Chapter 1514

After the completion of the relocation of the new headquarters, konev called all the group army commanders, military commissars and chief of staff of the two front armies to Rovno for a meeting to deploy the upcoming anti bandit work.

At the beginning of the meeting, konev spoke first. After greeting the commander of the group army sitting below, he gave his voice to chief of staff sokolovsky, who read out the decision of the front army to suppress bandits.

It took sokolovsky ten minutes to read to all the people our plan for suppressing bandits. Finally, he asked, "comrades, do you have any questions?"

As soon as his words came to an end, a general stood up. I immediately recognized him as moss kalenko, commander of the 38th army. He said with an unhappy face: "Comrade chief of staff, it is inevitable that there are some anti Soviet guerrillas or bandits in the newly liberated areas. But isn't it a bit overqualified to use large forces to eliminate bandits? We should know that our regular field forces are not vigilant forces for maintaining public order. Our task is to fight tenaciously with the German invading forces, not to deal with those vulnerable bandits. "

"Yes, I think Comrade Moskalenko is right." As soon as he finished speaking, a general sitting next to him stood up: "the scale of these anti Soviet guerrillas is not large. There are only a dozen or so people less, but only two or three hundred more. Is it a bit of a fuss for us to use tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops to wipe them out? "

Major general MALEKIN, commander of the 40th army, is the one who agrees with Moskalenko. He is the successor of Moskalenko and has always been the only one who takes the lead. After the two men clarified their views, the leaders of the group army sitting below also began to talk to each other.

Hearing the sudden buzzing below, the livid faced diniev slapped the table. When the room was quiet again, he stood up and said angrily, "comrades, please note that we are holding a meeting of the leaders of the front army. It's not proper to buy vegetables in the vegetable market. What's so noisy?"

After that, he turned his eyes to Moskalenko and marekin, who were still standing there. After a moment's silence, he asked, "general Moskalenko, what are the casualties of your army in these months of fighting?"

I was surprised to hear that konev didn't blame the other party and asked a question that seemed to be out of touch with each other. But I immediately understood why konev asked this question. He skillfully combined the contradiction between the shortage of troops in various groups and the low fighting quality of recruits through this question.

Moskalenko may be ready to be scolded when he asks questions. I didn't expect that konev didn't just scold him. He would also ask him about the casualties of his troops with concern. He hesitated for a long time before answering: "Comrade marshal, you should have seen the casualties reported by our group army. Here, I would like to report to you once again that in the offensive campaign, the casualties of all divisions exceeded one third, and the casualties of individual regiments even reached half. "

After he finished, konev asked leisurely, "Comrade Moskalenko, if you want to launch another offensive campaign, do you need additional troops in your group army?"

"It's no use saying that, comrade marshal." Moskalenko hastened to reply: "a large number of combat casualties have seriously affected the combat effectiveness of our department. If we do not add new soldiers, it may be difficult for our department to complete the combat tasks in a separate direction in the next battle."

"Comrade Moskalenko, the only new recruits that can supplement you now are those who have just been recruited." Konev asked Moskalenko flatly: "how do you plan to improve the technical and tactical level of the recruits in a short time, so that the troops can regain their combat effectiveness?"

In response to konev's question, Moskalenko thought for a while and replied, "marshal, we can only strengthen the training intensity of recruits and improve their technical and tactical level as soon as possible."

"All right, Comrade General." Konev asked sternly, "judging from the current situation, you only have one or two months to train new recruits. How can you guarantee that the recruits who have never been to the battlefield will not panic when they hear the sound of guns, feel the explosion of shells falling on their side, and see the speeding tanks rushing towards them, and can they display all the skills and tactics they have learned? "

Moskalenko pondered for a long time, finally shook his head and said in frustration: "marshal, you are right. No matter how well the recruits practice in the training field, if they have not been on the battlefield, they will not be able to form combat effectiveness." At the moment, he finally realized what a stupid question he had put himself in such an embarrassing situation.

"Sit down, comrade Moskalenko. By the way, and you, general MALEKIN, please sit down, too But fortunately, there are a large number of konev adults. Seeing that Moskalenko voluntarily admitted his mistakes, he did not go deep into them. After greeting the two men to sit down, he continued: "we have married the recruits and the veterans with rich combat experience to eliminate the bandits with weak combat effectiveness, just to let our recruits listen to the sound of guns and see blood, so that they can grow up as soon as possible and form combat effectiveness in a short time. Do you understand? "

After listening to konev's explanation, the commander here immediately replied neatly, "I see!"

"Now that you understand," konev continued with a wave of his hand, "let the chief of staff announce to you the areas responsible for each group army and the number of troops to be supplied in the near future."

Sokolovsky took out the plan we had worked out for a long time and read the bandit suppression areas in charge of each group army and the number of soldiers who could get supplies. After reading all the contents, sokolovsky bent down and politely asked konev, "marshal, what else do you need to add?"

Konev shook his head, then stood up and said, "comrades, this is the end of today's meeting. You can go back to your troops to make preparations."

When all the commanders who came to the meeting left, konev looked at me and said, "Rita, I want to talk to you."

As soon as konev said this, sokolovsky and kleinukov, who were sitting next to him, immediately packed up what was in front of them and left the conference room.

Looking at konev with a smile on his face, I asked nervously, "marshal, do you have anything important?"

"When you came from Belarus, did you take a major with you?" Asked konev.

"Yes, comrade marshal." If konev didn't say that, I almost forgot the existence of bukov. Since konev asked at this time, I quickly replied, "because the road from Belarus is not safe, so I took a guard company to pass, led by the deputy head of the guard regiment, major bukov."

