Chapter 844

The reason why trakov said that was because he knew in his heart that if he treated officers and soldiers like Karpov and Nikolay well, it would not only have military significance, but also political significance. Once more commanders of the eastern battalion learn about the preferential treatment they received from their former companions in our camp, they will waver. Even if they do not immediately join us, at least their loyalty to the Germans will be greatly reduced. In the future large-scale campaign, the German army not only did not dare to use the eastern battalion as confidently and boldly as before, but also specially dispatched troops to monitor them, which would weaken their strength in disguise.

Although I had been prepared for the casualties of camp Karpov, I was heartbroken when I saw that there were only four soldiers following the second lieutenant out of the ranks of the lyudnikov division. You know, at that time, I reinforced the lyudnikov division with a reinforced battalion of 800 soldiers, but now there are only four.

Looking at the four officers and men who met us, trikov instinctively frowned and then asked me, "Comrade oshanina, which of these four is captain Karpov?"

I looked at the officers and men who were approaching us and found that they were all bearded and haggard, and their ragged uniforms were covered with mud. After watching for a long time, I didn't recognize Karpov. I had to shake my head and answer trakov shamefully: "sorry, comrade commander, I can't recognize captain Karpov now."

"And you, Colonel lyudnikov." "Can you recognize captain Karpov?" trekov asked to lyudnikov, who was standing in front of us

Lyudnikov looked back for a long time and finally shook his head and said, "sorry, comrade commander, I can't recognize captain Karpov."

Although lyudnikov and I did not recognize Karpov, the answer was soon revealed. The four of them, led by the second lieutenant, came to us in a neat row. After the second lieutenant reported to lyudnikov, the commander standing on the far right stepped forward, raised his hand to salute us, and then said in a loud voice: "comrades commander, Captain Karpov has been ordered to come, please give instructions!"

Seeing Karpov standing in front of him, trakov's face showed a smile. He stepped forward, took his hand, and said with approval, "Hello, Captain Karpov."

Karpov was a little nervous when he saw trakov holding his hand. He said excitedly, "Hello, comrade commander, I'm glad to see you here!"

While shaking hands with him, trakov looked at me sideways and said, "Comrade captain, I'm here with your division commander oshanina today to welcome you to meet the independent division again, in addition to helping the 70th division of the guards

Hearing the unexpected news, Karpov, who was shaking hands with trakov, was stunned. After a while, he tentatively asked me: "Comrade teacher, is this true?"

"It's true, of course." I replied to Karpov with a smile, "Comrade captain, red flag independent division, welcome back!"

After a few more conversations with me, trekov followed lyudnikov back to his division headquarters. While I was arranging for people to clean the battlefield, I sent people to gather kirilov, akhromeyev and the regiment commander in the city. I was going to hold a temporary military meeting to discuss the next attack direction of the independent division.

Our meeting was held in a newly recovered building. In order to ensure safety and prevent being attacked by the enemy during the meeting, bantaileiev even transferred the tank battalion of pelsjian and placed the only few tanks outside the building.

After the meeting, bantailiev first informed the commanders on the scene about the fighting in the morning. After the briefing, he turned to kirilov and I at the table and asked, "teacher, political commissar, who will speak next?"

Kirilov turned his eyes to me and asked in a consultative tone, "Comrade oshanina, you'd better tell the commanders, and arrange the next combat task for them."

Listening to what the commissar said, I didn't refuse. After nodding, I stood up and said to the commanders in front of me: "comrades, in this morning's battle, the cooperation between artillery and infantry was very good. With more than 60 casualties, I recovered the middle zone occupied by the German army for one month, and destroyed and captured more than 200 German officers and soldiers. Next, the task of our division is to eliminate the German troops who stay in the north and the middle of the city. "

Gaidar, the fourth commander sitting below, suddenly asked, "Comrade division commander, can our attack be supported by friendly forces?"

