Chapter 790

The German bombers bombed konaiyi in the south of the Highlands, but they did not care about our highlands. Shereblenny and I stood in the trench on the top of the mountain, quietly looking at the city shrouded in smoke in the distance.

Seeing that the enemy planes refused to leave, Xie liebolianei was a little worried. He pointed to the planes hovering over the city and said indignantly, "Comrade division, if we had an anti-aircraft artillery battalion or even an anti-aircraft artillery company, the enemy would not dare to bomb our city so recklessly."

Looking at the burning konaiyi City, I said with disapproval, "Comrade captain, you should count how many planes the enemy has first. Even if there are not 30, there are more than 20, right? Is one antiaircraft artillery battalion enough to stop so many enemy planes from bombing cities? " Seeing that shereblenny shook his head, I continued, "although this is a small city, we want to protect it from enemy bombing. It is not enough to have only one anti-aircraft artillery battalion. Given the serious shortage of our air defense forces, is it worthwhile to garrison a valuable anti-aircraft artillery battalion in such a city without any strategic significance and let them lose money under the crazy bombing of enemy planes? "

After I finished, I pointed to the hills on both sides of the East and the West and asked shereblenny, "Captain, how many troops are there on each side of the Highlands?"

When shereblenny heard my question, he quickly and clearly replied, "on both sides of the mountain, there is a platoon of troops. In the front of the main position, I put a company In order to let me know more about the deployment of troops on the Highlands, he specially emphasized that "the rest of the troops, as reserves, were placed on the south slope of the highlands. The reason why the reserves are here is to reduce the casualties in the German artillery preparation stage

"Comrade captain, you are very considerate." I was very satisfied with his arrangement, so I praised him and said, "leave enough reserves in the fight so that we can deal with the Germans for a longer time." As soon as I said that, I saw that the enemy planes in the air stopped bombing the cities and began to return one after another, so I stopped and looked up at the enemy planes passing over our heads.

Shereblenny looked at the returning enemy plane and said happily, "thank God, this damn plane has finally left." Then he warmly invited me: "Comrade division, please come to the command post of our battalion and have something to eat. I think you should be hungry now."

I didn't feel hungry yet. As soon as he said to eat, my stomach began to growl. At such a time, I would not pretend to be polite to my subordinates, so I readily agreed and jokingly said, "well, comrade captain, I'll try your camp's food today to see if it's better than ours. If so, I'll eat with you every day. "

My words caused a roar of laughter from the officers and soldiers around me. Xie lieboliang put his body to one side and put out his hand to make a gesture of invitation: "Sir, comrade, please go this way." With that, he walked in front to guide me.

We walked a distance along the trench to the battalion headquarters in shereblenny. This is a reinforced concrete building half buried in the ground. When I walked down the steps into the bunker, I carefully observed the structure of the bunker with the help of two steam lamps hanging on the wall. Fortunately, we attacked from the south slope where there were no fortifications. If we attacked from the north, there would be heavy casualties. It is still unknown whether we can capture the highlands.

There is a long wooden table beside the wall of the command post, on which a steam lamp shines brightly. After calling me to sit down at the table, Xie liebolianei immediately told the soldiers who followed us to come in: "Hey, I said, what are you still doing here? Why don't you go and get some food for the division commander?"

The soldier agreed, turned and ran out. When the soldiers left, Xie liebuliannei explained to me with some embarrassment: "Comrade division commander, he used to be a soldier in the company. He was just transferred to be an orderly for me. I don't understand many things. Please forgive me."

I didn't care about such trifles. I thought that when I was inspecting the position just now, I had a quick look at it. I didn't go into the shelter where the soldiers stayed to have a look. I didn't know whether their shelter was so strong. So I asked with concern, "Captain shereblenny, are there many reinforced concrete Fortifications on the battlefield?"

Shereblenny nodded and said with certainty: "report to division commander, this place should be a national defense fortification. All shelters on the position are reinforced concrete buildings with a thickness of about one meter, which can completely resist the German heavy artillery and aircraft bombing."

Before we had finished, the soldiers who went to get things had already rushed in from the outside. He came to the table and put what he was holding in his arms on the table. I looked down and saw that in addition to the two oval loaves, there were several square things wrapped in paper and several cans.

Seeing these things, I couldn't help but be surprised. Two days ago, basmanov and the soldiers of the guard company searched the abandoned village for a long time, but they didn't find such abundant food. So I asked in surprise, "Comrade captain, where did you get these things?"

I didn't expect that when I asked this question, I was stunned. The soldier next to him explained with a smile: "report, comrade division, these are all seized from the German hands. Some of them were seized in the shelter of the highland, and the commander told us to go to the city and get some back. "

"Thank you, comrade soldier. It's none of your business here. Go out first. " When the soldier finished, shereblenny waved him away. Then he picked up a can from the table and pricked it with a knife towards the concave place.

