Chapter 1207

On the eve of the grassland front's attack on Kharkov, I called konev. Maybe I didn't call at the right time. I chose konev's busiest time. Maybe the messenger who asked him to answer the phone didn't tell him who was calling, so his voice was very blunt: "Hello, I'm konev, who is it?"“ Hello, comrade commander of the front army. " I recognized the impatience in his voice and said carefully and politely, "I'm o'shanina."“ It's comrade o'shanina. " Konev heard that it was me, and his tone became more relaxed. "You call me at this time. What's the matter?" Without waiting for me to speak, he added, "I can grant you all your requests except that your group army should be the main attacker." When I call konev at this time, I don't want to fight for the main attack task for the troops, but I want to personally go to the positions of the friendly forces to see their attack and German defense, so as to know myself and the enemy and win a hundred battles. As soon as he finished, I immediately went on to say, "Comrade commander of the front army, I'm calling you to visit your front positions."“ Go to the front and have a look? " "What can I see in the frontier?" konev asked“ I want to see how the commanders and fighters of the grassland front army bravely broke through the German defense and rushed into Kharkov. " In order to make konev readily agree to my request, I intentionally put on a high hat to him: "I believe that the troops under your command will surely achieve brilliant results in this offensive battle." When konev heard me say this, he laughed twice and said, "well, since you want to go to the front, the sergeant who went to managarov nodded and said excitedly," yes, comrade general, we have met before. " I looked him over again and found that I had no impression of him at all. So I could only shake my head and say apologetically, "I'm sorry, chief. I really can't remember where I've seen you!" The sergeant coughed and said awkwardly, "Comrade General, maybe you didn't see me clearly at that time, and the time interval was quite long, so it's normal that you can't recognize me." When I was at a loss, chisgakov asked the soldier with a smile, "what's your name, Sergeant?"“ My name is Florin The sergeant replied, "those who used to be like the Leningrad front army, who were assigned to managarov not long ago, came up, took my hand and said friendly," Hello, general oshanina. I've got a call from commander konev, and I'm going to send someone to pick you up, but you arrived first. " After shaking hands with chisgakov, he said to us, "please sit down quickly, and take time to drink some water and eat something. Otherwise, as soon as the battle starts in two hours, you will not be in the mood to eat. "