Chapter 1494

Shortly after the capture of jernopol, I urged rebarko to come with me to the city to see the newly recovered city. Rebarko wanted to go to the city after he reported the results to the headquarters of the front army, but when he saw that I was in such a hurry, he changed his attention and asked someone to prepare an armored car to accompany me to the headquarters of von naindor.

On the way, rebalko asked strangely, "Rita, our army has captured tarnopol. We should first report the good news to the headquarters of the front army, but why do you rush to the headquarters of von naindor?"

"Comrade General," I asked rebalko, leaning sideways, "I was in a hurry to get to the city to see what our officers and men were doing with General von naindor's body."

"Rita, how could you be so interested in a German general who committed suicide?" After listening to me, rebalko asked more puzzledly, "is it because he made a good impression on you when you were negotiating?"

"General rebalko, although von naindol is our enemy, he is a soldier worthy of our respect." I said solemnly: "our soldiers are not afraid of death, and the Germans are not afraid of death. You see, there are about 5000 defenders in the city, but in the end, our army only captured 55 wounded people. You know, this may be the first time in such a large offensive battle. Therefore, even if they are our enemies, they are soldiers worthy of our admiration. "

After hearing this, rebalko was silent for a long time. Finally, he nodded his head and said, "Rita, you're right. Such a soldier as von naindor deserves our admiration. "

When we arrived at the German headquarters, I saw the building I had seen, which had been badly damaged by our artillery fire. There was about a class of soldiers standing guard at the door. Seeing me and rebalko coming out of the armored car, they quickly raised their hands to salute us.

Walk down the corridor to the conference room I've been to. I saw that the walls and ceiling on the left and right were blackened by the smoke of the explosion. The floor was also in a mess, with broken glass and fallen bricks. Sometimes I could see a few German guns that I didn't have time to take away.

When I was more than ten steps away from the conference room, I suddenly saw a group of soldiers pouring out from the next room. Four of them were still carrying two bodies in their hands. I thought they were carrying the body of von naindor, and I cried out, "Comrade soldier, please wait a minute!"

The soldiers stopped at my cry. It's me and rebalko. Except for the four soldiers who carried the body, the others raised their hands to salute us.

I didn't care to return the gift, so I quickly walked over and carefully looked at the two bodies carried by the soldiers. I only looked at it once and knew I was wrong. It turned out that they were carrying not the remains of von naindor, but the bodies of two young German officers. One was shot in the head and the other in the chest.

"What's going on?" Seeing that two beautiful young women soldiers died, though they were enemies, I still felt sorry. So I looked at the soldiers and asked, "how did they die?"

Maybe the tone of my question was too severe, which frightened the soldiers. After a long time, a staff sergeant came out of the crowd. He raised his hand to salute me and said in a flurried way, "Comrade General, when we cleaned up here, we found two bodies in the room and carried them out." At this point, he turned to look at the two bodies, "when we came, they were already dead."

"Chief, I don't blame you." I asked, slowing down, "I mean, how did they die?"

"Well, Comrade General." The sergeant quickly replied, "they may be signalmen. Seeing that the building was about to be occupied by our army, they shot themselves. We found only one pistol at the scene, and it was in her hand. " He pointed at the body that had been shot in the head, and then said, "according to my judgment, in order not to be our prisoner, this female soldier first shot and killed her companion, and then shot herself."

"Well, chief, there's no business for you here." After waiting for the other party to finish, rebalko said directly, "take your people and leave first."

We all stepped aside, with our backs against the wall. After the sergeant passed us with the body, we continued to walk towards the conference room.

We went through two big open wooden doors and into the conference room. There was a mess everywhere. The floor was full of paper. Many of the chairs around the long conference table were tilted to the ground.

I picked up the chair I used to sit in and asked a lieutenant who was our guide, "Comrade lieutenant, I don't know where the remains of General von naindor are?"

"We have removed his body and piled it up with the German soldiers who were killed." The lieutenant said, pointing to the position where von naindor had sat, and continued, "that's where he committed suicide."

I looked up in the direction that the lieutenant pointed out and saw on the wall behind the chair where von naindor was sitting a startling pool of blood. Although it had already dried up, I still felt that the whole conference room was full of blood.

I walked over slowly, staring at the bloodstain in a daze, thinking that if von naindor was not so stubborn and did not choose to fight to the end, but actively ordered the troops to lay down their arms and surrender to us, it would not cause more than 30000 casualties on both sides. Although he is our enemy, he is worthy of our respect.

Thinking of this, I took off my cap and silently mourned for the German general who would rather commit suicide than surrender, hoping that his soul could enter heaven as soon as possible.

"Rita," I heard rebalko's voice behind me. I turned to look at him, and there was a look of horror on his face. He looked around for a moment, then said to me in a low voice, "how can you have a moment of silence for a dead German commander? If someone in the interior knows, you'll be in trouble. "

I put on my cap again, waved my hand to rebalko, and said, "don't worry, general rebalko. Even if the Supreme Commander himself knows, he won't care about such trifles, let alone Marshal Zhukov."

After listening to me, rebalko nodded and then asked me, "do we have a new headquarters here?"

