Chapter 1581

I got on the gas car parked beside the runway and asked Yushchenko in the co pilot's seat, "Colonel Yushchenko, where are we going?"

"Be the headquarters of the front army." Yushchenko half turned, looked at me and replied respectfully, "marshal rokosovsky wants to see you!"

I didn't ask rokosovsky foolishly about what happened to me, because such a secret, at Yushchenko's level, is not qualified to know.

When I walked into rokosovsky's headquarters, I was immediately seen by malining, who was busy. He exclaimed, "isn't this our female general oshanina? Welcome to Lublin."

Rokosovsky, who was looking at the map around the table with Bulganin, the military Commissioner, heard malining's cry and immediately stood up and walked towards me. Still far away, he reached out to me and said warmly, "Rita, welcome back here."

"Hello, comrade marshal." As I shook hands with rokosovsky, I sincerely congratulated him: "I congratulate you on getting the highest rank."

Rokosovsky patted me on the arm with his free left hand and said with a smile, "Rita, do a good job. I believe you will get the same rank soon."

After shaking hands with malining and Bulganin, I looked at rokosovsky and asked, "marshal, what's my next task?"

"We are going to launch an attack." Rokosovsky said vaguely: "I think it's more appropriate for you to command a small offensive."

After hearing what rokosovsky said, and thinking of yesterday's Khrushchev's request for my views on the Warsaw Uprising, I think the so-called offensive fighting must have something to do with Warsaw. I asked tentatively, "Comrade marshal, are you going to let me direct my troops to Warsaw and join the rebels who are fighting with the German army there?"

"No, Rita, it's not the kind of offensive fight you think." After rokosovsky finished this sentence, he turned to face his chief of staff and said, "chief of staff, you can give Rita an introduction."

"Rita, please come here." After I stood at the table, malining pointed to the map spread out on it and said, "is the army of the front army in magnusev? In order to maintain and expand the landing site captured by the West Bank of the viswa River, we need to fight actively in this area. "

"Comrade chief of staff," I heard here, and couldn't help but interrupt and ask, "what is my specific task?"

"To the north of puwai, there is a puppet brigade." Malining pointed to the position of puwai and introduced his mission to me: "your mission is to command one or two divisions and eliminate the puppet brigade."

When I heard the word "puppet brigade", I couldn't help frowning, because in my impression, the "Russian Liberation Army" organized by this scum, Vlasov, was founded in November of 44, and now it's only August. Is there any deviation in history here because of my appearance?

After a long silence, I asked, "Comrade chief of staff, can you tell me something about this puppet brigade?"

Malining took out a book, turned to the page where the information of the brigade was recorded, and read: "the commander of the brigade is bronislav Kaminski, who was a captain of our army. He can speak fluent German and has strong organizational ability. After the outbreak of the patriotic war, his troops were stationed in the Bryansk region.

During the period of political vacuum when our army was defeated and the German army had not yet arrived, Kaminsky established an autonomous administrative organ and openly expressed his cooperation with the German army. In order to obtain the support of the local people, the Germans took the initiative to withdraw from the area and recognized the autonomy of Kaminsky's organs. In order to maintain law and order, Kaminski selected 20000 middle-aged Russians from the local population and established a militia brigade to fight against our guerrillas behind the enemy lines. "

When I heard this, my heart said that there were more than 20000 people in this puppet brigade. I used two divisions to attack, and I didn't have any advantage in the strength. I'd like to ask rokosovsky to increase my troops later.

Malining continued to read: "under the powerful counterattack of our army, the German army withdrew from the territory of the Soviet Union step by step, and the puppet brigade under the command of Kaminski had to withdraw to Poland with the German army. Because of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, the German army, in order to make up for the shortage of troops, transferred this brigade to Warsaw to participate in the military operations to suppress the uprising... At present, the total strength of the brigade is 1700. "

When I heard that there were only 1700 people on the other side, I felt a lot more confident. It seems that there is no problem in using two divisions to eliminate them. After malining finished introducing the situation, I turned to look at rokosovsky and asked, "Comrade marshal, what kind of identity will I use to command the troops here?"

