Chapter 1347

Rokosovsky's reply came ten minutes after our telegram was sent. In the telegram, he clearly wrote: "the second group army of the air force is about to send out two air regiments to bomb the position to the west of fativ. Please provide ground signs in time to avoid being bombed by mistake."

After reading rokosovsky's telegram, I immediately told bere: "Comrade General, get in touch with the commanders of the front tank brigade immediately and ask them to make signs on the ground. One is to point out the direction of air attack for our air force, and the other is to prevent possible accidental bombing. After all, they are only a few hundred meters away from the nearest position of the enemy."

"I understand." Bielei agreed, went to the telephone, grabbed the microphone, and began to contact the three tank brigadiers in the front.

I was staring at bielei and watching him talk to the commander in the front line when I heard someone outside asking loudly, "is Comrade commander here?"

"Who is it?" Suddenly I heard someone asking me outside. I could have yelled, "I'm here. Please come in!"

As soon as I spoke, a commander in a big cornice hat came in from outside. He came up to me, raised his hand and said with a smile, "Comrade commander, major akhromeyev, director of operations, reports to you that I have come to assist you on the order of the deputy commander."

"Great, comrade major, that's great." I went forward to hold ahlomeyev's hand and said excitedly, "you're just in time. I'm short of professional staff here." After that, I simply introduced the current situation to him.

After hearing this, he nodded and said, "don't worry, comrade commander, I know what to do."

When akhromeyev began to be busy, the staff officer I sent out came back. With him came the observation post, as well as the commander of the 100th tank brigade, Col. veradelle, whom I knew.

When veradelle saw me in the observation center, he was surprised and asked, "general oshanina, why are you here? You know, it's only a few kilometers away from the battlefield. Once the place is found by the enemy, it may be attacked by the enemy's artillery or tanks. In that case, you will be in danger. "

After smiling and thanking veradelle for his concern, I went on to say, "Comrade Colonel, the tradition of our senior commanders is to set their headquarters only a few hundred meters away from the front line. I am a few kilometers away from the battlefield, which should be considered a very safe area. If you didn't show up in time today, maybe our Cavalry Division would be destroyed under the attack of enemy tanks. "

Veradelle grinned and then said, "it seems we're lucky we didn't miss this fierce fight."

I subconsciously looked behind him. Seeing that no one was standing behind him, I asked curiously, "by the way, comrade Colonel, aren't you two tank brigades? How come there's another brigadier I didn't see? "

"Well, general oshanina." Veradelle explained to me, "when we were going through the forest, a lot of tanks broke down. In order not to affect the next battle, after discussing with the commander of the 200th tank brigade, I decided that I would lead the intact tanks of the two brigades to move on, while he would stay in the back, and the commander repaired the broken tanks. "

"Well done, comrade colonel." After listening to veradelle's words, I gave him a thumbs up and said, "it was because you arrived in time that our Cavalry Division avoided the fate of the whole army. On behalf of them, I thank you."

"General oshanina, don't know what our next task is?" After I finished, veradelle asked carefully, "I've brought hundreds of tanks this time. Do we need to fight immediately?"

"No, no," I said, shaking my hand at veradelle, "not for the time being. At present, three tank brigades, two infantry divisions and one cavalry division have taken part in the offensive. There are enough troops. You should stay here for a rest. After walking for more than 200 kilometers, many tanks should be repaired, otherwise they will easily break down. If a tank breaks down due to failure on a battlefield full of gunfire, not only the life of the tank soldiers will be threatened, but also the victory or defeat of a battle may be affected. "

As soon as veradelle reached the door, he suddenly stopped, turned and asked me, "general oshanina, where is general babajanian's mechanized 20th brigade?"

"They rest in the forest not far behind the highlands." Looking down, I heard veradelle's question. I looked up at him and said, "if you have something to do, you can go there and find him."

After veradelle left, akhromeyev came up to me, handed me the information he had sorted out, and said solemnly: "Comrade commander, according to the information from the front, the enemy has built solid permanent fire points in the second line of defense, and many 88 millimetre anti-aircraft guns are deployed in these fire points..."

When I saw the materials arranged by akhromeyev, I threw them on the table and said angrily, "hell, how can there be a solid permanent fire point on the German defense line? Did they calculate that they would be attacked from the west? "

After listening to what I said, povsky couldn't help laughing: "Comrade commander, in fact, these firepower points were not built by the Germans, but by our own people."

"We built it ourselves?" After repeating what povsky said, I suddenly thought of a possibility, so I tentatively asked, "general povsky, do you mean these fortifications are the national defense fortifications we built before the war broke out?"

Povsky nodded and said positively, "I think so. Because these fortifications were facing the west, which was exactly the direction of the German attack. Unfortunately, these fortifications were almost useless in the early days of the war and were occupied by the Germans. It turns out that it's better now, and they turn it around and use it against us. "

Speaking of fortifications, it suddenly occurred to me that rokosovsky was about to send planes to bomb the German defense positions. I didn't know whether the troops in front of him had done a good job in marking the ground. If he was accidentally bombed by his own plane, it would be too tragic. I quickly asked akhromeyev, "major, our air force is about to bomb the enemy's defensive positions. I don't know if the troops in the front line have set up ground signs to guide the air force to bomb the enemy?"

