Chapter 1487

The recruits from the newly recovered areas of Ukraine can only be added to the army in a month or two at the earliest, but the most urgent task now is to win the cooperation of friendly forces for rebalko. Therefore, after a pause, I said to the microphone: "marshal, I want to ask you to send troops to support general rebalko, It's a little bit too weak for them to capture tarnopol After I finished my request, I held my breath and waited patiently for Zhukov's reply.

I don't know if it's because of my request, or if the contradiction between Zhukov and rebalko is not as serious as meilenikov said. After a moment's silence, Zhukov said, "well, in the next battle, I only said one number. Unexpectedly, the chief of staff told us the commander of the army, and the achievements and honors he has achieved in the battle. I can't help but look at him with new eyes. After a meaningful look at him, I continued: "in addition, Marshal Zhukov will cooperate with the 13th group army, the 121st division of guard infantry and the 61st brigade of guard tank to cooperate with us."

"Chief of staff," rebalko said after listening to me, he turned to the chief of staff and asked preemptively, "do you know the commanders of these two forces?"

After thinking about it, the chief of staff replied, "the division commander of the infantry division of the close guard is Col. chervony, and the brigade commander of the tank brigade of the close guard is Lt. Col. zukov. The establishment of the two units," he said helplessly, spreading his hands. "I'm not sure about that."

Listening to what the chief of staff said, rebalko didn't continue to ask. Instead, he told him, "since there are friendly forces cooperating with our attack, the original deployment can be adjusted appropriately. You can call several commanders and ask them to come to me for a meeting after dark."

As soon as he had finished, the telephone rang on the desk. The chief of staff who was about to get up picked up the phone and listened for a moment, then handed me the phone: "Comrade deputy commander of the front army, your phone."

I took the microphone and pasted it to my ear and said politely, "Hello, I'm o'shanina. Where are you, please?"

"Hello, comrade deputy commander of the front army." A familiar voice came out of the receiver. He took the initiative to show me his identity: "I'm the commander of the 13th army, pukhov."

"It's general pokhov." When I heard that it was the commander of the 13th army, I immediately said with a smile, "I was just about to call you, but I didn't expect that your call came first."

"Comrade deputy commander, I have received from Marshal Zhukov that I should dispatch troops to cooperate with general rebalko's close guard tanks and the third group army to attack tarnopol." Pokhov clearly explained to me the reason for his call, and then asked, "I don't know when and from what direction my troops should attack the city?"

When I heard this, I quickly covered the microphone with my hand and asked rebalko: "Comrade General, general pokhov of the 13th army asked, when and where should they attack? When were you supposed to attack? "

"According to the original plan, our group army will bombard the German peripheral positions at six o'clock tomorrow morning." When rebalko heard my question, he quickly replied, "after an hour's shelling, the 6th army of my close guard tanks will attack from the south of the city."

"I see, Comrade General." After I finished this sentence, I released my hand covering the microphone and said to pokhov, "general pokhov, general rebalko's troops will launch a fierce artillery attack on the enemy outside the city as early as six o'clock tomorrow morning, and then launch an attack on the city from the south at seven o'clock on time."

"Attack from the south?" After repeating my words, pokhov said decisively, "well, I will order the troops to attack from the north of the city at the same time."

When I put down the phone, I heard the chief of staff asking for instructions from rebalko: "Comrade commander, shall I inform some commanders to come to the meeting after dark?"

I didn't expect rebalko to change his mind when he saw me after the phone call with pokhov: "no, you don't have to wait until dark. It's a little too late. Now you order all the commanders to come to the group army headquarters for a meeting in the shortest time."

An hour later, the commanders of the tank, mechanized and Artillery Forces of the 3rd group army of the close guard tank arrived at the headquarters of rebarko.

I thought there would be five or six people at most, but I didn't expect that there would be nearly twenty. Everyone, rebalko, took the trouble to introduce to me: "this is the tank commander, this is the mechanized commander, that is our artillery commander..."

When rebalko saw that everyone was here, he officially announced the meeting. He first called a general close to us: "general MALEKIN!"

"Here it is The general, who was named, got up from his seat with a brush and gave a loud answer. Then he fixed his eyes on rebalko and waited for his order.

