Chapter 1649

That night, rokosovsky and korpakchi went to pwawi on the other side of the visva river. Before leaving, he asked me to take charge of the daily affairs of the front army.

Originally, I thought there would be many affairs, but when I took over, I found that this position was also very easy. The artillery units of the front army are under the control of kazakov and the artillery commanders of the various army groups; Tanks and armored forces, managed by Aurel; The old general maximenko was responsible for the communication of the front army; Malining, the chief of staff, has always been responsible for the specific affairs of the front army. All I have to do is to centrally dispatch. But the fly in the ointment is that I have to stay in the headquarters every day to deal with emergencies before rokosovsky returns.

In the early hours of the next morning, I was awakened by marinin in my sleep. When he saw me open my eyes, he immediately said, "Rita, general Batov is calling. There seems to be something wrong with the landing site of cerotsk!"

I was lying on the March bed with my clothes. After listening to marinin's saying that there was something urgent, I immediately turned over and got off the boat, rushed to the table and grabbed the earphone on it: "Hello, general Batov, this is oshanina. What's the matter?"

Hearing my voice, Batov hesitated for a moment, then asked, "isn't Comrade Marshal here?"

"Marshal has gone to the powavi landing site. I am responsible for the daily affairs of the front army." I simply explained rokosovsky's plan and asked anxiously, "what's the emergency there?"

"Well, comrade deputy commander." "According to the reconnaissance, the German forces in the city of nashersk are gathering, and there are all kinds of signs that they may attack the landing site of selotsk at dawn," Batov said by telephone

"General Batov," I said after a quick glance at the map, "now our army has two army groups in the silotsk landing field. Even if the German army sends out one or two divisions, it will not try to seize the landing field from us. What you need to do now is not how to defend, but how to choose the right opportunity to attack first. If possible, your troops can take down nashersk directly. "

"Take down nashersk?" Batov said in a flustered voice, "Comrade deputy commander, I don't think you understand me. What I'm reporting to you is that the German army is gathering forces in nashersk, ready to attack our landing site... "

"General Batov, I can hear your report clearly." Although the battle the day before yesterday expanded the area of the sirotsk landing site, I still feel that it is a bit crowded to place two group armies here, so I have been thinking about how to continue to expand the landing site. Now an excellent fighter plane appears in front of me, so I decisively ordered: "I will give you the combat order now, Take two tank brigades and a close guard division as the first echelon, and advance to nashersk along highway 622. Try to attack the city at daybreak. "

"But now it's only four hours before dawn, and I'm afraid there's no time to gather the troops." Batov hesitated and said, "I think we'd better discuss this battle plan with the marshal first, see what he means, and then make a decision."

"General Batov," I was not happy to see Batov's hesitation. I said sternly to the microphone, "now I am in full charge of the affairs of the front army. There is no need to consult anyone. Just carry out your orders. I'll send artillery and air force to support your attack. "

After I put down the phone, I said politely to malining standing on one side, "chief of staff, go and invite general kazakov and general Aurel to come here. I have something important to announce to them."

The two generals lived in a house not far away and arrived at the headquarters immediately after being informed. As soon as khazakov came in, he asked me anxiously, "Comrade deputy commander, are you in such a hurry to come to us? Is there anything important?"

"Well, two comrades of the general." I looked at them and said, "I'm going to let general Batov's troops attack nashersk. I need you to provide them with the necessary support."

As soon as my voice dropped, kazakov was surprised and asked, "what, when was the plan to attack nashersk? Why don't I know?"

"I just made this decision." I said as usual: "according to general Batov's report, the enemy of nashersk is gathering, it seems that they are preparing to attack our landing site, so I intend to attack the city before the enemy sets out."

"Is that all right?" O'lear asked anxiously.

"Two general comrades," malining saw that the two generals were not very supportive of my preparation for preemptive action, so he stood up and spoke for me: "Lida has ordered general Batov to send a echelon composed of two tank brigades and a guard division to nashersk, and is ready to take the lead in launching an attack on the enemy at dawn."

Hearing what malining said, khazakov knew that the matter was irreparable, so he changed his tone and asked, "I don't know what our artillery mission is?"

I motioned to kazakov to come to the map, pointed to the location of the landing site of sirotsk and said to him, "Comrade artillery commander, if I remember correctly, do you have an artillery division deployed here?"“ "That's right," he said, nodding. "It's the 21st breakthrough artillery division. It's the 103rd powerful howitzer brigade, the 64th and 94th heavy howitzer brigade, the 55th howitzer brigade, the 66th light howitzer brigade and the 25th mortar brigade." After being confirmed by karzakov, my face showed a smile, "you immediately transfer the 64th and 94th heavy howitzer brigades, advance northwest along the road, build artillery positions ten kilometers away from nashersk, and provide artillery support for general Batov's siege forces." Instead of immediately accepting my order, khazakov asked cautiously, "is there infantry cover? If there is no infantry cover, as long as the enemy attacks our positions, our artillery will be completely destroyed. "“ There will be infantry, Comrade General. " After I said this, I turned to Aurel and said, "general Aurel, please transfer the 24th and 37th regiments of the close guard tanks to join the Artillery Forces of general kazakov. Although I know that these two tank regiments are still on the East Bank of the narev River, I think there should be no problem in getting to the designated position before dawn. "“ Don't worry, comrade deputy commander. " After listening to my order, o'lear quickly stepped forward and assured me, "I will let the guard tank regiment arrive at the position you set within the specified time." Seeing that the artillery and tank units for the attack of the 65th group army have been arranged, I said to malining, "Comrade chief of staff, we have to consider that we may be attacked by the German air force during the attack, so you will call general paulenin later and ask him to dispatch the air force to provide necessary air support for the 65th group army after daybreak."“ OK, I'll call general Pauline later and ask him to send the air force to provide air support for our ground forces. " After finishing this sentence, malining asked me carefully, "Rita, do we need to report our attack plan to marshal?" For malining's proposal, I thought about it and finally shook my head decisively: "no, it's just a small-scale battle. There's no need to disturb marshal. Let the troops below prepare."