Chapter 297: Between Life and Death
The marshal gave an account of the situation on the border between Mongolia and Stalin, and then on Stalin's decision. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Zhukov did not hesitate at all, agreed, and said the famous words: "I can take off now." "This is a significant opportunity.
In the film, we saw it: Comrade Zhukov received the order and did not hesitate, saying that I could take off now. This is the great image of Zhukov in the movie, who knows if he is greatly relieved? His real thoughts were, I'm safe, there's war waiting for me to command, and that's great.
On May 30, on the way to the airfield in Moscow.
It's spring, and the other day, the snow and ice melted, the roads were bad, and there was ice water everywhere. In the past two days, the wind has blown and the road has been dry, and the car has walked on the road, brisk and steady. The road at the airfield is dedicated and few people use it, and there is only one car, Zhukov, on the wide road.
The green trees on both sides of the road speak, a new green, which makes people feel in a good mood. Zhukov was in a good mood and full of hope.
On the way to the airfield, Zhukov began to think about the battle on the Manchurian-Mongolian border, and according to the limited information given to him by the committee, he analyzed and studied what he should do.
At this time, the car was not far from the airport, and there were hardly any cars on the road. The adjutant sitting in the front row suddenly said, "No, I seem to have seen this car." Yes, this one. ”
The driver said: "I seem to have seen it too, once at the train station, once outside the gate of the committee." Look, it's coming towards us! ”
The adjutant said, "Not good, speed up." ”
The sedan accelerated and sprang out.
The car behind was even more violent, accelerating, accelerating, accelerating, catching up. The front of the car crashed into Zhukov's sedan.
The sedan flashed, just out of the way. Chase again.
The car was obviously much more agile, and Zhukov's sedan was also very nimble, but unfortunately, there were three people in the car, and the load capacity was large, so it was a little less agile than others.
A little bit of hell.
The fourth time, the mysterious sedan crashed into it and couldn't hide.
Zhukov's driver tried to brake to dodge, but it was too late, only to hear a bang, the rear of the sedan was hit, shook a few times, slid to the side of the road, and stopped. The driver's skills were so high that he didn't let the car turn over.
The car also stopped, and an artist-like man stepped down, with a pistol in his hand, and shot at the glass in the back seat.
Zhukov's sedan glass is bulletproof.
Since the French scientist Benedites invented bulletproof glass a few years ago, the windows of some dignitaries have been replaced with this kind of glass. This glass is very flexible, and when crushed, it does not produce large sharp pieces of glass, but rather some fine pieces of glass. Because the glass is sandwiched between a flexible film, the glass is not easy to break.
The adjutant also drew his pistol, quickly shook the glass down, and opened his hand to shoot at the artist.
The artist was shot, and the pistol fired several shots at the adjutant, who was also shot.
At this time, the driver rushed out of the car and shot at the artist.
The artist fired a shot at the driver, who staggered and fell. The artist fired another shot at the rear glass, and the bulletproof glass shattered. Fight again, there are no bullets.
The artist pulled out a grenade, pulled the safety bolt, hesitated for two seconds, and with the last bit of strength, threw it at the hole in the rear glass and at Zhukov.
The lieutenant, who had been shot, suddenly jumped up from his seat and pressed on Zhukov. A hand reached out and knocked the grenade out like a volleyball.
A thought crossed the artist's mind: it would be nice to throw it out a second too late.
There was a loud bang. The grenade exploded in mid-air.
Ten minutes later, a passing military vehicle took the living driver and Zhukov to the airport. At the same time, the car of the airport guard also arrived.
Both the assassin and the adjutant died, the driver was wounded, died shortly after the hospital, and Zhukov was wounded.
Later, the police discovered that the assassin had been hit by four bullets and three pieces of shrapnel, the bullets were in the front of the body, including the front of the body, two pistols from the adjutant and two from the driver. The adjutant was hit by four bullets, the glass was shattered after four bullets, and the adjutant's back was blown up. The driver was also shot and three or four pieces of shrapnel, but he did not die.
Zhukov was hit by two pieces of shrapnel and had two cuts. Blood kept pouring out. When he was sent to the hospital, he found out that he was hit by two pieces of shrapnel, one in his left shoulder and one in his neck, one of which was the size of a bean grain embedded in the spine bone.
The doctor lamented: Fortunately, this piece of shrapnel passed through the adjutant's body and exploded on the general, otherwise the general would have died.
Zhukov soon regained consciousness. He felt fine, just a little dizzy, but he was in a clear mind and even participated in the discussion of medical options.
If the surgery is done immediately, it will take two months to go to the front line.
Zhukov immediately consulted the doctor's opinion and decided to treat it simply, go to the front, and wait for the victory of the battle before surgery.
Marshal Voroshilov, in view of the urgency of the war, had no choice but to agree with him, but sent a medical team of a very high level to treat him at any time.
After a brief treatment, Zhukov went to the battlefield.
His trip to the battlefield was three days later than in history.
Stalin found out and agreed with the marshal's decision, satisfied with Zhukov's attitude, however, he was angry at the assassination and said: "It seems that the purge is very incomplete!" General Directorate of State Security! Call the head of the General Bureau of National Security, Se, to see me! ”
The General Directorate of State Security was later known as the KGB.
The current head of the General Directorate of State Security is Beria. Beria took office in September 1938, after which he was given the following structure to the General Directorate of State Security: Directorate 1, responsible for the defense of the government. The 2nd Bureau is responsible for the protection of secret organizations. The 3rd Bureau, responsible for counter-espionage. The 4th Directorate, which is responsible for counterintelligence work in the military sphere. The 5th bureau is responsible for stealing information from the outside world. The 6th bureau is responsible for the management of passwords. In addition, there is the Investigation Department of the General Directorate of State Security, which is directly under the Department of the General Directorate of State Security.
Beria is a Georgian, born in 1900. At a young age joined the Cheka, the predecessor of the KGB.
In 1933, when Stalin was attacked while he was on vacation, Beria covered Stalin with his body, and the assassins were beaten into a hornet's nest on the spot. Of course, some people say that it was designed by Beria.
By 1938, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was actually in charge of Beria. The Ministry of Internal Affairs is already a huge army with several divisions and hundreds of thousands of security workers. Before Beria took over, the predecessor Yezhov mistakenly shot a large number of excellent foreign agents, and the intelligence network was seriously damaged.
In the war, Beria was a member of the National Defense Council, the highest organ of state power during the war, and had a shadow on everything from intelligence and diplomacy to organizing the construction of fortifications, the withdrawal of factories and the production of weapons. During the Battle of Moscow, he never left Stalin. Within a few years, Beria became a member of the Politburo and, after the war, a marshal, second only to Stalin.
One of his greatest political achievements during his time in charge of the secret police was the solution of Stalin's heart disease, Trotsky.
Beria began another purge of rebellion.
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1. Zhukov left Moscow on June 2, 1939, took a plane to Chita, and from Chita went to the border.