Chapter 1670

Due to the congestion of the road leading to the starting point of the attack, the artillery unit of the 8th group army of the guards arrived at the designated position two hours after dark.

When I received a call from trakov, I thought that the soldiers were exhausted after a day of fierce fighting, and they launched an attack in a strange area at night, which was not conducive to the cooperation between the tanks and infantry, so I decisively said to trakov, "Comrade General, it's getting late. Order your troops to stop attacking and rest in place until tomorrow morning, And then attack the railway subgrade firmly guarded by the enemy. "

When trakov started giving orders to his troops to stop attacking and rest on the spot, I called Zhukov to report my decision. After listening to me, Zhukov asked slowly, "Rita, do you think trikov's troops can achieve their combat goal tomorrow?"

Although I don't remember the next campaign, after hearing Zhukov's question, I replied without hesitation: "Comrade marshal, I don't think this is a problem." The reason why I am so confident is that on my way here, I saw the scale of our army. If we can't break through the enemy's defense in such a strong situation, the famous generals like trakov will have a false reputation.

"All right, Rita," Zhukov said in a reasonable way after listening to me, "since you are so confident, do as you arranged. Let the troops stop attacking temporarily, take time to rest in the same place, and attack the enemy in the early morning tomorrow."

Early the next morning, I drove to the 29th army headquarters in the village of chalneluge, where I met trakov, who was commanding the battle.

Seeing me enter the headquarters, trakov stopped explaining his work to his subordinates. Instead, he came to shake hands with me and said excitedly, "Rita, you're here in time. In five minutes, our rocket brigade will fire salvos at the German defensive positions in the station, and then the tanks will cover the infantry charge."

"Comrade General, how many rockets do we have?" I asked curiously, "how many volleys will it take to destroy the German resistance?"

"Rita, at present we have deployed a close guard rocket brigade in the south of the village, with a total of 36 state-of-the-art rockets," trekov said to me with some pride. "We will use these rockets later to teach the Germans a lesson."

In order to see the attack, trekov and I went to a nearby observation post. After the order of shooting was given, countless rockets curved in the air and disappeared in the station occupied by the German army. Then there was a terrible roar, and even the land under our feet was shaking slightly. Hundreds of rockets stormed the station and the edge of the forest, turning the whole station and the defensive positions outside the German forest into a sea of fire.

Just when I thought that trakov would let the close guard rocket brigade fire again, he gave the order to attack the troops. I asked curiously, "general trakov, aren't you going to volley the German positions again?"

"No, Rita." Trekov said with disdain: "the defenders in the station should have been scared by the volley just now. There is no need to waste precious rockets any more."

Without waiting for the smoke to disperse, the officers and men of the 29th army rushed to the station and the edge of the forest under the cover of the tank troops. Sure enough, as trikov expected, the enemy had been frightened by our rocket volley. When our troops rushed into their defensive positions, they still did not organize a decent resistance.

The battle between the station and the edge of the forest ended in less than half an hour. Then I saw groups of prisoners with dull eyes coming out of the fortifications at the station and the edge of the forest under the escort of our soldiers.

Seeing this situation, I immediately called katukov and said to him, "general katukov, the troops of the 8th group army of the guards, have successfully occupied the station. They are crossing the railway subgrade and advancing to the enemy's defense. Your troops should catch up with them as soon as possible."

"All right, Rita." Katukov said with a little emotion: "I'll give the marching orders to the troops now!"

At the end of the call with katukov, I felt it necessary to report to Zhukov what happened in the front line immediately, and then I went back to the army headquarters with trakov.

After listening to my report, Zhukov said with a smile, "Rita, thank you for the good news. I also have two pieces of good news for you: the 11th and 9th tank armies have approached Lamar and are now attacking the German forces in the city; Second, the 47th group army and the 1st Polish group army launched simultaneous attacks on Warsaw in the north and East, respectively. "

"Comrade marshal, this is really exciting good news." I didn't expect that this campaign would go so smoothly. The changes in the war situation were just in accordance with our plan. "I believe we can hear more good news before dark."

