The air raid on the Romanian oil fields was a complete success, but everyone did not have time to celebrate, busy preparing for the transfer. The railway stations in Odessa and Sevastopol www.biquge.info also busier than the airports: equipment for ground service units was transported to the station overnight, and military trains at the dispatch station were loaded overnight, and such a transfer work would last for a week.

Feeling that his time was completely insufficient, Lin Jun was also in a hurry to rush back to Moscow and return to the center of decision-making. Polenin was entrusted with the finishing work of the air raids, and he returned to the city of Odessa by car that night, and before returning to Moscow, he had to explain the ground operations to the military district.

Odessa, a city in southern Ukraine, is the largest port on the Black Sea coast, an important industrial, transport, cultural, educational and resort destination, and the capital of the Odessa region. The Dniester River flows here into the Black Sea, the city was founded in 1415 as a Tatar settlement, called Kajibey, renamed Odessa in 1795, and in 1805 became the administrative center of the Novorossiysk Territory. The natural seaport is not frozen all year round, known as the "Pearl of the Black Sea", and in terms of foreign trade with the Soviet Union, Odessa ranks first among all ports in terms of sea traffic.

Lin Jun likes this city built in imitation of Leningrad, and it can be said that Odessa is one of the most beautiful cities in the Soviet Union, but this time he didn't have time to appreciate the beauty of Odessa.

As the car gradually drove into the city, the lights could be seen through the windows.

"Once the war starts, this place will definitely be bombed indiscriminately by the German army! What a great city! Lin Jun sighed with emotion: The tragic and tragic Battle for Odessa may not be "repeated", but the destruction of the beautiful city is inevitable, and manpower cannot change it -- while the war changes the order, the biggest feature is destruction and killing!

"Landscoc, go to the Wave Descending Stone Steps." Lin Jun's right finger kept tapping his knee, and the attachés who were familiar with him knew that as long as the chief had this action, he would be irritable.

"Yes, Chief. Square or seaside? ”

"By the sea, I want to walk."

Landscoch signaled to stop, and the entire convoy stopped, rescheduling the convoy and restarting the convoy.

On June 14, 1905, the sailors of the ironclad ship "Potemkin" of the Russian Black Sea Fleet revolted. On June 27, 1905, after shooting some of the most hated officers, the rebels raised the revolutionary red flag and sailed warships to Odessa.

In the port of Odessa, where revolutionary activity had a certain basis, citizens stood in solidarity with the soldiers on the ship "Potemkin". The Russian government ordered the Cossack cavalry to enter Odessa to suppress the rebellion by force. Soon, due to a shortage of supplies, the "Potemkin" sailed into the neutral port of Constance Tower in Romania to seek political asylum. The following year he was extradited to the tsarist government, and many sailors were sentenced to heavy prison terms.

Lenin considered this uprising to be the first mass revolutionary movement in the tsarist army. Although the uprising of the ironclad ship "Potemkin" failed, it showed that the Russian proletarian revolution was gradually moving towards a climax under the guidance of Lenin's revolutionary strategy.

The famous Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 film "Battleship Potemkin" based on the story of the "Potemkin" is a film without a protagonist, but he is an immortal classic in the history of cinema.

Lin Jun, who "lived in the past and present life", has seen "Battleship Potemkin", and the passage of "Odessa Steps" has the deepest memory, and the brutal suppression of defenseless citizens by the Tsarist army is vividly vivid. Now the long staircase is in the center of the city, leading from the semicircular square to the sea, where Odessa people usually walk.

It's still early, the warm currents of the Black Sea have dispelled the cold winter early, and people are eager to come to the beach after dinner to enjoy the breath of spring. The Odessa city government has turned the promenade and stone steps into a "Avenue of Lights", which is not as brightly lit as Lin Jun's previous life, but it is already spectacular.

A long motorcade drove across the avenue, and the crowd on both sides gazed curiously at the limousines - the one in the middle had a small flag on each side of the front fenders: the one on the right was the flag of the Soviet Red Army; The red flag on the left has a conspicuous yellow entity five-pointed star.

A group of sailors who were walking across the beach stopped when they saw the convoy approaching, and stood and saluted the convoy, and the sergeant major who led the team saw that the people in the middle of the sedan seemed to salute this way.

People on the side of the road saw this scene, and one wife asked her husband: "Who is in the car, and the convoy can make the sailors stop and salute?" ”

"There was a marshal sitting in the car. Did you see the two little flags on that beautiful big car just now? ”

"One side is the Red Army Red Flag, the other is about the same, I didn't pay attention."

