Chapter 841

It was getting dark as our motorcade passed through mamayev hill and 107.5 highland. I looked out at the darkening sky outside the car window. Then I turned around and discussed with kirilov, "Comrade political commissar, it's getting dark. Shall we find a place to settle our troops first?"

After listening to me, kirilov was stunned, and then asked, "Comrade oshanina, the troops are not going to the city tonight?"

I shook my head and answered him, "we are not familiar with the situation in the city. If we drive our troops into the city rashly, it is easy to misunderstand with friendly forces in the dark, causing unnecessary casualties. So I'm going to let the troops gather in the residential area behind the mamayev post first. You and bantailiev will gather the regiment and battalion commanders of each regiment to have a meeting to study how to fight tomorrow? "

When I finished, kirilov asked curiously, "Comrade oshanina, won't you go to the residential area with us?"

"I also immediately went to the headquarters of the group army to ask the commander about the situation of the lyudnikov division, so as to work out the battle plan for tomorrow."

"For your safety's sake, I think you should take at least a row of soldiers with you." When I heard that I was going to the group army headquarters to accept the mission, kirilov worried about my safety again, so he told me to take more troops with me.

In fact, even if he doesn't say it, I will consider my own safety. Victory is in sight. If I am killed by a bullet that doesn't know where to fly, it's really unfair.

I arrived at the headquarters of the group army safely. As soon as I entered the gate, I was seen by kreilov, who was sitting facing the gate. He turned to the side and said, "Comrade oshanina is coming!" Then he got up to meet me, and at the same time he stretched out his hands to me.

When I shook hands with him, I saw several more people standing at the table. I fixed my eyes and found that it was trakov, gurov or Vasiliev, director of the political department. After shaking hands with Krylov, I went to salute and shake hands with some of them.

After greeting, trikov asked about the details of our division's meeting with the army of the Don river. Although I had sent several telegrams to the headquarters of the group army to report this time before, I saw that trakov wanted to know the specific situation, so I got up from my seat and reported it to them in detail.

When I reported to you, I saw that all of you were at ease. I couldn't help thinking: has the lyudnikov division broken the siege of the German army, or else their expressions would be so calm?

As soon as my report was over, gurov turned to trakov and said, "Comrade commander, no wonder the German attack in the city has completely stopped in the past two days. It turned out that the attack launched by general rokosovsky had effectively restrained the main forces of the German army, so that they had to transfer troops to fill the breach opened by our army, So I can't compete with us in the city any more. "

"That's fine." "Since the Germans don't have the ability to attack us, it's our turn to attack them," he said

As soon as trikov finished, I couldn't wait to ask, "Comrade commander, I don't know what's the situation of Colonel lyudnikov now?"

Trikov looked up at me, turned his head to the direction of Krylov, and said, "chief of staff, it's up to you to introduce Colonel lyudnikov to Comrade oshanina."

Krailov nodded, stood up and said to me, "Comrade oshanina, the lyudnikov division is surrounded by the German army. It's a one kilometer long, 300 meter wide narrow area by the Volga River. After the great counterattack, we ordered the 95th infantry division of Colonel gorishner, who was only 300 meters away from the division, to attack the German troops stationed in the middle of the area together with the ludnikov division, so as to break the siege and realize the purpose of joining forces.

After the beginning of the battle, the commanders and fighters of the two divisions were very brave, especially many of the commanders and fighters of the lyudnikov division. When they ran out of ammunition, they dropped their guns, held grenades, bravely advanced against the enemy's bullets, and used grenades to blow up one firepower point after another occupied by the German army. At the end of the first day of fighting, the two divisions lost nearly 500 casualties, but only pushed less than 100 meters in the middle. When we studied the war reports at night, we found that we could neither annihilate the enemy who came out to the "barricade" factory area nor rescue the lyudnikov division as soon as possible by the attack of infantry alone. Because we have neither tanks nor reserves.

What should we do? How can we save the ludnikov division?

