Burning Moscow

Rokosovsky's reply came ten minutes after our telegram came out. ★ Bayi Middle School √ Wen Wang √ In the telegram, he clearly wrote: “The 2nd Army of the Air Force is about to dispatch two aviation regiments to bomb the position west of Fastif. Please provide ground signs in time to avoid It was bombed by mistake."

After I read Rokosovsky’s telegram, I immediately told Bere: "Comrade General, immediately get in touch with the commander of the front tank brigade and ask them to mark the ground. One is to indicate the direction of air strikes for our air force. The second is to prevent possible accidental bombing, after all, they are only a few hundred meters away from the enemy’s position."

"I understand." Bie Lei promised, walked to the radio, grabbed the microphone, and started contacting the three tank brigades at the front.

I was staring at Bie Lei, watching him talk to the forward commander, and suddenly I heard someone outside asking loudly, "Is Comrade Commander here?"

"Who?!" Suddenly heard someone outside asking me, I could have shouted immediately: "I am here, please come in!"

As soon as I finished speaking, I walked into a commander wearing a big brimmed hat from the outside. He walked up to me and raised his hand in salute. He smiled and said: "Comrade Commander, Chief of Operations Akhromeev The major reports to you that I am here to assist you on the orders of the deputy commander."

"It's great, Comrade Major, this is great." I stepped forward and held Akhromeyev's hand, and said excitedly: "You are here at the right time. I am short of professional staff." said After that, I briefly introduced the current situation to him.

After listening, he nodded and said, "Don't worry, Comrade Commander, I know what to do."

When Akhromeyev started to be busy, the staff officer I sent out came back. The one who came to the observation post with him was the captain of the 1oo tank brigade I knew, Colonel Viladere.

When Villadre saw me in the observation post, he asked a little unexpectedly: "General Oshanina, why are you here? You must know that this place is only a few kilometers away from the battlefield of fierce fighting. Once this place is spotted by the enemy, You may be bombarded by the enemy or attacked by tanks. In that case, you are in danger."

For Villadre’s concern, I thanked him with a smile, and then said: “Comrade Colonel, the tradition of our senior commanders is to set up their headquarters just a few hundred meters from the front. I am away from here. The battlefield is a few kilometers away, so it should be considered a very safe place. If you hadn't appeared in time today, our cavalry division might have been destroyed by the attack of enemy tanks."

Villadre grinned, and then said: "It seems we are lucky, we finally did not miss this fierce battle."

I subconsciously glanced behind him, and when I saw no one was standing behind, I asked curiously: "By the way, Comrade Colonel, aren’t you two tank brigades? Why is there a brigade commander? I didn’t see it. ?"

"That's it, General Oshanina." Villadre explained to me: "When we were crossing the forest, many tanks broke down. In order not to affect the next battle, I and the 2oo tank After discussion, the brigade commander decided that I would lead the two intact tanks of the brigade to move forward, while he would stay behind and be responsible for commanding the personnel to repair the malfunctioning tank."

"Good job, Comrade Colonel." After hearing what Villadre said, I gave him a thumbs up, and then said: "It is because of your timely arrival that our cavalry division avoided the entire army. I thank you on behalf of them for the fate of destruction."

"General Oshanina, I don’t know what our next mission is?" After I finished speaking, Villadre asked carefully: "I have brought hundreds of tanks this time. We need to invest immediately. Fight?"

"No, no," I said, waving at Villadrie: "Not for the time being. There are already three tank brigades, two infantry divisions, and one cavalry division in the troops attacking the German defensive positions. The troops are enough, you guys. Just stay here to rest for a while. After walking for more than two hundred kilometers, many tanks should be repaired, otherwise they will easily break down. If on a battlefield with endless artillery fire, the tank breaks down because of a breakdown, not just tank soldiers. His life will be threatened, and it may even affect the victory or defeat of a battle."

As soon as he walked to the door, Veradre stopped walking, and turned to ask me: "General Oshanina, I want to ask where is General Babajanyan's 2o Brigade of Guards?"

"They are resting in the forest not far behind the high ground." Looking down, I heard the question of Villadrie, and quickly looked up at him and replied: "If you have something to do, you can go there to find him."

After Veradre left, Akhromeyev walked in front of me, handed me the information he had compiled, and said with a serious expression: "Comrade Commander, according to the information from the front, the enemy is in the second place. Strong permanent firepower points have been built in the line of defense, and many 88mm anti-aircraft guns are deployed in these firepower points..."

I saw the information compiled by Akhromeyev, looked at the table and threw it on the table, and said angrily: "Damn it, how can there be a strong and permanent firepower on the German line of defense? Did they calculate it a long time ago? To the attack from the west?"

Hearing what I said, Povsky couldn't help but laughed: "Comrade Commander, in fact, these firepower points were not built by the Germans, but by our own people."

"We built it by ourselves?" After repeating what Povsky said, I suddenly thought of a possibility, so I asked tentatively: "General Povsky, you mean these fortifications, we are in the war. Before the explosion, the national defense fortifications built?"

Povsky nodded and said with certainty: "I think so. Because these fortifications are facing the west, which happens to be the direction of the German offensive. But unfortunately, these fortifications were hardly dispatched at the beginning of the war. The purpose was occupied by the Germans. The result is not good now, and they in turn used it against us."