"That's the banner of the Marshal of the Red Army, you should read the newspapers." In the Red Army, only the heads of the ranks of marshal and above could fly the military flag and the rank recognition flag in the car.

"Comrade Marshal, who will it be?" The wife's gaze followed the direction of the convoy, "Sasha, the convoy has stopped at the stone steps, let's go and have a look." ”

Obviously, the marshal wanted to visit the "Potemkin Stone Steps", and there were not many opportunities to see a marshal comrade with his own eyes, so the two walked quickly in the direction of the stone steps. It seems that many people noticed that the convoy had stopped, and the crowd was slowly gathering in that direction. When the sailors in line just now saw this, the sergeant major hurriedly ordered them to run to the stone steps: perhaps they needed to maintain their order.

As long as he is free in Moscow, Lin Jun will accompany his wife to go shopping and integrate into the life of the citizens, but this time he obviously did not take into account the difference between Moscow and Odessa: the presence of his motorcade here is already conspicuous enough.

The guards in front and behind got out of the car with loaded guns and stopped both ends of the promenade, and a group of people quickly ran up the stone steps. Lin Jun, who was still in the car and didn't get down, was unhappy when he saw this posture: "Landscochie, let the guards go back to the car, just a few of you, this is in Odessa!" Let the convoy wait for me at the upper square, and don't disturb the citizens. ”

"Yes, Chief."

Landscoch knew that Lin Jun was really unhappy, "These little cubs, don't look at where they are, first-level alert?!" It won't be flexible! "Kung Fu Landscoch who got out of the car scolded his subordinates in his heart, isn't this a disgrace to the chief and himself!

The sentry returned to the car at the signal of the Cossacks. Alyosha got out of the car first, and Lin Jun pulled his uniform after getting out of the car, and at this time someone in the nearby citizens recognized him.

"Comrade Andrey! It's Marshal Plunyakov! There were shouts from the crowd.

The convoy behind them began to drive away, and they had to make a detour to the plaza above. Lin Jun smiled and walked to the middle of the crowd and shook hands with his comrades one by one.

Greetings such as "Good comrade marshal, I wish you good health" continued, and Lin Jun was a household name in the Soviet Union and an idol of the whole Soviet Union. The leadership of the people does not have to worry about security among the people, and only the dictator is afraid to come into contact with the people.

Lin Jun maintained his usual smile, greeted the citizens with warmth, and picked up a little boy to ask a few words, which made the child's parents extremely proud.

Seeing that a group of sailors was also in the crowd, he motioned for them to come.

"Sailors, which unit are you from?"

"Report to Marshal Plunyakov, we are the base unit of the torpedo boat detachment of the Odessa naval base, which has just completed the task of transporting supplies and is returning to the base on foot." The sergeant of the team leader immediately reported.

"Hiking, it's a bit far." Lin Jun had inspected the torpedo boat base before, where there were more than 20 G-5 high-speed torpedo boats, and it was still seven or eight kilometers away.

At this time, the expressions of the sailors were a little embarrassed: the troops were in a state of first-level alert, and they would be unlucky if they did not return by car but "went shopping".

"There are still two hours left before the allotted time, and it is I who decided to let the comrades walk back to the base." The sergeant decided to tell the truth and take the responsibility off his shoulders alone.

Lin Jun smiled: "Don't miss the time." I don't need the protection of my comrades here. You may go, Comrade Sergeant. Lin Jun knew that these sailors appeared automatically for their own safety, and he couldn't blame them.

"Yes, Marshal Plunyakov!" The sailors saluted collectively and walked away in unison.

"They're all good boys." Lin Jun thought.

"Comrades, let's disperse, let Comrade Marshal take a good look at our Odessa, won't you?" Gusev, knowing that the chief would not be able to move an inch if he continued like this, shouted loudly to the citizens of Odessa.

The crowd automatically made way for Lin Jun, and it took Lin Jun a few times to walk up the famous stone steps that were 30 meters wide and had 192 steps.

Lin Jun originally wanted to take a walk before leaving Odessa, but he didn't think about it for a while, and this embarrassment appeared: the army was already at the first level of combat readiness, but the spare time life of the citizens was still the same, as long as the war did not break out in full swing - ordinary citizens did not know that the air force had blown up the oil fields in Romania today.

I didn't have the mood to waste time anymore, so I walked up the 192 steps briskly, and stopped halfway to see the beautiful Black Sea.

The convoy was already waiting for him, and Lin Jun got into the car and went straight to the command of the Odessa Military District, where the second commander of the Military District, Colonel-General Yakov Timofeevich Cherevchenko, was waiting for him. (To be continued.) )