Chapter 659 Alianka
When Akhromeyev was reporting to Trikov and Rodimtsev, I quietly walked aside and beckoned Pavlov to come over, intending to tell him some defensive experience, so that he can in the next battle. Come in handy.
Pavlov came to me, took a look at Trikov and the others, and then respectfully asked: “Colonel Oshanina, do you have any instructions for me?” In his tone of voice, I obviously feel less close, more polite, and even a little bit of awe for me, which was unimaginable before.
Regarding the change in his attitude, I could not help but frown slightly, but patiently told him my thoughts: “Comrade Sergeant, I will give you a suggestion. In order to better command the troops in the building, you should Arrange for the soldiers to penetrate the walls of the basement and the only-seen floor on the floor, and dig a trench for communication to the location of other friendly forces. In this way, even in the case of German air raids and shelling, they can also ensure that they can communicate with the outside world. The connection will not be interrupted, and various supplies and reinforcements can enter the building through the trenches, which is conducive to your long-term defense.”
“Col. Oshanina’s suggestion is good.” Although Rodimtsev was extremely dissatisfied with me because of the supplies in the warehouse, he amicably helped him when he heard the rationalization suggestions I enthusiastically put forward to his subordinates. I was talking: “Sergeant Pavlov, just follow the colonel’s arrangements.”
“Comrades, please have tea!” A crisp voice suddenly came from the door.
I turned around in response to the voice, and saw a little girl about four or five years old with a triangular turban on her head and big eyes. Four teacups filled with hot tea are being held on a tray. Staggered in.
Hurriedly greeted it. Kneeling down, took the tray from the little girl’s hand. Looking at the little girl in front of me who was somewhat similar to the “Alianka” on the packaging of the later “Red October” milk chocolate, I held the tray with tea cups with one hand, and gently stroked the other hand. Her head asked in an amiable tone: “Little girl, what is your name and why are you here?”
The little girl raised her head and smiled and said to me: “Comrade female commander. My name is Alianka and my family lives in this building. Two days ago when the German devils came over, my grandma and I had a lot of money. All of my neighbors hid in the basement. We came out of the basement until our troops came back last night.”
Seeing such a cute little girl, Cuikov, Rodimtsev and the others also came over, bent down to greet Alianka, and touched her head by the way. Cui Kefu asked with concern: “Dear Alianka, this place is so dangerous, why should you stay here and not transfer?”
Alianka looked like a smart little girl. Hearing Cui Kefu’s question to her, he quickly replied: “Uncle Commander. Some time ago, my grandmother took me out of here and planned to take a boat at the pier to the other side of the river. I didn’t expect that there were so many people there. We haven’t waited for two days I got on the boat, so my grandma took me back again.”
After Cuikov listened, he stood up straight and asked Pavlov who was standing next to him: “Comrade Sergeant, what is going on?”
Pavlov hurriedly replied: “That’s right, Comrade Commander. After we seized the building last night, we found more than 30 residents in the basement. Among them were little Alianka and her grandmother. I. We issued weapons to the others and armed them all. But little Alianka and her grandma were old and young, and obviously could not participate in the battle, so I mobilized them to leave here. But the old grandma still stayed. Yes, and took the initiative to take on the task of cooking for us.”
Trikov nodded, and then told Pavlov: “Comrade Sergeant, since Alianka and her grandma are in this building, you have to ensure their safety. Can you do it?”
When Pavlov heard this order from Trikov, he did not immediately reply, but hesitated. As for why Pavlov had such a reaction, I knew very well in my heart that Pavlov might be thinking about how to protect the people who stayed in the building. Old man and child. He hesitated and said: “Comrade Commander, I’m sorry, I may not be able to fulfill your order. You know, the next battle may be tough, even if we stay here, we can defeat enemy tanks and infantry. However, it can’t stop the bombardment of enemy planes and artillery. So I boldly ask you to let Alianka and her grandma leave here. This is also for their safety.”
After listening to Pavlov’s words, Trikov showed an unhappy expression on his face. From what I know about him, this is a sign that he is about to get angry. In order to prevent Pavlov from being blamed, I hurriedly stood up and handed the tray in my hand to Cui Koff. At the same time, I said, “Comrade Commander, please have tea. This is brought to you by little friend Alianka himself. .”
Hearing me mention Alianka, Trikov’s tight face showed a smile. After holding a cup of tea, he touched Alianka’s head with his free hand, and said to her with a smile: “Thank you. Alianka!”
I then handed the tray to Rodimtsev and Akhromeyev. Akhromeyev hurriedly picked up a cup of tea from the tray and handed it to Rodimtsev respectfully, and then took his own cup of tea.