I saw a pile of food on the table and murmured, "Captain, this is too much. We should not be able to eat so much."

While prying the can with a knife, shereblenny said to me, "don't look at so much food on the table, sir. It's just a day's rations for ordinary German soldiers." At this point, he stopped his action, pushed two square paper bags in front of me, and further explained to me, "these paper bags are biscuits and bread, besides canned meat and vegetables, there are also coffee, tea, sugar and salt."

I opened a paper package and saw that it was really biscuits. I couldn't help but say with emotion, "Comrade captain, it seems that you know German rations very well. While it's ok now, tell me more about it. "

"As far as I know, the food supply of German soldiers is divided into three levels: Level I, combat area; Class II, occupied area; Class III, local garrison. Among them, the quantity of grade I food is the most, and it is gradually decreasing below. I'll tell you a little about the food in the German combat area. " It was obvious that shereblenner knew something about the German logistics, so when he talked about it, he kept on saying, "their daily quotas are: 750 grams of rye bread, 250 grams of biscuits, 45 grams of butter (vegetable butter) or edible fat, 120 grams of sausage (occasionally replaced by smoked fish), 200 grams of jam or artificial honey, 750 grams of boiled potatoes or vegetables, 120 grams of meat, 45 grams of vegetable or animal fat, 15 grams of seasoning, 8 grams of coffee beans (sometimes replaced by black tea), 1 bag of chocolate or candy, 7 rolls of cigarette paper and 2 rolls of tobacco. "

"Comrade captain," as soon as he finished, I immediately asked myself a question about what I didn't understand: "what do you mean by cigarette paper and tobacco?"

"Cigarette paper and tobacco, used by German soldiers to smoke cigarettes." Shereblenny replied briefly.

After listening to his explanation, it dawned on me that although I had seen soldiers smoking cigarettes by themselves before, they used paper torn from notebooks or flyers, so I didn't think about that direction at all. Seeing the rich food in front of me, I said bitterly: "German food is much better than us. People can eat meat every day. As a teacher, I haven't seen meat for more than a month. "

After shereblenny opened all the cans, we were eating and discussing the defense deployment on the high ground. Before we finished eating, corporal joowitzki ran in from the outside with light steps and ran in front of me. He snapped to attention and said to me excitedly, "report to Mr. commander, Mr. deputy."

"The deputy is back?" Hearing the news of Bantai leiev's return, I pushed the unfinished food aside, stood up abruptly, and nervously asked ruhovitzki, "corporal, where is the deputy division commander?"

"Sir, I'm here." Without waiting for corporal ruhovitzki to reply, bantaileiev's loud voice came from the entrance, "I have successfully completed the task you gave me, and now I'm here to report it to you."

I went forward, stretched out my hands, and clasped the four hands of Bantai leiev. I said excitedly: "Comrade Deputy teacher, it's hard, it's hard." With that, I released my right hand and made a gesture of "please" to the room: "you must be hungry after working all day. Come and have something to eat with us." Then he took his hand and went to the table.

Bantai leiev may have gone to command the war, but he didn't care to eat. Seeing that there was so much food on the table and not being polite to us, he sat down and ate. While he was eating, shereblenny gave him a brief introduction about the basic rations for two German soldiers.

After listening to what shereblenny said, Bantai leiev said sourly: "I didn't expect that the damned Krauts were not only better equipped than us, but also better fed than our commanders and fighters. Since I became an independent teacher, I haven't seen any meat. Sometimes I even think that I became a monk and became a nun. "

After leiev finished complaining, I asked, "Comrade deputy division commander, can you tell me about your fighting today?"

Bantai leiev had just dug a piece of meat out of the tin with a spoon. Just as he was about to look at it, he heard me ask, so he quickly put the spoon back into the tin, looked up at me and said, "OK, sir, I'll report to you right now. After I arrived at our temporary camp with tanks and armored forces, I contacted the commander of the Third Battalion of the fourth regiment and asked him to leave behind two platoons of soldiers, and the rest of the troops would follow me to carry out combat tasks.

As the speed of infantry is not the same as that of tanks and armored vehicles, I ordered the infantry battalion commander to lead the infantry to set out first and wait for our tanks to rush into the enemy's camp one kilometer away for the infantry to attack.

When the infantry set out, I asked the soldiers driving tanks and armored vehicles to have a rest so that they could be energetic in the next battle. After an hour's rest, I estimated that the infantry were almost close to the enemy's camp, so I ordered the tanks and armored vehicles to leave.

As our armored forces approached the Romanian camp, the sentinel who heard the movement just looked at us for a moment, and then came lazily by himself. When I saw the sentry approaching, the tank in front of me didn't slow down. Instead, I rushed by the accelerator, rolled the sentry under the track, and then quickly rushed to the camp.

