Chapter 1082

On both sides of the entrance of the three story building, there are sandbags. There are more than a dozen soldiers standing inside. A captain is in charge of commanding them. Seeing me passing by with bezikov and rasmishin, the captain quickly came out of the fortification, raised his hand to salute me, and said respectfully, "Hello, general oshanina."

I carefully looked at the captain in front of me. He looked a little kind. I should have met him before, but his name had been forgotten for a long time. I said to him with a smile, "Comrade captain, I have something to see general sumilov. Don't you know he's here?"

"Yes, Comrade General." The captain replied politely, "Comrade commander is in his office. May I show you the way?"

I was worried that after entering the building, I couldn't find shumilov's office. Since the captain was so eager to guide me, I would push the boat along the river and say, "if so, please, comrade captain."

The captain led us to a large office on the second floor. Outside the closed wooden door, there was a desk. A young blonde lieutenant was chatting with a soldier in black uniform. Seeing some of us walking past, the female soldier immediately stopped talking, stood up, called the captain's name and asked, "do you have anything to do with the commander?"

The captain waved his head to my position and replied, "Lieutenant, this is general o'shanina, an old acquaintance of the commander. She has something urgent to see the commander. Please go in and let me know."

The female Lieutenant looked at me and said, "please wait a moment!" Then he went to the door, pushed open one of the doors, went in, and closed the door behind him.

While we were waiting, the soldier who had just chatted with the female Lieutenant turned and looked at me curiously. Then he asked me in broken Russian, "Hello, dear girl, I don't know what to call you?"

The male soldier's frivolous tone made me very uncomfortable. I looked at him and found the pilot logo on his chest. I couldn't help wondering: where did this strange guy come from? Not only did he speak Russian badly, but also he looked different from the common Soviet Union people?

Before I could think of it, the captain stepped forward, put his hands on each other's shoulders and forced him to pull over. At the same time, he said, "OK, OK, stop dawdling here and go back to your room."

After the captain bombed away the pilot, bzikov asked the other side curiously, "Comrade captain, where did this guy come from, and what kind of accent he said? Why do I listen so awkward?"

"What? What are you asking, comrade Colonel? " The captain didn't hear bzikov's question. He asked in surprise, "whose accent sounds awkward?"

"Who else could it be, the pilot you just kicked out." "Is he not Russian?" bezikov asked thoughtfully

"He's polish, Comrade General." The captain, facing me, replied unexpectedly.

"Poles?" When I heard the captain's words, I was stunned at first, and then asked unexpectedly, "Comrade captain, how can there be poles in your defense area?"

"Well, Comrade General." The captain patiently explained to me, "although he is polish, he is our man. It's said that after the outbreak of the patriotic war, some former Polish pilots fortunately escaped from the German prisoner's camp, quietly crossed the German line of defense, came to our side, joined our army, and stayed in the army. There are about thirty of them... "

Before the captain finished speaking, the two closed doors opened. General shumilov, who I knew well, came out of the room together with the female lieutenant who went to report, and interrupted the captain.

Admiral shumilov, seeing me standing outside the door, immediately welcomed me with open arms. At the same time, he said in a loud voice, "Dear Rita mushdakova, it's amazing to see you here." Then he gave me a big hug.

I hugged him politely and said, "Hello, general shumilov. Nice to see you again."

When shumilov let go of me, he grabbed my arm, took me and walked into the room. He said excitedly, "well, comrade o'shanina, come to my office. Since you got to the 62nd army, you are like a broken kite. You have never contacted me again. I often ask others about you. "

He led me to my desk and asked me to sit in a chair. He sat down in the opposite chair. After looking at me from head to foot, he said, "you are really amazing. In such a difficult environment of Stalingrad's defense war, you can beat the Germans with a newly formed army. After the battle, according to the confessions of some German officers and men who were captured by us, the mamayev post your troops were holding had become the narrowest and most difficult area for them to pass. Because the German army tried to cut off our contact with the other side of the Volga River by seizing the highlands. But their plan was completely destroyed because of the tenacious defense you organized. "

I never thought that shumilov was such a talkative person. In the past, when he gave orders, he always finished with a few simple words, but now he talks on and on, which makes me have no chance to interrupt. I looked at him with a smile, trying to be a qualified audience.

Shumilov said for a long time. Seeing that I had not finished, he just looked at him with a smile and immediately realized that he could not continue to sing monologue. He quickly changed the topic: "by the way, Rita, I heard that you have been appointed commander of the sixth group army of the guards. How can you come to me today?"

"Comrade commander," as I used to call him, "we are now friendly and neighboring forces. In order to strengthen mutual cooperation, I think it is necessary to come to you to have a look."

"Look, what's good to see?" "Don't you know that the task of our Voronezh front army is to contain the troops of Manstein, so that he can't easily transfer troops to reinforce their central army group, so as to reduce the pressure on general rokosovsky?" sumilov asked

After organizing some words in my mind, I tentatively asked: "Comrade commander, according to your analysis, the main attack direction of the German army is in general rokosovsky's place, not our side?"

"That's nature." Shumilov replied without hesitation: "according to the intelligence analysis we have at present, the enemy will send out from the Orel region to attack Kursk. But here we are, at most, Manstein can only launch a round of feint to contain our forces. "

After listening to shumilov's analysis, I couldn't help but laugh. From my heart, if I didn't come from the future, I might have the same idea as him that the main attack direction of the German army was in the west of Kursk. Besides, I don't have enough intelligence to prove that the German army will launch an attack from the south of Kursk. I can't tell him that according to the historical records, the German army will launch an attack from two directions at the same time, so he must treat me as a madman.

