Chapter 1540

He accompanied konev around his defense area for more than half a month and spent most of his time checking the defense and preparation of the troops. It was not until the last day of May that we returned to the headquarters in Rovno.

After I said goodbye to konev, I went back to the dormitory room arranged for me. After a simple wash, I lay in bed, trying to make up for all the sleep I had sacrificed during this period. Who knows, just fell asleep, vaguely heard someone knocking at the door. The experience of the war in recent years has sharpened my sense. Although I haven't opened my eyes yet, I got out of bed, closed my eyes, rushed to the door, took out my pistol from the holster hanging on the coat rack, pointed it at the door, and then asked warily, "who is it, who is it outside?"

"Comrade General, it's me." There was a familiar voice outside the door. I immediately recognized that it was a familiar staff officer of the headquarters of the front army. After I was relieved, I opened my eyes, put the gun back into the holster, and opened the door.

The staff officer standing outside the door saw me appear at the door, quickly raised his hand to my forehead to salute me, and reported: "Comrade General, marshal, please go to the headquarters immediately."

"Comrade captain," thinking that he had been separated from konev for less than half an hour, he hastily sent for me. There must be something serious. I asked nervously, "do you know what it is?"

The staff officer shook his head and replied, "I'm sorry, Comrade General. I just received an order to ask you to go to the headquarters immediately. As for what happened, I don't know."

When I arrived at the headquarters, I found that in addition to konev, military commissar kleinukov and chief of staff sokolovsky, even lunev was there.

Konev saw me enter the room, nodded to me, and then politely said to everyone, "since everyone is here, let's hurry up and have a meeting."

Seeing us all sitting down at the conference table, he continued: "comrades commander, I just received a call from Moscow, asking me to hand over the command to my deputy, and then fly to Moscow overnight to attend the important military meeting tomorrow morning."

When sokolovsky heard this, he turned to look at me, but said to konev, "Comrade marshal, comrade oshanina used to be the Acting Deputy Commander of the front army, and now he is the representative of the base camp. I think you should transfer the command of the army to her."

What konev said surprised us all: "chief of staff, although Comrade oshanina's identity is special, I can't transfer the command to her for the time being."

Sokolovsky asked somewhat unexpectedly, "Comrade marshal, I don't know if this is your opinion or the opinion of the supreme command?"

"The opinion of the supreme command, of course." When konev said this, he looked at me and said, "according to the order, comrade oshanina will arrive in Moscow on the day of June 5. If the command of the troops is handed over to her now, when she leaves, it will have to be handed over again. "

After listening to konev's explanation, sokolovsky finally understood what was going on. He nodded and said, "since that is the case, comrade marshal, let's carry out the handover."

While konev and sokolovsky were handing over, I asked lunev in a low voice, "Comrade lunev, have you received any orders from Moscow?"

Lunev nodded and replied, "yes, just now marshal konev informed me that he wanted me to return to Moscow with me. He also said that this was an order given by Comrade belia himself."

It was said that belia himself gave the order, and I suddenly had an idea: is it related to the search for karcharov's remains that belia hastily recalled lunev at this time? Thinking of this, I went on to ask, "Comrade lunev, do you know what is important for belia to send you back to Moscow?"

"I don't know." Lunev quickly glanced at konev not far away and said in a low voice, "because the order to go to Moscow was conveyed by Marshal konev. In order to prevent leakage, even if there is something important, comrade Beria will not say it on the phone. "

After konev finished his assignment, the military commissar kleinukov, who had always been very low-key, suddenly asked, "marshal, may I ask, is the military conference you are going to Moscow to attend related to our next offensive campaign?"

"Although when Comrade vasilevsky called me, there was no specific meeting." Konev was very cautious when he spoke, and seemed to be trying to filter out what he could not say: "but I heard that the people who attended this meeting were all commanders from various front armies. It seems that our army will soon have a big action."

With these words, konev stood up and shook hands with kleinukov and sokolovsky. At the same time, he told them, "while I'm not in Ukraine, you two will be fully responsible for the daily work of the front army."

Then he came up to me, shook my hand and asked, "Rita, would you like to fly with us to Moscow?"

According to the time, the emergency military meeting konev will attend must have something to do with the following battles of Belarus and Lvov sandomeri. However, at my present level, I am obviously not qualified to attend such a meeting. Therefore, I politely refused konev's proposal: "no, marshal, I won't go to Moscow with you for the time being. I'm going to shepetovka to see. When I walked into the headquarters tonight, I saw that there were only Lukin and bukov in it. Instead of looking at the map, they sat at the table and sighed, as if they had encountered something unsatisfactory.

"Hello, comrades commander." I strode towards them as I spoke. When they heard someone talking, they turned to look at me at the same time. When they saw clearly that it was me, they both got up from their seats, stood at attention and raised their hands to salute me. After I sat down at the table carelessly, I looked up at the two people who were standing like poles and asked, "what are you two sighing about?" After they looked at each other, bukov stepped forward and said to me, "Comrade commander, please transfer me back to the original army. I'd rather continue to be the deputy head of the guard regiment than the deputy division commander." I shrunk my smile, looked at Lukin and asked, "and you, Colonel Lukin, think the same thing?"“ Yes, comrade commander. " As one of my old subordinates, Lu Jin still used my previous position to call me: "please transfer me to the original army. Even if I am demoted, I don't want to be the division commander."“ Nonsense. It's nonsense. " After listening to them, I slapped the table and stood up. After walking back and forth in the room, I stopped and said to them angrily, "do you think this is a restaurant? If you have a meal that suits your taste, stay and have it; Can you two just walk away without the right taste? Let me tell you, it is not my decision to appoint you two as the principal and deputy division commander, but the order given by the Supreme Commander himself. " Two people listen to me say so, on the face immediately peeped out frightened expression. I stopped in front of them, raised my chin, and asked, "tell me, what's the matter with you two teachers trying to give up?" After I finished this sentence, I saw two people winking at each other, as if they wanted each other to explain the situation to me. I didn't want to play riddles with them either. I pointed to Lukin and said, "Colonel Lukin, you'd better answer me. What's the matter?" Lu Jin, who was named by me, gave me a bitter smile, and then complained to me: "Comrade commander, you don't know that almost all the commanders and fighters of the new division were captured in the early stage of the war, so the offensive and defensive tactics they are familiar with are outdated. We're teaching them new tactics, and we're often challenged. "“ What about the chief of staff? " It suddenly occurred to me that I hadn't seen the shadow of bonejerin since I came in. I asked, "where has he gone?"“ He must have gone somewhere to drink again. " Bukov reported to me: "as most of the commanders at all levels of the army have been with him in the prison camp, his prestige is far higher than ours. It is precisely because he has different views on the new tactics we are using today that the following commanders and fighters are affected to have a resistance to the tactics we teach them. "