Chapter 1559

After receiving the order to attack the German armored division, afuning immediately called several of his division commanders to the headquarters to discuss the attack.

After listening to the combat mission, rumenzev, the commander of the 4th division of the airborne guards, frowned and said, "Comrade commander, although we have the advantage in number, our equipment is much worse than that of the enemy. I think it is almost impossible to destroy these two German armored divisions. "

"Yes, comrade commander!" After rumenzev's words, Colonel konev, commander of the 3rd Division of the close guard airborne troops, continued: "we only have two artillery regiments, one tank regiment and several tank battalions. If we use such technical equipment for defense, it's not a big problem; But if you want to take the initiative to attack, I think it is simply an incredible thing

After listening to them, ah Funing did not immediately express his views. Instead, he looked at the second division commander he trusted most. However, he saw that he was staring at the map in front of him, as if he was thinking about something. Then he turned his eyes to the new editor on the other side and asked, "what do you think, Colonel Lukin?"

"Comrade commander," Lu Jin said without looking up, staring at the map on the table, "with our existing technology and equipment, if we take a frontal attack, it is estimated that we will not only fail to destroy the enemy, but will cause heavy casualties."

"Do you have any good idea?" Asked afuning, motionless.

Lukin nodded and said, "if my new division is to take up the offensive task, I plan to attack the German camp by sneak attack."

After listening to Lu Jin's attack plan patiently, ah Funing didn't rush to express his opinions. Instead, he asked the other three teachers: "three teachers, what's your opinion?"

After hearing a Funing's question, the first speaker was the colonel with the same name as the marshal. He said solemnly: "Comrade commander, you must know that our army has never launched a night attack above regimental level so far. Now we are going to take a sneak attack on the German army at the division level. I am worried that in the dark environment at night, the troops will fall into chaos because of the command problem. At that time, it will be very difficult not only to destroy the enemy, but also to protect themselves. "

After listening to konev's worry, afuning turned to ask Lukin: "Comrade Colonel, please tell us the specific steps of the night attack, such as what your primary target is and how to deal with it when the enemy counterattacks. By the way, there is another key problem. How do you distinguish between ourselves and the enemy in the night? I don't want my troops to be injured by my own people in the night war. "

Lu Jin hesitated for a long time for a series of questions raised by afuning. However, after all, he had played a lot of night battles and had rich combat experience in this field. After thinking for a while, he replied, "Comrade commander, I plan to send division tank battalions to attack German tanks first, and then use infantry to attack their stations. As for the problem of distinguishing between the enemy and ourselves in the dark, I have no good way, because even if I tie a white towel on my arm, it doesn't work. It's really a fight. Everyone is shooting by feeling. Who has time to see if the towel is tied on the other party's arm? "

"Comrade Colonel," said afuning with a puzzled face after listening to Lu Jin's words, "if we can't distinguish ourselves from the enemy in the night, once we fight, it will easily cause a lot of accidental injuries. How can we solve this problem?"

"Comrade commander, I have a way to prevent this situation." Lu Jin pointed to the map and said to afuning, "the night attack is completed by our new division. The rest of the troops detour back from the two wings of the German army. When they are defeated, they cut off their retreat by surprise."

"Can you defeat two German armored divisions with one division?" Major general Vassili, the commander of the 2nd division of the close guard airborne, asked, "if the Germans are really so easy to deal with, will they be able to pierce the defense lines of our two army groups in a few hours and rush to the vicinity of our defense area?"

"General Vassili," Lukin explained to Vassili with a smile after he finished saying, "the German army is nominally two armored divisions, but after they break through our defense line, they have to leave defensive forces all the way. Even if the forces left in each place are limited, they have such a long distance to attack, and there are not many troops left when they come to us, I'm absolutely sure I can defeat them. "

"Since Colonel Lukin is so confident," said afuning, seeing that everyone was talking about it, he came out to make a concluding speech: "then the task of attacking the German garrison at night will be left to your division."

"Comrade commander, you can be careful." Vasili took a look at Lukin and then added: "we don't know what the combat effectiveness of the new division is. I don't think it's appropriate to rush them into such an important offensive."

"Don't worry, Mr. Vassili." Afuning waved to Vassili and said, "let the new division be the main force of the night attack, which means the deputy commander of the front army. As a commander, you should know that orders from superiors can only be executed, and no discussion is allowed. It's settled that Colonel Lukin's new division should be the main force of the night attack. "

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Two hours later, the new division led by Lukin approached the German armored division. Standing on a high ground with several division commanders, he raised his binoculars and looked at the dark German camp. He could see dozens of tanks neatly placed on one side of the camp. There were many people walking around the tanks. He moved the camera to the side and saw that on the other side of the camp, there was a neat tent, which should be the resting place for tank soldiers and motorized infantry.

He put down his telescope, turned to bukov and bonejerin, who were standing behind him, and said, "comrades commander, you can see that the German camp is just a few kilometers away from us. As long as we launch a surprise attack, it will turn the place upside down."

Although he has been a general for a long time, he is not familiar with this kind of night attack tactics because he spent the past few years in the prison camp. Therefore, when Lu Jingang finished speaking, he immediately put forward his own question: "Comrade division commander, from the observation, the front is a German Tank Regiment, how can we highlight their defense?"

