Chapter 1417

Two German regiments rushed in through the intentionally open gap in nikolasov. When he saw that the enemy had rushed past and no new troops were following him, Nekrasov decisively ordered the troops to carry out the counterattack, quickly recovered their lost positions and cut off the retreat of the German army.

When I heard the news, I immediately called baksov: "Comrade General, two German regiments have been isolated between our two lines of defense. Whether you can eliminate this enemy depends on your performance. "

"Don't worry, comrade commander." Barksov, who had been rubbing his hands for a long time, said excitedly to me: "since the German army has been separated, it is only a matter of time to eliminate them. You are waiting for my good news."

The distance between the two lines of defense is five kilometers. It's difficult to encircle the enemy. So I thought about it and ordered, "Comrade General, remember to compress the enemy to the South as far as possible after the battle starts. I will call Comrade Batov immediately and ask him to send troops to support you. "

"I see, comrade commander." Barksov replied solemnly, "I will try my best to drive the enemy to the South and never let them escape from our encirclement."

After the call with baksov, I quickly called Batov's headquarters again. After hearing his voice, I immediately asked, "general Batov, I want to ask you, can your troops continue to fight?"

"No problem." When Batov heard my question, he said in a relaxed tone: "you don't see that the soldiers have just fought a battle during the day. They are a little tired. But the victory we have won has filled every commander and fighter with fighting enthusiasm. As long as you give me a command, I think the soldiers will be able to join in a new battle

"If so, that would be great." When I heard Batov say this, I was deeply relieved, so I directly explained the purpose of my call: "general Batov, my troops are surrounded by two German legions from moziri. I am afraid that they will flee to your defense area, so I would like to ask you to send your troops to set up a blocking position to intercept the enemy defeated by our department. "

"So that's it." Batov said bluntly: "I immediately transferred an infantry division, plus a tank regiment and an artillery regiment, to build positions in the south of your group defense area to block the German troops who may go south."

I can't help feeling a little tired after I put down the phone. When I was the commander of the battalion, I just had to obey the orders of the superior and attack the enemy or a certain area for defense. Today, as commander of the group army, although he is in a high position, he has too many problems to consider every day. If he is careless, it will bring irreparable consequences.

I sat and had a rest for a while. When my mood returned to normal, I told bzikov, "chief of staff, please report to me at any time what's going on in the front."

"All right, comrade commander," bzikov nodded and replied, "as long as a few teachers send telegrams or call back, I will report to you at the first time."

"Comrades commander," chisjakov asked me in some surprise after bierzikov finished saying, "when we attacked kalinkovic last night, no matter how dangerous the situation was, you didn't change your face. But why are you so nervous in today's small-scale battle? "

I shook my head and said, "Comrade deputy commander, I don't know. I just have an ominous premonition that something is wrong."

"Something's wrong. What's wrong?" Asked chisgakov curiously.

"Think about it. After the German army knew that we had captured kalinkovic, they had only a few divisions in moziri City, so they should shrink their forces to defend. How could they suddenly launch an active attack on our Hedong position? Don't they know that if they spend too much of their troops in the field, it will be difficult to fight the next battle of defending the city? " Speaking of this, I suddenly thought of a key question. I called ahlomeyev and asked nervously, "major, do you have any news from the fourth German armored division?"

"No Akhromeyev shook his head and said, "since the division ambushed our troops in the forest area, it has suddenly disappeared. Even in the vicinity of kalinkovich, they have not been found."

"The German armored division is not weak," chisjakov said thoughtfully after hearing akhromeyev's report. "If the enemy deployed them near kalinkovich, we would not be able to seize the city from the German hands so soon."

"Is there any conspiracy?" After hearing what chisjakov said, bzikov also became nervous. Then he said to me, "Comrade commander, I suggest that the reconnaissance troops should be sent immediately to carry out reconnaissance near kalinkovich. We must find out where the German armored division has gone!"

"Could it be the enemy who sent them away?" Kirilov, who had not spoken for a long time, suddenly said: "the Germans may feel that kalinkovic is unable to hold fast and is unwilling to bury such elite troops here, so they quietly transferred them away."

"What comrades of the military commissar said is reasonable." As for kirilov's analysis, I nodded in agreement: "but this is only one possibility. We can't rule out the German conspiracy, so we hid the armored division. When we're on guard, we'll take a surprise attack from the rear of our army. "“ Come on, all of you. " Chisgakov gently patted the map with his hand and asked all of us to come and have a look. After everyone gathered around the map, he continued: "before we captured kalinkovic, we were deployed to the east of the city, and to the south of the city there were general Batov's troops, and the 11th army came from the northeast. That is to say, if the fourth armored division wants to retreat, it will definitely not go through these three directions. Then the only way they can go is to the West. "“ The west side leads to moziri. " As soon as chisjakov finished speaking, bezikov pointed to the map and said, "if they retreat here, they will be found by general belov's scouts, so this direction is impossible. In my opinion, the direction of their retreat must be north or northwest. There is no other possibility