Chapter 1663

It's December, and what we're worried about finally comes up.

There are a lot of floating ice in the visva River, and continuous large ice blocks are moving downstream along the river. Because these ice blocks will crush the small boats carrying materials, the shipping work has to stop completely.

Some brave and impatient people, unable to wait to get through the pontoon, crossed the visva River by jumping from one ice block to another with a penny in their hand.

At the beginning, we did not support or oppose this kind of phenomenon, but after two accidents happened in succession, causing casualties, we had to send patrols along the river to resolutely stop this kind of risk-taking behavior.

If the floating ice only threatens the safety of ferries, we can also transport materials to the front line through floating bridges. After all, after Zhukov took office, we built three floating bridges on the river for tanks and artillery. But the high-speed ice on the water threatened the safety of the bridge. One of the pontoons was broken into three sections from the middle due to the continuous impact of ice. In a tank battalion crossing the river, four tanks and one tank truck fell into the cold visva River, resulting in the tragedy of ten soldiers died and five soldiers disappeared.

When it happened, Zhukov called us together to discuss the countermeasures. He said solemnly: "comrades commander, if we allow the ice floes on the visva River to continue to hit our pontoons, these pontoons will be broken one after another before long. I'd like to hear what you can do? "

The first speaker was military commissar jieliejin: "marshal, I think we should erect some big iron pillars on both sides of the river and pull iron chains on them to stop the ice floes down the river."

"Comrade military commissar, your method is not good." As soon as the "iron rope to block the river" scheme proposed by gilekin was put forward, it was refuted by malining: "let alone we can't find a kilometer long iron chain, even if we just drag the iron chain on the river, we can't stop the ice floes down the river. Because the floating ice is not only floating on the surface, but also sinking under the water, which is almost close to the bottom of the river. Their huge inertia will break the iron chain that we pull up very hard. "

"What should we do then?" "Can't we just watch the ice floes destroy one by one our floating bridges over the visva river?" he said

After listening to their argument, Zhukov turned his eyes to me and seemed to be able to get the answer he needed from me: "Rita, if you are allowed to deal with this matter, what are you going to do?"

"Marshal," I replied with a wry smile to Zhukov's question, "as early as a month ago, I had considered this question. But unfortunately, I didn't find a good solution. In order not to let the cross-strait relations be interrupted by the ice floes on the visva River, I opened up the "air supply line" on a whim. "

"The air supply line can only supplement the weapons, ammunition and various military materials needed by the troops," Zhukov said with a unchanged face after listening to me. "But for heavy equipment such as tanks and artillery, it can't complete the transportation. If the traffic on both sides of the river is really interrupted by ice floes, we can only wait until the thickness of the ice layer on the river is enough for the tank troops to pass through, and then we can transfer the armored troops across the river again. "

Seeing that everyone was at a loss, I suddenly thought of trakov and said to Zhukov, "marshal, I think it's better to call the commanders of magnushev and puwai landing sites and ask if they have any good ideas than to sit here and think of ways."

Due to the erection of several floating bridges on the visva River, we have greatly accelerated the speed of assembling our troops at the Hexi landing site. So far, it has increased to four army groups. So Zhukov, after listening to my suggestion, nodded and asked, "who do you think we should call first to ask for advice?"

"I think we should call general trakov. He likes to use his brain, study problems and sum up experience." I said to Zhukov clearly: "in the battle of Stalingrad, the traffic between us and the East Bank of Volga River was interrupted because of the ice floes on the river. I believe that since general trakov has such experience, he should also have measures to deal with the ice floes on the visva river."

As soon as I finished, the phone on the desk suddenly rang. Malining picked up the phone, listened to it, then handed it to Zhukov. At the same time, he said with a smile, "Comrade marshal, this is really a coincidence. We just said we would call trakov, so he called first."

Zhukov took the microphone, put it in his ear and said aloud, "Hello, is that trakov? This is Zhukov. You call the headquarters of the front army. Is there anything important

"Comrade marshal," I heard trekov say in a loud voice from the receiver, "one of our pontoons was knocked down by ice floes, causing certain casualties. In order to avoid the recurrence of similar incidents, I would like to make a suggestion to you. "

"If you have any suggestions, please let me know." Zhukov said generously, "we are going to call you and discuss how to deal with the floating ice on the visva river."

"Marshal," trikov may have finished the draft for a long time. Hearing Zhukov's question, he immediately replied without hesitation, "we should mobilize all the engineers and road troops to protect the bridge. Each floating bridge is equipped with two or three blasting companies and a road battalion, and set up a repair team..." "wait a minute, comrade trikov." When Zhukov heard this, he couldn't help interrupting trakov: "what do you mean?"“ Please listen to me patiently, comrade marshal "The commander near each pontoon is in charge of a 120mm mortar company to blow up large ice floes on the river," he added; Then the broken ice floes are tied with steel cables and towed ashore by car or tractor. " After hearing his proposal, Zhukov only thought for a moment, and then said decisively, "Comrade trakov, your proposal is good, so we will do it according to the way you said. You should first use the engineering troops and road troops of the eighth group army of the close guard. As for the forces directly under the central government of the front army, I will arrange the chief of staff to transfer them to you as soon as possible. " In the current situation, it is the primary task to prevent the ice floes on the visva River from crashing the floating bridge. So Zhukov immediately ordered malining to transfer the engineering troops and road troops of the front army to the visva River after he put down the phone. In order to destroy the massive ice floes on the river, he dispatched several 120mm mortar companies and mobilized two 76.2mm cannon regiments to bombard the ice floes down the river. The next morning, Zhukov called trakov and korpakchi again to ask about the ice floes on the river. Both commanders answered with relief: "marshal, it's hard to see large ice floes on the river again. Our pontoon has been preserved, and all kinds of vehicles are passing through the pontoon."