Chapter 1242

Although general govoruninenko's troops were only half an hour ahead of the original time, it was this half an hour that made us pay a lot more sacrifice. According to the German officers who were captured at the back, they had received the order to move. When they were preparing to leave, they got a report from the scouts outside the city of chuhuyev that the main force of our army was advancing to the South and quickly rushed to ijum. In this case, the German commander immediately cancelled the order to mobilize the forces in the north of the city, and mobilized the forces in the south of the city to fill the breach opened by trakov. And then things got worse and worse. The first was the vanguard of the 89th division of the guards. During the March, the vanguard was defeated by the German armored forces coming from the flank. If it wasn't for Xie Liujin and the other two regiments who arrived in time to repel the German troops, maybe the vanguard regiment would have been canceled. Then we received a telegram from the reconnaissance team. They reported that the German army did not know whether it was to prevent the 375TH division from retreating into the forest, which was frustrated by the attack, or whether it was afraid that we would send troops to detour back to their rear through the forest, so they opened the sluice on the river and submerged most of the forest in the west of the city. Seeing the bad news coming one by one, and coming to the front command tower in person, general killazer did not get any information, which made me very anxious. After walking back and forth in the headquarters with my hands behind my back, I suddenly saw chisgakov bending over to look at the map, and I had an idea in my heart. I went up behind chisgakov and called him in a low voice. When he came back, I tentatively said, "Comrade deputy commander, the situation ahead is very complicated. I don't feel at ease. I want you to direct me. What do you think? " For my proposal, chisgakov thought for a moment, then nodded decisively and said decisively, "well, comrade commander, since you have given me this task, I will certainly complete it successfully." For a long time, my performance has robbed these deputies of the limelight. If they are not allowed to take charge of several important battles, the commanders of the friendly forces will feel that my deputies are a group of incompetent people. And every time I'm at the forefront, it's time to change people. At this moment, seeing that chisgakov readily agreed to go ahead to command the troops, my heart immediately became more secure. But before he left, chisjakov said with some uneasiness: "Comrade commander, as soon as we leave here, there will only be one guard company left in the city. Can they keep you safe? "“ Don't worry, comrade deputy commander. " Thinking that I would not be so unlucky, I was intrigued by some stragglers hiding in the city, so I said carelessly, "with major basmanov here, there will be no threat to some Germans." Seeing that I was so confident, chisgakov explained a few words to me and then left in a hurry. When the headquarters became empty, akhromeyev came up to me and asked curiously, "Comrade commander, why did the Germans flood the forest? Do they really think that we will send troops through the forest and detour back to their rear Akhromeyev is my trusted subordinate, so I do not hide him: "yes, comrade major. If it wasn't for the Scout's report that the soil in the forest was soft, maybe I would have sent a tank troop to go through the forest and detour back to the enemy. " After hearing this, he sighed and said with regret: "now the German army has flooded the forest, not to mention the tanks, even the infantry are difficult to pass through the forest."“ Yes, "the German army's use of water instead of soldiers was really beyond my expectation. I didn't expect that the way I thought of when I was in Stalingrad was used by the German army first. I was somewhat helpless to say to akhromeyev: "from the current situation, we can only carry out a frontal attack and tear a gap from the front of the enemy's defense." After staring at the map for a long time, akhromeyev said leisurely: "Comrade commander, if we don't have the cooperation of artillery and only rely on the tank troops to guide the infantry charge, we will pay a huge price. The German defense force is far beyond our imagination. Otherwise, when we attack the peripheral positions in the west of Kharkov, we will not delay that long with the tactics of multiple attacks and multiple breakthroughs. " After listening to him, I just wanted to speak. It suddenly occurred to me that vatukin had promised me that there would be air force to help me. But the battle lasted half a day, and I didn't see a single plane of our army going out. On the contrary, I saw the German air force going out to bomb the eighth group army in the telegram sent by trakov. He quickly said to him, "major, you call the chief of staff and ask him when the headquarters of the front army can provide us with the necessary air support."