Chapter 221

When I drove into Taiyangshan city and saw the scene outside the window, my face sank. The collapsed water towers by the roadside, the houses with their roofs lifted, and the smoky ruins indicate that the city was shelled or bombed by the German army. I sighed in my heart. When I called the political commissar yesterday, I repeatedly told him to send troops to build fortifications two kilometers away from the north of the city and to leave the front of the defensive position as far as possible from the city. I don't know if he followed my orders?

The car stopped at the gate of the division headquarters. I got out of the car listlessly, pulled my overcoat, which was a little wrinkled. I was walking towards the headquarters with my head down. Suddenly I heard Yushchenko's surprise voice behind me: "Oh, isn't this comrade bukov! Why are you here? "

Hearing this familiar name, I quickly looked up and looked around. I saw that the militia battalion commander I knew was standing upright at the gate of the headquarters with two soldiers.

When he heard Yushchenko yelling, bukov laughed at us and quickly came up. When he came to me, he raised his hand to salute me, and said, "report to division commander, close guard" report to division commander, "bukov replied respectfully," after we recovered Himki the day before yesterday, the troops of the garrison command took over the defense. Originally, our task was to assist the regular army in defense. Unexpectedly, in the evening, I suddenly received an order from my superior, telling me that I was promoted to major, and that I was asked to be battalion commander in the close guard division. " When he said that, I knew what was going on. That day, at the headquarters of the front army, I reported to Zhukov that I had recovered Himki. I heard him and Stalin report their work through words. The Supreme Commander himself was very satisfied with the military action of seizing Himki, promoted bunyachenko and bukov personally, and asked Zhukov to assign bukov to my division as battalion commander.

Originally, I thought that when bukov arrived, the Political Committee arranged for him to be the battalion commander of a regiment. Unexpectedly, he was left in the division headquarters and a guard camp was rebuilt. Needless to say, besides the company of Yushchenko and Ramis, this guard camp also has the militia under the former command of bukov.

So I inquired about the structure of the guard battalion that I was interested in, and found that in addition to the two companies of Yushchenko and Ramis, there are also three militia companies. At present, the total strength of the whole battalion is 400.

I went into the headquarters and saw that there was a meeting going on inside. The meeting was presided over by political commissar yegorov, who was sitting in the middle of a long wooden table, with deputy division commander chisjakov in his left hand and sherebriakov in his right, and three new commanders who had just been promoted. When I saw that I walked in, the meeting was suspended, and everyone stood up to greet me. I nodded to everyone, then pulled back the bench and sat opposite the political commissar of yegorov.

I didn't have the courtesy to ask directly, "Comrade political commissar, what are you studying at the meeting?"

The political commissar didn't expect me to ask so directly. He was stunned for a moment before he replied, "we are discussing which army should be transferred to the new fortification built yesterday?"

It's been a day. The newly built fortifications haven't sent troops in yet. It's useless to build fortifications. As long as the Germans swagger over, they can easily occupy there. Although I was not happy in my heart, I didn't show it on the surface. I just said coldly, "what can we discuss? Send the first battalion of the 1073 regiment, and then the second battalion of the 1075 regiment as the reserve team, and be ready for reinforcement at any time."

"Comrade division commander," sherebriakov asked somewhat puzzledly, "our division has only a few troops. We can all shrink to defend in the city. There is no need to build a line of defense so far away from the city?"

After his words, almost everyone's eyes turned to me, waiting for me to make an explanation that everyone can accept. My eyes swept around everyone's body, and then I said slowly: "although the sun mountain city is not small, the urban area is limited after all. If all the troops stay in the city, then the German army can siege us calmly and consume us with shells and bombs. The reason why I want to push the new defense line out of the city is that I intend to keep the enemy far away from the city. In this way, if the enemy wants to attack the city, he must first break through this line of defense outside the city. When they are entangled with our front forces, the rest of our forces can detour from the flank and beat them hard from behind. "

When I saw the map of Taiyangshan City lying on the table, I stood up and looked at it. Then I pointed to the defense line at the north gate and said to everyone, "you see, there are forests on the left and right sides of our army's new defense line. We can also hide the tank troops here. When the enemy attacks, we can attack from the flank, cut them into two sections, and then destroy them one by one."

"Comrade division, maybe I'll disappoint you," chisjakov stood up solemnly and told me solemnly, "early this morning, the close guard tank brigade has been ordered to go to red village to help defend. We don't have any tanks at all."

As soon as his words came out, everyone immediately echoed them. He said that without tanks and enough artillery, the defense line built in the open area would be fragile and vulnerable.

Seeing the trend of this meeting turning into a wrangler's meeting, I quickly exercised my division commander's right to stop everyone from expressing their opinions. I firmly said to the people present: "don't worry about tanks. I will seek the assistance of the group army. The first thing to do now is to first deploy the 1st Battalion of 1073 regiment to the position. Commander chernukov I called out the name of the new head of the 1073 regiment and said to him, "you should do it yourself. Go now, remember, move fast. You know, in this situation, even a few minutes are valuable to us. "

"Yes, I'll move the troops right away." After saluting me, commander chernukov ran away from the headquarters. As chernukov left, I sat down again and said, "chief of staff, tell me about the current situation." Selebriakov stood up and reported to me, "Comrade division, this is the situation. At about 10 a.m., the German army sent out three bombers to carry out air raids on Taiyangshan City, but there was no sign of the enemy sending out ground forces. " I looked at him and asked, "how are the casualties of our division in this air raid?" He shook his head and said, "there were not many casualties, only more than 200." More than 200 people, if the whole division is fully loaded, this number is really nothing, but under the current situation, it means that we have lost two more effective companies, and the difficulty of defending the city has increased a bit. Because I know that for the Soviet army, guarding the city is the most important thing. As for the number of casualties, it's just a irrelevant number, so I didn't just keep silent. I didn't speak, and everyone didn't dare to speak. There was silence in the room. When the telephone rang, the commissar sat close, grabbed the microphone, listened to it, and handed it to me. I took the microphone and heard a familiar voice from rokosovsky: "Rita, I'll tell you a good news. When I came back, I knew that chief of staff malining had sent a tank division to you after he transferred the guard tank brigade. It's estimated that he will arrive soon, and this unit will also be under your command." Hearing the good news, I couldn't help turning my mouth up slightly. I quickly expressed my gratitude to him and expressed my determination: "thank you, comrade commander. Please rest assured that we will never let the enemy step into the city again. " After a pause, he said cautiously, "Comrade commander, I would like to ask whether the part of the German army that broke into our defense line has been eliminated?"“ The German army, which broke through the joint of the 5th and 33rd army, was blocked by the 32nd infantry division near the village of akulovo. Many of the enemy's tanks were destroyed in the minefield. The division is destroying some of the remaining enemy's tanks with artillery fire. Before long, they will be completely crushed. " Rokosovsky finished and hung up. I put down the microphone and just wanted to tell you what rokosovsky had just said. Then I heard someone behind me calling for a report, and my head would not say, "come in!" Then, I heard a familiar voice coming from behind: "report to Comrade division, commander of 389th tank division, Colonel bunyachenko, report to you. The troops are ordered to come to Taiyangshan city to assist in defense and wait for your instructions."