After thinking for a moment, I asked, "Comrade commander, how is the completion of the fortifications of your group army?"

When I asked him this question, he immediately gave a long sigh and said in a helpless tone: "Rita, almost all the fortifications we built before may have been abandoned because of the water soaked in the melted snow. Now it's starting from scratch. In such a short period of time, without enough construction machinery, the progress of the project can't be guaranteed at all. "

After listening to his reply, I couldn't help worrying about his fate. With a straight face, I tapped my fingers on the armrest of the chair and said earnestly, "Comrade commander, have you ever thought that you are only tens of kilometers away from gorod here, and it only takes an hour for German tanks to rush out of korocha, if there is no perfect defense system, Then you will be surrounded. " When I said that, I stopped to think for a moment, and suggested to him, "why don't you move the headquarters to another place first, and then move the headquarters back after the defense system of korocha is improved?"

"No, absolutely not!" As soon as I finished, shumilov flatly replied, "even if the Germans rush to the gate of my headquarters, I will command the soldiers to fight bravely and never step back."

"Since you don't intend to transfer the headquarters," I heard him firmly saying that he would never step back, so I had to persuade him in another way: "then what you have to do now is to urge the troops to speed up the construction of fortifications. As long as there is a perfect defense system, the German army will not rush to your headquarters, even if they want to get close to the city of korocca, It's also impossible. "

"Rita, how are the fortifications in your defense area?" When I finished speaking, shumilov could not help asking curiously: "I heard my subordinates say a few days ago that you are building a lot of buildings there. It seems that many of them can improve the existing defense system. But there's one thing that makes me feel strange. "

"Comrade commander, I don't know what surprised you?" I asked casually.

"In your defense area, there are plains and highlands. But what makes me wonder is that almost all of your fortifications are built on the high ground, but there are very few on the plain. Why on earth

"Comrade commander, the reason why we chose to build defensive positions on the high ground," I would like to talk with him about where to build fortifications. Now that he has taken the initiative, I will take the opportunity to instill my tunnel defense theory into him: "it is because one can avoid the fate of fortifications being submerged by water, Second, we can build a large number of tunnels and Fortifications on the high ground to hide our troops and reduce the casualties in the enemy's shelling or air raid. "

After hearing what I said, shumilov was silent for a while, and then said, "after the battle of Stalingrad, I once visited the fortification you built on the mamayev post. After seeing it, I have to say that it was a great creation. Even if the German army occupied the surface position of mamayev post, our troops could still stay in the tunnel to contain the enemy, because they could not move forward. I think that's why you want to build fortifications on the high ground? "

"Yes, comrade commander." Seeing that shumilov finally understood what I wanted to say, I became happy. I said to him with a smile, "with a perfect defense system and solid fortifications, we can make the defense war relatively easy and greatly reduce the casualties of the troops." At this point, I can't help but think of the 107.5 highland, which is like the "mill of flesh and blood", so I added bitterly, "next to the mamayev post, there is a 107.5 highland. Because the original garrison didn't build a tunnel on it, the troops who stuck to the highland suffered heavy casualties in the German artillery fire and air raid. It usually takes less than two days for a regiment or brigade to be disabled and have to be evacuated to the other side of the Volga River for repair. " Shumilov sprang up from his chair and walked back and forth in the room. At this time, I looked around and found that they didn't come in. When I was thinking about whether I should go out and call them in, the door of the room was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and a burly commander rushed in from the outside. When I saw someone coming, I jumped up from my seat and straightened up in the same place. My left hand naturally drooped close to the seam of my trousers, and my right hand raised to my forehead and said aloud, "Hello, comrade marshal of the Soviet Union!" Hearing my voice, shumilov, who was pacing, also stopped. He came up to me, raised his hand to salute people, and said, "Hello, comrade deputy national defense people's commissar of the Soviet Union." After listening to us calling ourselves by different names, vassilevsky nodded to us, quickly walked around to the back of the desk and sat down, and raised his hand to ask us to sit down. When we both sat down, he looked back at me and asked, "Rita, how did you get to general sumilov's defense?" When I heard vasilevsky's question, I immediately stood up and replied respectfully, "Comrade marshal of the Soviet Union, I came to general shumilov to establish contact after checking the defense situation of the 51st division of the guards, so that I can better cooperate in the next battle."“ So, "said vasilevsky, with his eyebrows raised, somewhat surprised," do you think Manstein, with his strength, would dare to attack our strengthened Voronezh front army? "“ Marshal comrade, "when I saw Marshal Venus on vasilevsky's shoulder, I couldn't help muttering. I remember when I left Moscow, he was still a senior general, so how did he become a marshal. Although he was thinking wildly in his heart, he still answered his question: "the combat effectiveness of Manstein's troops is not weak. His" Hitler division "," imperial division "and" skull division "are all elite SS troops, let alone one-on-one. Even if we are three to one, we can not defeat them."“ Is it that serious? " Asked vasilevsky in a suspicious tone“ Yes, comrade marshal. " I immediately replied positively, "I've dealt with two of them and I know their strength very well. Even if they were weakened in the early fighting, the replenishment speed of such elite troops is usually very fast. I believe their combat effectiveness has been basically restored. "“ Rita, I know you have a lot of original ideas, which even Comrade Zhukov admired very much. " Vasilevsky said slowly, "can you tell us about your consideration?"“ What we can do now is to rush to repair the fortifications and improve the existing defense system. " I said carefully: "when the defense system is formed, we can use defensive warfare to bring down the enemy, then turn to counter attack and annihilate the enemy. If conditions permit, our army can also launch a comprehensive general attack in the direction of Kharkov, Poltava and Kiev to drive the German army completely away from Moscow, so as to ensure the security of Moscow. "