Chapter 1187

At 5 a.m. on August 3, the roar of thousands of cannons broke the silence in southern Kursk. Our artillery kept firing at the German position which had been demarcated for a long time.

Standing in the observation post of the 52nd division of the guards, I saw the hail like shells flying away with the telescope, and the red light spots smashed into the enemy group like meteors, and the sound of the trajectory was interwoven. The shells burst out violently, and then the earth vibrated violently, and burst out dazzling halos in the continuous roar. The smoke and fire rose in the air, and the rolling fireballs were shining under the sun blocking smoke.

While the shelling was still going on, a lot of armored vehicles drove out of the position and headed for the enemy's position. Not far from the German minefield, all the armored vehicles stopped, and many soldiers jumped out of the car and bent to run towards the minefield. Standing next to me, nikolasov approached my ear and said in a loud voice, "Comrade commander, these are the demining engineers. They will open up a way for our attacking troops in the minefield."

After listening to this, I just nodded silently, but at the same time, I thought with disdain, "why don't we bombard the minefield, so that after the bombardment is over, there are not many mines left in the minefield. Why should we let our engineers take any risks to clear the mine?"

Just then, the gunfire stopped. My first reaction at that time was: is the shelling over? Then I focused my telescope on the busy engineers in the minefield, fearing that they would be shot by the German machine gun.

But I looked for a while and found that there was no movement in the German position except that it was shrouded in smoke. I can't help thinking to myself, where are all the Germans in the position, crouching in the trenches to avoid shells, or hiding in the blast hole?

At this time, a green signal bomb rose in the sky. When the signal bomb slowly fell from the sky, a strange sound came from the sky. While niekrasov was still listening, I had judged from my own experience that it was the sound of rocket shells flying in the air.

After the rocket shells drew beautiful arcs over our positions, they disappeared into the German positions still shrouded in gunsmoke, and then there came a terrible roar.

Looking at the rocket shells constantly hitting the German positions, I can't help thinking of the situation that soldiers saw rocket shells fall and explode in the middle of the enemy for the first time two years ago. At that time, most people saw that in just a few seconds, a large number of rockets covered several football fields, making it impossible for the German soldiers in the area to have more places and make effective response. When they suffered heavy casualties, they were not elated, but scared to turn around and run back.

Seeing that I was staring at the German position washed by rockets, nikolasov couldn't help interrupting: "Comrade commander, under the attack of Katyusha, I believe there won't be many survivors on the position, and the next attack will be very smooth."

I don't know how long later, the gunfire suddenly stopped, and the whole battlefield became silent.

A moment later, a red signal bomb, representing the attack signal, flew into the sky.

With the launch of the red signal bomb, the forward position suddenly boils up. The commanders and fighters hiding in the traffic trenches and trenches jump out of their hiding places and rush straight forward quickly. A product of the word arrow gathered into the sea, rushed into the smoke to kill the front.

At this time, our army's artillery extended, the distant explosion of roar, flashing fire, slightly red night sky reflected everywhere scurrying figure, no matter how you German can fight, in front of our absolute superiority of firepower is only a complete collapse.

Without waiting for the enemy to wake up from the gunfire, the charging officers and men had rushed all over the mountains and fields, and the positions were occupied in a flash, and then left behind in their howls. For those German soldiers who were shocked by the artillery fire, they did not pay any attention at all, did not make any stop, and continued to rush forward, leaving them to the follow-up forces to deal with. In close combat, our assault rifles showed great power, and dense bullets rained on the German army, beating groups of frightened German soldiers to pieces. They were really invincible.

Seeing the rapid development of the troops in depth, I nodded with satisfaction, turned my face and asked nikolasov, "Comrade Colonel, how many reserves do you still have in your hand?"

Hearing my question, nikolasov laughed with embarrassment, and then said, "Comrade commander, I'm afraid the progress of the army will not be smooth, so in the first attack, only two regiments were used, and one regiment was left as a reserve."

After he finished, I pointed to the front position which had been occupied by our commanders and fighters and left far behind, and said, "Comrade Colonel, immediately put the rest of your regiment into battle and let them clear the remnant enemy on the position."

"Yes With a promise, niekrasov began to call and order his chief of staff to quickly put the remaining regiment into battle.

Although I have used all the strength of the 52nd division of the guards, I will definitely not let niekrasov sing "empty city plan" here. Otherwise, as long as a small German army touches it, it will be enough to take away their headquarters. So after niekrasov finished his call, I dialed the commander of the 89th division of the guards, Xie Liujin.

When I heard serekin's voice coming out of the receiver, I said to him in a loud voice, "Colonel, you should immediately send a regiment to take over their defense."

Xie Liujin was stunned when he heard my order. Then he asked cautiously, "Comrade commander, did our attack fail?"

I heard what he was saying. He wanted to ask if the 52nd division of the guards had suffered heavy casualties due to the defeat of the attack. So he transferred his troops to take over the defense and quickly explained, "it's not what you think, comrade colonel. After the beginning of the attack, the officers and men of the 52nd division successfully broke through the German defensive position and were developing in depth. Because nikolasov sent out all the troops, I asked you to transfer troops to take over their defense. "

Just now, there were thousands of officers and men rushing forward under the sporadic artillery fire of the enemy, but now there was no one. But when I looked carefully, I found that there were many remains of the commanders and fighters in the open field. They fell under the mortar fire of the German position. Although they were doomed to no longer stand up, the hands of the commanders and fighters on the ground stretched forward and pointed to the German position in the distance, as if they would climb into the enemy position as long as they had breath.

