Love Late

After Christmas, New Year's Day is just a few days away. I am looking forward to the arrival of the herbivores, counting the days all day, and Hein and the others around me are counting with me, which makes me feel so good.It's just that whenever I ask when the herbivores will come, he always hesitates and refuses to say a specific date, which makes me a little depressed.

On this day, I went to the front line to inspect again, and then I came back with my tail between my legs like a dog, groaning and groaning in the cold, looking as embarrassed as I could be.Just when I shrunk my neck and thought about whether to ask Hein to cover me with a quilt, I heard the guy's laughing voice: "Your Excellency, Marshal, do you see who is here?"

"Who's here?" I raised my head as I asked, but I took a step back in shock. The herbivore was standing there with a smile, bending its eyebrows and eyes at me with a gentle expression.I just felt like my heart was beating heavily, making my brain dizzy, and everything around me no longer existed in my eyes, except for him, smiling slightly, with gentle eyebrows and eyes.I took a few steps forward tremblingly, and hugged the person I was thinking of, tightly.He was taken aback and made a quick move. I hugged him even tighter, not allowing him to avoid it at all.Others only think that we are friends who haven't seen each other for a long time, but we both know that this is the irresistible joy of reuniting after a long absence.

I hugged the herbivore for a long time before I was willing to let go, but I still held him, feeling the clear joints of his fingers in the palm of my hand, and my heart was sore: "I lost a lot of weight, Friedrich."

"You too." The herbivore spoke with a hint of water, which made me feel extremely uncomfortable.I dragged him into the house, hung the door behind me, and told Hein not to disturb the two of us.

"Friedrich!" After closing the door, I could finally hug him and kiss him without any restraint. My lips were cold and pressed against his warm skin. He trembled slightly, and I hurriedly let go Him, "Are you cold?"

"Your lips...why are they so cold?" He grabbed my hands and rubbed them back and forth, trying to warm them up. It's rare that his cleanliness doesn't dislike me for not washing my hands.

"Is it freezing you?" I smiled and scratched my head.The herbivore ignored me, stuffed me under the quilt, and squatted down to take off my boots.

"Hurry up and cover yourself under the quilt, your body is icy cold, what should you do if you freeze?"

"It's not a dead person, it's cold." I muttered, but I shrank into the quilt obediently.Herbivores obviously don't like to hear me say that they are dead or not. His fine eyebrows frowned, and he twisted my leg. I moaned and screamed in pain, and he rubbed it distressedly. Rubbing it off, I was afraid that my hand would hurt me.

"You can be poor-mouthed, you don't know how to take care of yourself when I'm not here, look at your current appearance, messy and sloppy, it's so uncomfortable to look at." The winter here is so cold, I feel my feet I was about to be frozen into lumps of ice, and I couldn’t even take off my socks. I had to look at the cleanliness of a herbivore for help. He gave me a disgusted look, and then began to interrogate me, “What do you do after I leave? Do you wash your feet on time?"

"Yes..." I said this with a guilty conscience.The herbivore saw my insincerity at a glance, he gave me a hard look, pushed my foot away, and gave me a few more blank looks:

"It's dirty, you don't have to be ashamed if you don't bathe or wash your feet all day!"

"It's not unconditional." I smiled embarrassingly, and struggled to take off my socks. The herbivore grabbed my hand and slapped it lightly:

"It's as if you wash every day if you can."

I smiled dryly, but the herbivore didn't say anything, just helped me take off my socks, and my cold feet touched his warm hands. I quickly shrank my feet under the quilt, but before I put them in, I Hold down by herbivores.His eyebrows seemed to have never been stretched, and now he is looking at me in a ball: "Why is it so cold? It's as cold as two lumps of ice."

"This kind of place is like this." I scratched my head embarrassingly, with countless dandruff.But what the herbivore did next made my movements stiff in shock. He unbuttoned my clothes, grabbed my feet, and stuffed them into his arms.The cold feet touching his warm skin gave me goosebumps.But he just flinched and smiled at me in the mood.I hastily pulled my foot back:

"What are you doing? How can you cover your feet like this?! I'm not afraid of freezing you to death! You are not in good health, what should you do if you catch a cold?"

However, the herbivore held it very hard. He lowered his eyes, blinked his eyelashes slightly, and said in a low voice, "It's okay, I'm not afraid of the cold. It hurts me to see you like this."

