Captain Yushchenko from the NKVD was very wary of the sudden addition of the second lieutenant, and not only repeatedly interrogated the other party's origins, but even checked the other party's military ID. I thought the other party would be furious because of this, but Ensign Yuri showed his ID unusually cooperatively.

After checking the documents, figuring out the identity of the other party, and knowing that he was not a disguised German spy, Yushchenko's attitude towards the second lieutenant also became friendly, and he began to chat while walking. From the conversation between the two, I learned that Second Lieutenant Yuri was originally from the 126th Infantry Division, and after the troops were dispersed, they had been fighting guerrillas in the vicinity, in addition to intercepting German convoys, and occasionally going to villages with residents to find something to eat. Yesterday, when they were resting in a village, they received a report from a villager that our army had begun a major counteroffensive, so they came out to look for the main force, but they happened to meet us.

After walking for nearly half an hour, Grissa finally repaired the broken down car and led the convoy to pick us up. I thought to myself, thank God, if I had been half an hour late, I would have frozen on the side of the road.

I asked Yushchenko to arrange for Yuri's men to squeeze into the truck in which the soldiers of the guard company were riding, and when I saw that all the people were in the car, I opened the car door and got into my jeep and beckoned Grissa to drive.

After the car started, Yushchenko sighed in front and began to complain: "Comrade division commander, since the beginning of the great counteroffensive, we have been running around like a firefighting team, today is the third day, and we have not been quiet, maybe tomorrow the higher authorities will let us rescue troops somewhere." ……”

Originally, I was resting my back in the chair with my eyes closed, but when I heard him say that today was the third day of the start of the major counteroffensive, I suddenly remembered that there seemed to be a major historical event to happen in the past two days, so I quickly opened my eyes and asked, "What is the number today?" ”

"December 8th."

"Today is December 8th, so yesterday was December 7th?" I asked, somewhat uncertain.

To my strange question, Yushchenko turned around, looked at me puzzled, and said: "Yes, the 8th may have been the 7th before, what is there to doubt about this?" ”

I hurriedly waved my hand and said, "It's nothing, I'll just ask." It's all wrong. After speaking, he leaned back against the back of the chair and closed his eyes to recuperate.

In my known history, the Pacific Fleet of the United States, which was providing large-scale weapons assistance to the Soviet Union, was attacked by the Japanese Navy in the early morning of 7 December.

Originally, the Japanese side wanted to submit a declaration of war to the United States before the attack, but the Japanese Embassy in the United States was unable to decode and print this long letter in time. The delay in the declaration of war was not submitted to the United States until after the attack, and the original declaration of war became an undeclared war, a delay that increased the anger of the United States over the attack, which was an important factor in what President Roosevelt called "a shameless day."

Judging from the many post-war analysis data, there are two completely different theories: First, the attack on Pearl Harbor was a real sneak attack. Second, the conspiracy of the Americans was to deliberately make the sneak attack successful.

The first statement is, of course, recognized history. The second theory is that the United States has long been aware of the Japanese army's plan for a sneak attack, and the Pearl Harbor incident was nothing more than Roosevelt's bitter plan. Because the isolationist ideology in the United States was very serious at that time, many of President Roosevelt's plans to aid Britain, the Soviet Union, and the Chinese countries were restricted. As an outstanding statesman with great foresight, Roosevelt knew very well that if he did not provide timely assistance to the British, Soviet, and medium anti-fascist countries that were fighting hard, the United States would not be able to resist the German, Italian, and Japanese Axis powers on their own after the Axis powers did control Eurasia. Therefore, it is advantageous to enter the war early rather than later, but domestic isolationism is only interested in short-term interests and is unwilling to enter the war. Therefore, Roosevelt did not hesitate to use Pearl Harbor as a way to awaken the people's awakening and hostility and smash the isolationist mentality. At the same time, the Japanese attack must be successful in order to arouse the resolve to crush the isolationists into the war.

As a time-traveler, I prefer to believe the latter statement, after all, the United States officially declared war on Germany the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In this way, at least the second battlefield promised by the British and American leaders to Stalin will no longer be a castle in the sky.

But I'm not thinking about these at the moment, but calculating the time, the air attack on Pearl Harbor was December 7, Hawaii time, and the Soviet time at that time should be December 8. I don't know if the air raid on the US military at this moment is futuristic, progressive, or past?

Just as I was thinking about it, the car stopped again, and then I heard Yushchenko's voice: "We have arrived, Comrade Division Commander. ”

I got out of the car and walked into the building where the headquarters was located, and when I entered the gate, the soldiers on duty at the door neatly stood up and saluted me with their guns. A lieutenant on duty greeted me and told me: "Comrade Chief of Staff of the Army Group, Colonel Gryaznov, commander of the 7th Guards Division, and Lieutenant Colonel Valery, deputy division commander, interrogated the prisoners in the conference room. Would you like to check it out? ”

I nodded and said lightly, "Take me to see it." ”

Soon I came to a room, and the lieutenant gently pushed the door open, and he flashed to the side and let me in. When I entered the room, he gently closed the door outside.

