At this time, at a meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee, Beria began to present the situation with coal・・・・・・・・

(This coal mine is the later generations said Taben Tolgoi coal mine, the world's largest unmined coal mine, located in Mongolia, the coal storage area of the mining area of 400 square kilometers, the thickness of the coal seam is 190 meters, a total of 16 layers, the coal mine is a high-quality coking coal, the coking rate of raw coal is more than 60%, is the world's scarce coal.) The www.biquge.info at present, the preliminary proven coking coal reserves are about 6.4 billion tons)

After introducing the basic situation, Beria said, but the coal mine is far away from our Soviets, and it is far from Ulaanbaatar, so unless there is a railway, a large amount of coal cannot be transported.

Now the problem is that there are coal mines, but they are difficult to transport, but all the top leaders of the CPSU know how important this coal mine is for the Soviet Union, so in the end Stalin said: "Comrades, in this critical period, I know that there are many difficulties, but for the victory of the Great Patriotic War we have nothing to fear!" "The Soviet Union had the technicians for building the railway, and as for the sleepers, the Soviet Union had, the rails, wasn't the United States willing to help? Aren't manpower, the Gulag of Siberia and Mongolia all people? Just work overtime.

And after passing the emergency order, Stalin's attention was again focused on the city named after him, and Voroshilov next to him hurriedly introduced: "Comrade Stalin, at present, the 62nd Army is still holding on to this great city, and the commanders and fighters of Mamayev Post and Central Railway Station are desperately holding on to their positions, paying great sacrifices to hold their positions, but 50% of the city has been occupied by the Germans, but the soldiers are still fighting, And the additional troops that we sent from Siberia and Central Asia should also arrive. ”

Stalin listened to Voroshilov's words and did not speak, but picked up his pipe and smoked, at which point Stalin said: "I remember that the commander of the Siberian Volunteer Division, which held the Mamayev Hill and the Central Railway Station, was Andrei who was sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to work in the Red Army, and his performance was impressive!" And Voroshilov next to him said: "Yes, this reinforced infantry division, now there are only more than 6,000 people left, but they are still holding their positions, this Colonel Yakov has performed very well, Geloki has once again hoped that you will approve his transfer to the Red Army, we hope to immediately award him the rank of major general, so that such an excellent commander can give full play to his abilities in the right post." ”

As soon as Voroshilov's voice fell, Beria here spoke directly: "Comrade Voroshilov, some of your Red Army have excellent commanders, and our internal affairs forces also need excellent commanders, you still don't worry about the commanders of the internal affairs forces, otherwise there will be no one in the internal affairs forces!" ”

Hearing Beria's words, Voroshinov also smiled and said: "Comrade NKVD, when it comes to commanders, we have become uncompromising opponents." ”

And Stalin, who was next to him, did not speak.

Mamayev Stalingrad

In the division headquarters, the staff officers and communicators have been busy, the German army now continues to exert pressure at the central railway station and the Mamayev post from time to time, and at the same time constantly sends small troops to infiltrate, some time ago there were German assault troops to hit the mouth of the headquarters of the group army of Chuikov, now the central railway station is half of the family, and the Mamayev post is still in the hands of the Soviet army, but the places like the barns in the urban area are now caught in repeated battles, and the German army has controlled half of the urban area. The 378th Infantry Division in the factory area has been surrounded by the Germans, and Andrei here is also looking at the situation of the enemy and us on the sand table, and it is difficult to be stable, at this time, Jacques ran over and reported: "Comrade division commander, there is a unit that has just come from the east bank, and according to the commander who led the team, they were ordered to join our division. ”

The thought was interrupted by Jacques, so Andrei waved his hand a little impatiently, and said to him disappreciatively: "Comrade Major, the current reduction of the Fifth Regiment is very serious, you replenish the new troops to the past, don't bother me with such trivial matters in the future." ”

Unexpectedly, Jacques still stood still and did not move, and muttered: "Comrade division commander, this unit is a special guard company sent to you by your superiors, and it cannot be supplemented to other regiments." ”

"Special Guard Company?!" Some time ago, Serov said that he would equip himself with a capable guard company, but Andrei didn't take it seriously, but he didn't expect that he would really come now. I hurriedly ordered Basmanov: "Second Lieutenant, you immediately go and invite the company commander of the guard company in!" ”

Jacques said yes, turned and walked out. After a while, he walked in with a commander with a steel helmet, walked quickly in front of me and reported: "Comrade division commander, the company commander of the guard company has arrived. ”

Andrei looked up at the company commander of the special guard company, and did not wait for him to see the company commander's face. He had already bypassed Jacques and walked in front of Andrei, stood upright, and said in a steady tone: "Report to Comrade Colonel, Captain Yushchenko of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports to you, I was ordered to lead a company of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to report to you, please give your instructions!" ”

"Yushchenko?!" The name sounded familiar, and Andrei seemed to have seen it somewhere before. So he stood up, walked up to the captain, and looked at him carefully. Under the light of the gas lamp, the man also looked kind, but unfortunately he couldn't remember where he had seen it in a hurry.

Seeing that Andre didn't speak for a long time, he just looked at himself vigorously. The captain couldn't hold his breath, hurriedly took off his steel helmet, and said loudly: "Comrade division commander, don't you really know me?" I'm Yushchenko, Captain Yushchenko. It was the commander of the guard company who operated with you during the defense of Moscow! ”

Oh, so that's so, Andrei immediately said: "It's you, Captain Yushchenko." He patted Yushchenko on the shoulder and said enthusiastically, and then he noticed that Yushchenko was also carrying an assault rifle, so he asked Yushchenko: "Captain, how many such assault rifles did you bring with you this time?" ”

"Assault rifles?!" When Yushchenko heard my question, he was stunned for a moment, but then he immediately understood that what I was talking about was the new rifle he was carrying, and he quickly replied: "Report to Comrade Division Commander, we have 121 people this time, and each of us has a new rifle of this type, and each gun is equipped with ten magazines. ”

Next, Andrei introduced the people of the division headquarters to Yushchenko and asked Jacques to take him to arrange the station, this guard company is not so simple, these are the "Royal Guards" sent by Comrade Stalin to himself, in addition to the guard duty, I am afraid that he will also be ordered to monitor himself, who has made himself too bright recently, but what can be done, whether this can leave Stalingrad alive is still a question!

At this time, the staff officer on duty brought a telegram, "Oh no, comrade division commander, the Germans have attacked the central railway station at night again, and now they are exchanging fire with the fifth regiment." "What! There will be no more German special forces! Andrei quickly stood up and took the telegram! (To be continued.) )