The second class was arranged in the ladder classroom of the school by bujoni. In order to prevent me from stage fright when I saw too many people attending the class, after the bell rang, three marshals accompanied me into the church.
As soon as I came into the classroom, I heard someone shouting the command: "stand up!"
With the sound of the command, hundreds of people in the whole classroom stood up and saluted us.
Bujoni took the lead to the podium, raised his hands and pressed them down, shouting, "sit down!"
When all the students were seated again, bujonny winked at Zhukov. Then they went to the first row to find a seat. Only voroshlov stood beside me.
To tell you the truth, as soon as I walked into the classroom and saw the black students on the seats, my scalp exploded. If I said that it was 200 students, I could not beat 300 people.
Voroshlov went to the platform and blew into the microphone on the desk to test whether the effect was good. After the test, he picked up the microphone, faced the students and said, "comrades commander, most of you here will be assigned to various battlefields in half a month. Before you leave the college, we specially invited our excellent commander, comrade o'shanina, who has rich combat experience, to give you a lecture. When the war broke out, she was still an ordinary housewife. Later, she joined the army and was promoted again and again because of her military achievements. Now she has taken the post of deputy commander of the front army. Well, now Rita mushdakova oshanina is giving a lecture for you... "With that, he takes the lead in clapping.
When there was thunderous applause in the classroom, voroshlov came down from the platform and said to me, "all right, Rita, it's your turn to play!"
I nodded, took a deep breath, and stepped onto the platform with firm steps. But when I was faced with the black students, my mind suddenly went blank, and I couldn't remember what I should say.
The students and several marshals sitting below all looked at me in surprise. Maybe they were wondering why I stood on the platform and didn't speak.
Here, I seem to hear myself talking from the side: "comrades commander, when I know that I have the honor to give a lecture to you in this world-famous military academy, I secretly ask myself: who am I to be qualified to give a lecture to you excellent commanders from all fronts?"
After I said the opening remarks, my mind suddenly relaxed and my thinking became clear again. I went on to say: "last class, I told 30 students how to carry out the attack in the city war if they carried out the defense in the city war. However, since most of the commanders failed to hear what I said last class, I will tell you again here. "
Because I have a lot to talk about today, I only used a quarter of an hour to retell the contents of the last class to all the students. After a period of backwardness, I went on to say, "now that we have finished talking about defense in urban warfare, then we will discuss how to carry out the attack. In order to give you a perceptual understanding, I am going to take the capture of Berlin as an example to explain in detail how to carry out offensive operations in urban warfare. "
As soon as my voice fell, the students below were in an uproar. Some people even yelled at me: "Comrade General, our troops are more than 600 kilometers away from Berlin, but you are telling us about the battle of conquering Berlin. Isn't that a bit too far?"
The student's words immediately resonated with the nearby students, and they began to roar one after another. I just looked at them silently and didn't say anything to stop them, because I knew that there were several marshals below who could help me.
"Be quiet, everyone Seeing that there was a tendency to lose control of the scene, bujoni quickly stood up from his seat, turned to the students who were making trouble and yelled, "do you still have any sense of discipline?"
As soon as bujoni came out, the students who had been making a lot of trouble immediately calmed down. I took the opportunity to say: "although our army is more than 600 kilometers away from Berlin, the German army has exhausted its resources and materials, and our army can get a lot of manpower from the guerrillas and the former enemy occupied areas because of the liberation of Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and other regions. In the face of our strong offensive, the Germans will soon be unable to support it. "
The voice just sounded again, probably for fear of being reprimanded by bujoni. He asked cautiously: "when do you think our army will attack Berlin?"
At last, I could see clearly that the speaker was a major general. It was estimated that he was the commander of a guard division. Instead of answering his question, I asked, "Comrade General, can you tell me when the Great Patriotic War broke out?"
The general stood up and replied without hesitation, "June 22, 1941." After answering my question, he looked left and right and gave a dry smile. "I think even a three-year-old knows the answer."
All around the students burst into laughter, but as bujoni turned to look at them, he immediately calmed down.
"Thank you, Comrade General!" After the general replied to me, I continued to follow my own way of thinking and said, "although our army is currently blocked in Warsaw, from all kinds of signs, it will take us at most another year or even less to completely defeat Germany. Maybe we will celebrate the victory of the Great Patriotic War in Red Square on the anniversary of the outbreak of the patriotic war. I have such confidence, do you? " When the general heard my question, he hesitated for a moment, and then hurriedly replied, "yes, there must be such confidence. I also think that we can completely defeat the Communist aggressors in one year. " After these words, he hesitated for a moment, then asked carefully, "may I sit down?"“ Please sit down, Comrade General In order to prevent myself from being interrupted during the lecture, I would like to remind the teachers and students here: "comrades, I have a request. Please don't disturb me when I'm giving a lecture. If you have any questions, you can discuss them with me after I finish. Is that all right? "“ All right All the people replied in unison. After the classroom quieted down again, we began to talk about the main points of the urban offensive War: "as one side of the offensive, we will face four problems: first, the Germans are more familiar with the terrain than us. They can take advantage of the city's ruins, buildings, numerous pipelines and the characteristics of the subway system in all directions to build a solid defense, And according to the specific situation, flexible use of defense or attack; The second is to fight in the city. Our tanks and armored vehicles can't be launched, so it's very easy to be approached and destroyed by the enemy's anti tank hands. As long as the first armored vehicle of the long armored column is destroyed, it's a sign that the whole team is surrounded and trapped in a bitter battle; Third, in street battles, it is difficult for our infantry to get artillery and air support; Fourth, communication between the various forces must be ensured to be smooth, otherwise it will be easy to be divided and surrounded by the enemy. " After talking about the four common difficulties in offensive warfare, I deliberately stopped to observe your performance. What makes me happy is that almost all of us are busy writing books to record what I have said as quickly as possible. I waited for most people to finish the record and looked up at me before I said, "to capture Berlin, our army is bound to have a fierce fight with the Germans in every street, every building, every room, every sewer and even every subway station. Next, I'd like to talk about how infantry can carry out street fighting without any technical support. According to the previous cases, our army used to charge in groups. Dozens, hundreds or even hundreds of officers and men crowded in the narrow streets to charge the enemy. " In order to make you understand, I turned around and drew a diagram on the blackboard with chalk: "please look at this diagram I drew. For example, only eight people can walk side by side in the street. When we attack the enemy with 100 soldiers, we have to stand at least 12 to 15 rows. To block our attack, the German only needed a machine gun and a few rifles. We can imagine that in most streets, there is a scene like this: our soldiers who rush to the front are swept to the ground by the enemy's machine guns, and the soldiers who follow behind are unable to dodge and trip over the corpses, making the pile of people and corpses higher and higher. Those who are not tripped are swept face to face by the machine guns, and some of them even have no space to fall down after being shot, They directly lean on their companions in the back, and the lethal bullets, under the inertia, will continue to penetrate the bodies of the soldiers who have been sacrificed, and shoot into the bodies of the soldiers in the back, so that the dead and living soldiers will be thoroughly clothed. " Although I have reminded you that I will raise any questions when I finish speaking, I didn't expect that I raised my hand to ask questions just now. If it was an ordinary student or even a teacher, I would not answer, but the one who raised his hand to ask the question was bujoni. I could only smile bitterly, and then made a gesture of invitation to him: "marshal, you can raise any questions."“ Comrade oshanina, "bujoni asked me with a serious expression," I have heard of the situation you just mentioned, but it is still very common. This may be related to the lack of experience in street fighting among our army commanders and fighters. Can you tell me what can be done to break through the German line successfully while reducing casualties