Chapter 1644

The next day, after several days of heavy rain, it finally abated. Under the command of general pushlyakov, director of the engineering corps, the officers and men of the Zhouqiao battalion braved the drizzle and only took half a day to build five pontoons on the narev River, all of which could be used by tanks, armored vehicles and heavy trucks.

With these five pontoons, our tank brigades and trucks carrying soldiers have been able to continuously reach the landing site of selotsk on the West Bank from the east coast.

When our army assembled enough troops at the landing site, the sky finally cleared up. General paulenin, commander of the air force, immediately called rokosovsky for instructions: "Comrade marshal, the weather is fine today. Our air force can provide the necessary air cover for the ground forces."

Maybe it was my plane crash the day before yesterday that scared rokosovsky so much that when he heard polenin's report, he immediately asked with concern, "has the runway been repaired?"

"It's under repair." "If you wait at most an hour, the runways damaged by the rain can be completely repaired," he respectfully reported

"Very good," rokosovsky said with relief, "after the runway is repaired, bombers with special electronic equipment will be sent immediately to enter the enemy's defensive zone to interfere with their radio communication."

"I understand." In order to be on the safe side, polenin also asked rokosovsky, "do you want me to send a liaison officer to the headquarters of the front army?"

"Yes, you can send someone directly to the headquarters of the front army to find chief of staff malining." Rokosovsky resolutely agreed to the other party's proposal, and told: "let your liaison officer and general maximenko command the bombers with electronic jammers."

When everything was ready and the air force was out, rokosovsky suddenly said to me, "Rita, I'll give you the command of today's battle. You have no problem? "

I thought I was a soy sauce player today, but I didn't expect that rokosovsky would entrust me with a heavy responsibility. After a moment's hesitation, I nodded my head and promised, "well, comrade marshal, since you say so, I will direct today's offensive."

I turned and asked karzakov, who was standing by, "artillery commander, how many guns can we use?"

"There are more than 400 howitzers, cannons and mortars, and 60 rockets." After giving me an accurate data, karzakov asked for instructions and said, "I don't know how long it will take for artillery preparation before the attack."

"Five minutes," I said to khazakov, spreading out my hand, "we only have five minutes of artillery preparation at most, and the infantry will attack the enemy's position with tanks."

"Five minutes?" Hearing what I said, karzakov could not help frowning. He said to me carefully, "Comrade deputy commander, if only five minutes of artillery preparation is carried out, it will not be able to effectively destroy the German fortifications and consume their enough troops."

My heart says that even if you are given 50 minutes of artillery preparation, the number of enemies you will destroy is roughly equal to the number you will destroy in five minutes. Because the Germans are very cunning. At the beginning of our artillery attack, their main force hides in the second line of defense. When our army launches an attack, they return to the first line of defense along the traffic trench. In order to enable khazakov to carry out my instructions without reservation, I specially explained to him: "Comrade artillery commander, I intend to attack the enemy with the tactic of entering the barrage slowly. The infantry advancing with our artillery fire is only 50-80 meters away from the blast point, so we must let our artillery ensure the firing accuracy, so as not to cause unnecessary accidental injury. "

"Don't worry, comrade deputy commander." "I will tell the artillery to pay attention to this," he assured me

After the beginning of the attack, the first thing I heard was the rumble of artillery coming from the West. This was our artillery bombarding the German defensive positions, ready to cover our infantry to launch forward; Before long, I heard the roar of aircraft engines coming from the eastern sky. They were bombers with electronic jammers, ready to fly over the German defense zone and interfere with their radio communications.

Seeing that the plane had appeared in my view, I called maximenko and told him, "Comrade General, let the bomber turn on the jamming system. Remember, don't disturb our wireless industry. "

After hearing this, maximenko laughed and assured me, "don't worry, comrade deputy commander, I will never let you down."

As the bombers with electronic jammers circled over the German defense zone, the communication between the front and rear of the German army was completely paralyzed, resulting in chaos for the enemy.

In less than half an hour, our troops attacking to the West succeeded in seizing the defensive positions temporarily constructed by the German army and continued to move forward in a healthy manner. Just then, a staff officer sent me a phone call. After reading it, rokosovsky handed it to me and said: "according to the air force's reconnaissance, in the area of vizhibica, north of the landing site of cerotsk, it was found that German armored forces were gathering. It seemed that they were ready to attack the flanks of our attacking forces."

"General o'lear," I waited for rokosovsky to finish, and immediately called the tank commander in front of him and asked him, "how many tank troops are there in our army near the town of cerotsk at present?"“ There are about two tank battalions, "he explained to me after he finished," these two tank battalions are equipped with T-34 tanks. They are responsible for guarding the bridge on the narev river. "“ Report, "before I made a new arrangement, a communications staff officer came to me in a hurry and reported to me," Comrade deputy commander, according to the information we just got, a formation of 20 German bombers is coming towards cerotsk. "“ What shall we do? " After listening to the staff officer's report, o'lear asked me nervously: "the enemy's bomber formation is coming. If we can't beat them back as soon as possible without our air force, then the tank troops on the ground will be bombarded by them." The German armored forces were assembled in the north at vizhibica, while the bombers were flying from the west towards sirotsk. What should I do? When I was thinking, I inadvertently looked at rokosovsky. He looked at me with a smile and didn't speak. It seemed that he was waiting for me to give orders to the army. After a moment's hesitation, I decided to take a risk and maybe get rid of the enemy's air force and armored forces all at once. I picked up the phone and dialed maximenko. "General, you've done a good job. Because of our radio interference, the German army's ground forces have been in chaos. Now there is an important task that you need to carry out immediately. Immediately find a way to cut into the communication channel of the German bomber formation and order them to change their flight direction. " Staring at the map in front of me, I sneered and said to maximenko, "it's said that the vizhibica area has been occupied by our army. I ordered them to fly to the area immediately and bomb the" Soviet "armored forces that are gathering on the ground." As soon as my words came out, all the people around me, including rokosovsky, who heard my orders, were dumbfounded. After a while, he asked, "Comrade deputy commander, did I hear you right? Can you order the German bomber formation to bomb the German ground armored forces? "“ That's right, "karzakov echoed," even if we give such a fake order, the Luftwaffe will not be easily fooled. They will immediately contact the ground console to find out what's going on. " I just waved my hand to the two men's worries, and then said lightly, "don't worry, two generals. Now the German radio communication has been interfered by our army's electronic jammer, and the ground console can't get in touch with the German pilots at all. Similarly, German pilots would not have thought that the order they received was forged by us. " Although I made a plan to let the German army fight each other, I ordered a tank brigade and two close guard infantry regiments staying on the East Bank of the narev River to go out to the landing site of sirotsk to prevent the German army from attacking from vizhibica just in case.