Chapter 1498

When the assassin fell to the ground, the commanders and fighters standing near him just woke up. Several people rushed to the assassin who fell on the mud. Two guards, who were responsible for protecting Zhukov's safety, rushed past me with guns.

Seeing the gun in the assassin's hand, when he fell, he didn't know where to fly. At the moment, he was pressed down by three or four big soldiers and couldn't move at all. Seeing that the assassin could no longer pose a threat to Zhukov, I was deeply relieved and turned to ask if Zhukov was frightened.

Looking back, I saw Zhukov and sokolovsky getting up from the ground covered with mud. Zhukov looked at his military coat and then at sokolovsky. He couldn't help laughing and said, "chief of staff, look at how embarrassed we are now." As he turned and walked toward the assassin's position, he muttered again, "by the way, chief of staff, it's time for you to lose weight. When you just threw me to the ground, I felt like a bear was pressing on me

Zhukov's humor made me laugh in silence. As Zhukov passed me, he patted me on the shoulder and whispered, "thank you, Rita."

After Zhukov passed by me, sokolovsky also came over. He was a little embarrassed and said to me, "Comrade oshanina, I used to see you wearing a belt and a pistol on the outside of your military coat. I was very uncomfortable. I thought you were just doing this. After all, like our current level, there is almost no chance to use weapons again, so it doesn't matter whether we wear weapons or not. But today, I admit that I was wrong. If you had not been on high alert, it is estimated that Comrade Marshal would be in danger today. "

Just as sokolovsky and I were talking, Zhukov had come to the position where the assassin fell to the ground. After staring at each other for a while, he told the soldiers who held the assassin down: "OK, let him stand up."

At Zhukov's command, several soldiers lifted the assassin from the ground. Although the assassin's right uniform was soaked with blood, the soldiers worried that he would pose a threat to Zhukov and twisted his hands behind him.

Zhukov looked the assassin up and down with his hands behind his back and asked coldly, "come on, who sent you?"

Although the assassin was sweating with pain, he bit his teeth and said nothing. Hearing Zhukov's question, he snorted scornfully, turned his head to one side, and ignored Zhukov standing in front of him.

"You are deaf." A guard nearby saw that the assassin was so arrogant that he punched his injured right shoulder with his fist. The pain made the assassin snort, and the tears and runny nose remained.

"Come on, don't hurt him any more." Zhukov waved to the soldier and said, "send him to the secret service and let the comrades of the interior department interrogate him."

After the assassin was taken away, sokolovsky asked Zhukov in a low voice, "Comrade marshal, do you need to report this matter to the supreme command?"

Zhukov gave him a strange look, then shook his head and said decisively, "no need."

"Do I have to go to the trial myself?" Seeing that Zhukov vetoed his proposal, sokolovsky tentatively asked, "then we can know at the first time who sent people to assassinate you."

"It's not necessary." Zhukov said something impatiently, then turned his eyes to me and said in an imperative tone, "go, let's go back to the headquarters."

On the way, it suddenly occurred to me that before I found the assassin, sokolovsky came to Zhukov in a hurry and gave him a telegram. He didn't know what was important. In order to satisfy my curiosity, I secretly asked sokolovsky, "chief of staff, I just saw that you sent a telegram to the marshal. I don't know what it said."

"The telegram came from general krasovsky." As I am now the deputy commander of the front army, sokolovsky did not hide the slightest after listening to my question and truthfully reported to me: "because of the unsatisfactory condition of the runway, a bomber broke down during takeoff, and all the crew members were killed when the plane crashed."

It's said that one of the crew members of a bomber died when taking off. My face muscles can't help twitching violently. You know, I forced the air force to go out in such a bad environment, but my idea is that the sacrifice of these pilots has something to do with me.

When he got back to the headquarters, Zhukov sat back at his desk, looked up at me and asked, "Rita, the chief of staff must have told you about the air force accident."

"Yes, comrade marshal." I took two steps towards his desk, bowed my head and admitted: "it was my thoughtlessness that led to this accident..."

"Don't blame yourself. It's not your fault." Before I finished, Zhukov raised his hand to interrupt me and said to himself, "the bad weather, rain or snow, has damaged the runway of our field airport. At ordinary times, when an aircraft takes off or lands, it crashes due to runway problems. "

As soon as Zhukov had finished comforting me, military commissar kleinukov came in from the outside. He quickly came to Zhukov and said with a smile, "marshal, I have something to ask you."

"What's the matter, comrade military commissar?" Zhukov looked at him and asked politely.

"Well, after the beginning of the campaign, our army successively occupied some German prison camps." Kleinukov said solemnly, "in these camps, our army's officers and men who were captured in various periods are held."

"How many people?" Zhukov asked faintly.

"There are two or three hundred people in a small prison camp. The bigger one has two or three thousand people. So far, more than 15000 prisoners of war have been rescued by our army. " Kleinukov asked cautiously, "I want to ask you how to deal with these rescued prisoners of war?"

When I heard the figure of more than 15000 prisoners of war, I couldn't help feeling ecstatic. This is really just want to doze off, immediately someone gave the pillow. As long as we add these prisoners into the army, we can make most of the troops recover their fighting capacity as soon as possible.

Zhukov, perhaps aware of my abnormality, cast his eyes on me and asked, "Rita, what do you think we should do with these rescued prisoners of war?"

