Chapter 1143

Danilov listened to what I said solemnly, but shrunk his mouth in disapproval. Maybe he thought I was too alarmist. Perhaps in his mind, he thought that Manstein's attack from the South was just a feint attack by the German army, whose purpose was to cover the German central army group and attack Kursk from the north.

My guess was soon confirmed. After staring at the map for a while, Danilov suddenly said, "Comrade commander, I think the attack organized by Manstein, though powerful, has not made much progress. You see, up to now, they have not occupied any positions in Prokhorovka area, and even the divisions that we fell into their encirclement are not able to eat. It can be judged from this that the attack of the German southern army group was only to contain the troops of Voronezh's front army, so that we could not send out troops to reinforce the central front army, which was fighting a bloody battle. "

"Comrade deputy commander, what do you think?" As for Danilov's view, kirilov asked with great interest, "what do you think is their ultimate target?"

Danilov took a look at kirilov, then looked at the map and said, "where else, comrade military commissar. If you look at the troops of the German central army group, they have broken through the junction of the 70th and 13th army groups of our central front army and are rushing to Kursk. However, due to the tenacious resistance of general rokosovsky's troops, the German army's advance speed was very slow. If we don't send out troops to contain us, as long as we transfer two group armies to fill the breach, we can turn the hard won achievements of the German army into nothing. "

I didn't say anything, just listened quietly to Danilov's analysis. After he finished, I found that what he said was reasonable. If I didn't know the history and the final outcome, I would not hesitate to agree with him.

After listening to him, bzikov asked in a puzzled way: "Comrade deputy commander, if it is true that, as you said, why does Manstein not dispatch troops to directly reinforce the central group army group, but have to go far and risk failure to attack our defensive array?"

Who knows, don't ask zikov like that, he really asked Danilov. After thinking for a long time, he reluctantly said a possibility, but in the middle of it, he overturned his own guess.

Before Danilov could give bzikov a reasonable explanation, the telephone on the desk rang. When I saw that bezikov and Danilov were still studying the German army, they reached out and picked up the phone and asked, "I'm the headquarters of the group army. Where are you?"

In the microphone came the voice of tavart killazer. Hearing his tone with a trace of confusion, my heart immediately surged with an unknown premonition, and quickly asked: "Comrade General, what's the matter?" Maybe my voice was so loud that I attracted the attention of several people around me.

"Report to the commander that the highland of the 308th regiment has been lost." Tavartkiraze reported with trepidation.

"What, the 308th regiment lost its position?" Hearing this news, I immediately jumped up from my seat, frowned and asked in a loud voice, "Comrade General, can't you support each other with artillery fire in your highlands? How can we let the enemy seize the position? What's the matter? "

Tavartkilaze reported to me, "Comrade commander, this is the situation. As the highland guarded by the 308th regiment had not been attacked by the German army on a large scale, the south side of the highland was covered with weeds more than half a person's height, which seriously affected the vision of our commanders and fighters.

The camouflage clothes they came to attack the German troops were very rare. They used weeds as cover and quietly touched the place only 150 meters away from our position. At this time, their artillery suddenly opened fire to suppress our garrison. When the artillery extended to fire, the German army, regardless of the possibility of being injured by their own artillery, launched a charge from a hidden place to our army. They used grenades to clear the obstacles of Caiyu in front of the position, and used flame throwers to pull out the exposed civil fire points of our army. But when the resistance on the ground gradually weakened, the German officers and men with submachine guns jumped into the trench and started a close fight with our defenders. "

When I listened to tavartkilaze's report, I suddenly had a sense of deja vu. The more I listened, the more I felt like my usual tactics. I didn't expect that now I was learned by the German army, and I would turn around to deal with us. As soon as he finished, I immediately asked, "Comrade General, do you know the name of this German army?"

"According to the documents seized from the corpses of the German army, they belong to the Viking." After tavartkilaze finished his reply, he specially stressed: "the combat effectiveness of this unit is very strong, which is no worse than the 'Hitler division' or 'Imperial division' that fought with us two days ago."

