Although Rokossovsky's greatest wish is to be able to sleep until he wakes up naturally every day, even if he lives in the hospital, he will wake up with blazing eyes as soon as he arrives at 6 o'clock every day, which is a habit developed on the battlefield. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info tossed with Serova last night, although there was some back pain, but still woke up on time.

He looked down at Serova lying in his arms, raised his hand and gently stroked her hair, thinking about whether to let her sleep a little longer, or wake her up now, after all, there is still an hour to go, a woman's makeup is a very troublesome thing, sometimes it takes at least an hour or two, although even if he is late, the soldiers waiting in the parking lot will not say anything, but his heart is a little unhappy.

Before he could make a final decision, he suddenly heard someone knocking on the door. Rokossovsky instinctively sat up in the hospital bed and woke Serova up.

"Koschika, who will it be so early?" Serova asked with a grimace.

Rokossovsky was also scared into a cold sweat when he heard the knock on the door, and he clearly remembered that Borisova said that she would come to see him before leaving. If it was Borisova standing outside the door at this time, as soon as the door opened, it would be caught in bed.

Rokossovsky froze and shouted at the door: "Who?" Who's outside the door? ”

"Comrade General, it's me, Vanya!" Hearing Rokossovsky's question, the knocking on the door stopped, followed by Vanya's voice: "I'm here to wake you up." After a pause, she asked, a little surprised, "How did you lock the door?" ”

Rokossovsky glanced at Serova and whispered to her: "You go to the bathroom and put on your clothes first, I'll take care of the matter here!" Serova nodded, got up, picked up the clothes that were still in the chair, and slipped into the bathroom on tiptoe. Seeing Serova enter the bathroom, Rokossovsky shouted outside, "Wait a minute, I'll open the door for you right away!" ”

After haphazardly putting on his hospital gown, Rokossovsky walked to the door and opened the door. Wanya, who was standing outside the door, also said curiously: "Comrade General, you never lock the door, why did you lock the door last night?" ”

Rokossovsky stumbled upon the bag of papers hanging on the coat rack and immediately came up with an impeccable reason for this, and he nodded at the bag and said: "Last night I was in the ward to make a battle plan, so I locked the door in order to prevent unrelated people from breaking in and leaking secrets. ”

Vanya had seen Rokossovsky research work in the ward more than once, so she was convinced of this reason for him. She let out a soft "oh" and walked over to the bathroom.

Rokossovsky was afraid that she would find Serova who was hiding inside, so he hurriedly blocked her way and said in a bit of a panic: "Vanya, thank you for coming to wake me up." I'm going to wash up, so go back to the nurses' station first. ”

After sending Vania away, Rokossovsky closed the door, walked to the bathroom door and said, "Come out, the nurse has left, she didn't find you." ”

The frightened Serova opened the door of the bathroom, glanced at the door with some weakness, and said with a crying voice: "Koschika, even if she doesn't find me, it's useless, and when we leave later, she will still find out." ”

Hearing Serova say this, Rokossovsky immediately thought that the elevator room was just across from the nurses' station, and the nurses could see all the people entering and exiting the elevator. In order not to let Serova be discovered, he frowned and began to think of a way. Soon he thought of the best of both worlds, and said to Serova: "Later, I will take the elevator downstairs with your luggage, and you will go down the stairs, so that you can be unaware." ”

Just when Rokossovsky and Serova began to pack their things and make the final preparations before departure, Borisova, who had stayed up all night in the office building of the Industrial Bureau, got up and went to the bathroom to wash her face after finishing her busy work, and when she became conscious, she was ready to leave for the hospital to see off Rokossovsky.

She picked up the phone and called the duty room: "Hey, I'm Borisova, please arrange a car for me, I'm going out." ”

When the officer on duty heard the call from the director himself, he hurriedly replied: "Okay, Comrade Director, the car that picks you up will be waiting for you at the gate of the building in five minutes." ”

After putting down the phone, Borisova picked up the makeup case in the drawer and simply put on makeup. Seeing that the time was almost up, he got up and walked outside with his bag.

Before she could walk out of the secretary's office, a middle-aged man with round-rimmed glasses hurriedly walked over. When the other party saw Borisova, who was about to go out, still far away, he shouted loudly: "Comrade Director, it's good that you are here, I have something important to look for you!" ”

Borisova recognized the chief engineer of a mechanical plant, and when he came to him, there must have been something very important. If it was usual, she would definitely greet him into her office without hesitation, but today's event is special, if you delay too long, you may not be able to rush to the hospital to send Rokossovsky, so she said euphemistically: "Comrade engineer, can you come back later?" I have something urgent to get out right now. ”

"No, Comrade Director." The engineer stiffened his neck and said, "I have 100,000 urgent things to look for you, otherwise I wouldn't have arrived here so early!" ”

Hearing the engineer say this, Borisova, although anxious, could only say patiently on the surface: "Okay, I'll give you ten minutes, and then I'll go out on errands." ”

After the two came to the office, the engineer began to report to Borisova, it turned out that the mechanical plant moved to the rear branch, taking away most of the important equipment in the factory, and now with the resumption of production in the factories in Moscow, this mechanical plant has also received the task of defense production from the superiors, but because of insufficient equipment, even one-third of the specified task was not completed last month. Therefore, the chief engineer in charge of production came to Borisova early in the morning, hoping that she could get the necessary production equipment for the machine factory in a short time.

