Burning Moscow

The three of us pondered for a long time, but we didn't think of a reason. I was not interested in continuing to guess. I briefly told the two of the story of the northward battle, and after making a list of the meritorious service of those who participated in the war, I yawned and went to the wall and they prepared a camp bed to sleep. Up.

Maybe it was because I was too tired during this time, so I fell asleep unknowingly as soon as I lay in bed.

I don’t know how long I slept until I slept until someone was shaking my shoulder gently, and at the same time a familiar voice was yelling: "Comrade teacher, comrade teacher, wake up."

I heard that the person calling me was Chief of Staff Akhromeyev. I quickly opened my eyes in a daze, and asked feebly: "Comrade Chief of Staff, what's the matter?"

Akhromeyev leaned over and leaned close to me and said in a low voice, "Comrade commander, comrades of the military commissar of the front army are here."

It turned out to be the military commissar of the front army. Upon hearing the identity reported by Akhromeyev, I just nodded gently and closed my eyes again. As soon as I closed my eyes, I repeated this job in my mind, and my deep sleepiness was suddenly scared away. Oh my god, the military commissar of the front army, isn't it Khrushchev himself? This is how long I slept, and I actually slept until Khrushchev arrived at my headquarters, and I still haven't woken up.

I quickly opened my eyes again, opened the blanket covering my body and sat up. Seeing Khrushchev, Kirilov, and a few commanders I’m not familiar with were standing a few steps away, even in the third regiment. Pantaiyev, who distributed supplies at the station, was among them. I jumped out of bed and couldn’t even put on my boots. I raised my hand and saluted Khrushchev. At the same time, I said, "I’m sorry. Comrade Military Commissioner, I fell asleep, so I couldn’t go outside to meet him. you."

With a smile on his face, Khrushchev said amiably: "Our female teacher, I should say I am sorry. You are really tired during this time. You should have a good rest, but I'm here to interrupt your rest. I'm really sorry." As he said, he walked towards me and proactively reached out his hand.

Seeing Khrushchev proactively stretch out his hand, of course I can't shake hands with my subordinates as casually. He half-bowed quickly, and stretched out his hands to hold him at the same time. After letting go, he bent his body lower and leaned to his side in a sitting posture. After he sat down, while putting on his boots, he told Captain Basmanov to pour tea for him.

After Khrushchev sat down. Greeting the burly general who was standing next to him also sat down, while the four lieutenant officers who came with them stood straight behind Khrushchev.

Because I didn't know Khrushchev's true intentions this time, I was particularly disturbed. I took a close look at the major general sitting next to him, and recognized that it was Major General Valennikov, the head of logistics of the front army headquarters. At that time, I snorted and said that Khrushchev and the others would come over, and they would not want us to capture them. Hand in the supplies? So he asked cautiously: "Comrade Military Commissioner. I don't know if you have come to our independent division today, what are the important things?"

Unexpectedly, Khrushchev waved his hand at me and said, "I'll talk about this later." Then he turned to ask Akhromeyev: "Comrade Major. The company battalion and regiment commanders in the northward army must be summoned. How long will it take to come here."

Although Akhromeyev didn't understand what he meant when he asked this question, he raised his hand and looked at his watch, and then replied politely: "It will take ten minutes to report to Comrade Military Commissioner." After he finished speaking, It seems that Khrushchev is not satisfied. He also added on his own terms, "This is the fastest speed. It can't be faster."

"Comrade Major, I'll give you twenty minutes." Khrushchev said generously: "Are you going to call and summon all these commanders here?"

Akhromeyev agreed. I started to contact the commanders of the regiments. Because Khrushchev was sitting at the table, he did not use the phone on the table, but walked to Razumeyeva's side and communicated with the groups through the walkie-talkie.

While Akhromeyev was on the phone, Khrushchev pointed to the general sitting next to him and introduced to me: "Oshanina, let me introduce you, Major General Valennikov. It is the new chief of staff of the front army headquarters. I think you should be familiar with him."

Although I am also a major general, the gold content is obviously not as good as the new chief of staff in front of me. After listening to Khrushchev’s introduction, I quickly stood up, proactively extended my hand to the other party, and said in a friendly manner: “Hello, Comrade Chief of Staff, I am very glad to see you again and welcome you to the independent division to guide your work."

Major General Valennikov also smiled at me friendly, and said enthusiastically: "Hello, Comrade Oshanina. I didn't expect that we would meet again so soon."

Kirilov on the side asked somewhat puzzledly: "Comrade Commander, do you know General Valennikov before?"

"Yes, that's the case, Comrade Political Commissar." To satisfy Kirilov's curiosity, I briefly retreated to the east bank of the Volga River last time. If I knew General Valennikov, I said briefly. Once again, he finally said, "The last time I met with General Valennikov, he was still the head of logistics of the front. I didn't expect to see him in just a few days, and he would become the chief of staff."

