Chapter 1393

I agreed with akhromeyev's suggestion, and immediately ordered Xie Liujin to lead his troops to the north of the city as soon as possible to support the attack of the 52nd guard division.

When I confirmed that division Xie Liujin had taken trucks in batches to drive to the north of the city, I made a special call to him in order to reassure him. When I heard his hoarse voice, I asked without expression, "Comrade nikolasov, what's the situation there?"

"The fighting continues." "The commanders and fighters are still fighting with the German army to the death. They are very brave," he said

"Come on, general Nekrasov, stop complaining to me." I know that after niekrasov replied with such an attitude, he expressed his dissatisfaction to me in a special way. I quickly appeased him and said, "I have given the order to master seleucin to help you as soon as possible. So just hold on for another half an hour, and the reinforcements will be there. "

"Don't worry, comrade commander." When he heard that I had sent reinforcements to him, his mood suddenly rose again. He said excitedly to me, "as long as you send reinforcements to us, don't say to persist for half an hour, even if we persist for another two hours, we will have no problem."

Nikolasov put down the phone and said to the commanders standing in the headquarters, "do you hear that? The commander sent us reinforcements, but the elite 8.9 division of guards. With their support, we should have no problem in occupying the city center before dawn. "

As soon as his words were finished, a commander whose face was blackened by gunsmoke asked out of time: "Comrade division commander, didn't you just say that you would rather risk going to the military court to withdraw our whole division from the battle?"

Hearing his subordinates say so, nikolasov stepped forward and said with a smile: "hell, just now, now. Didn't you hear the commander say, send us a guard division? I don't believe that with the fighting power of two close guard divisions, we can't win the north of the city. "

Then he raised his hand to the other two commanders and said solemnly, "you all go back to your respective units and immediately organize a new attack. No matter what price you pay, you have to push the front several hundred meters forward for me. "

"But, sir." "If we continue to fight like this, we will not have a few living men left in our regiment," the head of the regiment, who was beaten by nikolasov, said

"Don't worry. Your regiment has run out. I will give priority to replenishing your regiment as soon as the superior soldiers arrive." With that, nikolasov raised his hand and patted the commander on the arm, urging him to go back to the army quickly. The soldiers are waiting for you to take them to make contributions

At the same time, on the bloody ruins in the north of the city, there was a moment of strange tranquility. Except for the fierce gunfire in the distance, there was no explosion, no shouting, or even no gunshot. If it wasn't for the dense corpses of the dead of the two sides, there would be no explosion, If it wasn't for the smoky ruins and the buildings that were still "crackling" and burning, and if it wasn't for the low screams of the seriously injured people before they died, it's hard to imagine that there would have been thousands of people who had been killed here.

The sudden silence was so strange and abnormal that it made the chest and ears of the officers and men on both sides feel uncomfortable. It was like climbing to the top of a mountain and being blocked by the changing air pressure.

This situation lasted only a few minutes. As the three commanders returned to their respective units, a new round of attacks began again.

The German Colonel, who stayed in the north of the city, had tried his best, though he had made up his mind to fight to the end, relying on the advantage of the land and his regiment's strength to resist the Soviet attack at all costs, though he had shot and killed several fleeing officers and soldiers himself to frighten the rest of the officers and soldiers who were going to retreat, and though his bloody subordinates could fight to death, And at the same time, they smashed the fierce attack of the Soviet army. But at the moment, when he saw that the Soviet army launched another offensive with great momentum, he felt that what he had just done was in vain.

After several commanders returned to the army, they conveyed the news that reinforcements were about to arrive to the grassroots commanders and fighters. The exhausted commanders and fighters suddenly became enthusiastic. The battalion and company commanders formed a dense attack formation and launched another attack towards the German defense area, striving to make a successful attack.

As soon as I put down the phone, the two commanders of the 96th infantry division and the 260th infantry division, who were rescued, came to my headquarters. Looking at the two teachers with haggard faces and a little frustrated spirit, especially Colonel Yakov who was still lying on the stretcher, I didn't know where to start when I wanted to blame them.

After staring at them for a while, I went to the stretcher, leaned down and asked Yakov, "Comrade Colonel, how is your injury? Shall I send you to the rear? "

When I heard this, Yakov, lying on the stretcher, waved his hand and said, "no, no, comrade commander, I'm not seriously injured. Just lie for two days. I don't need to go to the hospital in the rear."

Before the two men came to the headquarters, I learned from the news that the total strength of the two divisions was no more than 5000, and many of them were wounded. Therefore, after consulting with Batov, I made a phone call to rokosovsky and reported the specific situation to him. Finally, I said, "Comrade commander, at present, there are only 5000 people left in the two divisions. Maybe it will be difficult for the two divisions to undertake separate combat tasks in the next battle."

"And how do you think about it?" Rokosovsky asked faintly.

"I'm going to abolish the formation of these two divisions and integrate the remaining commanders and fighters into other units." I rely on their own and rokosovsky is very familiar, so the courage to say: "do not know this line?"

"Nonsense, it's nonsense." As soon as I finished speaking, rokosovsky immediately criticized me, saying, "only the general staff can decide on the abolition of the troop establishment. What right do you have, on behalf of the leaders of the general staff, to make a decision to abolish the organizational system of the two divisions? "

Rokosovsky's criticism immediately blushed at me. In a hurry, I didn't know how to answer. When he heard that there was no movement on my side, maybe he realized that what he just said was a little too heavy, so he slowed down and said, "but what you said is still reasonable. It may be very difficult for the troops that have been badly hit by the German army to carry out any single task in the short term. Well, I'll call marshal vasilevsky and ask if it's possible to suspend the establishment of these two divisions and put the rest of the troops in the divisions. "

"Thank you, thank you, comrade commander." I had no hope for this matter. At this moment, I was overjoyed to hear rokosovsky's words and quickly expressed my thanks to him: "as long as I have these thousands of soldiers, I guarantee that my troops can take kalinkovych from the enemy in the shortest time."

