Chapter 177

Without waiting for the commander to speak, chief of staff malining said, "no, no, it's absolutely not. The tank brigade can't be assigned to your division. We should know that our troops are attacking sun mountain city. If we can have tanks to cover the attack, our chances of winning will be much higher. "

After listening to marinin's words, rokosovsky looked noncommittally, then turned his eyes to katukov and asked, "Comrade General, what do you think?"

"Commander o'shanina, since she wants my brigade to be assigned to her troops, there must be a reason for her. I want to hear the reason why she wants to do so."

Rokosovsky nodded and said to me, "Rita, tell me your reason. If we can be convinced, we will assign the tank brigade to your division; If we can't be convinced by the reasons given, the tank brigade should still invest in the direction of Taiyangshan city and participate in our army's counterattack. "

After coughing and clearing my throat, I began to explain my reasons: "as we all know, today's counterattack against Taiyangshan city was temporarily decided by the headquarters of the front army. They didn't know anything about the current situation of our group army, so they directly issued this unrealistic counterattack order to the army. Because our army is in a hurry to fight and lacks unified command, there are also great problems in the cooperation among the various forces. In this case, even if more troops are put in, the battle will be in a stalemate at the end. Even if the tank brigade is put into combat at this time, they can only be used as an auxiliary means to accompany the infantry assault, and will soon be annihilated by the dominant German tanks. If assigned to our division, the tanks can be used in a centralized way, and used on a large scale in the direction where the German army broke through. With the cooperation of infantry, the enemy wedged into our division's line of defense can be eliminated. " I know that my reasons are far fetched, so I added: "if we take the initiative to attack in the defense area, we can also contain a considerable number of enemies here to reduce the attack pressure in the direction of Taiyangshan city."

After I finished, I nervously looked at several commanders who had the right to decide in the room. The first speaker was katukov, who said with approval: "Lieutenant Commander oshanina has a point. As long as we fight, the enemy will not be able to send troops from here to reinforce sun mountain city. The actions we have taken here indirectly support the counter offensive of the group army. "

As soon as katukov finished speaking, malining immediately retorted: "this is absolutely impossible. The main purpose of the first tank brigade of the close guard assigned to us by the headquarters of the front army may be to let them participate in the counter offensive of Taiyangshan City, and it will never be allowed to use this kind of troops in other combat directions."

Rokosovsky said slowly: "I also agree with Rita that it is better for them to annihilate the incoming enemy in the defense area of the 8th division of the guards than to put the elite tank brigade into the battle of attrition in Taiyangshan city." Then he turned to malining and said, "chief of staff, please contact the headquarters of the front army immediately and report to them our idea of changing the use of the tank brigade to see what they mean."

"Yes Malining agreed and ran to the walkie talkie to contact the headquarters of the front army.

Rokosovsky took the lead and went back to the map at the table. He asked katukov, "where is your tank?"

Katukov stood in front of the map and looked at it. Then he pointed decisively to a place on the map: "here it is. As shown in the picture, it's just the arrow where the enemy wedges into our defense line, and we just have a tit for tat fight with them. "

I looked at the map and found that the gathering place of tank troops was just at the junction of the three regiments. That is to say, once a fight started, all regiments could send troops to support them in time. If our army is still a bomb that may explode at any time without tanks, then at this time, they are a group of turtles in a jar.

At this time, malining came to report to rokosovsky and said, "Comrade commander, I have reported the situation to the front army. Guess what, general Zhukov replied in person: this must be Rita's idea again. Her thinking is unrestricted. You should follow her suggestion! "

Hearing the reply from the headquarters of the front army, I was deeply relieved. I stood up straight and said to rokosovsky, "Comrade commander, please allow me to carry out this counterattack task with general katukov."

"No way!" Leviagin and yegorov objected with one voice: "this task is too dangerous. You are the head of a division. You must stay in the headquarters to plan the overall situation. Let's go."

At the critical moment, rokosovsky supported me. He waved to them and said, "since this proposal is made by Rita, let her direct the battle." He glanced at me and continued, "don't you know about her? Although they are dangerous in every battle, and even injured many times, which one is not to save the day in the end? " When they heard that the commander supported me, they had to shut up.

Rokosovsky came over, patted me on the shoulder, sighed and said, "Rita, you know what's going on. I don't have any reserves in my hand. I can't help you any more. You can only find a way to make good use of the existing forces and maximize their combat effectiveness, so as to relieve the pressure of our army in the direction of Taiyangshan city... "

"Report!" A communication officer interrupted rokosovsky's words. He handed a telegram to him and reported: "the telegram sent by general priyev, after the tenacious fighting of our army, the bandits in the residential areas have been driven out. We have reoccupied the three residential areas of sville chikovo, Sheri shevo and martenovo. The troops are building fortifications in the residential areas to prevent the enemy's possible counterattack. After the subsequent reinforcements arrive, we will officially launch the attack on Taiyangshan city. "“ Great Rokosovsky glanced at the telegram, then handed it to malining and told him, "report the news to the headquarters of the front army immediately, so that Comrade Zhukov will be happy too!" At this time, an officer hurried in from the outside and said aloud, "report to you, comrade report commander, major yevremenko, former head of the 289th anti tank regiment and now head of the 280th anti tank regiment. On the order of the supreme command, our regiment will be incorporated into the eighth division of Jinwei from today on, and come to accept your combat order! Please give me directions! "