Romanian troops did not expect that the German tanks and armored vehicles outside the camp would rush in so recklessly. They were at a loss for a moment. Most of the soldiers outside the camp stood in a daze. It was not until the machine guns on our tanks and armored vehicles began to fire that Romania understood that they had been attacked. It's obviously too late to fight back at this time. Especially when we see our hordes of infantry pouring in from outside the camp, the short and futile resistance stops

A battalion fought against a Romanian company, and there were tanks and armored vehicles to assist in the battle. If the victory was already doomed, I was concerned about how many trucks were captured from the enemy's camp in this battle, and whether the materials rescued from the city could be transported back to mamayev post, so I asked cautiously, "Comrade deputy division commander, How many trucks did you capture in the camp? "

Bantaileiev sighed and said with regret: "I interrogated the company commander of Romanian army. According to his confession, there were 60 trucks in the camp, but yesterday the German army of gorodyse temporarily transferred a batch of trucks from them. As a result, we only captured 25 trucks. "

25 trucks. When I heard this number, I could not help frowning slightly. Even if our commanders and fighters could walk home, we could not pull all the materials back at one time only by these trucks.

Seeing my brow tightening, Bantai leiev said bitterly: "Sir, what should we do with so many materials in the city? I also know that these 25 trucks will take at least four or five times to complete. The motorcade has to pass through the German defense area to reach the mamayev post. Unless the enemy is blind and deaf, it is impossible for them not to find out. "

"Deputy division, we don't have so many materials." In my opinion, bantaileiev seemed to be not very clear about the loss of materials in the city during the air raid. He specially explained to him, "shortly after you left with your troops, the enemy bombed our city. Fortunately, the anti-aircraft sentry set up in the army even fired the alarm, so that we had time to withdraw the commanders and fighters carrying materials from the city, but most of the materials were destroyed in the German bombing. "

Just as Bantai leiev was very glad for the troops to withdraw from the city in time, a familiar voice came from the door: "is the division commander here?"

"Comrade commander, I'm here." Hearing the familiar voice of shijerikov, I immediately understood that he was bringing troops to report to me, and quickly called him, "come in."

Shejerikov came over and first saluted me and Bantai leiev, who was sitting at the table. Then he respectfully reported, "Comrade division commander, I have brought two companies from the Third Battalion. Please arrange the combat task."

I glanced behind him and saw that there was no one else but him, so I asked in a strange way, "Lieutenant sergeant sharikov, didn't I ask you and lieutenant colonel kosja to send an army? Why did you come here and don't see kosga? Where has he gone? "

"Yes, sir." Seeing that I had a premonition of anger, xiejerikov quickly explained: "at present, there is chaos outside the city, and the materials and prisoners have to be guarded. If there is no regimental commander left there, the situation is difficult to control. So after discussing with colonel kosga, I let him stay there, and I took two companies of the Third Battalion of the first regiment and one company of the second battalion of the third regiment to the highland to accept the task you gave me. "

"Comrade division," as it is not long before bantaileyev comes back, I have not had time to tell him about the plan of ambushing the German army. Therefore, he heard what shejerikov said and asked unexpectedly, "are we going to attack the enemy somewhere again?"

I nodded, reached out and took the German map he had captured from shereblenny's hand, put the food in front of bantaileiev, spread the map on the table, pointed to our position, and said, "Comrade deputy division, according to our observation, just north of the highland, there is a vast prairie, perhaps because of the lack of people, The weeds on the grassland grow very high. So I plan to ambush two troops on the grassland to deal with the German troops who are going to attack us

"How do you plan to deploy these two forces?" Bantai leiev asked curiously.

"Comrade deputy division commander, come and see." I pointed to the map and said to him, "the road from kongyi City, after bypassing our highland in the west, extends to the distance through the grassland in front of us. According to our judgment, the enemy who attacks us will certainly follow this road. So I plan to ambush one army on each side of the road, to the German troops invading nearby. Camouflaged tanks, armored vehicles and infantry of two companies are hidden in the grassland on the east side of the road. Their task is that when the German marching line passes in front of them, the tanks will fire first to destroy the tanks, armored vehicles and artillery in the enemy line. Then our infantry will attack the enemy on the road under the cover of armored vehicles. The enemy who has been suddenly attacked will certainly rush forward along the road after being hit and hoodwinked. At this time, our troops ambushing on the west slope of the road will fire again to intercept, which will certainly make the enemy more confused. Under the attack of our two troops, the enemy will be defeated by us. That's all my plans. Comrade deputy division commander, do you have anything to add? "

Bantai leiev looked down at the map in front of him and pondered for a long time. Then he slowly shook his head and said, "Sir, you have considered it very comprehensively. I have no different opinions. If there's any regret, it's that we can't deploy artillery positions on the high ground, otherwise we may completely annihilate the invading enemy. "

Seeing that my plan was approved by bantaileiev, I called shejerikov in front of me, repeated what I had just said, and specially told him, "I mean to hide the two companies you brought together in the grass with tanks and armored vehicles; And the earth slope close to the highland should be defended by the commanders and fighters of the second battalion of the third regiment. "

"Comrade division commander," listen to me, I gave the task of setting up an ambush on the slope to the third regiment. Bantaileiev reminded me with some worry, "is it appropriate to give such a task to the third regiment?"

