Chapter 742

I looked at trakov in amazement and said that he could not even plead with the air force assigned to Stalingrad's front army. The Germans have just suffered a loss, and they will not give up. Next, they will certainly intensify their attack. If we do not have the air supremacy, it will be a passive end.

Without waiting for me to speak, it suddenly quieted down outside, and the noise of guns suddenly stopped. I quickly raised my telescope and looked out. I saw that the enemy was slowly retreating towards their starting position, while the commanders and fighters of our army were busy rushing to repair the fortifications, cure the wounded comrades, and carry away the bodies of the martyrs. Because the floating bridge on the river was blown off, the traffic on both sides of the river was temporarily interrupted. In order to restore the traffic as soon as possible, the engineer troops of the division began to be busy. I could vaguely see many soldiers pushing the oil bucket down the slope and into the river, and there were ropes and tools to fix it.

"Has the enemy retreated?" Not far away came the voice of trakov.

I quickly put down my telescope. Just as I wanted to answer him, I heard the soldier standing at the window reply, "yes, comrade commander. The enemy's armor retreated and our artillery stopped shelling. "

Although the enemy has retreated, they will not be reconciled to the defeat of this attack. They will only withdraw to prepare for the next attack.

"O'shanina," trekov, looking out of the window with his telescope, suddenly asked me, "what do you think the enemy's intention is?"

I was stunned by trikov's question. Judging from the German offensive situation, everything was not very obvious. I just wanted to occupy the defensive zone of our group army, advance to the Volga River Ferry, completely cut off all the contact between the city and the outside world, and let the other groups become isolated forces with no food and grass inside and no reinforcements outside, He successfully occupied Stalingrad and successfully completed the strategic intention of the German headquarters. After a moment's silence, I hesitated and said, "Comrade commander, the enemy's intention is very obvious, that is, to concentrate the superior forces, break through the areas defended by our army group, advance to the Bank of Volga, occupy the docks connected with the east bank, and cut off the connection between our army and the outside world."

"You have a point." After taking the telescope away from his eyes, trakov said thoughtfully, "the enemy is gathering so many troops here for the strategic purpose you just mentioned." At this point, he turned and told the operator: "get me the headquarters of the group army."

After connecting the headquarters of the group army, I saw that trakov said solemnly: "Comrade military commissar, the enemy's first attack was repulsed by us. But judging from the current situation, they will not give up. I expect they will launch more fierce attacks in the future. what? Air force?! Unfortunately, no, I just called general kheliukin. He told me with great regret that our air force could not come to Stalingrad to help us because the enemy planes controlled our airfield. What do you and Comrade Krylov think of the current war situation Well, I see. I'll be back at the right time. "

When trakov finished the call, I couldn't help asking curiously, "Comrade commander, comrade military commissar, what do they think of the current war situation?"

Trekov shrugged his shoulders and said with a sad face: "after the members of the Military Commission simply exchanged their views, they all agreed that the situation was very clear. The Germans put in all their strength to deal with our 62nd army. The enemy has absolute superiority in manpower, technical equipment and firepower. Their purpose is to divide and encircle the 62nd group army and then annihilate them individually. At present, the enemy has attacked the area between the Stalingrad tractor factory and the "barricade" factory with decayed teeth, and its short-term goal is to reach the Volga River. From the analysis of the enemy's troops and weapons and equipment, we can see that the enemy tried his best to prevent our strong reinforcements from crossing the Volga River to reinforce the garrison in the city and prevent the east bank from delivering ammunition to the garrison. It can be said that in the coming days, our 62nd group army will face an unprecedented situation of cruel struggle. "

After listening to what he said, I just nodded in silence. It seems that the people in the group army headquarters are not dry eaters. They also see through the intentions of the Germans. What they can do now is to try to block the enemy's tide like offensive. When I think of this, I inevitably think of a group. In this case, they have been erased from the establishment of independent division.

The enemy's shelling and bombing began again half an hour later. As the number of artillery and aircraft used by the enemy this time exceeded that of the last time, the vicinity of the observation post was also affected. The dust raised by the blast comes on our faces, so that those of us who stay in the room have to close our eyes and cover our noses, so as not to let the dust fall into our eyes or into our nostrils.

In the sound of the explosion, the ground trembled violently like chaff. In addition to the dust coming in from the window, the sand from the ceiling also plummeted down. As bombs or shells continue to explode near us, I can't help but worry that a bomb or shell that deviates from the direction will hit our observation post and cause the danger of collapse.

Because of the smoke outside the window, even the sun in the sky is blocked. Only when we are lucky, can we vaguely see a round bright spot hanging in the air, occasionally casting a light from the smoke.

The enemy's aircraft dropped and ran out of bombs and bullets, flapping away. Although the enemy's artillery no longer bombarded our army's forward positions, they began to extend their fire to bombard the factory buildings in the distant factory area, and the armored forces that were ready to go took the opportunity to rush up.

I don't know whether our artillery has run out of shells or moved their positions. This time, trakov didn't give orders to the artillery to open fire. As the German tanks stormed towards our forward position, they were followed by teams of armored vehicles and sporadic tricycles.

The German tanks learned a lesson this time. They stopped more than 200 meters away from our forward position, suppressed our heavy firepower with artillery fire, covered the infantry coming down from the armored personnel carriers behind, and launched an attack on our position.

The enemy's tactics were obviously expected by our commanders and fighters. Perhaps because the German bombardment had not stopped, there were not many troops in the trenches except a few observation posts. In the face of the swarming infantry, sporadic firing on the position is of no help at all. In less than three minutes, the enemy rushed through the first trench and continued to go deep.

