Chapter 1085

Ustinov asked puzzledly, "Rita, there are not many people who know about this. Who do you listen to? Is it Marshal Zhukov

"No, comrades of the people's Committee. I didn't listen to Marshal Zhukov about this. " I took a look at vasilevsky, who was sitting at the back of his desk. He said to me that the person who provided me with information must not sell it. He said with a smile to the microphone, "anyway, I have my way to understand this. I wonder if you can take care of the sixth group army and give us priority to this batch of new equipment, You can't let the soldiers of the guards hold equipment inferior to that of the ordinary troops, can you? In that case, no matter how brave they are, they will make a great sacrifice in the face of the armed invaders. "

That is to say, I have a friendly relationship with Ustinov. I can say some words without restraint. If someone else had changed, maybe I would have gone to the top of the line because I said that the guards were not equipped well and might have made great sacrifices.

After listening to what I said, Ustinov was silent for a while, and then said solemnly, "Rita, you and I have a good friendship. I'll tell you something. The infantry light weapons I can control are 30000 Kalashnikov rifles. But I can't give it all to you. There is an old friend of mine who is now the deputy commander of the front army of Bryansk. Now he is waiting in the reception hall outside, also for this batch of weapons and equipment. "

After listening to these words, I couldn't help but clap and scream that it's not good. The other side is not only the deputy commander of the Bryansk front army, but also an old friend of Ustinov. It seems that these weapons are going to fail. Thinking of this, I immediately begged Ustinov to say, "Comrade people's commissar, can I have a talk with this deputy commander? Even if we can't give all these weapons to us, it's OK to give us half or one third of them? "

"Rita, just a moment. Don't hang up." When Ustinov finished speaking, I heard him seem to pick up another phone next to him and say to the phone, "Hello, please come in, comrade deputy commander of the Bryansk front army."

A moment later, I heard the door first, then the chair, as if Ustinov had stood up. He soon heard Ustinov's hearty laughter: "Dear Ivan Ivanovic, Hello, I'm glad to see you alive."

"Comrades of the people's Committee," followed by a familiar voice: "to borrow one of my friends once said:" the bullet that can kill me has not been made yet. "

When I heard this sentence, I couldn't help but move. It seemed that I had said it. I also heard the voice of the person who said it. Is it the general I know?

As I was thinking about this, I suddenly heard my name: "my general Comrade, if I guess correctly, the sentence you quoted should be said by the only female general of our army, comrade o'shanina?"

Ustinov's words surprised the other party. He hesitated for a moment before answering, "yes, dear Dmitry Fedorovich, this is what oshanina once said. She is my good friend."

The words of this unknown general surprised me. His tone seemed familiar to me, but I couldn't think of a familiar general who would be the deputy commander of the Bryansk front army.

Before I could come up with an answer, I heard Ustinov say, "when you were just outside, I was talking to oshanina on the phone. She also wanted the weapons that your front army wanted. Old man, why don't you talk to her and discuss in private how to distribute these new assault rifles? "

The general was silent for a moment, and finally agreed very simply: "OK, let me talk to Rita."

"Hello, Rita, are you still there?" Ustinov's voice from the receiver was clearer, and it was obvious that he picked up the receiver again.

"Yes, comrades of the people's Committee, I am!" Hearing Ustinov's voice, I replied in a hurry.

"Well, comrade deputy commander of the Bryansk front army wants to talk to you," Ustinov said after hearing my reply. "He said he was your good friend. I believe you can reach an agreement satisfactory to both sides." Then Ustinov's voice became a little distant, apparently handing the receiver to the general, because I heard him say, "please, comrade general, Rita is waiting for you on the line."

The general took the microphone and gave a hello.

Listening to this familiar voice, I could not remember who the other party was, so I had to say vaguely: "Hello! Comrade deputy commander of the front army. "

When the other party heard my voice, he said with a smile, "what's the matter, Rita? After arriving at the general, can't you even hear my voice?"

I tried my best to recall this familiar voice and think about all the generals I knew in the battle of Stalingrad. However, no matter trekov, rodemtsev or lyudnikov, they were unable to speak to this general. Moreover, at their level, they did not have their own deputy commander of the front army. At the moment, I really hate Russian names. They are all made up of their own names, father's names and surnames. Usually, people use surnames to address each other, but they use their own names and father's names to address friends who have a good relationship with each other. When Ustinov called him just now, he was so kind that I didn't know who he was. Because I couldn't remember it, I had to reply with a bitter smile: "sorry, comrade general, I can't hear your voice. May I have your name, please

"What's the matter with you, Rita? Did you forget me when you left Leningrad?" The other side raised his voice and said in a slightly discontented tone, "after becoming the commander of the group army, I don't need feijiuningsky anymore?"

"General fejiuningsky?" What the other side said surprised me. I never dreamed that the deputy commander of the Bryansk front army was my life-saving benefactor, general fejiuningsky. I couldn't help shouting: "my God, comrade general, I didn't expect that the deputy commander of the Bryansk front army was you! Excuse me... "

"Come on, Rita, don't say any more." Before I finished, fejiuningsky interrupted me and continued: "let's talk about the past later. Now let's talk about this batch of weapons and equipment."

