Chapter 1584

While marchenko was giving monakov an account of his combat mission, rerov came up and asked in a low voice, "Comrade deputy commander, I want to ask whether the military headquarters will continue to stay here or follow the 39th division of the guards?"

After hearing this question from Ralph, I suddenly thought of something I had neglected and asked, "Comrade commander, I forgot to ask which group army your army belongs to?"

My words made Ralph a little silly. He stared at me for a long time, as if trying to find out if I was joking with him. Seeing my serious face, he said, "we belong to the eighth group army of the guards. Our headquarters is now located on the East Bank of the viswa river."

"The eighth group army of Jinwei?" When Ralph told me the name of the army, I couldn't help laughing. The world is so small that I met an acquaintance again. I asked casually, "is the commander General trakov?"

"Yes, yes, it's general trakov." "Do you know him?" he asked pleasantly

"Of course, comrade commander." I explained with a smile, "during the war of Stalingrad defense, I was a division commander under general trakov, in charge of the defense of mamayev post."

"I have heard commander trakov mention the defense of mamayev post." When leirov heard that I was the commander of the troops who stood at the mamayev post, he was immediately awed: "the enemy used several divisions to attack the mamayev post in turn, in an attempt to seize the high ground, then occupy the port and cut off the link between the garrison and the east coast. But under your command, the enemy's innumerable attacks have been smashed. "

Although I also like to mention my glorious past, I was anxious to see trakov, so I raised my hand to interrupt him and asked tentatively, "Comrade commander, I plan to go to the headquarters of the group army. Can you send me a driver to take me there?"

"Of course, there is no problem, comrade deputy commander." After he said this, he called a staff officer and told him, "you are responsible for driving the deputy commander to the headquarters of the group army. Do you understand?"

The staff officer nodded, walked up to me, made a gesture of invitation to the outside, and politely said, "Comrade General, please come to me, and I'll send you to the headquarters of the group army."

On my way to trekov headquarters, I saw an endless line of infantry and convoys of supplies moving towards the banks of the visva river. In addition to ambulances, even ordinary trucks were full of wounded people.

On the East Bank of the visva River, four or five kilometers away from the river, there is a small town called jelehuf, where the headquarters of the eighth group army of guards in trakov is located. As soon as my jeep entered the town, it was stopped by the patrol. The second lieutenant in charge stood outside the car and said to me politely, "Comrade General, please show me your identification."

Without waiting for me to speak, the staff officer who was driving next to him obviously knew each other. He said directly, "Hello, belozor, the new deputy commander of the front army. She is in a hurry to see commander trakov."

Outside the window, Lieutenant belozor, after hearing my identity clearly, quickly stepped back two steps, straightened up and stood at attention, raised his hand and made a sign to ask for passage.

The jeep drove along the street for some distance. I saw sandbag fortifications piled in front of a two-story building, and a dozen soldiers standing guard at the door. Seeing such a situation, I thought this should be the location of trakov's headquarters, so I told the staff, "stop the car!"

The staff officer stopped the car steadily by the side of the road, turned his head and asked me curiously, "Comrade General, the headquarters is still in front of us."

I waved to the staff officer and said, "I'll walk the rest of the way myself. You drive back first, thank you With that, I pushed the door open and got out of the car.

When I came to the entrance, a captain came up immediately, raised his hand to salute and asked, "Comrade General, who are you and what are you doing here?" As he said this, he glanced in the direction of the jeep.

"Comrade captain," I said politely, smiling at him, "please report to general trekov that his old subordinate, o'shanina, has come to visit him from the headquarters of the front army."

"Hello, general oshanina!" When the captain heard my name, he immediately showed a smile on his face. He flashed aside and made a gesture to politeness: "please come in. I think the commander is very happy to see you."

I nodded to the captain with a smile and strode inside. Behind him came the dialogue of the soldiers

"Who is she?"

"You don't even know general o'shanina?! It's the teacher who sticks to the mamayev post. "

"Ah, it's her. I didn't expect that her rank is as high as our commander now."

