Chapter 1654

Rokosovsky's two landing sites on the West Bank of the visva river did not return to the east bank until the end of October. However, he didn't even return to the headquarters of the front army. He just called malining and me and went directly to the sirotsk landing site on the West Bank of the narev river.

Just when I was thinking about whether I should go to the landing site of cerotsk to meet him and report the recent situation of the front army to him, I unexpectedly received a call from vassilevsky.

The chief of the general staff asked me directly on the phone, "Rita, is rokosovsky in the headquarters?"

"No, comrade marshal." I replied respectfully, "after returning from the West Bank of the visva river today, comrade commander hurried to the landing site of cerotsk without even returning to the headquarters. Do you have anything important to ask him? "

"Well, a military parade will be held in Red Square on November 7. According to the order of the Supreme Commander himself, the principal and Deputy commanders and military commissars of all front forces must participate. " Vasilevsky said on the phone: "I now officially inform you that you must arrive in Moscow on the 6th at the latest. Is there any difficulty? "

"No problem," I immediately replied without hesitation, "we'll be there on time."

"Very well," vasilevsky told me, "remember to inform marshal rokosovsky immediately and get him ready."

After I put down the phone, I called malining and jerekin in front of them and said to them, "I have just received an order from the headquarters of the general staff that the principal and Deputy commanders and military commissars of the front army should arrive in Moscow on the 6th of this month to attend the military parade on October Revolution Day. Chief of staff, after we leave, you will be fully responsible for all the affairs of the front army. "

"Don't worry, Rita." Marinin nodded his head and said: "at present, everything in the army is in order, and there will be no large-scale fighting in a short period of time. I can fully cope with what happens. You can go to Moscow with ease."

"Then who will inform the marshal?" Asked Jeremy king, looking at both of us.

Malining and I looked at each other. From his eyes, I guessed that he wanted me to inform rokosovsky personally. Then he nodded and said, "I'd better call marshal."

The reason why they were embarrassed by the call to rokosovsky was that rokosovsky's identity was very embarrassing at this time. He had been officially removed from the post of commander of the first front army by Stalin, but he did not take office in the second front army for the time being.

I picked up the phone, hesitated for a long time, and finally dialed the 65th army headquarters. After hearing Batov's voice coming out of the receiver, I ignored the greetings and asked directly, "Comrade General, is the commander in your headquarters?"

"Yes, comrade deputy commander." Batov replied respectfully, "the marshal is in my headquarters at the moment." Then I heard him say to rokosovsky, "Comrade marshal, it's Rita. She seems to have something urgent for you."

"What's the matter, Rita?" he said

"Well, marshal, I just got a call from the chief of general staff." Hearing rokosovsky's voice, I said in a bit of confusion: "he said that on the 7th of this month, the October Revolution Day parade will be held in Moscow, and the supreme command will let all the front army commanders and Deputy commanders and military commissars participate."

After listening to this, rokosovsky was silent for a long time. Finally, he asked, "did vasilevsky say when we must get to Moscow?"

"No later than the sixth."

"Well," rokosovsky replied, "I'll arrive in Moscow on the 6th, but then I won't go back to Lublin and fly directly from here to Moscow, so you don't have to wait for me."

After I put down the phone, they immediately couldn't wait to ask, "what did the commander say?"

"Comrade Marshal said that he would arrive in Moscow on time. But he will fly directly from the local area to Moscow, so he won't go with us. " I looked at them, sighed and said, "it seems that the Marshal's heart is still a little rebellious."

Jerekin nodded and said with approval, "since Comrade commander is not willing to go with us, we will not impose ourselves. Then we will fly directly to Moscow."

A few days later, jerekin and I flew to Moscow.

Immediately after the plane landed, an officer in a military coat came running from the side of the runway and respectfully invited me and jerekin to board the black car parked outside the runway.

The car drove up the wasiri slope along the Moscow River and was blocked at the entrance to the Kremlin. The officer in the co pilot's seat turned to us and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, two general comrades. Because there are too many people reporting here today, we may have to wait a while before we can enter the Kremlin."

"It doesn't matter," I waved to the officer and pushed the door open. "It's still early anyway. I'll go out first."

Seeing that I got out of the car, jerekin also got out of the car from the other side in a hurry. From the back of the car around to my side, surprised to ask: "Rita, it's snowing outside, slippery road, what's good to go around?"

I nodded at Lenin's tomb and said, "Comrade military commissar, don't you see a group of people around there? Let's go and see what happened." Seeing me and jerekin walking towards Lenin's tomb under the thick snow, the officer who used to be in the co pilot's seat had to push the door open and get out of the car and follow us far behind to protect our safety. I went to the back of the crowd and saw that they were arguing with the guards and police on duty. I saw an old lady standing in front of me. I raised my hand and patted her on the shoulder. I asked curiously, "Comrade woman, can you tell me what happened here?" The old lady turned to look at me, and then complained to me: "Comrade commander, we are all from Kazakhstan. We wanted to present flowers to Lenin's tomb. However, the guards on duty said that Lenin's tomb had been closed and no one was allowed to present flowers. He asked us to come back tomorrow, but we are going to take the train back to Kazakhstan tonight. What can we do? " Seeing that the old lady came from such a far place, she just wanted to lay flowers in front of Lenin's tomb. If she could not satisfy her wish, she might leave a lifelong regret. Thinking of this, I nodded to the old lady and said confidently, "don't worry, I can help you fulfill your wish." The old lady glanced at my rank. She might regard me as an ordinary captain. She said doubtfully, "can you do it?"“ If you can, you have to try. " When I finished speaking, I pushed aside the crowd and pushed forward. At the same time, I yelled, "please step aside, comrades, please step aside!" I pushed to the front of the chain, rushed to the guards and police standing at the back door of the chain and said, "comrades, these people are from Kazakhstan. Their wish is to present a bunch of flowers in front of Lenin's tomb. Can't you even fulfill their wish?"“ But, Comrade General. " After a police Lieutenant saw his rank clearly, he immediately raised his hand to salute and said in embarrassment, "Lenin's tomb has been closed. Maybe it's not appropriate to present flowers at this time?"“ There's nothing inappropriate, "I said in an all embracing manner." Comrade police, I didn't ask you to reopen Lenin's tomb. I just asked you to open the chain here so that these comrades from Kazakhstan can present a bunch of flowers to Lenin's tomb. Isn't that too much? "“ That's right, that's right. " Hearing me say this, the civilians standing behind me also yelled: "we just want to lay a bunch of flowers in front of Lenin's tomb. Please let us in."“ Comrade general, we need to ask for instructions on this. " The police Lieutenant said cautiously: "if the superior agrees, I can let them lay flowers in front of the tomb."“ Comrade lieutenant. " The officer who accompanied me crowded in at this time and said to the police lieutenant, "I order you to let go of the chain and let these comrades from Kazakhstan present flowers at Lenin's tomb." The police Lieutenant obviously knew the officer who was with me. After a quick salute, he ordered his men to open the chain and let the people crowded here go in to offer flowers. At the same time, he was still shouting: "don't worry, everyone, come one by one!" When people around Lenin's tomb heard that they could make an exception to go in and offer flowers at this time, they could not help shouting "Wula!" And quickly formed a long line, orderly to Lenin's tomb flowers.