Chapter 1515

As the order to suppress the bandits was issued, all the army groups immediately took active action. In order to ensure the success of the task of suppressing bandits, a resourceful commander like Moskalenko did not adopt the method we proposed to enrich the recruits by using the combat backbone. Instead, he scattered the recruits into the army and adopted the mode of at least two veterans leading one recruit.

Perhaps it is his ingenuity that has had an unexpected effect. The anti bandit troops sent by us have won many good news. Today they destroyed a camp of bandits in the forest, and tomorrow they destroyed a small army of bandits.

According to the war reports I received, I learned that every time Moskalenko's troops surrounded the bandits with heavy troops, they would send people to send letters to persuade them to lay down their arms and surrender, and warned that if they surrendered, they would ensure the safety of all people's lives; But if there is resistance, then when the battle starts, there will be none left.

These bandits and guerrillas, who are active in Ukraine, are people who have done all the bad things. After receiving the letter of persuasion, they know that even if they surrender, they will not have any good fruit to eat. Therefore, without exception, they take the way of fighting to the end and die under the attack of our army.

As for Moskalenko's practice, military commissar kleinukov raised his own objection to konev: "marshal, I heard that many bandits have laid down their arms and surrendered, but Moskalenko still ordered the troops to kill all of them. Do you think we should remind him not to kill all these enemies so as not to make them jump over the wall in a hurry... "

After listening to this, konev just laughed, and then said to kleinukov, "in the face of such a powerful army, what can they do even if they jump over the wall in a hurry? There is only one means we can take against such enemies of the motherland: to wipe them out resolutely, decisively and thoroughly. "

Seeing that konev had set the tone, I confidently expressed what I thought in my heart: "Comrade marshal, these bandits loot villages, rob people, kill people and set fire to all kinds of evils. They really should be eliminated completely. But... "

"But what?" Before I finished my words, sokolovsky beside me was a little upset: "Comrade oshanina, do you think they are still worthy of forgiveness?"

"Comrade chief of staff, you have misunderstood." I waved to sokolovsky and explained, "I mean, since we are going to kill all these bandits, is it necessary to send someone to persuade them to surrender? I heard that several representatives sent by general Moskalenko were killed by bandits. "

"That's right, Rita. You're right." As soon as my voice fell, konev echoed: "chief of staff, go to call general Moskalenko, and ask him not to send any persuasive representatives to fight directly after he finds out the bandits. He should wipe them out completely before the enemy recovers."

"I see, comrade marshal." With a smile on his face, sokolovsky said, "I will convey your order to general Moskalenko."

While sokolovsky went to make a phone call, kleinukov asked konev, "Comrade marshal, I don't know when Comrade Khrushchev will arrive?"

When I heard kleinukov's question, I remembered that Khrushchev called yesterday and said that he would arrive in Rovno today, accompanied by the new city leader.

Konev raised his hand, looked at his watch and said, "if all goes well, their train will arrive on time at eleven in the morning."

"Do you need to meet them at the station?" Kleinukov was deeply afraid that konev was unwilling to go, and especially stressed: "Khrushchev is now the top leader of Ukraine. If we do not meet him, I am afraid he will not be happy."

"Let's go. Anyway, it's almost time now," konev said. He immediately got up from his seat, picked up the phone on his desk, dialed a number, and then said to the microphone, "drive the car out of the gate immediately, and all members of the front army should get to the fire station immediately."

After sokolovsky finished the call, we left the headquarters, got on the gas car waiting there at the gate, and drove to the railway station several kilometers away.

When the train stopped at the gate of the railway station, the guards on the following trucks jumped out of the train one after another. Under the leadership of their respective commanders, they set up a cordon from the entrance of the station to the platform. After the cordon was deployed, a major of the security department ran to konev and reported, "marshal, we have set up the cordon. You can go in."

Konev nodded and led us into the railway station. As we walked through the hall, I heard the civilians who were blocked by the soldiers murmuring: "see, all the big people are coming!"

"That's right. You see, the one walking in the front is actually a marshal."

"Which marshal is Zhukov?"

"You idiot, your news is out of date. Marshal Zhukov left long ago. This is the new marshal konev!"

