Chapter 1461

After listening to my talk patiently, Zhukov nodded slowly, handed me a piece of paper in front of him, and said, "look, this is the order I intend to give to the army after a week of the campaign." With a puzzled face, I took the paper he handed me and looked down quickly. At that moment, I was stunned. It read: "all the army groups should pursue the German army faster to prevent the enemy from escaping. We should make extensive use of powerful vanguard forces to seize road intersections and passes and disrupt the enemy's March and battle lines I absolutely forbid frontal attacks on fortified German defensive positions. Krasovsky said loudly in accordance with the regulations: "willing to serve the Soviet motherland!" With yesterday's offensive experience, the 18th army is progressing very smoothly. They succeeded in breaking through the first German line of defense and continued to advance towards the second. Although the attacking troops were still blocked by the wide anti tank trench, according to Zhukov's order, the Zhouqiao battalion assigned to them opened up in time and began to build bridges on the trench, so that our tanks and infantry could pass smoothly and continue to rush to the enemy's second line of defense. When Khrushchev saw the war report, he excitedly said to Zhukov, "Comrade Zhukov, it's good to stagger the main attack direction and the auxiliary attack direction. Yesterday, our main offensive troops were in front of the enemy's anti tank trench for at least two hours. Today, in less than an hour, two tank brigades and an infantry division crossed the anti tank trench and rushed to the second German line of defense. I believe that the achievements of the 13th group army today will never be less than those of the main offensive forces yesterday. " As for Khrushchev's statement, Zhukov nodded in agreement and said confidently, "Comrade Khrushchev, what you said is very reasonable. Last night, I had a talk with general ruraliov about the problems encountered by the main attack forces in the course of their attack, and I had an exchange with him and studied the corresponding solutions. It's just one of them to use Zhouqiao battalion to build bridges on anti tank trenches for attacking troops... "At this moment, chief of staff Bogoliubov strode over, put a telegram on the table and said excitedly:" Comrade commander, this is a telegram from the 60th infantry division of the 18th group army. They have successfully broken through the second line of defense of the German army, It is developing in depth. "“ Well done. " After reading the telegram, Zhukov raised his head to bogoleubov and said, "call zhulaviov and ask him to immediately transfer the second echelon of troops up. We should cooperate with the 60th infantry division to widen the breakthrough so that our successor troops can follow up in time."“ I understand. I'll call him right away. " When the war was going well, everyone in the headquarters had a happy look on their faces, and bogoleubov was no exception. After receiving Zhukov's order, he agreed and turned to convey the order to zhulavrov. After bogoleubov left, Zhukov picked up the phone from his desk, dialed chernyahovsky's headquarters, and asked frankly, "Comrade General, what's the situation there? How much progress has been made today? "“ Comrade marshal, we are still in our original defensive positions. " Chernyahovsky said angrily: "originally, we wanted to take advantage of the favorable opportunity of the friendly attack to continue to advance in depth towards the German defense. As a result, as soon as the attack started, it was attacked by the German forces under the cover of the air force and tanks. My troops had to return to the defensive area and rely on their positions to resist the German attack. "“ We must withstand the enemy's attack, Comrade General. " After listening to chernyahovsky's words, Zhukov said solemnly, "I will send the air force to support you immediately."