When we started again, bukov sat in the co pilot's seat again, while pofsky moved from the front row to the back row, so as to facilitate our conversation.
Povsky said with emotion: "Comrade commander, I used to complain that the transport team was too slow to transport ammunition to the artillery, but today, after contacting these Autobots, I realized that I was wrong about them. It's not that they don't try their best, but because they are limited by various objective conditions, the speed of transporting materials by the transport team can't be improved all the time. "
Povsky's words remind me of the traffic line that was strangled by us warplanes on the Korean battlefield in later generations. It's lucky that one of the ten vehicles could be sent to the front line. Now the German army has not launched an attack on us. The transportation of materials is only limited by the road conditions and the number of vehicles. Once the battle broke out, our transportation lines would certainly become the focus of the German attack. At that time, whether the materials from the rear Quartermaster station could be smoothly transported to the front positions is a big problem.
Although I thought of many ways, I was soon overthrown one by one. So far, I have returned to the headquarters of the group army. I haven't come up with a reason. At this moment, bukov, who was sitting in the co pilot's seat, suddenly said in surprise: "why, major Yushchenko is standing outside the headquarters with an anxious look on his face. Is something wrong?"
Hearing what bukov said, I quickly looked out of the window. At the entrance of the building where the headquarters was located, major Yushchenko, the head of the guard, was walking back and forth, with an expression of uneasiness. It seemed that something might have happened.
And at this time, he also found our team. He stopped, stood in the same place, looked at it, and ran towards the car where I was. Seeing his reaction, I knew in my heart that something must have happened, otherwise my heart would not behave so impolitely.
Before the car stopped, Yushchenko jumped in front of the car and opened the door beside me. I could not blame him for his recklessness, but anxiously asked, "what's the matter, major Yushchenko? What's the matter?"
"Commander, comrade commander." Maybe when he just ran over, he was in a bit of a hurry, so when Yushchenko spoke, he kept panting: "good news, good news, great news."
"Good news?" When I saw that it was not an accident or something, the stone hanging in my heart fell to the ground and asked, "Comrade major, I don't know what the good news is?"
"The military commissar and the chief of staff are back." Yushchenko's voice suddenly became shrill because of excitement. "In addition to them, there are many commanders and fighters coming back."
"Are the military commissars and chief of staff discharged from the hospital after their injuries?" I thought Yushchenko was talking about the two injured with chisgakov, so I got out of the car and asked without expression, "when did they come back?"
As soon as I landed on one foot, I realized it was wrong. Yushchenko and I, the military commissar and chief of staff of the group army, have never met. He would not be so excited by two strangers. Then the person who can be called by him is ready to come out. Thinking of this, I could not help feeling excited. I asked tentatively, "major, are you talking about major kirilov and major akhromeyev?"
Yushchenko might have guessed the answer at the sight of me. He nodded his head excitedly and said for a long time: "yes, yes, comrades commander, that's them. They all came back from Kiev alive."
I couldn't help cheering and was about to rush into the building. Who knows that I forget that I only have one foot on the ground. As soon as I run forward, I suddenly lose my center of gravity and fall heavily on the ground.
Next to Yushchenko and several soldiers immediately helped me up, locked up and asked: "Comrade commander, are you ok?"
I stood up with their help, heard his question, waved my hand, and ran all the way into the building regardless of the pain. Because I ran too fast, even the guard at the door saluted me, but I didn't care to return the salute.
Although I am now the commander of the group army, I don't feel like I used to be at arm's length in commanding the army because I don't have my own effective subordinates. Although Yushchenko and bukov are also my old subordinates, they can only be responsible for security work with their ability, and they can't help me in military command at all. Now kirilov and akhromeyev are back, which means I have a right arm again. As long as they are placed in the right position, the command system of this army can operate more efficiently.
When I rushed into the headquarters, I saw that it was kirilov, who had been my partner for six months, who was sitting at the table with his back to the door and chatting with Danilov. After taking a deep breath, I opened my mouth and cried, "Comrade military commissar!"
As I yelled, kirilov turned his head. After seeing that it was me, he immediately jumped out of his seat, walked quickly towards me, opened his arms, and said excitedly, "Hello, Rita, nice to see you again!"
When we hugged each other, I couldn't help but feel my nose hurt and my eyes began to wet when I thought of this unknown old partner who could still appear in front of me alive. Tears turned and turned in my eyes, like broken beads.
After the separation, kirilov saw that I was in tears. Although he was red eyed, he comforted me and said, "Rita, don't be sad. Although many of our comrades died, didn't akhromeyev and I come back alive?"
"Ahlomeyev, where is he?" As soon as I heard kirilov mention my former chief of staff of the division, my eyes began to search around the room. I just paid attention to kirilov, but ignored his existence.
"Here I am, comrade commander." Behind me came the familiar voice of akhromeyev“ I'm fine. I'm still alive. "
Ignoring the tears on my face, I turned around, grabbed ahlomeyev's arm, shook it vigorously, and said excitedly, "just come back, just come back, so that we can fight side by side and avenge those comrades who died."
Danilov, who had been standing by, sighed when he saw the reunion of our old comrades in arms, turned around, took out a handkerchief from his trouser pocket and covered his face tightly. After a while, I heard him sniff, put a handkerchief on his face and quickly put it into his pocket.
