Chapter 1157

When I left the headquarters of the front army and went back to my headquarters, I found that the tent had been transformed into a wooden house at some time. The space inside is very spacious. On the left side of the door is a long walkie talkie, and in the middle is a large simple wooden table. At the moment, Danilov, kirilov and bezikov are discussing something around the table.

When I entered the room, the staff who were preparing to go out stopped one after another, let them to one side and raised their hands to salute me. When bzikov, who was sitting in front of the door, saw me, he quickly stood up and said with a smile, "Comrade commander, are you back?"

"I'm back." As I said this, I quickly came to the table, looked down at the place on it, and asked, "what's the situation in the defense area?"

Danilov stood up and said, "Comrade commander, during the period when you left, only the battle in the direction of oboyan was the most intense, and the rest of the fighting was on a small scale. From all kinds of signs, the German power is almost exhausted. Can we consider organizing troops to take back those lost positions? "

I looked up at Danilov and asked in surprise, "Comrade deputy commander, if I hear you right, do you suggest to me to fight back against the Germans?"

"Yes, comrade commander, that's exactly what it is." Danilov replied positively.

"Counterattack, what strength do we use to counterattack?" I said to the optimistic deputy commander, "how many poorly organized tank brigades and infantry divisions do we have to fight back against the German troops who occupied our positions?" Seeing Danilov nodding his head in affirmation, I gave a sneer and dropped a sentence, "I asked povsky and Colonel berey to come back and tell you about the battle in the oboyan region and how we won."

I went to lophov, who was standing behind a telegraph operator, and told him, "Comrade major, inform Col. bofsky, Col. bere, as well as the commander of the 90th division and the Fifth Army of the tank of the guards, to come back to the headquarters of the group army immediately."

"Yes With a promise, lophov bent down and began to convey my message to the telegraph operator, asking him to send a message to the commanders who were staying in the oboyan area, so that they could return to the headquarters of the group army immediately.

I had nothing to do. Looking up at the roof, I saw a lot of thick logs one by one on the top. The logs were fixed with huge nails. I called bezikov over and asked with great interest, "chief of staff, you are quite fast. Within a few hours of my leaving the headquarters, you turned the tent into a solid wooden house. "

Bzikov grinned and said, "Comrade commander, there are many soldiers in our army who have worked as loggers and construction workers. With their help, it's just a matter of hours to build such a house." At this point, he looked around at Danilov, who was sulking. He asked in a low voice, "why did you ignore the deputy commander? Look, he seems to be angry."

I snorted softly, approached bzikov's ear and said, "Comrade deputy commander always thinks about counterattack and counterattack, regardless of the difference between our strength and that of the German army. I'm the commander of the group army. I can't watch my soldiers die. "

"Comrade commander, judging from the intensity of fighting in various defense areas in recent days, the strength of the German army has indeed been greatly weakened." Bezikov hesitated and said: "I also think that with our current strength, we can consider counterattack against the German army."

"No, absolutely not." When I heard that from bezikov, I immediately lowered my face and said to him in a serious tone: "Comrade chief of staff, we are facing the German southern army group of Manstein. Don't forget how he defeated our army in the battle of Kharkov. Although the German offensive has weakened in the past two days, they are accumulating strength and planning to give our troops a thunderbolt in a new area. If we blindly belittle the enemy, we will suffer a great loss. "

After talking with bezikov for a while, I saw kirilov sitting at his desk, thinking that he had not had time to say hello to him when he came back, and then walked towards him. He asked with a smile, "Comrade military commissar, what are you writing about?"

Kirilov stopped writing, looked up at me and replied with a smile, "what else can I write? Of course, it's a meritorious service application form for soldiers. Recently, there are a lot of meritorious officers and soldiers, so my work seems a little busy. "

Seeing kirilov with a tired face, I said with concern, "Comrade military commissar, don't work too hard. There are some things you'd better leave to the political workers below. Anyway, they are all familiar with these jobs. "

I didn't expect kirilov to wave his hand and say, "no, I can't rest assured. Even if they do it well, I still need to take time to check it one by one when it comes to me." At this point, he suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Rita, I heard that after the battle in oboyan, commander vatujing called you to his headquarters. Is there anything important?"

I turned to Danilov next to him and saw that he was still looking down at the map, so I raised my voice and said, "the chief General called me to study how to launch a counterattack against the German army." After that, I glanced at Danilov from the corner of my eye.

When he heard about the counterattack, Danilov had the spirit immediately, but he didn't care to be angry with me. He immediately asked, "Comrade commander, what does commander watujing say? When will our army launch the counterattack against the German army?"

I looked at the impatient Danilov and said with a smile, "Comrade deputy commander, general vatukin is in the same mood as you. I hope to launch a comprehensive counterattack against the German army tomorrow. But no way. Although the enemy has been weakened by our army, their strength still has a great advantage over ours. "

When Danilov heard me say this, he suddenly fell down again and muttered, "when will we be able to launch a counterattack against the German army?"

"Don't worry, comrade deputy commander." I comforted him and said, "wait a week at most, I think we can launch a counterattack against the German army. But before that, we have to find a way to continue to consume the living strength of the German army. "

"What's the consumption method?" Danilov asked curiously.