Seeing him like this, I just felt that my little heart was throbbing, like a needle prick.The atmosphere in the room was rather stagnant, and I wanted to say something to brighten the atmosphere, but I didn't know what to say when I opened my mouth a few times, and finally I uttered a sentence: "I didn't wash my feet."

I thought the herbivore would give me a disgusted look or something, but he just lowered his head and smiled softly: "I don't dislike you."

The more he is like this, the more I feel heavy in my heart, and I don't know what to do to be worthy of his deep affection.I had no choice but to continue joking and change the topic: "Then...then it doesn't matter if I don't take a bath?"

But this time I caught the anger of the herbivore. He rolled his eyes and began to scold me endlessly: "You also said that as long as I am not by your side, you will become this dirty, unkempt, and sloppy." You look sloppy! Your hair is badly combed, your clothes are messy and you don’t always take a shower! Look at your writing on the wall! Didn’t I tell you that if you don’t pay attention to hygiene, you will get lice? Who told you to take my words? It’s so dirty and annoying! Let me tell you, no matter how bad the conditions are, you have to give me a bath once a week, otherwise I... I... I will go back to the General Staff Headquarters!"

His last words frightened me half to death, I hastily hugged him into my arms, kissed his face carelessly, I had an intuition, if I let him If he leaves my side, I will die.He was startled by me at first, but then he leaned into my arms and let me kiss him, his hands hugged my waist tightly, his eyes were covered with water.After a long absence, I am not the only one who is in love.

"Don't cry, don't cry, I will take you to meet the subordinate commander of the group army tonight." I hugged the herbivore and kissed his eyes lightly, only to feel that the circles of my eyes were turning red.The herbivore snuggled into my arms and embraced me, with a slightly hoarse voice:

"I know, I told myself not to cry when I saw you, but my eyes are still sore."

"Hey, sleep, you don't want to cry after you sleep. You just came here and you're still tired. Have a good sleep to refresh yourself, okay?" I coaxed him, stuffed him into my bed, and he twisted Eyebrow twitching nose:

"What's the smell? How long has it been since you washed the quilt?"

I smiled embarrassedly: "The quilt has no smell, but sometimes I forget to take off my socks and go straight to sleep."

"Are you going to let me sleep?" A certain clean freak was furious, and was going to collect my socks as soon as it got up, "I get a headache when I think of staying with so many stinky socks of yours, so hurry up!" I found them all and washed them."

The corners of my mouth twitched, and I rushed to hug this guy and coaxed him with sweet words, finally coaxing him to temporarily give up this idea, and agreed to lie down and sleep first.Seeing him tucked into the quilt obediently, I was relieved, and I was in the mood to go outside to smoke a cigarette.

"Marshal Reichenau." Seeing me coming out, Adam greeted me, and I nodded, gesturing for him to come over.He came forward for no reason, I exhaled a smoke ring, and asked him:

"I want to send you to Friedrich, will you?"

"Did I do something wrong?" Adam still felt a little silly.I shook my head amusedly:

"Of course not. I'm just worried about Friedrich. You know, there are many prominent people in the Sixth Army. His background... is indeed not high. I'm afraid that he won't be able to suppress those people. With you With him taking care of me, I can feel more at ease." I took a drag on my cigarette and sighed.

"I understand, I will take good care of General Paulus." Adam nodded, and I smiled with satisfaction.But this is not enough, when I really see those guys at night, I have to help the herbivores to suppress the situation, otherwise, with his soft and sticky personality, I'm afraid I can't handle it at all.

Speaking of which, in my Sixth Army, there are many commanders with "Fon" in their names, such as von Arnim, von Daniels, von Gablenz, von Hartmann, and von Schwerin.Of course, the most prominent among them was Walter von Seidlitz-Kurzbach.This guy is a descendant of Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz. Baron Seydlitz led his cavalry squadron to win brilliant victories for Frederick the Great in Rosbach's Seven Years' War.Such a person, I don't expect the soft and sticky character of a herbivore to be able to calm down.But he doesn't need to worry, I will always arrange everything for him.

When the herbivore woke up a little late, he rubbed his sleepy eyes and looked at me reproachfully: "I overslept as soon as I fell asleep, why didn't you call me?"

