Chapter 415

After a short period of confusion and heavy casualties, the rest of the officers and men who were in a mess in front of the enemy's positions finally recovered. Some of them fell down on the spot to shoot, and some of them joined the infantry line that was following the tanks to continue the unfinished attack.

Although there are still many problems in the cooperation between tanks and infantry, it is not impossible for our army to conquer the German positions lacking sufficient anti tank forces.

When he saw our infantry rush into the trench and engage in close combat with the Germans, colpakchi's straight face softened and his mouth turned up slightly. It can be seen that he was very satisfied with the result.

More than ten minutes later, our officers and men finally regained this position that originally belonged to us after dogged fighting and heavy sacrifice.

Shamikov came over and reported to korpakchi: "Comrade commander, the commander of the 33rd division of the guards, Colonel farnasiev, called and said that the German position had been occupied by the 84th and 85th regiments. He asked for your next action."

Colpakchi put down his telescope and turned to answer the phone. After two steps, he suddenly stopped, turned to me and said, "Comrade commander, I don't think you are suitable to work in the headquarters of the group army. When the battle is over, the 33rd division of the guards will withdraw to Stalingrad for a rest. In this battle, the organizational structure of the 83rd regiment was almost destroyed. When it was rebuilt, a large number of grass-roots commanders were needed, and then you would go to the regiment to take up the post... "Speaking of this, he stopped, perhaps thinking about what position to assign me. I didn't dare to interrupt. I had to wait for his decision quietly. He thought for a while, as if determined to say: "for the time being when a deputy head of it!" With that, he raised his leg and went to the telephone.

I dare not raise any objection to his decision. I regret that I shouldn't have given him any idea of cooperation just now. After all, I am only his adjutant, not the chief of staff. Besides faithfully carrying out his orders, I am not qualified to offer advice for him. This is an insurmountable bottom line. But I didn't know the superiority of heaven and earth, so I gave directions at will. As a result, I was sent to the grass-roots units.

Korpakchi was in a high mood when he talked to Colonel farnasiev because his troops recovered their lost ground. From time to time, he could be heard laughing heartily. Seeing that he was in such a good mood, I was still a little depressed. It seemed that I saw a glimmer of dawn. I surmised in my heart that maybe he would cancel the order to send me to the 83rd regiment after calling.

Maybe it's because I'm in such a good mood that I can't stop calling korpakchi. The war outside is basically over, so I don't have to stand at the window to observe the war. I look around and see that there are many new war reports on the wooden table in the middle of the room, so I go over and pick them up to read.

After korpakchi finished his conversation with fanasiev, he went to the wooden table and ignored me. Instead, he bent over the map for a while and suddenly raised his head and asked shamikov sternly, "Comrade captain, where is the 192nd division of Colonel harchenko? How was their attack on the flank of the German army? Did they repel the enemy? Why hasn't it been reported for so long? "

On hearing his question, shamikov quickly stepped up and respectfully reported: "Comrade report commander, I called Colonel harchenko half an hour ago. He said that the troops were attacking and the soldiers were very stubborn."

"Where is it? Be specific. " "Where are the troops attacking?" colpakchi asked unhappily

"In the region of kacharinskaya." Shamikov's reply was halting, and it seemed that he did not understand the specific situation.

I quickly stepped forward and said aloud, "Comrade commander, please allow me to report to you."

Colpakchi took a look at me and said faintly, "come on, commander oshanina."

I recalled what I had just seen in the war report in my mind and answered with confidence: "Comrade commander, after receiving the order, Colonel harchenko immediately sent the 427th and 676th infantry regiments to attack the front German position under the cover of the 298th artillery regiment.

When the attack was frustrated, the two infantry regiments retreated to the starting position of the attack. Colonel harchenko sent the 753rd infantry regiment and the students of the Nalchik Infantry School and the ulipinsk infantry to continue the attack.

Half an hour ago, the 427th regiment resumed fighting after replenishing the cadets of the 3rd Infantry School of ordzhoniqize, the 3rd Infantry School of grozney and the Zhitomir Infantry School.

Comrade commander, we have only received so many war reports from the 192nd division for the time being. I'm done with the report. "

After listening to my report, kolpakchi asked shamikov with half confidence: "Comrade captain, is that so?"

"Comrade report commander, we have received a lot of war reports, but I haven't had time to read them. But I think what major o'shanina reported is true and credible. "

Kolpakchi looked at shamikov in displeasure, then looked down at the map, and then raised his head and issued a new order: "Comrade captain, you should immediately call the commander of the 184th division, Colonel koida, and ask him to put the troops into battle immediately. We should solve the enemy in this area as soon as possible and rebuild new fortifications. "

Without waiting for shmikov to call, the situation changed unexpectedly. Standing at the window as an observation staff officer suddenly cried out: "enemy plane! Air raid warning Almost at the same time as the staff officer yelled, there was a violent explosion outside. Colpakchi darted to the window, grabbed the telescope in the staff officer's hand, raised it in front of him, and nervously looked out at the battlefield. I followed him and came to the window. I raised the telescope around my neck and looked at the position which was not long taken down by our army. At the moment, the position was shrouded in smoke, and German bombers circled over the position, dropping bombs and strafing. As the bombs fell on the positions and exploded, the firepower points that our army was building were destroyed one by one, and the human limbs and weapon parts were lifted into the air by the air waves and fell in pieces. The tanks of the 13th tank army also became the focus of German aircraft bombing. Some tanks were overturned by the blast, some were directly hit by the bomb, and the body of the turret was burning. Kolpakchi was furious when he saw this scene. He cried out, "Captain, call the commander of the front army quickly and ask him to send out the air force to cover our troops. If it's too late, the 33rd division of the guards in the position will be destroyed." When I heard the order from kolpakchi, I could not help frowning slightly. At this time, I thought whether it would be too late to ask our air force to go out. Even if commander gordorf agrees to send out air force support, it will be at least ten or twenty minutes before our fighters arrive at the battlefield. At that time, our troops on the battlefield will be disabled. If our position is on a hill, even if the German forces launch a counterattack, even if our forces are small, we can at least withstand it for a while. But in the open area where there is no danger to defend, it is impossible to defend only by the remaining troops in the position. I didn't expect to worry about more and more. Before our air force arrived, the German long-range artillery began to bombard our positions. At the same time, their infantry also launched an attack under the cover of tanks. Seeing that our army suffered a lot of casualties under the double attack of German aircraft and artillery, and the surviving commanders and fighters were also suppressed in the broken trenches by the enemy's powerful firepower, unable to carry out effective defense, my heart could not help but raise my voice. The position that I finally won would not be lost to the Germans so soon, would it? I was worried, and kolpakchi was even more worried. He kept giving orders to the staff in the room: "call the commander of the 147th and 181st divisions quickly, and ask them to send troops to reinforce them immediately. The position they just won back must not be thrown to the Germans."