Chapter 1861 Mutual Trust

Malachenko had suggested to Vatutin many times that he should change his habit of running around on the front line and stop thinking about running to the battlefield when he had nothing to do but stay in the headquarters. Read М

But some things cannot be effective just by persuading, especially when you are persuading your leader as a subordinate. Even if you have a very good relationship with your leader, you only need to look at the obvious results in front of you to know what effect it will have.

"How is it? Did you get the treasure?"

Before Malachenko could say anything, it was Vatutin who asked the question first.

Seeing this, Malachenko could understand Vatutin's concern for the treasures. He wanted to say something but decided to say it later. After organizing his words, he quickly replied to Vatutin.

"Everything was obtained without leaving anything behind, comrade commander. Although the process was somewhat difficult and there were unexpected situations, at least the mission objectives were perfectly completed, and all the treasures were not damaged. It was a blessing in disguise."

In fact, as soon as the operation was successful, Malashenko had already set up a radio station in the station to report the latest mission completion status to Vatutin, mainly to remind Vatutin "Hurry up and send someone to pick up my buddy, this must have poked the Germans' nest!".

Malashenko was afraid that he would be blocked by the German reinforcements on the way back. It was not a pleasant thing to fight with so many treasures. Fortunately, such a thing was safe all the way and did not happen in the end.

But one thing is that the telegram sent by Malashenko to Vatutin only briefly described the completion of the mission, and did not specify in detail which treasures and how many pieces were obtained, so Vatutin is not clear about what kind of treasures Malashenko brought back.

"Please follow me, comrade commander, I will take you to see the spoils of this operation, the rare treasures of our motherland that have been passed down to this day."

Malachenko deliberately did not immediately explain what it was, leaving Vatutin in suspense.

Vatutin, who was anxious to see it with his own eyes, did not continue to ask Malachenko. Seeing is believing is better than hearing, not to mention that these things are right in front of you and can be seen immediately.

When Malachenko brought Vatutin to the treasure convoy commanded by Karamov, our chief eunuch comrade Karamov was personally directing his soldiers to unload the car quickly. One by one, large wooden boxes painted with the fascist iron eagle logo were taken off the car by everyone. Seeing this, Vatutin could not help but speak quietly.

"What huge treasure? Or are there so many? Why are there so many cars? I thought there were only a few boxes."

It is true that the main loot of this train robbery is the Amber Room, but this does not mean that Malashenko did not get other things. It's just that these other treasures are not worth mentioning compared to the Amber Room.

Faced with Vatutin's question, Malashenko decided to talk while watching. He first led Vatutin to the nearest box, opened it with a crowbar, and then took out one of them and spoke to Vatutin.

"It's huge and there are a lot of them. Let's start with the number."

"This, the plates and wine glasses used by Catherine, who knows what that is, it looks like a water container, the Germans put a label of Peter the Great on it, I don't know if it's real."

"Well, there's even this, a gift from the German Emperor to Catherine? It looks like a makeup box for women, anyway, they are all relics of status."

Malachenko took out the things in the box in a hurry as if he was showing off his collection masterpieces, and kept showing and explaining them to Vatutin with his left hand and right hand.

Vatutin, on the other hand, didn't stop his movements.

Touching this for a while, looking at that for a while, looking at the box full of all kinds of treasures in front of him, he was really dazzled, it was like Liu Laolao entering the Grand View Garden without seeing the world, Vatutin swears that he has never seen so many treasures since he was born, not even in his dreams.

"I just heard that the Germans looted the Catherine Palace in Leningrad. I didn't expect that these fascist lackeys would be so unscrupulous. This should be the decoration on the palace gate, right? These Sukas actually took it down. Damn it!"

At least in front of Malashenko, Vatutin has always maintained his attitude as a superior leader. It is the first time that Malashenko has seen Vatutin being speechless and swearing since he met him. However, this is enough to show that Vatutin is really angry about everything in front of him.

Seeing this, Malashenko put down the cups and plates in his hand and felt that it was time to introduce some "real things" to the digging.

When Malashenko led Vatutin to the largest wooden boxes that were unloaded from the car at the end, the things inside could actually be seen after prying open the lid. Vatutin seemed to have guessed something and paused, with a hesitant and surprised expression.

He subconsciously glanced at Malashenko beside him, only to find that Malashenko had a mysterious and somewhat ostentatious smile on his face, obviously indicating that Vatutin should go and confirm it with his own eyes.

Combining some new information he had just received, Vatutin, who felt that he was more excited than ever before, tried to slow down his breathing and inner waves, and finally stepped forward and saw the contents of the box with his own eyes.

"Is this the Amber Room?"

When Malashenko went to rob the train, the Soviet intelligence department was actually not idle. They were collecting clues through various intelligence channels and means almost all the time. The focus was to get the list of materials and find out what the treasures that the Germans were trying to smuggle out of the country were.

As the investigation deepened, Vatutin soon received the latest intelligence. The treasure that the Germans were trying to smuggle out of the country was most likely the Soviet national treasure Amber Room that was stolen from Leningrad before! As for why the Germans only thought of smuggling the things that were lost in 41 years, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was also confused and could not figure it out. This requires more investigation.

After receiving this news, Vatutin initially thought of conveying it to Malashenko, but then he thought that if Malashenko knew that the target was likely to be such a treasure, he would be under greater psychological pressure to command the operation, which might have a counterproductive effect at this critical moment.

After weighing the pros and cons, Vatutin finally suppressed this "possible news" and chose to trust Malashenko's ability again and believe that Malashenko would complete the task as always.

And from the final result, Vatutin made the right bet again, or it can be said that it was this invisible tacit understanding and mutual trust between superiors and subordinates that led to such a "miraculous" result.