Burning Moscow

My mind was blank. I didn't hear what Beria said, until he hung up the phone, and I stood there holding the microphone.

"Hey, Comrade Oshanina, what are you thinking?" Lunev's shout made me awake. I looked at him and asked with a blank face: "Comrade Lunev, you call me?"

"Yes, I am calling you." Lunev awoke me and quickly added: "What should we do next? I seem to hear Comrade Beria say that he must first report to the Supreme Commander himself. This matter, and then tell us to deal with the decision. Let's go back to Uman and wait for the news."

"Yes, General Oshanina." As soon as Lunev finished speaking, Brakov continued to add: "Our goal here has been achieved. Now let's go back to Uman first. The environment there is Better than here."

To be honest, as soon as I entered this "Uman Pit", I smelled a disgusting odor, a sour odor from the odor of corpses, feces and urine, and the ragged military uniforms of the soldiers. The smell, the foul smell mixed into one. I didn't feel the freshness of the air until I returned to the ground. Since Brakov, the garrison commander, offered to return to the city at this moment, I agreed to his request smoothly.

The first thing I did to return to the garrison headquarters was that I couldn’t wait to ask Brakov: “Comrade General, can you find Order 27o signed by Comrade Stalin here?”

"It should be, General Oshanina." Brakov said with some uncertainty: "In our archives, there should be such a document."

"Then please go and find a copy, Comrade General." I didn't dream that Ponetjelin was actually the negative example of Stalin's "Order No. 27o", so I was eager to get a document. To see what happened, Brakov told me that I could find the file I wanted to see here, so he urged him to say: "I want to see what is written on it."

Taking advantage of Brakov’s call, I turned my head and looked at Lunev who was sitting next to him. I thought he would say something, but who knew he was just sitting next to him without a word and smoking a cigarette.

After putting down the phone, Brakov immediately walked back to me and said respectfully: "General Oshanina, I have asked the archives to find the relevant documents and send them here."

I smiled bitterly at him and said politely: "Thank you, Comrade General."

"Should I send someone to imprison that Ponetjelin first?" Brakov asked next: "Then choose the right time to send him to Moscow."

Although I don’t know how Ponetjelin ended in real history, I am convinced that he will never be a traitor. His trial in absentia is definitely an unjust, false and wrong case. Therefore, regarding Brakov’s question, I shook my head, and then said, "Until there is new news from Moscow, please do not take any action against General Ponetjelin for now."

We waited not long before a soldier from the archives hurried in. Came to Brakov, raised his hand to salute, handed him a document bag, and then saluted another military salute, turned and walked out of the office.

Brakov opened the file bag, took a look at the files in it, and handed it to me. At the same time, he said, "Comrade General, this is the 27o order you want."

I snatched the order from Brakov's hand, and quickly scanned it before my eyes: "Regarding the problems of greed and fear of death, treason and surrender, and the measures taken to prohibit such behavior:

Not only our friends believe that, but our enemies have to admit that in the war of liberation against the German fascist invaders, our great Red Army, especially their commanders and political commissars, showed indomitability and perseverance. , Tenacious and brave heroic spirit. Even the troops cut off and surrounded by the enemy maintained high morale and firm conviction. Instead of surrendering to the enemy, they tried every means to cause greater damage to the enemy and avoid the enemy's encirclement. As we all know, our isolated troops, when they are surrounded by the enemy, will use various possibilities to attack the enemy and get rid of the enemy..."

Although the contents of the first paragraph are all official articles that I am familiar with, I still read every word patiently before continuing to the second paragraph. I saw the above list of the deputy commander of the Western Front Army General Bolkin, the 8th Mechanized Army-level political commissar Popper, the 2-6th Infantry Regiment commander Colonel Novikov, the 3rd Army Commander Lieutenant General Kuznetsov and After being encircled by the encirclement, the military commissioner Brakov achieved the results and successfully rushed out of the encirclement, he did not hesitate to praise their heroic behavior: "...in all these and countless similar incidents. Our troops have shown strong determination, and our soldiers, commanders, and political commissars have shown high morale."

But here, he changed his pen and wrote in a stern tone: "But we can't cover up the fact that there have been several shameful incidents of surrendering to the enemy recently. The bad performance of individual generals has tarnished the honor of our troops. ."

The first to be named was General Kachalov, commander of the 28th Army. The article said: "The commander of the 28th Army, Lieutenant General Kachalov and his staff, are greedy for life and fear of death after being surrounded by the enemy. The fascists surrendered. However, some of Kachalov’s staff and troops succeeded in breaking through the siege, while Lieutenant General Kachalov chose to surrender and willingly became a prisoner of the enemy."

Seeing this, I suddenly remembered a list of senior Soviet commanders who were sacrificed in the Great Patriotic War that I had read. There was Lieutenant General Kachalov's name in it. I looked away from the document in front of me, looked at Lunev who was still smoking, and asked tentatively, "Comrade Lunev, I want to ask one thing."

When Lunev heard me asking him, he quickly squeezed out half of the cigarettes in his hand in the ashtray, raised his hand and looked at me and said, "Comrade Oshanina, I don’t know why you think, as long as I know Yes, I will answer truthfully."

"In this document, Lieutenant General Kachalov, commander of the 28th Army, voluntarily surrendered to the enemy." I asked cautiously, "I wonder if the military court tried him in absentia?"

"Does this need to be said?" Lunev snorted and said to me: "Kachalov, like Ponetjelin, was sentenced to death in absentia by the military court for treason, and the individual was confiscated. Property, deprivation of the medal awarded."

"Do you know his whereabouts?"

When Lunev heard this question from me, he shook his head and said, "No, we learned from the commanders who broke out that he had surrendered to the enemy, and we never had his whereabouts again."

