Chapter 846

After listening to their analysis, I looked at bantailiev with admiration, and said that ginger is still spicy. Although this bantailiev colonel is usually old-fashioned, his experience in the army is much richer than that of akhromeyev, a younger generation. I will just say that casually, he can actually accurately analyze who the new commander of the front army is.

Thinking of the imminent merger of the two front armies, I can't help thinking about my own way out in the future. After the battle of Stalingrad, it is unlikely that he will stay in the 62nd army. He is likely to be transferred to other front forces. The most likely one is the Leningrad front army or the Volkhov front army of general meletskov. If I am transferred, the current independent division will not go with me. Then I will be alone again. I feel lost when I think of the difficulties I may face in the new environment.

I thought about my own affairs, forgetting that I was still staring at Bantai leiev. He was a little embarrassed by my stare and coughed hard, which woke me up from my meditation. Then he asked me carefully, "Comrade division, there are still more than 30000 residents who have been rescued in yelman district and jerrensky district. How can we resettle them?"

Before my mind returned to the normal track, kirilov added: "the Deputy teacher is right. These refugees are short of food and medicine, and our food reserves are not enough. If they are not settled as soon as possible, I am afraid that many people will die of cold and hunger. "

In the recovery of yelman and jerzinski districts, we rescued as many as 40000 residents from the enemy's hands. When I found that there were so many residents in the enemy occupied area, I immediately reported to the headquarters of the group army. Trakov was not in the headquarters at that time. The one who answered the phone was military Commissioner gurov. After hearing this news, he kept silent for a long time. Finally, he said to me in embarrassment: "because of the influence of climate, the transportation capacity of the ice transportation line is limited, and only a small number of soldiers and limited materials can be transported to the city every day. Under such circumstances, it is unrealistic to evacuate all these refugees to the East Bank of the Volga River, so they can only stay in your division's defence area for the time being. "

When I heard gurov say this, I was in a hurry: "Comrade military commissar, the daily food consumption of more than 30000 residents is an unexpected astronomical figure. With the existing food stock of our division, we can not meet the needs of the refugees."

Hearing my complaint, gurov also said helplessly: "Comrade oshanina, you can't support these tens of thousands of people, and we can't do as well. But please rest assured that our group army headquarters will do its best to provide the refugees in your area with necessary food. "

Although gurov has vowed to provide us with food supplies, we have not received any supplements in food, medicine, guns and ammunition in the past ten days. Seeing that the supplies promised by the group army were not in place, I had to reduce the ration of each resident from the initial 300 grams to 200 grams. At the same time, I also organized small teams to send the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled who could still walk to the east bank in batches, so as to reduce our supply pressure. After more than ten days, only tens of thousands of people were sent away, and more than 30000 people were left. At this time, there was a problem in our food supply.

After thinking about it for a long time, I put forward my own idea to kirilov: "Comrade political commissar, in order to maintain the status of these refugees, we can only reduce their food ration again. From now on, 150 grams of bread per person per day for adults and 75 grams per person for children. "

Before I finished my words, akhromeyev exclaimed, "Comrade division, this quota is too small. Before long, the residents will suffer from malnutrition. Especially for children, it's time to grow up. This is good for them... "

I raised my hand to interrupt his words behind him, and said to him solemnly: "Comrade chief of staff, please remember that our division is also facing food shortage now. If we do not control the distribution of food to the residents, our soldiers will soon be too hungry to carry weapons. How can they fight against the fierce Germans?"

Seeing that akhromeyev was speechless by me, I couldn't bear it, so I added: "well, all the residents who have joined the militia or helped our soldiers to reinforce the fortification work will be given another 200 grams of dried bread."

When I said that, akhromeyev's face softened a lot. He nodded and said, "OK, I'll call the leaders of the regiments and pass your order on to them."

When akhromeyev called, I said to kirilov in a low voice, "Comrade political commissar, at present, the food reserve in the division can only last two or three days. Do you think it's up to you to negotiate with Comrade military commissar and ask the headquarters of the group army to provide us with a batch of food so as to solve our urgent problem?"