Just as we racked our brains and couldn't come up with a good way, the artillery commander of the group army, hogarsky, suddenly proposed that at this time, our artillery on the left bank of the Volga River could be used to destroy the enemy with the artillery fire on the east bank.

As soon as general hogarsky put forward his own proposal, Lieutenant Colonel Wei yinlubu, deputy director of the tank corps, first raised his objection, saying that there are many difficulties for us to carry out this operational plan: to shoot at every enemy stronghold very accurately, it requires a magic gunner. We have the magic gunners, but it is very difficult to carry out shooting correction from the West Bank, because the impact of ice often interrupts the wired communication, and the effect of wireless communication is too poor and unreliable.

In view of these problems raised by Lieutenant Colonel Wei yinlubu, after repeated research and verification, we finally decided to mark the area occupied by the enemy from north to south, from Volga River to the forefront, with a pole that can be seen clearly from the east bank. In this way, a large profile of 600-800 meters wide is formed in the molecular circle. Our artillery can clearly see this line from the east bank and bombard the enemy's firepower point with no missed bullets.

The firing was carried out with the help of the school shooters on the West Bank, who observed and accurately pointed out the target and the deviation of the projectile, reported the results to the artillery observation stations, which then relayed the results to the firing positions.

The infantry units of lyudnikov and gorishne, seeing the devastating bombardment of the enemy by our artillery, quickly entered the distance where they could throw grenades. Seeing that our troops rushed up, the artillery pressed the luminous signal to stop the artillery fire on the east bank. At this time, the infantry unit, mainly the assault team, launched a short impact with hand grenades to attack and capture the enemy hiding in the civil firing point and basement. "

When I heard that the situation of lyudnikov division was better than I expected, I could not help but feel relieved. I said that if their division could get direct support from the East Coast Artillery, it would not be difficult to break through the enemy's encirclement. Why did trakov bring our division back from such a far place? Isn't it unnecessary?

I am very familiar with trekov. According to my previous character, I will ask in a slightly resentful tone: since the situation of division lyudnikov has improved, why do I have to transfer our division to the city in a hurry? However, I have learned a lot from rokosovsky during the day I spent with him to save my life in troubled times. First, I should make a good relationship with my superiors so that he will not kill you; Second, we should make more contributions to make our superiors feel that you are very important, and that if they want to kill you, it will be a matter that is not worth the loss.

So after krailov finished speaking, I tried to squeeze a smile on my face, pretended to be respectful and asked, "Comrade commander, do you have any other tasks besides rescuing the lyudnikov division this time?"

Trikov didn't seem to notice my difference. He said as usual: "oshanina, the first task of your division at present is to get through the middle between the ludnikov division and the gorishner division, and destroy or defeat the German troops stationed in this area. Do you understand? "

As soon as his words were finished, I immediately replied without hesitation, "I understand. I promise to finish the task!"

Gulov looked up at me and said slowly: "Comrade oshanina, although the distance between the two divisions is only 150 meters, because this is the key defense area of the German army, the attacks launched by the two divisions have not worked, but increased a lot of casualties. I want to hear what you think. "

When gurov said this, the headquarters became quiet again, and everyone's eyes turned to me, waiting for me to come up with a good way to reassure them.

After thinking about it, I decided to tell them my consideration: "I think that it is inappropriate to use tanks in cities full of ruins and craters, so I only intend to use artillery to provide artillery support for infantry."

"Wait a minute, o'shanina." Before I finished, krailov interrupted me and said anxiously, "the reason why our two divisions can't join up is that they can't capture the area occupied by the German army. The buildings in this area were blocked by the buildings along the river, so that our artillery on the east bank could not destroy them with artillery fire. As far as I know, the number of artillery of the independent division is limited at present. Can the attacking infantry really get the necessary artillery support in case of street fighting? You know, those buildings are very strong. They can't be destroyed without guns. "

As for Krylov's worry, I explained in detail: "Comrade chief of staff, please rest assured that I want a new artillery company with 12 guns from general rokosovsky. In tomorrow's battle, I will break these guns into parts, follow the assault teams, and push them towards the city. Once our infantry encounter the suppression of the enemy's firepower points, then the artillery following can quickly destroy the enemy's firepower points. "

After I finished my thoughts, I looked at trakov nervously, worried whether he would agree with me to adopt this new style of play in the street fight tomorrow. You should know that many tactics are deeply rooted in the Soviet army. If you change them without authorization, it will bring you some unnecessary troubles.

