Chapter 1358

At the beginning of December, the troops moved into Smolensk and were stationed in Smolensk, yarcevo, viazima and roslavur. The headquarters of the group army is located in the Dnieper District of Smolensk. Our task is to help the local residents rebuild their homes as well as to make a rest.

After we were stationed in Dnieper District, kirilov introduced the situation of Smolensk to me while the staff were arranging the headquarters: "Smolensk was founded on September 27, 1937, with a total area of 49800 square kilometers. The number of administrative units in the week is 25 districts, 7 cities under the state, 8 cities under the state, 3 urban districts, 17 towns, 419 administrative farms... The capital of the state is Smolensk City, which was built in 862, 419 kilometers away from Moscow. "

Before kirilov had finished speaking, major bukov, the deputy head of the guard regiment, hurried in from the outside. He came up to me, leaned down to my ear and said in a low voice, "Comrade commander, the high official of Smolensk, comrade brusoek is here, and he is at the door now."

"Comrade major, how can you keep him waiting outside?" When I heard bukov say this, I quickly told him, "please invite him in!"

As bukov walked out the door, I stood up and pulled the hem of my uniform. Then I said to my colleagues sitting on both sides of the long conference table, "comrades commander, comrade brusoek, the high official of Smolensk, is here. Let's meet him."

As soon as we got to the door, we saw bukov leading a middle-aged man with a big body and a smart appearance into the room.

"Dear Ivan Petrovich, is that you?" Seeing the middle-aged man behind bukov, kirilov passed me, stepped forward two steps, took each other's hand, and said excitedly, "I'm not dreaming, old man. I can see you here."

After kirilov held his hand, he hesitated for a moment, although his face also showed a surprise expression, "my God, you are kirilov, what I see is you or your ghost."

"I'm alive and you're alive. It's not easy." Kirilov did not let go of each other's hand. Then he put his left hand on each other's shoulder and pulled it in front of him. They hugged each other tightly.

After the two separated, kirilov took one side of his body and introduced him to me. He said, "Rita, I'd like to introduce you. This is my old friend Ivan Petrovich brusoek. He was the Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Committee of Smolensk before the war. I didn't expect that in just two or three years, he had been promoted to a senior official of the state." After that, he turned to brusoek and said, "old man, this is Comrade oshanina, commander of the sixth group army of our guards."

Brusoek must have never dreamed that the commander of the group army would be a young woman. He could not help opening his mouth in surprise and could not speak for a long time.

I couldn't help laughing at his surprise. As soon as kirilov finished his introduction, I took the initiative to hold his hand and politely said, "Hello, comrade brusoek, nice to meet you!"

Brusoek soon regained his composure, took my hand and said politely, "Hello, general oshanina!"

After kirilov had introduced the others to brusoek, we went to the conference table. I heard brusoek behind me asking kirilov in a low voice, "Comrade kirilov, I remember you worked in the Central Committee of the CPC. How could you work in the army?"

"Well, as early as the battle of Stalingrad, due to the shortage of political workers on the front line, the higher authorities transferred civilian personnel from various units to enrich the troops. It was at that time that I was transferred to the 62nd army as director of the political department. " Kirilov replied in a low voice: "later, I was transferred to oshanina's independent division and held the post of political commissar..."

After everyone was seated, brusoek asked me with a smile, "general oshanina, how about getting used to everything after arriving at Smolensk?"

Hearing his question, I couldn't help laughing bitterly. My heart said that I just arrived in Smolensk today. How can I know if I'm used to it? But out of politeness, I replied politely, "it's not bad. At least it's not as cold as Kiev."

My answer immediately made brusoek find the topic, "Comrade General, you don't know that we have a mild continental climate here. It's not too hot in summer and it's not too cold in winter. The annual average temperature is 4.3 degrees, and the coldest is January, which is 9.4 degrees below zero; The hottest is July, the highest is 17.1 degrees.... "

"It's really nice," I agreed after he finished, "it's so cool in summer, it's a good place for summer." Having said this, I changed the topic in time. "By the way, comrade brusoek, as far as I know, Smolensk is an important industrial area. Now the enemy has been driven away by us. I don't know how the factory is preserved. Can we start as soon as possible?"

