Chapter 714

I saw the scene out of control, and quickly stepped forward to maintain order. I stood behind the female signalmen and yelled at them: "girls, be quiet, be quiet, please be quiet."

The girls who were yelling at trekov through the transmitter closed their mouths and looked at me. I said to tokaleva with a straight face: "Comrade lieutenant, please remember that you are soldiers, not ordinary people. General trakov called to report his work to the leaders of the front army, not to discuss these trivial matters with you. "

Tokaleva blushed when I said that. She bowed her head and apologized awkwardly to me: "sorry, comrade commander, it's my lax discipline. I'll pay attention to it later." Then she turned around and yelled at her soldiers: "girls, what are you doing around here? Go back to your post immediately."

Although the girl was not willing to get a positive answer from trekov, when she saw her superior, tokaleva, angry, they had to leave and sit down in front of the communication equipment they were responsible for.

I went to the phone, put on the headphones, I said politely to the transmitter: "Hello, comrade commander, I'm glad to hear your voice, are you ok?"

"O'shanina, I hear that you have regained the rank of major general. On behalf of gurov and krailov, I congratulate you." Instead of answering my question, trakov congratulated me on my reinstatement.

I said half jokingly and half seriously, "thank you, comrade commander. But if I can't go back to Stalingrad and continue to fight, it's hard for me to be happy even when I become a marshal. "

Trikov's tone suddenly became very serious: "o'shanina, you know, if we didn't decisively make the decision to transfer female soldiers yesterday, in today's day, few of the female soldiers around you will survive."

His words startled me, and I said in my heart: did the enemy touch the headquarters again? "What's the matter, commander?" he asked

"At noon, the bandits may have found out the location of our headquarters and started to carry out heavy shelling and bombing of our area." Trakov said in a deep tone: "the bomb blew the whole area out of shape. It also destroyed several nearby oil tanks. A large amount of burning liquid poured out and flowed through our shelter to the Volga River. The headquarters was submerged in the sea of fire. After the burning oil flows to the shore, it pours on the barge and many logs washed to the shore by the river. The fire rolled barges and logs down the river. In an instant, it seemed that the whole Volga River was suddenly ablaze, and the flames were flying violently and happily in the turbulence

Listening to trekov's description, my hair stood up. I thought that trekov didn't force us to move yesterday, but it was still unknown how many female soldiers could reach the East Bank of Volga river safely by today.

"Didn't you transfer in time?" Because of tension, I unconsciously hold the transmitter tightly.

Trikov chuckled twice and went on: "our communication lines have been burned down. We can only rely on the radio to communicate with our subordinate troops, but the radio signal is unstable and often interrupted at the most critical moment. Seeing that our headquarters was besieged by the fire, many commanders and fighters in the headquarters were flustered. Just then, the chief of staff, Nikolay Ivanovich Krylov, came forward decisively and gave an order. He said to the officers and men in a loud voice: "no one is allowed to leave! We should continue to work in the undamaged shelter department We need to resume communication with all units and keep the radio unblocked. "

After he said these words, he came up to me and asked in a low voice, "commander, what's going on now? Can we hold on?"

I took a look at him and said, "don't worry, we can hold on!" Then I used what he said to express my determination: "when necessary, we will clean our pistols."

Seeing that I was so confident, he said, "OK, that's it!" Then he went back to his work

Hearing this, I could no longer control my emotions. I excitedly said to trikov, "Comrade commander, since the situation is so dangerous, you should move. Yes, immediately, without hesitation

After my words silenced him for a moment, he continued: "frankly speaking, when the fire started, I jumped out of the shelter, only to feel the glare of the fire and my eyes were dazzled. It was really a bit flustered. But general krailov issued orders to everyone, including to me. Just like shouting" Wula "when attacking, he became a force to inspire us to fight. In this way, we stick to our posts surrounded by the fire and have been commanding the troops without interruption. " At this point, I heard him smile bitterly, "although we are besieged by the fire, we can't move because we don't have a prepared headquarters. Since all the troops, including the engineers, have been put into combat, it is impossible to build a new headquarters for us. "

"Comrade commander, mihayev, the engineer company commander of the independent division, used to be a high-level architectural engineer. I think he is fully capable of building a perfect and safe headquarters for you in a short time. Please allow me to continue to maintain the command of the independent division, so that I can give orders directly to captain mihayev."

"There's no need to do that," he continued in a flat tone. "Last night, commander yelomienko gave me a special order that I must report to him every night. Now is the time to report. Please call the commander zaharov. I want to report to him today's war."

"Please wait a moment, comrade commander." After I finished, I put the earphone and transmitter on the table, went to a telephone, shook the handle on the base a few times, and then picked up the phone. The voice of the female operator came from the receiver: "Comrade commander, where do you want to go?"

After being stunned for a moment, I instinctively replied, "please connect me with general zaharov, chief of staff of the front army."

"Just a moment, please!"

Soon zaharov's voice came out of the receiver: "Hello, I'm zaharov. Where are you?"

"Hello, chief of staff. I'm o'shanina." Having identified myself, I briefly reported to him that trakov was waiting to report to him about the day's fighting.

"OK, I'll be right there." When he finished, he hung up.

Within a minute, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and then zaharov appeared at the door. He nodded at me and asked directly, "which line is trikov on?"

I quickly led him to the phone that tokaleva was in charge of. I picked up the earphone and transmitter on the desk and handed them to him. At the same time, I kept smiling and said, "general trakov is waiting to talk to you."