After listening to me, kirilov nodded his head and said, "I'd like to talk to Comrade Vasiliev, director of the Political Department of the group army, about this matter. If he is here to help us, it will be easier." At this point, he stopped, frowned and thought about it. Then he asked me very seriously, "Comrade oshanina, I want to ask you something. Now that the Germans have launched an attack on the outside of our encirclement, can our encirclement and annihilation plan against the polusian regiment continue as originally envisaged

Bantaileiev heard the conversation between kirilov and me. He looked around and asked in a low and mysterious voice: "yes, comrade division commander, will the Paulus troops in the encirclement be destroyed by us? In other battlefields, we have encountered the situation of encircling the enemy but not eating it. As a result, the enemy's reinforcements came up and completely annihilated our troops. "

Seeing that my two deputies doubted whether we could win the battle of Stalingrad, I couldn't laugh or cry. But at this time, I can't tell them the final outcome of the campaign. I can only say vaguely, "political commissar and deputy division commander, you think too much. Although the enemy is still very tenacious at present, their living strength will be consumed by us in the next battle."

After akhromeyev finished the call, he went back to the table and reported to me, "Mr. division, your order has been passed on, and several leaders are adjusting the food quota for the residents."

"How is the defense going in the dzerzhinsky district?" Compared with the food quota issue, I am more concerned about the defense of the regiments. So as soon as akhromeyev finished his report, I immediately asked, "can their fortifications resist the German attack?"

Akhromeyev nodded his head vigorously and said with certainty: "no problem, sir. According to the reports of the 1st and 4th regiments, all the doors and windows of the building they occupied were blocked with bricks and stones on the side facing the German defense, leaving only the shooting holes. Even if the German army touched it at night, it could not carry out the fire inside the building. The second regiment has a relatively small force, and they are responsible for the defensive work at the junction of yerman district and jerrensky district. "

Hearing that every regiment had done a good job in defense, the stone hanging in my heart finally fell to the ground. Next, I called several division commanders stationed in the rear of our division one by one, informed them of our defense deployment, and reminded them to be on guard against possible German attacks.

After daybreak, I took a guard platoon to the dzerzhinsky district to inspect the defense of several regiments. Not far away from the headquarters, a woman with a headscarf, holding a child with the same headscarf, came to me. When I saw us, the woman, who could not see her age, suddenly let go of the two children and rushed at me.

Yushchenko, who was in charge of protecting us, saw the woman rushing towards me. He was afraid that I was in any danger. He quickly yelled and welcomed me with two soldiers. Although the woman is very tall, she may have been hungry for a long time and her feet are floating when she walks. She is not the match of the three strong men at all. Just a face-to-face, she obediently put her hands down.

Seeing that his mother was caught by two soldiers, the two children in the distance were scared to cry. Confused by what happened before my eyes, I immediately ordered Yushchenko to bring up the woman, and called two soldiers to bring the child. I wanted to find out what happened.

When the woman was brought to me, looking at the old woman in front of me, I didn't think she wanted to do something wrong to me. First, I waved to catch her and let the soldiers let go. Then I put on an amiable look and asked, "Comrade woman, what can I do for you?"

The woman looked left and right with vigilance. Seeing that the soldier had released her hand, she rushed towards me. She grabbed my arm and said in a weak voice, "Comrade commander, please have pity on me. My child and I haven't eaten for several days and are starving to death. Give me something to eat."

In our division's defense area, there are more than 30000 refugees. Although each regiment distributes food every day, I know that some residents can't get the food they need to live on. So when I knew that this woman was blocking my way just to beg for some food for herself and my children, I didn't mean to blame anyone. Instead, he turned around and asked the left and right soldiers, "which of you has something to eat?"

One of the soldiers standing on my right agreed: "Comrade division, I have one here." With that, he took off his backpack, opened the bag, and took out a piece of black bread, which was square in shape and weighed one jin, and handed it to me. I want to take the bread, after thanking the soldier, I handed it to the woman in front of me.

Originally, I thought this woman would call her two children in front of her when she took the bread and tear a little crumb of bread for them to eat. Unexpectedly, after the woman took the bread, she grabbed the bread in one hand, and the other hand kept tearing the pieces off and stuffing them into her mouth. Regardless of the two children holding her legs, they kept shouting, "Mom, I'm hungry, I'm hungry!"

Seeing this, my nose was sore. I will close my eyes tightly, so as not to burst into tears. After I opened my eyes again, I turned to the soldier who had just given me bread and asked apologetically, "Comrade soldier, do you still have bread there?"

The soldier shook his head and said regretfully, "I'm sorry, sir, there is no more."

