Chapter 809

Yesterday, the German attack on Highland 107.5 was a must. Although we finally repulsed the German attack, the second regiment paid a heavy price of more than 400 people. So today, just after dawn, I took major basmanov to the observation post on the top of the mountain to pay close attention to the movement of highland 107.5.

I didn't expect that until the end of the day, I still didn't see any movement from the German army, neither shelling nor bombing, let alone attacking troops. Basmanov, who was working as a guard outside, also noticed this abnormality. He went into the observation center and carefully prompted me to say, "Sir, the Germans are very abnormal today. They have all arrived at this point, but they haven't seen any movement. Will there be any conspiracy?"

I didn't speak. I just looked at him. Then I turned around, picked up the phone and dialed the division headquarters: "Hello, chief of staff, what's the matter with you?"

Akhromeyev quickly reported to me: "Comrade division commander, according to the feedback from the group army command, today's factory area is as calm as ours, and almost all the fighting is carried out in the defense areas of the 64th and 57th army. Perhaps, as the commander has analyzed, the enemy needs a period of time to replenish its forces, weapons and ammunition, so there is not enough strength to attack us for the time being. "

I think akhromeyev's words are very reasonable. At this point, the German army has not made any movement. It seems that they will not attack today. They can just use this time to repair the fortifications. So I ordered akhromeyev: "in this case, the chief of staff is of the same mind. We can't waste our time. We should immediately contact the commander of the engineering company, Captain Mikhail yev, Let him take his troops to 107.5 to repair the fortifications. With a solid and perfect defense system, we can greatly reduce the casualties of our troops in the next battle. "

Although I said that sending engineers to help repair fortifications was to reduce the casualties of the troops, what I thought in my heart was that the Soviet counterattack would start in about 20 days. If the mamayev post was lost before the counterattack, it would be an extremely tragic fate waiting for me. Therefore, I tried my best to take preventive measures to avoid such a tragedy.

As there are many trucks in the division now, when the engineering company goes to highland 107.5, it does not go on foot, but by car. So less than half an hour later, I saw the army led by Captain mihayev, busy on the northern slope of the highland.

Basmanov stood beside me for a while. Seeing that I didn't speak, he took the initiative to retreat. After looking at Highland 107.5 for a while, I turned my attention to the German front in the northeast.

In the long trench, I saw some soldiers with helmets passing by from time to time. Several firepower points that we had destroyed were rebuilt and carefully reinforced. To the south of the trench, there were two barbed wire fences with an interval of 70-80 meters, and the open field in the middle, needless to say, must be the minefield laid by the German army.

I silently looked at this front position which we had captured several times but could not keep. I thought with regret that it was a pity that there were too few artillery in the division. Otherwise, as long as we put all the artillery on the high ground of the fourth regiment and bombard them every day, we could cause a lot of casualties to the enemy.

I was just in my head when the phone rang suddenly. Before I turned to answer the phone, busmanov came in from the outside and took the lead in picking up the phone: "Hello, this is the observation post. Where are you?"

Although I didn't look back, I guessed that most of the calls were from the division headquarters. Sure enough, I soon heard basmanov calling me: "Comrade division chief, it's the chief of staff."

I quickly put down my telescope, turned and walked up to basmanov, took the phone from him and said, "Comrade chief of staff, it's me."

"Comrade division commander," akhromeyev asked in a consultative tone, "can you go back to the division headquarters immediately?"

I recognized his anxiety from his voice, and immediately guessed that there must be something in the headquarters that I need to go back immediately, so I quickly asked, "what's the matter?"

"Yes, sir. Just now, comrade commander called to ask where you were. I said you were in the observation center. He said that as soon as you go back, I will call him back immediately and say that I have something important to ask for you. "

It must not be a trivial thing for trakov to come to me at such a time. Thinking of this, I immediately agreed, "OK, I'll go back right away."