"In today's battle, whether it's bofsky's artillery, or Colonel bere, general Kravchenko's tank troops, or Colonel Chernoff's close guard division, they are doing very well." I went on, "I have ordered major lophov to inform them to come back and let them sum up today's fighting experience, so that we can popularize their good experience in the whole regiment."

"When will they be back?" Danilov asked as soon as I finished.

Without waiting for me to speak, bizikov next to him began to laugh: "Comrade deputy commander, you are too impatient. It wasn't long before the telegram was sent out. How could they come back so soon. It will be at least an hour before they return to the headquarters. "

I waited for bzikov to finish, waved to him and said, "OK, chief of staff, we'll talk about this later. Now let's study where to set up a tank maintenance station, so as to repair our army's tanks destroyed in battle in time. "

"Comrade commander," listen to me, bzikov asked solemnly, "I don't know how many tank maintenance stations our superior plans to build in our defense area?"

"According to the general, he intends to build 30 tank maintenance stations, mainly in Prokhorovka." I pointed to our line of defense and continued, "eight of them will be built in the defense area of our group army."

"Why did commander watujing suddenly want to build so many repair stations?" Danilov asked

"Comrade deputy commander, don't you understand?" Bezikov opened his hand, patted Prokhorovka's position and said: "from the current situation, we will soon start a fierce battle with the German armored forces in this area. If there are enough tank maintenance stations, then our workers can repair the damaged tanks in time and send them back to the battlefield. "

Kirilov, who was originally writing the report, looked up again and said, "that's right. Let alone say that the quality of our tanks is better than that of the German tanks, even if it is worse than them. As long as our maintenance workers can quickly repair the damaged tanks and send them back to the battlefield continuously, the German armored forces, no matter how strong they are, will be gradually consumed by us. "

After listening to kirilov's explanation, Danilov could not help nodding and smiling. But I stood beside speechless, laughing and crying. The Soviet Army's favorite set of infantry tactics in wartime was the sea of people tactics. I didn't expect that now it's a tank decisive battle, and it's still tank naval warfare. However, even if the Germans have the ability to play regardless of the loss, they can't afford it.

Povsky and his party returned to the headquarters an hour later. After a simple greeting, I looked at Colonel berey and said, "Comrade Colonel, the final victory in the battle of oboyan is mainly due to your successful killing of the German artillery, so that our tank troops can make the most of their advantages in the battlefield. Tell me how you destroyed the German artillery position. "

Colonel berey's face lit up with laughter at my praise. He said excitedly: "Comrade commander, I think if we fight with the German armored forces in the future, we should first kill their artillery, so that they can only fight with us with tanks. As you know, even the most advanced Tiger tank of German army is not the opponent of our new tank. It can be said that as long as we kill the German artillery, the battlefield will turn into a one-sided massacre, and our tankers can kill the German tanks one by one like shooting a target. "

I was afraid that he would take the subject far away, so I interrupted him immediately: "well, comrade Colonel, let's talk about how you killed the German artillery position first."

Berey nodded, then began to talk about their fighting experience: "the German artillery may feel that their position is too far away from our position, so there is no infantry in charge of covering on the position. But when I found the enemy's artillery position, I ordered all the tanks to form a battle formation and rush directly towards the enemy. In order to prevent the possible emergence of anti tank hand, each tank, are sitting on a few infantry.

Only when we were more than 300 meters away from the artillery position did the enemy find us. It was too late for them to turn the cannons around. Our tanks fired as they drove, and the enemy's artillery was scattered. Occasionally, a few cannons who are not afraid of death rush over with cluster grenades in an attempt to blow up our tanks, but they are all riddled with rifles. After rushing into the artillery position, we didn't fire any more, instead, we used crawlers to crush the guns one by one. " When I heard what Colonel berey said, I could not help holding his hands on his forehead. I secretly scolded him as a black sheep. There were so many heavy guns in the enemy's artillery position that we could equip our own troops if we captured them. But you've turned these cannons into scrap iron. It's outrageous. My action was seen by bezikov. He asked with concern, "Comrade commander, what's the matter with you? Have you had a headache?" When he heard me explain the whole story, he stamped his feet in anger. And the originator, Colonel bere, blushed with shame and was embarrassed to go on. Seeing this, I can't blame him any more. I can only say politely, "forget it, comrade Colonel, don't feel guilty. We still have a lot of time to fight with the German army. We can't capture their cannons this time. We will capture them next time. " After I finished this sentence, I turned to look at Kravchenko, commander of the Fifth Army of the close guard tank, and said with a smile, "Comrade General, in the next battle, your army's combat tasks will be very heavy."“ General oshanina, "Kravchenko said to me with a smile," our army has been cooperating with you in the battle. My tank army and I are under your command. As long as it is needed on the battlefield, we will fight wherever you point. " I reached for his hand, shook it hard, and then said, "that's great, Comrade General. Now I have a new battle plan, which can deal heavy damage to the German armored forces. But at present, the tank troops of our group army have suffered serious losses. If we want to fight alone, our strength is too poor, so we need your full cooperation. "