Chapter 706

After talking about my own views, I decisively ordered akhromeyev: "Comrade chief of staff, please call Lieutenant Mikhail yev, commander of the engineering company, immediately and ask him to come to the division headquarters. When you come here, you should go to the company headquarters of the second company of guards and invite captain gramus here

Akhromeyev heard what I said and didn't immediately execute it. Instead, he looked at me blankly. He might not understand why I gave him such an order and turned his eyes to kirilov.

Kirilov also had a puzzled look on his face. He asked in a puzzled way, "Comrade oshanina, what do you want lieutenant mihayev and captain gramus to do here? Are they also connected with our rebellion?"

"Yes," I said to kirilov with certainty, "we will have to deal with them a lot in the coming days. I think it's better to have a real German commander in charge of the small detachment. With his familiarity with the German forces, he can easily get in and out of the German control area without fear of being detected. Captain gramus is undoubtedly the best choice. As for mihayev, because he is good at German, I specially asked him to work as a translator. "

After kirilov understood my intention, he looked up at akhromeyev and urged him: "Comrade chief of staff, what are you waiting to do? Don't call Lieutenant Mikhail as soon as possible."

While akhromeyev was on the phone, kirilov humbly asked me, "Comrade oshanina, after we have established contact with Karpov, do you have any good way to rescue this army from the heavy encirclement of the enemy?"

Looking at the blue arrow representing the German army on the map in front of me, I said with some helplessness: "now we still can't figure out how many people Karpov's troops are, what kind of equipment they have, what their combat effectiveness is, and how many people can follow Karpov after he announced that he will leave. Only when we have a clear understanding of these can we make targeted plans for the next step. I have two plans. One is to let their troops leave the camp quietly after dark, March eastward, arrive at the Volga River, join our troops, and then go up the stream to enter the mamayev post from the front of the fourth regiment. Second, when the German army launched an attack on our front, they took advantage of the slack guard of the German army to sneak out of the camp and enter our position southward through the open space between us and highland 107.5. "

After listening to my two plans, kirilov stared at the map for a long time, but did not express his opinion. After a while, after listening to akhromeyev's phone call, he raised his head and asked the other party, "chief of staff, what do you think of the two plans proposed by the division commander?"

Akhromeyev frowned and thought about it, then said with a bitter smile: "how to say, although these two plans are better than the plan of sending troops to attack, there seems to be an important factor that has not been taken into account."

"Oh, there's an important factor that hasn't been taken into account?" After repeating his words, I asked with great interest, "Comrade chief of staff, I don't know what you mean. Can you tell us?"

"Whether Karpov's troops can get out of danger after all depends on whether their actions are discovered by the German army." Akhromeyev pointed the icon on the map with a pencil. "You know, they are surrounded by heavy German soldiers. It's almost impossible to leave the camp quietly without disturbing the enemy. Even if they kill all the soldiers' monitoring groups sent by the Germans to the camp before the operation, not every soldier is willing to leave with Karpov. If one or two of them run away, they will report the incident to the Germans for reward. "

Before I could make a refutation, there was a voice calling for a report at the door. I quickly said to kirilov and akhromeyev, "this will be discussed later." Then he turned and called Mikhail and gramus, who were standing at the door.

They came to us and stood at attention. On behalf of gramus, mihayev asked, "division commander, political commissar and chief of staff, do you have any important tasks to recruit us to the headquarters?"

"Yes, comrade lieutenant. To call you two here today is to give you an important task to complete. " Then I gave a brief introduction to the two of them about the preparations for the rebellion against Karpov. At the same time, I solemnly handed over to gramus the task of leading a small team to cover safchenko's going to Karpov camp through the German defense line.

When he heard my order, he immediately said a lot, and then motioned mihayev to translate it to me. Mihayev nodded and then said to me, "Sir, Captain Grimes asked, what if he was seen through the German line?"

"What else can I do?" I said in an indisputable tone, "shoot at once, wipe out all these Germans, and the small teams will retreat to our positions in turn."

Grimes frowned and asked me, "Comrade division, do you want us to fight openly with our former colleagues? The Bundeswehr has no tradition of shooting at its own people. If I force this precedent, I don't think I can effectively restrain my subordinates. Would you like to see such a result? "

"Colleagues?" When I finished listening to Mikhail's translation, I shook my head vigorously and denied gramus's statement mercilessly: "Captain gramus, you are wrong. Since you joined our camp, those people are no longer your colleagues, they are just accomplices for Hitler's bandits. Although the German army currently has a partial advantage in Stalingrad, I firmly believe that the final victory of this war will belong to us. History is written by winners. Believe me, when that day comes, you soldiers who are on the same front with us will become heroes in the reconstruction of a new Germany, and your actions will be recorded in history. "

My short words made gramus blush with excitement, and he was still struggling to hurt his compatriots. At this time, these problems had been forgotten by him, and he showed his determination to me decisively.

After dismissing gramus, mihayev stood still. I looked at him curiously and asked, "Comrade lieutenant, why are you still here? What's the matter?"

