Chapter 1433

Kirilov heard that a new commander was coming, and immediately returned from moziri. After meeting with beloborodov, he offered to me: "Rita, before long, many of our troops will be transferred. Do you think that before these troops are transferred away, we should hurry up to complete the awarding ceremony for commanders and fighters at all levels? "

As early as before the beginning of the battle of Kharkov, I made a promise to the division commanders that I would award medals to the commanders and fighters who had made outstanding contributions and performed bravely in the battle. However, due to the number of battles our group army took part in, this matter has been delayed. At this moment, hearing kirilov's old story mentioned again, I can't help but think of a movie I saw later. In the movie, the Berlin city defense commander announced that he had surrendered to the Soviet army and the allies, but their ceremony of honoring soldiers continued. Thinking of this, I nodded and agreed to Ji Lingling's proposal, and added: "Comrade military commissar, please contact the Political Department of the front army as soon as possible, Ask them to send us a batch of medals as soon as possible. "

"No problem," kirilov readily agreed, and then asked, "but will this ceremony be presided over by me or by us?"

"It's up to you." I don't like to participate in the so-called honorary ceremony, especially those honorary certificates to be read. Except for the different names, the contents on them are almost the same, so I can push them on such occasions. However, as soon as I had said this, kirilov's face became very ugly. He quickly added, "general chisjakov, deputy commander, will accompany you in this work."

I pushed this matter to chisgakov. I thought he would refuse, but he happily agreed: "yes, comrade commander, I will obey your order!"

After I finished, I turned to bzikov and said, "chief of staff, while general beloborodov is here, you can tell him about our intelligence."

With a promise, bezikov went to the big map on the wall, pointed to it with a stick and said to beloborodov, "Comrade General, please see, our group army has deployed two divisions to the north of moziri and kalinkovych, and they are confronting the ninth regiment of the German army. In the direction of kalinkovich, the enemy deployed the 102nd and 900th infantry divisions; To the north of moziri are the 35th and 161st infantry divisions of the 5th army and the 28th infantry division of the 8th Army.

To the west of us is general belov's 61st group army, which confronts with the German second group army to ensure the security of the left wing of our group army; On the right wing of our army, in the lechca area, general Batov's 65th army is deployed. They are responsible for blocking the enemy from gomeri area. To the south of us, we are backed by the troops of the first front army of Ukraine. "

After listening to bzikov's introduction, beloborodov looked at me and said, "Comrade commander, marshal Ernst Busch of the German central army group, is a very powerful opponent. We have suffered from him many times. I hope we can be ashamed this time."

"Don't worry, general loborodov." When beloborodov finished speaking, I said to him with a smile, "not only do we have to teach Marshal Busch a lesson, but even his commander of the Ninth Army, Walter modle, must not let it go. We will teach them a lifelong lesson in this land of Belarus. "

"Report!" As soon as I finished, I heard someone calling for a report. Looking up, it turned out that two other guards commanders, tavartkiraze and sivakov, reported to me in unison: "Comrade commander, we are ordered to come. Please give us instructions!"

After I introduced beloborodov to the two men, I asked them to sit down and continue to explain my views on the current situation of the war: "according to the information gathered by all sides, I think the German commander may make a decision to give up some prominent units. The purpose of doing so is to prevent the troops of the prominent units from being destroyed by us, At the same time, it can also shorten the line of defense to strengthen the defensive forces in some areas and increase the difficulty of our army's next attack. "

"Comrades commander," beloborodov asked tentatively after I had finished saying, "what would the German commanders do if they were opposed by Hitler after they made the decision to withdraw the bulge?"

To his question, I replied with a smile: "general beloborodov, if it is true, it will be very good for our army. In this way, the enemy will have to wage a seesaw war with our army in many important areas. No matter what the final outcome is, their losses will be very serious. By the time they are expending more and more troops, the German general will find that they are unable to provide the forces needed for defense. "

As soon as I finished, bzikov said with surprise, "Comrade commander, if the German forces are really not strong enough to defend such a vast occupied area, can we not launch a large-scale counter offensive?"

"Yes, chief of staff." When I think that there are no outsiders here, I don't have to worry so much: "after our army has consumed a lot of German forces, we can launch one or two major battles to push the front to the border line. I didn't expect that all the enemies will be driven away from our territory before the end of this year!"

It is said that the German can be driven out of our territory before the end of the year. Not only the three commanders are talking to each other, but even kirilov is not calm. He asked in a trembling voice, "Rita, is it really possible for our troops to drive the enemy out of our territory before the end of the year?"

"Yes, comrade military commissar, that's for sure." In order to make me believe what I said, I got up and went to the map, picked up the stick leaning against the wall, pointed to the map and said to them, "you see, in Belarus, our group army and the 61st and 65th army have occupied the southeast. Although there is a German Army in Gomery, they have become a turtle in a jar, It's only a matter of time before we get rid of it.

Olsha, to the north of mogilyov, is also surrounded by our army. As long as our army launches an attack, it can take two or three days at most to win this important city and open the road to Minsk. Once the friendly forces occupy olsha, they can cut off the road from Pskov to Kiev to the south of Vitebsk, making the German army in Vitebsk a lone army. "

"What about us?" This time, chisjakov couldn't help it. He couldn't wait to ask, "what kind of action will our group army take?"

