Chapter 1375

Before our plane arrived, Batov called first. "General oshanina, I've heard from the observation post that the enemy is carrying out heavy shelling on your positions," he asked with concern over the phone. What's up? Are you sure you can hold on? Shall I draw two battalions from the mixed brigade to support it? "

"No, general Batov. Thank you for your kindness." After thanking Batov, I politely said, "the troops deployed in the west of the city have rich experience in positional warfare. It is not easy for the Germans to break through their defenses."

"Well, so it is." Although I have declined Batov's offer, he said politely, "Comrade oshanina, we are friendly forces. If you need any help, please call me immediately, and I will arrange someone to help you immediately."

As soon as I finished talking with Batov, sherekin called. As soon as I heard his voice, I asked, "general Xie Liujin, what's the situation on the battlefield? Are our casualties serious?"

"There were not many casualties," Xie Liujin quickly replied, "according to the frontier report, at the beginning of the enemy's shelling, except for leaving a few observation posts, the rest of the officers and men hid in the blast hole or shelter. Although the enemy's shelling continues, we can't count the specific casualty data, but I believe it won't be too big. "

"Very good," I thought. Before the enemy shelled, I saw concrete fortifications all over the position. If the German army did not use concrete sabotage bombs, it would not be easy to destroy these fortifications. "Call me whenever there is any change."

It seems that the German artillery positions have accumulated a lot of shells. They have been fighting for nearly an hour, and there is no sign of stopping at all. Akhromeyev saw all this and said angrily: "damn the Germans, it must have taken a whole night to hoard so many shells last night, otherwise they would not have been fighting endlessly like now."

I put down my telescope, turned to look at akhromeyev and said with a faint smile, "major, the German artillery bombardment lasted a long time. It's not necessarily a bad thing for us. We need to know that our air force is coming here. As long as the enemy does not stop shelling, it is tantamount to indicating the target for our air force. "

"Why hasn't our plane arrived yet?" Akhromeyev listened to me, looked up at the sky and murmured to himself, "didn't Colonel bovishchenko say that he could get to the battlefield in forty minutes?"

I just want to tell akhromeyev that it takes time for so many planes to take off; Formation in the air also takes time. In this way, it can be excused that it is later than expected. But without waiting for me to speak, a messenger ran up the stairs and hurriedly handed a telegram to akhromeyev.

"What's the matter?" Seeing akhromeyev looking at the contents of the telegram at a glance, I guessed that something unexpected had happened, and hurriedly asked, "is something wrong?"

After hearing my question, akhromeyev said to me excitedly, "Comrade commander, the telegram is from Colonel bovishchenko."

When I heard bovishchenko's name, I muttered to myself that he didn't have to talk about it. As soon as he talked about it, he sent a telegram. "What did the Colonel say in the telegram?" I asked casually

"The captain said that it was a slight accident that the plane was late for the scheduled time." When akhromeyev reported to me, he couldn't help but look at the telegram in his hand again. "They joined a bomber brigade sent by the headquarters of the front army in the airspace 50 kilometers away from here. Due to the re formation in the air, it will enter the battlefield later than the scheduled time. "

"Great, that's great." I was overjoyed to hear the good news. You should know that although a fighter like the jacques-7 can also attack the ground, its effect is definitely not as good as that of a bomber. Now that there are bombers sent by rokosovsky to assist in the war, it is no longer difficult to completely destroy the German artillery positions.

Before long, there was a roar of aircraft engines in the air. I looked up and saw a group of four fighter planes, followed by four pei-2 bombers. Behind the bombers was another group of fighters. In this way, a formation of 12 bombers and 24 fighters roared over our heads.

As soon as akhromeyev saw our plane appear, he was very excited. Although he knew that the pilot could not see us, he still waved his hands in the air desperately and kept shouting: "Wula! Wula!! Wula

I raised my telescope and followed the plane. When the bomber reached the German artillery position, he immediately lowered his altitude and dived toward the target on the ground. A moment later, a huge mushroom cloud rose in the air, and then the white fireworks from the ammunition on the battlefield filled the whole skyline in a straight line.

"Comrade commander, the enemy's artillery positions have been destroyed," akhromeyev said excitedly, pointing to the area being bombed by our plane. "Our air force is really wonderful."

The German artillery, who was still bullying our army, immediately became a lamb to be slaughtered with the appearance of our air force. With the destruction of the position, the western suburb position, which had been shelled all the time, finally revealed its "true face of Lushan Mountain" from the smoke of gunfire because the shelling stopped. I could not help frowning when I saw the huge craters one by one on the position and the concrete fortifications that had been hollowed out.

I picked up the phone and called sherekin's headquarters. As soon as I got through the phone, I asked anxiously, "what's the situation, sir? Has the casualty data come out?"

Xie Liujin was silent for a moment, and then replied, "Comrade report commander, I just talked to the front line by telephone. According to statistics, 35 soldiers were killed and 114 soldiers were injured in the shelling just now, which will not have any impact on the combat effectiveness of the troops."

I heard that there were only more than 100 casualties, so I felt more secure. Don't see that the German artillery has just shaken the ground, but our officers and men can minimize the casualties in the solid fortifications. After I said "yes", I told Xie Liujin: "Comrade division commander, please tell the forward commanders to enter the position immediately. Maybe the enemy's ground attack will begin."

