The luggage, which had been carried onto the train by the fighters, was re-lifted and handed over to the fighters brought by Krochkov. At the same time, Shekin, who was in charge of escorting me, officially handed me over to Krochkov.

Outside the station, after watching Shekin and them leave in the car, Krochkov and I also got on the train and drove in the opposite direction.

Half an hour later, we arrived at a heavily guarded military airfield.

Looking out of the car window and at the neatly parked fighter jets and transport planes on both sides of the runway, I suddenly felt a little familiar here, as if I had been here before. In those days, I flew not many times, once with a group of middle and senior commanders from Leningrad to Moscow for a military conference, and once with Bezzikov who was escorted from the suburbs to the city's airport.

Before I could figure out exactly when it had come, the car had stopped in front of a large transport plane. Krochkov turned his head from the front row and said to me: "Comrade Oshanina, we are at the place, get out of the car!" ”

As soon as I got out of the car, I found at least thirty heavily armed fighters on guard around the transport plane. At the tail of the plane, a group of fighters were busy carrying a truck's contents from the tail into the cabin in bags.

Seeing that the security was so strict here, I couldn't help but wonder what was on the plane, and so many soldiers had to be sent to serve as guards when loading goods. Curious, I walked over to the caravan and poked my head out to see what was going on. I didn't expect to see flour and sugar written on my pocket.

Seeing clearly what the soldiers were carrying, I couldn't help but pout, and my heart was full of disdain for the person in charge of arranging the soldiers' guards, and my heart said that for the sake of these two ordinary things, it would be a bit of a fuss to send so many soldiers to guard.

Crochkov, who was standing next to him, didn't speak, and it seemed that he was not used to seeing it. When I was just about to ask him secretly if I was going to Leningrad on this plane, he suddenly said excitedly: "Here we are!" ”

Here it comes? Who's coming? I looked in the direction of his finger and saw two black Jim sedans driving from the direction of the control tower. At the moment, I felt as if I knew something, there must be some important person going to Leningrad on the same plane, which is why so many soldiers were on guard.

As Jim's sedan drove closer, Crochkov straightened his outfit and trotted to meet him. I guessed that there was a certain big guy sitting in the car, so I followed.

The sedan came to a steady stop beside Crochkov. As soon as the car stopped, he took two steps forward and opened the door diligently, and blocked the door with his hand to prevent the upcoming big man from hitting his head.

As soon as the big man in the car appeared, I couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, how could it be Zhukov? Could it be that he is also going to Leningrad today? But no, in the effective history that I know, he left Leningrad in October '41 and didn't return until around '43. Could it be that the appearance of my butterfly has caused history to deviate again?

I was a little excited to see Zhukov appear, and after he shook hands with Krochkov, I hurriedly stepped forward and saluted him. At this time, the person sitting in the second car also came out, I just glanced at it, and I couldn't take my eyes off it anymore, I didn't expect that it was Ehrenburg who came out of the car, and I wouldn't have fallen to this point if it weren't for this person.

He walked up to me with a smile and took the initiative to raise his hand to greet me: "Hello! Comrade Oshanina. I wanted to pretend not to see such a person, but under Zhukov's murderous gaze, I reluctantly greeted him, pretending to find out about his existence: "Isn't this our comrade journalist? Hello! Comrade journalists. As I spoke, I pretended to raise my hand to salute him.

Before my hand could be raised to his forehead, he had already grabbed my hand and shook it: "Comrade Oshanina, we are all old acquaintances, so there is no need to be so polite. I came to the airport today with General Zhukov to see you off. ”

Cat Cry Mouse fake compassion, I scolded in my heart, but there was still a sunny smile on my face: "Comrade reporter, you are so polite. It's such a cold day, I'm really a little sorry for you to come so far to see me off. Ha Lu Ha. ”

Zhukov, who was standing next to him, observed his words and knew that I was insincere, and couldn't help but snort coldly. Hearing his voice, I quickly and obediently closed my mouth. He looked at me with a calm face, turned to Ehrenburg and said, "Comrade Ehrenburg, time is not running out, so don't waste time here and beyond, and if you have something to say, hurry up and say it." ”

Ehrenburg let go of my hand, took a step back, and bowed deeply to me.