I took kirilov's hand to the table, pressed him on his seat, and then asked, "Comrade military commissar, tell me, how did you come out of Kiev and how many people did you bring?"
"Comrade commander," akhromeyev came to me and said respectfully, "please allow me to give you a detailed account."
Looking at the ragged akhromeyev in front of me, I guessed that their way to break through must be very difficult, so I nodded, pointed to the empty position beside me and said, "major, you'd better sit down and talk." With that, I just sat down beside kirilov.
Akhromeyev sat opposite me and told me clearly how they had broken through the encirclement: "after Kiev fell, general Romanov led the main force to break through the encirclement to the northwest. However, another part of the troops under the command of comrades of the military commissar and I were cut off on the East Bank of the Dnieper River, unable to cross the river and join the main forces. Therefore, we had to continue to choose the direction to break through and break through to the weak defensive areas of the German army in the East.
When we broke through the encirclement, we had more than 700 troops, well-equipped and sufficient ammunition. We are divided into two parts. Major general wachuk leads his remaining troops to open the way in front of us; The military commissar and I were in the back, taking in the rout and wounded, following general wachuk and turning east, ready to cross the enemy's blockade and join our main forces.
It was smooth at first, but when the troops arrived at ligov, the forward and the German armored forces met. After more than two hours of fighting, in addition to more than a dozen wounded soldiers out of danger, general wachuk and his other officers and men all died.
In order to avoid a hard struggle with the German army, which is superior in strength and equipment, after discussion with the military commissar, I decided to turn south, bypass the German area with tight defense, detour to the Kursk area, and join the main forces of our army.
However, our whereabouts were soon detected by the German army. In addition to sending ground forces to search for our whereabouts, they also sent planes for reconnaissance. Fortunately, the forest coverage area of our activity area is still very large, which virtually provides us with a favorable hiding place.
... hunger and sickness, let our troops continue to downsize. When we arrived in Suja, there were only more than 100 people left in the whole army. The rest either died or left the army. At that time, it was suggested that if we could not reach our defense area within a few days, the rest of us would be lost.
Just then the defecting captain Grimes made a suggestion to us. He said, "since we don't have many people now, why don't we disguise ourselves as German troops and go through the enemy's defensive zone in a swaggering manner to join our main forces."
When I heard the name of gramus, I was a little surprised. I didn't expect that our army was in such a dangerous situation, and gramus, a group of defecting officers and soldiers, would continue to follow our army. It's really beyond my expectation. So I interrupted akhromeyev and asked anxiously, "besides gramus, who are the defectors?"
Akhromeyev thought about it, and then he counted the number with his fingers. "There's captain gramus, his adjutant lieutenant gretka, Captain Beckman, his adjutant Lieutenant Braun, Captain Peller, Captain Danglars, corporal Wingle and so on."
I can't help but be overjoyed to hear a series of names read out by akhromeyev. You know, these are German officers and men who voluntarily surrendered to our army during the battle of Stalingrad. Unexpectedly, they didn't waver when our army was in the most difficult time. Instead, they continued to follow kirilov and akhromeyev. After a long journey, they came to our defense area.
Only akhromeyev said, "Comrade commander, as you know, they were originally German soldiers. Once they put on military uniforms, they are no different from real German soldiers. It is because of their help that we can successfully pass through one defense line after another of the German army and successfully return to the defense area of the army.
We were lucky. After finishing the task of crossing the line of fire, we met a reconnaissance team. After secretly observing us for a long time, they felt that we were our own people, so they came to contact us and led us here.
Comrade commander, do you know? When I and my comrades in the military commissar heard that you were the commander of this group army, how happy were you? " In the face of me smiling at him, he continued: "I believe that as long as you are in command of this force, we will be able to achieve the final victory." As for akhromeyev's praise, I didn't get carried away. I just gave a polite smile. At the same time, I was wondering whether I should report their arrival to vatukin to see what kind of decision he would make. While I was still thinking about it, Danilov next to me suddenly said, "Comrade commander, there is something I haven't had time to tell you." I didn't know what Danilov was going to say, so I turned to him and said politely, "Comrade deputy commander, if you have anything to do, please speak up."“ Well, comrade commander. " Although Danilov's seniority is deeper than mine, he still spoke to me politely: "before you come back, I have already called to report the news of kirilov's return to Comrade watujing."“ What did the comrade commander of the front army say when he knew about it? " I heard Danilov say this and asked nervously, "did he say how to arrange kirilov for them?" Danilov may have guessed that I would have this question for a long time. After nodding his head in affirmation, he said the answer directly: "after receiving my phone call, commander vatujing reported this matter to Marshal Zhukov and Comrade vasilevsky respectively. After obtaining their permission, he officially announced that Comrade kirilov was temporarily acting as a member of the Military Commission of the group army, The rank remained unchanged. As for the appointment of other returned personnel, you are in full charge. "“ That's great. That's great. " When I heard the good news, I took Danilov's hand excitedly, shook it vigorously, and said gratefully, "thank you, thank you, comrade deputy commander. In this way, I can partner with my old comrades in arms again. "