"General MALEKIN, as the 13th army in the north will send troops tomorrow to assist our army in capturing tarnopol, the tasks of your mechanized 9th army of guards should be adjusted accordingly." When rebalko said this, he lowered his eyes, quickly glanced at the map in front of him, and continued, "cancel the task of monitoring the north of the city, and move the whole army to the east of the city to serve as a guard."

"Comrades commander," marekin asked eagerly after rebalko said, "since we don't have to stay in the north of the city to watch the German movement, let's attack the east of the city." For marekin's request, rebarko shook his head without hesitation and refused his request: "general marekin, your mechanized 9th army of guards is the reserve of the whole group army. We can't put the company's reserve into battle at the beginning of the battle." When marekin sat down in disappointment, rebalko called Panfilov's name again: "general Panfilov!" As the Sixth Army of Panfilov's close guard tank is the first echelon of attack, when he heard rebalko call his name, he immediately stood up and answered with his head high: "here it is!"“ General Panfilov, your task is to quickly break through the German peripheral positions and open a channel for our troops after our artillery fire stops. " "I know that this is a difficult and responsible task," rebalko told Panfilov in a conversational tone rather than an imperative tone. But I believe that Comrade Panfilov, you will be able to complete it. I know you. It is not the first day or the first year that I have fought with you. But, in addition, remember that you can always ask for my support when you are in trouble. Although I believe that even if there is no such support, you can be competent for this task. Your troops should break through the German periphery and approach the city of tarnopol before dark. Remember, behind you is the main force of our group. We will not let you fight alone. You know this better than I do. So you can go as fast as you can without worrying about your wings. " Although I have been a partner with rebalko before, it is the first time that I have seen him give orders to his subordinates. Compared with the tone of command adopted by Zhukov, his way of speaking, let alone his own subordinates, even I, an outsider, feel like a breeze. Everyone will feel that since the commander gave me this task, he must have trusted me, otherwise he would not have spoken to me in such a friendly tone. Then, rebalko called the names of several commanders and repeated to them the tasks in the battle tomorrow. When all the words were finished, his eyes swept over everyone and asked, "what's the problem?"“ No The commanders here answered neatly“ Since there is no problem, the meeting will be over. " With a wave of his hand, rebalko decisively ordered: "everyone, go back to their respective units and set up tomorrow's combat tasks." After everyone left, while rebalko went to pour water, melenikov, who was sitting next to me, touched me with his elbow and said in a low voice, "how about, comrade oshanina, do you find the tone that general rebalko used when he gave orders to his subordinates?" I nodded and said, "yes, it's different." Meilinikov wanted to say a few more words. However, rebalko had already poured the tea. He came over, put meilinikov and I together and spoke in a low voice. He also asked excitedly, "what are you two talking about? Are you so happy?" I gave him a smile. Instead of answering his question, I digged off the topic: "general rebalko, are you going to the front tomorrow?"“ Yes, Rita, that's for sure Rebalko nodded his head and gave me a positive answer: "I think in order to understand the situation of the frontier in time, the commander must go to the frontier in person. Although we don't have to rush to the front, we should be as close as possible to the place where the fighting is most intense, so as to boost the morale of our army. "“ Go in a tank? " For the sake of safety, I really don't want to go to the places where the fighting is most intense now, because there is life danger in those places at any time, so I tentatively ask, "so that we can get closer to the front." I didn't expect that as soon as I finished, rebarko and melinikov looked at each other and suddenly laughed. Then rebalko turned to look at me, patted his belly with his hand, and said with a little embarrassment, "Rita, I'd like to go to the front in a tank, but look at my figure now. How fat I am. A famous tank general can't even get into the tank. If we want to go to the front, we can only go by jeep. "“ Comrade commander, "melinikov said to rebalko," I think you can go to the front alone. Comrade oshanina should stay at the headquarters. At least safety can be guaranteed. "“ That's right, that's right, "rebalko immediately nodded and agreed with the military commissar's suggestion. He looked at me and said in a deliberative tone," Rita, you're the representative of the front army command. I think you'd better stay in the group army command. At least the risk here is much less than that in the front. "