Chapter 1097

According to the information captured, the German army will leave the station of tomarovka at 5 a.m. on June 24. According to the speed of the German March, they should arrive at our besieged area between 7:30 and 8:00.

In the early morning of this day, I took povsky to the defense area of the 51st division of the guards to see for myself the results of the ambush. Out of concern for my safety, Yushchenko specially asked the accompanying bukovdo to take ten soldiers and take two jeeps to follow us.

I didn't expect that our team of five jeeps, not far from the headquarters, was stopped by an oncoming jeep. Bukov, who was sitting in the co driver's seat, saw this situation, turned back and said hello to me, then pushed the door open and got off the car, and went to the other side to talk.

Looking at the back of bukov's departure, povsky said with a discontented face: "hell, who is so bold to catch up with the commander of the group army in the defense area of the sixth group army of the guards?"

I used to be very angry when the team was blocked by the car that suddenly appeared, but now I heard povsky say that, and my thoughts changed again. What he said is right. Now we are on our own territory. I am the highest military commander. If the other party is not an important person, they will not dare to stop my car. Thinking of this, I just said, "don't worry, comrade colonel. When major bukov comes back, we will know who is sitting in the car in front of us."

As soon as I had finished, I saw bukov coming in a hurry. He opened the door, leaned in half of his body and said to me nervously, "report to commander comrade, on the car in front is general apanashchenko, deputy commander of the front army. He asked you to come over."

I was startled when I heard that general Apana was sitting in the car that stopped us. I quickly pushed open the next door and ran towards the car.

When I passed the first car of the team, I came to apanashchenko's car. As he was about to raise his hand to salute, he saw the door behind him being pushed open. Apanashchenko poked his head out of the car, looked at me and said, "get in the car, comrade oshanina."

"Yes I promised, then quickly walked past, bent down into the car, and closed the door.

When apanashchenko saw me sitting down, he leaned forward slightly, raised his hand and patted the driver on the shoulder, and told the other party, "Comrade driver, turn around and go to the original destination." The driver nodded, started the car, lost his head in the same place, and then drove forward along the dirt road.

I didn't know where apanashchenko was going to take me, so I asked curiously, "senior general, how can you come to me today?"

Apanashchenko laughed and replied, "I heard that there will be a wonderful battle in the defense area of the 51st division of the guards today. I came here to have a look. When I passed here, I saw a small motorcade driving out from the direction of the headquarters of the group army. I guessed that you might be in the car, so I came to take a chance. I didn't expect that you were really in the car. "

After I got on the bus, I found that in addition to apanashchenko and the driver, there was a soldier with a submachine gun in the co driver's seat. I could not help but ask anxiously, "senior general, why did you take only one guard to go out? If you meet a German on the road, it would be dangerous."

But after hearing this, apanashchenko waved his hand with a smile and said, "don't worry, comrade oshanina. Even if you meet a German, you can get out of danger easily with the driving skills of the driver."

"Yes, Comrade General." The driver in the front row looked back at me, then quickly turned back and said, "I've been driving for more than 20 years, and my driving skills have always been good. Even if I encounter any danger, I can easily escape from the enemy's encirclement with my deputy commander."

For apanashchenko and the driver's blind self-confidence, I just smile bitterly and say that no matter how good your skills are, can you run faster than the German soldiers? During the battle of Stalingrad, the commander of the 192nd infantry division, Col. zaharchenko, was too confident to organize a breakthrough in time when the division was surrounded by the German army. As a result, he was killed by the German artillery in the final retreat. If apanashchenko still does not pay attention to his safety, he will have an accident sooner or later.

Our motorcade came directly to the No.1 position in the area adjacent to the shell Waka, and received us by the 309 regiment leader, Lieutenant Colonel Lu Jin. He led us to an observation post on the position, and introduced us: "two general comrades, I think you may come to the position to watch the war, so this spacious observation post was specially built. Even if the teacher told me to come later, I would not feel crowded. "

After listening to Lu Jin's introduction, I carefully looked at the observation post built in the trench. The roof is a thick log next to each other, and the logs are fixed with big grill nails. At present, although there are me, apanashchenko, povsky, Lukin and several staff officers in the observation center, it still seems empty.

Some staff officers stand at the lookout hole and observe the situation outside with binoculars or gun mirrors, while others mark the situation of the enemy and ourselves on the open battle map.

Apanashchenko went to an empty observation hole, raised his telescope and looked out for a while. Then he turned back and asked me, "Comrade oshanina, I don't know where your troops are lying in ambush?"

I quickly walked up to him, looked out, then pointed to the visible hillside in the distance and said to apanashchenko, "Comrade General, our troops are lying in ambush on that hillside."

Apanashchenko listened to me and raised his telescope to look over there. A moment later, I heard him say, "but I can't see anything on the hillside except the low bushes."

"No way!" After listening to apanashchenko's words, I quickly raised my telescope and looked up the hill. It really surprised me to see that there was no sign of fortification on the lush hillside. If I had not gone there two days ago to see the officers and men building the fortifications, I would have thought that tavartkilaze and Lukin were perfunctory to me.