"It's very simple, destroy or defeat the five German divisions in front of our army, and then push northward," I said after a few clicks on the name of bilarus with the explanation stick. "Then occupy bilarus and use it as the starting point of the attack to capture Minsk."

"If only our group army could take part in the battle of the liberation of Minsk," chisjakov said reversibly

According to the history I know, in the battle of the liberation of Minsk, chernyahovsky's Belarusian third front army was the main attack force, while rokosovsky's Belarusian first front army only dispatched one to cooperate with the friendly forces to carry out centripetal assault in the direction of Minsk. Although I don't know whether our group army has the honor to be a force cooperating with the friendly forces with the change of history, I still insisted on saying to chisgakov, "don't worry, comrade deputy commander, if we really occupy bilarus, then we will certainly have a chance to take part in the battle of liberating Minsk."

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As soon as I arranged for someone to take beloborodov to rest, major general berey, the tank commander, and major general povsky, the artillery commander, walked into the headquarters one by one. The expression on the two faces is very different, the former is sad, the latter is happy.

I gave them a strange look, asked them to sit down and asked, "comrades general, what's the matter? Why are you all depressed and happy? "

"Comrades commander," said berey with a sad face, "I have received an order from the superior to let the Fifth Army of our close guard tanks withdraw from the existing defense area before January 22 and move towards mogilyov."

"What, let you leave for morjiliov tomorrow?" The unexpected news surprised me. I turned around and asked bzikov, "chief of staff, have you received any comrades from your superiors?"

"No!" Bezikov looked at me blankly and said, "Comrade commander, I haven't received any orders from my superiors." With these words, he turned to bielei and asked, "Comrade General, who gave you the order?"

"It's the order sent to me by the armored chief of the front army." He took out a piece of paper and handed it to me. At the same time, he said, "our army will be under the command of the front army along the Baltic Sea."

After reading the order signed by the superior commander, I felt very uncomfortable. I can understand the fact that the superior transferred my troops and enriched other troops, but at least give me a hello. Now go directly over me and give orders to the commanders below. What's the matter?

I threw the order on the table, and then asked povsky, "general povsky, I see you are in high spirits. Is there anything good about it?"

"Comrade commander, of course it's good news." Povsky said excitedly: "the superior will send us new artillery troops."

"The new Artillery Force?" When I heard what povsky said, I couldn't help asking curiously, "Comrade General, I don't know how many new artillery units our superior can send us?"

"Too much. I can't tell for a while." Povsky took out a piece of paper from his briefcase and handed it to me with a proud face: "Comrade commander, look at it for yourself!"

I took the piece of paper and saw that it was densely written: "the artillery units assigned to your group army are as follows:

The 333rd and 335th self propelled artillery regiments of the guards

8th artillery division (26th and 27th artillery brigades)

21th breakthrough artillery division (103rd powerful howitzer brigade, 64th and 94th heavy howitzer brigade, 55th howitzer brigade, 66th light howitzer brigade, 25th mortar brigade)

64th and 283rd howitzer brigades

No.4 artillery brigade, No.38 artillery regiment, No.22 and No.99 mortar regiment, No.2 mortar division (No.20 and No.26 mortar brigade)

The 45th anti tank artillery brigade, the 496th anti tank artillery regiment, the 295th and 408th mortar regiments, and the 2nd mortar division of the guards (the 20th and 26th mortar brigades of the guards); The 22nd and 99th mortar regiment of the guards, the 39th antiaircraft artillery division (1406, 1410, 1414, 1526 antiaircraft artillery regiment), the 46th antiaircraft artillery division (609, 617, 618, 717 antiaircraft artillery regiment) and the 1487 antiaircraft artillery regiment... "After reading the dense data, I was very sad because the fifth tank army was about to be transferred tonight, And become happy again. On second thought, anyway, we can't use tank troops on a large scale in this area. The higher authorities have added so many artillery troops to us, which is tantamount to raising our ability to tackle difficult problems to a higher level. After reading it, I handed the paper to chisgakov and bezikov for circulation, and then said easily, "if the superior really equipped us with so many artillery units, then we would have no difficulty in breaking through the fortifications built by the German army." After I said this, I found that bezikov, who was looking at the list of artillery troops, had a surprised expression on his face. Then I knew that it must have been the superior who stepped over again. We directly informed povsky and asked him curiously, "Comrade General, who provided you with this list of artillery troops?"“ The artillery headquarters in Moscow After povsky said this, he seemed to think of something, and then asked in a careful tone: "Comrade commander, didn't the superior inform you?"“ No I shook my head and said solemnly, "not only did you give us more artillery, but you didn't inform us; At the same time, we didn't talk to each other in advance about the transfer of general berey's tank troops. "“ Comrade commander, "chisjakov stood up and said to me," I think whether it's the transfer of tank troops or the increase of artillery troops to us, we should talk to the commander of the front army, so that he can have a clear idea. " After thinking for a moment, I readily agreed to chisgakov's proposal. Because I know that in the Soviet army, there are still cases in which the superior directly transfers troops without saying hello, so we must communicate with rokosovsky to let him know, so that he can make overall arrangements according to the actual situation.