Chapter 740

Before we went into the headquarters, gurov had already come out from inside with a smile. He took the initiative to extend his hand to me and said enthusiastically, "Comrade oshanina, I'm looking forward to you. Seeing that you are late, the commander is afraid that you will encounter any accident on the way. He plans to send someone to meet you again. "

When I shook hands with gurov, I replied with a smile, "thank you for your concern. We have a guide like major gradseff, the commander of the guard battalion. There will be no danger on our way."

After listening to what I said, gurov nodded his head with satisfaction to Gladyshev, who came after us. He said: "although major Gladyshev has not been the commander of the guard battalion for a long time, his ability is still highly recognized by the headquarters." Speaking of this, he suddenly changed his face and asked the major behind us in a stern tone, "what's the matter? Why did you drink?"

Although I didn't find gladeshev showing any intoxication along the way, gurov also found that he was drunk. On hearing the military commissar's question, Gladyshev shrugged his shoulders and answered casually, "report to the military commissar, on our way here, the comrades of the independent division found a bottle of wine in a room where there was no one. They said that they could keep out the cold, so I drank some."

Trikov looked back at his subordinate with a slight frown, but he quickly pointed to gradshev and said, "major, I hope the same thing doesn't happen again."

Hearing the criticism of trakov, Gladyshev blushed and quickly nodded and agreed: "yes, comrade commander, I will not drink casually in the future."

Instead of taking me to the new headquarters, trakov and gurov followed the newly dug traffic trench to the bottom of the river bank. Here, I see a lot of caves chiseled out on the cliff by the river. From time to time, I can see commanders in all kinds of clothes coming in and out. Gurovt introduced to me: "in order to ensure the safety of the headquarters, we put our departments in the caves dug out on the riverbank, so as to reduce the loss of the members of the headquarters under German artillery fire or bombing."

When I saw a small cave in front of me, wisps of green smoke came out. I pointed to the front curiously and asked, "commander, military commissar, is that the location of the cooking class in that cave?" I'm asking because I'm so hungry that I have to find something to fill my stomach.

Gurov looked in the direction of my finger, then said with a smile, "Comrade oshanina, although it's not the problem of the cooking class, we can still find something to eat and drink." At this point, he turned to seek trekov's advice, "Comrade commander, are you going with me?" Trekov didn't speak. He just nodded with a smile and headed for the cave.

I followed them and walked into the cave. There was a Tula tea cooker in the cave. The chimney was made of cardboard. The plume of green smoke I just saw came from here. There was a man sitting in the room. Seeing us coming in, he quickly stood up and raised his hand to salute trikov and gurov. I fixed my eyes and saw that it was hogarsky, artillery commander of the group army. I quickly raised my hand to salute him.

After sitting down next to this half man tall metal kettle with two walls and water pouring in the middle, trekov raised his head and said to me, "general hogarsky is from Tula. He has the habit of drinking strong tea, so he has never been separated from his" Hometown "- Tula's teapot." At this point, he turned his head and affectionately called hogarsky's name and asked, "why, mitro fanich, do you still have time to drink tea before the German Devils' concert begins?"

"In time, comrade commander." Hogarsky confidently said, "if it doesn't work, I'll take it to the observation center to drink."

Although I have never been to Tula, I am no stranger to this city, because during the Moscow defense war, the whole city's army and people tenaciously resisted the strong attack of goodrian troops. After 45 consecutive days of failure, the German army had to lift the siege of the city. I know that there are three specialties in this city where the great Tolstoy was born: one is the Russian style tea cooking in front of us, so Tula has the reputation of "the city of tea cooking"; Second, it is a kind of very sweet small oil cake, which can be made into various shapes. It is said that it will not go bad after several months; Third, weapons. It is said that from the time of Czar, it was an important Arsenal, and the best artillery School of the Soviet Union was located there.

I stare at the tea that has already begun to purr and purr. I wonder if hogarsky will treat us to Tula's famous oil cake when we sit down for tea?

But without waiting for hogarsky to treat us to tea, there was a huge explosion outside. Trikov stopped talking and laughing, raised his head solemnly, and listened carefully to what was going on outside.

Shells and mortars roared over our heads, landed in the Volga River, exploded, and set off jets of water more than ten or twenty meters high. Then there was an explosion nearby, and the earth was shaking violently. Before we made any response, a shell exploded at the top of the cave. The air wave generated by the explosion pushed us down on the steep slope of the river bank, and even the teapot was about to fall to the ground.

When hogarsky got up from the ground, he suddenly pointed to the sky. I quickly looked up into the air and saw countless enemy planes hovering over the Volga River. From time to time, they swooped down to drop bombs and strafe at our ground targets. Because of the explosion of shells and the roar of the enemy's engines, although trakov and hogarsky were shouting, no one could hear what they were saying. Finally, they looked at each other and began to communicate with each other quickly. Hogarsky nodded, rushed into the cave, grabbed the picture bag and the telescope, and ran away.

I know that hogarsky is going back to his command post. When he wanted to ask trikov what we should do, gurov patted me on the shoulder, pointed to trikov who was leaving quickly, and made a gesture to me to follow him. I nodded, then bent down to catch up quickly.

At the moment, smoke and dust are flying everywhere, and the rising smoke blocks the sky and the sun in the sky. On the way to the headquarters, it's not safe either. Instead of dropping a shell or bomb, we have to lie on the ground again and again to escape.

