Chapter 1109

Near noon, Nekrasov called again. He excitedly reported to me on the phone: "Comrade commander, attack the German army in position 4. When they heard Danilov's question, I noticed that there was an iron cross hanging on the broken and dirty uniform of the German lieutenant. He listened intently to find out how he got the medal.

"In Stalingrad." "I led my platoon at the central railway station to repel several of your counterattacks," said lieutenant Genzel

"Stalingrad?" After repeating the name of the place, Danilov sneered and said, "you are so lucky, lieutenant. For you, the war is over."

After listening to Danilov's words, Genzel said a lot with a sneer. When gretka translated it, I knew what he said was: "although I became your prisoner, your destiny is not much better. Because tomorrow you will be beaten up like Stalingrad. It won't be long before we get to Moscow again. We have received orders from the head of state. "

"What order?" After listening to gretka's translation, Danilov and I asked in unison.

Danilov asked this question because he was curious to find out what the German army was going to do next. But my heart is a thump, heart said, really like in history, the German army will launch the Kursk battle tomorrow morning?

Genzel snorted coldly and said with disapproval, "according to the order, we will launch a powerful attack in the early morning of tomorrow, which is also the final decisive attack."

"When does it start?" On hearing the news, although Danilov tried to keep calm, there was inevitably a tremor in his voice.

"Three o'clock in the morning on July 5th." Genzel gave the final answer lightly.

My reaction to this information was in sharp contrast to the shock of Danilov and kirilov. I waved and ordered the soldiers standing behind the prisoners to take them away from the headquarters. Then he told bzikov: "Comrade chief of staff, get me through to the headquarters of the front army immediately, and I will report this important information to commander watujing."

"Ah, report immediately?" When bizikov heard my order, he didn't immediately carry it out. Instead, he stood still. At the same time, he kindly reminded me, "Rita, do you want to check the truth of the news again. If we report this unconfirmed intelligence and find that it is just a trap of the German army, it will be troublesome. "

"Comrade chief of staff, don't look forward and backward any more." I said to bzikov sternly, "get through to the headquarters of the front army immediately, and I will report to commander vatukin personally. I'll take all the responsibility for any accident. If we don't report it in time, it will delay our fighters and cause our defense line to be broken by the German army, then we will all be sent to the military court. "

It was probably the first time that bzikov had seen me speak to him in such a stern tone since he knew me. He had no choice but to promise. He picked up the phone and asked the operator to get through to the headquarters of the front army.

After the phone was connected, it was not watujing who answered the phone, but Khrushchev, a military commissioner. Hearing my voice, the other party laughed and asked in an amiable voice, "Rita, what can I do for you

"Yes, comrade military Commissar." As Khrushchev is the No. 1 chief in the future, I always maintain enough respect when dealing with him, so that even if I can not get his reuse in the future, I will not be deliberately suppressed. At this moment, hearing his question, I quickly and truthfully reported: "we have just interrogated a captured German officer. According to his confession, the German army will launch a full-scale attack on us."

"A full-scale attack." After repeating my words, Khrushchev asked solemnly, "when and where?"

"Three o'clock in the morning on July 5th." After reporting the exact time, I added with my own historical knowledge that "the enemy will take a pincer attack from the north to the south, and at the same time launch an attack from both the north and the South on the defensive areas of our central front army and Voronezh front army."

"Rita, is all the information you're talking about true?" After listening to my report, Khrushchev's voice became tense. He asked seriously, "can you guarantee that what you said is true?"

"Yes, comrade military Commissar." I answered with a firm voice, "the information I reported to you is absolutely true. Please believe me."

"Rita, just a moment, please." After Khrushchev finished this sentence, I vaguely heard his voice calling from the earphone: "you go to invite the commander to come here immediately, and say that there are 100000 urgent military information waiting for him to deal with, go quickly..."

Then Khrushchev's voice became clear: "Rita, I've sent for commander vatukin. He'll be here soon. When he comes, you will report the information to him again, and I believe he will make corresponding deployment. "

It wasn't long before vatukin came. He might have come from somewhere nearby. He was still slightly panting. He asked nervously, "o'shanina, I heard from the military commissar that you have 100000 urgent information. What's the matter?"

"Well, comrade commander." In order to attract the attention of watujing, I repeated what I just said, and finally added: "since we know that the enemy is gathering, should we do something to delay the enemy's attack?"

I thought that when I said this, vatukin would say something like "let me strengthen my guard and prevent German attack". Unexpectedly, after a moment of silence, he said slowly: "Comrade oshanina, this matter is very important. I can't make any decision. I must report it immediately."

"Comrade commander," seeing that he is still hesitating, I can't help but feel a little anxious. Regardless of the differences between the upper and lower ranks, I directly urged him: "now there are only about ten hours left before the German attack. You can make a decision early."

