Chapter 1490

The captain and I were in the German limousine and back in our defense area. Seeing me coming out of the city, Panfilov ran over and asked with concern, "Comrade deputy commander of the front army, are you ok?"

"It's OK. I'm safe. Thank you for your concern! " After saying this, I suddenly remembered the defense situation I saw along the way to the city, and said to Panfilov in a low voice: "general Panfilov, when I just entered the city, I found that the German army had transferred its troops to the second line of defense, and there were only a small number of Guard troops in the first line of defense."

"Is the enemy ready to give up the first line of defense?" After listening to me, Panfilov asked blankly, "you know, they only have three lines of defense outside the city. If our army takes their first line of defense and takes it as the starting point of attack, they can't stop it at all."

"You are mistaken, Comrade General." Seeing that Panfilov didn't understand my intention, I had to explain to him: "the German army transferred its main forces to the second line of defense, not intended to give up the first line of defense. It's because it's their common tactic. When our army shelled their positions, they would transfer their troops to the relatively safe second line of defense. When our shelling stopped and our troops began to attack, they would go back from the second line of defense to the first line of defense through the traffic trench and stop our attacking troops. "

After listening to me, Panfilov immediately asked, "Comrade deputy commander of the front army, what should I do?"

"At the end of our artillery bombardment, you will lead the tank troops out to a distance of 200 meters from the German position. As soon as the shelling stops, you will run forward with full power and break through the German defense before they return to the first line of defense. " In order to dispel his worries, I specially stressed: "don't worry, general Panfilov, your tank stops 200 meters away from the shelling area. Even if the shrapnel flies, it won't be damaged."

"I understand, I understand." Panfilov nodded his head and said excitedly, "this is a wonderful way. When the shelling stopped, even if there were living Germans on the first line of defense, they were all dazed by the shells. My tanks could rush up in less than a minute, and they had no time to respond. You can rest assured that my tank army will break through the German defense as soon as possible after the shelling. "

As soon as I got back to the headquarters, rebarko and melinikov met me. Rebalko took a look at the expression on my face and nervously asked, "Rita, how's it going? Has it been rejected?"

"Yes, the German commander rejected our ultimatum." After I briefly explained the result of the matter, I said to the surrounded chief of staff, "Comrade chief of staff, please get through to the headquarters of the front army immediately. I will report the final result of the negotiation to the marshal."

When Zhukov heard my voice, he was silent for a moment. Then he asked slowly, "what's the situation, Rita?"

"Comrade marshal." I said respectfully into the microphone, "it's a pity that General von naindor refuses to accept our ultimatum and is ready to fight us to the end."

I thought Zhukov would be furious, but after hearing this, he said lightly: "if the enemy does not surrender, then we will use force to solve him."

His attitude made me feel very puzzled. I said that since he had guessed the result, why did he ask me to persuade von naindor? Isn't that obviously useless work?

His next words solved the mystery in my heart: "Rita, do you think it's very strange that I know that the German fortress commander will not surrender to us, but before your attack begins, he orders you to suspend the attack and go to have such meaningless negotiations with them?" Without waiting for my answer, he said to himself, "although there are less than 5000 enemies in tarnopol, they are holding down one of our elite tank armies and a number of other troops. If we appeal to the German commander to act rationally, take the initiative to stop resistance and surrender to our army, we can send these troops out to deal with the encircled German tank 1st army. "

Zhukov's words made me understand why he would deploy a task that could not be completed at all. His troops are limited at present. If he wants to annihilate the besieged German tank 1st group army, he can't catch it. Therefore, he hopes to pull out the nail of jernopol through this way of persuasion, so that more troops can be transferred, Turn to the battle of encircling and annihilating Hube's troops.

After I put down the phone, melinikov, standing next to me, asked first, "Comrade oshanina, what did Marshal say on the phone?"

From the expressions on their faces, I guessed that I had just had a conversation with Zhukov, but they didn't understand it at all. So they repeated Zhukov's original words to them, and finally said, "since the German army doesn't surrender, we can only solve the problem by force."

"So the attack on tarnopol is going on as usual?" Rebalko asked tentatively.

"That's right, that's right." I nodded my head and said with certainty: "we have given von naindor a chance. He doesn't cherish it himself. That's no blame to others. Next, let's give them a good lesson from artillery and tanks. "

"What about the direction of the friendly forces in the north of the city?" The chief of staff suddenly asked, "let them attack as planned?"“ That's for sure, comrade chief of staff. " After I said this, I went on to tell the chief of staff, "put me through to general afuning, and I'll give him an order myself." While the chief of staff was on the phone, I asked rebalko in a low voice, "Comrade General, when are you going to resume the shelling of the German positions?" Rebalko raised his hand and looked at his watch, then replied decisively, "ten o'clock! At ten o'clock sharp, the artillery began to fire on time! " When I called afuning and announced that the new attack would start at ten o'clock, he still asked with some lingering fear: "Comrade deputy commander of the front army, this attack will not be cancelled, will it?"“ Don't worry, Comrade General. This attack will never be cancelled. " I replied with a smile, "our attack will not stop until we have wiped out all the enemies in the city."“ I see! " Hearing what I said, afuning replied loudly, "I'll get the artillery ready immediately. When the friendly shelling starts, we will also shelling the German peripheral positions."