apanashchenko like a valet and rushing back. He may forget that he is the commander of the group army. Instead, he takes himself as an ordinary infantry squad leader and wants to see where the enemy is.

Although apanashchenko is known as the "czar of the Far East" and one of the five generals who won the rank of general before the war, his operational thinking is still the same as that of the civil war decades ago. He always thinks that he should take the lead and stay in the most dangerous place like ordinary soldiers. In particular, he had never dealt with the Germans. If he copied the way he dealt with the Japanese, he would definitely suffer a great loss.

As I thought about my mind, I looked out the window. After entering prohorovka's area, I found that there were many hills on both sides of the road. The bushes on the hills were the best location for our army to hide anti tank guns. From these places, we could hit the flanks of the enemy's armored forces hard. But because the terrain here is very open, the anti tank gun hidden in the Bush will be attacked by the enemy after firing. If possible, the self-propelled anti tank gun currently equipped in the army should be used as far as possible.

Seeing this, I took a picture of karzakov sitting in front of him. As soon as he looked back, I pointed to the bushes on the hills outside and told him what I had just thought. After hearing this, he nodded in agreement and promised me that he would deploy self-propelled anti tank guns where fighting might break out.

When I finished, I turned my head to apanashchenko, who was staring at me and listening to my advice to karzakov. Seeing that I turned my head to look at him, he said to me with a friendly smile, "Comrade oshanina, what a wonderful speech you have made! If we really deploy our forces in this way, the pressure of our frontal defense will be greatly reduced. "

For his praise, I didn't say anything, just a polite smile. Who knows that my reaction made him misunderstand. He quickly explained to me, "don't worry, comrade oshanina. I'm talking from my heart. Although I'm older than Marshal Zhukov, I don't know anything about modern war in the real sense. For so many years in the Far East, although some people call me "the czar of the Far East" and say how well I have managed the Far East, I am almost a perfect man. To tell you the truth, after listening to such words, even I felt a little elated. I felt that if I came to the western front, I could easily defeat the Germans, so I asked Comrade Stalin for a transfer. "

Seeing that apanashchenko opened his heart to me and talked about his own affairs, I straightened up, looked at the Veteran General in front of me and listened patiently to what he said next: "after I got here, I found that everything was far from what I imagined. I don't know how to assign tasks to my subordinates and give them operational instructions, even if I give a tank group army to my command. If I want to adapt to all this as soon as possible, I have to learn from the beginning. So even if my superior appointed me to be the deputy of watujing, who is much less qualified than me, I don't have the slightest complaint... "

Finally, he asked me, "Comrade o'xanina, please tell me as a friend, have I done anything wrong in the way I handled this matter today?"

After listening to this, I thought quickly whether I should tell apanashchenko the truth. After thinking about it for a long time, I finally summoned up the courage to say, "senior general, I think your practice today is too reckless?"

"Ah?! Comrade o'shanina, why do you say that? " Apanashchenko asked in a puzzled way: "when we learn that there is an enemy situation in our jurisdiction, shouldn't we deal with it immediately?"

"Comrade General, to tell you the truth, when there is an enemy situation, we must not ignore it." I know that my words may offend him, but thinking that he will die soon, even if I offend him, it will have no effect on me in the future. If we can make him change and make him escape, maybe it will be my resistance in the future, because I will just say, "but you are the deputy commander of the front army. You have more important work than dealing with the enemy's situation. So the first thing you need to do after this situation is not to stop the important military meeting and take ordinary people to the place where the enemy appears to check the situation. Instead, he ordered the person who reported the intelligence to find out the enemy's strength and equipment, report it to you, and then make the corresponding deployment according to the situation. "

As soon as I finished, I saw apanashchenko raise his hand and slap his forehead. Then he said with exaggerated expression: "my God, comrade oshanina, you are so right. Why didn't I expect that. Yes, if you just make a phone call, you may be able to find out something within ten minutes. If you run rashly like me, you may not only fail to solve the problem, but also make it worse. " Then he stretched out his hands to me and said gratefully, "thank you, comrade oshanina. Thank you for your guidance. I'll know how to deal with this situation in the future. "

When I shook hands with him, I quickly glanced at karzakov in the front row and saw that he was looking out of the window. My heart said that I didn't know if he could get some inspiration after listening to what I just said.

Just then, kazakov suddenly called out: "Comrade driver, turn right at the fork in front of you later."

"Yes, Comrade General." The driver of the car promised.

Kazakov turned around and said respectfully to apanashchenko, "Comrade deputy commander, there is a regiment headquarters of our group army in front of us. Later, we can call the group army headquarters and ask the chief of staff about the situation of finding the enemy's trace."

"Very well, comrade kazakov, you have done a good job." As for kazakov's flexible learning, apanashchenko said with satisfaction: "we first go to the regiment headquarters to learn about the enemy's situation, and then decide what to do next." Our jeep drove on the rough dirt road, passed through groups of commanders and fighters, and finally stopped in front of a simple wooden house. Kazakov turned and said, "here we are." He pushed the door open and got out of the car first, then went around to the other side from the back of the car, respectfully asked apanashchenko to open the door and ask him to get out of the car. When the three of us walked into the regiment headquarters, the commander inside was startled. When we came in, a lieutenant commander who was sitting on the bed beside the wall drinking tea jumped up and tied the belt to his waist. At the same time, he reported his rank and position to us. Khazakov did not say any nonsense, but asked frankly, "Comrade commander, can you contact the group army headquarters here?"“ Yes, Comrade General. " "We have a walkie talkie here to talk to the headquarters of the group army," the commander replied At this time, another major with neat appearance came up to us. Through the report, I knew that he was the chief of staff of the regiment. When we heard that we were going to contact the headquarters of the group army, we immediately took kazakov to a telephone beside the wall and talked to each other through the telephone microphone. After speaking, khazakov came back to us and reported to apanashchenko, "Comrade deputy commander, I have made it clear. It turned out that several German motorcycles, probably scouts, appeared in the front of our army. After being found by our officers and men, they fired a few shots and fled back to their defense area. Everything should be back to normal now. " After listening to kazakov's report, apanashchenko turned to me and said, "Comrade oshanina, you're still right. If we don't make this call, maybe we'll go for nothing." Then he said to kazakov, "Comrade General, let's have a rest here and go to survey the terrain later."