I put down my telescope, turned to Lu Jin, who was standing beside me, and said, "Comrade commander, deputy commander of the front army, I can't find where your defensive position is. Please explain the reason to him."

After hearing my instructions, Lu Jin quickly stepped forward, stood behind apanashchenko, and respectfully reported to him, "report to the general, the commander came to inspect us when we were building the fortifications. At that time, she told us to do a good job in camouflage to avoid being found by the enemy. " At this point, his face could not help showing a proud expression, "after the completion of our fortification, after repeated attempts, we finally found an ideal camouflage way. Even if the Germans go down the hillside and don't look carefully, they won't find our fortifications. "

When Lukin was reporting to us, there was a rush of footsteps at the door, and then tavartkiraze appeared at the door. When he saw apanashchenko standing in the observation center, he was stunned and then asked in surprise, "Comrade deputy commander of the front army, how did you come here?"

Apanashchenko seems to have known tavartkilaze for a long time. Hearing his voice, he quickly put down his telescope, came to shake hands with him and said, "I heard that you have an ambush to fight today, so I came here to have a look."

When tavartkiraze heard him say this, he looked at me and then at apanashchenko, who was shaking hands with him, with an expression of embarrassment on his face.

I noticed the change of his look and understood what he was worried about. I immediately laughed at him and said, "don't worry, general tavartkilaze. My senior general and I just came to have a look. Today's battle is still under your command. "

"Yes, comrade oshanina is right." As soon as I finished, apanashchenko echoed, "don't worry. We're just here to see. We won't interfere in your command."

After getting the assurance from me and apanashchenko, the smile reappeared on tavartkilaze's face. He turned to look at Lukin and asked, "Comrade commander, why don't you have a cup of tea when the two commanders come to you? They went out early, and they must have not had breakfast yet. Please send someone to eat here immediately. "

After receiving the order, Lu Jin soon arranged for someone to bring us breakfast and hot black tea. When I, apanashchenko, tavartkilaze and povsky were eating around the table, Lukin was standing next to us.

While eating, apanashchenko asked tavartkilaze, "Comrade General, your fortifications are well disguised. I just looked through the telescope for a long time, but I didn't see any sign of fortification on the hillside. If the Germans don't come, they will be defeated by you as long as they come. "

Just at this time, someone in the room suddenly said out loud: "everyone be quiet, it seems that the Germans are coming?"

The room suddenly became silent. Everyone stopped everything in their hands and listened to the outside. I listened carefully for a long time, but I couldn't hear any sound outside except the footsteps of the commanders and soldiers walking in the trenches and the voice of their voices.

"Why can't I hear anything?" Povsky first opened his mouth. He looked at the staff officer and said with some dissatisfaction, "Comrade lieutenant, did you hear me wrong?"

The staff officer was so nervous that he couldn't speak. Fortunately, Lukin came out in time to help him out: "comrades commander, please listen to me. I believe he didn't hear me wrong. His ears are the most intelligent in our regiment. He can hear the slightest voice."

After listening, apanashchenko didn't say anything. He stood up, went to the observation hole, raised his telescope and looked out. After watching for a long time, I heard him saying to himself, "it's very quiet outside. I didn't see any German or hear any strange voice."

Apanashchenko's words made me feel very embarrassed. I looked at the staff officer angrily, wondering if I should give him a hard lecture. At this moment, apanashchenko suddenly exclaimed, when all of us were attracted by him, we heard him say loudly: "tank, German tank!"

When he said that, I, tavartkilaze, povsky and Lukin all rushed to the lookout hole to observe the situation outside with telescopes or gun mirrors.

I raised my telescope and looked into the distance. I saw German tanks appeared on the far plain. At first, they were just a few black dots. But as time went on, these dots became bigger and bigger. I could see the German tank models clearly through the telescope soon. I counted out twelve tanks, one of which was the latest Tiger tank, and the rest were either No. 3 or No. 4. Behind these tanks were nearly twenty semi tracked armored vehicles, which were full of soldiers.

Seeing this situation, I felt a lot more confident and knew that the information we had seized was authentic. As for the Germans, I don't know if they found any staff members missing and important documents missing, but they still tried to bypass Yakovlev and go deep into the rear of our army as planned.

Lukin left the lookout hole, went to the table, grabbed the phone, and said in a loud voice, "Hello, major gilgin? The German armored forces have appeared to prepare your soldiers for battle. Remember, be careful not to let the Germans find you. When the shelling is over and the tank company charges, you will take the troops to rush up immediately. Do you understand? "

Lukin's words aroused my curiosity. If he didn't mention the tank company, I almost forgot that I asked Colonel berey to draw two companies to cooperate with the infantry. When Lukin let go, I called him to me and asked, "commander, where is the tank company hiding?"

