Chapter 237

A shell roared down on the snow more than ten meters away, and the mud and snow raised by the explosion were scattered from the air like a woman in the sky, and fell on us. When the shell exploded, the Colonel instinctively crouched down. After the explosion, he stood up again and cried nervously: "Comrade chief of staff, it's too dangerous here. Maybe the enemy has captured our guns. Let's go to the forest! My division command post is right there. "

If the German army had only mortars, I might still stand still and show my subordinates that I was calm in front of the collapse of Mount Tai. After all, there are still about two highways from the city, and the range of the enemy's mortars is not enough. But now I heard that the German army might have guns with long range. If they stayed in the open field, they would be dead. So I decided to hide in the forest immediately.

I yelled at grissa, who was still in the car, "drive to the forest." Then he ran into the forest with a group of staff officers and guards who had already got out of the car.

There was a row of tents in the forest. I knew that they had just been built. The Colonel led me directly into one of the biggest tents. The light inside was good, thanks to a steam lamp hanging above the tent. On one side of the tent was a table with a telephone on it, and a soldier with the rank of sergeant sat beside the machine nervously busy. Next to the curtain stood a small table and a few small Mazars. A commander with the rank of colonel was looking down at the map in front of him.

Sensing someone coming in, the commander looked up, then stood up abruptly, saluted me at attention, and said: "Hello, sir! I didn't expect to see you here. "

I fixed my eyes on him and was overjoyed. Without paying any attention to the salute, I punched him on the shoulder socket and said excitedly, "Colonel chisjakov, it's you!" Then he asked with concern: "our division has also come up? What about the political commissar and chief of staff? Where are they now? "

Chisgakov looked at me with a smile, and when I finished asking all the questions at one go, he said, "report, comrade commander, we will break through the enemy position north of Taiyangshan city before dawn, and then we will quickly advance to Kling. On the way, the chief of staff, comrade selebriakov, proposed that if the whole Division launched an attack on klin from the south, it might not be able to expand its forces. It would be better to divide the troops into two routes and attack them from both sides at the same time. We saw that this plan was feasible, so the troops were divided into two routes. One route was the 1073 regiment led by me to the south of Kerin city and joined the main forces of the front army; The other, the political commissar and the chief of staff, led the 1075th and 1077th regiments around to the east of Kling and launched an attack from the flank. "

"Well done!" Their plan to temporarily adjust the marching route of the troops was very agreeable to my heart, so I gave a good compliment: "an excellent commander should know how to adjust the deployment of the troops according to the situation of the battlefield." Then he said to hapsafu on one side, "Comrade Colonel, tell us about the current situation of the war."

Pointing to the map on the table, Colonel hapsaffo said to us, "look, two circular trenches have been built in the south of Kerin city. In front of the trenches are mine arrays, anti tank trenches and barbed wire. At the same time, there are permanent fire points of reinforced concrete structure between the two trenches. Because the snow in front of the trench was too deep for infantry and armored vehicles to attack, we had to attack through the road connecting the city. As this is the German firepower coverage, the two charges we organized have been repulsed, and the third one is under way now. "

Hearing this, I couldn't help but frown and interrupt him: "Comrade Colonel, as far as I know, the German army only occupied klin for a few days. How could they build such a perfect defense system in such a short time?"

Hapsaffo gave a wry smile, looked at chisgakov and said, "Comrade Colonel, you know this better. You'd better explain it to the chief of staff."

"In fact, this defense system was not built by the Germans, but the defense work that we completed not long ago," chisjakov said. As the German army attacked the city of klin from the north and West, the southern fortifications were preserved intact. I didn't expect to be used by the Germans now, which has become an obstacle to our progress. "

"Report!" The voice of a staff officer of the headquarters came from the door.

Without looking back, I said, "come in!"

"Chief of staff," the staff officer who came in reported to me, "we have set up communication equipment in the tent next to us. Now you can go and command the troops."

"I see." I agreed and asked chisgakov to go out with me. As soon as I got out of the tent, I suddenly remembered something. Then I went back to the tent and asked hapsaffo curiously, "Comrade Colonel, I suddenly remembered something. You are from the Far East. Do you know the commander of the 32nd red flag infantry division, Colonel borosushi? "

Although he looked confused, he nodded and replied: "yes, we used to fight Japanese together in nomencan. Why, does the chief of staff also know him? "

I replied with a smile, "yes, we played German together in borojino. How is he now? "

"That's not clear, but it should be pretty good." "He is now in the fifth group army under the command of general govorov. As the main force, he must be indispensable in today's great counterattack," hapsafu said“ Yes, I know him. He must be indispensable in such a historic battle. That's it. Good luck Then I went out of the tent. I went out of the tent at the headquarters of the hapsaffo division and did not immediately enter the tent prepared for me. Instead, I took chisgakov to the edge of the forest to observe the fighting. Indeed, as Colonel hapsaffo had introduced, a group of infantry followed several tanks and rushed down the road to the city. There are several burning tanks on that road, and the bodies of our soldiers are lying on the road. Perhaps because of the lessons of the previous two defeats, the attack was much more cautious. When the tank is 50 or 60 meters away from the enemy's fire points, it stops to fire fiercely and destroys the most dangerous fire points one by one. The soldiers who followed also fell to the ground, shooting at the enemy in the fortification. After a few rounds of shooting, the enemy's clear fire point has been completely destroyed. Seeing that there are no visible obstacles on the way forward, a tank can't wait to rush forward first. When I watched the tracks of the chariot run over the bodies of the soldiers, my heart seemed to be pulled by something, and I felt very sad. Just as the tank was about to bypass a burning tank, a rocket came with a long trail of smoke, fell on the body and exploded. With the explosion, the tank body suddenly stopped, the broken track quickly pulled out from behind the body.