Chapter 836

After strafing the ground, our fighters pulled up their nose again and circled in the air for several times. After confirming that there was no danger on the ground, they turned around and flew north.

Yushchenko with two soldiers came to the crater, squatted down and asked our situation with concern: "division commander, political commissar, are you not injured?"

I first looked at the back of the two soldiers who ran to the back of the car to check. Then I shook my head and said, "I'm ok. I don't know what happened to the soldiers in the back of the car."

Yushchenko turned to look at the burning jeep and saw that two soldiers were squatting beside their fallen comrades for inspection. He could not help sighing and said with regret: "the German artillery fire is too fierce. It is estimated that they have all died."

Soon after his words, the two soldiers ran back quickly and stood in front of Yushchenko, shaking their heads solemnly, indicating that all the soldiers in the car behind had died.

Hearing that all his subordinates had died, Yushchenko suddenly stood up, turned around and ordered the two soldiers standing behind him: "you two go to the enemy's corpse to search for any survivors."

After the two soldiers left, Yushchenko crouched down again, reached out to kirilov and me and helped us both climb out of the crater.

When I got up from the crater, I felt a slight pain in my chest. Looking down, I saw that there were several depressions in the left chest of the bullet proof vest. This was just when the bomb was beside the car, a fragment hit the chest armor. But fortunately, the quality of this bullet proof vest is not bad, it has not been pierced, otherwise I may become a cold corpse like the driver.

It wasn't long before the two soldiers who went to check the body of the German army came with a terrified German soldier. When the soldier pushed the German soldier in front of me, I first looked left and right, and then asked, "who knows German?" I intend to interrogate the captured German soldier and find out what happened to the ambush.

Yushchenko also looked at the left and right soldiers, then shook his head and said to me, "Comrade division, no one here knows German. Otherwise, we'll take the prisoners to konaii, where we'll find someone who knows German

As soon as Yushchenko's words were finished, kirilov, who had been silent, suddenly said, "I'd better interrogate him." With that, he stepped forward and asked the German prisoners in fluent German. When the German soldiers heard kirilov speak fluent German, they were stunned at first, and then chatted with kirilov.

When the communication between the two ended, kirilov said to me with a bitter smile, "Comrade oshanina, I've got it all figured out. The German tank broke down and broke down on the side of the road. These Germans were riding motorcycles to repair the tank. As a result, they just saw us passing by, so what happened next. "

When kirilov finished speaking, I couldn't help laughing bitterly. It seems that my luck is so bad that even such things happen to me. But on second thought, fortunately, I only brought three jeeps and a dozen people out. If a guard platoon took a truck to work with me, it would have been reimbursed by the German artillery.

"Comrade oshanina, how can we go to kongnieyi?" Seeing the three burning jeeps, kirilov asked anxiously, "it's about five kilometers away from the destination. If you want to walk there, it will take at least an hour."

"Comrade political commissar, we don't have to walk." As soon as kirilov finished, Yushchenko immediately said, pointing to the distance, "you see, there are still several German motorcycles. We can take them to kongyi."

With my permission, Yushchenko and four of his men ran to the place where the German motorcycles were parked, rode one by one, and rode back all the enemy's tricycles. Yushchenko's motorcycle was driving in front of him. Kirilov and I were sitting in front of him. We quickly walked up to him and stood still. We raised our hands to salute him. At the same time, we said, "Comrade commander of the front army, rokosovsky explained to me:" Comrade malining is now the chief of staff of our don front army, He also misses the days when he worked with you

After the greetings, we walked into the regiment headquarters in shejerikov. Because the room is not big and there are too many people here, except for a few senior commanders of the Don front army, me, kirilov and xiejerikov, the rest of them are blocked outside the command post.

When he looked back at me, I asked in a low voice, "Comrade commander, do you have a quiet place here? I want to take off my bullet proof vest. "

"Yes, sir." Shejerikov quickly led me to the front of a room, pushed the door open and said to me, "this is my lounge. You can go inside to change clothes."

When I entered the room, I closed the door behind me. In addition to a bed, there was a small wooden table and a armchair. I took the AK47 off my shoulder and put it on the table. Then I sat down on the chair and took off my bullet proof clothes. I took off my bullet proof vest and put it under my feet. I took off my military coat, lifted the pullover inside, and found several huge blue and purple areas in front of my chest, which was obviously caused by the shrapnel just now. Seeing such a scar, I can't help feeling scared again. If it wasn't for the bullet proof clothes that helped me block the shrapnel, I would have been very lucky.

