Red Moscow

If you want to tell the story about Lu Jin to Asiya, you must not stand on the road and say it, and you can’t go back to the room. Who knows if there is a bug installed in it? Aren't you making trouble for yourself?

He pointed at the gazebo from yesterday and said, "That pavilion is not bad, let's go there and talk about it."

"Misha, I think it's good to go back to the room." Asiya said: "When we want to eat later, we can also ask the waiter to deliver the lunch to our room."

"No, some things can't be said in the room." Sokov waved his hands and said, "If I accidentally say something that shouldn't be said, it won't cause me a lot of unnecessary trouble."

"How could it be? Yasha and I are the only ones listening to your stories. Even if you say something wrong, we won't tell you what you said..." When she said this, Assia's voice suddenly stopped , After a while, she said with a face full of shock: "You mean, in the room we live in, there may be... there is that thing?"

Although Assia didn't mention the specific name, Sokov also knew that what she was talking about was a bug, so he nodded in affirmation: "That's right, it's what you think in your heart."

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Assia blushed. She said timidly: "If there is really such a thing installed in the house, wouldn't all the sounds we make every night be heard by others?"

Sokov was taken aback for a moment, and then he understood what kind of voice Assia was talking about. He said with some embarrassment: "Hey, I heard it when I heard it. , they can't hear it."

After hearing this, Assia thumped Sokov's shoulder twice with her fist, and said with a look of disgust, "It's all your fault, I'm ashamed and thrown home."

At first, Yakov didn't understand the meaning of the riddle-like conversation between the two. But after listening for a while, I found out that what the two of them were talking about was the movement of the couple at night, which might be heard clearly by the monitors, so I couldn't help laughing.

However, in order to resolve the embarrassing situation in front of him, he took the initiative to say to Sokov: "Misha, let's go to the gazebo. We are still waiting for you to tell us the history of Lieutenant General Lukin."

The three came to the gazebo and sat around the stone table, and Sokov began to tell the story about Lukin to the two.

"In the early days of the Great Patriotic War, which ended not long ago, although our army suffered repeated defeats, a group of outstanding commanders emerged. played a pivotal role.

For example, when the war broke out, Marshal Rokossovsky was the commander of the 9th Mechanized Army with the rank of major general; General Cherniakhovsky served as the commander of the 28th Tank Division of the 12th Mechanized Army with the rank of colonel. You must be very aware of the roles played by the two of them in the war, so I won't go into details one by one. "

Hearing Sokov mention Cherniakhovsky, Asya remembered that when she was entrusted by Sokov to visit the wounded Yakov in the Belarusian Third Front Army, she once broke into the place where Cherniakhovsky was working for Cherniakhovsky. The operating room where Niakhovsky operated. It's been so long, but she hasn't heard any news about Cherniakhovsky. She couldn't help asking Yakov curiously: "Yakov, how is General Cherniakhovsky doing now?" How is it? I haven't heard from him since the last time I saw him in the operating room."

"His injury is recovering very well." Yakov replied: "I heard from Marshal Vasilevsky that he will be promoted to the rank of marshal immediately after his injury recovers."

After hearing this, Sokov couldn't help being taken aback, thinking that Cherniakhovsky died unfortunately on the second day of his injury, why is he still alive, and he will even be awarded the rank of Marshal in the near future ?

But soon he figured out the reason. With his appearance, the fate of many people was changed. Not to mention, the Yakov in front of him died in a German prisoner-of-war camp in real history; his chief of staff, Major General Sidolin, should have died on the battlefield defending Stalingrad; Jielin, Kirillov and others were rescued at the end of the war, but they were all sentenced to death by the military court because they could not get rid of the suspicion of traitors.

Since I can change the fate of so many people, it seems not surprising that I can change the fate of one more Cherniakhovsky.

"I continued," Sokov continued: "Shortly after the outbreak of the war, our army launched a large-scale counterattack against the German army in Dubno, Ukraine, according to the third order of the Supreme Command. But the result Our army, which has superior strength and equipment, suffered a disastrous defeat in a very short period of time because of the lack of air supremacy and the chaotic command of the troops. The tanks alone lost 2,648 vehicles, thus depriving the four mechanized armies of further operations. Ability.

It was precisely because of this failed counterattack that the troops of the Southwest Front Army had to shrink across the board, trying to use the second line of defense to stop the German attack. Under such circumstances, Marshal Rokossovsky and Lieutenant General Lukin achieved very good results in the face of an enemy ten times their size with very limited troops, inferior equipment and supplies.