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We came to platform 3. The civilians who had been here had been evacuated for a long time. Now, only the soldiers who were on guard stood in their guard positions, holding steel guns and holding their heads high, facing the side of the railway.

Half an hour later, a steam locomotive pulled a long carriage into the station. They are all passenger cars, so I can see clearly that they are full of people. The train slowly stopped in front of us. As soon as the train stopped, several groups of soldiers with guns came down from different carriages and stood facing the cordon we set.

When heard the commander in charge of a loud voice: "attention!" After that, we all looked at the tail of the train. Khrushchev, who was wearing a black tweed coat and a top hat, came to us with some leaders in military civilian clothes,

"Hello, comrade Khrushchev." Konev did not wait for Khrushchev to approach, so he took the initiative to meet him, reached out his hand to the other side, and said in a friendly way, "welcome to Rovno."

"Hello, marshal konev." Khrushchev took konev's hand with a smile: "I didn't expect that you would meet me at the station in person."

As Khrushchev was a military commissar of the first front army of Ukraine not long ago, he was very familiar with the leaders of the front army, so there was no need for konev to introduce him again. He leaned over and introduced konev to his fellow city leaders one by one. In my heart, I silently remember every name he said and the position he held. What I didn't expect was that among the new city leaders, there was a young woman in her twenties with short hair and ears. Her name was borisova. She looked very capable and was the head of the Soviet Union in the West District of Rovno.

We went back to the headquarters of the front army from the railway station. In the conference room on the first floor, we held the first military and political leadership meeting since the recovery of Rovno. This time, the topic is to resume the production of factories and mines as soon as possible, rebuild the collective farms destroyed by the German army, and carry out large-scale conscription at the right time.

During the meeting, Khrushchev, who was sitting in the middle of the meeting, waved his right hand and said in a loud voice: "destroyed the city, bombed the factories, and ravaged the lush Ukrainian fields... Now the Ukrainian people, under the leadership of the party and with the fraternal help of the Russian people, are using their own hands and hard work, Try to eliminate the traces of terrorist war on the land where there is no democracy.

As we all know, our recovered oil fields are being expanded, new gas wells and coal mines are being built, and large-scale deforestation has begun in the mountains The collective farm rebuilt near Kiev is organizing machines and tractors to prepare for the coming spring ploughing. "

Although what Khrushchev said was dull and drowsy, out of courtesy and respect, I tried to open my eyes and pretend to listen with interest.

"... Ukraine's mineral resources mainly include coal, iron, manganese, nickel, titanium, mercury, lead, oil, natural gas, graphite, refractory soil, etc. Among them, coal and iron ore are the important pillars of our iron and steel industry... "At this point, Khrushchev's face suddenly showed a painful expression:" our mines are in inaccessible places, and the Germans have completely destroyed these places. If we want to resume production, we must rebuild the road leading to the mining area, In order to transport the shaft facilities and pipelines needed by the mining area to the mining area smoothly. "

"Comrade Khrushchev," at this time, konev, as the head of the military, must come out and make his position clear: "I will immediately send engineering troops to build the road to the mining area."

"Comrade Khrushchev," a new city leader continued, "if we want to build roads, we will definitely need a lot of manpower. How can we solve this problem?"

Khrushchev laughed and said nothing. Instead, he turned his eyes to konev and asked with a smile, "Comrade konev, do you have any good idea?"

"Comrade Khrushchev," said kleinukov, who sat aside before konev's reply, "we can mobilize the residents of the city to take part in voluntary labor, so as to solve the problem of shortage of manpower in road construction."

"My comrades of the military commissar," konev said with tears and laughter after listening to Wan kleinukov's words, "factories are going to resume work, shops are going to open, schools are going to start classes, and people are needed everywhere. If too many people are transferred to build the road, it is bound to affect the development of other work. "

"I see," Khrushchev said thoughtfully, leaning back against the back of the chair, with his elbow on the arm of the armchair. "Marshal konev is right. We are in the process of reconstruction. We need a lot of people everywhere. It's really a bit inappropriate for urban residents to take part in voluntary labor and build roads leading to mining areas. "

Seeing that everyone was in a state of melancholy, I quickly stood up from my seat and said to Khrushchev, "Comrade Khrushchev, marshal, in fact, if we want to build roads, we can find enough people. We don't need to mobilize the residents of the city at all."