I picked up the remaining cup of tea in the tray, tested the water temperature, and found it was about the same, so I looked up and drank it. Although the black tea contains sugar, it is not sweet at all, indicating that Alianka’s white sugar is almost used. Since the white granulated sugar in the house is almost gone, I believe that there are not many other daily necessities left. When I go back later, I will send someone to bring things to her home.
Several of us finished the tea, put the cups in the tray, and handed them to Pavlov. Cui Kefu raised his hand and looked at his watch, then turned his head and said to us, “It’s getting late, let’s go back.”
When the four of us came down to the second floor, Rodimtsev suddenly stopped Trikov: “Comrade Commander, I have an important thing to talk to you. Is it convenient for you now?”
Cui Kefu stopped, looked around, pointed to an empty room next to him, and said, “Let’s go inside and talk.”
I heard that the two leaders had important matters to discuss. To avoid suspicion. I hurriedly said to Trikov: “Comrade Commander. You and General Rodimtsev have important discussions. Akhromeyev and I will go downstairs and wait for you first.”
Cui Kefu did not agree to my request, but directly told me: “You come in and listen!”
Seeing the two of them enter the room, I turned my head and smiled bitterly and said to Akhromeyev: “Comrade Chief of Staff, please go downstairs and wait for me. I will go down in a while.” Walked into the room.
Walking into the room full of rubble and broken furniture, I saw Trikov and Akhromyev standing at the window. Hastily walked over, stopped by the two of them, and listened to what they were talking about.
Just listen to Rodimtsev’s words: “Comrade Commander, when I saw little girl Alianka, I thought of the residents who were still trapped in the city. Although finding shelter is their priority, The final problem is that there is no food and water. I saw in my command that every time between bombings, women and children crawled out of the hole and cut some from the dead horse before the wild dogs and mice. The meat comes down. The main force of the food search team is children like Alenka. They are young, small, agile and flexible, which greatly reduces the possibility of them becoming targets. These children sneak into the enemy-occupied area of the Volga River at night. Near the huge barn that was burned down. I want to fill up the charred wheat with various packages when the German guards are not paying attention, and then secretly bring them back to the family to eat. But according to my scout report, guard these The German sentry in the barn killed quite a few children. Not only that, but the children who tried to steal some food from the German garrison were also killed on the spot.”
After Cui Kefu listened, he didn’t speak, but nodded silently.
Rodimtsev went on to say: “The German soldiers themselves also used these children in Stalingrad. It is important to know that the daily work of the invaders, such as filling water bottles, is also very dangerous, because our army’s snipers Hidden in the dark, ready to shoot any moving target. So, as long as they promise a small piece of bread, they can drive a Soviet boy or girl down to the Volga River to fill them with water. According to my subordinates, they reported to me, After some troops were aware of this situation, they ordered our soldiers to kill many children who were performing similar tasks. I think that such inhumane things should be stopped immediately.”
Cuikov sighed up to the sky, and said helplessly: “Comrade Rodimtsev, this is war. Similar things happened as early as the siege of Leningrad. German troops also used residents as shields against our army’s positions. Launch an offensive. After learning of this, Comrade Stalin immediately issued an order to our army: destroy any residents who obey the command of the German army, even if they are forced to act. What you said is nothing but this The instructions were implemented in the same way in Stalingrad.
Just the day before yesterday, the 35th Guards Infantry Division also reported to the headquarters that the enemy had captured a lot of residents and forced the residents to drag the dead German soldiers. At that time, the military commissioner gave them an order: no matter who he is, as long as he wants to remove the dead body of fascism, our commanders and fighters will open fire on him. ”
The conversation between the two made me feel chills, and I couldn’t help worrying about the fate of the residents in the city who had not had time to move. If they were in the Soviet defense zone, they would be lucky. If it is in the German-occupied area, it is possible to become a human shield.
Perhaps it was Trikov’s words that reminded Rodimtsev of Alianka who had just brought us tea and water, and said with deep feeling: “Alianka is much luckier than the kids I just mentioned. , She follows our troops and can take on the mission of a communications officer, a scout or a spy, and can play a role that an adult cannot.”
Cui Koff took a cigarette out of his pocket and gave way to Rodimtsev. Seeing the other party waved his hand to refuse, he directly took one in his mouth, lit it with a match, and asked: “In addition to what you just said, there are Anything else?”
Rodimtsev angrily complained to Cuikov: “You let me command all the troops north of the city. From the current situation, except for the military division and my guards at the 13th hour, the remaining troops may have numbers. There are many, but there are not many people left. The main force that fills these defensive gaps are workers from the northern factory in Stalingrad. You know, although these workers are very enthusiastic in fighting, they are not regular troops after all. The combat effectiveness is relatively weak. In the face of the enemy’s fierce attack, it is inevitable that there will be some unstable wavers. There are even cowards who are afraid of life and death. After understanding this situation, the front army command not only did not send troops to strengthen my line of defense. Instead, well-equipped volunteers from the Communist Youth League or the Ministry of Internal Affairs were formed into a supervising team and deployed behind the militia to prevent them from escaping.”
