Chapter 1412

"Yes, comrade commander." I learned from other generals and reported to rokosovsky in a serious tone: "I have the honor to report to you that after a night of fierce fighting, our guards" what's his rank now? " Asked rokosovsky noncommittally.

"The rank of captain," because rokosovsky did not make a statement, made me feel guilty again: "I discussed with the military commissar and decided to promote him to the rank of captain."

"What did he do to liberate the city?" Asked rokosovsky quietly.

When I heard rokosovsky's question, I quickly reported to him that gramus had been in the city to persuade the German army to surrender by shouting, and urged the enemy in several places to voluntarily lay down their arms and surrender.

Rokosovsky was silent immediately after hearing this. Although he didn't speak for a long time, I didn't dare to urge him. I was afraid that he would criticize me for nonsense. I had to stick the microphone to my ear and wait for his reply quietly.

After a long time, he finally said, "Rita, you are now the commander of the group army. With your authority, you can be promoted from corporal to colonel. You can make your own decisions without asking me for instructions. Do you understand? "

When I heard what he said, I couldn't help but be stunned. I don't know whether his original intention is to agree with me or not. Just when I was in a daze, he added: "although he used to be German, as far as I know, he has been in our army for more than a year. He can be regarded as one of our own people. His promotion can be carried out according to the standards of our army. Do you understand?"

"I see, comrade commander." I was overjoyed to hear that rokosovsky agreed to my promotion proposal instead of blaming me. I said repeatedly, "thank you, thank you!"

"The rank of captain is a little too low. If it's me, he has made such a great contribution. Even if he is promoted to lieutenant colonel, it's not too much." After talking about gramus, rokosovsky said to me, "Rita, there's something I need to remind you of. As for when we will capture moziri, the supreme command has not made any rigid rules, so you have enough time to adopt a steady strategy and eat up moziri's German army a little bit. "

Seeing that I put down the phone, kirilov asked nervously, "Rita, has Comrade rokosovsky agreed to the promotion of captain gramus?"

I nodded my head and said, "yes, comrade military commissar, the commander of the front army has agreed that we are going to be promoted to the rank of gramus. However, he said that thanks to gramus, he was only promoted to the rank of captain, and the reward was a little too small. "

"Since the rank is a little too low, we can discuss it again." Chisgakov asked me tentatively, "Comrade commander, I don't know what general rokosovsky means. What rank is he going to be promoted to?"

"Commander!"

"Ah. "The rank of commander?" As soon as my words came out, they were stunned by chisgakov and kirilov.

After a long time, chisjakov said cautiously: "Comrade commander, I admit that gramus made great contribution in the battle of capturing kalinkovic, but it's inconceivable to promote him from captain to lieutenant commander."

"Yes, Rita, I agree with the deputy commander." After chisjakov finished, kirilov echoed: "it's really too fast to promote Grimes from captain to lieutenant commander. If he makes similar contributions in the future, won't he be promoted to general? No, the rank of lieutenant commander is absolutely not. We should think it over carefully. "

In fact, my heart has always thought that rokosovsky said that the promotion of gramus to the rank of lieutenant colonel might be just a casual remark, which is not true. But these commanders under me may have been used to obedience, so they gave the chicken feather the order. I waved my hand and said, "since both of you say that the rank of lieutenant is too high, and the commander of the front army says that the rank of captain is too low. Well, you don't mind if you promote him to major? "

"No, we agreed to promote him to the rank of major." Two people wait for me to finish, reply with one voice.

Seeing that everyone agreed, I immediately called bezikov to him and said, "chief of staff, please draw up an order to promote captain gramus to the rank of major."

When berzikov was drafting the order, I called ahlomeyev over and asked him, "major, what's the situation with major Lukin? Did they beat the Germans back?"

Akhromeyev nodded his head and replied: "Lieutenant Colonel Lukin reported that the enemy in front of them had stopped attacking, but there was no sign of the enemy retreating at present."

"What on earth is colonel Lukin doing?" When chisjakov heard akhromeyev say this, he couldn't help saying angrily: "if the enemy doesn't retreat, doesn't he know to take the initiative to attack?"

"Comrade deputy commander." Akhromeyev said with a wry smile to chisgakov: "it's not that lieutenant colonel Lukin didn't want to launch an attack, but because the troops suffered heavy casualties in the night battle with the German army. According to his report, except for the relatively complete organizational structure of the 1243rd regiment, the casualties of the other two regiments are more than two-thirds."

"Ah, so many casualties?" Chisgakov originally took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and was about to light it in his hand. When he heard akhromeyev say so, his hand trembled, and the unlit cigarette fell to the ground. "So the 375TH Infantry Division has been completely crippled after last night's fighting," he murmured“ I think so. " Akhromeyev nodded“ Since the Lujin division suffered heavy casualties, it seems unrealistic for them to take the initiative to attack the German army. " I stared at the map in front of me for a while, then began to give orders: "major, you go to inform the two division commanders baksov and babashin, and let them each leave a regiment in the city to receive the prisoners. The rest of the troops immediately leave the city, but support the LuKin Division."“ Comrade commander. " After listening to my orders, chisjakov tentatively said to me, "we still have a lot of troops in the north and south of the city. We can order them to rush to the west of the city quickly. If we are lucky, we can assemble five or six divisions in an hour, and with such a force we can attack the remaining German troops. " I saw that bezikov had just finished writing the order, so I told him: "chief of staff, you should send a message to the troops of the 11th group army, and let them immediately turn west to reinforce the Lukin division there. Even if the infantry can't get to the west of the city in time, the tank regiment must go first. Do you understand? "“ I see. I'm going to give an order. " After bezikov handed me his written order, he got up and went to the walkie talkie to send a telegram to the 11th army. The 11th group army in the north of the city was temporarily assigned to us by the superior. I have the right to mobilize them. But the divisions in the south of the city were Batov's troops. I had to talk to him and ask him to cooperate. So I picked up the phone from the desk and called bartov. When I heard Batov's voice, I couldn't wait to say, "Comrade General, there's an emergency. I need your cooperation." Perhaps I spoke in such a hasty tone that Batov was startled by me. He thought that something big had happened and hurriedly asked, "Comrade oshanina, what's the matter?"“ It's like this, general Batov. Last night, when we launched an attack on the west of the city, the German army dispatched a division from the direction of moziri to launch an attack on the rear of our forces in the west of the city. One of my divisions resisted their attack overnight in the west of the city. Although the enemy stopped attacking now, its strength was almost exhausted and it was unable to launch a counterattack against the German troops who stopped attacking. So I want to ask you to send your troops to the west of the city to support the troops there. " Batov did not immediately agree to my request. Instead, he kept silent and began to think carefully about the gains and losses of this move. Seeing that he did not speak, I quickly added, "don't worry, general Batov, your troops will not fight alone. I have ordered the 11th army in the north of the city, and the two divisions in the city, to turn quickly to the west of the city, but to destroy this enemy from moziri. "