Chapter 135

Since I couldn't see the officer, I quickly put away my rifle, crouched down and leaned against the wall, trying to think back: the German officer I saw in the telescope just now looks familiar. Have you seen him anywhere before?

Maybe seeing me squatting there in a daze, leviagin next to me asked with concern, "what are you thinking, sir?"

"Just now I saw a German officer on the armored car in the distance. He looked familiar, but I couldn't remember where he had seen him." I answered aloud.

"Before the war?" He gave me a friendly hint.

I shook my head and replied, "it's impossible. I never met the Germans before the war." I didn't inherit Rita's former memory, so this familiar looking German can't have known her before.

While I was thinking hard, a soldier bent over and ran over, squatted down in front of me, and loudly reported, "Comrade division commander, there is a phone call for you in the headquarters."

I asked curiously, "where are you calling from? Group army headquarters or political commissar If he didn't tell me the content of the phone call, I could guess that nine times out of ten I was asked to withdraw from the city immediately and return to my command post. I just wanted to know whether it was rokosovsky or political commissar who called at this time?

The soldier shook his head and said, "none of them. It's general Zhukov himself, commander of the front army."

Ah, my heart sank when I heard this familiar name. Based on my understanding of Zhukov, if you call me at this time, you will scold me first for ordering the troops to withdraw without authorization, and then you will definitely order me to withdraw from the city immediately. As for returning to the rear, he may be sent to the military court for trial.

I went back to the command room with the soldiers in an uneasy mood. He took the microphone from the messenger, took a few deep breaths in his hand, and then summoned up the courage to say to the microphone: "Hello, general, I'm Rita!"

"Rita, how brave you are Zhukov's voice came out of the receiver like thunder. "You're committing a crime. My order to your division is to nail it in the city like a nail, and not to step back. But what about you? Unexpectedly, without asking for instructions, they withdrew their troops and left the city to the enemy! Do you know that if I hadn't stopped you, you would have been taken to the military court by the Ministry of interior now! "

Zhukov's words scared me out in a cold sweat. I know that his words are not alarmist, especially in this sensitive period. Let alone my little acting division commander, he himself, dare not order any troops to withdraw from the existing position without asking for instructions from the supreme command. But I was self righteous and made the decision to withdraw without authorization. It was really a bit of a risk of the world's great injustice. If he had not had a better relationship with Zhukov, he would have regarded me as a fugitive and sent someone to carry out the battlefield discipline.

"Comrade General, please listen to my explanation." I know that if I don't make my plans clear to him, my division commander will be the end, and the court martial will be waiting for me.

"Go ahead, I'll listen." His voice immediately became much smaller, but his tone was still severe: "you'd better give me a reasonable explanation."

"After a long period of fighting, our division has been seriously downsized." I explained to him carefully.

"Hell, not only your division, but all the troops are the same. Some divisions are almost finished, but the rest of the soldiers are still fighting tenaciously. This cannot be a reason to order the troops to withdraw without authorization. " Zhukov interrupted me discontentedly and complained in the microphone.

"General, please listen to me." I was afraid that he would interrupt me again, so I snatched the lead.

"Well, you go on."

"Our division has been seriously downsized. It is an unfinished task to block the attack of four or five German divisions without being supplemented. After careful consideration, I felt that instead of fighting with the German army in the city, I'd better change my tactics. So I withdrew the main force of the division for the time being, leaving only the small forces and the German forces in the city. In this way, even if the German army occupied most of the cities, they would have a considerable number of troops firmly held by us. "

"The small troops in the city may soon be wiped out by the German aggressors. Have you considered this question?" Zhukov asked suspiciously.

"I don't think it's possible," I replied with great confidence. "Because we were so intertwined with the German defense, they didn't dare to use aircraft guns. Without these heavy weapons, the fighting capacity of the German army is similar to ours. I am confident that I will hold the city

"Well, I'll wait for your good news." Zhukov gave me an order: "keep the city at all costs."

"Yes." When I heard the other party put down the phone, I took a long breath and found that I was scared out in a cold sweat.

I went back to the observation point and found leviagin standing in front of the window, holding a mirror to observe the war outside.

"Comrade General," I was so surprised that I quickly reminded him, "pay attention to safety."

"It's OK," he said, looking back at me. Then he turned his head and said, "our regiment's troops around here have all gone out and are destroying the rest of the Krauts."“ Ah? " After hearing what he said, I was shocked again. I went in and answered the phone. I didn't expect that the war situation would be so beneficial to our army. So I took a few steps to the window and raised my telescope to look down. Our army was pouring out of buildings in all directions. There were at least five or six hundred people in that posture. And dozens of German troops were retreating while fighting, one after another retreating into a double-layer building that had been blown through the roof 100 meters away. Just now, the once arrogant armored car was also burning. There were several burning bodies lying around the car. I searched for the officer I saw just now and found that he was being helped into the building by two soldiers in helmets. I put down my telescope and asked leviagin, "why is there no one in the building opposite us?"“ I went to see the house when it was deployed. It looks like it's two stories on the outside, but the inside has been blown into ruins, which is not conducive to defense, so I didn't arrange human defense inside. "“ oh So it is. I see. "“ Sir, please look at it Leviagin excitedly pointed to the front and said to me, "our people have surrounded the house. As long as we have another charge, we can rush in and destroy these enemies. Maybe we can catch many prisoners." Capture prisoners. When I heard him mention this word, I suddenly remembered who the German officer I saw just now was. Wasn't he the major von torman who led the army to surrender to me near the station? He was not taken to the rear camp. How could he be here“ Comrade general, "a soldier ran up to leviagin and reported," we have surrounded the enemy. Do you want to launch the final attack immediately? "“ Of course, attack immediately. " Leviagin gave the order almost without thinking“ Wait a minute, "I quickly stopped the soldiers from leaving, and gave them a puzzling order:" let the troops stop and surround for the time being instead of attacking. "