"You don't have to worry about this." Maybe my words are a little too much, watujing said impatiently: "you have to find out whether you are the commander of the front army or I am the commander of the front army. It's not up to you to tell. What's more, although the information you reported is important, you can't believe it without final verification. Perhaps the German prisoners you interrogated believed that you and your men had lied. "

In the face of vatukin's responsibility, I had to laugh and cry, saying that I was still too naive to think that when such important information was reported to the front, the superior would immediately make targeted response measures. I didn't expect that other people didn't believe my information at all.

"Whose phone is it? Comrade vatukin. " When I was in despair, I suddenly heard another familiar voice in the microphone. Hearing this voice, I couldn't help but feel happy and said that things might turn for the better.

"It's lieutenant general oshanina, commander of the sixth group army of the guards." "She told me that she had learned from the German prisoners that the enemy would attack our central front army and Voronezh front army at three o'clock in the morning on July 5, that is, tomorrow morning from both north and south directions at the same time," she told the other party

After listening to the report, the other party did not express any opinions, but said to watujing, "Comrade watujing, give me the phone. I'll talk to Lida in person."

Soon, my familiar voice came from the microphone: "Hello, Rita, I'm vassilevsky!"

"Hello, chief of the general staff." When I heard vasilevsky speak to me in person, my heart fell to the ground,

Vasilevsky asked in a friendly tone, "I heard Comrade watukin say that you learned the date of the German attack from the prisoners. Is that so?"

"Yes, comrade chief of the general staff. According to the German prisoners, they will launch an all-round attack on our defense line at three o'clock tomorrow morning from both the north and the south. "

After listening to my statement, vasilevsky asked carefully, "Rita, is your information true or false? Is the German prisoner lying?"

"Comrade chief of the general staff," in order to make him believe what I said, I had to analyze it with him, "I think this information is true. First of all, I talked with Marshal Zhukov two days ago. According to various intelligence analysis we have, the German attack should be between the 2nd and 8th of this month; Secondly, today, Manstein's troops carried out pre war fire reconnaissance on position 4 on the first line of defense of our group army; Also, according to the report of our scouts, some of the enemy's divisional or military headquarters are moving to the front. All this shows that they are ready to attack

"At three o'clock in the morning, if the prisoner is reliable," vasilevsky said slowly after listening to my analysis, "then in another thirteen hours, the enemy's attack will begin."

"Yes, comrade chief of the general staff," I believe after listening to my brief analysis, he already believed that the enemy would launch an attack tomorrow, so he said while the iron was hot: "if the German army really will launch an attack at three o'clock tomorrow morning, what measures should we take?"

After a period of silence, vasilevsky said decisively: "of course, all the artillery fire of the front army was concentrated to bombard the German assembly site. If I remember correctly, the Artillery Force of your group army is also very powerful. You can give it to your artillery commander. "

"I see, comrade chief of the general staff." Listening to what he said, my mood became more and more happy. I replied very readily, "I'm going to order the artillery to enter the firing position and be ready to fire at any time."

As I put down the phone, I looked up at the ceiling and said that what happened now seemed different from what happened in history. In the movie, rokosovsky learned the time of the German attack from the prisoner's mouth and reported Zhukov. Now this time, I got the information of their attack from the prisoners, and reported it to vasilevsky. I believe he will report this to Zhukov soon. In the movie, when Zhukov got the exact news, there were only two hours left before the war broke out, but now he had 13 hours to prepare.

Looking at me staring at the ceiling in a daze, povsky quickly called me: "Comrade commander, do not know what our artillery task is?"

Povsky's voice woke me up from my meditation. I quickly called him to my face, pointed to the two places of tomarovka and borisovka on the map, and said to povsky, "Comrade Colonel, order all our artillery to aim at these two places and be ready to fire." At the command I gave, povsky's face showed a surprise expression: "so, comrade commander, our attack is about to begin?"“ It's not our attack, comrade colonel. " Seeing that povsky was too excited, I quickly poured cold water on him. "At present, we have no ability to attack the German army. Firing at the place where they assembled could only delay their attack. You know, once the war machine starts, no one can stop it. " Povsky listened to me, nodded his head several times, and then said with some embarrassment, "Comrade commander, because our artillery is too scattered, the number of artillery that can participate in the shelling may be limited."“ Why? " Povsky's words made me feel very strange. I said in my heart that it's not a bad thing for artillery to be too scattered. At least it won't be destroyed by the German air force or artillery. What's more, as long as you provide a parameter to each artillery regiment to fire in one direction, you can also ensure the dense coverage of artillery“ Well, comrade commander. " Povsky saw me frown, hastily explained to me: "our artillery regiment and rocket battalion, respectively, in three lines of defense. The artillery regiment of the third line of defense is unable to participate in the shelling because it is too far away from the shelling target you provided and its range is not enough. " Hearing the original reason, I relaxed again and said to him with a smile, "since that's the case, comrade Colonel, you should arrange the artillery deployed in the third line of defense to move forward as soon as possible and set up an artillery position at a suitable place. As soon as the time comes, all the artillery fire will be concentrated and the German assembly sites will be shelled. "