"Sleep so dead, like a pig, I can't bear to wake you up." I smiled and leaned forward to kiss his cheek, he blushed, but didn't avoid it.I couldn't help but feel flustered, and I grasped his hand and kissed him. He blushed and lowered his head, no matter how cute he looked.

"Usually I have never slept so deeply, that is, I slept so deeply with you that I couldn't even wake up." The words of the herbivore warmed my heart. Last kiss.

"Why? Do you think my bed has a strange smell?"

"The smell is really strong." The herbivore glanced at my quilt with disgust, "I have to wash it all for you when I have time."

I laughed and pinched his cheek: "My dear, you are becoming more and more virtuous."

"You...don't be so nasty," the herbivore blushed hotly, seeing me keep making fun of him, he became more and more embarrassed, and simply buried his face in my arms and leaned against my chest .I gently rubbed his hair, he hugged me back and murmured, "It's nice to have you here."

The more he was like this, the more I couldn't bear it. I couldn't bear to put him alone in the Sixth Army. I wished I could keep him by my side all the time.But I also know that I can't do that, it would be too selfish, I have to let herbivores accumulate some military merits, I said in front of Halder that I want him to be a marshal, this is not a big talk, everything that comes from my mouth If it comes out, I will try my best to make it a reality.So I reached out to straighten the herbivore's sleepy hair, and kissed him lightly on the lips: "Hey, get up and tidy up, and I'll show you to your subordinates at night."

The herbivore's hand was obviously cold, and he smiled at me very hard, but there was still a hint of timidity in his eyes: "I... I will behave well."

"What are you afraid of?" I can naturally see his timidity. If it was before, I would definitely be annoyed by his appearance, but now I just feel pain in my heart.

The herbivore drooped its eyelashes, hesitated for a long time, and then slowly said: "Actually, I know it myself. My qualifications are not enough to lead an army group. I don't have much command experience. I am always afraid that I will not do well and let you down." Expectations of me. And..."

I rubbed my chin and thought about it, and stroked his cheek with my hand: "It's nothing, there's nothing to say about qualifications, I can only suffer slowly, but as long as you are capable enough, that's okay." What is it? I am not the most senior among the marshals, but who dares to underestimate me? There will always be command experience, and I will practice it after following me. As for my expectations, I can’t say that I live up to them. It’s good that you are by my side. You didn’t say it, but are you afraid that those noble-born subordinates will look down on you?”

The herbivore silently lowered its head, twisted its horns with its fingers, bit its lips and did not speak.I kissed him distressedly, not to let him abuse his lips, he closed his eyes, and let me roll on his lips and wrap his tongue around him.He was so obedient that I couldn't control myself and kissed hard, wishing I could swallow him whole into my stomach.I kissed him for a long time before letting go, and then told him lightly: "With me here, you don't have to worry about anything."

"Well," he nodded, and snuggled into my arms again, "With you here, I'm not afraid."

Having said that, when it comes time to really face those guys, herbivores are still a little timid.He has always been like this, always a little uncomfortable with strangers.I secretly patted the back of his hand to show comfort, and he gave me a slightly forced smile back.Seeing him like this, there is already a hint of malice in my eyes: If you dare to scare my herbivores, these guys should all be beaten up!

Probably because I was frightened by my bad eyesight, everyone was silent when they were seated, only Seydlitz looked at the herbivores around me a few times.I snorted rather unkindly, and everyone, including Seydlitz, immediately sat upright, for fear that what I would do next would be a storm of cursing.

"This time mainly to introduce you to your new boss," I nodded towards the herbivore, "General Friedrich Paulus."

The herbivore bowed politely: "I hope everyone will take care of you in the future."

In fact, this was just a formality. They had already known the news that the herbivore was going to be the commander of the Sixth Army. Naturally, the resume of the herbivore had been torn apart and paid attention to.Those old fried dough sticks actually have a little disdain for herbivores. For example, there is a little contempt in the depths of their eyes now. A nervous person like me can feel it. Naturally, herbivores who have always been extremely sensitive also feel it. arrive.I noticed that he was biting his lip, trying to sit upright, trying to resist that knife-like look.

"Marshal Reichenau," after a long silence, Seydlitz was the first to speak, and everyone else looked at him expectantly. Among these people, he was the one who questioned his status the most. "Can I ask a question, please?"

"Ask." I coughed lightly, my face not so pretty.

