Chapter 943

At the time of receiving this telegram, kirilov and I were in a jeep that was only seven or eight kilometers away from kafbas. After reading the telegram, I handed it to kirilov and looked out of the window. I thought there was no road between the island and kafbas, so the jeep we took might not last long, so we had to get off and walk. I didn't expect that because of the cold weather, the originally impassable road became very suitable for vehicles.

Looking at the trucks full of soldiers in front of the jeep, I looked back at ease, patted the driver on the shoulder and said to him, "Comrade driver, drive directly to kafbas."

"Comrade commander," heard my order, Romanov, who was sitting in the front row, looked back and kindly reminded me, "although our troops have occupied kafbas, the enemy in the city may not be completely eliminated. If we go in at this time, we may encounter danger."

"Don't worry, comrade deputy commander." Although Romanov is still wearing casual clothes, a few hours ago, I sent a telegram to vatukin to suggest that Romanov, who has rich experience in fighting, be appointed as my deputy. Originally, I just had a try in my heart, but I didn't expect that he readily agreed. In this way, Romanov became my deputy commander. At the moment, seeing that he had scruples about kafbas, he comforted him and said, "don't worry. Although Godunov's new third regiment has a small number of people, it's very effective. It's easy to deal with two platoons of Germans."

"By the way, comrade deputy commander, we still have some time to get to kafbas anyway." Kirilov, who had just finished reading the telegram, said with great interest when he handed the telegram to Romanov, "why don't you tell us something about your guerrillas?"

Romanov took the telegram and looked at it only a few times, then he handed it back to me again, because there was so little content on it that he could read it all at once. When kirilov said this, he nodded and said, "well, since the commander and the commissar want to hear my story, I'll take this opportunity to tell it." Then general Romanov told us his story: "the first battle of my 172nd division was carried out outside the city of Mogilev in Belarus. At that time, the headquarters of the Western Front Army led by Marshal Timoshenko wanted to move to the East Bank of the Dnieper River, so they had to leave troops to stop the enemy, so they chose our division. When I left the headquarters after accepting the mission, I saw a colonel coming to the headquarters to accept the mission. Guess who he is? "

"Who is it? Comrade deputy commander. " The number of senior commanders I know is limited. If I want to guess, I can't even guess the darkness, so I asked straightforwardly, "should we know him?"

"Yes, comrade commander." Romanov nodded unexpectedly and replied, "if it's someone else, you may not know him, but this colonel is really famous. He is Petrovsky, commander of the 63rd infantry army."

Lieutenant general Petrovsky, I almost jumped out of my seat when I heard the name mentioned by Romanov. At the moment, I find that I have made a big mistake. Before, I always thought that general Petrovsky's troops, after crossing the Dnieper River, were fighting with the German forces in Ukraine. Who knows now that they are actually in Belarus. But I can't blame it. On the Soviet map, Ukraine and Belarus are not marked as clearly as later maps, so mistakes are inevitable.

"Yes, general Petrovsky is very famous." Kirilov said: "because he resolutely led his troops to the enemy's rear and recaptured Rogachev and zherobin, he effectively restrained the main force of the enemy. After learning of his heroic deeds and the results of the war, comrade Stalin decisively announced that he would be promoted from Colonel to lieutenant general. Later, he was even appointed commander of the 21st group army. If he had not died when he broke out of the siege, he might have made more outstanding achievements. "

Romanov nodded and then said, "at that time, we only built simple fortifications outside the city of mogilyov. Besides our division, the troops defending the city were several militia battalions composed of workers from various factories.

After the outbreak of the war, the German army did not encounter any decent resistance, so the German troops who attacked mogilyov were particularly rampant. On dozens of tanks in battle formation, we can see that the tankers show half of their bodies from the open hatch. On the three wheeled motorcycles in the middle of the tank, the motorcyclists' guns were carried behind them, as if they were not fighting, but going out for an outing. What's more arrogant is a radio car following behind the first row of tanks, playing a march with a high pitched loudspeaker.

Seeing this, I made the artillery ready to fire. When the German tanks were only 200 meters away from our forward position, I decisively ordered the artillery to fire. Our artillery are all good. They lifted the radio truck four wheels to the sky with one shot. The tankers, who were still leaning out, retracted their tortoise shells one after another when they saw the shells fall on their side and explode. After a moment of confusion, they fired back at us.

As our division had few anti tank guns, the enemy's tanks soon crossed our first trench and rushed towards the rear position. When I saw that some commanders and soldiers and militia gave up their positions and ran to the second line of defense because of panic, I again gave orders to the commanders along the front line to blow up the enemy's tanks with flasks. As one German tank after another crossed the trench and was ignited by our commanders and fighters with burning bottles, the chaos on the battlefield gradually subsided.

During the 23 day battle outside the city of mogilyov, our division restrained part of the German 2nd tank group and inflicted heavy damage on the enemy. Of course, because the enemy is stronger than us, our division has also suffered huge losses. When we received the order to evacuate mojiliov, there were only more than 900 soldiers left in the division, including the militia who had cooperated with us in the war. "“ The casualties of the troops are so great. " When kirilov heard this, he said with emotion, and then asked with great interest, "Comrade deputy commander, how did you get captured later?"“ At that time, not to mention our division, even the whole western front army was surrounded by the German army. " Romanov said helplessly: "it's easy to say, but it's not the same thing to do. There are Germans all around. Where are our superiors and friendly forces, and where can we break through? One day, my troops withdrew to ovruchi in Ukraine and met with the large German troops. After a long time of fighting, our personnel and equipment were insufficient. As a result, we were separated by the enemy's tanks as soon as we exchanged fire with the German army. I was also injured in the battle and I was in a coma. When I woke up, I found that I had been locked in the prison camp with thousands of captured officers and soldiers. My injury is very serious. I have a high fever every day. If there were not several good soldiers who could cool me down with wet towels at any time, I would have died long ago. Later, my injury gradually recovered, and I found that the German army had to transfer many of our guards away because of the war on the front. So I took advantage of this opportunity to gather more than 200 soldiers, took advantage of the night to push down the weak barbed wire around the prison camp, escaped from the prison camp, and then opened guerrillas in Ukraine. "“ It's not easy, comrade Romanov. " After listening to his experience, kirilov sincerely praised: "you did a good job, not only did you not compromise with the bandits, but also led more than 200 soldiers to escape from the prison camp, and formed a guerrilla group in the enemy's rear, which made them headache, effectively controlled the enemy's forces. Yes, you really did a good job." As for kirilov's praise, Romanov replied with some embarrassment: "Comrade political commissar, don't praise me like this. You know that I have been captured by the Germans after all. If I don't stay behind the enemy to form guerrillas, I will be sent to the military court or the punishment camp even if I return to the rear."“ Comrade deputy commander, don't worry. I will explain to you when it is appropriate that you were captured. " I considered that I was once captured. Although I don't know many people, I can't hold fire after all. In case of exposure, I don't know what kind of fate is waiting for me. Therefore, I will try my best to help Romanov get a good result. This is not a bad thing for me“ I believe that the superior will have an overall consideration of this matter, and the handling of you should not be as serious as you think. " Hearing what I said, Romanov breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Comrade commander, if it's really what you said, that's great."