Hearing what he said, Cui Kefu couldn’t help but said in surprise: “What, the front army headquarters is behind you, and the supervising team is deployed? When is this happening. Why don’t I know?”
Rodimtsev looked at Cuikov suspiciously. Seeing that he was not pretending to be confused, he quickly added: “I saw it yesterday afternoon. There are ten people in each team of the Supervisory Team. The captain is wearing a black leather jacket. With revolvers. In addition to submachine guns, the soldiers also have turntable machine guns and heavy machine guns. Two soldiers from the 42nd Brigade were originally ordered to collect food for their troops, but they crossed a white line they drew on the ground. He was shot dead by the supervising team involuntarily.”
After hearing this, Cui Kefu said solemnly: “I will personally report this matter to the front army headquarters later. Our soldiers must die in their own hands without knowingly.”
“There are also various military supplies.” When Rodimtsev said this, he turned his head and glanced at me. His face showed disgust for me, and he only heard him say: “At present, only one-third of the soldiers in my army have winter clothes. I originally wanted to distribute winter clothes to the soldiers after retaking the military material warehouse near the flour mill. I didn’t expect Colonel Oshanina to move so fast. He had just taken the warehouse in front of him, and then he organized a manpower to transport thousands of winter clothes into a truck.”
“Comrade General,” hearing his accusations, I weakly asked myself to defend, “My troops don’t have a single winter coat before dawn. If winter coats are not distributed to them as soon as possible, once the cold winter comes, my division Because of the lack of winter clothing, non-combat attrition such as frostbite will appear. Besides, I haven’t shipped all the winter clothing, food, and weapons and ammunition in the warehouse, and I have left you a lot.”
“What’s a lot?” Rodimtsev said angrily: “We left us with five hundred sets of winter clothes, one hundred boxes of rusks, and weapons and equipment that can only be equipped with two companies.”
“Okay,” Cui Kefu began to stop the argument between the two of us, and said impatiently: “It’s all friendly, so stop arguing about these things.”
“But what should I do with my teacher’s supplies?” Rodimtsev retorted dissatisfiedly.
Trikov looked at me and then at Rodimtsev. For reasons of protecting me, he said to Rodimtsev: “Comrade Rodimtsev, our supply situation is very bad at the moment. , New uniforms and new equipment are all left to the new group army formed in the rear. At present, the support materials for the Stalingrad frontline commanders are no longer from the military department, but from the corpses of dead comrades. The first is as difficult as ours. The 57th Army and the 64th Army, when burying the corpses of their comrades, nothing was wasted. They would strip the corpses until they were buried only with underwear. Therefore, you should also learn from the friendly army for the supply method of your division. Fighting is happening at any time all around. It shouldn’t be difficult to get winter clothes and weapons and equipment.”
Trikov’s partiality towards me left Rodimtsev speechless. Standing next to me, I knew that if I didn’t say anything at this time, I might have completely offended Rodimtsev. So I hurriedly said: “Comrade General, although we can’t support your division in winter clothes, we can support you with extra weapons and ammunition. After all, we are friendly forces.”
After I finished speaking, Rodimtsev’s face squeezed a little ugly smile: “Well, since you said that, I won’t argue with you on the military supplies anymore. But I want to tell. You Soviet Street is the defense zone of the 13th Guards Division. I hope your troops will hand over defense to the 42nd Regiment of Colonel Yelin as soon as possible.”
“No problem, Comrade General.” As I mobilized two battalions to capture Soviet Street last night, the current force in the direction of Mamayev Hill seems a bit weak. I heard Rodimtsev tell my troops to He handed over defense. I really couldn’t ask for it, so I readily agreed: “Go downstairs later, and I’ll give Major Akhromeyev an order for them to hand over defense to you.”
Seeing that we two stopped arguing about military supplies, Cui Kefu nodded with satisfaction, and said to me specifically: “Comrade Oshanina, let me remind you. The military division is not only friendly with the 13th Guards Division. At the same time, you have to obey General Rodimtsev’s orders. So after the transfer of defense on Soviet Street, you can’t ignore it. If something unexpected happens, you have to send troops to support it, understand? ”
“Understood!” I understand the truth of lip and tooth cold. Even if Cui Kefu doesn’t say it, the 42nd Guards Regiment is in the most critical time, even if they don’t say anything, I will still send troops to reinforce it, so after listening to Cui Kefu’s order, I The promise was very refreshing. (To be continued…)
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