After listening to the engineer's report, Borisova frowned and thought for a while, and then said: "Comrade engineer, the equipment you need can only be produced at the Kirov plant in Leningrad, and I will immediately apply to my superiors, and after the equipment produced there is shipped, it will be sent to your factory." ”

"What, the equipment we urgently need is still in Leningrad?" When the chief engineer heard this, he immediately became anxious: "Comrade Borisova, you also know that Leningrad is still under siege by the Germans, and it is impossible to transport the equipment out without a month or two, plus the installation time, we will delay it for at least three months." In this way, we will simply not be able to complete the national defense production tasks assigned by our superiors. ”

"But I can't think of anywhere other than Leningrad where you can produce the equipment you need." After looking up at the wall clock on the wall, Borisova said in a bit of a hurry: "Actually, for this kind of thing, you should go directly to the head of the supply department." Because even if you come to me and want to allocate equipment to you, you still need to go through the supply office. ”

"I've been to the Chief of Supply, but to no avail." The chief engineer said anxiously: "As far as I know, such equipment was also produced in Stalingrad. However, there are a lot of units needed, and even if we line up now, we will have to wait until half a year later, so I can only come to you to think of a way. ”

"All right, Comrade Engineer." Borisova's tone was a little impatient and said: "You leave the materials, and when the day comes, I will personally talk to the chief of the supply department and try to provide you with the equipment you need as soon as possible." ”

"Great, that's great." When the chief engineer heard that Borisova had agreed to his request, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly put the materials in his hand on the desk, and said with great gratitude: "Comrade Borisova, in order to thank you for solving such a big problem for us, I invite you to the cafeteria for breakfast." ”

"No, Comrade Engineer." Borisova stood up and said unceremoniously: "I still have urgent business, you can go and have breakfast by yourself!" ”

"Comrade Borisova, look at what you said," the chief engineer said reluctantly: "You have done us such a great favor, so why don't you be invited to breakfast." As he spoke, he grabbed Borisova's hand and pulled her to the outside.

Borisova broke free of his hand and said dissatisfiedly: "Okay, Comrade Engineer, stop messing around." If you want to have breakfast, you go by yourself, I have important things to do. ”

"Nonsense, where is this nonsense?" This engineer with little strings in his head was immediately unhappy when he heard Borisova say this: "You have helped us so much, I invite you to breakfast, where is this nonsense?" ”

"Alright, Comrade Engineer, go back quickly." Borisova hurried to the hospital, not wanting to entangle with the chief engineer, so she threw him outside, ready to close the office door and leave as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, the engineer began to compare with her, and had to explain to her clearly, saying that he invited her to breakfast, not to mess around, but to express gratitude. In the end, the driver waited a little impatiently downstairs, called the office and couldn't get through, and went upstairs to find Borisova, so he relieved her in the corridor.

After Borisova got into the car, she looked at the time, and there were less than ten minutes left until seven o'clock. She asked the driver with some concern: "Comrade driver, can you get to the military hospital within ten minutes?" ”

"Don't worry, Comrade Director." The driver swore that "there are no cars on the street yet, and I can drive at the highest speed, and I can definitely reach the hospital in 10 minutes." ”

Since Serova chose to go down the stairs in the end, she was not discovered by Vanya. It's just that when she saw Rokossovsky carrying a suitcase into the elevator, she muttered in a low voice: "Why does the suitcase he carried look a bit like a woman's?" ”

After Rokossovsky and Serova met in the parking lot downstairs, they saw Lyonka next to a truck full of fighters, smoking a cigarette and chatting with Tupanv.

Seeing Rokossovsky coming out of the inpatient department, the two hurriedly threw away the cigarettes in their hands, ran quickly in front of Rokossovsky, and asked in unison: "Comrade Commander (General), do you want to leave now?" ”

Although it was still a few minutes away from seven o'clock, Rokossovsky nodded and said, "Well, let's go." With that, he handed the luggage he was carrying to Lyonka and told him to put it in the trunk. Then he walked briskly to the back door of the car, opened the door and asked Serova to get in the car first.

Second Lieutenant Tupanv ran to a truck and shouted at the driver: "Your car is ahead of the road, let's go!" After the car started slowly and drove towards the outside of the hospital, he ran to another truck, opened the door and climbed into the co-pilot's position, instructing the driver, "Follow behind the general's car later." ”

A convoy of two trucks and a sedan left the hospital and headed west. Not long after the convoy left, the black sedan carrying Borisova rushed into the hospital parking lot like a whirlwind. As soon as the car stopped, Borisova pushed the door and jumped out of the car and ran into the inpatient department as fast as she could.

As soon as she came out of the elevator, she saw Vanya sitting in the nurse's station, hurriedly trotted over, panting, covering her violently fluctuating heart and asking, "Comrade nurse, is General Rokossovsky still there?" ”

Vanya knew Borisova, who had been here many times, and quickly shook her head and said: "I'm sorry, Comrade Borisova, you came a step late, Comrade General left five minutes ago!" ”

"What, he's gone?" Hearing Vania say this, Borisova's heart felt like falling into an ice cellar, wow, cold, wow. She asked with some impatience, "In which direction are they going?" ”

Vanya shook her head and said with some embarrassment: "I'm sorry, Comrade Borisova, I don't know either. Although I knew that Comrade General was going back to the front, there were two ways out of the city, to the west and to the south, and I really didn't know which way he would choose. ”

Without waiting for Vania to finish, Borisova turned and rushed into the still open elevator door, quickly descended to the ground floor, and ran out of the inpatient department. Seeing that the car was still waiting at the entrance, he opened the door and sat in, telling the driver: "Hurry up and drive!" ”

The driver saw Borisova go in for a few minutes, and rushed out in a panic, knowing that she must not have found the person she was looking for. Hearing her order at this moment, the driver spread his hands and said helplessly: "Comrade Director, you always have to tell me where we should go, right?" ”

Borisova's mind was blank at the moment, and after hearing the driver's question, she said without thinking: "Go south, go south and chase a black car!" ”