"Comrade Lunev, I once heard a subordinate say that he saw with his own eyes that the temporary headquarters of General Kacharov was hit by a German shell, and all the people in it were killed."

"What, Kachalov's command was hit by enemy fire, and all of it was sacrificed?" Lunev looked at me with wide-eyed eyes and asked in an incredible tone: "Who said this, he Where are you now?"

"It was a new supplementary soldier who told me personally. I don't remember exactly what his name is." I naturally can't tell Lunev. These contents are what I read from the history books of later generations. He said vaguely: "It's a pity that this soldier died in battle on the first day he joined the army, otherwise we can still find him to verify this."

"Ah, that soldier died?" Lunev might have never dreamed that I would lie to him in this situation. He could only say regretfully: "It's really a shame."

The next content is about Ponetjelin. I have read that passage several times and found that it is not bad in one word from what Beria said. I can't help but admire Beria's Bowen's strong memory, and he can remember so clearly the content of the order issued a few years ago.

The third villain that appeared was Major General Kirilov, commander of the 13th Infantry Corps. The document stated that he: "...under the siege of the enemy, he neither performed the Russian duty of serving the motherland nor organized his troops to counter the enemy. Breaking through with facilities, but fleeing and surrendering to the enemy, the 13th Infantry Corps was wiped out by the enemy, and some troops became prisoners without fierce resistance."

After introducing the despicable behavior of the three villains, the article went on to say: "It must be pointed out that in the above cases of surrendering to the enemy, members of the military committee, commanders, political workers, and internal affairs troops were surrounded by the enemy. They appeared terrified and at a loss, it was incredible! They didn't even try to prevent people like Kachalov and Kirilov from surrendering to the enemy.

These shameful examples of surrendering to our unshakable enemies illustrate that in our Red Army, there are warriors who are not afraid of sacrifice and wholeheartedly defending the motherland from enemy aggression, and some are vacillating, timid, and subdued. coward. These cowards not only exist in the Red Army troops, but also in the command structure of the Red Army. ..."

At the back of the document, Stalin also emphasized three points in particular: "1. Commanders and political workers who lost or tore off their badges in battle and fled to the rear or surrendered will be regarded as deserters, and their family members will be regarded as breaches of the oath. The relatives of deserters, traitors, and deserters were arrested. Higher-level commanders and political commissars have the right to execute such deserters on the spot.

2. All units and troops encircled by the enemy should fight to the end without hesitation, use their lives to protect their equipment, strike the enemy from behind the enemy, and eliminate fascist lackeys. If one's own troops are surrounded by the enemy, every soldier, no matter how big his position, has the responsibility to follow the command of his superiors, fight to the end, and break through the blockade. If officers or soldiers do not organize active resistance and counterattack the enemy, but choose to surrender, they can be removed from the air or on the ground by any means. The families of members of the Red Army who surrender to the enemy will be deprived of their state rights and assistance.

3. All division commanders and political commissars have the right to immediately exempt those battalion commanders who try to protect themselves in battle and are afraid of exercising command on the battlefield. They can be regarded as liars and reduced to soldiers, if necessary , They can be executed on the spot, replacing them with brave and strong people from the lower-level officers or Red Army soldiers. "

At the end of the document, the signatures of all members of the base camp including Stalin, Zhukov, Molotov, and Timoshenko.

Seeing I put the document on the table, Lunev leaned over and asked blankly: "Comrade Oshanina, I believe that Comrade Stalin personally signed Order No. 27o. You have read it. You have also seen the comments made by Ponnegelin and others. Now I don’t know what you plan to do with Ponnegelin?"

I sit at the table, tapping my fingers lightly, frowning and thinking hard. I once heard Baghramyan mentioned Ponetjelin. He said that Ponetjelin Daguai was the most educated commander of the group army of the Southwest Front Army. He commanded an infantry division, served as the chief of staff of the Leningrad Military Region, and led the tactical teaching and research section of the Frunze Military Academy. He is well versed in advanced corps tactics, proficient in military academic issues, and has a high prestige in the Kiev Special Military District.

It is precisely because of Bagramyan’s words that I realized that if I want to make further progress in the future, I must have the cooperation of a commander with theoretical level and rich combat experience like Bonetjelin. .

After making my decision, I stood up and said to Brakov who was turning around the house: "Comrade General, can you talk to Moscow here?"

"General Oshanina, the high-frequency phone in front of you can talk to Moscow." After Brakov finished this sentence, he walked up to me, picked up the microphone first, looked at me and asked politely. Said: "Do you need me to connect you to Moscow?"

"Yes~www.wuxiaspot.com~Comrade General, I want to call Moscow." Considering Zhukov's recent poor performance on the battlefield in Ukraine, he is a little unwilling to see Stalin. If you ask him to come forward, maybe you will. It was counterproductive, so I could only consider using roundabout tactics to persuade Stalin, so I ordered Brakov: "Give me the office of Comrade Beria, the NKVD."

When I heard that I was going to call Beria, both Brakov and Lunev were shocked, because both knew that I was calling this phone and it must be to keep Ponetjelin. Seeing that Brakov was about to dial, Lunev quickly reached out and stopped him, frowned and asked me: "Comrade Oshanina, you have to consider this matter carefully! For an irrelevant person, just Is it worth it to accompany one's own future?"

"It's worth it! Comrade Lunev." I replied without hesitation: "As far as I know, General Ponetjelin is an amazing military talent. If he can return to the command post, he will be able to bring our troops. As long as we can defeat the fascist invaders, what is my personal honor and disgrace?” After all these righteous words, I said to Brakov, “Comrade General, you are still stunned. What are you doing, hurry up and dial?"

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