Chapter 1184

As soon as the vanguard of the army approached the edge of the city, several firepower points on the German position revived, machine guns opened fire at the same time, and several fire whips swept across the charging crowd. Immediately, they would rush to the front of the commanders and fighters and beat them to the ground. But the commanders and fighters behind did not slow down their pace, still charging forward bravely.

"Comrade Colonel," I said to baksov, pointing to the fire point in the distance where the flame of death was spitting out, "the German fortifications are very strong. You see, it's not easy that so many firepower points can survive under the heavy artillery attack of our army. "

Before baksov could speak, his chief of staff came to him and said, "Comrade commander, please allow me to report to you."

I glanced at the skinny lieutenant commander, nodded and said, "report!"

"When the troops first rushed into the city, I went to check these fortifications." The chief of staff of the division replied clearly: "the Germans built a lot of gun holes in the trenches. They left a small number of observation posts as soon as they were bombarded, and the rest of them hid in the blast hole. When we charged, they came out of the hole to meet us. "

"But at the beginning, our fortifications in butovo also had a large number of gun holes. Why did the troops suffer heavy casualties under the attack of the enemy's artillery?" I asked, "Comrade commander, can you tell me why?"

The chief of staff of the division couldn't answer for a moment. He blushed and was in a daze.

I said unsatisfied: "the enemy has gun holes in the trenches, and we also have gun holes in the trenches, but our troops often suffer heavy casualties when they are under enemy fire. The enemy, however, has so many firepower points to survive. You have time to find the gap between us and the enemy. "

"I see, comrade commander." The division chief of staff replied awkwardly.

At this time, baksov suddenly called me: "Comrade commander, you see our heavy machine guns following the charge have suppressed the German firepower after setting up the position, and the troops are rushing into the city one by one."

I raised my telescope again and looked at the fire spot that was still rampant. I found that I was dumb under the attack of our heavy machine gun. Then turn the camera to our troops, see some of the officers and men into and occupied the German fortifications, the rest of the people are toward the ruins of the city.

Seeing that the officers and men outside the city almost rushed into the city, my heart began to worry again, deeply afraid that they would form a dense formation on the narrow street. In this way, in addition to the soldiers in the front row can shoot, the people behind can only be anxious. As long as the German army put a few machine guns on the main road, it would be enough to beat back all our charges.

After more than half an hour, we didn't see the troops in the city beaten by the Germans. On the contrary, the originally dense gunfire gradually became sparse. It seems that the battle is coming to an end. Just then, there came the louder and louder roar of the motor outside. When I first heard the sound, I thought the German Tiger tank company was covering their goose troops for counterattack again, but after listening for a while, I found that the sound was not coming from the city, but from our rear.

"Did the enemy's tanks detour back to our rear?" When I thought about it, I was in a cold sweat. I was going to remind baksov to prepare for anti tank.

But I heard the chief of staff of the division shout happily: "tank, it's our tank!"

I quickly walked out of the observation post, stood in the trench and looked in the direction of the sound. I saw a dozen t-5455 tanks coming towards us quickly along the uneven road. Seeing clearly that it was my own tank, I was relieved, wiped the sweat from my forehead, turned around and told baksov, "Comrade Colonel, send a signal to the tank troops, so that they don't have to stay, but rush directly into the city to cover the infantry and drive the Germans out of the city."

"Come on," barksov, who had accepted the order, turned to the side and called out. Immediately an officer ran up to him, stopped in front of him and stood straight like a telegraph pole. Just listen to baksov's order, he said: "immediately send a signal to the tank troops, so that they don't have to stay, directly rush into the city, cooperate with the infantry to drive out the Germans."

With a promise, the officer climbed out of the trench, stood on a mound of earth, pulled out a red flag and a green flag from the belt around his waist, raised them high above his head and waved them to the coming tank.

The tank troops saw his signal and sped over the trench towards the city. When I saw the tanks driving into the city one by one, my heart suddenly became steadfast. This time, even if the German army sent another Tiger tank company to attack, and met with our new tanks, it would not escape the fate of the whole army.

After the tank rushed into the city, nearly an hour later, a yellow signal bomb rose from the city into the air. Seeing the flare, baksov sighed with relief, and then said to me, "Comrade commander, all the enemies in butovo have been driven out by us."

Since I didn't see baksov answer any phone calls, I can only guess that he may have come to the conclusion that the troops have occupied butovo according to the signal bomb in the air“ Very well, comrade colonel Seeing that our army recovered bhuttovo, I felt much better. I said to baksov, "order the soldiers to reinforce the fortifications as soon as possible, so as to prevent the possible German counterattack. Do you understand? "

"I see, comrade commander." Baksov's answer was very straightforward.

I turned to povsky and said, "all right, comrade artillery commander, our mission here has been completed. Let's go back to the headquarters of the group army. There is still a lot of work to be done. "

"All right, comrade commander." Povsky said to me with a smile, "before we go back to the headquarters, do we need to call the political commissar together?"

After thinking about it, I waved my hand and said, "no, let the political commissar stay here for the time being and do political mobilization for the commanders and fighters. I hope they can keep high morale in the next battle

"Don't worry, comrade commander." Barksov said to me with a smile: "I will order political commissars and political workers at all levels to fully cooperate with comrades of the military commissars to carry out political propaganda and agitation among the soldiers."

