Chapter 1301

After listening to kirilov's reminder, I immediately straightened my back and reported to vatujing, "senior general, we have a reconnaissance team nearby to search for the amber room. I suggest that they complete the task." In order to prevent my opinion from being opposed by watujing or the hysterical curator, I specially added, "the base was discovered by this team."

After listening to what I said, vatukin was obviously stunned for a moment, and then asked hesitantly, "I don't know who is the commander of the reconnaissance team?"

"Travkin, Captain travkin, is the deputy commander of the reconnaissance battalion." Kirilov replied preemptively: "he was going to be promoted to the rank of captain a few months ago, but he is still a captain because of other delay."

"Rita, if I'm not mistaken," broke in rokosovsky. "Is this captain travkin my man? It seems that he was surrounded by the superior forces of the German army when he was on a mission. When he was on the verge of extinction, you personally led people to save him and his subordinates, so they joined your independent division. "

Rokosovsky's words aroused watujing's curiosity. He quickly asked, "what's going on?"

Kirilov, who knew about the whole incident, quickly explained in detail how we rescued travkin and how we made him join our army. After hearing this, watujing nodded and said with approval, "this is an excellent scout commander. I believe he will be able to complete the task successfully if he is given the task." At this point, he suddenly looked at me and said, "by the way, comrade oshanina, why is the promotion of the golden rank of Tel Aviv delayed? He made such a great contribution this time. Even if he was given the rank of captain, he was a bit wronged. I think so. He was directly promoted to the rank of major; Besides, as far as I know, there has never been a battalion commander in your reconnaissance battalion. Let him be the battalion commander directly. "

From my heart, travkin has made such a great contribution. Even if vatukin doesn't promote his rank, I will promote his position and rank when he comes back. Now that watujing is in place in one step, I will push the boat forward and say, "senior general, since you say so, I will resolutely obey your orders."

"Well, comrade watujing, let's stop standing here." As soon as I finished speaking, rokosowski immediately urged vatukin: "there is a war room nearby. We'd better go there to discuss how to search for the whereabouts of cultural relics."

Rokosovsky took us to the war room with a good command of the road, and we all sat around the long wooden table with a white table. Then watujing turned around and asked a staff officer standing behind him, "do you have a map?"

"Yes, comrade commander." The staff officer agreed and took out a folded map from his official bag. After it was unfolded, he put it in front of watujing.

After staring at the map for a while, vatukin looked up and asked me, "Comrade oshanina, you should know the significance of this base, even if I don't say it. If the Germans know that we have occupied this place, they will send troops to fight for it regardless of everything. Have you taken any measures? "

"Yes, senior general." I quickly stood up and pointed out on the map with my hand, "I deployed yershov's close guard 22nd regiment to the north of the base, and Colonel Carmela's close guard 6th mopping regiment to the south. As for the defense in the west, I plan to deploy major general Xie Liujin's 89th division when they arrive. Among them, two regiments of the division will focus on the northwest to stop the German troops from Zhitomir. "

"No, Rita. You can't do this." As soon as I finished speaking, rokosovsky raised his objection. He pointed to the map and looked at me with his eyes. He said, "you can't deploy defense forces simply based on the map, but also consider the actual situation here. If you look at the enemy's convoy of cultural relics, after leaving the base, it first drove south for about two kilometers, then turned around and went west through the forest to darytomir. Therefore, it would be totally wrong for you to focus your defense on the northwest, because the enemy is not coming from the northwest but from the southwest. Do you understand? "

"I see, Comrade General." As for rocosovsky's reminder, I just wanted to say something with a polite smile, but the voice calling for a report outside the door interrupted me.

"Who's out there?" Watujing turned to look at the door and asked with some displeasure.

A loud voice came from the door: "report, major general Xie Liujin, commander of the 89th division of Jinwei sixth group army, has been ordered to come!"

"Come in!" Watujing said a loud word to the outside, and then stood up. When Xie Liujin came in, he took the initiative to shake hands with him.

Watujing may not even dream that watujing is still here, so that after being held by watujing, he still stands in a daze. Watujingsong opened his hand, pointed to the table and said, "major general, please come here. General rokosovsky has something to tell you."

"General rokosovsky?" When Xie Liujin heard the name, his behavior became more formal. He didn't expect to see two commanders of the front army in this room at the same time.

I looked at him standing in the same place and urged him: "Sir, what are you still doing there? Come here and let general rokosovsky arrange your defense. "

After listening to rokosovsky's deployment, and after a moment's silence, sherekin raised such a question: "general, I don't understand why you asked us to deploy only one battalion in the northwest. You should know that the nearest place is Zhitomir, and the Germans can reach us on foot, two hours at most."

"Comrade major general, that's a good question." Rokosovsky kindly explained: "from the map, this line is too short. But why didn't we build the road here? Because all along the way are swamps and peat roads, which are not suitable for vehicles. So you just need to build defensive positions at some commanding heights to completely stop the German attack. "

Sitting on one side, watujing raised his hand and looked at his watch, then muttered in a low voice, "Damn, how come the reconnaissance battalion commander hasn't come yet?" After that, he turned his eyes to me. In order not to affect rokosovsky's assignment to scheliujin, he asked in a low voice, "oshanina, did you inform the reconnaissance battalion commander to come here?"