After listening to me, trikov frowned and stared at me for a long time. Finally, he said calmly, "well, since Comrade oshanina is so confident, we'll fight the street fight tomorrow according to your idea."

After leaving the headquarters of the group army, under the protection of Yushchenko, I returned to the division headquarters in the settlement. As soon as I walked in, I saw a lot of people sitting inside. Seeing me enter the door, the commanders who were sitting stood up in unison and straightened their waists like a telegraph pole.

I walked quickly to the table, raised my hands and pressed them down. I ordered everyone to sit down Seeing that all the people were seated, I sat down beside kirilov and asked him in a low voice, "Comrade political commissar, are all the people here?"

"The second regiment is still in gorodysea." Kirilov answered me in a low voice, and added: "general rokosovsky has just sent a telegram saying that the receiving troops will not arrive at gorodyse until noon tomorrow, so let our troops stay one more day."“ Let's have a meeting I nodded, then turned and rushed to akhromeyev, saying briefly. Although during the battle of Stalingrad, the main defense direction of the independent division was the enemy from the north of mamayev post, we were not unfamiliar with street fighting. Not to mention that when the independent division became an army, its first combat task was to capture the occupied residential areas. Even while firmly guarding the mamayev post, the 1st, 3rd and 4th regiments successively stationed in the residential areas sent out small teams to enter the city together with the sniper teams, and carried out small-scale urban guerrilla warfare with the German army in the city, which also achieved great results. Now it's not a trivial matter to fight such street battles again. Akhromeyev has been in the independent division for quite a long time, so he has a good understanding of some guerrilla tactics and common sense of street fighting in the division. Therefore, he has a clear idea of how to set up tomorrow's offensive tasks. The next day, at the dawn of the day, our offensive battle aimed at saving the friendly troops began. We didn't prepare for the fire before the attack. The second battalion of the first regiment, as the main attack task, broke the whole regiment into parts, took the class as the unit, used the surrounding terrain, walked through the ruins of the city, and quickly approached the buildings occupied by the German army. Deputy division commander Bantai leiev and I were standing in front of a wall hole on the second floor of a building. We raised our binoculars and looked at the troops who were getting closer to the enemy building. Bantai leiev saw that the enemy's building was not moving, so he pointed to the dense corpses in the street and kindly reminded me: "Comrade division, is there any conspiracy for the enemy to delay firing? You see how many officers and soldiers we have sacrificed on this street, four or five hundred of them. It can be seen from this that the defense of the enemy in front of us must be very strong. I think it is necessary for us to remind lieutenant colonel chejerikov to make the commanders and fighters more alert. " I put down my telescope, turned to Bantai and said, "don't worry, comrade Deputy teacher. Sergeant chejerikov has a lot of experience in street fighting. The German fortifications can't help him... "As soon as I finished, there was a lot of gunfire in front of me. I quickly raised my telescope and looked at the gunshot. I saw a building on the upper and lower floors of more than a dozen windows, there were signs of the German, they were carrying guns on the streets of the second battalion officers and men shooting fiercely. Unfortunately, more than a dozen soldiers rushed to the front were shot and fell down. The following officers and soldiers hid behind the ruins and shot back at the enemy. Seeing the fierce German firepower, I could not help but frown and think to myself: Hell, where is captain kurishenko's artillery battalion? Why don't they fire? At this time, a violent explosion took place in the rear of the German army. The wall facing us fell like paper paste, and the German army who had been shooting at the window fell down one after another.