"Needless to say," I immediately replied when I heard Zhukov's question: "after a long period of fighting, the number of troops in the front army has been greatly reduced. Now many companies have only 20 or 30 people left. If these rescued prisoners can be added to the army after screening, the combat effectiveness of the army will be improved in a very short period of time. "

"What's your opinion, chief of staff?" As for my proposal, Zhukov did not express his own opinion, but put the same question to sokolovsky.

"Marshal comrade," sokolovsky heard Zhukov's question, his face immediately showed an embarrassed expression. He looked at me and said cautiously, "the Supreme Commander himself once said that we have no prisoners of war, only traitors of our motherland."

Sokolovsky's words made me dumbfounded. In my heart, I blamed myself for thinking only about using prisoners of war to supplement the army, but I didn't forget Stalin's "famous saying".

"And you, comrade kleineukov." After consulting us, Zhukov put the contradiction to the military commissar kleinukov: "what do you think?"

Seeing Zhukov's practice of consulting everyone's opinions first, then synthesizing their opinions and making a final decision on major issues, I was filled with emotion. My heart said that this is the real art of imperial power, and I want to learn more from him.

"Marshal," kleinukov's idea is obviously the same as that of sokolovsky. He repeated Stalin's "famous saying" and added: "I think these people have been brainwashed by the Germans to varying degrees. If they are put into the team, it will be an unstable factor. Therefore, I suggest that they all be sent to Gulag concentration camp, Let them be re educated there. "

When I heard kleinukov's proposal, I could not help worrying about the fate of these rescued prisoners of war. We should know that Gulag concentration camps are all in Siberia or the Arctic circle. Let these soldiers who are conservatively tortured in German POW camps go to concentration camps thousands of kilometers away. We don't know how many people will die on the road.

Thinking of this, I said to Zhukov: "marshal, I don't agree with the military Commissar. Now that the army is employing people, we should incorporate these commanders and fighters into the army after a simple screening, so as to strengthen the strength of our army."

"If they have two minds, once they are incorporated into the army, it will be an unstable factor." When I finished speaking, kleinukov immediately retorted: "and there is a worst-case scenario, maybe these people will turn around on the battlefield. Once this happens, what should we do? "

Zhukov could not help frowning when he saw that my opinion was different from that of kleinukov. He stood up and walked back and forth in the room, as if trying to figure out what to do with the rescued prisoners.

"Comrade marshal," kleinukov, perhaps afraid that Zhukov would agree with me, specially reminded me: "you know, we have rescued more than 15000 prisoners of war. There are almost the same number of rescued prisoners of war in konev and the third front army, with a total number of nearly 50000. "

"What, fifty thousand?" When Zhukov heard the number, he could not help but stop and asked kleinukov in surprise, "are there so many people?"

Kleinukov nodded hard and answered earnestly, "yes, comrade marshal, this is only a rough figure. According to my estimation, the actual number of prisoners of war should be more than 70000. At present, the work of counting the number of prisoners of war in some camps has not been completely completed. "

If there were only 15000 prisoners, Zhukov might be able to make a decision easily. At this moment, he became more cautious when he heard that there might be more than 70000 prisoners of war. He stood in the same place and thought for a long time. Then he went back to his desk and sat down. He looked at us and said, "comrades in command, have you ever thought that if these 70000 people are included in our team, then the current shortage of troops can be greatly alleviated. But if we escort these people to the Gulag concentration camp, how many wagons and vehicles will we deploy, and how many troops will we use to escort them. "

As Zhukov's old subordinates, whether it's sokolovsky or kleinukov, if they still can't hear Zhukov's voice out of the picture, they will be in vain for so many years. Sokolovsky quickly stepped forward and said: "marshal, at present, there is a large shortage of soldiers in our army. It is not realistic to get the supplement from the superior in a short time. Therefore, I think it is very appropriate to incorporate these rescued prisoners into our combat forces."“ Yes, comrade marshal. " As soon as sokolovsky finished, kleinukov quickly echoed: "these tens of thousands of commanders and fighters have suffered a lot in the German prisoner's camp. If we integrate them into the army, they will surely have superhuman fighting capacity in order to wash away the humiliation they have suffered in the prisoner's camp."“ "Well," Zhukov saw that the two deputies agreed with him. He could not help smiling. He looked at me and asked, "what about you, Rita? Do you have any different opinions?" Although I understood that Zhukov just asked casually, he answered with a straight body and said, "marshal, I think your decision is completely correct. I firmly obey your order." We had just decided the fate of the prisoners of war when a staff officer came over and said, "report to marshal, there is a commander of the secret service outside. He said that there is something important to report to you."“ It should be the result of the interrogation. " Sokolovsky said these words to Zhukov, then turned and told the staff, "please come in the commander of the secret service." In a short time, a major of the Ministry of interior, under the leadership of the staff, came to us. After he raised his hand to salute us, he said to Zhukov, "Comrade marshal, we have asked the assassin what we want to know." Zhukov slightly surprised asked: "so soon the trial is completed?"“ Yes, comrade marshal. " The major replied respectfully, "according to the assassin's confession, a former captain of the southwest front army was captured by the German army in the battle of uman shortly after the outbreak of the war. When we attacked Kiev last year, the German army picked out a group of people who were hostile to the Soviet from the prison camp. After a short period of training, they were sent to the areas where there was fierce fighting, mixing with the contents of our army, waiting for the opportunity to carry out assassination and sabotage operations. "