Chapter 1485

half a month? When I heard rebalko's reply, I couldn't help laughing bitterly, saying that even if I could agree with you to liberate jernopol in half a month, Stalin and Zhukov would not agree.

Seeing my expression, rebalko knew that his answer would not satisfy me. He quickly and carefully asked, "Rita, how long do you think we should take del noble?"

I stretched out a finger and said decisively, "a week! I can only give you one week at the most, and you have to take del noble

"Comrade deputy commander of the front army, please allow me to introduce to you the situation of tarnopol." As soon as I finished, the military commissar said to me with a smile, "this is a city in western Ukraine, the capital of tarnopol state. In the left bank of the Dniester River tributary sheret River, population 120000. It was built as a fortress in 1540, belonged to Poland in 1920-1939, and belonged to the Soviet Union in 1939. "

When listening to the military commissar introducing the history of jernopol to me, it suddenly occurred to me that this city was renamed "jernopol" after it was liberated by the Soviet army in 44 years, and the name used at the moment is still "tarnopol". Although I always use "jernopol" when I mention this place name, no one reminds me that I have said the wrong place name. Maybe they think I am not pronouncing it correctly.

However, from what the military commissar said, I can see what he meant. The city we are about to capture can be regarded as a fortress. The enemy's fortification is solid. It is almost impossible for our army to capture the city in a short time.

Rebalko remained silent about what the military commissar said. And the chief of staff then said to me, "Comrade deputy commander of the front army, it's snowing season in spring. In previous years, we all stopped fighting and had a rest at this time. Only this year, we continue to launch offensive campaigns against the enemy. The muddy roads and the fields and swamps that are difficult to pass greatly limit the range of activities of the armored forces and make our attack difficult. "

I immediately refuted the chief of staff's statement: "Comrade chief of staff, your statement is not correct. It's the spring thawing season, but our tank tracks are wider than those of the enemy's tanks. Our tanks can pass normally in many areas where the enemy's tanks can't pass. In other words, when we attack cities, the number of tanks that can be put into combat will greatly exceed the number of enemy tanks. "

Seeing what I said, the chief of staff immediately shut up. At this time, he may remember that I just came from the first group army of tanks. Katukov's ability and experience in commanding tank troops are much better than rebarko's.

After my words, the whole room fell into an awkward silence.

Just as I was about to find something to break the silence in the room, a telephone on the desk rang. The chief of staff picked up the phone and listened for a moment. Then he handed me the phone. At the same time, he said respectfully, "your phone is from the headquarters of the front army."

A call from the headquarters of the front army? When I heard what the chief of staff said, I immediately thought whether Zhukov had any important task to explain to me. As soon as I put the microphone close to my ear, I said aloud, "Hello, marshal, do you have any latest instructions?"

Unexpectedly, Khrushchev's voice came out of the receiver: "Rita, not Zhukov, I'm Khrushchev."

"It's you, comrade military Commissar." When I heard Khrushchev's voice, I still asked with a smile, "what can I do for you, please?"

"Is there anyone else next to you?" Instead of answering my question immediately, Khrushchev asked in reverse.

Holding the microphone, I looked at rebalko and his deputies, then said to the microphone, "yes, general rebalko, as well as his deputy commander, chief of staff and military Commissar."

"Let them dodge first." Khrushchev said in an unquestionable voice, "I have something important to tell you."

After listening to Khrushchev's words, I quickly covered the microphone and said to rebalko with a little embarrassment, "excuse me, general rebalko. Comrade Khrushchev wants to talk about important things with me. Can you and your colleagues avoid it?"

"No problem." Rebalko nodded, stood up, waved to the others and said, "come on, let's go out first. We'll come in after the deputy commander of the front army gets through the phone."

After several of them and the signalmen sitting in the corner left the room, I released my hand covering the microphone and said respectfully, "Comrade military commissar, general rebalko, they have gone out. Now you can say what you have to do."

"It's like this, Rita." Khrushchev said slowly on the phone: "judging from the current situation, it won't be long before our troops can recover the whole of Ukraine. However, the war brought huge losses to Ukraine. According to incomplete statistics, about 4 million people were lost, and tens of thousands of industrial and mining enterprises and more than 20000 collective farms were destroyed. In order to rebuild Ukraine as soon as possible and make it a big granary of the Soviet Union, the Supreme Command told me to return to Kiev tomorrow to take charge of local work and rebuild the destroyed factories, enterprises and collective farms... "

When I heard this, I couldn't help shivering. I asked him what he said to me. Did he want me to be his assistant and go to local work? To tell you the truth, I really don't want to work in a local area. The personnel relationship is too complicated. With my EQ, I will be killed by others soon.

After waiting for his words to come to an end, I asked cautiously, "Comrade military commissar, what can I do for you?"

"I appreciate you, Rita. You are a capable comrade." Khrushchev's words made my heart beat faster. It turned out that he really wanted me to work in a local place. Just when I was on the verge of despair, I heard him say, "but I know you like to stay in the army rather than work in a local place."

"That's right, comrade Khrushchev. It's true." When I heard Khrushchev say this, I seemed to see a glimmer of life. I quickly followed his words and said, "I don't think my ability is suitable for working in local areas, so I can only command the troops in the army and divide them with the enemy."

