Burning Moscow

Although the call was connected in just a minute or two, it seemed to me as long as a month has passed. Rokosovsky pressed the headset tightly to his ear and said into the microphone: "Comrade Beria, I have an important thing to report to you immediately...."

Without greetings and without any opening remarks, Rokosovsky directly introduced the situation to Beria on the other end of the telephone line. I heard him finally say: "...Comrade Beria, this is the situation. You see if you can report to Comrade Stalin at the right time."

What happened to the other party, I didn't hear it at all because of the distance. But seeing Rokosowski's face turning blue and purple, I still guessed that Beria must have something bad.

Rokosovsky removed the headset from his ears, slowly placed it on the base of the phone, picked up the cigarette case on the table, took out a cigarette and lit it, walked back to the conference table and sat down.

The three of us looked at him nervously, to see what he would do next.

Rokosovsky looked at Bulganin and Malinin on the left and right, and said unhurriedly: "Comrade Beria will report this matter to Comrade Stalin at the appropriate time."

Seeing that Rokosovsky was talking to the other two commanders first, he ignored me intentionally or unintentionally. His reaction gave me an ominous feeling in my heart. Did my meeting with Bunyachenko really cause a terrible disaster?

"Lida," Rokosovsky pinched out the cigarette in his hand in the ashtray in front of him, looked up at me, with a serious expression: "You won't have to go to Cuikov's place anymore recently. I plan to give you another one. Arrange a little work."

"It's over," I secretly said to myself in my heart: "Rokosovsky is like this, which is tantamount to leaving me idle. What will happen next may not even be known to him."

I tried to conceal my flustered look, and pretended to ask calmly: "Comrade Marshal, I don't know what kind of job you plan to arrange for me?"

"That's it," Rokosovsky said absentmindedly: "In a series of battles in our front, the troops have paid huge casualties. When conditions permit, most of the wounded have been sent to the military hospital in the rear. However, there are still a large number of wounded in the field hospital ahead. At present, our medical staff is seriously understaffed..."

When I heard this, my heart sank suddenly, secretly, although I didn't ask for instructions to report to my superiors before I went to see Bunyachenko in private, it was my fault, but the point was good. Could it be that Rokosovsky will knock me to the end because of this incident, and directly demote me from the deputy commander of the front army to a health worker?

Without waiting for Rokosovsky to finish, I asked tentatively: "Comrade Marshal, are you planning to let me go to the field hospital to be a hygienist?"

"I asked you to be a hygienist? How could this be possible?" When Rokosovsky heard me like this, his eyes widened, and he looked at me with incredible eyes: "How could I let the deputy commander of the front army? To be an ordinary hygienist in the field hospital?"

Hearing that I was not asked to become a hygienist, I secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked, "Then what kind of work do you plan to arrange for me?"

"We recruited a group of female soldiers from the rear and formed a health company. After a brief training, we are going to assign these female soldiers to various field hospitals to serve as hygienists." Rokosovsky was expressionless. Tunnel: "Your task is to assist the company's commanders, manage and train these female soldiers."

"I understand, Comrade Marshal." Although I was assigned a spare job by Rokosovsky, I knew he did it to protect me, so I readily agreed: "I will report tomorrow."

Just as Rokosovsky explained to me some precautions for the Women's Hygiene Company, the high-frequency phone placed on the distant desk rang without warning. He turned his head and glanced over there. He just leaned forward slightly, and when he was about to stand up, Bulganin stood up first and said to him, "Comrade Marshal, it may be a call from Moscow, or I am here. Pick it up."

Rokosovsky nodded, gestured to Bulganin, indicating that he could answer the phone, and then sat back in his chair.

Bulganin walked to the desk, picked up the earphones and pressed them to his ears, and said loudly, "This is Bulganin, where are you?" After hearing a word from the other party, he hurriedly covered the microphone and said to us. "It's a call from Comrade Stalin."

Hearing the call from Stalin, I suddenly felt my scalp numb, and a chill rushed up my back spine. The chill quickly spread to my whole body, and it didn't take much effort to wrap my whole body.

My brain was blank, looking at Bulganin who was talking with Stalin in the distance. I only saw his lips move non-stop. I didn't hear what he was doing.

"Lida, Lida." In the end, Ma Lining came over and grabbed my arm and shook it vigorously. I barely woke up. He asked me loudly, "What are you thinking? Comrade Marshal called you. You didn't hear it for several times."

"Oh, Comrade Marshal is calling me." Although my mouth was so, but my eyes were still fixed on Bulganin who had just walked over, and asked in a daze, "Comrade Marshal, what instructions do you have?"

When I said this, I was crying secretly in my heart. I thought that when I was conquering Berlin, I had a chance to become a wartime marshal, and at the worst, I could be a big future. But at this moment everything seems to be over. Whether my current rank can be kept is a question.

Rokosovsky saw that I was unconscious, and hurriedly said to Bulganin: "Comrade Military Commissar, here we are, what did Comrade Stalin have on the phone?"

Bulganin looked at me and smiled, and then said: "Comrade Marshal, the Supreme Commander himself agrees very much with your arrangement and is going to let Lida take charge of the women's health company for a period of time."

Rokosovsky nodded, and then asked, "Have you got anything else?"

"Of course there is," Bulganin nodded, affirmatively: "But for these words, he wants me to give Lida to Lida."

"The Supreme Commander himself has something to confess to me personally?" I heard from Bulganin~www.wuxiaspot.com~ I felt that there was still room for improvement, and new hope suddenly ignited in my heart. I could not wait to ask: "Military Comrade committee member, hurry up, what is Comrade Stalin asking you to convey to me?"

"He asked me to tell you: Bunyachenko's matter, he will send someone over to deal with it overnight, so don't take care of the nosy." Bulganin looked at me with a plain expression: "During this time, you first Responsible for the management of the women’s health company. After they are assigned to the field hospitals, you will go to the 47th and 7th Army to coordinate the operations of the two armies and find suitable fighters. The German army on the east bank of the Vistula implements Blow."

After Bulganin's words, not only I was relieved, but Rokosovsky and Malinin were also relieved. Because everyone knew in their hearts: Stalin personally asked me to go to the health company, just to punish me in a small way, so that I can keep a little memory, so as not to make similar mistakes in the future. And let me go to the 47th and 7o Army, it is a reuse of me, because these two armies are deployed in the northeast of Warsaw. As long as we can defeat the German army entrenched on the east bank of the Vistula, our troops will be able to cross the river smoothly and enter Warsaw from the east. 8

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