"Don't worry, comrade commander." Akhromeyev confidently said to me: "I have just contacted general sherekin. He said that they used the red flag to put an arrow in front of the position, pointing directly at the enemy's defensive position. In this way, as long as our air force appears, we can carry out saturation bombing on the enemy according to their instructions. "

"Mr. Xie Liujin is very considerate," I said to everyone with a smile, "the ground signs set up in this way are simple and clear. As long as our air force lowers its altitude, it can clearly see..."

Before I finished, there was a huge explosion, and then the snow fell like an avalanche from the gap in the log at the top of the observation post, making us "snowmen".

"No, the enemy has found the location of the observation post and is shelling us." The experienced bofsky yelled, then rushed over, grabbed my arm and pulled it out. Beley, who was slow in reaction, saw bofsky's action and rushed up, holding my other arm and running out.

Povsky and bere, on their left and right sides, ran wildly behind the hillside along the traffic ditch connecting the observation post. I could not help but follow the two people's inertia to run forward, while turning a look, only to see akhromeyev and the rest of the staff, the operator just ran out, the observation post was hit by a shell. In a huge dark red flame, akhromeyev and several of them fell forward to the ground.

The two of them held me up until they came to a safe place at the back of the hill. Bielei bent over, put his hands on his waist, gasped for breath, and said: "Comrade commander, there must be German artillery observation posts nearby, otherwise the enemy's shells could not hit so accurately."

Bukov, who was on guard at the foot of the hillside, saw that we were in such a mess, so he rushed over with a dozen soldiers. He asked with concern, "Comrade commander, what's the matter?"

Pointing to the hillside where the enemy was shelling, I gasped and said, "it may be the German artillery observer who found our observation post and provided firing parameters for the German long-range artillery." At this point, I took a few more breaths, and then said, "major, send someone to search nearby to see if you can find the enemy's observer. Also, take people to the observation post on the top of the hill to see if they are still alive? "

Just when bukov agreed to leave, I suddenly heard a weak voice: "Comrade commander, I'm ok. I'm still alive."

I looked in the direction of the sound and saw akhromeyev coming towards us step by step, holding the wall of the traffic ditch. The cap on his head was gone, and blood was streaming down his forehead. He was followed by a staff officer and a telegraph operator, who were in rags and whose faces were blackened by gunsmoke. They helped each other and stumbled behind akhromeyev.

"Hygienist, hygienist!" Seeing that akhromeyev was injured, I was heartbroken. I rushed to the direction of the headquarters at the foot of the mountain and cried out: "there are wounded here. Come to us."

With my shouts, a soldier in a cotton uniform came out of the headquarters. He was carrying a medicine box on his back and ran towards us quickly.

When the health worker came to me, I pointed to ahlomeyev next to him with my hand and told him, "health worker, the major is injured. Please bandage him as soon as possible."

"Comrade major, please sit down, or I can't reach you." After akhromeyev sat on the ground, the health worker scrubbed the wound with alcohol, then put iodine on it, and then began to bandage it carefully.

"How do you feel, major?" I saw the health worker grinning in pain when he was cleaning the wound for akhromeyev. I couldn't help worrying and asked, "is the pain particularly severe?"

Akhromeyev couldn't move because his head was held by the health worker. He grinned and tried to squeeze a smile on his face. He replied, "it's OK, comrade commander. I can stand it."

While bandaging akhromeyev's head, the health worker who was dressing the wound said to me, "don't worry, comrade commander. The major's wound is not serious. He was knocked by a hard object on the ground when he fell down. In a few days, the wound will be healed." After wrapping up akhromeyev, the health worker went to the staff officer and the telegraph operator with the medicine box and squatted down to deal with the wound for them. It's said that akhromeyev is OK, and the stone hanging in my heart has fallen to the ground. You know, in addition to being my best assistant at the moment, he was also the Minister of defense when the Soviet Union disintegrated decades later. If he died unexpectedly because of my appearance, many unpredictable changes will take place in the future history. I was just thinking about it when the sound of the guns above my head stopped. The sudden arrival of silence, so that all people Leng for a while, and then we vaguely heard the rumble from the distance. Povsky listened for a moment, then exclaimed in surprise, "Comrade commander, listen, our air force is bombing the enemy's defensive positions. I think their artillery positions have also been attacked at this moment, otherwise the shelling will not stop suddenly. " When I heard that our army was attacking the enemy's defensive positions, I suddenly had a feeling of elation. This is not Stalingrad last year, nor Zhitomir a few days ago. I can only watch eagerly as the German air force controls the air control of the battlefield. Now our air force can provide us with reliable air support. So I stood up straight, straightened the cap on my head, and then said aloud, "come on, let's go back to the headquarters." With that, he took the lead to walk along the traffic ditch toward the headquarters. The communication equipment in the headquarters is much more complete than that in the observation station. I asked akhromeyev and some of them to take a rest. I came to a telephone and asked the operator to contact Xie Liujin. Then I put on my earphone and said loudly to the transmitter, "Mr. Xie Liujin, is our air force bombing the enemy's defensive position?"“ Yes, comrade commander. " "Our air force is setting up a strong position for the German army and carrying out dive bombing," he replied excitedly. Now I see rows of dust columns rising from the enemy's positions and black smoke rising. The enemy's defense line is completely shrouded in smoke. "“ That's great. " After listening to Xie Liujin, I began to give him orders: "as soon as the bombing is over, your division will take the lead in attacking the enemy's positions under the cover of the tank brigade. As the second echelon, the 77th division of the close guard will go up to expand the breach and eliminate the remaining enemy after you break through the enemy's line of defense. Do you understand? "“ I see, comrade commander. " Xie Liujin replied loudly.