Seeing that the enemy easily broke through our army's position, trikov was so angry that he cursed loudly: "hell, hell, what happened to the 37th division of the guards? It was so easy for the Germans to break through our defense line. When the battle is over, I will personally send the commander who sticks to this defense line to the military court. "

The German army, which broke through our first line of defense, didn't rush far. Before they got close to the river, a building with only two stories left collapsed suddenly fired a lot of bullets. The German soldiers who were charging forward were suddenly knocked down. At the same time, two adjacent windows on the first floor emitted a stream of white smoke at the same time, and I immediately determined that the anti tank guns hidden inside were firing.

The two anti tank guns had a good sight. They both hit the target. A shell hit a tank in front of it, directly lifted the shell of the tank, and the naked body was soon surrounded by fire. The other shot hit an armored car in the back. The front half of the car was blown to pieces, and the rest was soon surrounded by fire.

There seemed to be a large number of defenders in the building. Seeing that the attacking enemy was suppressed by our firepower, we immediately launched a counter charge. Hundreds of commanders and soldiers rushed out of the building, in the trenches and beside the cliffs by the river, carrying weapons and rushing to the enemy without hesitation.

When I saw this unit charging, I found that there were not only soldiers in Khaki Uniform, but also sailors in black navy uniform and militia in civilian clothes. In addition to the submachine guns, machine guns and rifles in the army, there are also the old-fashioned rifles with long bayonets used in the October Revolution to attack the eastern palace. Many militia and sailors have no weapons at all, but bravely rush to the enemy with an engineering shovel or a grenade.

Although the enemy's tanks were just a few hundred meters away, when they saw the counterattack troops that were soon entangled with their own soldiers, they were afraid to hurt their own people, so they did not dare to fire any more. The German soldiers, who had lost the cover of artillery fire, were badly beaten by our surprise counterattack and had to fight and retreat to the first line of defense they had just broken through.

As the German army advanced too fast, it did not consolidate its defense in the first trench at all, so it could not hold on to the defeat and had to retreat to the tank line in the distance. The officers and soldiers of the guard division and the militia quickly entered the trench and, relying on their familiar fortifications, opened fire on the retreating German soldiers.

The second attack of the German army was repulsed again, but they did not withdraw far. They only withdrew 500 or 600 meters and then stopped. I just thought that when the Germans did this, there might be some conspiracy. The extended fire shrank back and fell back on the front position of our army.

Seeing this, trakov relaxed instead. He put down his telescope and said with disapproval, "Comrade oshanina, you can't see that the enemy is fierce, but their playing style is too rigid. It's impossible to use big guns to blow up airplanes first, and then tanks to cover the infantry charge. " At this point, he pointed to the smoke of the battlefield in the distance, confidently said: "there are now bricks and stones and craters of large and small, the mobility of German tanks is limited, so they can only rely on infantry to charge. I believe that our commanders and fighters can stop the enemy. "

Trakov's judgment was accurate. In the next few hours, all the German attacks on the tractor factory were defeated.

I raised my hand and looked at my watch. It was already one o'clock at noon. From morning till now, I have been eating rice without sticking my teeth. I am hungry. After much hesitation, he finally summoned up his courage and said to trikov, "Comrade commander, now that the enemy's attack has stopped, they will bombard and bomb our army's positions again. Why don't we go back to the headquarters to have a rest and have something to eat?"

Upon hearing this, trikov raised his hand, looked at his watch, nodded and agreed, "you're right. It's getting late. I should go back to the headquarters to learn about the war situation in other areas."

As we were going out, he apologetically said to me, "Comrade o'shanina, you are hungry. In the morning, I wanted you to go to hogarsky's place to eat Tula's specialty. Unexpectedly, it was yellowed by the Germans. Now, when the enemy stops attacking, let's go back to eat and come back later. "

When I walked out of the building, I saw many people standing in the traffic ditch across the road. Seeing us coming out, one of them suddenly waved to me desperately. I fixed my eyes on basmanov, the commander of my guard battalion. He and the soldiers of the guard platoon are staying in the traffic ditch across the road. The entrance of the traffic moat is only seven or eight meters away from the exit of the building. It's only a few steps away. Just as I was about to move forward, someone suddenly called trakov at the back: "Comrade commander, please wait a moment." I turned my head and saw that the operator who ran out of the building was the one who had just come. He came up to trekov and whispered something in his ear. Trekov kept nodding his head as he listened. At this time, suddenly someone was not far away shouting: "air raid, air raid!" Hearing the cry, I quickly looked up into the air and saw an enemy dive bomber hovering over us. I stared nervously at the enemy plane in the air, and at the same time, I cried out to trikov, "Comrade commander, we have enemy planes. Hide." Trikov looked up and said lightly, "it's OK. Just an enemy plane. It won't find us." Then he continued to talk to the operator. The German pilot did not know whether it was the blind cat that killed the mouse, or whether he found two big targets below. After circling twice in the air, he suddenly dived down to us. Seeing the dive of the enemy plane, I was scared out of my wits. As soon as I caught trakov, I pulled him out. At the same time, I cried out in a panic: "commander, the enemy is coming, run Trekov seems to have noticed the enemy's dive as well. After two steps, he overtook me. But he still held my hand tightly and took me to the traffic ditch not far away. Almost the moment we jumped into the traffic ditch, there was an earth shaking explosion behind us.