As the captain did not report, I went directly into the headquarters, so that when trakov saw me appear, he still sat in a daze. I went up to him and asked with a smile, "general trakov, don't you know me?"

"My God When he heard my voice, he jumped up from his seat, took my hand and asked curiously, "Rita, you are not the deputy of Marshal konev in Ukraine. How can you come to me today?"

"General trakov, your information is out of date." After I let go of his hand, I said with a straight face: "I have just been appointed deputy commander of the first front army of Belarus by the supreme command."

"Are you the new deputy commander of the front army?" Trikov quickly stepped back, stood at attention, and continued with his head high: "Comrade deputy commander of the front army, general trikov, commander of the eighth group army of the guards, reports to you. I will follow your orders, please give me instructions!"

I'm a little embarrassed to see trakov put himself in a subordinate position. Trikov seemed to be aware of this. After he finished the report according to the regulations, he said to me in a casual tone: "Rita, why are you still standing? Please sit down quickly."

When I sat down, he asked curiously, "Rita, is there anything important you want to do when you come to me today?"

I thought that Ralph was his subordinate and there was no need for him to keep secret of the task he was about to perform, so I simply introduced the situation to him. Before I said that I was going to send transport planes to carry troops, he hesitated and said, "Rita, the enemy has built solid fortifications near our landing site. It's almost impossible for our troops to pass through their lines of defense."

"Don't worry, general trakov." I said confidently: "our troops have been fighting the Germans for half a distance near the visva River, which has given the enemy the illusion that we can only fight on the ground if we want to break through their lines. This time we're going to use a way to surprise them and make a breakthrough from the air. "

"Breakthrough in the air?" Trekov frowned and asked, "are you going to let the paratroopers parachute behind the enemy's rear to break through the German defense line with our forward attacking troops? But if such tactics are to be adopted, there will be hundreds of transport aircraft and fighters serving as cover. I doubt whether our air force can provide so many aircraft? "

"Not so many planes." I explained to him, "just send out ten transport planes and the same number of gliders, and after dark, bring down a battalion to the enemy's rear. I believe that one battalion is enough to destroy or severely damage this infamous Kaminsky brigade. "

"Rita, I don't know if you've thought about the enemy's antiaircraft fire?" "We don't have any self capable transport planes and gliders, which are the targets of the German army in the air. I'm afraid our troops will be wiped out by the German army in the air," trekov asked solemnly

"General trakov, come and see." I pointed to the map on the table and said to him, "I don't deny that the danger you said does exist, but because the flight we sent out was too short, it would not take more than half an hour from take-off to landing. Perhaps the German air defense firepower has not recovered, our transport plane has successfully landed. "

"You're right, Rita!" After hearing what I said, trakov nodded and agreed, "I think we are worth the risk. As long as one army successfully lands in the rear of the German army, it can not only severely attack the Kaminsky brigade, but also harass the German army's logistics supply lines.... "

Next, I mentioned that the 39th division of the guards would cross the river tonight. There was a surprise expression on his face: "before, I wanted to transfer more troops to the West Bank, but marshal rokosovsky refused. He said that the focus of our group army's defense is not on the West Bank, but on the north, so I have only deployed four divisions in front of me on the West Bank. Now we can strengthen our strength in puwai by transferring the 39th division

"Comrade General, how many ships are there in your hands?" I continued.

"It turns out that there are more than 300 boats and motorboats of various types, which can cross 3500 people at one time. But in the recent fighting, ships have lost more than half of their capacity and their transport capacity has been greatly reduced. " After a brief calculation, trakov finally said to me, "now we can only transport about 1200 people at a time."

When I heard that the ship was seriously damaged, I couldn't help asking curiously, "general trakov, can you tell me why your ship is so badly damaged?"

"When the troops crossed the visva River by force, they lost 70 or 80 ships." "We can't build bridges on the river, so we have to pass out the weapons, ammunition and military supplies needed on the other side by boat, and then bring back the wounded on the other side," he said bitterly. The enemy's cannons bombarded the river all the time, and that's how most of our ships were lost. "

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After dark, the officers and men of the 39th division of Jinwei, who had already assembled on the east bank, boarded the boats by the river. With the command of the commander, the soldiers in charge of rowing immediately desperately waved the oars in their hands, so that the ship full of soldiers quickly sailed to the other side.