As for my repeated admonitions, Xie Liujin said with a little disapproval: "Comrade commander, our air force is bombing their artillery positions wildly. In this case, do the Germans dare to attack?"

"If you are not afraid of 10000, you should be afraid of just in case. Comrade Xie Liujin, no matter whether the enemy will launch an attack or not, we still have to make preparations." Seeing that Xie Liujin had a tendency to belittle the enemy, I immediately reminded him, "don't think that the enemy will be vulnerable after losing part of his fighting capacity because of our air attack. As a division commander, you should never underestimate the enemy. "

"Comrade commander, please rest assured." Xie Liujin immediately changed a serious tone and assured me, "I'll call the front line immediately, let them enter the position immediately, prepare for all battles, and be ready to meet the enemy at any time."

Originally, I let the troops into the position just to prevent the enemy from launching a crazy attack. In akhromeyev's words, our planes are still flying on the battlefield. The German army will never dare to launch an attack on our army's position unless they eat the gall of a leopard.

Who knows that the German work is dull, clearly see our air force will blow up their artillery positions in a mess, but the infantry still according to the original plan, when the shelling stopped, under the guidance of tanks and armored vehicles, launched a fierce attack on our army.

If they launched such an attack an hour ago, it would be a great threat to our army. But now we are in control of the air, and their attack is out of reach, even suicidal. It's hard to say whether we can achieve the result, but the goal of suicide can certainly be achieved.

After bombing the German artillery positions, our fighters saw the enemy's tanks and armored vehicles, leading the infantry to attack our positions. They immediately turned their heads to lower their altitude and dived into the enemy's tanks and armored vehicles.

In the sound of explosions, German tanks and armored vehicles were either set ablaze by bombs or rolled all over the ground. When the fighter planes, who served as the escort mission, saw that the German troops on the ground were beaten to rout, they also dived down to mend their swords, and used the airborne machine guns to shoot frantically at the German soldiers who were crowded together, which made them cry and cry.

Seeing this scene, I had a feeling of elation. If there is no air supremacy, even if the Germans have more tanks and artillery, they will not pose any threat to us. On the contrary, they will become the primary target of the air force.

Just when the German ground offensive troops were strangled by our air force, the defenders who held their positions grasped this favorable opportunity in time and launched a decisive counterattack against the enemy.

When we saw one or two thousand officers and men rushing out of the smoky fortifications, our pilots immediately readjusted their formation and guided our troops from defense to attack.

As the enemy was suddenly countered by our army in the course of attack, they could not rely on any fortifications to stop. Occasionally, some German soldiers hide behind the overturned tanks, trying to organize temporary defensive positions, but a few bombs fall from the air, which immediately extinguishes the trivial resistance.

Looking at our infantry advancing in the distance under the cover of the air force, I quickly called Xie Liujin and ordered him: "Comrade Xie Liujin, immediately put all the two regiments with reserves into battle. One regiment cooperated with the friendly forces to continue to pursue the enemy, while the other regiment entered the position and rushed to repair the fortifications. "

As soon as I finished, Xie Liujin said anxiously, "Comrade commander, the enemy is now defeated by our air force. I suggest that we put our whole division into battle and try to drive the enemy further away from the city."

As for his proposal, I did not hesitate to deny it, and said to him in a tone of learning a lesson: "Comrade sherekin, don't forget that we are facing several divisions of the German army, and the troops defeated by the air force at the moment are at best a regiment of the German army. If you attack on the whole line, once you meet the main force of the German army in front of you, when your attack is frustrated, the enemy suddenly turns to the counter attack, and then the empty position will be able to block their attack? "

After a moment of silence, Xie Liujin, who was criticized by me, said sincerely: "Comrade commander, I am wrong. I just wanted to take advantage of the enemy's defeat to wipe out more of their effective forces, without much consideration. Don't worry. I'll immediately deploy a regiment to take over the defense in the western suburbs, and let another regiment fight in pursuit. " After half an hour, the bombers and fighters that had dropped all their bombs and bullets withdrew from the fighting. After no air threat, the restless Germans, relying on the ready-made terrain, built defensive positions in groups and launched fierce battles with our troops. The rapid progress of our troops depends on the cover and support of air fighters. At this moment, the fighters had to withdraw from the battle because of the lack of ammunition, and the attack speed immediately slowed down because of the loss of air support troops. After seeing this situation through the telescope, akhromeyev said to me carefully: "Comrade commander, you see, our army has no air support now, and even attacking some of the enemy's temporary firepower points has become very difficult. If the enemy reinforcements come up at this time, they will suffer greatly. Do you want to withdraw them first I saw that akhromeyev's opinion coincided with mine. After nodding, I dialed the headquarters of sherekin again. I said to him in an unquestionable voice, "Comrade Xie Liujin, now our air force has withdrawn from the battle. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, I order you to withdraw the troops immediately."“ What, get the troops down? " To my order, Xie Liujin said with some resistance: "Comrade commander, don't you see that the troops have advanced seven kilometers, and we can build a new defense there..." "enough, general Xie Liujin." Without waiting for him to finish, I suddenly interrupted him and said sternly, "do you think your temporary fortifications can withstand the German heavy artillery bombardment? Don't forget, the order I gave you was to block the German attack within three days and give our main forces time to gather. So I order you to withdraw all your troops immediately to the positions in the western suburbs, and by virtue of the fortifications there, continue to deal with the German forces. "