Chapter 976

"Wait a minute, comrade major." Fortunately, wajim didn't lose his head in excitement, and quickly whispered to peiersjian“ The commander and commissar are still here. "

When he heard wajim's warning, pelstenton thought that there was a commander with a higher rank here. He quickly stopped and sincerely apologized to me, saying, "sorry, comrade commander, I'm a little too excited to hear that my deputy battalion commander didn't sacrifice. Please forgive me."

I know that perlsjian's gaffe was caused by his comrades' over excitement, so I didn't mean to blame him at all. He just waved at him, then looked at wajim and asked, "Comrade instructor, where is major prihodko?"

"It's in the corridor at the door." Vajim replied,

"What are you still doing? Take us to have a look immediately." It is said that major Prikhodko, who has just survived, is out in the corridor. First, I urged vajim to show us the way. Then I turned to kirilov and said, "Comrade political commissar, let's go and have a look."

Led by wajim, we walked out of the command post and came to the corridor outside. I saw four stretchers on the wall on one side of the corridor. On each stretcher, there was a person lying next to them, and the health workers were dressing them.

I didn't know who was major prihodko, so I stopped and asked vajim, "Comrade instructor, I don't know who is major prihodko?"

As soon as my voice dropped, the health worker squatting next to the second stretcher quickly raised his hand and said to us, "here's the major."

I went to the stretcher, crouched down, looked at the mummified wounded lying on it, and asked with concern, "major, I'm oshanina. Can you hear me?"

Hearing my voice, the wounded man whose head was bandaged so that only his facial features were exposed tried to struggle to sit up. I quickly pressed his shoulder to prevent him from sitting up, and repeatedly said, "major, you have injuries on your body. You'd better continue to lie down." Major prihodko gave a double hum and lay down again.

"Comrade hygienist," I asked the hygienist squatting beside me, after waiting for Prikhodko to lie down, "is the major seriously injured?"

After listening to my question, the health worker shook his head and replied, "except for the shot in the left leg, it's all skin injuries. You can recover in ten days and a half months."

After listening to the introduction of the health worker, I feel a lot more at ease. At least the major in front of me, who is covered with bandages, escaped from death temporarily as long as there is no accident.

After a few words with major Prikhodko, I stood up and stood aside, waiting for perschien and wajim to squat down one by one to express their sympathy to their comrades in arms.

When I came back to the command post, I asked akhromeyev frankly, "major, if you let your third regiment attack the opposite side of the bridge tomorrow, are you sure you can take down the bridge?"

After listening to my question, akhromeyev was silent for a moment, and then replied cautiously: "Comrade commander, if we only attack from the front. Well, I can tell you that even if we pay a heavy price, we may not be able to seize the bridge on the river. "

Akhromeyev's answer was unexpected. I frowned slightly and asked coldly, "major, why do you say that?"

"According to major perskin, the enemy's firepower on the other side is very strong, and our whole charging road is within the enemy's firepower coverage area." In explaining the reason, akhromeyev's face was embarrassed: "no matter how brave our commanders and fighters are, our flesh and blood can never stop the enemy's dense bullets and heavy artillery fire."

"Major ahlomeyev is right, Rita." As soon as kirilov and akhromeyev finished speaking, they immediately said, "if we blindly attack, we will pay a huge price."

After kirilov finished, I nodded, and then asked akhromeyev, "major, do you have any good idea of seizing the bridge from the German army?"

"Yes, comrade commander." Akhromeyev answered with confidence: "we can smuggle a small force by boat at night. When the attack starts tomorrow morning, the small force can suddenly appear in the enemy's rear and take them by surprise. In this way, our frontal attack will rush up again and attack them back and forth to wipe out the enemy on the other side of the river completely. "

"That's a good idea." Akhromeyev's proposal was very close to my heart, so after listening to it, I nodded with satisfaction and continued to ask, "how many troops are you going to send to sneak in?"

"There can't be too many troops, or they will be found by the enemy on the other side." After a moment's meditation, akhromeyev said to me, "I think one company is enough."

"Comrade commander." As soon as akhromeyev's words were finished, without waiting for me to speak, peresjian said hastily, "ice is broken everywhere on the river, which will crush our ships carrying troops. So I ask the commander to consider major akhromeyev's plan carefully."

If we don't send troops to sneak in, we will have to risk the enemy's intensive firepower and employ people to fill in tomorrow; If you send troops, I'm really afraid that the boat carrying troops will be smashed by the floating ice on the river.

Seeing my delay in speaking, akhromeyev was a little worried. He urged me to say, "Comrade commander, time is pressing. Make up your mind quickly."

"Yes, Rita, make up your mind." Kirilov also urged me.

"Comrade commander, you should think it over carefully." Without waiting for me to make any decision, peregrine reminded me again.

It's always a tactic that I won't use to let the commanders and fighters fill in with their lives. So after thinking about it again and again, I finally decided to use akhromeyev's method to send small troops to sneak across to the other side. When they attack the enemy head-on tomorrow, let them rush out from behind and take the enemy by surprise.

After making up my mind, I officially announced, "major akhromeyev, I've decided to use your method to send small troops to sneak across the river. But because there are so many ice floes on the river, you can only send one platoon at most. Who are you going to send to command this small unit? "

"Captain Rosenberg," ahlomeyev said the name of a commander without hesitation. He was afraid that I didn't know about the commander, and he specially explained to me: "he was originally from the 51st group army. When he was wounded, he joined our independent division because he couldn't find the original army."

