"Comrade Colonel," Vinogoradov, seeing that Shevchak had said a few simple words, stopped and did not continue, fearing that Rokossovsky would be displeased, and hurriedly said to him: "Report everything that happened to you in Breslau to Comrade Marshal, I think he should be willing to listen to such an experience." ”

"That's right." Rokossovsky bowed slightly, and said: "Colonel Shevchak, I heard that you have experienced a lot of things in the aircraft factory in Breslau this time, can you tell me about it?" ”

"Yes, Comrade Marshal." Shevchak agreed, and began to report to Rokossovsky what they had experienced in the city of Breslau: "...... Having reached the perimeter of the city of Breslau, we passed through the lines of the two armies with the help of friendly forces and quietly blended into the city. We had good luck, and shortly after we infiltrated the city, we attacked a small German force. After interrogating the prisoners, we learned that this unit was preparing to go to the aircraft factory to take over the defense. After consulting with Major Kurishenko, I decided to impersonate this unit and infiltrate the German aircraft factory to seize the Belonse disc......"

"Wait a minute, Colonel Shevchak." Hearing this, Rokossovsky raised his hand and interrupted Shevchak: "I want to ask, where is Major Kulishchenko?" Is it with General Lunev? ”

Shevchak shook his head and replied with a solemn expression: "Comrade Marshal, Major Kurishchenko has died heroically in order to cover our retreat. ”

"Sacrificed?!" Rokossovsky's eyebrows rose and he asked in surprise: "How did you sacrifice?" ”

"Comrade Marshal, this matter is a long story, please listen to me and report to you slowly." Shevchak did not immediately describe the course of Kulishenko's sacrifice, but tentatively made his own request: "After I have finished the whole course of this operation, you will understand how the major died. Rokossovsky did not object to Shevchak's request, he nodded slightly, and motioned for the other party to continue.

Seeing that Rokossovsky agreed to his request, Shevchak continued: "Although we pretended to be SS to take over the defense of the aircraft factory, there was a brittle engineer in the factory who probably noticed our abnormality and actually proposed to their superiors that we should be replaced in advance and that a new SS take over our defense.

Since we didn't have access to the Belonse disc at the time, we would have missed out on the opportunity if we had been replaced. Therefore, after consulting with Major Kurishenko, I sent a telegram to the command of the Front, requesting that my superiors send troops to make a feint attack on the city of Breslau in order to divert the attention of the Germans from the aircraft factories for the time being.

However, it soon became clear that the feints launched by the friendly forces did not seem to be effective in diverting the attention of the Germans, and they decided to change our guard two days in advance. Under these circumstances, Major Kulishenko and I decided that it would be better to let the game go than to sit idly by, so we organized our forces and took two German pilots hostage, ready to storm the warehouse where the discs were kept, and then let them help us fly the discs away from the aircraft factory.

However, after the battle, we rushed into the warehouse, and we were surprised to find that there was only one disc parked here, and it could not be loaded with all of us. At this time, the enemy was again surrounded from all sides, and our situation became precarious. In this case, Major Kurishenko offered to stay with all the wounded and hold off the enemy here, while I flew back with someone in a disc......"

Rokossovsky, after quietly listening to Shevchak talk about their experience, was silent for a long time, and then spoke: "Major Kulishchenko is our hero, and we will definitely remember him and posthumously award him the honor he deserves." He glanced up at Bogolyubov, "Chief of Staff, when the comrade military commissar returns, you remember to remind me that I will discuss with him what honor should be posthumously awarded to Major Kurishenko." ”

"Understood, Comrade Marshal." Bogolyubov nodded and replied: "I will remember to remind you." ”

"Colonel Shevchak," Rokossovsky, anxious to know the structure of the Belonze disc, asked Shevchak curiously: "Can you tell me what this Belonze disc looks like?" ”

Shevchak organized the vocabulary in his head and began to introduce it to Rokossovsky: "The appearance of this Belonse disc resembles a large round dish. It doesn't need a runway to take off, but uses advanced vertical take-off and landing technology, which means that as long as there is a flat surface, it can take off and land freely......"

Rokossovsky came from a later life and had seen far more things than people of this era, so when he heard Shevchak say that the Belonse disc could take off and land vertically, the expression on his face did not change in the slightest, while Bogolyubov on the side said in surprise: "My God, it is incredible that there are flying machines that can use vertical take-off and landing technology instead of a runway." ”

"Comrade Chief of Staff, you are right." As soon as Bogolyubov finished speaking, Vinogoradov chimed in: "When I first heard Colonel Shevchak's report, I was also amazed that the Germans were able to produce such an advanced flying machine, but fortunately they did not have the ability to mass-produce it, otherwise it would be a great disaster for us and our allies. ”

"What does the cab look like?" Rokossovsky continued.

"In the middle of the disc is a fixed and motionless central cockpit compartment rotating wide ring, using a standard German-made jet engine......" Shevchak quickly replied: "The use of a smooth rudder to operate the machinery similar to that found in airplanes requires two people to operate at the same time......"

While Shevchak was reporting, a dull explosion was heard outside. Rokossovsky hurriedly raised his hand to stop Shevchak, who was reporting, listened attentively for a moment, got up and walked to the window to look out, only to see that the night sky in the south was faintly dyed dark red.

"Comrade Chief of Staff," Rokossovsky asked, pointing his hand at the sky, which was clearly red by the firelight, "what is that place?" ”

Bogolyubov only glanced at it, and was immediately shocked: "Hell, that's the direction in which the Belonse disc is parked, don't have any problems." After saying that, without waiting for Rokossovsky to react, he prepared to run to the outside room to make a call.

But as soon as he ran two or three steps, he was stopped by Rokossovsky: "Chief of Staff, call from the phone in my office and ask what happened?" ”

Bogolyubov agreed, came to the desk, picked up the phone on the desk, dialed a number, and said with a serious expression: "I am the chief of staff of Bogolyubov, what happened to the explosion in the east?" …… I'll give you five minutes to find out what's going on. …… This call will be made later, the phone number of Comrade Marshal's office, to report to me. Do you understand? ”

After the call, Bogolyubov turned to Rokossovsky and reported: "Comrade Marshal, I have already ordered someone to investigate, and I believe that it will not be long before there will be a report." ”

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