After the reserve entered the battlefield, except for a small number of people who stayed to collect the remains of our commanders and fighters, the rest quickly rushed into the front positions and began to clean up the remnants of the German army that the first group of troops did not care to destroy.

Seeing that the battlefield was gradually calming down, I said to nikolasov, "Comrade Colonel, please leave your chief of staff behind to take over the officers and men of the 89th division of the guards. Let's go to the front together."

"But, comrade commander." When he heard me say this, he pointed to the shell that occasionally fell on the open ground and exploded outside, and said anxiously, "you see, the German long-range artillery is firing cold artillery at us. If we go further, it's easy to be dangerous."

"Comrade Colonel," I laughed gratefully at his concern, and then said, "I remember general rokosovsky once said that only when commanders are with their own troops can they make soldiers fight bravely. Since all my soldiers are fighting in the front, as their commander, can I always hide in the rear headquarters? "

When I said that, Nekrasov knew that I had made up my mind. No matter how much he said, I would not change my mind. He nodded and said reluctantly, "well, comrade commander, for your safety, you must act in concert with my headquarters. Can you do it? "

Without waiting for my answer, he said to himself, "if you can't agree to my request, I can only disobey the order and send someone to forcibly send you back to the rear headquarters of the group army."

"No problem, no problem, comrade colonel." I was deeply afraid that nikolasov would be stubborn and really send me back to the rear headquarters of the group army, so I had to promise: "I will work with your division headquarters."

After he got my promise, a smile appeared on his face. He made a phone call to the chief of staff of the division, arranged for the reception of friendly troops, and then followed me to the position he had just occupied.

When passing through the open area, basmanov worried about my safety, so that more than a dozen soldiers surrounded me, so that not only can block the sniper gun bullets flying from a distance, but also even if the shells explode not far away, they can block the shrapnel. Originally, I didn't want to work hard, but busmanov insisted on doing so. In order to make him feel at ease, I just let him arrange.

Walking beside me, neklasov asked: "Comrade commander, do you think the attack we launched this time can win tomarovka?"

"No problem, comrade colonel." As for his question, I definitely said: "I can responsibly tell you that today's attack will be successful and tomarovka will be occupied by us."

"But our previous attacks on tomalovka all ended in failure." "I'm afraid that today's attack will end in failure," said nikolasov with some confidence

"Comrade Colonel, you are too pessimistic." I said to him with a smile: "in the previous attacks, we had only one close guard 67th division, and the artillery support was limited, so we could not gnaw at the hard bone of the enemy. But now, how many troops do you have? There are only three divisions in the first group of troops to fight, all of which are close guard divisions with strong fighting capacity. I don't know the progress of the other two divisions at the moment, but look at our troops. They have successfully broken through the German peripheral positions and are developing in depth. "

"Comrade commander, according to the reconnaissance, the German army has increased its troops to tomarovka these two days, and laid a lot of minefields at the same time." "It's probably difficult for us to get rid of the defenders in the city in a day or two," he continued

"Even if they increase their troops, it won't help." I said confidently, "Comrade Colonel, you know that our total strength in the south of Kursk is three times that of them. Moreover, their limited forces will be distributed in the vast area from the south of Kursk to Kharkov. In this way, the German army, which lacks mobile forces, can only stay in their positions and wait for us to beat them. "

After listening to me, the sadness on Nekrasov's face faded away, and he finally showed a little smile: "Comrade commander, I feel at ease when you say that." When we arrived at the occupied German headquarters, the bodies had been cleaned up, but there was still a strong smell of blood in the room. I didn't care about the strange smell, so I urged nikolasov: "Comrade Colonel, let your messenger quickly put up the telephone line. I want to talk to the headquarters of the group army." After the signalman put up the phone, I immediately dialed the headquarters of the group army. When I heard Danilov's voice coming from the receiver, I immediately said to him with a smile, "Hello, comrade deputy commander." When Danilov heard my voice, he also said with a smile: "Comrade commander, it seems that I am very happy to hear your voice. It seems that our 52nd division is playing well."“ Yes, comrade deputy commander. " I said easily: "after the shelling, the officers and men of the 52nd division of the guards launched an attack, quickly broke through the defensive positions outside the German army, and were developing in depth."“ Great, great, that's great After listening to this, Danilov excitedly said three great words, and then asked in a low voice, "Comrade commander, do you think our troops can occupy tomalovka today?" His question made me silent. After thinking for a while, I replied, "Comrade deputy commander, it's hard to say. We should know that in the German position that the 52nd division of the guards broke through, only two German regiments were on guard, and the enemy's position was seriously damaged in the early artillery preparation, so their defense was quickly broken through by us. And the city of tomarovka... "Speaking of this, I was silent again. Fortunately, Danilov also understood what was going on, and quickly added, "Comrade commander, I understand. The main reason why the 67th division of the close guard failed in several attacks on tomarovka was that it suffered from the shortage of troops and firepower. Now that we have assembled three main divisions, together with the powerful ground artillery, we believe that the German forces inside will not be able to defend. "