"Don't worry, Comrade General." Before we went into the war room, kirilov told me privately that he had informed travkin, so I immediately stood up and reported to him that "major travkin has been informed, and I believe he will be here soon."

Although I told vatukin that travkin would be there soon. But it wasn't until an hour later, when everyone was about to lose patience, that the dusty travkin finally arrived.

When he came into the room and saw that there were so many big people in the room, he couldn't help hesitating and didn't know who to report to. I coughed and said, "Comrade travkin, report to the commander of the front army. He has important tasks to give you later."

"Commander of the front army, Captain travkin, deputy commander of the reconnaissance battalion of the sixth group army of the guards, reports to you..."

Before he had finished his words, vatukin went over with a smile, took his hand, and said in a friendly way, "Comrade travkin, I want to correct you two points: first, you are not a captain, but a major; The position is not vice battalion commander, but battalion commander. "

"Comrades commander," said travkin, looking sideways at vatukin, though he still held his hand tightly to vatukin. "Is this all true?" he asked excitedly

"Yes, major trafkin." I purposely bit the word major very clearly and said to him with a smile, "in view of your great contributions in this reconnaissance mission, the commander of the front army has personally promoted your position and rank."

After hearing what I said, travkin released vatukin's hand, stepped back, straightened his back again, and replied, "I'd like to serve the Soviet motherland!"

"Major, come here!" Watujing called travkin to the front and back of the table and said to him, "this morning, a German team left the base. According to our understanding, there are precious cultural relics on the car. I hope you can immediately lead a team to find out where the German put these cultural relics. How are you, confident? "

Instead of answering immediately, travkin asked cautiously, "Comrade commander of the front army, may I ask what cultural relics are in the car?" In order to avoid making him think he was reckless, he specially explained, "if we know what's inside, it's easier for us to detect."

Vatukin turned and looked at the curator sitting next to him, asking for his advice. When I saw the curator frown, my heart hung. If he resolutely refused to tell trafkin what was loaded in the car, the reconnaissance team's search for the amber room would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Fortunately, the hysterical and arrogant curator was very reasonable this time. After thinking for a moment, he said to watujing, "Comrade watujing, in order to let them quickly find out where the cultural relics are, you can tell him what's in the car. But in order to prevent leakage, he is the only one in the whole reconnaissance team who knows about it. "

After getting permission from the curator, vatukin turned to look at travkin and said, "major, have you heard of amber room?"

"I've not only heard of it, I've seen it several times." "You know, I'm from Leningrad. Before the war, I visited Ekaterina palace where the amber room was stored almost every year..." he said suddenly, and then his face showed an unbelievable expression. "Comrade commander of the front army, you won't tell me, Is that the Amber Room loaded in the car? "

Watujing turned to look at me and said with a smile: "Comrade oshanina, it seems that we have chosen the right person. Your reconnaissance battalion commander is very smart. I haven't said it yet. He actually guessed what I was going to say. " After that, he turned to travkin and said, "yes, comrade major, your task is to follow the German convoy and find out where their last stop is, so that we can take action in the future and take back the amber room which was robbed by the German."

"But the German army has been gone for a day. I don't know where to go to find them," he said“ Don't worry, comrade major. " Rokosovsky interrupted again: "I was the garrison commander of Zhitomir a few years ago, and I am very familiar with the terrain here. After leaving the base and arriving at Zhitomir, the motorcade will certainly drive westward along the highway after a short stop. I think they will arrive at Lutsk after passing through the new town of wallensky and Rovno. There, they may find a place to store the cultural relics, or change trains to transport things to Germany. That is to say, you must catch up with the German convoy before they arrive at Lutsk and find out where the relics are After rokosovsky finished speaking, vatukin solemnly asked travkin, "Comrade major, how many people are you going to take to carry out this arduous task?" Travkin thought about it, and then replied, "I think five people are enough."“ Five people? " Hearing this number, almost everyone was stunned. After a long time, watujing asked, "is it too little?"“ No, comrade commander of the front army. " "Five people are enough, and if there are more people, they will arouse the suspicion of the Germans," he replied“ Who are you going to take with you? " Because this is the most important thing, so I can't wait for travkin to finish. Travkin looked at me and said, "Comrade commander, as I intend to disguise the unit as a German army, I need a German Translator first. And the most suitable person is lieutenant gretka Gretka was a German officer who defected to our department in the battle of Stalingrad. If he came out, the risk of the detachment being seen through would be greatly reduced. After confirming the candidate, I asked, "who else?"“ In addition to me and lieutenant gretka, we need a radio operator, because we need to get the message back through the radio in time Travkin continued: "the other person is an old scout, who has rich experience in reconnaissance. If you have him, the success rate will be greatly improved. As for the last person to choose, it's a bit troublesome. " Hearing that travkin said this, he suddenly stopped talking. Vatukin could not help but ask anxiously, "major, who else is there to choose?" Travkin's eyes turned to the curator sitting next to him, who was almost ignored by everyone. Then he said slowly, "I also hope that an expert who understands cultural relics can join our team, so that we can identify whether the cultural relics are genuine in the shortest time after we find them." As soon as his words were finished, everyone in the room turned their eyes to the curator sitting there in a daze.