When the three of us returned to the headquarters and closed the door, the noise outside was much less. At least our conversation was no longer affected. After entering the door, I saw krailov sitting on a stool, holding the microphone in his hand, giving orders to some place in a loud voice. Next to him stood a colonel, Colonel Yulin, the communications director of the group army, who had a few acquaintances with me.

Trikov walked quickly to Yulin and asked aloud, "what's the current communication situation?"

Yulin quickly came to attention and reported to trikov, "Comrade commander, because of the enemy's shelling, almost all the telephone lines we just repaired were blown off. I have ordered the messenger to check the lines. At present, we have connected to the radio and can communicate with the troops with clear code. "

"Comrade Colonel, this is not enough." Trekov yelled at Colonel Yulin: "we need to use the preparatory communication hub on the East Bank of the Volga River, and let it also play a role in repeating the message and informing us of the situation."

Yulin understood what trakov meant, nodded, turned and walked out.

At this time, krailov, who had finished the call, asked directly, "Comrade oshanina, how many troops have you brought to the city this time?"

"I brought a ball." I answered briefly.

"Only one regiment, too few." After listening to this, krailov said with some dissatisfaction, "isn't there an order for you to send as many troops as possible?"

"Comrade chief of staff," although I didn't want to have a conflict with my immediate superior, I heard krailov's words, which contained the meaning of blaming me for keeping my strength regardless of the overall situation, and quickly retorted: "a regiment is only a regiment in name, but with the full expansion of its head, Sergei reekov, during this period of time, the regiment has reached 3000 people, The number of teachers accounts for half of the total number of teachers. As the mamayev post is also the focus of defense in the campaign, I have to leave half of my troops for defense, so as not to be exploited by the Germans. "

"Chief of staff, stop talking." Seeing that krailov seemed to contradict me, trikov came out in time to help me out. "Comrade oshanina considered it very comprehensively. A regiment of 3000 troops is no less than the three divisions that stick to the factory area. Where are you going to deploy the regiment? "

Krailov didn't say anything, but after looking at me, he began to introduce the situation to them: "Comrade commander, according to the prior arrangement, major gradshev will take them to the tractor factory area and give them to the unified command of the 37th division of the guards after taking over oshanina's troops."

When I heard that my troops were going to be handed over to others for command, I couldn't help feeling disappointed. This is the most effective regiment of the independent division. If it is handed over to those old-fashioned commanders for command, it will become cannon fodder. Last time, the second commander Pugachev and the tank battalion commander pelsjian were sent by trakov to seize the school occupied by the enemy. As a result, they are still lying in the field hospital.

Trekov looked back at me and saw that I was in a daze. He asked curiously, "o'shanina, what are you thinking?"

I heard him asking me and quickly replied, "no, I'm not thinking. Comrade commander, do you have any new instructions for calling me

Trekov beckoned to me to stand beside him, and I stepped forward two steps to the table. Trekov lowered his head, pushed the map in front of me, picked up the red and blue pencil on the table and explained to me: "the enemy has occupied the territory in the north and the center of the city, including yelman District, jerrensky District," Red October "," barricade "district and tractor factory. At present, we are concentrating our forces to fight a decisive battle with the enemy in these areas, in order to eliminate them as much as possible, so as to reduce the pressure we will bear in the next battle. "

After listening to trekov's words, I shrunk my mouth with disapproval. I said to myself that you are fighting with the Germans with your life to arrange troops like this? All the elite in the city have been put together in this way. In the next battle, it is estimated that this battle will be even more difficult to fight.

Gurov was very good at observing words and expressions. Seeing the expression on my face, he guessed that I might have different ideas, so he looked at me and said encouragingly, "Comrade oshanina, I think you have different views on the commander's plan of concentrating troops and carrying out a partial decisive battle with the enemy. Can you tell me?"

After introducing the situation to me, trikov buried his head and looked at the map. Listening to what gurov said, he looked up at me in surprise and said, "is that so, o'shanina?" Originally, I didn't want to discuss my views at such a time, but since trakov has already asked, it's not appropriate to avoid talking about it or to ignore the important points, so I can only reply with a stiff head: "commander, military commissar, chief of staff, I'd like to talk to you about my understanding of the concept of concentrated forces. In my opinion, whether to concentrate the superior forces is mainly reflected in the allocation of the front-line forces. Reserve forces should be retained in combat and blocking forces should be arranged. If there are too many forces in these areas and too few forces in the front line fighting with the German forces, it is not the concentration of superior forces. If we put the main troops on the front line and only a small number of troops in other places, it seems risky. In fact, the more troops on the front line, the shorter the battle time. Maybe the battle will be over before the enemy's reinforcements arrive. We should also be good at seizing all favorable fighters to destroy the enemy. What is a favorable fighter? It was when the Germans were small, heavy, short of equipment, had no air supremacy and were not ready. If the German army has more people and better equipment than us, it will not fight; The German army controlled the air and did not fight; The German army was prepared and did not fight; In short, we should not fight unprepared or uncertain battles. " After listening to my explanation, the three people's faces showed different degrees of blank expression. At last, Krylov asked impatiently, "Comrade oshanina, you have said for a long time, which means that we can't fight with the enemy, this battle can't be fought, at least not in the way we are now fighting. Do I understand correctly? "“ Yes Seeing that someone finally understood my euphemistic expression, I was relieved, and then said, "but if we don't fight, the enemy may drive straight in and seize our position in the factory area. But if we concentrate our heavy troops on the existing positions and are bombarded by the enemy's shells and bombs, it is estimated that we will make a great sacrifice before the enemy's infantry attacks. "