"Report to commander," Lu Jin replied with a smile, "we dug several underground bunkers in the front of the hillside, where our tanks were hidden. Once the shelling is over, they can break through the ground and attack the German army in chaos. "

Hiding tanks in the ground and waiting for them to break through the ground during the assault can really play a surprise role. After nodding to Lukin with satisfaction, I turned to povsky standing beside me and said, "Comrade artillery commander, our artillery can fire."

Povsky nodded, turned to a nearby officer and said, "call your commander and order the artillery to open fire to cover the German armored troops on the move."

When the officer turned to the walkie talkie and relayed the order, povsky explained to me, "Comrade commander, he is the observer of the artillery regiment here, responsible for providing firing parameters for our artillery."

After a short time, a shell landed directly in the marching line of the German armored forces, landed on the side of an armored car full of soldiers, exploded, and the armored car with fire and smoke rolled for several turns and collapsed there. Some of the soldiers who fell from the car died on the spot and lay upright on the ground. Fortunately, the soldiers who survived were on fire and ran around. They suddenly fell down and stood up, climbing and jumping, trying to extinguish the burning flame.

After the artillery test firing, I saw the artillery observer report a series of parameters loudly to the transmitter of the telephone. A moment later, there was a sharp whistling of cannonballs in the air, and pieces of cannonballs fell on the German marching line and exploded. Innumerable explosion points burst up suddenly. The shrapnel splashed by the violent explosion and the broken stone intertwined with each other, just like a storm, throwing the German tanks and armored vehicles into the air like toys and falling heavily on the ground.

Although the artillery density of our army was relatively high, the German marching line was too long to cover them all. Through the black smoke blocking the sky, I saw that the tanks and armored vehicles in the middle of the queue had become burning debris. The soldiers originally carried on the armored vehicle had been torn to pieces by the flying shrapnel. Under the action of the blast, all kinds of residual limbs and weapon parts were repeatedly thrown away and heavily dropped to the ground.

I think the artillery attack is almost the same. I turned to povsky and Lukin and said, "Comrade artillery commander, I think it's almost the same. We can stop the artillery attack. Commander Lu Jin, order the troops to attack, and try to wipe out the enemy completely. "

They agreed neatly, and then povsky went to the artillery observer and asked him to inform the artillery regiment to stop shelling. Lu Jin picked up the phone on the table and gave the order to major gilgin, who was hiding on the hillside.

As the shelling stopped, more than a dozen new-style t-5455 tanks arched out of the grass on the front of the hillside. Covered with dust and turf, they fired at the German tanks and armored vehicles trapped in chaos on the dirt road. And the infantry hiding on the hillside, looking at their tanks have attacked, also jumped out of the hidden fortifications one after another, shouting and rushing down the mountain.

The sudden appearance of our tanks made the German armored forces, which had not yet recovered from the shelling, fall into greater chaos. Armored vehicles began to reverse desperately, trying to get out of this dangerous area quickly, but our tank soldiers certainly would not let them do what they wanted. The shells fired by 100 mm tank guns immediately tore the weak armor of German armored vehicles to pieces, and the soldiers on the vehicles were either dead or wounded.

After killing the armored vehicles, all the tanks turned their guns to deal with the remaining German tanks. Because the tanks on both sides are only 200 meters apart, so as long as the German tanks are hit, they can not escape the fate of being destroyed. The new Tiger tank, after dodging the shells fired by our tanks, finally found a chance to retaliate. In the panic, it fired a shot at our tanks, and the shells were ready to hit the nearest tank.

When I saw the fire and smoke rising from the tank body, my heart felt as if someone had pulled me hard. My heart said that at such a short distance, our army's tanks must have been destroyed. But when the smoke dispersed, I found that except for a black dent on the turret, the whole was still intact. Even the turret was still rotating normally, and the muzzle always pointed to the surviving Tiger tank.

After a single shot, the German Tiger tanks increased their horsepower in an attempt to escape the battlefield quickly. Can run far, in its left side rushed up a stream of soil, our army tank shot shells almost hit it. But its good luck didn't last long, and soon it was hit again, with thick smoke coming out of the observation hole in front of it. The car body shook suddenly and stopped in the same place. At this time of the battle, only a dozen minutes have passed. But this small German unit was destroyed by the combined attack of our artillery and tanks. The infantry who arrived immediately did not even have the chance to fire a single shot, and the battle ended in a hurry. What they could do was to check whether the German officers and soldiers who fell from the armored vehicles could still find a living. Seeing that the ambush ended so cleanly, apanashchenko said in surprise: "Comrade oshanina, I didn't expect that the battle could still be fought like this. You know, in this battle, our army had no casualties at all, and it was easy to completely annihilate a small armored unit of the German army. " As for apanashchenko's feeling, I politely smile and say that the t-5455 tank brought by Florin is really extraordinary. It was hit by the German Tiger tank at such a short distance, but it was not destroyed. It can be seen that if katukov's first group army of close guard tanks can be equipped with a large number of such tanks, it can easily defeat the German proud armored forces in the next battle of Kursk.