When Lieutenant General Lukin led his troops to Shepetovka, he found that the situation here was in chaos. Commanders at all levels could not find their troops, and soldiers could not find their commanders. The roads were crowded with people. Refugees fleeing to the rear, and disorderly retreating troops. As an important logistics supply warehouse for the Southwest Front Army, Shepetovka has no organized troops at all.

Under such circumstances, Lieutenant General Lukin established a line of defense in Shepetovka with the 109th Motorized Division and the 116th Regiment of the 57th Tank Division as the core, and sent people to roads and railways to intercept those The retreating troops, after organizing them, appointed a special commander, and then risked opening all the warehouses, distributed weapons, ammunition and food to the soldiers, and ordered them to stand still or launch a counterattack against the enemy.

Under the command of Lieutenant General Lukin, a miracle happened. In the next half month, the improvised troops repelled all the attacks launched by the German army, and they were firmly nailed to the ground like a nail. In the Shepetovka area, there was no step back.

When the commander of the Southwest Front learned that Lukin actually stayed in Shepetovka, reorganized the retreating troops and established a solid line of defense, he couldn't help being surprised and delighted, and hurriedly reported the situation to the Supreme Command. Reported. Soon, the troops commanded by Lieutenant General Lukin were called the Lukin Group by the Southwest Front Army Command and the Supreme Command. "

"Misha," Assia couldn't help interjecting when she heard this, "The places you mentioned are all in Ukraine, but how did I hear that Lieutenant General Lukin was captured in the Smolensk area?"

"Assia, you are right." Sokov looked at Assia and said: "At that time, Lieutenant General Lukin received an order to take his 16th Army to Smolensk to participate in the defense battle there. , but seeing the critical situation in Shepetovka where he stayed, he chose to stay and command the troops to defend this important military warehouse.

After the campaign in Ukraine came to an end, Lukin set off for Smolensk. When he arrived, the southern part of the city had been occupied by the Germans. Colonel Malyshev, the commander of the garrison, worried that the enemy would take the opportunity to occupy the northern part of the city, so he decisively ordered people to blow up the bridge on the Dnieper River, so that those who had no means of crossing the river German troops can only stay on the south bank of the Dnieper River. "

"It's really beautiful." Hearing this, Yakov waved his fist violently and said excitedly: "This Colonel Malyshev is really good. If he doesn't blow up the bridge, the Germans will be killed." People will definitely cross the bridge over the Dnieper into the northern part of Smolensk."

"After Malyshev ordered people to blow up the bridge, many people did not understand the significance of the bridge bombing. People including Marshal Timoshenko wanted to send him to a military court." Sokov continued. : "But after Lieutenant General Lukin learned about the situation in Smolensk and the forces he could use, he said happily: Thank God, fortunately, the bridge over the Dnieper River was blown up, otherwise the Germans could pass through the bridge." stormed into the northern part of the city. For this, he asked Timoshenko not to punish Malyshev."

"Colonel Malyshev is right." Yakov nodded and said, "If I had been the commander of the Smolensk garrison, I would have ordered the bridge to be blown up."

Sokov couldn't help laughing when he heard this, "Yasha, you actually know this Colonel Malyshev."

"I know him too?" Yakov couldn't help being taken aback when he heard Sokov say that, and then asked: "Who is he, and where did I know him? Misha, although my troops were also in Smolensk The tank division I belong to has never entered the urban area, so how could it be possible to know the garrison commander.”

"My director of armored forces is Malyshev, but he is not a colonel now, but a major general." Sokov reminded Yakov: "When you sent me the weapons, you also dealt with him. But you are in a hurry every time, I'm afraid you don't have time to chat with him, and it's normal that you don't understand his situation."

"Oh, it turned out to be him." After Sokov's reminder, Yakov immediately remembered the director of armored forces and the director of artillery he had met in Sokov's headquarters, and said with a smile: "I remember that apart from him In addition, Major General Potapov, the former commander of the Fifth Army, is serving as chief of artillery in your headquarters."

"Your memory is good." Sokov nodded and said, "After General Potapov was rescued by us from the enemy's prisoner-of-war camp, the superior originally arranged for him to be the deputy commander of a certain group army. After all, he has been in Ukraine for so many years, and he is more familiar with the situation in Ukraine than other commanders. But he rejected the kindness of his superiors and insisted on staying in my group army as the chief of artillery."

Yakov couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "Misha, I don't know if I don't say it. I was shocked when I said it. There are so many army-level commanders in your army. Even if you are one Commander of the Front Army, I think you are also capable."