Those who have this kind of worry are not only bandeleev, but also xiejerikov and shereblenny. They all look at me nervously to see if I will change my original decision because of bandeleev's words.

Now that my orders have been issued, if they are constantly changed, it will have a certain impact on my authority, so I firmly said: "Comrade deputy division commander, please rest assured, I believe that the soldiers of the third regiment have not performed well in two successive battles. They have long held back their strength and wanted to perform well. This is just a rare opportunity for them." After these words, I found that the people still looked at me seriously and did not speak. They could only patiently explain to them, "don't worry, the position of the third regiment is very close to the highland. Even if the German army breaks through from them, our troops on the highland can easily defeat the German army which has lost its organizational system."

Seeing my stubbornness, whether it is bantaileiev or shejerikov, I can only accept my fate. After saluting me, shijerikov turned and left the command post to assign tasks to the commanders and fighters.

In the evening, shejerikov sent someone to report to me and bantaileiev that all the troops were in place and ready for battle.

After hearing the report from Sergey rykov, bantaileiev couldn't sit still in the command post of Sergey Brienne and said to me, "Comrade division commander, is it appropriate for commander Sergeant Sergey rykov's troops to hide in the grass beside the road? Won't it be discovered by enemy scouts? "

I'm not sure about Bantai leyev's worries, but I said with feigned calmness: "Comrade deputy division commander, Lieutenant Colonel xiejerikov is a commander who has experienced many battles. I believe that he will not make mistakes in carrying out this combat task."

"But..." although my words have been very clear, bantaileiev is still as restless as an ant on a hot pot. After turning around the room for several times, I just started to say a word, and then I stopped: "Comrade deputy division commander, there is nothing to worry about. If you are not at ease, we might as well go to the front and have a look. Maybe you will feel at ease after reading it. "

Bantai leiev probably wanted to go outside for a long time, but I didn't open my mouth. He was embarrassed to say that. Hearing what I said, he nodded and kept saying, "since that's the case, let's go to the position and have a look. If I don't see with my own eyes that their troops are hiding well, I will never be at ease. "

The two of us, led by shereblenne, came to a nearby observation post. Bantai leiev and I stood side by side in front of the lookout and raised our telescope to look into the distance.

But my camera pulled back and forth several times, except for the vast prairie, I couldn't see where their troops were hiding. I put down my telescope, touched the desk with my elbow, and asked leiev in a low voice, "Hello, comrade deputy division commander, do you see lieutenant colonel xijerikov and them?"

Bantai leiev also put down his telescope, shook his head blankly, and replied, "no, I've looked back and forth for several times, but I haven't seen our hidden troops." Speaking of this, he suddenly asked: "Sir, do you think they haven't entered the hidden position at all?"

After listening to what Bantai leiev said, I quickly waved my hand and denied his conjecture: "Comrade Deputy teacher, this is absolutely impossible. I don't think lieutenant commander sherekov has the courage to take the troops into hiding position. It must have been because they were so hidden that we didn't find them Then I raised my telescope again and looked into the distance.

This time, I learned the lesson just now and didn't search aimlessly. But because of the small slope as a starting point, a little bit to the east to search. I did this, and it worked very quickly. In the grass about two kilometers to the east of xiaotupo, there are several places where the grass is very dense. After careful inspection, I found that there were several tanks and armored vehicles covered with weeds. If I hadn't paid special attention, I might have missed them again.

When I found the hiding place of sergeant shijerikov, I quickly raised my hand and patted leiev on the shoulder. Pointing to the position I had just found, I said to him, "Comrade deputy division commander, look in that direction. Our tanks and armored vehicles are hidden in those prominent haystacks. "

Bandeleev moved the telescope in the direction I was pointing to. After repeated observation, he exclaimed in surprise, "great, great, great!" Then he put down his telescope and said to me excitedly, "Comrade teacher, Lieutenant Colonel chejerikov, they are so well hidden. Let alone the Germans, even if we don't observe them carefully, we can't find them at all. In this case, if the Germans don't come, they will be caught off guard. Sir, do you think the Germans are coming back? " When he said the last sentence, he was obviously a little weak“ Yes, comrade deputy division commander. " I answered him firmly, "the Germans are sure to come. Either tonight or tomorrow morning, they will be back