Chapter 1570

When all the informed group commanders arrived, konev rushed to Lvov.

As soon as he entered the church, the adjutant who followed him cried out, "marshal konev is here!"

With the voice of the adjutant, the commanders at the table immediately rose from their seats, while the staff, who were walking back and forth on the other side of the church hall, stopped and stood at attention facing konev.

I greet konev with a smile, extend my hand to him and say politely, "welcome to Lvov, marshal!"

"Hello, Rita." Konev shook my hand twice, nodded and said, "you've worked hard these two days."

After he released my hand, he quickly came to the place reserved for him, glanced at the commander standing on both sides of the conference table, then raised his hands and pressed them down, commanding with great authority: "please sit down!"

The standing commanders of the group army sat down in order with his command, then tilted their heads and waited for him to speak to them.

"Comrades," konev said after a pause, "I congratulate you on your successful capture of Lvov and the liberation of the Ukrainian people who have been enslaved by the bandits for three years." At this point, he suddenly kept silent. From the excited expression on his face, I guess some past events may have disturbed his prepared speech.

After a while, konev continued: "before I came here, I had already reported the good news that our army had captured Lvov to Comrade Stalin. Comrade Stalin was very happy to learn the news. He said that another salute will be fired in Moscow Red Square tonight to celebrate our successful liberation of this big city in western Ukraine. "

Konev's words excited the commanders attending the meeting, and they began to whisper. In the past, konev would clap the table discontentedly and make a few angry remarks to the commanders who didn't stay at the venue, but he didn't say anything today, just looked at everyone with a smile.

After everyone calmed down again, konev continued: "comrades, with the liberation of Lvov, the campaign of Lvov sandomeri that we launched has come to an end. In the past two weeks, we successfully broke through the German defense in the direction of Rava and Lvov, encircled and annihilated the German group in the southwest of Brod, crossed the San River, and successfully liberated the Russian cities of Rava, peremeshri, Lvov and Stanislav. "

"Comrade commander, what's our next task?" Rebalko couldn't help interrupting.

Konev looked at rebalko and said with a smile: "general rebalko, our next task is to transfer the main force of the front army from Lvov peremeshi to sandomeri, cross the visva River and build a large battle landing site in sandomeri.

It was just when the right wing and the middle section of our front army were at war with the German army. On the 23rd, general zhulavrov's 18th army turned to attack. With the cooperation of the right wing regiments of the 18th group army, general glicko's 1st group army expanded its achievements and today liberated Stanislav, the center of the Carpathian state. At present, the units of the 18th group army have moved forward to the south of Kalush. "

After arranging the next task of each group army, konev scanned the commanders one by one, and then asked, "do you have any questions?"

"No," the commanders in this room agreed

"Now that everyone's tasks are clear, this is the end of the meeting." Konev said as usual: "comrades commander, now the meeting is over, let's go back to our respective troops as soon as possible."

When konev and I were the only ones left at the table, he suddenly said to me politely, "Rita, there's something I want to discuss with you."

When I heard konev talking to me like this, I couldn't help clapping in my heart. Did I say something big happened? I didn't speak, just stare nervously at konev, waiting for him to continue.

Konev waited for a moment. Seeing that I didn't speak, he continued: "the Supreme Command wants to transfer afuning's close guard 18th army."

"Transfer the 18th army of Jinwei?" When I heard this, I shivered and asked nervously, "is there something wrong with them?"

"What's wrong?" Konev was stunned at first, then shook his head and said: "Rita, you misunderstood that the reason why the superior wanted to transfer the 18th army of the guards was not because they had any problems, on the contrary, it was because they had performed very well in this campaign."

Seeing that I was still at a loss, konev began to count the achievements of the 18th army of the guards in this campaign: "they first defeated the 1st and 8th armored divisions of the German army who carried out anti assault against our army... They also captured the city of trumarch and Stanislav respectively... Before I came here, I heard Comrade Stalin say personally, We are going to confer the glorious title of "Stanislav army" on this outstanding army. "

"Marshal, I don't understand why they should be transferred since they are so outstanding." I was puzzled and asked: "if they stay in the formation of our front army, they will surely achieve more brilliant results."

"To tell you the truth, I don't want my superiors to transfer this unit." Konev sighed and said with regret: "but this is the order of the superior. There is no room for bargaining. I can only implement it unconditionally. In addition to the close guard army of afuning, the 18th group army of zhulavrov is also transferred. They will officially enter the fighting sequence of the Fourth Front Army of Ukraine before August 5. " Two months ago, afuning's close guard 18th army was not welcomed because most of its members were prisoners of war. I didn't expect that in this campaign, they became the most popular goods. I was really not reconciled to the transfer of such an army that I had devoted a lot of effort to, so I asked konev, "Comrade marshal, this army has been treated unfairly because it has added a large number of prisoners of war. I'm afraid they will be discriminated against when they go to the new army. " After listening to me, konev laughed and then said, "Rita, you are worried about this. Don't worry, after this army has won the title of "Stanislav army", no one will dare to discriminate against them. By the way, comrade belia asked me to tell you one thing, saying that after repeated verification, he had not betrayed his motherland, and therefore intended to cancel the charges against him and restore his honor and rank. "“ Marshal, if I have not misunderstood it, from now on, the chief of staff of the new division, major bonejerin, will become major general bonejerin? "“ Yes, it is With a smile on his face, konev said to me, "I want you to personally inform Comrade bonejerin of the decision of your superior." I know that konev wanted bonejerin to thank me. After all, I took the risk to keep him. But when I turn to it, it's funny that the rank of chief of staff of a division is even higher than that of the two chief and deputy division commanders. I remind konev: "marshal, since general bonejerin has been rehabilitated, is it a bit too condescending to let him be the deputy division commander of the new division again? You know, the division commander of the new division is just a colonel, Commander afuning is only a major general. "“ I have taken into account what you said Konev said thoughtfully: "according to his qualifications, it's no problem to be a deputy commander of the group army, but he has been away from the army for a long time, and his command knowledge is a bit out of date, so he needs to continue to run in. However, in order to take care of his mood, I intend to promote him to deputy commander of the army before the troops are transferred. " I waited for him to finish, and then asked, "after general bonejerin was transferred, the chief of staff of the new division will be available. Do you have any suitable person, marshal?" Konev thought about it, and then said, "in this battle, many excellent middle and low-level commanders have emerged in the army. I believe general afuning will be able to select the right person among them to serve as the chief of staff of the new division."