I heard that it was the "Viking" who captured our position. I couldn't help feeling dark and shaking. If I didn't hold the edge of the table, I would have fallen to the ground. I didn't expect that Manstein thought highly of me and sent another strong SS division. He would not be reconciled if he didn't defeat us. I took a deep breath, calmed my mood a little, and then ordered tavartkilaze: "Comrade General, there is nothing to say, immediately organize the troops to fight back, and we must take back the high ground as soon as possible, otherwise the flanks of the 309th regiment and your division headquarters will all be exposed to the enemy."

"Yes, I immediately organized the troops to fight back." Tavartkilaze answered that he was about to hang up, but I stopped him. Then he asked, "Comrade commander, do you have any instructions?"“ I know something about the terrain of the highland defended by the 308th regiment. " I remember that before the outbreak of the campaign, I had visited the front positions many times, so after arranging the counterattack mission to tavartkilaze, I specially told him: "the north slope of the highland is flat, easy to attack and difficult to defend. You can send tanks to support the infantry attack." After I put down the phone, I looked at Danilov and said solemnly, "Comrade deputy commander, the defense area of the 51st division of the guards has just been attacked by the Viking. Now the position has been lost, and the flanks of the division headquarters and the 309th regiment have been completely exposed to the enemy. If general tavartkiraze fails to organize his troops in time to restore the lost positions, Yakovlev will be in danger of collapse. " Although I didn't directly criticize Danilov's wrong judgment of the current situation, he also heard the smell of blame from my words. However, he was also a man who knew his mistakes and could correct them. After a moment's hesitation, he immediately admitted his mistakes to me: "Comrade commander, I'm sorry. It seems that my judgment is totally wrong. The German army's action in the south of Kursk is not a feint, but a real attempt to rush into Kursk from the south. At present, what we can do is to rely on the existing defensive operations, consume a large number of German forces in the process of resistance, and wait for the arrival of the great counterattack. " I could not help but ask curiously, "Comrade chief of staff, what are you thinking?" Berzikov said with a sad face: "Comrade commander, it's not easy to deal with the" Wei Jing Shi ". At the beginning of the war, when our 38th army launched an attack on kamenkov, it was this army that held fast to the city. At that time, the artillery that provided artillery support came from a nearby artillery school. They knew the coordinates of all parts of the area very well, so they could bombard German positions with extraordinary accuracy in battle. At the same time, the eight infantry divisions of the 38th army also launched regimental scale charges against the city from time to time. But even in this case, the "Viking division" still blocked our attack. They remained calm in the dilapidated positions and carefully arranged their firepower network to inflict heavy casualties on our army. Three days after the fierce battle, our army lost its offensive ability because of the heavy losses and had to withdraw from its position. " After bzikov finished, Danilov added: "in the battle of Kharkov at the beginning of the year, we had the chance to win. Who knows that Popov's armored assault group was almost completely destroyed after being hit by the" Viking "one after another, which led to the failure of the whole battle." The reason why I know about the existence of the "Viking" trump card force is that it is a very famous one in the German SS force, and that most of its soldiers are not German, they are all volunteers from Western Europe and Northern Europe. As for what achievements it has made on the battlefield, it is not clear. At the moment, after listening to the introduction of bezikov and Danilov, my mood became more and more nervous. If the counterattack organized by general tavartkilaze can not recover the position quickly, then with the strong fighting capacity of the "Viking division", as long as they have a firm foothold, they will soon be able to seize the high ground guarded by the 51st division of the guards one after another“ Comrade commander, what should we do? " Bezikov might have seen me as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, so he couldn't help asking, "is it necessary to prepare the 51st division of the guards to retreat?" I sit in my seat, holding my head in both hands, and I have a fierce ideological struggle in my mind. Is it to withdraw or to defend? This is really a headache.