I asked this question for a reason. Anyway, I was still the deputy commander of the first front army of Ukraine. I went to Poland to command the troops of the Belarusian front army. I was a bit of an outsider, which was not right. Rokosovsky seemed to have been prepared for a long time. As soon as I finished, he continued: "Rita, you may not know that Comrade Stalin has just issued an order this morning to formally appoint you as the deputy commander of the first front army of Belarus."

When the problem of identity was solved, I then asked, "Comrade marshal, I don't know which troops you want me to command to take part in this battle?" Rokosovsky took a look at malining standing next to him, and then said, "I'm going to give you the command of the 28th army of major general reirov's guards." When I heard the name of the army, I couldn't help picking my eyebrows. My heart said that major monakov really made a prophecy. He said that I might command their army, but I didn't expect that rokosovsky really assigned this army to me. But at the same time, it occurred to me that in order to eliminate a puppet army with only 1700 people, I had to be the deputy commander of the front army. It was like shooting mosquitoes with antiaircraft fire. Rokosovsky seemed to have guessed what I was thinking. He asked bluntly, "Rita, do you think it's too much of a fuss for me to let you take charge of this in person?" Seeing that rokosovsky had guessed what I was thinking, I didn't want to hide it any more, so I nodded and answered truthfully, "marshal, please forgive me. Such puppet troops usually don't have any fighting capacity. Let alone two divisions, even if we only send out two regiments, we may annihilate them completely."“ Yes, you're right Rokosovsky agreed with me, but he then asked, "but have you ever thought about why I arranged this?" I shook my head to show that I didn't understand the purpose of rokosovsky's arrangement. Rokosovsky continued: "since you don't understand, I will tell you about the heinous crimes committed by this puppet army. After they came to the south of Warsaw, they didn't plan to fight against the rebel army at all. Instead, they burned, killed and plundered all kinds of crimes. They plundered all kinds of visible finance and wantonly abused Polish women. In the first day of the war, they only killed six people, and more than a thousand Polish soldiers and civilians died in their hands, almost all of them innocent civilians. These Russian scum in German uniform are not soldiers at all, but a group of two legged beasts. " After listening to rokosovsky's words, I nodded my head and replied, "I see, comrade marshal. We went to destroy this puppet army in order to protect the innocent Polish people and gain their support for us! "“ That's right, Rita. You understand it very well Rokosovsky's face showed a happy expression: "the reason why I asked Comrade Stalin to transfer you here is to achieve such an effect."“ What about the prisoners of war caught on the battlefield? " I then asked, "do you lock them up with German prisoners of war?"“ No, all officers and men of the Kaminsky brigade captured will be shot on the spot. " "We will never accept the surrender of these two legged animals," rokosovsky said firmly“ "Marshal," I said with a smile after hearing the order of killing prisoners issued by rokosovsky, "the last time I heard a similar order, it was in the defense war in Moscow that Comrade Stalin personally gave orders to all the officers and men of the Western Front forces. All the officers and men of the captured German 332nd infantry regiment were shot on the spot. We will never accept their surrender."“ Yes, in extraordinary times, we need to take extraordinary measures. " After rokosovsky finished this sentence, he told malining: "chief of staff, call general rerov and ask him to come to the headquarters of the front army to accept new combat tasks." As the unit was stationed in Lublin, malining's phone call lasted less than ten minutes, and I saw a middle-aged general trotting into the headquarters. He came to rokosovsky and raised his hand to salute: "Comrade marshal, major general reirov, commander of the 28th army of the guard infantry, has been ordered to come, please give instructions!"“ Please take a moment! " Rokosovsky pointed to me and introduced to reirov: "general reirov, let me introduce you. This is the new deputy commander of the front army, general oshanina. From now on, your infantry will accept her direct command."