After two days of heavy fog on the West Bank of the visva River, the Air Force fighters, who had long been ready to take off, took off one after another and flew to various areas to help fight. As soon as the German armored forces go out, they will be bombarded by our air force in less than five minutes, and the German counterattack relying on the armored forces will collapse.

Just as I was about to follow trakov back to his group headquarters, there was a burst of intense gunfire outside. Hearing the gunshot, I instinctively pulled out my pistol and prepared to rush out the door. However, they were blocked by several staff officers of the 29th army of the guards. They held pistols in their hands, turned their back to me and stood in front of me. They said, "Comrade deputy commander of the front army, it's too dangerous outside. You can't go out."“ Yes, Rita, we can't go out because we don't know what's going on outside Trekov quickly grabbed me and reminded me, "we'll go out when we figure out what's going on." The intense gunfire outside soon stopped. Only sporadic gunfire came occasionally. I listened to it with my side ears. It was all the sound of assault rifles. I frowned and said to trikov, "Comrade General, send someone out to have a look. What's going on out there?" Trekov agreed and was about to send someone to find out what had happened. Outside, however, a major officer ran in first, shouting: "Comrade commander, it's not good, it's not good, something's wrong!" Trikov saw clearly that it was his officers who were coming. He quickly pushed aside the staff who were standing in front of us, went out and asked, "what's going on out there, why are you shooting?" The officer gave me a look of embarrassment as he followed trakov out of the crowd. Seeing the officer's desire to talk and stop, trakov said impatiently, "you're deaf. Didn't you hear me asking you a question?"“ Comrade commander, "the officer was answering trakov's question, but his eyes remained on me:" our troops brought back more than 100 prisoners in the square not far from here. Unexpectedly, they were shot and killed by the guard company brought by the deputy commander of the front army. " The guard company I brought, killed all the prisoners? When I heard what the officer said, I was confused. Trekov frowned and asked, "do you know why?" The officer shook his head and replied, "our men tried to stop them, but they were stopped by the rest of the guard company!"“ Wait, comrade major. " I heard from the officer's words that it seemed that it was not the whole guard company that shot the prisoners of war, but only a part of them: "did the whole guard company or only a part of them shoot the prisoners of war?"“ Only a few people. " The officer replied without hesitation: "they used to stay by the truck eating and chatting. When they saw that some prisoners were being escorted, they walked towards them with guns. We drove the soldiers we were escorting away, and then fired at the prisoners. " I felt it necessary to find out what happened in person, so I said to trekov, "general trekov, let's go out and see what's going on."“ Let's go. I also want to see why these soldiers killed all the prisoners of war indiscriminately. " Before I went out of the headquarters, I turned to the staff who were still standing in good order and said gratefully, "comrades of staff, I am very moved that you just stood in front of me and were ready to block bullets for me at any time. Here, I'd like to thank you all! " With that, I raised my hand and gave them a solemn military salute. Trekov and I walked out of the headquarters and came to the nearby square. We saw hundreds of commanders and fighters surrounded here. Judging from their dress, most of them were trekov's subordinates, while the guard company I brought was surrounded by the crowd“ Comrades, please give way. Here comes the commander! " Trokov's guards walked in front of us, shouting as they walked, giving us a passage through the crowd. I walked into the crowd, almost choked by the strong smell of blood, and saw hundreds of bloody German bodies lying on the ground. More than 30 skinny soldiers, armed with assault rifles and covered in blood, stood among the bodies. When I saw clearly that the soldiers standing in the middle of the bodies were all rescued by us from the maydanek concentration camp a few months ago, I immediately guessed seven or eight points about what happened. However, I guessed the reason, which does not mean that trekov and his subordinates also know the reason why the soldiers shot the prisoners. Therefore, the procedure to go is still to go. I deliberately asked the group of soldiers, "who can tell me why you want to shoot and kill these German prisoners without authorization?"