With the permission of rokosovsky, when I faced Yakov and walenkin, I was able to say to them with full confidence: "comrades, because your troops have suffered serious losses in recent battles, with the approval of the higher authorities, the serial numbers of your two divisions will be revoked, and the surviving commanders and fighters will be incorporated into the divisions of the group army. As for the appointment of you two, I need to consult the commander of the front army before I can give you an accurate answer. "

"What, abolish the organizational structure of the troops?" After hearing this thunderbolt from the blue, walenkin was a little better. He knew that it was the price of defeat. It was better for his troops to be withdrawn than for him to be sent to the military court. Yakov's reaction was particularly strong. He suddenly sat up from the stretcher, widened his eyes and asked me, "Comrade commander, are you telling me the truth? Do you really want to cancel the establishment of our two divisions, and then integrate the commanders and fighters into other units? "

"Yes, comrade colonel." I nodded and said in a positive tone: "this is the case. From now on, the organizational structure of the 96th and 260th infantry divisions will no longer exist, and you two will no longer serve as division commander, but will be appointed separately. I hope you can go back to your respective units and do a good job in persuading commanders and fighters at all levels. Do you understand? "

"I understand." The two replied feebly.

"Wait a minute," Batov stopped the soldiers as they were carrying Yakov's stretcher to leave the headquarters. He stepped forward, went to the stretcher, looked at Yakov sitting on it, and said, "Comrade Colonel, there is snow water seeping out of the bandage on your head. I'll ask the health worker to dress you again."

Yakov nodded in disapproval of Batov's statement, with an indifferent look. Batov quickly called a staff officer and told him, "Comrade staff officer, take the colonel to the medical station and ask the medical staff to dress him up again."

As soon as the stretcher was carried out of the headquarters, chisjakov couldn't wait to ask me, "Comrade commander, since the 96th and 260th infantry divisions are about to be abolished, what troops are you going to add these 5000 commanders and fighters to?"

"In today's street fighting, the most severely fought troops are general nikolasov's 52nd guard division." I looked at chisgakov and said solemnly, "I intend to give them all these 5000 troops."

"What, five thousand people will be added to the 52nd division?" In response to my decision, chisgakov was a little surprised and asked, "don't you share it with other troops? You know, in the past few days of fighting, all divisions have been downsized to varying degrees. If they can't be supplemented by soldiers, I'm worried... "

"What are you worried about, comrade deputy commander?" I didn't wait for chisgakov to finish, then I interrupted what he said behind him and said impolitely, "don't divisions get emotional if they don't get the supplement of soldiers? Don't worry. Although we can't get the supplement from the soldiers, we'll feel a little bumpy, but when they know about the casualties of the 52nd division of the guards, they won't complain to us any more. "

"Well, comrade commander." Seeing that I was obviously partial to the 52nd division of the guards, chisjakov had no choice but to say, "I respect your decision. Then I will add all the soldiers of these two divisions to the 52nd division of the guards."

At this time, in the north of the city, the German Colonel, in his command post, received one phone call after another from his subordinates. The contents of the phone call are all the same: "the Russians have rushed into our position and are engaged in a white-edged battle with our soldiers", or "Mr. Colonel, there are not many living people in our position, please send troops to reinforce us!" Or something.

For these calls for help, the German Colonel replied in a unified way: "I don't have a reserve team. Even the soldiers standing guard at the door have been sent to the front line to fight. You can only rely on your own ability to resolutely block the Russian attack. " The chief of staff of the regiment was a little flustered when he saw that the Soviet army took streets from their own hands, occupied buildings, and got closer and closer to the regiment headquarters. He went up to the colonel, and said in a low, rapid voice, "Mr. Colonel, the Russian offensive is so fierce that we can't stand it." The colonel looked at him and asked with disdain, "chief of staff, what are you going to do?" The chief of staff put up two fingers and whispered, "Mr. Colonel, if we don't want to be wiped out by the Russians, there are only two ways to go."“ Which two roads? " Asked the German Colonel curiously“ The first is that we give up our present positions and retreat. " The chief of staff of the regiment nuzui in the direction of the city center, and then said: "shrink the forces and join the division headquarters, repose the fortifications in the city center, and continue to fight against the Russian attack."“ No way. " After hearing this, the Colonel shook his head and directly denied the chief of staff's proposal: "if we really shrink our forces and retreat to the city center, then the Russians can use artillery to bombard our assembly area. Even if they don't attack at that time, the intensive artillery fire can destroy us all. Let's talk about the second way! "“ The second way. " The chief of staff hesitated for a moment, and finally clenched his teeth and said, "immediately order the troops to cease fire, and send someone to negotiate with the Russians and surrender to them."“ What, surrender to the Russians? " When the German Colonel heard his chief of staff say this, he immediately jumped up from his seat, his eyes wide open, and said angrily, "chief of staff, do you know what you're talking about? You suggested that I let the soldiers lay down their arms and surrender to the Russians. You know, if you make such a suggestion, I can execute you on the spot in the name of treason. "