Chapter 1164

When I heard that the other side had been a tank soldier, I casually asked, "which army were you in before?"

"I'm a subordinate of general rebalko," said yorda, who was a little lame, but did not affect his good posture. "My tank was hit by German artillery when attacking Kharkov. It was my conductor who risked his life to rescue me from the car and helped me escape to a safe place. But my leg was so badly injured that I was disabled, so I was demobilized. "

"Comrade youerda, you are good." After I praised him in an official voice, I asked curiously, "I want to ask you why this destroyed German tank was not repaired, but transformed into an armored tractor?"

Youerda didn't answer my question immediately. Instead, he took out a small book from his pocket and handed it to me. He said without expression, "Comrade General, please have a look."

I opened the small book he handed me. It was like a running account, recording what type of tank was towed back at a certain place in a certain month and a certain year. I didn't read it carefully. I just looked through it and found that it was full of similar contents. I closed the book and handed it back to him. At the same time, I couldn't help but ask more curiously, "Comrade youerda, do you want to show me this book?"

"Comrade General, don't you understand?" "It records the number of damaged tanks I pulled back on the battlefield," he said

I vaguely guessed what he wanted to say, and deliberately teased him, saying: "I see clearly, the number of tanks you pulled back from the battlefield is really quite a lot, almost forming a tank brigade. But what does this have to do with your transformation of German tanks into armored tractors? "

"General, don't you know that if we don't pull our tank back in time after it is damaged, and let it stay on the battlefield to be attacked by the enemy's shells, it will cause us great losses, because it will be difficult to repair it later, or it will take a long time to repair it."

The tank maintenance workers didn't know when they gathered around us. After hearing yorda's explanation, they couldn't help laughing. After listening to your laughter, I looked at youerda and said with a smile, "Comrade youerda, can you explain it more comprehensively? If I think you have a point, then I will allow you to leave this tractor, otherwise, it will have to be repaired and used to equip our tank forces. "

Youerda continued to stand upright in front of me. After I finished, he calculated a sum of money to me to prove how many more tanks can be added to our army to fight again, although one tank has been repaired less. He also explained to me with detailed data the flexibility and cross-country ability of the base of the tank used as a tractor. He even gave an example to illustrate that other maintenance teams suffered a lot of casualties because they used tractor tractors to tow tanks on the battlefield. Many excellent repairmen were sacrificed in vain, but he was not damaged in this armored tractor.

After he said that, seeing that I didn't express any opinions, he specially stressed: "Comrade General, it's by this heavy armored and powerful tractor that I successfully sent 21 heavy tanks and 39 medium tanks to the repair site after they lost their combat effectiveness, and enabled them to return to the battlefield in the shortest time."

I waited for him to finish, glanced at the two medals hanging on his left chest, and asked, "Comrade youerda, have you been rewarded?"

"Yes." When he spoke, he pointed to the medal on his chest and said to me, "these two medals are the encouragement of my superiors for my achievements."

I nodded and said to him, "Comrade youerda, there will be a big battle soon. If you can bring more tanks back from the battlefield in battle, I will give you another medal. "

I thought youerda would be at a loss when he heard this. Who knows, he said with a light expression: "Comrade General, I don't need any medals."

"Why?" His answer, let my chin almost hit the ground. In the Soviet Union, a country proud of being honored, some people would take the initiative to refuse such honor, so I was surprised and asked, "Comrade youerda, can you give me your reasons?"

Youerda looked at the modified armored tractor beside him and said firmly, "Comrade General, I don't need any medals. I just hope you can agree to let me keep this tractor."

I laughed at his request and said, "well, comrade youerda, since you insist, I will agree to your request. If anyone else asks about it in the future, you can say that this armored tractor was approved by general oshanina to stay. "

This matter may be of great significance to youerda, but it is of no importance to me. As soon as I got back to the headquarters, bzikov met me and asked anxiously, "Comrade commander, where have you been? We are looking for you everywhere."

When I heard bzikov's voice, I guessed that something must have happened, and asked with concern, "chief of staff, what's the matter?"

Bezikov handed me a piece of paper in his hand and said, "look at it for yourself. A small German army occupied a small village a few kilometers away from us. "

After reading the contents of the piece of paper he handed me, I found that there was no more detailed information except to report that the German army had occupied the village. Then I asked, "how many troops do the enemy have and what kind of equipment do they have?"

Bezikov shook his head and replied, "the village is not big, so we only have about one squad to guard. When the enemy attacked, contact was interrupted before the soldiers who called to report to us spoke. "

I scanned the headquarters with my eyes and found that I didn't see anyone except the operator on duty and bezikov. I asked, "where are the deputy commander and the military commissar?"

"They're still resting in their rooms." Bezikov explained to me, "I think we should report to you first. After all, you are the commander of the group army."

"Let them be called." Although I had a good personal relationship with bezikov goose, in this case, I still told him to do business and say, "besides, you should send someone to scout immediately to find out the number of German troops and their weapons and equipment in the village. Do you understand? "

"I see, comrade commander." Bizikov listened to me in a very strict tone, and immediately and decisively agreed, then turned and walked out of the headquarters.

