Chapter 1458

I really didn't expect to see travkin here again. You know, soon after they went to Lutsk to carry out their mission, our army was transferred from the Ukrainian front army to the Belarusian front army, and we lost contact with him. Although I have been thinking about him all the time, I couldn't ask him even if I wanted to.

When travkin heard that his name was called, he was stunned for a moment. But he soon found out that it was me who called him. His face showed a surprised expression: "Comrade commander, it's you!"

"Major," Zhukov asked travkin with a straight face before we could say a word, "what's the matter

Travkin quickly turned to Zhukov, straightened his back and reported, "marshal, I have just received the reconnaissance information from pinproskurov. The director asked me to send it to you."

Zhukov pushed the door open, reached out and motioned to travkin to give him the information. Travkin took a document from his briefcase, respectfully handed it to Zhukov, raised his hand, and then turned to the motorcycle. As soon as he got into the sidecar, the motorcycle started. After turning around in place, he drove forward along the road.

Taking advantage of Zhukov's intelligence, Khrushchev whispered to me, "Rita, the major just now is your subordinate. Comrade watujing felt that his ability was not bad, so he was appointed deputy director of the Reconnaissance Office of the front army. "

When Khrushchev said this, I immediately remembered that he knew how to find the amber room. At this moment, I wanted to know what the final reconnaissance result was, so I asked politely, "after I arranged for him to go to Lutsk to carry out the mission, my troops were transferred to Smolensk. I'm not very clear about what kind of reconnaissance result they have achieved. Comrades of the military commissar, don't you know that they have finished their task in the end? "

"I'll talk about it later." Before Khrushchev could speak, Zhukov took the lead and said, "drive, let's go back to the headquarters of the front army."

On the way to the headquarters, I frowned and tried to think about the scale of the fighting between the Soviet and German sides in the proskurov area. Unfortunately, I didn't remember it until the jeep arrived at the headquarters. After all, in my impression, except for such heavyweight battles as the battle of Moscow, the battle of Stalingrad, and the battle of Kursk, I am hardly impressed by other battles. Even the famous ten Stalin raids, I only know their names.

After returning to the headquarters, Zhukov put the reconnaissance information on the table, asked Khrushchev and I to sit down, and then walked back and forth in the room with his hands on his back. Seeing his action, I instinctively turned my head and looked at Khrushchev next to him, hoping to get some inspiration from him. As a result, when he met my eyes, he shook his head blankly and shrugged his shoulders, indicating that he did not know what had happened.

After walking in the room for a while, Zhukov quickly came to the table, pushed the information he had read to both of us, and said, "Comrade Khrushchev, Rita, you should know that our army has just ended the battle of Rovno luzk. After continuous fighting, the troops have become exhausted. In addition, the weather is so cold. Under such bad weather conditions, according to convention, we should stop all military operations and stay for rest. " Khrushchev and I did not understand the purpose of Zhukov's words, but we nodded our heads in abnormal cooperation.

"But judging from the present situation, we can't do it yet. We should take advantage of the favorable situation in which the enemy is defeated by us and launch a new offensive against the enemy in a short period of time. " Zhukov said as he sat down across from us and pushed the map on the table towards us, adding: "therefore, our new round of attack will start in a week."

"A new attack in a week?" When I heard Zhukov say this, I couldn't help but feel a thump in my heart. I secretly said that with the strength of the army, can we really launch a new offensive against the German army? I knew Zhukov didn't like to be interrupted when he was talking, so I listened to him quietly.

"We will use the main force of the front army to launch a fierce attack on the German army in the proskurov chernovitzer area." Zhukov said solemnly: "the purpose of our campaign here is to smash the main force of the German southern army group together with general konev's Ukrainian second front army."

I know in my heart that I just arrived from moziri today. It's impossible for me to know the battle plan. Although Khrushchev is a member of the military committee of the front army, his energy is almost focused on the local work. It is not surprising that he does not know the battle plan. Perhaps it was with this in mind that Zhukov introduced us to the destination and preparations of the campaign.

