Chapter 864

When I heard what wachuk said, I couldn't help crying bitterly. Although the building was half collapsed, from my position, we could see the rows of black holes on the rubble outside the enemy building. Our soldiers rushed up like this. No matter how brave they were, they couldn't stand the three-dimensional firepower of the German army behind the window upstairs and the rubble on the ground. But now that the troops have rushed up, it's too late to call them back.

The next thing happened as expected. When our officers and men rushed to the German position only a hundred meters away, the German troops upstairs and behind the rubble fired decisively. Under the intensive fire, our troops soon lost more than half of their lives. At least 50 or 60 of them were killed or injured, and the rest of the officers and men were too pressed by the fire to move in the craters on the snow.

In addition to machine guns, submachine guns and rifles, mortar shells kept flying out of the building to attack the area crawling with our army officers and soldiers. The shells exploded around the surviving soldiers, and the soil with snow, weapon parts and broken limbs and arms were constantly thrown into the air, and then kept falling on our soldiers, covering them up little by little.

Seeing this, I can't help but scold in my heart: these damned Krauts must have captured our new fortifications and used them against us after careful study, otherwise they would not have arranged mortars in the building.

When wachuk saw that his army's attack was frustrated again, he was very angry. After taking a deep breath, he turned to the back and ordered: "chief of staff, call two companies again and let them continue to rush forward. Before dark, he must seize this building for me."

I didn't expect that the chief of staff didn't follow his orders to make a phone call. Instead, he said with tears in his eyes: "Comrade division commander, we can't make a phone call like this any more. We can't break through the enemy's defense without artillery support. This attack has just been going on for more than an hour, and our division has killed two or three hundred people! If we continue to fight like this, it won't be long before the whole division will be finished. "

After glancing at me, wachuk yelled angrily at his division chief of staff, "no! We must take down the enemy's position! Don't you understand that the enemy of the building in front of us is a nail wedged into our division's defense line. If we don't remove them, we can't move on! I ordered the charge to continue, even if it was "this thing!" I interrupted wittkov's later words with a smile, saying that you are just hearsay, but I have seen this new rank which is about to be changed, so I put on a look of disapproval and said, "I thought it was a great event. It was just a change of rank. I knew about it a month ago. As far as I know, the ranks of political workers will be abolished. In the future, there will be no more talk of political commissars at the military level, division level or regimental level. Instead, they will all be changed to the corresponding ranks. For example, our political commissar, comrade Vasiliev, will be awarded the rank of major after the implementation of the new rank. "

After hearing this, Vasiliev's face was suddenly enlightened, and then said to me: "so it is. I just feel strange today. Why is the military commissar of the Don front army not a political worker, but a major general. When Comrade commander said that, I understand that they have already implemented a new rank in the army. " After a pause, he could not help asking, "Comrade commander, do you know what the new epaulets are like?"

Although I was a true puppet fan in later generations, I didn't know much about weapons and equipment, but I was very familiar with military rank. When I heard Vasiliev's question, I couldn't help showing off to him: "the expression of military rank of new epaulets is like this: marshal of the Soviet Union is a big silver star;

Commander, marshal, wavy floor, service symbol of arms and star emblem of Marshal;

Generals, wavy floor, embroidered star emblem, 4 generals, 3 generals, 2 generals, 1 major general, all in vertical arrangement;

There are three colonels in triangular arrangement, two colonels in horizontal arrangement, and one major;

For a lieutenant, a vertical bar is embroidered longitudinally and the star emblem of the lieutenant is decorated. There are four captains in two horizontal and two vertical directions, three captains in a triangle, two lieutenants in a horizontal direction and one second lieutenant;

Sergeant, embroidered horizontal bar, a vertical and a horizontal T-shaped for Senior Sergeant, a wide horizontal bar for sergeant, three narrow horizontal bars for sergeant and two narrow horizontal bars for corporal;

The soldier, the superior, has a narrow horizontal bar, and the epaulet of the private is an empty board. "

After my explanation, wittkov said thoughtfully: "such a large-scale replacement of new ranks can't be completed in a month or two. As we are still at war with the Germans, we do not know when we will be able to change our ranks? "

"Comrade chief of staff, you don't have to worry about such things." I remember clearly in my heart that the German army surrendered on February 2, so I said confidently: "now our group army has been put under the command of the Don front army. The commander of the front army, rokosovsky, is a commander who prefers to attack. I believe that he will issue the order of final attack on the German aggressors soon. In the face of our powerful offensive, the German officers and men who have run out of ammunition and food and are demoralized can not resist at all. I believe that the German troops in the encirclement can be completely annihilated in one month at most. "

"Really? Comrade commander. " Vasiliev asked excitedly: "if so, it would be great."“ Of course it's true, my political commissar. " After I responded to Vasiliev with a smile, I solemnly put forward to them: "political commissar and chief of staff, before the final attack begins, we should go to the troops of several divisions under our jurisdiction. First, we should get familiar with each other and second, we should talk with them, We should let every defender of Stalingrad understand that we are the Red Army armed with Stalin's thoughts, that our cause is just, that we are defending a progressive society and a bright life for future generations. The enemy will surely perish! It's not a slogan, it's not a speech at a mass rally, it's our eternal belief, it's the driving force of our combat effectiveness and the source of our brave fighting. "“ Comrade o'shanina, please rest assured! " Vasiliev confidently said: "let me do this. It's my strong point to do political and ideological work. I will make every soldier understand that the enemy can't escape the fate of destruction, and the final victory must and will only belong to us." When I heard that Vasiliev had undertaken the political and ideological work in an all-out way, I turned to Vitkov and said, "Comrade chief of staff, although we are a military in name, our troops and weaponry are very limited, so we should make use of the short truce time and the weaponry and personnel transported from the east coast to quickly supplement our troops."“ Don't worry, commander Wittkov assured me with resolute expression: "I will complete the task you gave me, replenish the troops in the shortest time, and let them form combat effectiveness in the shortest time."