On New Year's Day in 1942, the Soviet and German troops ceased all military operations with each other in an unusually tacit understanding. In this way, I have the opportunity to have the first lunch of the New Year with Vlasov, Lin and Zhe the translator in the group army command in Shakhovskaya.

　　Ehrenberg, who made me hate, went to interview the troops. The staff and communications officers in the command were also kicked out by Vlasov. Only the four of us gathered around the table to enjoy a sumptuous lunch in the house.

Maybe it’s the New Year’s sake. This lunch prepared by Vlasov is exceptionally rich. In addition to the essential dry cheese, bread, ham and omelette, there are beef soup, caviar, vegetable salad, duck meat, and grilled chicken. , Black coffee and black tea.

　　 As we ate and chatted, Vlasov brought the topic to the battle in the small village yesterday. "Comrade Chief of Staff, in the battle you commanded yesterday, although dozens of enemies were wiped out, the price paid was a little bit higher." Vlasov’s criticism made me feel a little ashamed. In yesterday’s battle, because A command error resulted in 115 casualties, of which 41 were killed and 27 were seriously injured. If the Germans had not only 47 men and no heavy weapons, I might be wiped out.

President Lin took a cup of unsweetened black tea from Shi Zhe, and after taking a sip, he calmly said: "Lida, Comrade Commander makes sense. If you first arrange for an attack, Manpower to suppress the German army, and then launch a charge, then there will be no such large casualties during the charge."

"Yeah!" Vlasov added: "At that time, you were less than a hundred meters away from the enemy, Lida, if you organize dozens of sharpshooters, at such a distance, you can definitely have zero casualties. Eliminate all the German soldiers at the entrance of the village."

Hearing Vlasov’s words, I couldn’t help but slap the table in annoyance. Yes, organize a few sharpshooters and use rifles to kill the German soldiers at the entrance of the village. We will attack again, so that the casualties of our army can be ignored. Excluding. You know, in the process of charging, I also personally killed two German soldiers with a rifle.

President Lin put the teacup on the table and said in a low voice: "Comrade Lida, I want to criticize you for something. I heard that you shot all the German soldiers who surrendered. This is undesirable. Just hand in your gun. We must give preferential treatment to those who surrender."

Mr. Lin’s words immediately brought to my mind a few scenes from the red movie: the commander of the Eighth Route Army holding a retort gun, shouting at the desperate Japanese pirate with a righteous face: Put down the weapon, hand in the gun and don’t kill, we will treat it preferentially. captive. Then, the Japanese pirates with the 38 large cover obediently put down their weapons and raised their hands to surrender.

　　 "Comrade Lin, Deputy Commander," Vlasov said suddenly, "I think Comrade Lida was right about shooting the captive."

　　 "But the enemy has already laid down their weapons. We should treat the prisoners preferentially."

"The sins committed by the fascist bandits against our people should be paid with their blood. Didn't you hear Lida? Those two-legged beasts, after ruining our sisters, they will be driven away. Go to the village and shoot. If I change, I will also shoot all these **** Germans."

　　 "But Comrade Commander, I still think that the prisoners should be treated preferentially instead of shooting them..." President Lin and Vlasov began to argue about the shooting of the prisoners for me. Hearing the two people arguing fiercely, I can only secretly sigh that this is the difference between Eastern and Western cultures. However, Li Yunlong shot and killed a few wounded Japanese soldiers who wanted to die, and was demoted from regimental commander to battalion commander. I killed so many German prisoners. If I were in the domestic base, I would not be demoted from division commander to company commander.

　　 Just as the two were arguing under Shi Zhe’s translation, Yushchenko’s voice shouted at the door. I yelled quickly, "Is Captain Yushchenko outside? Come in."

　　 When Yushchenko opened the door and came in, the dispute between Vlasov and General Lin had been heard, and everyone's attention was focused on my guard company commander.

　　Because Yushchenko is my subordinate, I still asked, "Comrade Captain, what's the matter?"

"Report to the commander, deputy commander, and comrades of the chief of staff." On this occasion, he did not address my division commander, but called my position in the group army headquarters. "There is a commander from Moscow outside. I want to see you. ."

　　 This time it was Vlasov who took the call: "Commander from Moscow, please come in quickly."

　　Minutes later, an energetic commander and an old man in a dark blue coat followed Yushchenko and walked into the command post.

After the commander came in, he crossed Yushchenko and walked in front of us. He stood at attention and saluted us. He said, "Happy new year, comrades commanders. I am Colonel Bezikov of the Central Guard Corps. I am ordered to come and deliver you. Gift."

"Gift, what gift?" While Vlasov was still muttering to himself, I had already stepped forward two steps, walked up to Colonel Bezikov, and paid him a military salute. He smiled and said, "Hello, Colonel Bezikov, I didn't expect we would meet again. Are your injuries healed?"

Bezikov stretched out his hand to me and said with a smile: "Hello, Lida. Thank you for your concern. My leg injury has been healed long ago. It's been a long time since I saw you. I didn't expect you to be a general now. ."

I shook hands with him and looked at the old man who came in with him. I felt a little familiar~lightnovelpub.net~ but I couldn't remember where I saw it, so I asked curiously: "Colon Bezikov, Who is this old man?"

Bezikov smiled and asked, "Why? You don't know this old man after just over a month?" Then he let go of my hand, and after shook hands with Vlasov and President Lin in turn, He pointed to the old man and introduced to us: "This is a senior engineer from Izhevsk Machine Manufacturing Plant Fronin. Under his guidance, he invented and launched a new rifle. After testing, the performance of this rifle exceeds Our army is currently equipped with rifles, so Comrade Stalin personally ordered that all the 100 rifles produced in the first row be equipped to your 20th Army."

The old man who was standing behind Yushchenko heard Bezikov say his name, and stepped forward, and said with excitement, "Comrades, hello! I am very glad to see you guys."

　　 After Vlasov, Lin and the old man shook hands, I stepped forward to shake hands with this senior Florin engineer from the future. When I was about to speak, the old man said first, "Hello, Comrade General. I heard Colonel Bezikov say that you have saved my life. Here, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you. To show me Thank you, I will give you the assault rifle I made by myself." He turned his head to Bezikov and said, "Comrade Colonel, please give that assault rifle to my lifesaver. "

　　 Bezikov took off the gun slung on his shoulder and handed it to me. As soon as I took the gun, I couldn't help being stunned. You must know that I not only saw the picture of the gun, but also saw the real object in the museum. It turns out that this newly invented assault rifle is the famous AK47 assault rifle in later generations.