Busy time always flies by, and Malashenko, who has to leave after only a few days with Morozov, is making final preparations.
"Are you going back to the front line? Comrade General."
It was early in the morning, and Malashenko was packing his luggage in the room where Morozov had arranged for him to stay. Knowing that Malashenko was leaving, Morozov rushed over and made a special trip.
Send our Comrade Ma off on his last journey.
"Ah, yes... I have to go back to the front line. I have almost used up my leave after going back to the rear and being so busy. Counting the time spent on the return journey, it's almost time for me to go back. There is still a lot of work over there in the army.
There are a lot of things waiting for me to do, and I will be busy again after I go back."
Malashenko was indeed telling the truth. When he thought that after he returned home, the pile of documents waiting for signature on his desk would be as big as a mountain, Malashenko felt a huge headache. Such a pile
Malashenko really couldn't stand the task of flipping over pieces of paper and signing repeatedly with a pen.
"Well, I thought you would go home and have a look after you left my place, but I didn't expect that time was so short."
In the chats in the past few days, Malashenko has told Morozov that he went to Kotin's place first after taking leave from the front line, and then arrived at his place.
It's not a big deal. It doesn't hurt to tell Morozov. Anyway, Kotin has decided to cooperate with Morozov in future work. From now on, the two people will focus on the overall situation and put aside their competition for the time being.
So it didn't matter that he told Morozov that he had just come from there.
But when Morozov said it casually, Malashenko, who was stuffing clothes into the suitcase, suddenly stopped and froze in place as if his mind was disconnected.
Don't take any more action.
From Kotin's place to Morozov's place, Malashenko has been racing against time, so busy that Malashenko even forgot that he has a beautiful daughter-in-law waiting at home.
As the day when the war ends comes as soon as possible, he is always worried about his fiancé's safety.
As soon as Morozov said this, Malashenko immediately wanted to go back and take a look. When he met Natalia, the idea of a long-lasting love between children suddenly came to his mind.
But...as Malashenko said just now, there is only the last day of the half-month holiday left to travel, and Comrade Ma has no time to go back to Moscow to see his lover.
"If you didn't tell me, I feel like I would have almost forgotten about it."
After his mind recovered, Malashenko continued what he was doing, packing the clothes on the bed and putting them into the suitcase, but the expression on his face was more or less disappointed.
"But I really don't have time. I am a soldier and a general. You know, Comrade Morozov, it is not a good thing for comrades division commander to take the lead in seeking privileges. Commander Vatutin only approved half of it for me.
During the month of vacation, I would be embarrassed to borrow your telegraph machine to send him a message just to apply for an extension of leave. This sounds quite outrageous... Well, it is quite outrageous."
Malashenko's tone was more or less like the preface and the follower. It was obvious that such words were spoken casually without careful thought.
The reason why this situation occurs is entirely because Malashenko is in a very confused mood right now.
He missed his wife, but Malashenko kept hinting to himself subconsciously that he should not try to make any effort to go back and stay for a few days, even if the most that Malashenko could do would be to send a telegram to Vato
It’s something that Jing needs to know.
Based on the personal relationship between Malashenko and Vatutin, it is almost impossible for Vatutin to refuse Malashenko’s request to extend his vacation by two days.
Stalin's 1st Guards Tank Division had just gone through a major battle and was resting. As long as the basic operations of the unit could be maintained without problems during the rest period, Vatutin did not mind letting his generals go home after finishing their business.
I was reunited with my lover two days ago.
Malashenko knew this very well, but he was unwilling to send this telegram to Vatutin. The reason was quite simple.
Malashenko had long realized that every time he went home and got tired of being with Natalya, he would always have the idea of "Fuck the war, I just want to live a peaceful life." The worst case scenario
When it gets serious, I even want to throw away my military uniform, take Natalya and fly away to become a "Flying General".
Malashenko understood that this was a typical symptom of being immersed in a gentle land.
The better Natalia treats herself and the more gentle she is, the less she wants to return to the battlefield and just wants to live like this day after day.
It can be said to be an escape. It is okay to say that Comrade Lao Ma is a coward who does not have the courage to face it. No matter how you say it, Malashenko knows very well and admits that he does have these problems.
Malashenko did not have the courage to guarantee that he would not be like before when he went back, and he might even do something irreparably stupid in the impulse of a thought.
From 1941 to 1944, Malashenko was really fed up with the war. He was disgusted to the extreme and sick to death. He wished that this hellish killing that made him feel nothing when seeing dead people would end soon.
Under such circumstances, Malashenko was even more afraid to go home and see Natalia.
I am not a superman, nor am I a saint whose willpower is so strong that even God cannot shake it.
I am just a hard-working office worker from the future world, ordinary and ordinary. I don’t have any great ambitions or lofty aspirations. I am in my twenties and not yet thirty, and I just want to marry an ordinary woman.
, that person who lives an ordinary, ordinary and quiet life.
In the future world, many successful people call this person "a useless waste".
In the eyes of most people in this timeline, he is the number one tank hero of the Red Army who makes Nazis tremble just by hearing his name.
But Malashenko knew his true identity, knew who he was, and knew what irrational behavior he might do if he went home and met Natalia under such conditions.
Malashenko had actually made a decision in his mind on what to do and strengthened his will, just like he did on the front line.
Looking at the tall figure of Malashenko, who was wearing the uniform of a tank corps major general, carrying his luggage and sliding his suitcase onto the carriage, Morozov, who was watching Malashenko leave on the platform, felt somewhat strange.
Whether it was their interactions over the past few days or the current situation, Morozov always felt that there was something about Malashenko that he could not understand, and he did not have this feeling in anyone else.
"Extraordinary person, extraordinary feeling, maybe this is Malashenko, a tank corps major general who won two Hero of the Soviet Union awards at the age of only 28."
The above is Morozov’s final evaluation of Malashenko after their short time together.