Although rokosovsky asked me to rest at home for two days, I couldn't stay. If I hadn't gone to other people's weddings with Nina and ulanova, maybe I would have reported to the headquarters yesterday.
As soon as I got to the hall on the first floor, I saw a group of people in casual clothes coming in from outside. My heart said how early in the morning a group of people ran into the officer's dormitory, and the sentinel at the door did not care. But when I saw the happy woman in the crowd, I immediately recognized her as the bride of yesterday, and the people around her should be Lieutenant Blick and his colleagues.
When they saw me in the hall, they stopped laughing, stood at attention and raised their hands to salute me. I returned a gift with a smile and strode out of the building.
When I went out, I was still thinking about where to find a car to the headquarters later. But as soon as I got out of the building, I saw a jeep parked on the side of the road. Very coincidentally, the driver was the one who took us to the wedding yesterday.
I went to pull open the door, sat in the co pilot's position, involuntarily ordered: "driver comrade, please send me to the front army headquarters."
"No, I'm not a taxi," the driver said vaguely without looking at me. After a short pause, his body was shocked and he turned to look at me: "the headquarters of the front army?" I'm sorry, Comrade General. I didn't see it clearly. It's you. I'll send you right away! "
I smell the driver's body has a strong smell of wine, then frowned and asked: "you drink?"
"Yes... Yes!" The driver obviously didn't recognize me. As he was driving, he replied vaguely: "yesterday, after sending three... Three female officers back here, I drove over to have a drink. This morning... This morning and the other two... Two cars, they brought the bridegroom back. "
Although the driver was drunk, he still played his driving skills to the extreme. It took him only 10 minutes to take me to the headquarters of the front army.
When I walked into the headquarters, I saw rokosovsky sitting at a table, talking to a general. Hearing the footsteps, he turned and looked at me. After seeing clearly that it was me, he couldn't help but ask in surprise, "Rita, I didn't give you two days off. Why did you come to work today?"
I glanced at the general who was sitting face to face with rokosovsky and said, "I'm worried about new changes in the situation on the battlefield. I can't sit at home, so I came to have a look. This general is
The general stood up, looked at me and said, "Comrade oshanina, don't you know me?"
When rokosovsky saw my blank face and guessed that I couldn't remember who he was, he took the initiative to introduce him to me and said, "this is general korpakchi, who served as commander of the 62nd army during the war of Stalingrad."
Colpakchi? When I heard the name, I was stunned for a moment. My heart said that he was not dismissed because of the unfavorable battle in the defense of Stalingrad, and he was sent to the military court. I thought he had followed general Pavlov to see Marx. I didn't expect that he was still standing in front of him today.
I quickly reached out to him and said politely, "Hello, general kolpakchi, nice to meet you here!" When I spoke, I looked him up and down carefully, and found that although he hadn't seen him for only two years, he looked at least ten years old and haggard.
He took my hand and said enthusiastically, "Hello, comrade oshanina! I didn't expect to see you for only two years. You are going to be a marshal. " At this point, his face showed a bitter expression, "and I, as two years ago, the rank is still lieutenant general."
"Don't worry, Vladimir Yakovlev 1" rokosovsky recognized the sentimentality in the other party's tone and quickly comforted him, saying: "as long as you show outstanding performance in the next campaign, I believe you will be promoted soon."
After the three of us sat down at the table, I asked korpakchi, "Comrade General, I haven't heard from you for nearly two years. Where do you hold command positions?"
"It's a long story. I was dismissed in August 1942, went to the military court, and was locked up for some time." Korpakchi told me his experience truthfully: "in November of the same year, I was reactivated and appointed commander of the 30th group army of the Western army. I participated in the battle of lerev - viazima and successfully recovered lerev.
Later, the 30th group army was renamed as the 10th group army of the guards, and I was transferred to the commander of the 63rd group army of the Bryansk front army. In July 43, under the command of Marshal rokosovsky, I participated in the battle of Kursk and successfully recovered the city of oreol
After the withdrawal of the 63rd group army, I was re appointed commander of the 69th group army. Now it is under the command of the first front army of Belarus. "
After listening to korpakchi's experience, I can't help but feel a lot of emotion. He has been transferred from one group army to another so frequently that he can't make great contributions like those generals who have been in one army for a long time. No wonder he hasn't been promoted after two years.
Rokosovsky knew that I used to be a subordinate of korpakchi, so he patiently waited for the two of us to finish our reminiscence, and then he said, "as Gusev's 47th army is to be transferred to the north of Warsaw, the strength of the pwawi landing site is empty. Therefore, I intend to transfer the 69th army of kolpakchi to puwai to strengthen the defense in the area. "“ Marshal, you are very considerate. " As for rokosovsky's arrangement, I immediately echoed: "let the 69th group army take over the defense of the pwawi landing site, then we can achieve mutual echo at the two landing sites of magnushev and pwawi to the south of Warsaw. No matter which landing site is attacked by the enemy, the troops of the other landing site can attack the enemy's flanks in time and smash their attempts to seize the landing site. "“ We have a group army on each of the two landing sites south of Warsaw, which is more than enough for defense. " Rokosovsky said with a heavy heart: "but our goal is to carry out a great detour to the depth of the enemy. Now tanks and artillery can not be transported across the river, and troops lacking heavy weapons support are unable to capture German cities with solid defense."“ According to the latest operational plan we reported to the headquarters of the staff, "I went on to say," we need to rely on the troops in the south of Warsaw to make a great detour to Poznan in the west of Warsaw and cut off the retreat of the German forces in Poland. Without the cooperation of armored forces, it is impossible to complete the task only by infantry. " Rokosovsky took my view very seriously. He looked at korpakchi and said, "Comrade General, tomorrow morning, we will cross the river to the landing site on the West Bank of the visva River, and choose a suitable area to build a floating bridge, so that our tank brigade can pass through smoothly."