Lu Jin was stunned when he heard this question from bonejerin, but then he thought about the experience of the other side in recent years and the outdated tactics he had mastered, and understood the reason why the other side was helpless. Pointing to the enemy's camp, he said: "after the night attack, we first used the tank battalion to carry out the assault, destroyed the German tanks parked on one side of the camp with artillery fire, and then the armored cars rushed up again, and strafed the enemy's infantry with machine guns..."

After listening to Lukin's story, bonejerin asked uneasily, "is that ok?"

"Don't worry, chief of staff," Lu Jin said to him patiently although he was dissatisfied with bonejerin: "our night attack tactics can definitely succeed."

"Sir, I have an idea." Seeing that Lukin was going to go down the hill to arrange the task, bukov, who was standing beside him and didn't speak, suddenly said, "we can deploy the artillery battalion on the hill. When the tanks rush to the German camp, we can bombard the German tank parking place with artillery fire. What do you think? "

"Great, that's great." Lukin was overjoyed when he heard what bukov said. If this tactic is really adopted, even if the tank battalion is found on the way to the German camp, it's no big deal, because the artillery deployed on the high ground can make the enemy in the camp worry about themselves: "you will be responsible for directing the artillery to bombard the German camp later."

As the order was given, twenty tanks of the tank battalion under the command of Levchenko set out in battle formation and stormed towards the enemy's camp. Standing on the high ground, when bukov saw that the tank battalion was two kilometers away from the camp, he decisively gave the order to fire.

When the dazzling firelight rose in the German tank parking position, the awakened tank soldiers and infantry came out of the tent one after another, but our artillery fire made them unable to get close to the tank.

At this time, the tank battalion under the command of Levchenko had already rushed to the place two or three hundred meters away from the camp. Twenty tanks slowed down, bombarded the German tanks parked on the side with tank guns, and strafed those confused German soldiers with machine guns. In order to avoid injuring his tank troops, bukov ordered the artillery fire to extend to bombard the German tents further away.

Although most of the tanks were destroyed in the first time by our army's artillery fire, there were still some fish that missed the net. Several German tank soldiers got into an undamaged tank, drove full power into a burning tank, and hit our tank from the side. The huge inertia made a T-34 overturn to the ground.

Seeing that they knocked over our tanks, the German tank soldiers were immediately elated. They immediately backed up and planned to continue to hit other tanks of our army. However, they were discovered by Levchenko, who was just driving the tank here. With her command, a shell hit the German tank at close range, directly lifting the turret of the other side.

Following the tanks into the German camp, there were more than a dozen armored vehicles full of commanders and fighters. The commanders and fighters jumped from the armored vehicles, under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles, put the butts of submachine guns or rifles against the abdomen, and pushed forward quickly with the cat on the waist.

The resistance in the German camp was soon destroyed. Thousands of German officers and soldiers completely collapsed like frightened rabbits, swarming back and fleeing for their lives. The enemy was at large. Our shells chased and blasted the rear end, covering the fleeing soldiers. The shells smashed into the ranks, and each loud noise could take away many soldiers. The panicked German soldiers were blown up and torn to pieces.

Another German camp, which is only seven or eight kilometers away from here, immediately sent out tanks and motorized infantry to reinforce after learning that it was attacked by our army. The artillery deployed on the high ground, with the help of the light of the burning camp in the distance, found the new enemy, and immediately hit them with a shell, throwing them into pieces.

By daybreak, the 2nd and 3rd divisions of the close guard airborne troops, who detoured back to the enemy's rear, had successfully cut off the retreat of the German army, and cooperated with Lukin's new division to launch the final encirclement and suppression of the enemy.

When konev heard the results reported by the 18th army, he was very happy. After a while, he picked up the phone on his desk and dialed the 3rd group army headquarters of the close guard tank. He said to rebalko, "rebalko, the 18th army of the guards, has successfully annihilated two German armored regiments. The rest of the task is up to you."

"Don't worry, comrade marshal." Rebalko confidently said: "I immediately ordered the troops to attack all the lines. We must eliminate the remaining German armored forces in the shortest time." Soon, several tank brigades of the 3rd group army of rebarko's close guard tanks also launched an assault on the German army. Although the German armored forces successfully cut off our offensive forces and the second echelon yesterday, their strength is extremely weak in the face of our new powerful offensive. According to a series of war reports we have received, the German armored forces, which are independent, were defeated or destroyed by the tank brigade of rebarko in less than half an hour. With the collapse of the German armored forces, the second echelons of the 38th and 60th army, after converging with the leading forces, made a slight truce and launched a new attack on the second defensive zone of the German liwof line. By the evening, the two armies had advanced about 15 kilometers into the German defense. Just as konev was about to report the good news to the headquarters of the general staff, Stalin called first. He asked directly, "Comrade konev, what's the situation on the battlefield at present? Have the enemies who cut off the offensive forces and the second echelon been eliminated? " Konev, who was in a good mood, quickly replied: "yes, comrade Stalin, the German armored forces that cut off our army have been completely smashed by our army. At present, the troops of kurozhkin and Moskalenko have broken through the German defense lines in a row and are advancing westward smoothly. I believe that in two to three days at most, we can successfully occupy Lvov. "“ Very well, comrade konev. You played very well. " After praising konev, Stalin suddenly said, "when the situation there is stable, you can temporarily transfer the command to Comrade sokolovsky, and then come back to Moscow with Rita."