His unexpected move made me feel at a loss, and I panicked forward to help him and asked strangely, "Comrade reporter, what are you doing here?" ”

Ehrenburg straightened up and said to me with a serious expression: "Comrade Oshanina, I am here to solemnly apologize to you. I apologize for the inconvenience caused to me by publishing a biased article in the newspaper before I could understand the real reason for your execution of the German prisoners. ”

Listening to his explanation, I didn't feel the slightest relief, but frowned, originally my immeasurable future, because of your irresponsible news, almost put me in a situation from which I will never recover. If it weren't for Zhukov's intercession for me, let alone retaining his military status, it is estimated that he would have been killed after being exiled to Siberia.

Originally, I wanted to take the opportunity to complain a few words, or even scold a few words, but I secretly glanced at Zhukov and found that his face had sunk, so I could only sigh secretly, pretend not to care, and said: "Comrade reporter, since the matter has passed, don't mention it again." You see, I don't even take this matter to heart, why are you still obsessed. With that, I pretended to laugh twice, but the sound from my mouth was more like crying than laughter, which anyone who is not deaf can hear this.

"Leda!" Zhukov walked up to me, patted me lightly on the shoulder, and asked, "Do you have any thoughts on this incident?" ”

"No, I obey the disposition of my superiors." I looked at Zhukov a little puzzled, wondering why he suddenly remembered to ask this question again.

"Really?" Zhukov looked at me with a smile: "But I think you still have a lot of emotions in your heart." ”

"No, you must have read it wrong." I quickly denied this.

Zhukov smiled and said, "But I just heard your laughter worse than crying." ”

Zhukov's mind was seen through at a glance, and I scratched my head a little embarrassedly and said: "Being suddenly removed and demoted, it is inevitable that I will be a little emotional. But rest assured, Comrade General, I will soon be fine. ”

"Zhilu Dao was removed and demoted this time, what did you do wrong?"

I glanced at Zhukov with some humility, and then cautiously replied: "I shouldn't have killed all the prisoners of war." ”

Zhukov snorted again, and continued: "You are too impulsive! Do you understand? The main reason is impulsiveness! You should have gathered all the villagers and made the crimes of these evil fascist bandits public, and then they should have been punished, so that no one could say that you were wrong. As he said this, Zhukov's eyes glanced to the side.

Hearing Zhukov say this, I was speechless, I didn't think about all this, but the hatred of the German fascists in my heart and the mutilated corpse of Zoya at the scene made me unable to control my emotions.

"Comrade Oshanina, I'm sorry." Ehrenburg apologized to me again, "I was also deeply enraged when I learned the truth of the matter. If I had been in your position at the time, I would have given the same orders as you without hesitation. After hearing his words, I felt that I could no longer hate him, and secretly said in my heart that maybe this was my life.

"Leda, I have one more thing to tell you." Zhukov stood in front of me with his hands behind his back and stared at me and said: "Today Comrade Stalin has just issued an order to the Western Front: when encountering German officers and soldiers of the 332nd Infantry Regiment, they will all be shot on the spot, and we will never accept their surrender!" ”

"Comrade General, the goods have been loaded and are ready to go." We were talking, but Krochkov interrupted us at an inopportune time, "Comrade Oshanina needs to rush to Leningrad to report as soon as possible." ”

I glanced at Zhukov, who was standing in front of me, with some regret, saluted him and said goodbye. Just as I was about to turn around, Ehrenburg came running with a cloth bag, handed the things to my hand, and said sincerely: "Comrade Oshanina, Leningrad, which is besieged by the German army, is starving because of the shortage of food. You can bring these things with you, it's a little bit of my heart. ”

I took the heavy bag, and my favor for him could not help but increase a little, and I sincerely said to him: "Thank you, Comrade Ehrenburg." We'll see you later. After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the tail of the plane...... "Leda!" I hadn't taken a few steps when I suddenly heard Zhukov raise his voice and roar from behind, and I quickly stopped and adjusted my breathing to prepare for Zhukov's lesson. To my surprise, Zhukov did not curse when he came over, but took an AK47 and three magazines from the soldiers accompanying him and handed them to me, saying: "When you arrive in Leningrad, immediately go to the commander to report and ask him to arrange a suitable position for you." ”

"Is the commander of Leningrad still Major General Fedyuninsky?" I know that Fedyuninsky is an old subordinate of Zhukov, and maybe he will look at Zhukov's face and arrange an ideal place for me.

Zhukov was quite clever and guessed what I wanted to say from my simple question, and replied to me: "Fedyuninsky resigned from the post of commander shortly after you left Leningrad. The current commander is Lieutenant General Hozin, who was also my subordinate before. ”