A few minutes later, kirilov and Danilov walked into the headquarters in a panic. As soon as he entered the door, kirilov asked me in a hurry, "Rita, I heard from bezikov that a small group of enemies had occupied a village near the headquarters. What's the matter?"

I handed him the information on the table and said, "the chief of staff said that there was only one squad of our army stationed in the village. When we found that the enemy was attacking them, the phone was only interrupted in the middle of the conversation, so we don't know the specific situation in the village now."

"What's the matter with our troops?" Danilov with a strong gas to get up, said: "even a few minutes did not hold on, was the German pot."

"Comrade deputy commander." I said to him with some helplessness: "our soldiers have no time to report. There are many reasons. You know, when the Germans launched the sneak attack, they may still be sleeping. It will be a little late when they find out that the enemy has rushed into the village and then make any response. "

After I finished, kirilov continued, "yes, we can't blame our soldiers for this. Maybe the German first touched our sentries, and then sneaked into the soldiers' places in groups to kill them in their sleep. It's not easy for the soldiers to give us an alarm. " At this point, he looked up at me. "In the past, Lida used to use this sneak attack tactics to deal with the enemy, which made the enemy miserable. I didn't expect that the enemy had learned this tactic now."

"By the way, bzikov has just sent for us. Where is he now?" Danilov asked.

"I asked the chief of staff to make sure of the German situation in the village." I raised my hand and looked at my watch. I found that bezikov had been away for more than ten minutes. "He should be in the reconnaissance camp now, right?"

"Comrade commander, I think we should leave to fight back and drive the enemy away from our village." Danilov said in a fierce voice: "we should immediately give orders to the reconnaissance battalion to make them ready for all battles."

After listening to Danilov's plan to use the reconnaissance battalion as an ordinary force, I quickly waved my hand and said, "no, comrade deputy commander, every commander and soldier in the reconnaissance battalion plays a better role than a class in the ordinary force. So we must not use them as ordinary troops. It's a waste. "

As he was talking, bzikov came in from the outside in a hurry. Seeing that we were all there, he said frankly, "when I just went to the reconnaissance battalion, major akhromeyev was also there, so I explained the reconnaissance task to him and asked him to arrange competent personnel to carry out the reconnaissance task."

In order to prevent the reconnaissance battalion from charging like an ordinary army, I turned to ask bzikov, "chief of staff, which army is near us?"

Bzikov thought about it and replied, "a battalion of the 71st division of the guards is about two kilometers to the east of the village. If you want to destroy the enemy in the village, you can order this unit to attack. "

"Call Colonel sivakov and let him know about it and get his troops ready to fight." After I finished these words, it suddenly occurred to me that if we could have several tanks to support us, we could reduce the casualties of our army in the battle. I added, "where can I find tanks?"

When bizikov heard this, he looked at me with strange eyes and said in surprise, "Comrade commander, have you forgotten that the 22nd brigade of general Kravchenko's close guard tank is stationed near us, and you can call them to fight at any time?"

"That's very good," I said. When I heard that there were tank brigades stationed nearby, my mood suddenly relaxed. Then I said, "chief of staff, let them send two tank companies to assist the attack of the 71st division of the guards."

When we are deploying troops in full swing, the intelligence of akhromeyev, who went to carry out the reconnaissance mission, is also coming back one after another. According to intelligence, the German army occupied the village with about two companies, equipped with tanks, armored vehicles and mortars. The German army also set up a large number of mg42 general-purpose machine guns in the newly built fortifications outside the village. After seeing the information I received, I asked some of you, "comrades, what do you think of this matter?" Kirilov took the information and looked at it for a while. Then he said, "judging from the enemy's equipment, it should be an elite force. It's a pity that our scouts can't get close to the village, so they can't figure out their specific numbers. "“ Are there any of us in the village? " Danilov asked bezikov anxiously. I'm worried about Danilov. If there are our villagers in the village, then when we attack, we will appear to be constrained, and the combat effectiveness of the commanders and fighters will play up to half of the usual. So our attention is focused on bezikov to see what he will say. When he saw bezikov shaking his head, all the people present were relieved. In order to reassure everyone, bezikov added: "there used to be dozens of families in this village, but during the battle of Kharkov, they saw our army winning day by day and were afraid that the Germans would fight, so they all evacuated to other places." Thinking of not having to worry about the mousetrap, I had a lot of confidence in my heart. After bezikov finished, I said calmly, "since we have surrounded them, then we should eliminate them all. Don't let any of them run away!" As soon as I finished, bzikov went on to say, "Comrade commander, if you want to annihilate them all, it may not be enough to rely on this battalion of the 71st division of the guards alone. You need the cooperation of other troops." I heard something from him. It seemed that more troops could be mobilized nearby, so I asked strangely, "chief of staff, do we have any other troops nearby?"“ Of course, of course. " Bezikov said with some pride: "since the fifth group army of close guard tanks took over our defense in Prokhorov two days ago, the 375TH infantry division, which was originally stationed there, has moved to our vicinity." Then he pointed on the map with his hand, "right here, not far from the village."“ Well, since there are still our troops nearby, I'll call Colonel govorunanko again and ask them to send troops here. " Since there are troops nearby, I must try my best to bring in as many as possible and concentrate the superior forces to fight a large-scale annihilation. This is one of the keys to victory on the battlefield.