"You know, the Sixth Army is in the most critical period of the war. We need a strong leader, a leader who is convincing. If this person is you, we will all be convinced, but protect General Luce... please forgive me, General Paulus does not have enough experience in actual combat command, I doubt whether he has the ability to command a large army." This guy Seydlitz is really straightforward , indeed to put it bluntly.I saw the herbivore almost biting his lips to bleed, but he still sat upright on the chair. I secretly squeezed his fingers clasped tightly on the chair comfortingly, and stared at Seydlitz playfully:

"Is that what you all think?"

The air in the room was dull, and no one answered, but the eyes of those guys clearly revealed the meaning of "that's what we think".So I grinned: "Very good, very good. If you have any doubts, you should speak up boldly. I have always advocated such a concept. However, I would like to ask, has anyone here worked with Paulus?"

Seeing everyone shaking their heads, I snorted coldly: "Then shut up, you don't have the right to speak if you don't investigate, what do you mean?! If you haven't worked with him before, just gossiping there, you Thought you guys were a bunch of eight wives?!!"

Many of you here have expressions of having swallowed a fly, as if they are extremely depressed about my metaphor.But no one dared to protest, except Seydlitz, who had the strongest sense of honor: "Please don't judge us like this, Marshal Reichenau. Just as I was just talking about General Paulus's command ability, not As insulting as you are."

"What did I insult you? Did you insult your father, your mother, or your illustrious ancestor?" As soon as I opened my sloppy tone, I saw many people showing expressions like wanting to hit a wall, and I knew that this gang was because of The aristocratic and pretentious guy can't stand my hooligan accent the most. More than one person has reminded me openly and secretly that speaking like this is not aristocratic, but I think it is very good, chic and handsome.Seydlitz also looked like he wanted to wipe his neck, and held back a sentence for a long time:

"Please don't speak so vulgarly."

"puff"!The one who couldn't help laughing was Adam standing behind me. Although this kid was well-loved by me, he still showed his silly side occasionally.I pretended to give him a sideways glance, and he immediately slipped out knowingly and smiled.As for the herbivores, his face is blushing, and I think he can't help but laugh out loud if I speak yellow again.I looked around at the group of subordinates who were still sitting upright, and I was also amused: "Come on, you can laugh if you want to, and I'm not afraid of being suffocated to death here one by one."

As soon as I said this, many people laughed, but Seydlitz's face was not so pretty.But the herbivore tugged at my sleeve and said in a low voice, "Don't be mean to others, just accumulate some virtue."

"Don't worry about this, sometimes you can't be gentle when dealing with these guys. With your temper, I'm getting more and more worried about leaving you here alone." I shook my head and continued to look at the unconvinced face. Seydlitz, "General Seydlitz-Kurzbach, do you have anything else to say?"

"I still stick to my previous point of view." Seydlitz's stubbornness made me extremely annoyed, and I couldn't help but sneered:

"It seems that you are going to go all the way to the dark?"

"Even in the face of the monarch, you must maintain your own views. I think I just adhere to the consistent tradition of the Prussian soldiers. This is what my ancestors taught me." Seydlitz's answer made the face of the herbivore turn pale. Naturally, I can't see the herbivores being wronged a little bit. If this is the case, I have to deal with them quickly and with the strongest means.Thinking of this, I put my fingers on the small knife I always wear around my waist...

"Snapped"!Just when everyone was still immersed in Seydlitz's rhetoric just now, I suddenly stabbed the saber on the table in front of me.The wooden table made a dull sound, and the candles that were originally placed on the table were shaken for a while, and the small candle flames flickered out, and finally went out.As a result, the light in the room became weaker, and everyone's faces were half-hidden in the darkness, clear and blurred.All eyes were on my little saber.This saber has always been my favorite. The gold handle is inlaid with large and small rubies, sapphires and emeralds, and the top is a huge diamond, which is reflecting the brilliance at this moment.I also stared at it, just staring at the diamond, and then my eyes fell on the herbivore, who looked at me anxiously, I nodded to him comfortingly, and then turned my eyes to everyone: "Except Seydlitz, who has an opinion?"

Silence, a long silence.I nodded knowingly and looked at Seydlitz: "What about you?"