In response to Gaidar's question, I replied with a bitter smile: "as a result of these months of brutal fighting, the troops in the city have been seriously weakened. They will not be able to provide us with any help until they are replenished with new troops and weapons. That is to say, in the next half month or even longer, our division will be fighting alone. "

"Sir, don't see that the enemy has more troops than us, but their combat effectiveness is already vulnerable." Commander kosga's voice rang out in the crowd. "As long as we launch a few more attacks like this, the enemy will not be able to stop it."

Kosga's words immediately caused a light laugh around, it seems that the vast majority of battalion commanders have a similar view with him. But I frowned in laughter and found that this morning's attack was too smooth, which was not a good thing. Many commanders have already had the feeling of belittling the enemy, so they will suffer greatly in the next battle.

After everyone had laughed, I coughed heavily, cleared my throat, and then said, "comrades, I want to draw your attention to one thing. The reason why we made such a smooth progress in the battle of seizing the middle zone in the morning is that apart from the good cooperation between the commanders and fighters of the first regiment and the artillery battalion of the division, it is more important, It was the enemy who was frightened by our aircraft and artillery after our counter offensive began. Seeing that their friendly forces were attacked, their heavy weapons and technical equipment were hidden for fear of being bombed, and they did not provide the necessary firepower support for the friendly forces, so that we could seize the enemy's positions so smoothly. If we think that the enemy's forces have lost their fighting capacity in this way, we will suffer unexpected losses in the next battle. "

My words made the cheery commanders silent. Obviously, everyone was confused by the small victory in the morning just now. They thought that the enemy was at the end of the crossbow. As long as we launch another fierce attack, the enemy will be completely destroyed by us. I didn't speak when everyone was silent. In my impression, except for the first few days, there was almost a month left after the start of the great counter offensive. There was no record of the 62nd army in the historical materials, which made me worried. If you play well in the city, you will surely write a lot in the history books; But now it's not mentioned at all. Is it because the counterattack under the command of trakov didn't make the German army suffer due losses, but he was beaten to the teeth by the German? In such a situation of uncertain prospects, I have to keep enough vigilance.

Seeing that there was no one to speak to, I looked down at the map on the table, and then said, "at present, the German army has gathered forces of about five divisions in yerman District, jerrensky District, Red October District, barricade district and tractor factory area, and two of them are armored divisions.

According to the judgment of the headquarters of the group army, the enemy we dragged in the city is facing the fate of running out of ammunition and food. Therefore, it is the best time for us to launch an attack on them at this time.

In the next battle, I plan to send a regiment every day to attack the enemy occupied area under the cover of two division artillery battalions. After the capture of yerman District, they launched an attack on the German army in the dzerzhinsky district. I don't ask you to push forward many blocks every day, but I ask you to strengthen the defense of the area every time you occupy a building and take back a street, and never let the Germans take back these areas from our hands. "

"Comrade division commander," akhromeyev asked immediately after I finished saying, "how should the order of attack of each regiment and the area to be attacked be allocated?"

Without thinking, I replied, "I'll give the task of seizing yelman district to the third and fourth regiments. The attack will start at two o'clock this afternoon, and the attack will be completed by the third regiment."

Gaidar, the fourth group leader, stood up from his seat and asked respectfully, "Sir, may I ask you a question?" Seeing that I nodded my permission, he continued, "I don't know how much time our two regiments have to complete the task of occupying yelman?"

"A week." I stretched out a finger and solemnly said to Gaidar and kosja who stood up, "when you two regiments attack, you should pay attention to the cooperation with the artillery and try to reduce the casualties of the troops. Can you do that?"

After listening to me, Gaidar and kosja looked at each other, and then answered in unison, "I can do it!"

After the two of them sat down, I ordered from sergeikov and Oleg, and announced to them, "two comrades of lieutenant colonel, I will give you two regiments the task of seizing the dzerzhinsky district. As soon as the third and fourth regiments have successfully recovered yelman, you two regiments will attack immediately! "

"Yes Two people agree neatly, also double take a seat.

I was just about to ask kirilov to do political agitation work for you. As soon as I turned around, I heard someone calling me after me: "Sir, comrade, please wait a moment." When I looked back, I saw that the speaker was major perskin, the commander of the tank battalion. With a smile, I asked him, "Comrade major, what can I do for you?"

