From December 25th, I temporarily returned to the 8th Guard Division and performed my position as a commander. Before leaving, the task assigned to me by General Lin was to eliminate the remaining enemies in the rear of our army.

When Grissa drove me to the location of the 8th Division of the Guards. Along a distance, I saw several division-level commanders led by the political commissar Yegorov, all braved the cold wind to wait outside the building to prepare for my arrival. This surprised me very much, because I did not inform me in advance when I came, and I did not expect these people to know in advance that I was coming.

Seeing several commanders at the door, I did not let the car continue to drive forward, but asked Grissa to stop the car on the spot. I pushed the door and got out of the car, walked up and shook hands with a few familiar commanders one by one, and said with a smile: "Comrade Political Commissar, the weather is so cold, why are you waiting at the door! Isn't it enough for me to go in directly by myself?"

The political commissar shook hands with me and said with a smile: "We just received a call from Commander Vlasov, saying that you will return to the army to command the battle in the near future. I calculated the time and thought that you were about to arrive, so I would take everyone out to greet you. Lida, it's cold outside, so let's go back to the house to talk."

I nodded and walked inside surrounded by everyone.

While walking inside, Yegorov and Chisdakov were with me, one left and one right, while the other commanders were outside the two. I glanced at the red diamond-shaped collar on Chisdakov's new coat, and smiled at Yegorov while walking inside, saying, "Comrade Political Commissar, from the beginning of the major counterattack to the present, the comrades in the division performed very well and were able to successfully complete every task assigned by the Army Command. You see, even Comrade Chisdakov is now a general."

Before the political commissar could speak, Chisdakov laughed and said with a smile: "Comrade Commander, since the start of the large counterattack of our army, not only me, but every commander present has been promoted to the rank of one level."

I stopped, turned around and glanced at the commanders behind me, and found that as Major General Chisdakov said, everyone's military rank was promoted. Not only was Lieutenant Colonel Serebryakov promoted to colonel, but also the two regiment leaders, Sedulin and Panishev, were promoted from the original major to the lieutenant colonel.

When I walked to the command center, I sat in the center of the table, the political commissar sat on my right, Chisdakov sat on my left, and he also called everyone to sit down when he sat down.

After everyone sat down, I stood up after a few minutes of silence, with a smile on my face and said excitedly: "Well... Hello, comrades in command. I'm very happy that we're meeting again." Although I had only been away from the Eighth Division for half a month, when I saw these familiar faces appearing in front of me again, I still couldn't control my emotions, so my voice was trembling slightly.

"I am very happy that I can return to the Eighth Guard Division and fight with my comrades. In this special time and space..." At this point, I stopped and began to slowly look around the people who came to the meeting, and chose and organized the words I was about to use in my mind. After a while, I continued: "At this time, the Army Command sent me back to the Eighth Guard Division. The main task was to clear the remaining German troops currently in the rear of our army...."

"Comrade Commander," the first speaker was Lieutenant Colonel Xie Dulin, the leader of the 1075 Regiment. He stood up and asked, "What is the mission of our 1075 Regiment?"

The sudden remarks of Xiedulin made Chief of Staff Serebryakov a little unhappy. He said to Xiedulin with a gloomy face: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, sit down first and wait until the division commander finishes talking. There will be a task for you at that time."

As soon as Xiedulin sat down, Chisdakov asked me: "Comrade Commander, what did you think about the clearing task assigned by the Army Command to our division?"

I had considered this mission on the way to come. Since he asked, I said straightforwardly: "After the start of the counterattack, our army and Belov commanded the troops of the 1st cavalry army of the Guards to be invincible and invincible. They defeated the strategic Germans, Kalinin, Klin and Yeritz, and repelled the enemy westward by 90-100 kilometers. The German troops, who are still stranded behind my home, cannot set up camp in the forest due to the severe cold and snow, and can only hide in the villages that our army has not yet arrived......"

After listening to my analysis, everyone started to whisper and the room suddenly became lively.

"Quiet, please be quiet, everyone!" The political commissar patted the table, and when no one in the room was talking, he looked at me again and said, "Lida, please continue to talk."

I nodded and continued to analyze to everyone: "According to my estimate, after a series of fierce battles, the remaining number of these Germans hiding in the village will not be large, and at most they are in a platoon. So I plan to break the troops into pieces, use battalions as units, and carry walkie-talkies, and search for the remaining enemies in the north, south and west at the same time. After discovering the enemy, if they can be eliminated, they will be eliminated directly; if they cannot be eliminated, they will report to the division headquarters immediately, and the division headquarters will mobilize the troops to encircle and annihilate the enemy."

The first person who stood up to support me was the deputy commander Chisdakov. He said loudly: "Okay, the commander makes sense. I agree with her deployment."

"I agree too!" The political commissar continued: "In this way, enemies hidden behind our army can be discovered in the shortest time and annihilated them."

"I agree too!" "I agree too!" The commanders present expressed their support for my deployment.

"Okay! Since everyone agrees with my deployment, then the deputy commander and chief of staff will assign tasks to everyone."

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Chapter completed!