Chapter 1442

It is hundreds of kilometers from moziri to rokosovsky's headquarters. Although these areas are nominally under the control of our army, no one can guarantee that they will not encounter with a small group of German troops on the way, so I not only took a guard company, but also chose to take armored vehicles with high safety factor.

I was accompanied by major bukov, the deputy head of the guard regiment. On the way, he said to me with a smile, "Comrade commander, I used to accompany you to the frontier inspection. This time I went to the headquarters of the front army, how could I think of taking an armored car?"

I clearly remember that in a month at most, general vatukin, commander of the first front army of Ukraine, was attacked by the enemy on the way out for inspection. As a result, he was seriously injured and died after a long period of hospitalization. I can't risk my life in order not to repeat it. As soon as bukov finished speaking, I said to him with a smile: "Comrade major, we are going to a place hundreds of kilometers away. It's not clear whether we will encounter danger on the way. So for the sake of safety, it's better to take an armored car safely."

Armored car is safer than jeep, but it's too stuffy in the car. It's OK for a short distance. If you drive for a long time, it's easy to get carsick. Thinking that it was about ten hours' drive to the headquarters of the front army, in order to prevent carsickness, after the car started, bukov and I chatted a few words, then we leaned back in the chair and began to close our eyes.

At first, I just closed my eyes, but after a while, I fell asleep unconsciously. I don't know how long I slept. I suddenly felt the car stopped. I immediately opened my eyes and asked bukov, who was sitting beside me: "major, where are we?"

When he heard my question, bukov quickly replied, "Comrade commander, we have just passed zhlobin and are now heading for Pugachev."

I can't help frowning when I heard that the car hasn't arrived at Pugachev, because after we passed Pugachev, we had to drive more than 100 kilometers to reach the headquarters of the front army, so we asked impolitely, "why stop?"

"There's gunfire ahead," bukov said. He listened to the outside, and then said to me, "judging from the gunfire, there are our mosinlagan rifles, Popov submachine guns, and the German mp40 submachine guns."

I also listened to the movement outside. Although the gunfire kept on, it didn't sound like positional warfare. I turned to bukov and asked, "major, what do you think is going on outside?"

"I think it's probably our men who have encountered a small German unit." In order to make me understand the situation outside, bukov added: "sometimes the German army will send motorized teams around our defense zone to attack our transportation line. I think that may be the case."

As for bukov's analysis, I nodded my head and agreed that since we can send people behind the enemy to do damage, the enemy can also come to our rear and do the same to us. Thinking of this, I immediately told bukov: "major, you take people to the front to see what's going on?"

"OK," bukov said, nodding his head, "I'll take a platoon to see. If it's a small German unit, we can completely annihilate or repel them."

"One platoon is too few." Seeing bukov's hand on the door handle, I stopped him and said, "leave me a squad. You can take the rest of the soldiers."

"Ah, only one class left?" When I said this, bukov's face showed a look of panic. He said nervously, "Comrade commander, only a few troops are left. If the enemy rushes here, aren't you in danger?"

"Don't worry, comrade major. Before you come back, I'll stay in the armored car and have a class of soldiers to protect me from any danger. " After that, I waved to him and said, "go quickly. If you delay any longer, those officers and men who encounter with the German army will pay more sacrifices."

When bukov left, I closed the car door and told the soldier who controlled the machine gun: "be ready to fight. If you see the Germans coming towards us, you will open fire immediately. Take them all out with heavy fire. "

"Yes, comrade commander." Sitting in front of the machine gun was an elderly corporal who raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, turned to me and said, "I will never let the enemy rush in front of the car."

Through the observation hole on the armored car, I saw bukov running past our car with hundreds of soldiers from the guard company. And the guard group who stayed to protect me also opened the cordon around the armored car. The soldiers took cover and stared at the front with weapons.

After bukov took people to rush up, the gunfire became fierce at first, accompanied by the explosion of grenades. After less than five minutes, the gunfire became sparse. I was relieved to think that bukov was carrying hundreds of people, and that such a force could not be eliminated in such a short period of time. Only the Germans could be eliminated.

I stood up and bent slightly to push the door open. The soldier next to me quickly stopped me: "Comrade commander, you can't go out. It's too dangerous outside."

"Don't worry, comrade soldier." I laughed at the soldier who was concerned about my safety and said, "don't you hear that the gunfire outside has stopped? It may be that major bukov led the soldiers of the guard company to wipe out the enemy. "

Listen to me, the soldier took the initiative to push the door open for me, and got out of the car first. He stood outside the car and looked around. He turned to me and said, "Comrade commander, it's safe outside. You can come out."

Standing next to the armored vehicle, I saw a small hillside on the right side of the road, and the road turned a bend close to the hillside 50 or 60 meters ahead. Seeing the black smoke rising from the other side of the hillside, I guessed that the battle must have taken place in front of me, but I didn't know what convoy was attacked by the German army.

Just then, the soldier beside me said to me in a loud voice, "Comrade commander, look, major bukov is back."

I followed the direction of his fingers and saw a group of people turning out from the side of the hillside and coming towards us along the road. I was eager to know what was going on in front of me, so I went up quickly.

When bukov and I were still more than ten meters apart, a man came out of the crowd and said to me in a loud voice, "Hello, general oshanina. I didn't expect that we would meet here."

