Chapter 235

When we were elated by the German movement in chismena, the main direction of the group army's attack. Kalinin's front army, located in the southwest of Moscow, took the lead in the counterattack against the front German army at eleven o'clock that night, thus opening the prelude of the Red Army's counterattack on the whole line under Moscow.

At 3:00 a.m. on December 6, we received a call from Zhukov, who ordered that at 6:00 a.m. today, three hours before dawn, the infantry of the 20th group army, together with the infantry of the 1st shock group army and the 30th group army, would start a full-scale attack on the German army without artillery and aviation firepower.

After receiving the order, I discussed with Vlasov and general manager Lin and decided that they should stay in the headquarters to coordinate the overall situation. I acted as the commander in chief of the front line and went to the front line to command the counter offensive of the group army.

In addition to infantry divisions, there are also tank brigades, artillery regiments, rocket artillery regiments and other units to be commanded. This is the first time that all kinds of services have really cooperated in combat. So when I set out, I took with me not only Yushchenko's security personnel, but also several combat staff and communication personnel of the headquarters, and even major Leo utov, the head of cavalry who just arrived in the afternoon. I hope he can play a big role in the counter attack against klin.

Due to the cavalry troops, the marching speed of our motorcade was affected. Originally it only took one hour, but it took half an hour more.

It was half past five o'clock in the morning when we arrived at our position in chismena, only half an hour before the official attack. The motorcade stopped at the edge of the forest. The commander of the seventh division of the guards, Colonel gritznov, who had been waiting there, came up to me, raised his hand, saluted me and said in a friendly way: "Hello, chief of staff, welcome to the front line."

I gave him a military salute. Then I reached out and shook his hand. I said, "Comrade Colonel, we meet again. I'm here today to fight with you. "

The Colonel leaned to the side and made a gesture of invitation: "Comrade chief of staff, time is running out. We'd better go to the headquarters first."

Not far down to a trench, where thousands of officers and men who are about to take part in the battle are crowded together. Because the soldiers come from different troops, their clothes are very different. Some wear white camouflage clothes, some wear short fur coats, and some wear gray long army coats. Seeing the arrival of our party, they stood up straight and made way for us with their backs against the trench wall.

Entering the headquarters of the seventh division, the staff officers and correspondents who were busy stood up immediately and saluted us. I am not too polite. I ordered a group army staff officer to come with me: "Comrade lieutenant, contact the group army headquarters immediately and say that we have arrived safely."

When the staff officer contacted the headquarters, I stood in the observation hole and looked at the German position two kilometers away with a telescope. I saw that it was dark and nothing happened there. I turned my head and asked gritznov, who was standing beside me, "Comrade Colonel, is there any news from the enemy on the other side?"

He shook his head and said without looking back: "according to the Scout's report, the German army had transferred all the mechanized troops from the position yesterday afternoon, leaving only infantry on the position." After a pause, he said with some worry: "however, comrade chief of staff, I think our troops may have been discovered by the enemy tonight."

I snorted softly and said with disapproval, "Comrade Colonel, do you think that the German army might not have noticed such a large concentration of troops? But even if they know that we are going to attack, it will be too late, and the troops they transferred will not be able to come back to fight. " I immediately changed the topic and asked, "how are the soldiers feeling?"

Listening to my question, the Colonel immediately replied confidently, "we have just mobilized the soldiers for fighting. Now everyone is full of fighting enthusiasm and can fight at any time."

At this time, the calling second lieutenant called to me: "Comrade chief of staff, you are connected with the headquarters."

I picked up the receiver. The speaker was commander Vlasov. As soon as he heard my voice, he asked with a smile, "Rita, have you arrived at the headquarters of the seventh division of the guards?"

When I looked around, most of them were strange faces. I didn't want to show too close to the commander in front of too many departments, so I replied in a proper way, "yes, comrade commander."

Vlasov didn't seem to notice the change in my tone. Instead, he said to himself, "I have some good news for you. Do you want to hear it?"

I said very politely: "Comrade commander, please say! I'm listening

"I have just received a call from the supreme command, saying that with the approval of Comrade Stalin, the first army of the guard cavalry under the command of general belov has been allocated to our group army, and they will cooperate with the eighth division of the guard to advance towards klin this day."

