Chapter 1597 Heroes and Tenderness
Busy time always flies by, and Malashenko, who has to leave after only a few days with Morozov, is making final preparations.
"Are you going back to the front line? Comrade General."
It was early in the morning, and Malashenko was packing his luggage in the room where Morozov had arranged for him to stay. After learning that Malashenko was leaving, Morozov rushed over specially and made a special trip to see Comrade Ma off on his last journey.
"Ah, yes, I have to go back to the front line. I have almost used up my leave after going back to the rear and being busy. Counting the time spent on the return journey, it's almost time for me to go back. There are still a lot of things waiting for me in the army. Just let me do it, I will be busy again after I go back.”
Malashenko was indeed telling the truth. When he thought about the pile of documents waiting to be signed on his desk like a mountain after he returned home, Malashenko felt a huge headache. Malashenko really couldn't bear the task of turning over a pile of torn papers and signing repeatedly with a pen.
"Well, I thought you would go home and have a look after you left my place, but I didn't expect that the time was so short."
In the chats in the past few days, Malashenko has told Morozov that he went to Kotin's place first after taking leave from the front line, and then came to him.
It's not a big deal, and it doesn't hurt to tell Morozov. Anyway, Kotin has decided to cooperate with Morozov in future work. From now on, the two of them would focus on the overall situation and put aside their competition for the time being, so it didn't matter if they told Morozov that he had just come from there.
But when Morozov said it casually, Malashenko, who was stuffing clothes into the suitcase, suddenly stopped and froze in place as if his mind had been disconnected. Make no more moves.
From Kotin to Morozov, Malashenko has been racing against time and busy. So much so that Malashenko even forgot that he had a beautiful daughter-in-law at home waiting hard for the day when the war would end as soon as possible, worrying about the safety of her fiancé all day long.
As soon as Morozov said this, Malashenko suddenly wanted to go back and see Natalya, and the idea of the love between children suddenly came to mind.
But as Malashenko said just now, there is only the last day of the half-month vacation left to travel, and Comrade Ma has no time to go back to Moscow to see his lover.
"If you didn't tell me, I feel like I would have almost forgotten about it."
After his mind recovered, Malashenko continued what he was doing, packing the clothes on the bed and putting them into the suitcase, but the expression on his face was more or less disappointed.
"But I really don't have time. I am a soldier and a general. You know, Comrade Morozov, it is not a good thing for comrades, division commanders, to take the lead in seeking privileges. Commander Vatutin only approved half of me I am embarrassed to borrow your telegraph machine to send him a message just to apply for an extension of my vacation. This sounds quite outrageous. Well, it is outrageous. "
Malashenko's tone was more or less like the preface and the follower. It was obvious that such words were spoken casually without careful thought.
The reason why this situation occurs is entirely because Malashenko is in a very messy mood right now.
He missed his wife, but Malashenko kept hinting to himself subconsciously that he should not make any effort to go back and stay for a few days, even if the most that Malashenko could do was to send a telegram to Vatu Please let Jing know.
Based on the personal relationship between Malashenko and Vatutin, it is almost impossible for Vatutin to refuse Malashenko’s request to extend his vacation by two days.
Stalin's 1st Guards Tank Division had just gone through a major battle and was resting. As long as the basic operations of the unit could be maintained without problems during the rest period, Vatutin did not mind letting his generals go home after finishing their official business. I was reunited with my lover two days ago.
Malashenko knew this very well, but he was unwilling to send this telegram to Vatutin. The reason was very simple.
Malashenko had long realized that every time he went home and got tired of being with Natalya, he would always have the thought of "Fuck the war, I just want to live a peaceful life." When the situation was at its worst, I even wanted to throw away my military uniform, take Natalya and fly away, becoming a "Flying General".
Malashenko understood that this was a typical symptom of being immersed in a gentle land.
The better Natalia treats herself and the more gentle she is, the less she wants to return to the battlefield and just wants to live like this day after day.
It's okay to say it's an escape, or to say Comrade Ma is a coward who doesn't have the courage to face it. No matter how you say it, Malashenko knows very well and admits that he does have these problems.
Malashenko did not have the courage to guarantee that he would not be like before when he went back, and he might even do something irreparably stupid in an impulse.
From 1941 to 1944, Malashenko was really fed up with the war. He was disgusted and sick to death. He wished that this hellish killing that made him feel nothing when seeing dead people would end soon.
Under such circumstances, Malashenko was even more afraid to go home and see Natalia.
I am not a superman, nor am I a saint whose willpower is so strong that even God cannot shake it.
I am a hard-working office worker who traveled to the future world, ordinary and ordinary. There is no sky-high ambition or lofty aspirations. He is just a person who is in his twenties and under thirty and just wants to marry an ordinary woman and live an ordinary, quiet life.
In the future world, many successful people call this person "a useless waste."
In the eyes of most people in this timeline, he is the number one tank hero of the Red Army who makes Nazis tremble just by hearing his name.
But Malashenko knew his true identity, knew who he was, and knew what irrational behavior he might do if he went home to see Natalya under such conditions.
What to do, Malashenko has actually made a decision in his heart and strengthened his will, just like he did when he was on the front line.
Looking at Malashenko's tall figure in the uniform of a tank corps major general, carrying his luggage and sliding his suitcase onto the carriage, Morozov, who was watching Malashenko leave on the platform, felt somewhat strange.
Whether it was their interactions over the past few days or the current situation, Morozov always felt that there was something about Malashenko that he couldn't understand, and he didn't have this feeling in anyone else.
"Extraordinary person, extraordinary feeling, maybe this is Malashenko, a tank major general who won two Hero of the Soviet Union awards at the age of only 28."
The above is Morozov’s final evaluation of Malashenko after their short time together.