At the same time, general Kuragin, who crossed the river during the day, also called me and said that the unit was ready to carry out the task of crossing the German defense area at any time.

After listening to his report, I held the microphone and thought about it. I felt that there was still a risk of exposure when the detachment directly crossed the German defense line, so I told Kuragin: "Comrade General, let the soldiers of the 65th regiment of the close guard artillery bombard the German defense position for ten minutes."

"Shelling German positions?" After listening to my order, Kuragin asked, "Comrade deputy commander, our detachment will soon cross the enemy's line of defense. Will it be hurt by shelling at this time?"“ General Kuragin, the reason why I asked you to bombard the German positions is that I feel that in all the plans to cross the German lines, only by attracting the enemy's attention with artillery fire can our small teams pass through the weak areas of the enemy's defense smoothly. " I pause for a moment, and then add: "and let the tactics of the small units all wear the German uniform, so that they are not easily detected by the German army."“ I see, "Kuragin replied loudly." I'll follow your instructions immediately. " After daybreak, I received a call from general Kuragin again. He said with relief: "report deputy commander, I just received a telegram from the detachment. They have successfully crossed the German defense line and arrived at the landing site. They are setting up the navigation campfire."“ Good job, general Kuragin. Great job When I heard that the detachment had successfully penetrated into the enemy's rear lines, the big stone I was hanging in my heart finally fell to the ground. "If you have any latest information, please report it to me immediately!" After I put down the phone, I said to trakov, who was reading the report: "general trakov, the unit of the 35th division of the guards has successfully crossed the German line of defense and reached the landing site." After listening to this, trakov nodded with a smile, then handed me the document in his hand and said, "look at this, Rita. Last night, he not only sent more than 4000 people from the 39th division of the guards to the other side, but also sent a large number of weapons, ammunition and materials needed by the West Bank, especially artillery shells." Seeing that everything is developing in a good direction, I feel very happy. I called Ralph and asked, "Comrade commander, are you ready to join the upcoming army?"“ Yes, comrade deputy commander, they are all ready. " After that, Ralph was silent for a moment, then continued, "but there was a little accident."“ Little accident? " When I heard Ralph say this, I couldn't help clapping: "what's the accident? What's the matter with you?"“ No, comrade deputy commander, nothing happened. " Leirov explained to me in a hurry: "major monakov took his troops to the airport and found that the aircraft provided by the air force can carry at least 500 people. Do you think we should send more people to the enemy's rear?"“ No, comrade commander. Since it is said that there will be 400 people, we can only carry 400 people. " I'm deeply afraid that reirov will act first and then act. I specially stressed to him, "the troops under the command of major monakov can't get any supplement for a long time, so you need to use the extra space to carry more weapons, ammunition and military materials. Is that clear?"“ Yes, comrade deputy commander, I see. " As soon as I reminded him, he immediately realized the importance of carrying more weapons and ammunition on transport planes and gliders. He quickly replied, "I will arrange people to transport more ammunition and materials onto the plane." Transport planes and gliders carrying troops took off at 1 a.m. The German army is the most tired and the least vigilant at this time. It is easier for our aircraft to fly over their air defense fire network safely. Ever since I heard that the plane was taking off, I've been restless. I'm afraid that some bad news will come. Like me, trakov was anxiously waiting for the news of the airborne troops. Almost every ten minutes, he called Ralph to ask if there was any latest news. And Leiruo Fu every time is the same answer: "no, comrade commander, there is no news yet!" Almost two o'clock in the morning, a telephone in the headquarters finally rang. Trekov and I both took a step toward the position of the phone, but soon stopped, because there was a signalman sitting next to the phone. We could not interfere with the work of the signalman on duty. The signalman picked up the phone and listened for a while. Then he reported in an excited, incoherent, but clear voice: "Comrade commander, according to the report of general Ralph, our troops have successfully landed behind the enemy lines. Now they are moving weapons, ammunition and various materials off the plane."