Chapter 174

"Rita," Zhukov first asked with concern, "have you recovered from your injuries?"

"It's all right, thank you for your concern!" I knew that he didn't talk to me in order to understand my injury or simply talk about the past, which was definitely more important. So I asked frankly, "Comrade General, what's the important thing for you to come to me?"

"Where is your division now?"

This question made me feel a little embarrassed. Although the meeting was held for half a day just now, I only heard that the word "our division defense area" was mentioned all the time, but there was no specific place name. So I couldn't help but look at leviagin standing next to me. Seeing my eyes for help, leviagin said in a loud voice: "it's in the kleukovo area, comrade division!" Before I reported the place to Zhukov, he had heard it. Then I heard him say, "Oh, here it is. I know this place. It's just north of peshki village. It's not far from Taiyangshan city. "

Hearing that he mentioned the name of Sun Mountain City, my heart beat faster. My heart said that he would not let my division take part in this damned counterattack. He didn't expect that the more he was afraid of something, the more he really came. He said: "I just gave your commander General rokosovsky a combat order to organize forces to counter attack Taiyangshan city tomorrow and drive the bandits out of our city. But he said that there were no soldiers available. This is an unfinished task. Now I'll give you a direct order. At 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, I'll send the air force to cooperate and cover your division for a counter attack. Can you finish the task? "

My cold sweat came down at that time. You know, we are too busy to fight back now. Where can we spare forces to take part in this hopeless counterattack? But since Zhukov had already spoken, I couldn't do without answering, so I gritted my teeth and asked my most concerned question: "I don't know how many reserves the front army can supply to our division?"

"Reserve?" When Zhukov heard my question, he was a little surprised and said, "don't you know, Rita? I don't have reserves at all. The whole counterattack depends on your own strength

Without the reserve team, my heart suddenly cooled. When I was wondering whether to explain to Zhukov, the microphone in my hand had been snatched by rokosovsky. He put the microphone close to his mouth and said in a rude voice: "senior general, you are giving an unfinished task to Mr. Lida."

"What do you mean, I don't understand?" Rokosovsky's interruption confused Zhukov.

"After several fierce battles, the eighth division of Jinwei suffered heavy casualties. There were less than 5000 people left in the whole division, and there were still a considerable number of wounded. The artillery regiment has run out, and only one third of the three first class infantry regiments are left. Now the troops of the Communist Party of China have wedged into the line of defense and divided their defense area into three irregular areas, one of which is still surrounded by the enemy. Under the current circumstances, it is a question whether the eighth division, with its limited force, can hold the existing area. How can we even say that we can dispatch surplus forces to take part in the counter offensive? "

"If we have less troops, we don't have to counterattack, and we just leave our city to the bandits?" Zhukov's tone became extremely severe again, and the two men began to pinch each other again: "even if the 16th army is completely destroyed, the counterattack must be carried out. We just want to use our own sacrifice to hold the enemy firmly here and buy time for the assembly of our reserve forces. "

When they were pinching each other, I found that several telegraph machines began to send messages, not ordinary signalmen, but the communication officers of the group army headquarters who came with us just now. I asked malining in surprise: "Comrade Colonel, what's the matter? Who are they sending a message to? "

Malining came close to my ear and said softly, "I'm ordering them to send electricity to the troops below. I hope we can contact one or two retreating troops. If we have enough troops, we will have a better chance of winning tomorrow's counter offensive."

"Are you in touch?" I asked excitedly.

He shook his head bitterly and said, "I'm sorry, so far, no one has called back."

"Don't worry, my chief of staff!" I patted him gently on the shoulder, comforted him and said, "don't worry. Be patient. Maybe we'll hear the good news in a while."

"Good news? What's the good news? " Maybe my voice was too loud, which startled rokosovsky next to me. He asked me in a loud voice, "Rita, what good news are you and the chief of staff saying there?"

"Comrade commander, this is what happened." now that he has heard our dialogue, there is no need to hide anything from him. I honestly replied, "just now, chief of staff malining ordered the communication officer to contact the troops below by telegraph, hoping to gather several troops as soon as possible to take part in tomorrow's counterattack."

"Did you get in touch?" Rokosovsky also asked the question I just asked.

"Not for the time being, comrade commander." I replied, "the chief of staff is also worried about this matter, so I comforted him and said," don't worry. If you wait patiently, there may be good news soon. "

"Oh, so it is." Rokosovsky nodded and handed the microphone to the messenger next to him. Seeing this scene, I immediately reminded him: "Comrade commander, aren't you talking with general Zhukov?"“ Zhukov called the supreme commander and said that he was discussing the counterattack tomorrow. " Then he limped to the telegraph machine, patted one of the communication officers on the shoulder and asked, "how are you doing? Have you got in touch with the troops below?" Then the communication officer with headphones turned around and found that it was the commander who patted himself on the shoulder. He quickly got up and stood at attention, and said aloud, "report to commander, not yet." Rokosovsky put his hands on his shoulders, pressed him to his seat, and said, "don't stop, continue to send messages to the troops, be sure to contact them." At this point, he took off his face cap, combed his hair with his hand, and said in a confident tone, "I don't believe that so many troops will be destroyed by the enemy, and we won't be able to contact any of them?" At the end of the speech, a famous communication officer suddenly exclaimed excitedly: "comrades commander, I've got in touch, I've got in touch with the troops of political commissar lobachev!"