I saw Seydlitz was silent, his expression flickering, but finally forced out the word "no" from his mouth.I smiled with satisfaction, it seems that his ancestors finally taught him what it means to be a man who knows current affairs.I sat up straight quietly and spoke in a low-pitched voice, but no one dared to ignore it: "Very good. If everyone adopts this attitude from the beginning, we won't have any conflicts. I once said in the General Staff, I am Friedrich's patron, and now I need to reiterate that I will protect him, so don't have any objections to him, or I will understand it as a provocation to me. Don't let me listen to it in the future When someone questioned Friedrich's ability, you never knew him at all, so how could you know what an outstanding person he is? Speaking of which, we are all colleagues, so I shouldn't threaten anything, but I still have to emphasize it again , lest anyone do anything stupid without eyes. Friedrich is mine and my life! If anyone shows any disrespect to him, believe it or not, I can put this knife directly in his throat?"

As soon as I finished speaking, the first person who stood up abruptly was a herbivore. He stared blankly at me, his lips parted and closed, not knowing what to say, and it took a long time before he could say: "You...you It's not good to say that."

"Sit down!" I gave him a majestic look, but he was still standing, looking stubborn, shaking his head at me with firm eyes.I sighed and softened my voice, "Stop making trouble, sit down first."

"You shouldn't be like this. Everyone is your subordinate and has been through life and death with you. It's really not good for you to say that to them." Can you accept this kindness from him?I rubbed my temples with a headache, patted the back of his hand, and coaxed him to sit down first:

"Okay, okay, I see. Be good, you sit down first, sit down first."

The herbivore sat down slowly this time. I peeked over and saw that basically everyone’s mouths were opened in the shape of an O. Probably no one has ever seen me coaxing people like this. Like a gust of wind, hula la shattered to the ground.The herbivore was still talking to me in a low voice: "Don't offend everyone for me, otherwise how will you command your subordinates in the future? I don't want you to make such a big sacrifice because of me."

I smiled back at him faintly: "For you, any sacrifice is worth it."

The herbivore became more and more embarrassed, and he couldn't see the calmness he was proud of on weekdays.I squeezed his hand to signal him to calm down.But what Seydlitz said next made me unable to calm down: "Marshal Reichenau, since this is the case, I naturally support General Paulus. But I have one more thing to report to you, according to 7 In the last month, hundreds of civilians who brought food to enemy troops hidden in the forest have been executed and many more have been handed over to gendarmerie and task forces for interrogation.”

I frowned, dissatisfied that Seydlitz mentioned such things at this time, I instinctively felt that herbivores should not touch these things, these bloody things.But I still want to express indifferent indifference to all this in my mouth: "It's nothing, don't forget that just last July, I ordered the execution of 3000 Jews. This is a reasonable warning to those plotters."

My words did not cause much shock. As early as last August, I had issued such an order in the Sixth Army: "The troops scattered everywhere, the SD subordinate organizations, the SS (Nazi SS) armor grenadiers It was the duty of the soldiers and heads of the German police to execute Bolshevik criminals and all Jewish elements when necessary. Soldiers should volunteer to help the SD execute those criminals, or be onlookers and film the execution scene. "For officers, watching an execution is not honorable, but it's not something to be guilty of either.

"That's right, compared to what happened in Beria-Tshakov, these are nothing." Seydlitz said vaguely, and then closed his eyes under my cold gaze. mouth.I heard the herbivore secretly ask Adam, who had returned, what happened in Beria-Tshakov.The silly boy Adam hesitated for a few seconds, then leaned into his ear and whispered.I turned my face away indifferently, that matter, it was nothing to say.There were 90 Jewish orphans held in that town, the oldest not older than 7 years old, and the task force decided to execute them, but this action was stopped by the chief of staff of the 295th Infantry Division, Lieutenant Colonel Groscourt.The task force was so annoyed by this that they even reported the whole matter to the SS National Commander Himmler.In the end I was the one who got it done and supported the task force in shooting these kids to save face and to resolve the feud between the SS and the Wehrmacht.I didn't think it was a big deal, so I didn't take it to heart, and after hearing some reports from others, I waved them off before turning to herbivores.He was still sitting on the chair, I waved in front of his eyes:

"What's the matter? Fascinated by my heroic appearance just now?"

"You..." The herbivore's eyes were blank, with uncontrollable fear and shock, he stared at me, and it took a long time before he said a word, "How can you slaughter a child?!"