Originally, I wanted to talk to him about the past and play emotional cards. When I heard what he said, I felt an unknown premonition in my heart. It seems that fejiuningsky is also a person with a clear distinction between public and private. Friends are friends and work is work. No matter how good the relationship between him and me is, when it comes to the interests of their respective troops, he deliberately plays an official role.

"General fejiuningsky," I said politely but firmly, "please come up with a plan on how to distribute the assault rifles of this group of infantry, and then we will discuss it."

"All right, all right, Rita, since you asked me to come up with a plan, I'll tell you what I think," said fejiuningsky with a smile. "There are 30000 rifles in that batch. As far as we are friends, I'll give you 5000 rifles."

"What, five thousand?" Hearing the figure given by fejiuningsky, I choked and said: "Comrade General, is it too little?"

"Quite a lot," said fejiuningsky with a smile. "Although we have got 25000 rifles, we can only arm three or four divisions at most when we take back such a few rifles. The rest of the troops have to change their clothes, at least after October."

"Comrade General, my troops are deployed opposite to the Germans. We may fight them at any time. If we don't have excellent weapons, we will pay heavy casualties in the battle." In front of this old superior, who is both a friend and an elder brother, I said with a thick face, "if not, we'll still have one and half of these weapons. Do you think that's ok?"

"No, absolutely not." As soon as I said that, it attracted the firm opposition of fejiuningsky: "to give you 5000 rifles, it's all based on our old friendship, otherwise I won't give you a gun."

"Comrade General," I continued, "since you are my old superior and friend, you should take care of me. You can't watch my troops die and die because of poor equipment. Let me be a bare commander?"

Vasilevsky, who was sitting opposite me, couldn't help laughing when he looked at me complaining. At the other end of the phone, feijiuningsky was obviously in a dilemma. After a long time, he said, "well, Rita, since you say so, I'll give you another 7000. That's the last number. Don't bargain with me any more?"

"Please, please, comrade general, can you give me more?" I can't help but think of the situation of young girls bargaining with the boss in the store. I can't help but use it in the negotiation with fijiuningsky. However, after this sweet voice came out, I felt goose bumps all over my body: "add a little more, I don't want too much, just give me ten thousand sticks. How about that? "

When I said this, I caught a glimpse of vasilevsky and shumilov covering their mouths and smiling back and forth. I couldn't help but smile awkwardly at them. It's estimated that feijiuningsky on the opposite side was also tortured by my voice, so he gritted his teeth and simply said, "OK, 9000 or more. If you don't think it's enough, I won't give you one. "

When I heard what fejiuningsky said, I felt that my goal had been basically achieved, so I said, "well, comrade general, since that's the case, nine thousand is nine thousand. Thank you, thank you for your generosity

"All right, Rita." There was Ustinov's voice in the receiver. "General fejiuningsky has been pissed off by you. Do you have anything else to say to me? If not, I'll hang up. "

"Please wait a moment, comrade member of the people's Committee. I have something else to tell you. " Although part of the infantry equipment has been solved, the tank equipment is not available yet. The German Tiger tanks, even the best T-34 of the Soviet army at present, are helpless, not to mention the early T-26 and so on. Putting such tanks into the battlefield can not be of much use except for the German tank soldiers as targets. Therefore, I intend to ask for more new t-5455 tanks from Ustinov, To equip Colonel berey's newly formed 33rd tank army.

"Let's talk about something. I still have a lot of work to do." Hastened Ustinov.

"Comrades of the people's Committee," I said in a pleading tone, "the 33rd tank army is equipped with old tanks, but it's not the opponent of the German tanks. I wonder if you can give us some new tanks?"

Ustinov was silent for a moment, and then asked in a voice, "how much do you want?"

I think that vasilevsky has just said that at present, the output of the Arsenal can only reach the level of 70000 rifles and 170 tanks per month. If you want too much, Ustinov will not agree, so I pondered for a long time, and finally tentatively asked: "comrades of the people's Committee, can you give me 300 tanks? It's a new type of tank with relatively large output. " Originally, I wanted to talk about the type of tank directly, but I saw that there were commanders in the room who were not classified enough, so I could only vaguely replace them with new tanks“ What? " Ustinov was shocked by the amount I said: "Hello, I said Rita, do you know the monthly output of our arsenal at present?" Before I could answer, he said to himself, "100000 rifles and 220 tanks. But as soon as you open your mouth, you need 300. You know that's more than a month's output. If you give them to your group army, what should those tank group army do? " When I heard that the equipment output he said was different from that of vasilevsky, I was stunned. But I soon remembered that I had made a mistake. Vasilevsky said the output of the first 20 days, not that of the whole month. Ustinov said: "with the current manufacturing technology and scale of our arsenal, the manufacturing time of a new tank is 7000, which is only a little lower than the 8000 man hours when the T-34 was put into production in 1940. If you want to shorten the manufacturing time, it will be at least until May 1944, when it may be reduced to about 4000 working hours... "After finishing a series of data in a hurry, Ustinov flatly rejected me and said," Rita, don't say it's you, even Zhukov or the Supreme Commander himself, I can't give you so many tanks. "