"Yes, sir." Mihayev said as he took out a neatly folded drawing from his file bag, went to the table, opened it, spread it on the table, and said to us, "this is a fortification that I have studied recently. I want you to see if there is anything that needs to be improved."

I went to the table and looked down at the drawing on the table. At this point, I can't look away any more. Mihayev is an excellent architectural engineer, and the defense company he designed is just wonderful.

Mikhail yev saw us all staring at the drawing on the table, deeply afraid that we could not understand it, and patiently explained to us: "please see, this is a fortification I designed in a three story building. In the basement of the building, we can set up a 45mm anti tank gun facing the street to bombard the German tanks or armored vehicles entering the range. The window on the first floor, the deployment of machine gun sandbag shelter, sand on the floor, can prevent the enemy's shrapnel damage. The second floor is guarded by ordinary soldiers, who can not only shoot at the enemy from the window, but also throw grenades below. The third floor is the location of the commander and sniper, which can not only observe the enemy's movement, but also snipe the enemy's commander. As for the attic, don't waste it. You can set up 82 mortars to bombard the enemy's dense infantry formation through the blasted roof. "

After hearing this, akhromeyev thought about it and put forward his own views to mihayev: "Comrade lieutenant, I want to ask, is such a defensive fortress isolated or connected with other defensive positions around? How to transfer the garrison in different buildings? If we set up mortar positions in the attic, will the floor collapse? "

As for the series of questions raised by akhromeyev, Mikhail yev had prepared for a long time. He answered with confidence: "Comrade chief of staff, I have taken into account all the questions you said. This defensive fortress is not isolated. It communicates with the outside world through a covered trench. There are small holes in the wall of the building, which can facilitate the transfer of the soldiers at any time. As for your worry that the floor of the attic will collapse, let alone worry about it. I plan to put a few wooden piles under the mortar position to make it more stable. What's more, the unused windows and entrances should be blocked with sandbags to prevent the Germans from rushing in from these places. "

After mihayev finished speaking, I quickly nodded to confirm his design: "yes, Lieutenant mihayev, your design is very good. Although such fortifications are vulnerable to heavy German artillery bombardment. But now the German troops rushing into the city are mixed up with our troops, and the defense line is also crisscrossed. The enemy does not dare to use their heavy artillery at will. In this way, we can use this kind of fortification reconstructed from residential buildings to stop the enemy. "

Kirilov also echoed: "yes, it is impossible for all the German troops who rush into the city to carry heavy guns, so they will pay a heavy price before such fortifications. Moreover, according to the explanation given by lieutenant mihayev just now, I don't think it's necessary to put too many troops in it, just throw an infantry platoon at will. Even if there were only such a small number of troops, the German army did not withdraw them. It would take at least several times as many troops to attack them. "

Originally, I called Mikhail yev, but I just wanted him to act as an interpreter when we communicated with gramus. Unexpectedly, the design drawing of the fortification that he brought out was full of praise for us. The impatient akhromeyev has even called the three regiments and one regiment stationed in the residential area, explained Mikhail's design intention to the two regiments, and told them to immediately deploy manpower and seize the time to build these new fortifications.

After akhromeyev finished his call, I told him, "Comrade chief of staff, by the way, I'll call the headquarters of the group army, and I'll report this new type of fortification to the commander."

After the headquarters got through, the person who answered the phone was Krylov. When he heard my voice, he was stunned: "ah, it's captain o'shanina. Please wait a moment. I'll ask the commander to answer the phone right away."

Kung Fu is not big, in the receiver came the voice of trekov: "Hello, comrade oshanina."

"Hello, comrade commander." I'm not used to his sudden politeness to me, but he said politely, "I have something to report to you."

"Did general Zhukov call you?" Instead of asking me if I had anything to report, trakov asked with concern, "what did he say on the phone? Did he formally agree to your counterinsurgency plan?"“ Yes, comrade commander. General Zhukov fully agrees with our division's plot against captain Karpov. " I said here, a little pause, and then the first turn: "I have another important thing to report to you."“ What's important? " There was an unexpected tremor in trakov's voice from the receiver. He asked nervously, "do you have another brain beat and come up with some fantastic plan?"“ No, comrade commander. " After listening to his question, I understood the reason why he was nervous. He was worried that I would make a big hole in the sky if I was careless. He quickly reported: "my engineer company commander, Lieutenant Mikhail yev, has designed a new type of fortification. The reason why I report to you is that I want to promote this kind of fortification in the city." Trekov sighed, then said with disapproval, "tell me, what kind of fortification is worth your calling to report to me?" When he heard me talk about the structure of the new fortification in detail, he got excited and exclaimed, "great, great, Colonel o'shanina, that's great. With such fortifications, our troops can preserve themselves and eliminate more enemies at the same time. By the way, what's the name of the commander who designed the fortification? "“ Lieutenant mihayev is the commander of our engineering company. " I replied briefly“ What's his rank, Lieutenant? It's too low. Company commander of the engineering company of the independent division. How can you give someone a rank of lieutenant? No, the rank is too low. He will be promoted to the rank of captain. " Trikov said casually that lieutenant mihayev, who had just recommended a new type of fortification to us, naturally became captain mihayev.