Chapter 1297

After reading the telegram, kirilov unexpectedly told akhromeyev: "major, find a way to find a radio, let's listen to the voice from Moscow, watch the heart of our great motherland, and prepare to celebrate this hard won great victory!"

Since the successful liberation of Belgorod and Aurel, the supreme command decided to celebrate the victory by firing salutes, which has become a convention. Kiev is the capital of Ukraine. After the liberation of such an important city, the standard of celebration is naturally incomparable with that of Belgorod, Kharkov and oriol.

Therefore, kirilov's proposal has been unanimously agreed by all. Bezikov even gave advice to the other party: "major, you go to the residence of the former senior German commander to try your luck. They have the habit of listening to the radio. You should find the radio where they live."

Akhromeyev is very efficient. Just after half an hour or so, I heard his joyful voice outside the door: "Comrade commander, the radio has been found."

As soon as his voice fell, I saw him come in with two soldiers carrying a half man high radio. Akhromeyev also kept reminding the soldiers: "be careful, don't damage it. The place by the wall is spacious, so put the radio there! "

After turning on the radio, after a loud current, I finally heard a thick bass voice: "please pay attention, please pay attention, Moscow is broadcasting, Moscow is broadcasting..."

"It's a voice from Moscow!" "Maybe we can still hear Comrade Stalin's speech later," said akhromeyev, who stood by the radio to adjust the frequency

"Be quiet, comrade major." "You are so noisy that we can't hear what's on the radio," chisjakov said sternly

In fact, the voice from the radio is very loud. Even if akhromeyev keeps talking, we can hear what the announcer says clearly. This is just a way to let off his excitement.

"... all male and female citizens of the Soviet Union, according to the war report of the Soviet intelligence agency, at 5 a.m. today, November 6, our troops of the first front army of Ukraine successfully liberated Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. This city, known as the" mother of Russian cities "and known as the" imperial city "on the Dnieper River, has returned to the embrace of the motherland

Kiev, a city with numerous legends, was liberated from the hands of the bandits by the troops under the command of general oshanina in February this year. But later, because of the great disparity between the enemy and our forces, the city fell into the clutches of the German army again... "

"Rita, do you hear me?" Kirilov came close to me and whispered, "radio in Moscow is talking about our liberation of Kiev."

I nodded, and as I was about to speak, I saw lophoff coming with a telegram in his hand. From the serious expression on his face, I knew something important. I stood up and asked, "major, what's the matter?"

"Comrades commander," said lophov, handing me the telegram in his hand. "This is the telegram that captain travkin has just sent back."

I took the telegram to my eyes and scanned it carefully. After reading the content, I could not help frowning. Seeing my reaction after reading the telegram, chisjakov couldn't help asking curiously, "Comrade commander, what's the new discovery of the reconnaissance team?"

I sent the telegram to chisgakov and said, "Captain travkin reports that they have found a secret German base in the Forest east of Zhitomir. After their observation, every few hours, there will be a convoy of more than a dozen covered trucks, driving into the base along the simple road in the forest, stopping for about an hour, and then returning along the original road. Because there are armored cars and motorcycles at the front and back of the convoy, they can't figure out what the convoy is carrying. "

After reading the phone, chisgakov frowned and thought for a while, then tentatively said, "Comrade commander, do you think the forest will be the German Arsenal? These motorcades are going to transport weapons and ammunition. "

I immediately shook my head and denied his conjecture: "impossible, comrade deputy commander. If the armory is located in the forest, it will be very inconvenient for the German army to collect it. They will not do such thankless things. "

"But if it wasn't for arms, what would it be?" Asked chisgakov.

Before I could tell why, bzikov cut in and asked, "comrades commander, what are you talking about?"

Chisgakov shoved the telegram to him, and suddenly found that the news broadcast on the radio did not know when it turned into pleasant music. He asked curiously, "hell, how is the news broadcast over?"

Bezikov looked down at the telegram and replied: "at 12 noon, Moscow will salute with 320 guns in red square, firing 24 times to celebrate the great victory of the liberation of Kiev."

When he had finished reading the telegram, he exclaimed in surprise, "my God, how did you find the secret German base in the Forest east of Zhitomir?"

"Chief of staff," I said to him with a wry smile, "just now the deputy commander and I were discussing what was in this secret German base?"

"Arsenal?" As soon as bezikov said this conjecture, he immediately vetoed it: "impossible, the German army will never build such an important facility as the Arsenal within the scope of our artillery attack. Although our troops in korostwev are not equipped with enough artillery, the fire of the Fifth Army of the close guard tank can also turn the forest here into a sea of fire. "

"I think it's better to send a strong fighting force to capture this secret base than to make a wild guess here." After reading the telegram, kirilov immediately expressed his opinion: "as long as we occupy this base, then what's inside will be clear at a glance?"

"That's right, but before we take offensive action, we must first let them know how many troops the enemy has." After I released my opinion, I directly told lophoff: "major, send a telegram to the captain immediately, so that he must find out the strength of this secret base in the shortest time."

When lophov went to send a telegram, I turned around and asked bzikov, "chief of staff, apart from the yershov regiment which paved the way, which other army has stronger combat effectiveness?"