When Khrushchev heard me say this, he couldn't help laughing and made me confused. After he finished laughing, he said to me, "Rita, I know you don't want to work somewhere, so I won't force you. I'll call you today. There are two things. First, although I still hold the post of military commissar of the front army, major general kleinukov will be in charge of political work in the army in the future. "

"Well, I see." I heard that Khrushchev didn't ask me to work in a local place. The stone hanging in my heart fell to the ground. Then I asked, "is there another thing?"

"I know you have many ideas. I want to ask you something."

"Please don't dare. If you have anything, just ask." When I heard Khrushchev speak to me in such a polite tone, my heart became uneasy again: "as long as I know, I will answer truthfully."

"I think you should know that the people in western Ukraine were not very friendly to us, so there were a lot of anti Soviet guerrillas supported by the Germans during the war." Khrushchev asked unexpectedly, "if we encounter resistance from the local people when we are carrying out the reconstruction work, what should we do?"

In the process of reconstructing Ukraine, was it resisted by the local people? Hearing Khrushchev's question, I can't help but have a headache. My heart says that you can't think of a good way. Can I still think of it as a layman?

When Khrushchev saw that I had not answered, he mistakenly thought that I was thinking about how to solve it, so he did not urge me. After a while, he asked, "what's the matter, Rita? Do you have any idea?"

Seeing that he could not evade the answer to this question, he had no choice but to harden his head and say, "Comrade Khrushchev, as far as I know, if the local people want to boycott the reconstruction work, there are two measures we can take..."

"Oh, there are two ways." When Khrushchev heard this, he couldn't help but cut in and said, "come on, let's hear it."

I gave a wry smile and said that if you didn't interrupt me, I would have said my own idea: "the first way is to divide. We should try to win over and support the pro Soviet natives and entrust them with a heavy task, so that they can deal with those who oppose us.... "

"That's good. That's a good idea." While recording, Khrushchev exclaimed, "go on."

"The other way is to take a cut from the bottom." When I began to make suggestions for Khrushchev, I spoke more fluently than just now. Thinking that this was a private conversation between us, I said without hesitation: "you will call up those who may cause trouble in the army. In this way, we can not only supplement the soldiers we lost in the battle, but also eliminate the local unstable factors. "

"That's great, that's great!" After listening to my suggestion, Khrushchev said excitedly, "Rita, I didn't expect your opinion to coincide with mine. I think the same way. As long as there are no serious diseases, men between 18 and 50 years old will be added to our army to make up for the soldiers who lost in the battle. As long as these people leave, I believe that the rest of them will be helpless even if they want to resist the reconstruction work. "

Khrushchev and I had another chat and hung up. I went to the door and said to rebalko, who was smoking outside, "general rebalko, I'm finished. You all come in."

When rebalko and I walked into the headquarters together, while other people were not paying attention, he asked me in a low voice, "Rita, comrade Khrushchev is calling you. Do you want you to work somewhere?"

I quickly shook my head and said, "no, comrade Khrushchev didn't invite me to work any more. He called me to tell me that in two days he would be transferred to work in the local area, and major general kleinukov would be in full charge of the political work of the front army. "

"Oh, so it is." Rebalko nodded, raised his hand and made a gesture of invitation, indicating that I would sit down and continue.

After we were seated again, the chief of staff first asked, "Comrade deputy commander of the front army, I don't know which army the higher authorities are going to send to strengthen us so that our army can quickly seize tarnopol?"

"Army, what army?" The chief of staff's mindless words confused me. I turned to look at rebalko and asked, "general rebalko, do you know what he said?"“ Chief of staff, you are mistaken. The content of the conversation between Rita and Khrushchev is not what you guessed. " When rebalko finished speaking to his chief of staff, he carefully explained to me, "Rita, the chief of staff thought that you were talking to Khrushchev to discuss how many reinforcements to send us." After listening to rebalko's explanation, I finally understood what was going on. With a smile, I said to the chief of staff, "Comrade chief of staff, comrade Khrushchev called me to inform me that he was going to work in the local area. In the future, the political work in the army will be in the charge of general kleinukov." The chief of staff could not help but look disappointed when he heard me say this. He murmured, "I thought the superior would send reinforcements to us. Now it seems that we can only finish the strategy independently." After listening to what his chief of staff said, rebalko, who was originally smiling, immediately put on a face and asked sternly, "Comrade chief of staff, can't we win tarnopol if our superiors don't give us additional troops and technical equipment and send troops to support us?"“ No, comrade commander, it's not like that. " After receiving the training from rebalko, the chief of staff repeatedly waved his hand and explained, "if the superior can give us assistance, then our siege will be much easier. But even if there is no support, "the chief of staff said, pausing for a moment, as if he was weighing up his strength. He finally gritted his teeth and continued," we can capture the city by our own ability, but the casualties of the troops may be a little larger. "“ Don't worry, chief of staff. " In order to ease the dull atmosphere in the room, I tried to smile on my face and said to the chief of staff, "you will not fight alone. Even if the superior can not provide you with troops, at least you can be provided with enough air support. Today's German combat effectiveness can't be compared with that of last year, especially after losing the support of aircraft and artillery, they are not our opponents any more. " When I finished, rebalko stood up, raised his hand, patted his chief of staff on the shoulder twice, and said with a smile, "chief of staff, don't worry. As far as I know, the troops under Rita's command, whether defensive or offensive, can minimize the losses of the troops." At this point, he turned his eyes to me and continued, "I believe this time will be no exception."