"It's not very good, Comrade General." Hearing my question, brusoek immediately looked sad: "before the war, the main industrial centers in the state were Smolensk City, roslavur City, safonovo City, viazima City, yarcevo City, upper dneprchen City, etc., with more than 35000 industrial workers. Surrounded by the electric machinery industry, road construction machinery and energy equipment manufacturing, the chemical and food industries also play an important role in the state's economic share.

After the outbreak of the war, many enterprises moved to the rear, and the factories that were not moved were all destroyed by the Germans. In a short period of time, they could not resume production at all. "

"Don't worry, old man." Kirilov said with a smile after brunsok finished, comforting him: "we are now resting in Smolensk state. If you need anything, just speak up and we will send troops to support you."

"Great, that's great." After listening to kirilov's words, brusoek said excitedly: "although many refugees have returned, there is still a serious shortage of manpower to clean up the city's debris. If we can get the support of the army, the situation will be completely different."

"Don't worry, comrade brusoek." As soon as he finished, I said with a smile, "our Red Army is originally the people's soldiers. It is our bounden duty to help the city residents rebuild their homes."

"Soldiers of the people?" Kirilov and I are used to some new words that come up frequently. After listening to this, brusoek repeated the word I said, and then said excitedly, "Comrade General, you are so vivid."

As soon as his voice fell, there was a deep explosion outside. Hearing this voice, all the commanders, except brusoek, including me, got up from their seats. The busy staff also stopped and went to the window to see what happened outside. But I couldn't see anything clearly except a puff of black smoke in the distance.

After listening for a moment, I found that there was no explosion outside, so I told akhromeyev, "major, go and ask what happened outside and why there was an explosion."

After akhromeyev left, I asked brusoek to sit down again and continue to discuss with him about cleaning up the city walls. Since this is a local affair, and our task is only to cooperate with them, after I put forward the proposal to clean up the districts one by one, I gave kirilov the right to speak and let their two old friends continue to negotiate.

More than ten minutes later, akhromeyev hurried in from the outside. After he came to me, he respectfully reported: "Comrade commander, it's clear that when a group of workers were cleaning up the bricks and rubble in the factory building, a bomb buried in the rubble exploded}, causing 11 deaths and 75 injuries on the spot..."

Hearing that there were so many casualties in the explosion just now, brusoek couldn't help but be anxious: "how can this be possible? How can there be a bomb in the factory?"

Akhromeyev turned to look at brusoek, and then replied humbly, "Comrade brusoek, maybe it was the bomb dropped by our army after occupying Smolensk and unwilling to fail when the bandits sent out planes to bomb. But I don't know why. The bomb didn't explode until today. "

"Where are the wounded?" Before akhromeyev finished, I asked in a hurry.

"It's been taken to a military hospital nearby." When akhromeyev said this, he suddenly showed a embarrassed expression on his face, "but... But..."

Seeing akhromeyev's words suddenly faltering, I urged impatiently, "major, if you have something, just say it at one go. Don't falter all the time."

"Well, comrade commander." Akhromeyev quickly straightened up and reported to me, "although all the wounded were sent to the hospital, because the hospital has just been established, there is a lack of drugs, especially plasma. Among the more than 70 wounded, at least half of them need immediate blood transfusion.... "

I stood up and walked back and forth in the room with my hands on my back, thinking about where to go to get plasma to treat the wounded. The others in the room were afraid of interrupting my train of thought. They didn't speak and just looked at me silently.

After walking around the house for more than ten times, I finally came up with a solution. So he walked quickly to the door and called out, "major bukov, please come here."

With my shouts, bukov, who had been standing in the corridor chatting with others, came to me quickly, straightened up and asked, "Comrade commander, what's your instruction?"

"Major, how many guards are there near the headquarters?" I asked briefly.