My words made Khrushchev and konev shine in front of their eyes. Both of them asked, "Rita, where can I find someone who can repair the road?"

"Did we not capture nearly 30000 German troops in this offensive campaign?" Thinking of the prisoners of war who were held in the prison camps, I suggested to them: "in addition to those who are seriously injured and have been evacuated, there are still more than 20000 people who are held in more than a dozen German prison camps. Instead of letting them do nothing in the prison camp every day, they should be sent to build roads, and let them do the most tiresome and dirty work to make atonement for their heinous crimes in Ukraine. "

After listening to my suggestion, Khrushchev showed a happy smile on his face. He nodded his head and said, "Rita, you're right. You can't let these people stay in the prison camp and waste our food in vain. You should let them do something for the reconstruction of Ukraine, even for the crimes they committed before." He turned to konev, who was sitting beside him. "Comrade konev, what do you think of Rita's opinion?" Obviously, konev was also very satisfied with my proposal. He nodded with a smile and echoed: "Comrade Khrushchev, I think Rita's proposal is very reasonable. We can then study where to use these prisoners. " Seeing that konev agreed with him, Khrushchev beamed to me and said, "Rita, every time you can come up with some unexpected good ideas. You're smarter than a fox. " In Russia, the most cunning animal is rabbit. To say that a person is more cunning than a rabbit is a derogatory term; But fox is the pronoun of cleverness. To say you are as clever as fox is a commendatory word. But in my country, to say that a person is like a fox is a derogatory word. I can only smile bitterly at Khrushchev's praise. When Khrushchev announced the end of the meeting, he asked konev and I to stay, saying that there was something important to discuss with both of us. Seeing that the door of the conference room was tightly closed, konev immediately asked, "Comrade Khrushchev, I don't know what's important about you?"“ Well, comrade konev. " The expression on Khrushchev's face suddenly became serious: "the supreme command has sent a geological exploration team to look for oil deposits near you."“ "Oil mines?" After listening to this, konev showed a puzzled expression on his face: "we are close to the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. There are not a lot of oil fields. Why are we looking for oil here?" I was whispering to myself. If the geological exploration team is really looking for an oil field, then this matter can be brought up at the meeting. Why do they want to explore with us? Thinking of this, I suddenly had a strange idea in my heart: are they looking for uranium instead of oil“ Marshal, you are mistaken. What the geological exploration team is looking for is not oil, but uranium. "“ Uranium mine? " He looked at Khrushchev and asked, "what is uranium? How come I have never heard of it?" As he spoke, he turned his eyes to me and asked casually, "do you know what it is, Rita?" How can I not know what uranium is from later generations? But at the moment, I can only pretend to be confused. I pretended to be confused, shook my head and said, "sorry, marshal, I don't know. I heard this word for the first time." When Khrushchev listened to us, he scratched the back of his head and said with some embarrassment, "I'm not sure about the specific situation. I only know that our country is making a super bomb. This kind of bomb can easily destroy a city, and uranium is a kind of raw material to make this kind of super bomb. "“ A bomb that can destroy one city at a time? " Khrushchev's words frightened konev. He looked at each other and asked seriously, "Comrade Khrushchev, are you kidding me? How could there be such a bomb in the world? "“ There's nothing impossible. " Seeing that konev did not believe what he said, Khrushchev explained to him, "you were also a veteran of the first World War. At that time, could you think that tanks could be widely used in the battlefield now? There are also airplanes. In the past, airplanes could only detect the enemy's situation and could not pose any threat to the ground forces. But what about today's airplanes? Continuous bombing is enough to turn our cities and defensive positions into a sea of fire. " After listening to Khrushchev's words, konev finally realized that the other party was not joking with him, so he asked solemnly, "Comrade Khrushchev, what can I do for you?" Looking at konev, Khrushchev said seriously: "it is Comrade lavrinko who leads the geological exploration team. I hope you can send troops to follow them and ensure their personnel safety." Konev immediately understood that Khrushchev had left us both for such a secret mission. He nodded and then said, "Comrade Khrushchev, I suggest that the task of accompanying and protecting the geological exploration team should be entrusted to Lida. Do you have any opinions?"