When the door opened, there was a smiling general standing outside, and when I looked closely, it turned out to be Major General Leviakin.

Seeing me standing at the door, the burly general lowered his head and asked me with a smile: "Comrade Oshanina, have you finished talking to my captain?" If not, hurry, the troops will have to go in five minutes. ”

Before I could speak, Oshanin was already standing behind me, with his hands already on my shoulders, and hurriedly replied: "Comrade General, I am ready to go at any time." ”

General Leviagin nodded at the two of us and said, "Then hurry up and say goodbye to Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I'll be waiting for you at the truck." With that, he turned and left the church.

Looking at the back of the general walking away, I was about to speak, but Oshanin turned my body hard, and then his lips finally pressed down involuntarily. I cooperated awkwardly, probably feeling a little dizzy because of the lack of oxygen.

After parting his lips, he took me in his arms again. I buried my face in his chest, listened to his clear heartbeat, and sighed inwardly, I didn't expect that I would actually kiss a man.

When I thought of the kiss just now, I couldn't help but shudder and push him away.

"Leda! What are you doing? He asked, somewhat surprised.

"My dear," I prevaricated, "you should go back to the company, the soldiers are waiting for you." ”

"Well, you're right, it's time for me to go back to the army."

"I'll go with you." I wanted to send him away as soon as possible, and my heart would be steady.

"It's good. Give me a ride! ”

Outside the church, a long line of trucks was parked, and the soldiers were boarding in a neat line. I saw that at the back of the convoy, there were quite a few soldiers with military dogs lined up, so I pointed in that direction and told Oshanin: "Your company is over there!" ”

Oshanin looked in the direction I was pointing, nodded, and said, "Yes, it's them." Then he pulled me and walked that way. A dozen steps away from the truck when a military dog sprang out of the queue, ran a few steps before jumping high and lunging at us. I couldn't help but cry out, and instinctively took a few steps back.

Oshanin reined in the military dog, glanced at me, smiled shyly, and explained: "This is my newly trained military dog, also named Sasha!" Seeing that the military dog was already lying tamely beside the captain, I smiled a little embarrassedly, and then I immediately squatted down and touched the dog's head. The military dog shook his head and tail at me in friendship while sticking out his long tongue to lick my hand.

"Comrade female soldier, do you still know me?" I saw a pair of feet standing in front of me and heard someone asking me. When I looked up, I saw a young warrior wearing a steel helmet, somewhat kind-faced, but I couldn't remember where I had seen it in a hurry.

I stood up and said hesitantly, "It looks a little familiar, but I can't remember where I've seen it." ”

"You forgot?!" He reminded me: "You were on the way to Vuitden Khan, the one who gave you a ride?" ”

"Oh! It turned out to be you, Victor. "At the mention of Vuitden Khan I was reminded of who he was, and when he said that he seemed to have heard of Oshanen's name, I thought it was his way of picking up girls, but I didn't expect it to be true. If I had asked a few more questions at the time, I might have found out about Oshanin's whereabouts. I was a little embarrassed and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't remember who you were for a while." Thank you for sending me to Vuitden Khan that day. ”

He smiled, and just wanted to continue talking, when he accidentally caught a glimpse of my collar badge, and hurriedly stood upright, and saluted me respectfully, saying, "I'm sorry, Comrade Commander, I didn't notice your rank. ”

"Okay, okay, they're all old acquaintances, so you don't have to be so polite." I put his hand down, then pointed at Oshanin and explained to him, "This is Oshanin. After a slight pause, I heard myself say, "...... My husband. ”

"I know that Comrade Captain is my company commander. As soon as you got out of the car that day, I remembered. I wanted to stop you, but you're already far away. ”

"Leda, how do you know my men?" Oshanin asked curiously.

Hearing him ask, I gave him a general account of the day, and at the end I added: "At that time, Vidya said that I had heard your name somewhere, but I did not expect you to go to Moscow, so I did not take it to heart." If I had asked one more question at the time, I might have met you again. "Although I thought in my heart that I would never see Oshanen, I still had to say that I missed him.

"Comrade Captain, it's time for us to go." Victor poked his head out of the cab window and urged Oshanin to get into the car.

"Honey, it's time for us to say goodbye, and we'll see you when the battle is over!" Seeing that the trucks in front of him were starting one after another, Oshanin hugged Morchanov again, then gently pushed me away, as if to let me go of his arms with great regret, turned around and jumped on the step, pulled the door and sat in.

Seeing the convoy drive away, I breathed a sigh of relief, and the big stone in my heart finally fell to the ground, sending Oshanin away, and avoiding my fate as a goof. However, after such a long delay with him in the porter, it is time to go to Rokossovsky to find out about tomorrow's operational deployment.

In Rokossovsky's command room, in addition to him and the chief of staff, there were four or five other generals with whom I was not familiar. When he saw me enter, he hurriedly beckoned me over, asked Colonel Malinin to explain the deployment to me, and asked me for my views on the battle.