Zaharov thanks, puts on the earphone, holds the transmitter in one hand, and takes out a book and pencil from his pocket in the other hand. He begins to record the war situation reported by trakov. Because I'm not far away, I can see what's written in the book by leaning slightly.

It read: "at dawn, the enemy began to launch a new attack on the defense area of our group army. The gurtyev division blocked the enemy's attack before 1800 hours. However, at the end of the day, the German army surrounded the army from both sides, and the division had to retreat to the south of nizhnevzinski street to the other side of the railway. Put the left on winnitzki street. Major marklov, one of the division's commanders, was seriously injured in the battle.

The smehotvorov division spent the whole day fighting the enemy for public bathrooms and cookware factories. During the whole day's fighting, the public bathhouse has changed hands several times, but it is still in our hands. The division suffered heavy casualties, leaving only 200-250 officers and soldiers in each regiment.

The guriyev division repelled all German attacks on the Red October factory. The gorishner division, the wachuk division and the rodimzev division held fast to their positions and resisted several attacks launched by the enemy on the left wing of the group army.

Judging from the progress of these battles, the enemy's intention is to rush to the Volga River at all costs, occupy the main factories, and then develop an offensive southward along the Volga River from there. "

Zaharov wrote down almost everything in his book. He asked trakov, "Comrade trakov, is there anything else to report?"

"We found out," as zaharov took off the earphones and held them in his hand, that I could hear trakov's voice clearly: "from the mokrayamechetka River to the 107.5 highland, on the front of about 5 kilometers, the enemy concentrated 5 divisions (including 3 infantry divisions and 2 tank divisions), in addition to many strengthened troops. In addition, the German army also transferred about 40 engineering battalions from other parts of the Soviet German battlefield and from the German mainland. The German army's fighting in Orlov was not only to solve the bulge, but also to divert our attention so as to carry out major raids on the factories. In the face of this situation, we decided to send ruolugeoff division to stick to the tractor factory.

After occupying the line of defense, the 37th division regiments immediately went into action this morning to block the enemy infantry and tanks that had broken through the battle formation of gurdyev division and yermorkin division.

The group army needs breathing time, even for one day, to reorganize its troops, gather artillery, supply ammunition and replenish its personnel, so as to drive the aggressors out of the tractor factory residential area and baricard town with local counter attack in the next step. The commander of the front army asked us to start the counter attack early this morning. But the group army can't do that at all. Because we have run out of ammunition here, and it has become more and more difficult to transport ammunition through the Volga River, and because of the continuous shelling and bombing by the German army. "

After listening to the report of trakov, zaharov said impatiently, "Comrade trakov, all the demands put forward by your group army are met by the front army as far as possible. The 84th brigade of Colonel berey's tank strengthened to you last night has crossed the river into the city, hasn't it

As for his query, trakov argued: "Comrade chief of staff, due to the lack of transport vessels, only light tanks can cross the river at present. When these light tanks arrived on the right bank, they were immediately incorporated into the battle formation of the ruolujaf division and the gurtyev division. They can only be used as firepower points, because it's unreasonable to use them to counter attack German tanks. In addition, during the day, the enemy dispatched nearly 2000 sorties over the factory area of the city. From daybreak, all the operations of the troops stopped. As a result of the enemy's heavy bombing, the wounded soldiers could not even leave the bomb shelter before dark. They could only be sent to the health camp by the health workers when darkness came. "

As for the contents of trakov's statement, I think it is true and credible, but at the moment, I can only honestly be a bystander, and can't casually talk to zaharov about my views. Fortunately, zaharov was not unreasonable either. He nodded and said, "Comrade trakov, I have been informed that general Philip Ivanovic Golikov, deputy commander of the front army who has just returned from Moscow, will cross the Volga River tonight and come to your headquarters to supervise the implementation of the counterattack plan." When he heard that the deputy commander was going to inspect the city, he said with some embarrassment, "chief of staff, can you ask the deputy commander to cancel this trip?"“ Why? " Trikov's words surprised zaharov. He was puzzled and asked, "the trip of deputy commander has been arranged for a long time. Why should we cancel it?" At this time, trakov did not hide his bad situation from the chief of staff: "the communication situation in our headquarters is getting worse and worse. Due to the enemy's bombing and shelling, it can never be improved. Obviously, the Gunners and mortars of * * already know the exact location of our command post, and they have been directly aiming at our command post. From time to time, mortars landed at the entrance of my shelter and exploded. The number of casualties in the command post is increasing all the time. It's obvious that it's no longer safe here. We can't let Comrade deputy commander take risks here. " Zaharov was stunned after hearing this. He pondered for a moment, and then solemnly asked, "I am responsible for speaking from the deputy commander. Now my concern is that since you can no longer serve as a headquarters, I suggest you transfer immediately. Do you have a suitable place for the new headquarters? " There's no sound in the headphones. It's probably that trekov is thinking about it. After two or three minutes, the voice of trakov came from the earphone again: "Comrade chief of staff, after my study and Krylov's study, we decided to transfer the group army headquarters to the headquarters of the salayev division, which has now been withdrawn to the east bank for reorganization. We can use the headquarters they left behind. But in this way, we need to move about 500 meters along the banks of the Volga river towards the tractor factory line. "“ Let's move as soon as possible, comrade trekov. " Zaharov friendly to the transmitter said: "as for the deputy commander's business, let me do it."