"Well, major, I know captain Rosenberg, and I deal with him. He was in the army when I led my troops to leave mamayev post and go north to meet the friendly troops. " As for the man recommended by akhromeyev, I immediately nodded my head and agreed: "he is a commander with rich combat experience, and a small part of this smuggling is under his command." At this point, I raised my hand, looked at my watch, and then told akhromeyev, "major, it's getting late. I'll arrange for captain Rosenberg to sneak into the boat."

"Yes Akhromeyev agreed, then turned and left the command post to arrange the smuggling mission.

Akhromeyev's work efficiency is very high. In less than 40 minutes, I received his call from the river in the command post. He said: "Comrade commander, the smuggling unit has set out. There are three boats with 30 officers and men under the command of Captain Rosenberg. Every ship is equipped with a flashlight, and once they get to the other side, they will send us a signal. "

"Very good," I said to him after a loud compliment on his efficiency. "Pay attention to the movement on the river. Once they land successfully, report to me immediately."

"Yes," replied akhromeyev, "I will report to you in time."

I think that this section of the river is only over 200 meters wide, and the smugglers can successfully reach the other side in 20 minutes at most, so I have been staring at my watch, hoping to hear the good news from akhromeyev soon. The pointer, which usually walks very fast, seems to stick to the surface today, and hardly moves.

Just as I was very anxious, the telephone on my desk rang.

When I heard the bell ring, my first reaction was to grab the phone and say in my heart: this must be a call from major akhromeyev to report the good news. When I heard the major's voice coming from the receiver, I was in a good mood and asked with a smile, "major, has our army successfully landed on the other side?"

Unexpectedly, akhromeyev replied in a deep voice, "I'm sorry, comrade commander, our illegal immigration failed."

"Failed?" Akhromeyev's report confused me. I listened to it with my ears turned to the outside. I didn't hear the sound of guns. I should not have been found by the enemy, so I asked, "major, what's the matter? Please tell me in detail."

"Report to the commander." Akhromeyev replied respectfully, "a small boat was pushed back to the shore by the ice floes just a little way from the shore."

"One boat was pushed back to the shore by the ice floe." the bad news made me feel depressed, but thinking of two more boats, I asked, "what about the other two boats?"

"The other boat was in the middle of the river, and it was smashed by the ice floe, and all the officers and men on board fell into the water." Akhromeyev also took a deep breath when he told, "after our rescue, all the people were saved. However, eight people were injured, one of them seriously injured, and another soldier died. "

"And captain Rosenberg?" When I heard that two boats had failed in smuggling, I had to place my hope on the last boat and asked repeatedly, "which boat is captain Rosenberg on? Is he OK?"

In response to my repeated questions, akhromeyev quickly replied, "Comrade commander, we have lost contact with Captain Rosenberg and their ship at present. So far, the soldiers who are responsible for observing the river have not found any light contact signals on the opposite side. "

"I see. Comrade major. " I told him feebly, "send someone down the river to search, Captain, and see if they've been washed downstream."

"Yes, comrade commander." Akhromeyev replied respectfully, "I'll send someone to search along the river."

Seeing that I put down the phone and looked dejected, kirilov immediately understood that tonight's smuggling was very dangerous. In order to confirm this, he quickly asked, "Rita, is there something wrong with the smuggling unit?"

After listening to what he said, I first took a look at pelsjian next to me. I knew that if I had listened to him, I would not have failed tonight. Then I turned to look at kirilov, nodded and said helplessly, "yes, comrade political commissar, the smuggling operation of the detachment has completely failed." Then I told him what I had said on the phone, and the three of them, perschien and wajim, said it again. Kirilov's face became dignified after listening to me. He scratched the back of his head, sighed, and said in a regretful tone, "Oh, what a pity. Since tonight's illegal immigration has failed, we can only use human lives to fill tomorrow's attack. "“ Major perskin, "thinking of letting so many officers and men go through fire and water, I was a little impatient, so I took a chance and asked perskin," how many tanks are there in the tank brigade? " Peles quickly got up from his seat, straightened up and reported to me, "Comrade commander, there are still four tanks left in the brigade, and there are more than 600 tank soldiers without tanks. If necessary, all the commanders and fighters of our brigade can also be involved in tomorrow's attack. "“ To use well-trained tank soldiers as infantry, "I said solemnly to his proposal," I would never do such a thing. The task I'm going to give you is to provide the necessary artillery cover for the three regiments that launched attacks across the river. "“ Comrade commander, please rest assured. " Wajim also came forward to show his determination to me: "although we only have four tanks, today we seized eight mortars from the German armory. When attacking tomorrow, in addition to bombarding the enemy's positions with tank guns, we can also use mortars to suppress the enemy's firepower points and cover our commanders and fighters to launch attacks. "“ That's great. That's great. " Originally, I thought that the commanders and fighters of the third regiment could only get limited tank fire support in tomorrow's attack, but now there are eight more mortars, so our firepower to cover the infantry attack will be greatly strengthened. But not long after I was happy, I thought of a key question and asked vajim, "are there enough artillery?"“ Comrade commander, please rest assured. " For my worry, wajim immediately gave me a reassurance: "we have a lot of qualified Gunners in the hands of tanks. If we give these mortars to them, they will be no worse than professional artillery."