When I walked into the headquarters, akhromeyev took the initiative to call the headquarters of the group army. When I got through, he said respectfully to the microphone, "Hello, please help me find commander trakov, general oshanina of the independent division. I have something to report to him."

I walked quickly to him, took the microphone and put it to my ear. After a while, from the receiver came trakov's majestic voice: "I'm trakov!"

"Hello, comrade commander." I heard trakov's voice, quickly confessed his identity, and then asked him: "I don't know you call me, what can I do for you?"

"Well, comrade oshanina." In a gentle tone, trakov said to me, "since we talked in your headquarters, I have put forward the proposal of launching a sniper movement in various units. The Military Commission of the group army headed by Comrade gurov also supports this initiative very much. The group army's newspaper, defending the motherland, publishes every day the number of bandits killed by our snipers, and publishes pictures of excellent snipers. All political departments and party and League organizations participated in leading the sniper movement, discussed this issue at the party and League meeting, and formulated various measures in detail to improve the skills of sharpshooters. Each sniper takes on the task of training several shooting experts and training them to be independent snipers. Since we launched this campaign, the democracies who have been dazed by us have suffered a lot. At least thousands of German soldiers have fallen under the gun of our snipers. " I don't understand that trikov suddenly mentioned this, so he could only echo and say: "yes, comrade commander, I also know this from all aspects. Although we didn't invest a lot of troops, our achievements were not small, and even far exceeded those of one or two divisions."“ Although our snipers have achieved good results, but... "Trekov's tone suddenly became severe," but today, our snipers have become the targets of other people's hunting. " Trekov's words surprised me. Did the sniper of other troops also encounter the headmaster of the Sniper School? In order to find out what happened, I asked directly, "Comrade commander, what's the matter?" "Half an hour ago, I received reports from the commander of the 95th infantry division, Col. gorishner, and the commander of the 37th guard division, major general roluev. The snipers they sent to yelman district and jerrensky district were all killed by the German snipers," he said solemnly When I heard that another 11 snipers were killed by mysterious snipers, I couldn't help worrying about Vasili and the three of them, deeply afraid that they would also encounter something unexpected. Maybe I was so worried that I didn't hear what trakov said. It wasn't until trakov raised his voice and called me several times that I woke up and quickly replied, "Comrade commander, I'm here. Do you have any instructions?"“ Did you listen to me again when I spoke to you? " "I've been talking to you for a long time, but you didn't even respond," he asked When I heard that trakov was angry, I quickly explained, "Comrade commander, it's like this. Our division also encountered this situation yesterday. Seven snipers who went out to carry out the task were killed by the German mysterious snipers. "“ What, your division also encountered this kind of situation, then why don't you report it to me in time? " As for trekov's reproach, I bitterly explained to him, "Comrade commander, in order to find out who this German sniper is, I have sent three of the best snipers in the division headed by lieutenant Vassily this morning to look for the German secret sniper."“ How long have they been out? " Trekov asked“ We set out before dawn. " My answer made trikov very satisfied. Instead of pestering me about not reporting this matter in time, he slowed down and said to me, "Comrade oshanina, once lieutenant Vassily and them come back, no matter what the situation is, you should report it to me in time. Do you understand? " Just as I was about to answer, there was a rush of footsteps at the door. At the same time, someone was shouting outside. I covered the microphone and just wanted basmanov to go out to see what happened. Among the crowd, Lieutenant Vassily was walking in the front. He looked so embarrassed that he didn't even have a helmet on his head. And behind the crowd, there are two stretchers, as soon as they enter the headquarters, the room suddenly appears crowded“ Hello, comrade o'shanina, "came the roar of trakov from the receiver," why don't you speak? "“ Report commander, "I released my hand covering the receiver and reported to him," it's lieutenant Vassily. It's lieutenant Vassily and his companions coming back. "“ Oh, Lieutenant Vassily is back? " There was a surprise voice from the receiver: "let them report immediately. How is the task being completed?"