Chapter 1396

Batov did not immediately agree to my request, but he did not refuse. He pondered for a long time, and then said to me, "Comrade oshanina, you also know that after a long period of fighting, all kinds of military materials, including ammunition, have been consumed severely by my troops. As for whether I can help you, I don't know yet. I need to call my deputy commander and chief of staff

"General Batov, you can call soon." As soon as bezikov heard that there was a door for supplies from Batov, he immediately grabbed the microphone from the base of the telephone and handed it to Batov. At the same time, he said in a flattering way, "I hope your deputy commander and chief of staff can bring us good news."

When Batov called, I kept staring at him, trying to keep abreast of the progress of things according to the change of his facial expression. I soon found that my statement was very effective. Although I couldn't hear what the other party said to Batov, I knew from his more and more serious expression that things might not be as smooth as I thought.

Sure enough, when Batov put down the phone, he gave me a smile worse than crying: "sorry, comrade oshanina, I just asked the chief of staff. He said that we have provided you with all the heavy artillery shells in stock. In today's warehouse, there is nothing but one or two thousand military coats. I'm sorry, but I can't help you

"It's all right, general Batov." After learning the real situation, although I was extremely disappointed, I still said calmly, "I understand your difficulties. After all, you have consumed a lot of military materials in such a long battle. It's almost your limit to provide us with thousands of shells. On behalf of all the officers and men of the sixth group army, I would like to thank you. " With that, I stood up and bowed to him.

"Comrade oshanina," Batov said in a flustered way, not expecting that I would suddenly bow to him, "you see, we are all friendly forces. We should have helped each other."

I see that we can't get the supplies we want from Batov, and rokosovsky can't give us any supplies either. We can only solve everything by ourselves. I turned to look at chisgakov and asked, "Comrade deputy commander, I don't know how much ammunition we have in Smolensk?"

Mr. chisjakov was stunned by my question, but then he spoke to Mr. bezikov and said, "the chief of staff is familiar with this matter. You can ask him."

When bezikov saw that I turned my eyes on him, he quickly took out a book from his satchel, looked at several pages, and then replied, "at present, the reserve of heavy artillery shells in Smolensk can provide artillery regiments at the front line with no less than five base shells."

"Great, that's great." I didn't expect that there were so many shells stored in Smolensk. As long as they were transported here, we could crush the German troops on the fire. Thinking of this, I called ahlomeyev over and told him, "major, send a message to the military commissar immediately, and let him immediately send the shells stored in Smolensk as soon as possible, They're all coming to us. "

"Yes Akhromeyev simply agreed, and then turned to send the message.

Less than five minutes later, akhromeyev came up to me with a telegram he had just received and reported to me, "Comrade commander, the military commissar has called back. He said that due to the limited number of cars and vehicles, it will take at least three to five days to deliver all the shells we need. "

"What, three to five days?" When I heard what akhromeyev said about time, my heart sank and I frowned and said, "if we have to wait so long, then our artillery will become idle during this period of time."

"No way, comrade commander." As soon as I finished speaking, he immediately explained to me, "the train carrying troops, after zhylobin unloaded the troops, drove to Moscow full of the wounded. It is estimated that it will not be able to return in a day or two. That is to say, before the train returns, we can only meet our badly needed shells here by means of truck transportation. You also know what our road conditions are like. From my heart, three to five days is already very fast. "

Seeing my disappointed expression, chisgakov comforted me and said, "don't worry, comrade commander. Maybe after we have solved the enemy in the city, we can capture the heavy artillery shells we urgently need from their warehouse."

Unexpectedly, as soon as chisgakov's words were finished, he was refuted by Batov. He said impolitely: "Comrade chisgakov, if I remember correctly, the German army does not have 152 mm guns, only 150 mm guns. Unless you capture the enemy's artillery together, these shells are useless even if they are captured. "

I was deeply afraid that they would quarrel over the caliber of the gun, so I quickly stopped them: "well, we don't have to talk about it. I estimate that even if there are heavy artillery shells in the German warehouse, the estimated quantity is very limited, which can't solve our problem. If we want the artillery to continue to maintain a strong fire output, we have to wait for the shells from Smolensk. "

With that, I asked bezikov, who was standing beside me and watching the crowd: "chief of staff, how are our troops going in the city? When can we occupy the German headquarters in the city center?"“ At present, the sheriujin division in the North has been inserted near the German headquarters, and is engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy in this area. " Bezikov pointed to the map and reported to me: "the Lukin division is only one street away from the German headquarters. Now his troops are competing with the German army for the buildings on both sides of the street."“ And the Chernoff division to the west? " Staring at the map in front of me, I asked without looking up, "where are the three friendly divisions in the south?"“ The Chernoff Division has been pushed to the "October square" to the west of the city center. In the square, there are many German tanks as fixed fort. In the process of destroying these targets, our troops paid a great price. As for the three divisions in the south, "at this point, bezikov stopped, looked around at Batov, and then said," this situation needs to be introduced to us by general bezikov. "