Although I know about the famous Battle of Moscow, I have no idea in my mind about the course of the battle launched by the 16th Army before December 6 and the growth and decline of the strength of both sides. In fact, even if I know all about these battles in history, it doesn't mean that everything I know about the road will still develop according to the original trajectory. When I appeared on this plane, some history was inevitably deflected, and no one could tell how this battle would develop and evolve. Originally, I didn't want to express any opinions, but since the commander was not ashamed to ask, it was not appropriate to remain silent, so I thought about it for a while, and then looked up and asked Rokossovsky: "Comrade commander, will we start a campaign with the existing forces?" ”

Without waiting for the commander to speak, the chief of staff had already taken the lead in introducing me: "In this campaign, in addition to using our existing forces, the high command has also invested General Vlasov's 20th Army and General Kuznetsov's 1st Shock Army to cover the flanks of our army and provide us with sufficient artillery support. ……”

Speaking of this, Deputy Chief of Staff Orel continued: "The artillery of the 20th Army is very strong, and the high command not only equips them with three Katyusha rocket artillery battalions, but also five regiments of heavy artillery units, equipped with big guys like 122 howitzers and 152 howitzers, which will be enough for the German devils to drink a pot at that time." ”

"But it's their new deputy commander who is not at ease," a major general who had been sitting next to him and had not spoken all this time suddenly interjected, "it is the Chinese general named Lin, who, after taking office, immediately summoned all the commanders above the regimental level to study and inculcate his own set of theories in them." ”

"What kind of theory?" Rokossovsky asked with interest.

The general said with some disdain: "I heard an old comrade-in-arms of mine say there, what are called 'one point and two sides' and 'four fast and one slow', anyway, they are all inexplicable things. You must know that many of their outstanding commanders have graduated from our military academies, and now these students want to be our teachers, which is really funny. ”

"Can you elaborate on that?" Rokossovsky did not echo him, but continued to ask.

The general scratched his head and said with some embarrassment, "I didn't ask about this. ”

I glared fiercely at the self-righteous general, and then said to Rokossovsky: "Comrade commander, I once went to see this General Lin with General Vlasov and had a long conversation with him. Personally, I think he is a very good military strategist, and there are many military theories that we have never heard of. What the general just said about 'one point and two sides' means concentrating superior forces on the main points of attack and opposing the equal division of forces at each point, and encircling the enemy on at least two sides to ensure that the enemy will be defeated and annihilated. The 'four fast and one slow' means: Advance quickly to the enemy to prevent the enemy from escaping; after seizing the enemy, make preparations quickly, look at the terrain, select a breakthrough, build fortifications, mobilize and mobilize troops, and arrange firepower. After the breakthrough, the results of the battle should be expanded quickly; Pursue the retreating enemy quickly, regardless of three, seven, twenty-one, day and night. This 4th fast is played in the same way as in the third case above. One is that the timing of the general offensive should be slow, and the fight should be fought after full preparation, and once the general offensive begins, it should be fast. ”

"It's fantastic, his summary is so incisive." Hearing this, Rokossovsky stood up and said with excitement on his face: "I have heard of him, long before the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the High Command called a military meeting and invited him to participate. Most of the marshals and generals present at the meeting believed that if war broke out, Germany would first attack Ukraine, the richest of the country. But he thought: 'If Hitler attacks the Soviet Union, he will not plunder the wealth of the Soviet Union, but destroy the Soviet Union, so he will not fight from Ukraine, he will attack from the direction of the Caucasus on the Western Front, from the Baltic Sea to the Carpathians, attack on all fronts, and occupy Moscow.' At that time, the participants shook their heads, thinking that he was alarmist, and after the meeting, the high command still deployed the main forces in Ukraine, but the most unfortunate result was unfortunately corrected by him. If I have the opportunity, I will definitely invite him to our group army and let him give lessons to all the commanders, which will be very helpful for our commanders to improve their command level. ”

"It should be soon, Comrade Commander." Malinin looked at Rokossovsky and said in a calm tone: "I have received information that it may not be long before he will take up the post of deputy commander of the Western Front. ”

Rokossovsky was about to say something, but the phone on the desk rang untimely, he picked up the microphone and said: "I'm General Rokossovsky, what's the matter?" ”

The other party replied: "Report to Comrade Commander, the anti-aircraft machine gun company equipped to us by the High Command has arrived, where to deploy them, please instruct!" ”

He thought for a moment and replied: "The air defense of the army group headquarters is insufficient, so let's deploy them in the village." With that, he hung up the phone. He raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and then said to us: "Commanders, it's getting late, so go back to your posts." ”

I came out of the church just in time to see a group of people setting up anti-aircraft machine-gun emplacements in the twilight. I walked towards them, and when I arrived, the warriors, who were building fortifications with sandbags, stood up straight and saluted me. I motioned for them to continue working, and then stepped forward to check on the anti-aircraft machine guns they were using. The position was placed with a 14.5 mm quadruple anti-aircraft machine gun that I had used to use, and when I saw the familiar weapon, I couldn't help but itch my hands for a while, so I sat directly in the position of the operator, and skillfully rotated the machine gun.

"Comrade commander, it seems that you are quite familiar with anti-aircraft machine guns." A soldier next to him said in surprise.

"yes," I replied, looking through the scope, as I looked into the air, "I used to be an anti-aircraft machine gunner. ”

"No wonder. Have you ever shot down an enemy plane? ”

"I've fought twice." I replied lightly.

"You're amazing."

I didn't want to continue talking to him, so I got down from my seat and pointed at the machine gun and said, "The air defense of the headquarters will be handed over to you, and I hope you can also take down the enemy as soon as possible." ”

"I will, Comrade Commander."

I nodded at him, then turned around and headed towards the kitchen.

In the early morning, the rumbling of cannons woke me from my sleep. I got out of bed, walked barefoot to the window, and looked into the distance with my binoculars. Clusters of fire were rising from the enemy's positions, and it seemed that our offensive had begun.