The not-so-long conversation with Zhukov was over.
Malashenko also waited until the moment he stepped out of the camp before he finally felt relieved. He finally understood the purpose of Zhukov's visit to him. In short, there were two reasons.
First, ask yourself about the battle situation of the battle just now, see the recovery of the combat effectiveness of the leading division after the rest, the mastery of the newly installed technical equipment, whether it can fully exert its combat effectiveness on the battlefield, and the final question in the end
This is the question of "whether the leadership division is currently ready for high-intensity frontal combat and to play the role of a sharp knife."
The second thing is to arrange combat missions after Malashenko gave a positive answer.
The next combat mission, in Zhukov's words, is that "the stage has been set up for you, the props have been prepared for you, and all the cooperating personnel are in place and ready. Now it's up to you."
Can you sing well if you play the leading role?"
This is what Malashenko has been looking forward to for a long time, a tough battle that can show the true strength of the leadership division. It is the only tough battle that can be remembered as "tragic" in the existing history. Malashenko
I feel that it is worthy of today's leader to exert all his strength and give 100% of his strength to go all out.
Compared with this, a small battle like killing the 502nd Battalion seems not worth mentioning. On behalf of himself, Zhukov also congratulated Malashenko on the successful revenge of his fallen comrades. Also on behalf of the Front Army Headquarters,
I would like to express my affirmation to the leading division for regaining honor and erasing shame on the battlefield.
After all, this was a losing battle that cost the leader's division an entire elite heavy tank company and failed to achieve any decent results. Even Comrade Stalin asked Zhukov, who was accompanying the leader to dine together, about it in his spare time at the dinner table.
.Finally, he asked with great concern: How is the situation of the young man? Can he take such a failure seriously and continue to lead the army?
As Malashenko's consistent "firm supporter", Zhukov's answer at the time was definitely "no problem."
As the supreme strategic commander, Comrade Stalin did not understand the following specific situation, and it is impossible for Zhukov, who is familiar with Malashenko, not to understand.
On the issue of "whether he still trusts his command ability", Zhukov did not believe that Malashenko could be defeated by such a small setback.
The most famous tank hero of our Soviet Union went up mountains of knives, descended into seas of fire, killed indiscriminately in German stick formations, cut mountains of corpses in seas of blood, and endured such a difficult past as Stalingrad. Zhukov did not believe in Marat no matter what.
Shenke will be here, falling so close to victory.
The loss of a close friend was too common in the war years, and Zhukov believed that Malashenko would be able to survive this.
In short, the task assigned by Zhukov to Malashenko this time is to prepare as soon as possible after returning and reorganize the troops. The troops who have opened attack channels on the forward front will soon achieve a breakthrough. This is foreseeable
Yes, it will depend on whether the performance of Malashenko and the Leader's Division can be remembered in history. This will be a battle that will open the road to Berlin and will be remembered in history. In a political sense, it is most suitable for a special unit like the Leader's Division to take the lead.
, this is also what Comrade Stalin meant.
Of course, Zhukov did not tell Malashenko so clearly and in detail.
It's not that I deliberately concealed anything, I just didn't want to put too much pressure on Malashenko, and wanted him to go into battle as lightly as possible and go all out. With him as his direct boss, the commander of the front army emphasized the importance of this battle.
It's enough.
Therefore, Malashenko still couldn't understand it until he walked out of the front army headquarters, got on the troop transport truck, and set off on his way home with the soldiers who protected him.
Why didn't Zhukov know that he was walking alone? If he really knew about such a big thing, he couldn't have reacted at all. If he didn't trigger it, he would have to verbally criticize and hit him twice. Malashenko knew that this must be the case.
It cannot be avoided, but the actual result is that there is no such thing at all. This kind of thing has not happened at all.
What was the reason that Zhukov didn't know about this? What really happened?
Malashenko vaguely felt that this matter must be inseparable from Comrade Political Commissar. Comrade Political Commissar said that he went to the front army headquarters to inquire about information. After leaving, he did not know any details about what happened next.
Not sure anymore.
Malashenko guessed that the problem may lie in this process that he did not know. Something must have happened that he did not expect or did not plan. This led to the final result of the matter being different from the original expectation.
Such a big deviation.
Malashenko, who had both adequate emotional and IQ, guessed that there must be a problem, and the answer to this problem must not be obtained from Zhukov.
Intuition told Malashenko that Zhukov probably didn't know how paranoid he was at the beginning and went his own way, so he should continue to be ignorant for the time being, at least until he figured out the truth of the matter.
After all, if possible, Malashenko did not want to be kicked out of his position as division commander at this juncture and rushed back to his hometown.
It was just that he was in a hurry at that time, fearing that the bastards of the 502nd Battalion would run away or that the leader of the division would not be able to fight. In order to avoid risks, he must avenge Kirill, so Malashenko came out.
As a last resort, I decided to go alone.
Thinking about it now, I can't say I regret it. Malashenko never regrets what he has done, and it is the same this time.
I just feel lucky that I can continue to lead the troops to the final victory. Isn't this the final result that I have dreamed of so far after the hard battle? Malashenko can't think of anything that can be a better and more successful result than this.
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According to Malashenko's request, the two troop transport trucks had just returned to the battlefield ruins after the fighting ceased, which is currently the resting place where the main force of the Leader's Division is waiting, and where the Forward Division's tribe has set up camp.
There were urgent questions in his heart that needed to be answered. The impatient Malashenko walked straight to the division headquarters camp without saying a word as soon as he got out of the car. He strode in without looking back while the wind was blowing at his feet, but he didn't expect this.
The first thing I saw when I walked in made me dumbfounded.
"How is Comrade Political Commissar? Tell me, what is the situation?"
"It's very bad. The lung sounds are muddier than what I heard last week. The disease may have spread to the entire lungs."
"I don't want to admit it, but the complete loss of lung function seems to be close at hand. I mean, Comrade Political Commissar may suffer from respiratory failure at any time, and then... I don't know what to say, but that is foreseeable.
Final result.”
Looking at Comrade Political Commissar lying on the cot with his hands on his chest, his face sallow and pale, and Lavrinenko standing aside talking eagerly with Karachev with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, he no longer cared about asking any questions.
Malashenko took a lunge on the spot and rushed away.