I waited for him to fall behind, and asked cautiously, "Comrade marshal, I want to ask, which troops are you going to put into this campaign? And general konev, who is cooperating with us in the war, plans to join those forces? "

"Good question, that's what I'm going to say next." Zhukov opened a small book, looked at the contents above, and began to say: "in this battle, the troops I plan to invest are general glicko's guards 1st group army, pokhov's 13th group army, zhulavrov's 18th group army, Moskalenko's 38th group army, chernyahovsky's 60th group army Rebarko's third group army of close guard tanks, katukov's first group army of tanks, lelushenko's fourth group army of tanks, and the second group army of the air force.... "

I was surprised to hear the serial numbers of troops he gave me. In the coming battle, we could join three tank groups at the same time. More importantly, I learned that chernyahovsky is still the commander of the 60th army. At the meeting a few hours ago, the general I saw representing the 60th army should be his deputy.

"Our enemy in front of us is the 1st and 4th group army of tanks supported by the 4th air force of German army..." without looking at the little book in front of him, Zhukov casually said a series of serial numbers of German troops and the deployment of our troops in the campaign: "the 1st group army of close guard, the 4th group army of tanks and the 3rd group army of close guard tanks, Responsible for the implementation of major raids on jortkov; The tasks assigned to the left wing groups of the front army are the 18th group army to attack hmelinik and the 38th group army to attack the flank of uman of the German army in the south for a few days. "

Having carefully written down what Zhukov had said, I raised my head and asked, "Comrade marshal, I don't know what general konev's troops are going to put into battle."

"Konev's 27th group army, 52nd group army, guards' 4th group army, tanks' 2nd group army, guards' tanks' 5th group army, tanks' 6th group army, from the front lines of vinogler, zvinigorodka, and shipola, carried out major raids in the direction of uman. The 5th and 7th group armies of the guards carried out auxiliary raids from the kilovgrad area to the direction of the new Ukrainian Ka. " Zhukov said with one breath that after finishing the name of konev's troops, he took a sip of cold tea on the table, and then said, "their campaign attempt is to smash the German 8th Army, divide the German southern army group, cut off the withdrawal of the German tank 1st army group, and cooperate with us to smash the German army group."

While recording what Zhukov said, I murmured in my heart that after my troops captured cherkaser, they once threatened uman's defense line. However, a few months later, general konev's troops, who took over our defense, still failed to capture uman from the German army.

Think of here, I unconsciously shriveled shriveled mouth, also gently snorted. I didn't expect that my little action was noticed by Zhukov. He asked curiously, "Rita, do you have any opinions on my deployment?"

"No, comrade marshal." I quickly put down my pen, stood up and said, "I think your deployment is very correct. There is no different view."

"But I just saw you shrivel and look scornful." But Zhukov broke the casserole and asked, "if you have any ideas, just say them. You are my deputy now. It's right for you to give me advice. "

"You are mistaken, comrade marshal." Hearing him say so, I quickly explained to myself: "after listening to the deployment you said, I feel that the German army is not our opponent at all, but I despise them in my heart."

Zhukov was perfunctorized by these two words. He looked at me suspiciously and said solemnly: "although we have the advantage in military strength, we can't take it lightly. As long as we succeed in smashing the main force of the German southern army group, then our troops will be able to advance to the border and let the aggressors drive out from our territory. "

"Yes, comrade marshal." As for Zhukov's statement, I immediately nodded my head and said, "I believe that it won't be long before we can drive the Germans out of our territory, and then march into Berlin to smash Hitler led Germany."

As soon as I finished, Khrushchev, sitting next to me, began to laugh. He looked at me and said, "Rita, I didn't expect you to be so optimistic about the outcome of this campaign. Tell me, how long do you think it will take us to reach the predetermined campaign target? "

Khrushchev's question aroused Zhukov's interest. He also looked at me with a smile and asked, "tell me about it, Rita. Do you think our two front armies can achieve their respective goals in this cooperative battle?"

"No problem, comrade marshal. I think we can definitely achieve the expected goal of the campaign." After giving them a positive answer, I put forward my own question: "but the time for thawing in spring is coming soon. I'm worried that the bad weather and muddy roads will adversely affect our campaign."

"Well, you are right to remind us that the upcoming spring thaw will cause great inconvenience to the mobilization of our troops and the transportation of materials." After he said this to me, he turned his head and looked at Khrushchev, "Comrade military commissar, I would like to ask you to return to the army for a while. After all, major general kleinukov can't compare with you in doing political and ideological work."