"Because the superiors had another appointment to the original chief of staff, Major General Zakharov, he appointed Major Valennikov to succeed him in the future." Khrushchev said here, raised his hand to look at his watch, and then looked up. Asked Akhromeyev, who was walking here, "Hey, I said, Comrade Major, whoever should be notified, have you notified it?"

Akhromeyev hurriedly stopped and said respectfully, "Report to Comrade Military Commissioner, all notifications have been received." After answering, he walked back to the table because his rank was too low, so He didn't sit down as usual, but stood behind me.

"Comrade Military Commissioner, since I have already called, I believe those commanders will be able to arrive soon." Kirillov, who has never known the other party's intentions, asked tentatively: "Waiting for their period. In time, can you tell us your intentions?"

"Yes!" After Khrushchev said this, he turned to a lieutenant commander behind him and said: "Comrade Captain, please give me the contents of your backpack."

Following his orders. The commander on the far left stepped forward, took off the rucksack on his shoulders, and handed it to Khrushchev. Khrushchev took the backpack, thanked the captain, and put it on the table. He patted his rucksack lightly with his hands. He smiled and said to us: "You might not have thought of it. I am here this time to honor the troops going north."

"What, award?!" Upon hearing this news, I jumped up from my seat. The first reaction was that I must have heard it wrong. You must know that the last award was not long. How can one be awarded again so quickly?

Seeing my surprised expression, Khrushchev quickly raised a hand and pressed it down, motioning me not to get excited and let me sit down. As I sat down, I asked in a puzzled way: "Comrade Military Commissioner, didn't you just award the honorable commander in the division two weeks ago? Why is it so fast. Is it going to be the second time? "When I said this, I glanced at the red flag medal on Kirilov's chest.

The observant Khrushchev noticed this little movement of mine. After he and Major General Valennikov looked at each other, they smiled and said to me: "Comrade Oshanina, the last time was the last time, this is the case this time. , Can’t be confused. Moreover, the last time you were awarded the honor, it was only the command of the group army; but this time the honor was awarded by the military commissar of the headquarters of the army of mine, and this matter was personally instructed by the supreme commander."

Khrushchev’s words made me even more puzzled, and the Supreme Commander himself had everything to do with every day. How can you have time to pay attention to such a small teacher like me? But in front of so many people, it's hard for me to ask in detail.

At this moment, commanders successively notified by Major Akhromeyev walked into the headquarters. I quickly turned around and winked at Akhromeyev and motioned him to receive these commanders. .

Akhromeyev nodded, turned and walked towards the commanders who had entered the headquarters. After a minute or two. Akhromeyev walked back to us, straightened his body and reported to me: "Comrade commander. All commanders have been assembled and are waiting for your order. Please give instructions!"

I stood up and leaned on the table opposite Khrushchev and said: "Comrade Military Committee, all the commanders are assembled, please give them instructions." Then I made a gesture of asking.

There were more than 20 commanders called to the headquarters. They stood in two rows in the house, with regiment-level and battalion-level commanders in the front row and company-level commanders in the back row. I took Khrushchev to the far right of the team and started to introduce him to his subordinates: "Comrade Military Commissioner, this is the commander of the regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Sergeikov, and their regiment is the main force of the troops going north this time. ."

"Good kind, good comrade lieutenant colonel." Khrushchev shook his hand and said loudly: "The results you have achieved this time on the north side have greatly boosted the morale of our army. This is not only the case. The entire front knows that even Comrade Stalin learned in our report that he is very satisfied with the results you have achieved."

Hearing the results achieved by the regiment, even the supreme commander himself knew that the commanders couldn't help getting excited. Seeing someone in the queue began to whisper to each other, I quickly coughed heavily to remind them to pay attention, after all, they had their superiors standing in front of them.

After the team calmed down, I introduced the commander on the left of Sederikov, "This is the deputy commander, Lieutenant Colonel Ilya. He is a new editor from Colonel Bantai Leyev. I believe you are in Volga. I have seen him on the east bank of the river."

As soon as Khrushchev grasped Lieutenant Colonel Ilya’s hand, he smiled and said: "I know, of course I do. I also talked to him at that time." Then he said to Ilya, "I didn't expect you to be independent. It didn't take long for the teacher to make great achievements. It's really not easy."

When I next introduced Lieutenant Colonel Koska, the commander of the third regiment, Khrushchev frowned involuntarily, and then said to me: "Comrade Oshanina, what is going on, why does the regiment have no political commissar? "

"That's it, Comrade Military Commissioner." Kirilov, who was behind me, explained quickly: "Comrade Oberstein, the political commissar of the regiment, was assigned to be responsible for the political guidance of the recruits, so there is no such thing for the time being. Stay in the army."

