After I reported the news of the conquering Zhitomir to Vatutin, he seemed particularly happy and said, "It's great, it's great. Comrade Oshenina, I congratulate you, congratulate you on your victory in the Sixth Army of the Guards and liberate Zhitomir, who was occupied by the German army for two years, with a firm and decisive offensive action. I will immediately report the entire great victory you have achieved to the Supreme Command."

As soon as Vatujing finished speaking, I quickly asked: "Comrade General, Zhitomir has been liberated now. What is the next combat mission of our group army?"

After a moment of silence, Vatujing replied: "The Germans will definitely not be willing to suffer the failure. They will definitely gather superior forces to launch a counterattack against Zedomir. What you need to do is to consolidate the city defense and prepare to fight the German attack."

Just as I was about to hang up the phone, I suddenly heard Vatujing call me, and then asked hesitantly: "Comrade Oshaninna, are there any news about the small team there?"

"No, comrade General." I replied bitterly: "Although our radio operators kept calling the team, there was no reply. They had lost contact with us for more than six days, and it was probably a bad accident."

After hearing my answer, Vatujing sighed and said, "Even if they encounter an unexpected accident, after we liberate Lutsk in the future, we will try our best to find their bodies and bury them well."

"Comrade General, don't worry." After he finished speaking, I promised him: "Don't wait for Lutsk to be liberated. As long as the troops approach the crash site of the plane, I will send someone to search. We must not let our soldiers corpse in the wilderness."

"Yeah, that's good." Vatuting added two more words at the end: "By the way, your command will stay in the base, don't rush to move to Korostviv. Also, you only need to concentrate on guarding Zhitomire. As for the German army in Fastif, I will send new troops to deal with them."

After I put down the phone, I said to Tavalt Kiraze, who was standing next to me: "Comrade Commander, in order to facilitate command of the troops, I suggest that you transfer the command to Zedomir as soon as possible, and let the commanders and soldiers seize the time to repair fortifications to deal with the possible counterattacks of the German army."

Tavalt Kiraze nodded and asked, "Comrade Commander, we went to Zedomir, who is defending Korrostviv? Just by the 77th Guards Division, I am worried that their strength is a bit too weak."

"Are there two tank brigades and a cavalry division commanded by General Beret?" I pointed to the map on the table and said to Takilaze: "You can order the tank brigade to continue to be stationed in the forest and transfer the cavalry division to take charge of the city's defense."

I returned to the base from the frontier. As soon as I walked into the command center, I saw Akhromeev, who looked happy, and said excitedly: "Comrade Commander, good news, great news."

I thought he was talking about the fact that we had seized Zhitomir, so I said disapprovingly: "The main force of the German army was constrained by our friendly forces in different directions. The number of defenders in the city was limited, so it was normal that it could not stop our attack."

Akhromeyev shook his hands and said, "No, Comrade Commander, what I am talking about is not winning Zhitomir, but another more important thing."

"What is more important?" I looked at Akhromeev, who was a little out of control and asked strangely: "What else can be more important than our victory in Zhitomir?"

"Lida, come and take a look. This is the telegram we just received." Kirillov, who was sitting at the table, waved to me and said, "When you finish reading these telegrams, you will understand why everyone is so happy."

I looked at everyone in the room carefully. Seeing that everyone's faces were filled with uncontrollable joy, I quickly walked to Kirillov's side, took the thick stack of telegrams from his hand, and browsed them carefully.

When I saw the above clearly, I couldn't help but be overjoyed. I really didn't expect that this telegram was sent by Traf Blonde, who had been missing for several days. He said in detail in the telegram: After the plane was shot, the members of the reconnaissance team jumped on the parachute in time, but the airborne backpacks carrying radio, military uniforms, weapons and various forged documents crashed along with the plane.

In order to resume contact with us as soon as possible, Trafkin led his team to search in the forest for two days before finding the wreckage of the plane. However, all the things in his backpack had been burned and could not be used any more. In a helpless situation, Trafkin had to take the team to hike towards Lutsk.

After going through a lot of hardships, they finally walked out of the forest. Then they attacked a post by the forest and killed three German soldiers inside, and obtained supplies for weapons and food. The exhausted team rested in the post for a long time and continued to advance towards Lutsk along the road.

They were lucky this time. Not long after they left, they met a guerrilla team operating in this area. Although the guerrilla team carried a radio station, they could not use it due to exhaustion of batteries. Later, they received the help of a local person who sympathized with the guerrilla team and finally got the much-needed battery.

Later in the message, Trafkin said that he would sneak into Lutsk with Gretka and cultural relics experts, disguised as Germans, to see if he could find the whereabouts of the Amber House.

I put the telegram on the table and said with emotion: "No wonder we couldn't contact Major Trafkin and the others. It turned out that there was really something wrong with the radio station."

Chisdakov, who had never spoken, interrupted and said, "Major Trafkin is really good. With the loss of all the radio stations, weapons, military uniforms and forged documents, he still has the ability to sneak into Lutsk. It's really not easy."

"I hope they can gain something when they enter Lutsk this time." Kirillov still remembers the Amber House, so he said anxiously: "If the Germans transported the Amber House in advance, it would not be so easy to find it in the future."

"Comrade Military Commissioner," said that the person who knew the most about Trafkin's mission, besides me, was Kirillov, so I asked him specifically: "Can you get in touch with the Major and the others now?"

After hearing this, Kirillov shook his head and said, "Not now. Since the hidden location of the squad is near the city, in order to prevent being discovered by the enemy, they dare not send reports during the day. I guess we will have to wait until night as soon as possible before we can get further information from the squad."^
Chapter completed!