"I have it here." Just as I looked back, a piece of bread came to me. I followed the hand holding the bread and saw that it was captain Yushchenko who offered his bread. I nodded to him with a smile, picked up the bread in his hand, carefully pulled it into two pieces, and handed it to the two crying children.

When we moved forward again, I heard soldiers around me muttering: "this mother is really selfish. When she has food, she only cares about her own food and doesn't care about her children at all."“ It's too selfish to be a mother. " As soon as his voice fell, the soldiers immediately echoed him“ Comrades, I think that woman did the right thing. " Hearing the comments of the soldiers, I can't help but also want to talk about my own point of view: "you only see the appearance that she only cares about eating for herself after she gets the food, regardless of her two children, but you don't see that she does it for the sake of children."“ Sir, why do you say that? " Next to a soldier puzzled to ask: "clearly she self-care to fill his stomach, regardless of children, how to say is for the sake of children?" Seeing that all the soldiers around were puzzled, and even Yushchenko was puzzled, I had to further explain to them: "as you can see, her two children are still very young. If the mother starves to death, who will take care of their future life? Do you think that under the current situation, Will they have the ability to take care of themselves? " Speaking of this, I thought of Rita's child alik for no reason, and my heart pricked inexplicably. Seeing that all the people shook their heads and thought that the two children did not have the ability to take care of themselves, I continued, "only when the mother survived can the two children continue to survive." As soon as we entered the jerrensky District, we met the checkpoint set up by the second regiment. The commander on duty was captain horushov, a battalion commander I was familiar with. I took horushov's hand and asked with concern, "Comrade captain, long time no see. How are you doing recently?" While shaking hands with me, horushov said with a wry smile, "Comrade division commander, when I was a battalion commander, I had seven or eight hundred soldiers under my command, but now you can see," he said with a smile. "There are only 25 soldiers left in the whole battalion, including me, and I have changed from a battalion commander to a platoon commander." Seeing that he looked dejected, I immediately comforted him and said, "Comrade captain, don't worry. Although the number of people in your battalion is a little less, in a while, the superior will supplement our division, and I will give priority to the second regiment." Horushov was rejoicing when I said that. When we heard that we wanted a regiment's defense area, we immediately called a soldier to come and let him act as a guide for us. Guided by the guide, we walked cautiously along the streets full of craters and debris. Along the way, I carefully observed the buildings on both sides of the street, and found that many buildings on the street side, doors and windows were blocked by bricks and stones. Some buildings are connected by traffic trenches. In order to avoid being found by the enemy, they are covered with cover plates. If you don't look carefully, you can't find them. When he arrived at the command post of the first regiment, the commander of the regiment was not present. He went to the defense area of the fourth regiment, leaving only the deputy commander of the regiment, commander Ilya. Seeing me enter the command post, Elia immediately stood up from her seat and came to salute me and report the current situation of the regiment. Although I heard what lieutenant commander Elia said, I was still not at ease when I saw a regiment's defensive position with my own eyes, so I asked Elia to take me to the front to have a look. In order not to expose the target, except for Elia and me, there were only two soldiers with Captain Yushchenko. Elia took me to a loft that had not been destroyed by shells and bombs, and had a bird's-eye view of the enemy and ourselves defense area below. Elijah pointed to the following and said to me, "Comrade division, the fortification where our soldiers are hiding is only 50 meters away from the enemy in the opposite building." "What defensive measures have you taken?" I asked casually as I raised my telescope“ In addition to facing the enemy side of the doors and windows are all blocked with bricks, leaving only the shooting hole. We also planted mines outside the building, and a combat team with a machine gun, two submachine guns and ten rifles formed a small defensive zone. In this way, as long as the enemy steps on the land mines, our combat team hiding in the building can take advantage of their dizziness and give them heavy damage. " In my telescope lens, the German soldiers in the opposite building of our army walk around the window without scruple, and some even boldly lean out half of the body from the window. Seeing this, I put down my telescope, turned to Elijah and asked, "Comrade commander, do you see the enemy in the opposite building?" Elijah glanced at the distance from the corner of her eye, quickly took it back, nodded at the same time, and said with certainty, "yes, sir, I see it. These Germans are very arrogant. They not only swagger and don't cover up their whereabouts when they change posts, but also often smoke at the window after they change posts. They don't pay attention to our army at all. " My brow frowned and I asked discontentedly, "are you used to the enemy's performance?" After hearing this, Elijah nodded and seriously replied, "yes, sir, we have long been used to the arrogance of the enemy."