After hearing this, Khrushchev nodded, and then shook hands with Lieutenant Colonel Kosca, the third regiment commander, and Major Vatorak, the deputy regiment commander. When I introduced him to Captain Nicholas, who was standing in fifth place, I also specifically emphasized the identity of the opponent, who had just come back from the German army anyway. He led his troops to participate in the battle north, and achieved a series of results.

When Khrushchev walked up to Nikolai and reached out to him, I felt that Nikolai seemed to be worried, and his body shrank back unconsciously. But soon he returned to normal. He stretched out his hands and took Khrushchev's hand and greeted him politely.

Naturally, this little action did not hide Khrushchev’s eyes. While holding Nikolai’s hand, he said: "Comrade Captain, I don’t care what wrongs you have committed before, but as long as you can stand by us. On the one hand. Holding weapons to defend our great motherland, we will not obliterate your achievements, and you will be commended for the existence of these achievements."

When Khrushchev said this, it was tantamount to helping Nikolai remove a big rock that was always pressing on his heart, and he held Khrushchev's hand tightly with tears streaming down his face. I was so excited that I couldn't say a word.

After shaking hands with everyone, Khrushchev returned to the front of the team, facing everyone, and began to speak. Khrushchev deserves to be a senior leader for many years, and his speaking level is high. Although it was an impromptu speech, it was clear and coherent, and the words and sentences were very accurate. In addition, the speed of speech was so slow that it could hardly find any faults. The commanders and fighters responded with the warmest applause to what he said from time to time.

Khrushchev felt that everything that should be said was almost done. So he stopped and turned to Major General Valennikov and said, "Comrade Chief of Staff, declare that you understand."

Major General Valennikov nodded and took out a document from his briefcase. Going to the front of the team, they began to read aloud: "In order to commend the outstanding achievements of the Red Flag Independent Division in this northward operation, the Stalingrad Front Army issued this award...." Varennikov was reading. When giving the award, Khrushchev made a gesture to me and motioned to me and Pantai Leyev to stand in the queue. I hurriedly said hello to Pantai Leyev. Standing with him on Sederikov's left hand.

Just listen to Valennikov continue to read: "...the Red Flag Independent Division Commander Major General Oshanina was awarded the second-level Suvorov Medal; the deputy division commander Colonel Pantaiyev was awarded the second-level Suvorov Medal;

Awarded to Lieutenant Colonel Sejerikov, Lieutenant Colonel Ilya, head of the First Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Kosgar, and Deputy Chief Vatorak of the third regiment. The second battalion commander of the First Regiment, Captain Serebriani and others, the third-level Suvorov medal;

Awarded to Captain Nicholas of the First Regiment and One Battalion, Lieutenant Pruly, Commander of the Installed Forces, Captain Dubrovsky, Captain of the First Battalion of the Third Regiment, Captain Rosenberg, and other people Alexander Nevsky. medal;

The three-battalion commander of a regiment, Major Terenkov, the guard battalion commander, Captain Basmanov, and all the commanders above the company level in the northward troops were awarded the Second World War Medal. "

When Major General Valennikov read the commendation order. Khrushchev personally wore the medal for us, and the four lieutenants held up the medal box on the table and followed closely behind.

When Khrushchev put the fifth medal on my chest, he said with emotion: "Comrade Oshanina, you are not easy, you have so many medals. I believe that even in the 62nd Army I can’t find anyone with as many medals as you."

I didn’t know how to answer his words, I just smiled, then raised my hand to salute him, and said loudly: "Serve the Soviet motherland!"

After the award, the commanders who were accidentally awarded the medal left happily. Seeing that the commanders were almost gone, Khrushchev turned his head and said to the four lieutenants: "You go outside and wait. The chief of staff and I will go out later."

Regarding Khrushchev's order, the four lieutenant-level officers didn't say anything, but raised their hands to salute them, then turned around neatly and walked outside the headquarters.

Seeing Khrushchev’s arrangement, I wondered if he had anything to say to me, so I said to Razumeyeva and the others who had been sitting in front of the radio: "Girls, you stay in command every day. Ministry, it must be uncomfortable, now go out for some fresh air, and come back when I call you~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Razumeeva and Nadya agreed, got up and left.

Seeing that only me, Khrushchev, Valennikov, Bantailev, Kirilov and Akhromeev were left in the command headquarters, he asked straightforwardly: "Military Comrades, there are only so many of us in the command post. You can say anything with confidence and boldness." Then I added superfluously, "Don't worry, what you said today will never be leaked. Out."

After hearing what I said, Khrushchev and Major General Valennikov looked at each other, and they laughed loudly. After the laughter stopped, Khrushchev said to Valennikov: "How about it, comrade chief of staff. Remember that on the way here, I told you that as long as I lead several staff officers out of the command Department, Comrade Oshanina can guess that I have something to say to her privately, and will make corresponding arrangements. Am I right?"

"Yes, that's right, you are really good at everything." Major General Valennikov said flatly: "It seems that you know Comrade Oshanina best." (To be continued)

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