Chapter 2286 "The only Hope of the Whole Village"

"I say, you have to talk to Comrade Marshal when you go in later. We need to rest and recuperate. Think about it, the personnel and technical equipment lost in the battle in southern Poland have not been replaced yet. It was said that they would be replaced in East Prussia, but who knew that we would encounter a tough battle as soon as we arrived in East Prussia. We even gathered the troops hastily and rushed to the battlefield."

"The limited new equipment we received, many of them have not even been fully mastered. At least the TOS-1 has the help of the workers, so it can be used properly. But those IS7, now It is not a good thing to be unable to exert combat effectiveness with new equipment when you can only drive and have not even practiced artillery. You have to explain this situation to Comrade Marshal. We need some time, right? "

As usual, Iushkin, the unlucky guy, was "forced to requisition" by Malashenko and pulled to be the royal driver. He drove the "Walker Happy Car" given by the Empire for free out of the train station and drove all the way to the front headquarters. The troop transport trucks full of combat engineers were sent to protect the division commander.

In fact, Lavrinenko initially proposed to send infantry fighting vehicles to "protect" the division commander, but was rejected by Malashenko and gave a reason.

Firstly, Poland was already a liberated area. Although there were still small local anti-Soviet armed forces and anti-Soviet and anti-German guerrilla forces running around and had not yet been completely wiped out, the large armed forces no longer existed after the Red Army's sweeping cleanup. Now there were only a few stray dogs and fish left, and they could not make much of a difference. [6][9][s][h][u][x][.][c][o][m]

As for the large German forces, they had long since disappeared. Under such an overall situation, it was not worth sending tracked armored combat vehicles to escort them.

After all, although the leader division had a lot of technical equipment, the precious hours of heavy equipment motorization could not be left there to be "cheaply made", right?

Moreover, Malashenko said that he was going to meet the commander comrade, not to lead the team to participate in the military parade. Is it good to mobilize a long convoy to drive over there? It's not good.

Malashenko knew that he had a good relationship with Comrade Lao Zhu, and that was true.

But you can't rely on the people behind you and the connections in your hands to put a brick under the chin of the big leader and put eye drops on others, right? The closer you are to Comrade Zhu, the more low-key you have to be, otherwise what will those other eyes around Zhukov think? Huh?

You Malashenko are so grand. You come to the front headquarters to report and you are escorted by tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and elite combat engineers. Why don't you call the front headquarters in advance and send you a few fighters to provide air-to-ground integrated protection? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

In short, in order to avoid all kinds of situations that may cause trouble or too much necessity, Malashenko did not choose to move his body to have a grand show of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles to protect him, but brought two combat engineers in front and behind to escort him.

In Malashenko's words, "What kind of Polish ghost can beat these two combat engineers holding assault rifles, wearing bulletproof vests, and carrying iron fists on their backs?" If you Polish ghosts don't bring hundreds of people and drive armored vehicles to cause trouble, I'm afraid Malashenko will not approve of it and just treat it as a delivery.

In this way, we drove all the way to the end position near the front headquarters. Ivushkin, who had been concentrating on driving all the way, fearing that the car would slip in the snow and drive into the ditch, would really become the "Malashenko Happy Car". Seeing that the driver's mission was about to be completed, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and started chatting with Malashenko, saying that he wanted the troops to rest first.

Malashenko, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat and lighting a cigarette, did not speak directly after hearing this, but after lighting the cigarette, he extinguished the lighter and put it back in his pocket. Then he put his hand holding the cigarette on the side of the car door and spoke leisurely.

"I would have mentioned this to Comrade Marshal without you saying it. Indeed, our division has not had a good rest since we left Warsaw. Now, both the equipment and personnel have basically reached their limits, and the overall combat effectiveness has dropped to the critical level. It is definitely not worthwhile to force the next battle without stopping."

"But you have made great progress. Now you have learned to consider the maintenance of the combat effectiveness of the troops. I thought you were full of ** to kill the fascists."

As he spoke, Malashenko changed the subject and praised Iushkin on the spot, which made Comrade Iushkin feel quite flattered.

"What's wrong with that? I'm not stupid. You tell me all these things and teach me all day long, so of course I can learn. Didn't you teach me to improve my thinking pattern?"

"Hahaha, that's right! I taught you. You're quite smart! You can be a division commander in the future!"

Malachenko, grinning and laughing, subconsciously patted Iushkin's shoulder with his big hand, but when he saw his hand was about to fall on his shoulder, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

This kid is driving, don't get excited! If he gets excited and flips the car over, wouldn't that be a tragedy? I don't want to ask for a state funeral in front of Zhukov. Who knows if I will have a state funeral if I die now? Comrade Kind Father will give me the face.

Iushkin didn't know what Malachenko was mumbling in his heart or what he was thinking. He just held the steering wheel and continued to concentrate on driving while replying.

"What's the point of being a division commander? I want to be a corps commander and a group army commander in the future! Just wait and see, I'm the first one in our village to be promoted to captain! The only hope of the whole village's officers lies in me, and the same will be true for future generals."

Iushkin has always been a gunner in Malashenko's command vehicle. Malashenko is used to using such a handy person and is unwilling to let go and replace him with someone else. So he simply gave Iushkin several promotions as compensation. The gunner position remained unchanged and slowly rose to the rank of captain, but he was still an "ordinary gunner" without any command card. He was also the only special case in the entire leadership division.

Seeing that Iushkin was so "ambitious" and called himself "the only hope of the whole village", Malashenko, who forced himself not to laugh, didn't want to dampen the child's confidence, so he could only echo and speak.

"Okay, okay, I'll wait for you in the position of marshal. When the time comes, you will be the commander of the army group and continue to work for me."

"Work? You are not a capitalist, why should I work for you?"

Malachenko pretended to be angry when he heard this, raised his hand and slapped him in the air, giving a fake but plausible threat.

"You dare to talk back? Be careful, I will beat you! Drive well! Look ahead, don't look around!"

"Just drive, why are you so fierce?"

At the end, they talked and laughed all the way to the end and finally stopped.

But neither Malachenko nor Ivushkin thought that the jokes they just said would actually become a reality one day, although the situation and the life they faced at that time would be completely different.