I was overjoyed by the news. With the strength of a whole army, the eighth division's northward attack will be extremely easy.

At the end of the call with Vlasov, I immediately called the division headquarters of the eighth division, and the person who answered the call was deputy division commander chisjakov. Hearing my voice, he said happily: "Comrade division commander, the great counterattack is about to begin. I really hope you can come back to the division and command us to fight against the enemy."

"I'm directing you now, aren't I? Is everything ready? Comrade colonel Hearing his affirmative reply, I couldn't restrain my joy and announced to him, "Comrade Colonel, please tell us that the first unit of the guard cavalry under the command of general belov will fight with you tomorrow."“ I fully understand. Sir, please rest assured that the enemy in the north will be defeated by us. "“ Well, I'll see you under Klein in the day Then I hung up. Then I communicated with the artillery and tank commanders under my command one by one through the communication staff, and arranged the tasks of various arms when the infantry began to counterattack. After a busy time, the time from the beginning of the counter offensive is getting closer and closer, and my heart is also accelerating, because I will witness a great history here. I was holding a phone that connected more than a dozen units at the same time, and my eyes were fixed on the watch pointer on Col. gritznov's wrist. When I saw the pointer pointing to 12, I decisively gave the order to all the commanders who were answering the phone: "start!" There was no such spectacular scene as the roar of thousands of guns in the film and television works. Only someone yelled "light up!" outside I put down the microphone and walked out of the headquarters. I saw that the officers and soldiers were climbing outside the trench, and there were several bonfires in the distance behind the position“ Comrade chief of staff Colonel griazenov appeared next to me, handed me a microphone and said, "please say something to the soldiers to boost their morale." I took a look at him, took the microphone and said in a loud voice, "Hello, comrades! I'm major general oshanina, chief of staff of the group army! " After simply stating my identity, I didn't say anything high sounding, but simply and clearly said to the commanders who took part in the war: "the time of our long-awaited counter offensive has finally come. I order you to move forward! Go ahead bravely! Destroy every bandit you see, and build your immortal merit. forward! The final victory must belong to our brave red army! Comrades, advance! Wula At the beginning, I used a plain tone. When I talked about the back, I was so excited that I couldn't help shouting "Wula!"“ Wura! Victory~~~ Wura! Victory When I heard the surrounding commanders and fighters shouting out these two words in a neat voice, I felt more and more excited. If I wasn't in charge of commanding the troops, maybe I would take a troop to charge myself. Not far away from me, a commander held a pistol high and roared: "spread out in formation!" Then, with a wave of his arm, he strode forward. Armed with rifles and submachine guns, the soldiers followed him straight forward, trying to rush into the enemy's position as soon as possible. The machine gunners at the back of the army were dragging heavy machine guns with wheels and sleds full of ammunition boxes. The German on the opposite position was silent, and there was no movement. However, when our soldiers were only 150 meters away from the first trench, they began to shoot the attacking soldiers like a storm, and the soldiers fell down. Seeing this scene, I rushed into the headquarters, grabbed the telephone earphone to contact the artillery position, and yelled: "I'm chief of staff oshanina. I ordered all the artillery to fire at the enemy position together! Fire The enemy's position was immediately blasted into a sea of fire by our artillery shells, and the enemy's fire was suppressed“ The artillery extended to open the way for the infantry My order was faithfully carried out, the artillery firepower to the depth of the enemy position extension, the soldiers who had been lying on the ground, and stood up to continue charging. But as they approached the first trench, the German fire began again. It turned out that the machine gunners at the back of the whole team had set up heavy machine guns to cover the attack of their comrades in arms with dense and powerful firepower. Under the cover of machine gunners' firepower, the attacking soldiers crawled and ran for a while, quickly approaching the enemy's trench. The German troops were limited in strength, and they were killed by our artillery fire. In addition, they were suppressed by our heavy machine gun fire. Their resistance became weaker and weaker. Although there are still some people fighting to death, they can't save their failure. A red signal bomb soared from the trench, and the nearby Colonel griazenov cheered: "great! Our soldiers have taken down the first trench. " I went to the table, picked up the phone, dialed the headquarters of the group army, and reported to Vlasov, "report, comrade commander, the infantry have occupied the enemy's first line of defense and are advancing in depth."