"There are two battalions," bukov replied without thinking

"Major, this is the case. Dozens of workers were wounded by bombs dropped by the bandits when they were cleaning up the ruins of the factory. They are in urgent need of blood transfusion, but there is not enough plasma in the hospital I spoke very quickly to bukov and said, "you should take a battalion to the military hospital immediately and let the soldiers bleed for the injured workers. Do you understand? "

"I see, comrade commander." Bukov agreed excitedly, raised his hand to salute, turned and trotted away.

On hearing this order, brusoek immediately came up to me, held my hand and said, "thank you, Comrade General. On behalf of the injured workers, I thank you."

"You're welcome, comrade brusoek." I said to him with a smile, "I just said that our soldiers are the children of the people. When something happens to the common people, we are duty bound to help them. " At this time, kirilov also came over and reminded me, "Rita, since you asked the guard camp to bleed the injured workers, should we go to the hospital to comfort the wounded?"“ Yes, comrade military commissar, you are right to remind us that we should go to the wounded. " I turned to chisgakov and bzikov, who were still standing at the table, and said, "deputy commander, chief of staff, you two are going together." Just as we were about to go out, Lop Hoff, director of communications, suddenly called me at the back: "Comrade commander, your phone number!" When I heard that there was a phone call for me, the first thing I thought was that we no longer belong to the first front army of Ukraine in vatukin, nor to the Belarusian front army incorporated into rokosovsky for the time being. The person who called me would not be any of them, so I instinctively asked, "where is it from?"“ It's from Moscow, comrade commander. " Said lophoff respectfully“ Comrade military commissar and Comrade brusoek, "I heard that the call for me came from Moscow, so I apologized to them and said," I have something to do now. I can't go to the hospital with you to visit the wounded. Please forgive me. " After hearing this, brusoek waved to me and said magnanimously, "Comrade General, if you have something to do, please help yourself. It's enough for a few of us to go to the hospital." After they left the headquarters, I came to lophoff, took the microphone in his hand, put it in his ear and said, "I'm o'shanina. Where are you, please?"“ Rita, I'm Zhukov Zhukov's familiar voice came from the receiver: "what's the matter with you? I seem to hear you say that you are going to the hospital or something?"“ Well, comrade marshal. " Hearing Zhukov's question, I quickly and truthfully reported that: "when a group of workers in Smolensk were cleaning up the ruins of the factory building, a bomb buried in the middle exploded, causing great casualties. After the injured workers were sent to the nearby military hospital, they found that there was not enough plasma, so I sent a soldier from the guard camp to the hospital to give blood transfusion to the injured workers. Before you called, we were going to visit the injured workers in the hospital“ So that's what happened. I see. " Zhukov said in a voice“ Marshal, "although Zhukov and I are very familiar, I also know that he will not specially call me to chat. There must be something important to explain to me, so I asked carefully," do you have any instructions? "“ That's right, Rita. I'm calling to tell you what kind of replenishment your group army will receive in the near future. " After Zhukov finished, he began to read me a supplementary list: "because you were in a very serious situation of attrition in the early fighting, this time the supreme command will supplement you with 45000 to no perfect soldiers, half of them recovered and discharged from the hospital. They have rich combat experience. In addition, you will get 30000 new assault rifles and 36 million bullets; Six thousand light machine guns and ten million bullets; One thousand heavy machine guns and eight million bullets; Three hundred mortars of various types and 100000 shells... "I quickly recorded a series of data reported by Zhukov, and I couldn't help but feel happy. If I wait for these weapons to be replenished, even if tens of thousands of recruits are replenished, the troops will be able to form combat effectiveness in the shortest time. After hearing Zhukov's report on the total number of light weapons, I thought there was only so much that could be added to us. Unexpectedly, he continued: "in order to strengthen the offensive capability of your group army, we will add 180 tanks to you, half of which are new tanks you are familiar with; In addition, I have assigned you two flying regiments. In this way, when you need air support, you don't have to ask for instructions at all levels. You can directly give orders to the head of the flying regiment and let them carry out combat tasks according to your orders. "