The room was very large and warm, and the three people sitting behind the big wooden table placed by the window opposite were not wearing military coats, except for the two commanders of the 7th Guards Division, who sat in the middle I don't know, but judging from his collar badge, he was a political worker. In the corner, a responsible warrior sat on a stool, attached to the table in front of him, quickly writing the interrogation record. In front of the table stood the famous lieutenant without a hat, who seemed to be an interpreter, and was relaying the words of the political workers to the prisoners.

Sitting with his back to me was a German officer, dressed in a military coat and epaulettes with silver thread, but without a hat, and behind him stood two soldiers with submachine guns.

I did not interrupt the interrogation of the political workers, took off my military coat and hung it on the coat hook by the door, and then leaned my back against the wall, crossed my hands in front of my chest, and quietly listened to this rare interrogation.

"Because...... Because ......" the German officer muttered at first, and suddenly shouted in unexpected hysteria: "Do you think we don't want to take Moscow as soon as possible?" It is important to know that tracked vehicles are not affected by poor road conditions, but most of our vehicles are wheeled. An armored division had less than 300 tracked vehicles, but there were more than 3,000 wheeled vehicles, and they all fell into it as soon as they hit the road. By early November, heavy rain and mud had completely blocked us. Finally, after the ground began to freeze, the vehicle was just able to drive, and from November 27, there was a rare severe cold. Our cars couldn't catch fire, our guns couldn't pull the bolts, the fuel froze solid, in the snow and ice! No warm clothes! People are almost frozen. ……”

When I entered the door, the political worker had just finished asking questions, and I couldn't understand the German language spoken by the interpreter, so I didn't know what question he was asking, and I couldn't help but feel secretly amused when I saw the ugliness of the captive.

"Quiet!" The political worker slammed the table, which immediately startled the German officer and obediently quieted down. He looked around again and asked, "Who has a problem?" Seeing that no one answered from the two division commanders around him, he made a gesture from the soldier and said, "Take the prisoners down first." ”

The prisoners were taken away by the fighters, and I walked over with Colonel Gryaznov and the others.

After saluting me first, the colonel pointed to the political worker beside him and said to me: "Comrade Chief of Staff of the Group Army, let me introduce to you, this is Comrade Levaz Bakanidze, the political commissar of our division, who did not come to the unit some time ago because he was recuperating from his wounds, so you guess you have never seen him. ”

"Hello! Comrade Political Commissar. I held out my hand to him with a smile on my face.

"Hello! Comrade Oshanina! Although the colonel had not yet introduced me to him, the fat old man, with black hair and no silver threads, had already said to me in a very friendly tone: "I have heard Comrade Stalin speak of you personally, and he has praised you as a great heroine. ”

Although I was always smiling, I didn't think much of his words, and my heart said Who are you, you? Stalin will talk to you, and even mention me in the course of the chat, which is really big enough to blow.

The colonel leaned into my ear and whispered: "Comrade Chief of Staff of the Army Group, Comrade Bakannidze is an old comrade-in-arms of Comrade Stalin. They had a friendship of more than forty years, and they were exiled to Siberia together during the Tsarist era. The words of the commander of the guard division immediately made me change my opinion of the political commissar in front of me, it turned out that this was still a person with a great background, so the polite smile on my face inadvertently turned into a sincere smile.

I smiled and asked, "Comrade Political Commissar, are all your injuries healed?" ”

He replied with a smile: "Thank you for your concern, the wound has fully healed." During the battle for the defense of Smolensk, I was wounded by shrapnel in the chest, and at the moment of injury, I even thought that I was going to die immediately. As he spoke, he turned his head to look at the colonel next to him, and said in a tone of feeling: "Fortunately, it was Colonel Gryaznov who saved me and let four fighters carry me off the battlefield, otherwise you wouldn't have seen me standing here talking to you today." ”

Seeing that Bakanize was pulling me to talk non-stop, the colonel smiled slightly and said: "Comrade Political Commissar, Comrade Chief of Staff of the Group Army has just returned from the front line, and he may not have eaten yet." Let's see, we'll talk about it later. ”

When Bakanidze heard this, he immediately smiled and said, "Look, I patronize and chat with you, and I forgot to ask you if you have eaten." He waved his hand and said with a big grin: "Come on, Comrade Chief of Staff of the Group Army." It just so happens that we were interrogating the prisoners just now, and we didn't bother to eat, so let's eat some together. You may be seated first! ”

I returned to the table with Bakanidze and Gliaznov and sat down, and the deputy division commander, Lieutenant Colonel Valery, walked to the door, opened the door and shouted outside: "Orderly, hurry up and bring the prepared dinner." ”