"I talked with this major two days ago. I know that he has participated in many important battles and made many achievements." Konev, who had contact with bukov, said to me in a regretful tone: "such an excellent commander, don't you think it's a bit too wasteful to put him in the headquarters?"

"Comrade marshal," I agree with what konev said. When I first met bukov, he was commanding a fighter battalion. Although he was a militia, I could see that he had a certain command ability. But a few years later, he was still a small major, and his position was just a deputy head of the guard regiment without any real power. Especially after he escorted me to Ukraine, he was basically refrigerated. At the moment, hearing konev's reminder, I was a little embarrassed to say: "I was thoughtless. If you don't remind me, I almost forgot him."

"What are you going to do?" Asked konev.

"What about major bukov?" Konev's problem really gives me a headache. There is no suitable post for bukov in the security office of the front army headquarters, so he has been in a state of doing nothing: "now there is no suitable post for him in the security office. If it is really not possible, I plan to let him take the post of deputy commander or battalion commander in the army. Comrade marshal, do you think this is OK? "

"I don't think so." As for my proposal, konev denied it almost without thinking. Seeing my disappointed expression, he said to himself, "as you have said, he has been the deputy head of the guard regiment in your headquarters, and has not participated in the battle for a long time. It's a bit too abrupt to rashly put him to the next unit to take the post of commander. I think he should be honed before he is put into the army. "

After listening to konev's words, I immediately understood that he might have figured out how to arrange bukov, so I asked humbly, "Comrade marshal, I don't know how you intend to use him?"

"Aren't we going to launch an anti bandit operation soon?" Konev reminded me: "you can let bukov take a force composed of your guard company and recruits to join the anti bandit operation. As long as he is outstanding, I can not only promote his rank, but also directly appoint him to the post of commander. "

"Thank you, comrade marshal." After listening to konev's consideration, I quickly stood up, offered my hand to him, and said gratefully, "on behalf of major bukov, I thank you!"

Konev and I shook hands, then let go, and then said to me casually, "Rita, there's nothing to do at the moment, so you can go to major bukov and give him the task of suppressing bandits."

After thanking konev again, I left the meeting room and found bukov sleeping in the military dormitory in the basement. I pushed bukov, who was sleeping. When I felt that his eyes were about to open, I said in a sarcastic tone, "Hey, comrade major, what time is it? You're going to sleep. You're not afraid that you won't be able to sleep after dark."

Bukov opened his eyes and saw that I was standing in front of the bed. He immediately jumped down from the bed, stood barefoot on the ground, raised his hand and saluted me. He was a little surprised and said, "Comrade commander, why are you here?"

I went to the table, found a chair to sit down, looked at him and said, "it seems that I haven't seen you for more than a month, so I came to see you today."

Listen to me, bukov let out a sigh of disappointment. From his reaction, I know that he has been stifled by his idleness during this period of time. Under such circumstances, if he is allowed to lead the troops to suppress the bandits, he will surely get twice the result with half the effort.

I pointed to an empty chair beside me and asked kindly, "Comrade major, how are you doing?"

"Not good." "Comrade commander, when we were in the sixth group army, we used to be able to win battles. Now here, we eat, sleep, eat and have nothing to do all day long. The brothers all say that if it is like this, we should forget how to fight. " After he had complained, I asked with a smile, "major, I'm here to find you today, just to prepare for your combat mission."“ It's going to be a war! " When he heard what I said, his eyes suddenly brightened, but after a moment, his eyes dimmed again, and he said powerlessly: "at present, the troops have turned to defense, and there must be no battle to fight in the short term." Seeing that he was so depressed, I immediately comforted him and said, "major, although we will not have a large-scale battle with the German army in the short term, there are still some battles to be fought."“ Comrade commander, "he rekindled his hope and asked curiously," are you going to send me to lead the guard company deep into the enemy's rear to carry out special tasks? " Without waiting for me to speak, he stood up, patted his chest and promised, "don't worry, we will turn the German rear upside down."“ Major, I'm going to give you combat assignments, but not against the Germans. " Speaking of this, I stood up and looked at him, spit out a word: "suppress bandits!"“ To suppress the bandits? " Bukov was completely confused by what I said, and asked in a confused way, "where can I suppress the bandits?" Up to now, the suppression of bandits is only known to senior commanders, but not to commanders like bukov. So I simply explained to him our plan for suppressing bandits, and finally said, "major, I'll give you five hundred recruits to form a reinforced battalion, and you will be the commander of the battalion. In addition to leaving a platoon under your command, the rest of the guard company will be mixed with the recruits. The former soldier will be the squad leader, the squad leader will be the platoon leader, and the platoon leader will be the company commander. In this way, the combat effectiveness of the recruits will be rapidly improved“ Why leave me a guard platoon to direct my command? " As for my arrangement, bukov didn't understand, "can't you mix them with the recruits?"“ If the guard company is all mixed with the recruits, the combat effectiveness of the troops will be sparse. " In order to prevent bukov from disobeying my orders, I made it clear to him: "if you leave a guard platoon with strong combat effectiveness, you can let them turn the situation around when you encounter a difficult enemy in the battle, understand?"“ I see, comrade commander. " There was a look of joy on bukov's face. He then asked, "where should we accept these recruits?"“ You set out tomorrow morning to receive new recruits at shepetovka, southwest of Rovno. There are a large number of military warehouses, where you can replenish the weapons and uniforms you need. "