"Comrade division," major perskin asked with an aggrieved face, "I want to ask, what is the task of our tank battalion?"

"Tank battalion?" I was stunned for a moment, and then I thought that I had really forgotten about the tank battalion when I just assigned the task. However, the existing technical equipment of the tank battalion will not be of any use in the following street battles, so I said to pelsjian, "Comrade major, due to the limited technical equipment of the tank battalion, it is difficult to provide our infantry with necessary firepower support in the following battles, so I will not arrange your combat tasks for the time being."

"Comrade division commander, even if the number of tanks in the tank battalion is limited, we still have hundreds of tankers who can use their original infantry." Seeing that I didn't assign tasks to the tank battalion, Perls was very anxious. They didn't plead with me and said, "please believe that we can achieve better results than the infantry."

"Yes, sir, please believe us." Seeing that major perskin was pleading with me to assign a task, his deputy battalion commander, major Prikhodko, and battalion political commissar wajim could not do it any more. They stood up one after another to help the battalion commander ask for a task from me. When I saw that they were eager to fight and could not bear to attack their enthusiasm, I went up to several people and said to them earnestly: "three commanders, it's not that I don't want to assign tasks to you, but that the next two districts to be captured are all fighting floor by floor. The elevation angle of the tank is not enough to destroy the enemy hiding on the roof. If our tanks enter the street without completely clearing the enemy, they will become the target of the enemy's anti tank hands. We have a limited number of tanks and can't afford such losses. Once all the tanks are lost, there will be no tanks available when we attack the factory area. Do you understand? " After listening to my words, the three of them answered neatly, "I see!" No longer entangled with me, and sat down again. In the following time, the third and fourth regiments first launched an attack on the German occupied yeerman district. Because the tactics used by our army are very different from those used by other units of the group army, the enemies who stick to this area are not adapted to our way of playing. After only five days, they have to withdraw from this area. After the capture of yelman District, the first and second regiments immediately launched an attack on the jerrensky district. The first two days went well. From the third day, that is, December 3, the German troops who were familiar with our tactics not only blocked the successive attacks of regiments 1 and 2, but also launched counterattacks against the areas we occupied from time to time. Because of the enemy's counterattack, the original one-sided attack turned into a tug of war. Some streets in the dzerzhinsky district were occupied by our army during the day and lost again at night under the frenzied counterattack of the German army. During the day, they were afraid of the bombing of our air force and did not dare to use heavy weapons. When they counterattacked at night, they used mortars to provide firepower support for the infantry. They not only drove our infantry out of the occupied buildings, but also eliminated several artillery guns of captain kurishenko's artillery battalion. Seeing that the enemy's resistance was so tenacious, I immediately put the regiment that had been on standby into battle, trying to recover our army's advantage in the dzerzhinsky district. With the addition of the new force of the fourth regiment, the sky spirit of victory began to tilt towards us again. On the evening of the 12th, only a few houses on the last street were left in the district. Shejerikov, who was in command of the battle in the front, assured me that as long as the troops launched another charge, they would wipe out all the enemies in the dzerzhinsky district. But without waiting for the news of Xie jerikov's success, I heard the rumble of guns from outside. Then Gaidar, the fourth commander fighting in the area, reported to me: "Comrade division commander, when our regiment was making a final charge against the enemy, the German army suddenly concentrated intensive artillery fire on our attacking troops. At present, the troops with heavy casualties have withdrawn to their starting positions." Before I could verify what happened, and why the German army was so bold that they should risk our air attack and use intensive artillery fire, trekov called. He ordered me on the phone: "Comrade oshanina, the attack on dzerzhinsky district will be suspended. Your troops will stand by and wait for further orders!"“ What, stop attacking? " Trikov's words confused me. I couldn't wait to ask on the phone, "Comrade commander, why is that?"“ Because the enemy's reinforcements have arrived and are attacking the friendly rear. The friendly forces had to turn around and fight against them. "