I didn't speak, just nodded in agreement. When rebalko arranged for the meeting room to be arranged, I called the lieutenant to him and said, "Comrade lieutenant, I'll give you an important task now."

When I heard that I was going to give an account of the task, the lieutenant straightened up and waited for my order“ Lieutenant, you immediately take people to find the body of General von naindor and find a coffin to put in. Do you understand? "

The lieutenant was stunned for a moment when he heard my order. Then he looked at rebalko. Rebalko glared at him and said, "Lieutenant, what are you looking at me for? Didn't you hear the order of the deputy commander of the front army to go to the Deputy coffin and gather up von naindor's body? "

In the 3rd group army of the close guard tank, what rebarko said was that he was better than me. After hearing this, the lieutenant gave a loud promise and turned to the conference room to carry out my orders.

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In less than five minutes, the floor of the conference room was cleaned up, and even the blood on the wall was wiped off by the soldiers with sandpaper they didn't know where to find it. After the military map is pasted, you can't see the shocking blood on the wall.

Maybe in order to take care of my mood, rebalko also ordered someone to move the position of the conference table to the side for a certain distance. In this way, when I was in a meeting, I would not turn my back to the wall where there had been a bloodstain.

The communication department had just set up the telephone line when the telephone rang in front of me. As rebalko was at the door, directing the soldiers to clean the mess in the corridor, I picked up the microphone and asked, "I'm oshanina. Where are you?"

"It's Rita." Zhukov's voice came from the receiver. He said to me in a joyful tone: "I want to tell you a good news. Because you quickly captured tarnopol, the supreme command decided to salute the commanders and fighters of the third group army of the close guard tank with 20 rounds of 128 salutes at Moscow Red Square at 10 o'clock this evening."

"Great, comrade marshal." After listening to Zhukov's good news, my originally depressed mood disappeared immediately, and I said excitedly: "I will immediately tell the good news to all the commanders and fighters of the 3rd group army of the close guard tank, so that they will be happy."

Maybe my voice is too loud. The busy commanders and fighters in the conference room heard me. They stopped their work and turned to look at me. Even rebalko, who was standing at the door, came quickly and asked aloud, "Rita, do you have any good news for us, marshal?"

I quickly covered the microphone and said to rebalko excitedly, "general rebalko, I want to tell you some good news. At ten o'clock this evening, in Moscow's Red Square, there will be 20 salutes from 120 guns, saluting all the commanders and fighters of the third group army of close guard tanks who captured tarnopol! "

"Wula As soon as I was finished, someone took the lead in cheering, and then all the people in the whole conference room were cheering: "Wula! Wula!! Wula

They were so loud that I couldn't hear Zhukov in the microphone. I quickly raised my voice and said to rebalko, "Comrade General, the marshal still has something to say, but the room is too noisy!"

There was too much noise in the room. Rebalko might not have heard me clearly, but he guessed what I wanted to say from the anxious expression on my face. He raised his hands and waved them down desperately, shouting: "quiet, everyone

Although his voice was drowned in cheers, his gestures were seen by everyone. Soon the room was quiet, and the commanders and fighters continued to be busy with their work.

I let go of the hand that covers the microphone and said with a smile: "Comrade Zhukov, you have heard it. The commanders and fighters are very happy to hear the news. "

"Yes, Rita, I heard it all." Zhukov obviously also heard the cheers in the conference room. He also said with a smile, "it's really worth the cheers of the commanders and fighters to get such a great honor." But what he said next made my heart sink: "Rita, there's one more thing I want to ask you. As far as I know, there are 5000 German troops in tarnopolli. Why did you only take 55 prisoners? What's the matter? Will the German army sneak away when there are no troops in the west? "“ No, comrade marshal. " Hearing Zhukov's conjecture, I quickly replied: "although we did not deploy troops in the west of the city before the attack, there were many reconnaissance teams. If the German army broke through from this direction, it would not escape their eyes."“ Then why did you only catch this prisoner? " Zhukov asked sternly, "don't tell me that the German army would rather die than surrender. It's not like the style of the German army."“ Marshal, "seeing that Zhukov had doubts about our army's achievements, I had to patiently explain to him," tarnopol's defenders are more tenacious than we thought. In the face of our fierce offensive, their officers and men tenaciously stick to every street, every house, and our army officers and men fighting for every inch of land. In order to capture the city, our army paid huge casualties. According to the information I have, many battalions of our army only have more than 100 men left after the battle. Even when a company of the 121st division of the guards withdrew from the battle, there was only one deputy platoon leader and three soldiers left, and everyone was wounded. " After a detailed explanation to Zhukov, I specially stressed: "if our army is not several times as strong as the German army, and also has an advantage in technology and equipment, it is almost impossible to capture this city."“ Well, stop complaining. " After accepting my words, Zhukov suddenly said, "we are going to launch the encirclement and annihilation of the encircled German tanks of the first group army. You ask rebalko to seize the time to adjust the deployment and dispatch elite troops to participate in the final battle. As long as the first group army of German tanks is completely annihilated, the German army will no longer be able to gain a foothold in the remaining areas of Ukraine, and can only retreat to Romania or Poland obediently. In that case, Ukraine will become the first country we will recover. "