"Well, comrade Zhukov, since you say so, I will temporarily hand over the local work to others. I will come back to manage the political propaganda work of the front army first." Khrushchev readily agreed to Zhukov's request: "although our troops have been fighting incessantly since last summer, and the commanders and fighters are very tired, their morale and offensive spirit are very high due to repeated victories and good party and government work. I will arrange for political workers to go to the grassroots level to carry out propaganda work, mobilize all commanders and fighters to overcome all difficulties brought about by bad weather and complex conditions, liberate the territory of Ukraine occupied by the German army as soon as possible, and advance to the border one day earlier. "

When Khrushchev got up and left, I tentatively asked Zhukov, "marshal, I heard that my former deputy battalion commander, major trafkin, is now the deputy director of the Reconnaissance Office of the front army?"“ Major trafkin? " Zhukov frowned. After repeating the name, his brow immediately stretched out: "so you're talking about the major who sent me information on the road today?" Seeing that I nodded to confirm, he asked curiously, "what do you ask him to do?"“ That's right, comrade marshal. " In my opinion, Zhukov and I were the only two people in the room. We didn't have to worry about the confidentiality, so we put forward the question in our mind: "I want to ask about the amber room. Do you have a clue?"“ Amber room? " When Zhukov heard my question, he frowned and asked warily, "Rita, who did you listen to about this?" Zhukov's words surprised me. I was tongue tied for a long time before I said, "Yuan... Marshal, don't you... Don't you know, major travkin, is it my order that they go to look for the amber room?"“ Did you give the order? " After listening to me, Zhukov raised his hand and slapped heavily on the forehead. He said with chagrin, "yes, how can I forget that he is the deputy commander of your reconnaissance battalion. That's right, that's right. He was sent to Lutsk on a reconnaissance mission before you transferred him. "“ Did you find the amber room? " Although I know that the amber room was robbed by the German army, after the end of the war, there has been no news, but I still hold a fluke psychological question: "now I want to know what is in the vault of that bank?" With that, I stared nervously at Zhukov to hear what he would say“ Maybe the amber room, maybe something else. " Zhukov said bitterly: "among the people who went to reconnoitre with major trafkin at that time, there was a German officer who surrendered to our army."“ Yes, comrade marshal. " When I heard this, I hurriedly said, "his name is gretka. He is a very trustworthy German. How is he now? Where is he?"“ He's dead. " Zhukov looked at me and said faintly“ What, he's dead? " I was shocked by Zhukov's words. I asked, "how did he die? Who killed him?"“ Who else, of course, the SS. " With a trace of anger in his voice, Zhukov said, "he went into the bank vault to take photos of the cultural relics stored in it. They had been waiting outside for a week, but they didn't hear from him. Soon they found his body in the sewer. His hands were tied back, and there was a fatal bullet hole in his head, which should have been shot against the back of his head. "“ Why When I heard that gretka was dead, and died miserably, I couldn't help but feel like a knife in my heart. I couldn't wait to ask, "was he identified by the German?"“ I don't think so. " Zhukov shook his head and said: "beside him, there are still four or five bodies of German soldiers, all with their hands tied back and shot in the head. After travkin and their careful examination, there were no other obvious scars on these people, that is to say, they were executed and thrown into the sewer without any punishment at all. " Hearing that there were several other bodies beside gretka's body made me more and more confused, I frowned and murmured, "why on earth is this?"“ After my analysis with Comrade belia. " Seeing that I was eager to know the truth, Zhukov told me the results of his and belia's research: "he may have photographed extremely important cultural relics in the bank vault. After the shooting, in order to kill him, the German executed him and several other soldiers who helped move cultural relics in the vault. " In order not to let the secret out, I often see the way of exterminating the participants after completing a certain project in some films and TV works looking for * * gold. I didn't expect that one of my valued subordinates had unfortunately become such a victim. Seeing the pain on my face, Zhukov walked around the table and came to me. He raised his hand and patted me on the shoulder. He comforted me and said, "Rita, your subordinate is good. You should be proud of him, not sad. You must be very tired when you drive all night. Go to have a rest first. If you have anything to do, wait until tomorrow. " I walked out of Zhukov's office, stood in the corridor and pondered for a moment. I thought I should go to the reconnaissance office to find travkin, and maybe I could get more information from him.