It was very familiar to hear the voice of the visitor. I looked at it. It turned out that it was general Batov, commander of the 65th group army, which surprised me. I stepped forward a few steps, reached out my hands, took his first hand, and asked with concern, "general Batov, why are you here? What's the matter ahead?"

Batov shook hands with me, shaking his head and said, "Oh, don't mention it. I was ordered to go to the headquarters of the front army for a meeting. As a result, I was ambushed by the German army as soon as I turned the front corner. As our motorcade was exposed on the open road without any shelter, the security forces I took suffered heavy casualties. If your subordinates hadn't arrived in time, you would have to collect my corpse now. "

After listening to Batov's words so seriously, I turned to bukov standing behind him and asked aloud, "Comrade major, what's the situation? Has the enemy been eliminated?"

"Yes, comrade commander." Bowing his head, bukov replied, "we rushed up from the side of the enemy and caught them by surprise. The number of the enemy is not large. We went up and wiped them out in just a few minutes. "

"What about the casualties?" I did not ask how many enemies have been eliminated, but first of all, the casualties of the troops.

"Comrade o'shanina, you are very kind." When Batov heard the question I asked bukov, he immediately gave me a thumbs up, "as a commander, you didn't first ask about the achievements of the army, but about the casualties of our army. You are so considerate of your subordinates." Without waiting for any response from me, he continued, "my guard platoon sacrificed 27 people and killed nine of the enemy. But your troops killed 11 enemies and captured 4 as long as they sacrificed 3 and injured 1. "

When Batov finished, I asked, "where are the prisoners?"

"On the road ahead." Bukov waved in the direction of the smoke and asked me, "Comrade commander, do you need to be interrogated?"

When I heard bukov's question, I almost asked him to bring the prisoners to me for interrogation. But then I thought that I had to rush to the headquarters of the front army. There was no need to waste time on the way, so I waved my hand and said, "no, major, you take the prisoners with you. When we get to the headquarters of the front army, we will interrogate them."

After that, I smile and send an invitation to Batov: "general Batov, since we are all going to the headquarters of the front army, let's take my armored car and go together."

As the motorcade continued to move forward, I looked at the burning vehicles on the side of the road through the lookout hole and said to Batov with lingering fear, "general Batov, look, two jeeps and one truck in your motorcade have been destroyed. It's really dangerous. Why don't you ride in an armored car, so that even if you are attacked by the enemy, your life safety can be guaranteed. "

After listening to my worries, Batov waved his hand and said with disapproval: "Comrade oshanina, as a senior commander, we should set an example for the soldiers. If you have to take an armored car as soon as you go out, it will leave the soldiers an impression of being greedy for life and afraid of death... "He just said that, he seemed to find that he had said something wrong, he said with a smile," I'm sorry, I'm not talking about you, I... "

As for Batov's careless words, I waved my hand and said with affectation, "it doesn't matter, general Batov. It doesn't matter at all. You don't have to pay attention to it." Although my words were beautiful, I muttered to myself in my heart: "if I don't do my own security well, I will be wronged if I lose my life in case of German attack on the road." At the same time, he secretly decided that no matter where he went in the future, he would take an armored car, or even a tank when necessary. Although it is more difficult to sit in a tank than in an armored car, it at least greatly improves the safety factor.

I closed the armor plate of the lookout hole, turned around and asked Batov, "general Batov, have you also received the order from the general to rush to the headquarters of the front army to study?"

"Learning, what learning?" Hearing my question, Batov asked in a dazed way, "didn't the notice say that we should go to the military meeting?"

"Why, general Batov, you have been informed to attend a military conference?" Batov's words confused me. Why did rokosovsky tell me that he was going to learn new tactics, but when he informed Batov, he said that he was going to attend a military meeting? Thinking of this, I asked Batov curiously, "I don't know who called you."“ Who else? Of course, it's general malining, chief of staff of the front army. " Batov said with a bitter smile: "he ordered me to hand over the command of the troops to my deputy, and then immediately rush to the front army headquarters as soon as possible to attend the upcoming military meeting." Because of the differences in the contents of the notices we received, I don't know which statement is correct now. So I stopped pestering about this matter and changed the topic in time. I asked, "general Batov, the German forces of Gomery have fallen into your encirclement. I don't know when we can launch the final attack on them?"“ I think maybe the theme of this military conference is to discuss when to eliminate Gomery's enemies. " As for my question, Batov said optimistically to me: "the German army besieged by us, because the land traffic has been completely cut off by us, can only supply by air. However, with the strengthening of our air force's air patrol in this area, their number of airdrops has been greatly reduced. Even if we do not take the initiative to launch an attack, I believe they will not support it for long. "“ If Gomery's enemies are not eliminated, we will have a considerable number of troops trapped in the area. " Although Gomery's enemies are besieged by the first front army of Ukraine and our front army, I am not as optimistic as Batov. After all, there are more than 10000 enemies in the encirclement. If we want to eat them completely, we are bound to pay a great price“ Only when the enemy here is completely eliminated can we turn around and concentrate our superior forces to launch a final attack on the enemy in the direction of Minsk. "“ That's right, that's right As soon as I finished, Batov nodded his head and said, "as long as Gomery's enemies are not completely eliminated, our army will not be able to move, let alone turn north to attack Minsk. When I see the senior general this time, I must ask him to give a general order as soon as possible so as to wipe out Gomery's enemies as soon as possible. "