"The sixth infantry regiment of the guards, which belongs to the Fifth Army of the guards tank, has been stationed in the Kesong area, and they have not participated in any combat yet." "Do you want to send them to attack?" he asked tentatively

"The chief of staff's proposal is good." Chisgakov immediately agreed: "after the sixth mopping regiment of the guards leaves, the defense of Koson can be replaced by the commanders and fighters of the guerrillas."

I nodded and asked, "chief of staff, when will the mob get to captain travkin's area if it leaves now?"

"The speed of our motor vehicles has been greatly improved because the roads leading to korostev are paved with bunches of firewood." After a simple calculation, bezikov replied to me: "if there is no encounter and battle on the road with the German army, they should arrive at their destination within three hours."

I was relieved to hear that from bzikov, and then I said to chisgakov with a smile, "Comrade deputy commander, it took at least two days to get from us to korostev a week or two ago. I didn't expect that after the road was repaired, the time would be shortened to a few hours. "

"Yes Chisjakov also said with emotion: "in this way, we can mobilize our troops more quickly and strike hard at the enemy." After that, he hesitated for a moment, and then asked me, "do you need to report to the front command immediately about the secret base?"

"Not for the time being." I shook my head and rejected chisgakov's proposal: "we don't know what's stored in this German base at present. It's better to report to the headquarters of the front army after occupying this base. "

An hour later, we received a telegram from travkin. He reported that after their efforts, they quietly approached the German base and found that it was an underground base. There were two platoons of German troops guarding the entrance outside, and the forces inside the base were unknown.

After reading the telegram, bzikov immediately said excitedly, "Comrade commander, it seems that the enemy forces are not many. Even if the number of troops inside the base is twice that outside, it's only two companies. We've sent out an elite bodyguard mob of more than 2000 people. Even if we step on them with our feet, we can trample them all to death. "

I thought about it and then replied, "chief of staff, for the sake of safety, I suggest that the 225th regiment of the guards of lieutenant colonel yershov be put into action as well. There should be no problem for the two regiments to take this secret German base. "

When he heard what I said, chisgakov couldn't help laughing: "Comrade commander, you are too cautious. The German army has only two companies at most, that is, four hundred men, but you have mobilized more than ten times of them to attack. It's really a bit of killing chickens with a bull's knife."

"Comrade deputy commander," I said to chisjakov with a smile after he finished saying, "the goshawk needs all his strength to fight the rabbit, not to mention that we have to deal with the German armed to the teeth. If it wasn't for the limited number of troops in hand, I would even like to use a division to attack this small group of enemies. "

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the attack on the secret base in the forest officially began.

At the beginning of the battle, the battle went smoothly. One of yershov's battalions quickly wiped out the German troops outside the base and launched a fierce attack on the base. After a short period of confusion, the German army closed the gate of the base and began to resist tenaciously by using the ready-made fortifications.

Neither the 225th regiment nor the 6th mobu regiment were equipped with enough weapons to attack the enemy. As a result, they were helpless in the face of the German fortifications. They launched four attacks in a row. Except for more than 300 commanders and fighters falling outside the base, they didn't even get close to the gate of the base.

Knowing that the attack ahead was not going well, I asked lophov to send a telegram to yershov, ordering him to stop the attack temporarily and wait for the arrival of the attack weapons before reorganizing the attack.

After sending the telegram, I ordered a group of 40 rocket launchers to be mobilized from the 89th division of the guards and immediately transported to the fighting area. Of course, in this case, I could not stay in the headquarters, so I took busmanov and a company of guards to the Forest east of Zhitomir with the convoy of rocket launchers. After three hours of bumping on the road, I finally arrived at yershov's headquarters before dark. As soon as I entered the headquarters, I saw yershov and another lieutenant commander sitting at the table, big eyed and small eyed. He took the initiative to say: "Hello, comrades in command!"“ Hello, comrade commander Hearing my voice, they jumped up from their seats and raised their hands to salute me. After shaking hands with them one by one, I asked, "two comrades in charge, what's the situation now?"“ After receiving your telegram, I have ordered the troops to stop attacking. " "I surrounded the entrance of the base with two battalions, and organized troops to search in the forest to make sure there was no other exit from the base," yelshov replied“ Comrade commander, "said another lieutenant commander after yelshov," the enemy's fortifications are too strong. If they don't destroy them, our offensive troops will become their targets. We have organized several demolition teams to prepare for the demolition of the gate of the base, but they have all been lost. "“ Don't worry, I gave you a batch of 40 rocket launchers I said to them, "the soldiers can kill the enemy's firepower one by one from 200 meters away. After all the firepower points have been eliminated, the gate will be opened with a rocket launcher. Do you understand? "“ I see The two commanders replied in unison. The battle began again twenty minutes later. This time, our army did not continue to launch intensive charge. Instead, more than a dozen soldiers quietly approached the enemy base 200 meters away and destroyed the exposed fire points one by one with rocket launchers. When all the firepower points are destroyed, the gate of the base is like a tiger that has been stripped of its teeth. It has no deterrent power to us. When the two rockets hit the gate impartially and blasted two huge holes in the strong iron gate, yershov issued an order to attack the troops. The commanders and fighters, who had been holding their breath for a long time, jumped out of the trench shouting and rushed towards the gate of the base with weapons.