"All right, I'm going." I waved my head to povsky, motioned him to follow me out of the observation post, and then said to baksov, "Comrade Colonel, let the soldiers have a good rest at night. There are two more wars to fight."

Barksov nodded and said, "don't worry, in the next siege, we can still guarantee such a strong morale as today."

When we returned to the headquarters, Danilov and bezikov, who were staying here, had already known the result. But they were surprised to see kirilov didn't come back with me. Danilov asked, "Comrade commander, why didn't Comrade military commissar come back with you?"

"Well, comrade deputy commander." I said to him politely: "in order to ensure that the commanders and fighters of the 67th division of the Jinwei will still maintain their strong morale in the next two tough battles, comrades of the military commissar decided to stay and help the political workers of the division carry out propaganda and agitation." After I finished explaining, I changed the topic, "does the headquarters of the front army have the latest orders?"

"No," bzikov shook his head and replied, "after I reported to my superiors about the recovery of bhuttovo, I specially asked commander vatukin. He said that he would call us directly if there was anything wrong."

"What about the friendly forces?" I then asked.

Bezikov obviously knew what I was asking, and went on to say: "the units of the fifth group army of close guard tanks are reinforcing fortifications and replenishing various materials on their defensive positions; And general katukov's tank army is now actively preparing for war

"What's the supply situation of our troops?" Thinking of the big battle to be fought next, I am deeply afraid that there are not enough weapons, ammunition and various materials, so whenever I have time, I have to ask, "how many materials have the transport team delivered to us today?"

Hearing my question, bezikov immediately turned to ahlomeyev and asked, "major, do you know how many supplies we have received today?"

Akhromeyev took out a notebook, looked through it for a while, and then reported to me, "Comrade commander, so far today, we have received a total of 70 vehicles of various types of shells, 40 vehicles of materials, and eight vehicles of food and medicine."

After hearing this data, I asked casually, "how long can we hoard enough materials to launch a major campaign according to such transportation volume?"

After hearing this, akhromeyev replied bitterly: "Comrade commander, these more than 100 vehicles of materials sound quite a lot, but they can't meet the daily consumption of the whole group army. If we want to hoard enough combat materials in the shortest time, then the transportation volume of logistics forces should be at least three times more than that of other forces. "

When I heard him say this, I suddenly felt that my head was getting bigger. Just like the current situation of the Belgorod Kursk highway, the transportation situation is pretty good. It may be no problem to increase the transportation volume a little bit. It is no doubt a dream to increase the transportation volume two or three times.

When I called for help, I hesitated for a long time before I put forward my proposal. Who knows that after hearing this, watujing almost immediately replied, "Comrade oshanina, under the present circumstances, it is obviously unrealistic to increase the traffic volume by road..."

Before watujing's words were finished, it cooled my heart. When I was feeling desperate, I suddenly heard him say: "although the traffic volume of highway can not be increased, we can think of other ways."

"Is it an airdrop?" After listening to watujing's idea of finding other ways, the idea of air force support immediately came into my mind.

After hearing this, watujing said with a smile, "Comrade oshanina, your idea is so naive. You're not surrounded. You don't need airdrop. What's more, you have to spend a lot of troops and energy on collecting the materials dropped by air. It's really not suitable. "

"And how to transport it?" I asked, puzzled.

"Where is the headquarters of your group army now?" Instead of answering my question immediately, vatukin asked, "what cities are nearby?"

Looking at the map, I replied, "as you know, senior general, our headquarters is now located in ifnia, southwest of oboyan. Except Yakovlev, the rest are small cities with little reputation. "

"Comrade oshanina, in the northwest of your headquarters, there is a city called beloye. Do you see it?" After I said I had seen the city, watujing continued, "it's a railway hub, and there are many vacant military warehouses beside it. I can ask the logistics department to transport the materials directly from Moscow, and then you can ask the divisions to get the materials they need. Do you understand? "“ I see, Comrade General. " If I don't understand under such circumstances, I am a complete fool. I quickly replied, "I will send troops to guard these warehouses to ensure the safety of military materials." Hearing my promise, watujing laughed and said, "I've solved the material problem for you. You have to get it down as soon as possible in the cities of klukovo and tomalovka. "“ Don't worry, Comrade General. " I assured him firmly, "you have given me a week, and I will certainly seize the remaining two cities from the enemy before the deadline." After I put down the phone, bzikov asked excitedly, "Comrade commander, what does Comrade General say?" I pointed to the map and said to several commanders around me, "senior general told me that in the northwest of our country, there is a small city called beloye. It used to be a railway hub, and there are many vacant military warehouses beside it. He intends to let the logistics department transport the materials directly from Moscow, which will not only facilitate the storage of the materials, but also facilitate the collection of the divisions. " After I found akhromeyev with my eyes, I pointed to him and said, "major, you call the commander of the 89th division of the guards, Col. Xie Liujin, and ask him to send a battalion to beloye to guard the material warehouse." Akhromeyev promised to go to the side to make a phone call, but he stopped than Danilov. The latter looked at me and said, "Comrade commander, there are too few battalions, at least two battalions." As for Danilov's proposal, I agreed almost without thinking. Then I told akhromeyev again, "major, according to the advice of the deputy commander, let Col. sheriujin send two battalions to beroye to guard the military warehouse."