Chapter 1691

On hearing this request, Zhukov chuckled: "Comrade trakov, you are playing a trick. Let me transfer your army to the Oder River. Are you going to be the first to rush into Berlin?"

"Needless to say," he said carelessly, seeing that Zhukov had guessed his intention, "we have been bullied by the Germans for several years. Now it's hard to wait until the moment of revenge. Naturally, we all want to rush into Berlin first and destroy the stronghold of the bandits."

After his words, Zhukov suddenly fell silent. After a while, he said, "Comrade trakov, give Rita the phone. I have something important to talk to her."

On hearing Zhukov's stern tone, trakov quickly handed me the microphone and asked the other commanders to stay away from me, so as not to hear the secret they shouldn't listen to.

"Marshal comrade," I don't know if Zhukov will come to me for anything, but it's probably not a trivial matter. Therefore, when I spoke to him, my palm holding the microphone was sweating: "what instructions do you have?"

"Rita, your intuition is right." After Zhukov said something inexplicably, there was no voice.

Zhukov's mindless words confused me, and I asked, "Comrade marshal, what's your intuition?"

"You once said that because of the hatred of our commanders and fighters for the Germans, they would carry out crazy revenge after entering the German mainland." Zhukov finally spoke again: "not long ago, the troops attacking East Prussia were stunned by the huge contrast of life after they entered the German town. Some soldiers were puzzled and asked, "since the Germans are so rich, why do they want to invade us?"

Then our soldiers stormed into the houses of the local residents and robbed them of all the jewelry, watches, clothes, boots, food and things they liked. When I left, there was a big fire that burned down the whole town. "

The worry finally happened, which made my heart beat faster. I quickly asked, "what about the residents in the town? Did they run away long ago, or were they killed by our soldiers? "

"According to rokosovsky's report, his men only killed two or three local people who resisted." Zhukov went on to say, "our soldiers drove all the residents out of the town before they set fire to the whole town."

Although such a crime was committed by the second front army of Belarus of rokosovsky, it had a bad impact on the image of the whole Soviet army. I asked carefully, "how did marshal rokosovsky deal with this matter?"

"What else can we do?" Zhukov said helplessly: "since before entering East Prussia, we did not work out the precautions that should be observed by the officers and men of the army after entering the German mainland, and the number of people who violated the discipline was as many as 1000, so this matter can only be changed into a big one and a small one. Rokosovsky called the commander in charge of the team to give him a hard reprimand. That's the end of the matter. "

I guessed from Zhukov's words that he might want to talk to me about serious military discipline, so I asked in advance, "marshal, are you going to give an order to prevent our troops from having similar incidents after they enter Germany?"

"Yes, that's what I think." Zhukov said carefully: "Rita, you should know that due to the shortage of soldiers, we have incorporated a large number of criminal and reform through labor prisoners into the army. The existence of these people is bound to lead to lax military discipline in our army. That's what I'm going to talk to you about today. "

I remember that in the posts I read in later generations, I repeatedly mentioned the heinous crimes committed by the Soviet army in the German army. They were burning, killing and looting everywhere, and their deeds were even worse than those of the Communist Party. In order to avoid the recurrence of similar situations, I feel it necessary to help Zhukov formulate relevant rules and regulations to prevent the Soviet army from deteriorating military discipline.

I asked cautiously, "Comrade marshal, do you need me to rush back to Lublin at once?" My implication is that if you need my help in formulating such a policy, I will return at the first time.

Zhukov obviously recognized my voice out of the picture and said, "Rita, I'm going to Rhodes in two days, and I'll set up the new front command there. If you have time, you can meet me there. In the past two days, you first carried out this work in trakov's army. Through the propaganda of political workers, the soldiers can correctly deal with the current situation and avoid any excessive action. "

"I see, comrade marshal." I quickly replied: "I will work out relevant regulations with general Pronin, military commissar of the group army, as soon as possible, and implement them in the 8th group army of the guards, so as to prevent the recurrence of incidents in East Prussia."

As soon as I finished my call with Zhukov, I beckoned for trakov, duhanov, Pronin and the chief of staff, Vladimirov, and repeated to several people what Zhukov had told me on the phone.

After listening to my story, everyone's face showed a surprised expression. After a while, Pronin said: "although our parents said that we should face the enemy with an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, under the current situation, we can't simply understand what they said. For example, two legged wild animals, killing our people crazily, burning down our houses for generations, or robbing. Now we have the advantage, but we can't repeat the beast like things they have done because of revenge. "

"That's right," said trikov, nodding his head after Pronin finished his speech. "If we do, what is the essential difference between us and the Communist aggressors who are being attacked by us?"“ I think Marshal Zhukov is quite right, "deputy commander duhanov added." due to the serious shortage of troops, we have incorporated a large number of criminal and reform through labor prisoners into the army. The existence of these people is bound to affect our military discipline. "“ Since we know that these people are unstable factors in the army, we must focus on them and send special personnel to supervise them. " Trikov turned his eyes to Pronin again: "Comrade military commissar, we should unify the understanding of the commanders and fighters as soon as possible, so that they can realize that we are here to liberate the suffering German people, not to invade them, so we must resolutely put an end to the phenomenon of burning, killing and looting, understand?"