Chapter 1310

"What, there are German armored divisions in the north, West and south of Zhitomir?" After listening to my report, vatukin also said in an unbelievable tone: "our front soldiers are listening to me at the same time. Chisjakov and bzikov quickly put their heads together, and their eyes are staring at the position I pointed out with my pencil. After a long time, chisjakov tentatively asked: "Comrade commander, do you plan to send small troops to hide in the forest and constantly harass the enemy?"

Bzikov nodded his head, shrunk his mouth, and said with a little disapproval: "although the small team hidden in the forest can cause some trouble to the German army, I don't think it's realistic to delay their advance."

When I saw chisjakov's hesitation, I explained to them, "our small troops, with 40 rocket launchers, are hiding in the forest. As soon as the enemy's tank column entered our range, the rockets fired decisively, decisively destroying the leading tank. Once the attack is completed, the small forces will immediately move to choose a new ambush location. "

After I finished, chisgakov looked at the map for a while, then nodded his head and said with approval, "great, comrade commander's proposal is really great. When attacking our city, the German infantry could not rely on their tanks. If we continue to let small units with 40 rocket launchers on their way to destroy their tanks piecemeal, it is estimated that the number of tanks of each Armored Division will be greatly reduced when they advance to the city of Zhitomir. " Then he looked up at me and said, "Comrade commander, I totally agree with your proposal!"

I turned to look at bezikov and asked, "what's your opinion, chief of staff?"

Don't think about it, zikov, then replied decisively, "I agree, too!"

Although both of them agreed to my proposal, I still felt very uncomfortable. Other commanders in their own headquarters were full of their own words. What they said was what they said, and their subordinates could only carry out their orders unconditionally. And me? Although they are all commanders now, the only way to give orders is to put forward their own opinions first and convey them to the grass-roots units only after obtaining unanimous consent.

I called akhromeyev over and repeated my order. I told him to convey it to major general tavartkiraze immediately, so that all divisions in the city of Zhitomir could send small troops to carry out the task of delaying the advance of the German army.

As soon as I was given the order, the telephone rang on my desk. I thought it was some subordinate, so I picked up the phone. Unexpectedly, Zhukov's voice came out: "Hello, Rita, this is Zhukov."

I had just sat down. Hearing Zhukov's voice, I quickly stood up from my seat, straightened up and said, "Hello, marshal, what's your instruction?"

"Comrade vatukin just called me and said that there were German armored divisions in all three directions of Zhitomir." Zhukov asked slowly, "I heard that you plan to stay in the city for a few days and then retreat. Is that the case?"

Although Zhukov's tone of voice was smooth, I also recognized that he had come to ask for a crime. He quickly explained, "well, comrade marshal. Judging from the current situation, the enemy's forces are far more powerful than ours. If we want to stick to Zhitomir, we will fall into the encirclement of the German army. Once surrounded by the German army, it is estimated that the whole army will be destroyed in less than a week. "

My words may remind Zhukov of the Kiev battle. Before the outbreak of that battle, he once advised Stalin to give up Kiev and withdraw his troops across the Dnieper River to build a new defense line. As a result, he was not only reprimanded by the Supreme Commander himself, but also removed from his post as chief of general staff and let him become commander of the reserve front army. Today's Zhitomir is somewhat similar to the original Kiev. If the order is issued recklessly, the defenders in the city may be completely annihilated by the German army.

Zhukov didn't speak for a long time, and I didn't dare to disturb him. I could only hold the microphone and wait for him to make the final decision. I don't know how long later, Zhukov sighed in the receiver: "Rita, if I let you do your best to defend, how many days can your troops hold on?"

As a matter of fact, I have no idea that the troops can hold on for a few days in Zhitomir. In real history, the sixth group army of the guards was assigned to the second front army along the Baltic coast in October. Only because of the appearance of my butterfly, there was a small deviation in history here, so I continued to stay in the army of watujing. As for Zhukov's question, I thought it over carefully, and then answered, "Comrade marshal, I ordered the garrison in the city of Zhitomir to send small troops to harass the enemy so that they could not get close to our city in a short time. However, due to the great disparity between the enemy and ourselves, once the battle starts, I estimate that the troops can only hold on until the 21st of this month at most. "

"Today is the 15th," Zhukov said to himself. "That is to say, you can only stay in Zhitomir for six days at most."

"Yes, from the current situation, my troops can only hold on for six days." When I finished speaking, I suddenly thought of the priceless cultural relics in the base, and quickly added: "of course, if we want to transfer the cultural relics in the base, I can let the troops stick to it for two more days."

My last sentence woke Zhukov up. He took a cold breath and said, "Rita, if you don't mention it, I forget that there are so important things in your base. It's the same with watujing. It's been so long. Why don't we arrange for people to transport things from the base? " Although I'm dissatisfied with vatukin today, I can't speak ill of him, otherwise it will damage my image in Zhukov's mind. So I argued for vatukin: "maybe the vehicles are used in other places. You know that Kiev has just been liberated, and the transport team has a lot of transport tasks..." "OK, you don't have to say." Zhukov interrupted me and said to himself, "I will ask vatujing to arrange no less than 300 trucks to transport the precious cultural relics to you as soon as possible." Hearing this, I couldn't help saying: "marshal, I don't know which route the transportation team will take to transport the cultural relics to a safe place."“ Is that true? " When Zhukov heard my question, he said impatiently, "after leaving the base, the motorcade carrying cultural relics first went north into korostev, and then turned east along the road to Kiev."“ Marshal, I don't think this route is suitable for transporting cultural relics. " At the thought of the German troops in fastiev, my heart was particularly uneasy. I quickly reminded Zhukov: "the German troops are now gathering heavy troops in fastiev. Since they can easily repel our 38th army, it will be easy to cut off the road from korostwev to Kiev, We can't watch these precious cultural relics fall into the hands of the Germans again. " When I finished speaking, the sound of turning the paper came from the receiver. Zhukov should have brought a map and was studying the transportation route of cultural relics. After a while, he continued to ask me, "if the German army is attacking cherkaser now, can you hold it?" As soon as Zhukov's words came out, I understood that he intended to transport the cultural relics out of the port city of cherkaser. He quickly replied, "don't worry, marshal. Although we have only two divisions in the direction of cherkaser, there are still several artillery regiments and guard rocket barracks. I believe that it's no problem to block the enemy for ten days and a half months."“ "Good," Zhukov said after hearing my reply, "I will contact Comrade vatukin immediately to discuss the transfer of cultural relics. You must do a good job in cooperation." For reasons of confidentiality, Zhukov did not tell me on the phone where the convoy of cultural relics would go to dachelkaser, but I had to make preparations in advance. I immediately called sivakov, who was left behind in cherkasse, and asked frankly, "Comrade commander, what's the situation there?"“ Very calm, comrade commander. " Sivakov reported to me that "except for the sporadic exchange of fire in individual sections, the German army did not attack our defensive positions."“ It's best if the Germans don't attack. " I heard that the direction of cherkaser was calm, and I felt a little more secure. Then I told him, "in two days, we may have a large team to cross the Dnieper River from cherkaser. You must protect the pontoon on the river, and never let the German destroy it."