When I walked out of the room, I saw that everyone was sitting around a wooden table, and rokosovsky was telling kirilov something. I quickly walked over and sat down beside kirilov, and then I heard what rokosovsky said clearly: "for this big counterattack, we were preparing a month or two ago. In the process of mobilizing troops to Stalingrad, we overcame many difficulties. These difficulties were caused by the weak railway transportation capacity in the area north of Stalingrad and the East Bank of Volga River, the muddy roads in autumn, and the continuous attacks of German aviation and artillery on the Volga River Ferry. The German air force also carried out raids on the railway lines leading to Stalingrad. The troops and supplies transferred to the southwest front army and the Don front army had to pass through the line of Balashov povorino Saratov ilovria; The troops and supplies transferred to Stalingrad's front army should pass through the line of ulbach baskonchak ahtuba (East Bank of Volga River). The transportation volume of military materials in Stalingrad was 22292 wagons in September and 22126 wagons in October. So far in November, the number of wagons used has far exceeded that in October. Even so, there was still a shortage of cars, so some troops and regiments had to go on foot from Astrakhan and kameshin to the assembly area, with a distance of three or four hundred kilometers. "“ Comrade commander of the front army, "kirilov and other rokosovsky said that they fell behind for a while, and asked curiously," what strength did our three group armies possess before the counter offensive? " After taking a drink from the tea cup on the table, rokosovsky continued: "we have three front armies in total to take part in this great counterattack. The southwest front army of general vatukin, including the 21st group army, the 1st group army of guards, the 5th group army of tanks, the 2nd and 17th group army of aviation, was launched in the area of 250 km from Pavlovsk to kletskaya on the East Bank of Don river. There are 18 infantry divisions, 3 tank troops, 2 cavalry troops, 1 tank brigade, 1 motorized infantry brigade, 3 tank regiments, 1 motorized regiment, 1 artillery division (a total of 8 regiments), 1 fighter brigade, 59 artillery regiments and mortar regiments in the formation of the front army. They have to deal with 21 divisions and 2 brigades of the 8th Italian army and the 3rd Romanian army. Although the enemy has some advantages in numbers, they have fewer tanks, artillery and mortars. The Don front army, which includes the 65th, 24th and 66th army groups and the 16th army group of the air force, is fighting in the 150 km long area from kletskaya to yerzovka. There are 24 infantry divisions, 1 tank army, 6 tank brigades, 2 fortification areas, 40 artillery regiments and mortar regiments in the formation of the front army. We have to deal with 10 divisions of the German Sixth Army. The enemy is not as good as our army either in number or in artillery and mortar. Stalingrad's front army, including the 62nd, 64th, 57th, 51st and 28th group army and the 8th group army of the air force, was launched in the 450 km long zone from the northern suburb of Stalingrad to Astrakhan. The 62nd and 64th army groups continued to hold fast to Stalingrad City, while the 57th, 51st and 28th army groups covered the lower Volga River from Stalingrad to Astrakhan from the West. The front army consists of 24 infantry divisions, 17 infantry, fighter and motorized infantry brigades, 1 mechanized army, 1 tank army, 1 cavalry army, 7 fortification areas, 63 artillery regiments and mortar regiments. There are 19 divisions to deal with part of the sixth German army, the fourth tank army and the fourth Romanian army. " When rokosovsky reported a series of data like a treasure, kirilov quickly took out a pen and paper from his briefcase to record. I looked up at rokosovsky. Seeing that he didn't mean to stop kirilov from recording, I knew that these military data were not top secret at the moment, so I listened to rokosovsky patiently. After talking about the strength of all front forces, rokosovsky turned to malining and said, "chief of staff, please tell Rita how our troops broke through the German defense." Malining nodded and stood up to introduce to us how the 65th and 24th army, the main forces of the Don front army, broke through the German defensive positions on the first day of the counter offensive During the period from November 22 to 23, general Batov's 65th group army, with its own right wing regiment, together with the 3rd army of the close guard cavalry of the 21st group army of the southwest front army, occupied the settlements of zimlovsky, Platonov, olekhov, Rogowski, upper bujinovka, golubaka, Wencai, etc. The 15th and 376th German infantry divisions and the 14th German tank division, which were defeated by them, have retreated to Stalingrad to join their main forces. " After malining introduced the current situation of the enemy and ourselves, rokosovsky took over the topic and said, "the situation of the enemy is clear now, Rita, talk about your next consideration!"