Chapter 1667

According to the prepared operational plan, the artillery preparation for the German defensive position was 2 hours and 40 minutes. In order to pass the boring waiting time, malining specially found a silver teapot for everyone to sit down and drink tea.

Seeing Zhukov still walking back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, malining added charcoal to the hollow straight tube in the middle of the teapot and said to Zhukov: "Comrade marshal, the battle has just started. It will take at least three hours to get the report of whether the army has broken through the German first line of defense. Please sit down and have a cup of hot tea

Zhukov came to the table and sat down. He carefully looked at the exquisite silver teapot on the table and asked with great interest, "Comrade chief of staff, where did you get this teapot?"

Malining turned on the tap under the teapot, poured a cup of hot tea, put it in front of Zhukov, and replied, "it was sent by Polish comrades a few days ago, saying it was a booty."

Zhukov put a few pieces of sugar in the teacup and stirred it gently with a small spoon. Instead of asking about the origin of the tea cooking, he changed the topic and asked, "chief of staff, according to the plan in advance, the first Polish army will cross the visva River into the old city of Warsaw on the fourth day after the battle. Do you think they can complete this task?"

Malining looked at me with a smile and said, "marshal, I think you should ask Rita about this question. She has the most say."

"That's true," Zhukov turned his eyes to me again. "Rita, can the comrades of the Polish Army liberate Warsaw smoothly?"

"Comrade marshal, there should be no problem for the comrades of the first Polish army to liberate Warsaw." After the failure of the Warsaw Uprising, I went to the visva River to see the city on the other side of the river. I knew something about the situation there, so I said with confidence: "since the failure of the Warsaw Uprising, Hitler has ordered the city to be razed to the ground and all the residents of the city to move away. For the Germans, Warsaw does not have much significance, so it is only a matter of time to seize Warsaw. "

"However, the Warsaw group of the German army still has a lot of troops. Once they are allowed to retreat to the rear safely, it will cause huge obstacles to our next stage of attack." Zhukov took a picture with his hand on the map on the table and continued: "therefore, we need to cut off the retreat of the German Warsaw group as soon as possible and surround and annihilate them in Warsaw area."

Although what Zhukov said has been mentioned countless times in recent days, no one thinks that he is wordy, because everyone wants to make our combat plan more perfect. Malining took a sip of tea, pointed to the map in front of him and said to us, "the front of Hitler's main defense zone successively passed through the settlements of glinuvec, glinuv, genrekuv, bronislavu, legenize, mosteki, swereguerne and the northern edge of the kozenitzer forest. The front of the defense was 25 kilometers wide, Even if they attack immediately after the shelling, it will take an hour at the earliest to completely occupy the residential area here. "

But the war went on more smoothly than we thought. 31 minutes after the attack, the phone in front of us suddenly rang. After a short hesitation, everyone reached for the microphone. However, malining was the fastest. He grabbed the microphone and stuck it to his ear and said aloud, "Hello, I'm malining. Where are you?"

"Chief of staff, this is trekov." All the people around the table clearly heard the voice of trakov coming from the receiver. They quickly concentrated and listened carefully to the voice coming from inside: "I have a good news for you. My troops have occupied the outer trench of the German first line of defense, and they are developing in depth..."

"Trekov? I'm Zhukov Hearing this, Zhukov suddenly stood up, took the microphone from malining's hand, put it in his ear and said, "what you just said, I didn't hear it very clearly. Please repeat it."

"Marshal," he said excitedly when he heard that Zhukov was talking to himself, "there are two trenches in the first line of defense of the German army. My troops have occupied one of them and are attacking the other."

Although trakov had repeated his report, Zhukov still asked with half faith, "Comrade trakov, if I remember correctly, is the shelling of the German defensive positions still going on?"

"Yes, comrade marshal, you remember correctly that the shelling of the German defensive positions is still in progress." In order to dispel Zhukov's doubts, trakov explained: "25 minutes after the shelling started, we and our friendly forces took advantage of the favorable opportunity that the German observation post and command post lost their functions in the fog to send 25 reconnaissance battalions. Under the cover of tanks, they made an impact on the enemy's defensive positions and successfully captured the enemy's first trench. At present, the troops are pursuing while winning, I believe it won't be long before we can take the second trench. "

"Well done, trakov!" After listening to the report of trakov, Zhukov was very happy, but he did not get carried away by it. He specially told trakov: "every time our army occupies a trench, it is necessary to eliminate the enemy as quickly as possible, and then reinforce the fortifications to cope with the possible counterattack launched by the German army."

After Zhukov put down the phone, he immediately called the artillery commander, kazakov, and said, "Comrade General, trakov's troops have entered the first line of defense of the German army. After finishing the artillery preparation, your artillery immediately move forward the firing position to cover the infantry and continue to rush to the depth of the enemy." When he heard that the army was going well, malining beside him couldn't close his mouth with a smile. He waited for Zhukov to explain the task to kazakov, and asked for instructions: "marshal, do you need to report this good news to the supreme command immediately?"“ "No way," malining's proposal was immediately rejected by Zhukov: "the Supreme Command knows the exact time of our attack and the time needed for artillery preparation. If we report this loss to the supreme command when the battlefield situation is not clear, it will inevitably lead to a misjudgment from the superior that the enemy in front of our army is vulnerable, It will add new operational targets to us and disrupt our original operational deployment. " After listening to Zhukov's words, malining no longer insisted on his own opinions, but got up and went to the area where communication equipment was placed and explained his work to the busy staff there.