Speaking of fortifications, I suddenly remembered that Rokosovsky was about to send planes to bomb the German defensive positions. I don’t know if the troops in front had made ground markings. It would be too tragic if they were bombed by their own aircraft. . I hurriedly asked Akhromeyev: "Major, our air force is about to bomb the enemy's defensive positions. I don't know that the frontier forces have arranged ground signs to guide the air force to bomb the enemy?"

"Relax, Comrade Commander." Akhromeyev confidently said to me: "I just contacted General Seryukin, and he said that they used a red flag to put an arrow in front of the position, pointing directly to the enemy's defense. Position. In this way, as long as our air force appears, we can carry out saturation bombing on the enemy according to their instructions."

"Master Xie Liujin is very thoughtful," I said to everyone with a smile: "The ground signs set up in this way are simple and clear. As long as our air force lowers the flying altitude, you can clearly see..."

Before I finished speaking, there was a huge explosion, and then the snow fell like an avalanche from the log gap at the top of the observation post, turning all of us into "snowmen".

"No, the enemy has found the position of the observation post and is shelling at us." The experienced Povsky yelled, then rushed over and grabbed my arm and dragged it out. Beley, who reacted slowly, saw Povsky's actions, and rushed up, took my other arm, and ran out.

Povsky and Bere supported me one by one, and ran wildly behind the hillside along the traffic trench that connected the observation post. I couldn't help but ran forward following the inertia of the two of them. I turned my head and took a look. As soon as Akhromeyev and the remaining staff and telegraphers ran out, the observation post was hit by a shell. In a huge dark red flame, Akhromeyev and the others threw forward and fell to the ground.

Povsky supported me and ran to a safe place behind the hill before stopping. Bielei bent over, panted with his hands on his hips, and said out of breath, "Comrade Commander, there must be a German artillery observation post nearby, otherwise the enemy’s shells would not be able to hit this way. quasi."

Bukov, who was acting as a guard at the foot of the hillside, saw us so embarrassed and hurried over with a dozen soldiers. Asked with concern: "Comrade Commander, what happened?"

I pointed to the top of the hillside being bombarded by the enemy, and said breathlessly: "It may be a German artillery observer, who has found our observation post and provided shooting parameters for the German long-range artillery." I took a few more breaths, and then ordered: "Major, you send someone to search nearby to see if you can find the enemy's observer. Also, you personally take the people to the observation post on the top of the hillside. , See if Akhromeyev are still alive?"

Just as Bukov agreed and was about to leave, I suddenly heard a faint voice: "Comrade Commander, I'm fine, I'm still alive."

I looked in the direction where the sound came from, and saw Akhromeyev walking towards us step by step, holding on to the wall of the traffic trench. The military cap on his head was missing, and blood was dripping from his forehead. The staff officer and telegraph operator who followed him were all in ragged clothes, and their faces were blackened by the smoke. The two supported each other and stumbled behind Akhromeyev.

"Hygieneman, hygienist!" Seeing Akhromeyev's injury, my heart ached. I hurriedly yelled in the direction of the command headquarters at the foot of the mountain: "There are wounded here, come to us."

As I shouted, a soldier in cotton uniform ran out of the command post. He was carrying a medicine box on his back and ran towards us.

When the hygienist ran in front of me, I pointed to Akhromeyev next to me and told him: "Hygienist, the major is injured. You should bandage him quickly!"

"Comrade Major, please sit down, otherwise I can't reach it." The hygienist waited for Akhromeyev to sit on the ground, scrubbed his wound with alcohol, applied iodine, and then began to bandage him carefully.

"Major, how are you feeling?" I saw the hygienist grinning with pain when he was cleaning Akhromeyev's wound. I couldn't help but asked worriedly, "Is it particularly painful?"

Akhromeyev was unable to move because his head was held by the hygienist, so he could only grinned, trying to put a smile on his face and replied: "It's okay, Comrade Commander, I can stand it."

The hygienist who was bandaging the wound, put a bandage on Akhromeyev’s head, and said to me: "Don’t worry, Comrade Commander, the major’s injury is not serious. It was just a hard object on the ground when he fell. Kow, and the wound will heal in a few days."

After finishing the bandaging of Akhromeyev, the hygienist took the medicine kit and walked to the side of the staff officer and the radio operator, and squatted down to treat the wounds for the two of them.

I heard that Akhromeyev is okay, and the rock hanging in my heart has also fallen to the ground. You know, besides being my best assistant at the moment, he is also the Minister of Defense when the Soviet Union collapsed decades later. If he accidentally sacrifices because of my appearance, many future history will undergo unpredictable changes.

When I was thinking about it, the loud cannons above my head suddenly stopped. The sudden silence made everyone stunned, and then we vaguely heard a rumbling sound from a distance.

Povsky listened with his ears sideways for a moment, and then exclaimed in surprise: "Comrade Commander, listen, our air force is bombing the enemy's defensive positions. I think their artillery positions should have been attacked by air at this moment, otherwise The shelling will not stop suddenly like this."

I heard that our army was air raids on the enemy’s defensive positions. I suddenly felt a sense of exuberance. This is not Stalingrad last year, nor Zhitomyr a few days ago. I can only watch the German air force control the enemy. Air dominance on the battlefield ~www.wuxiaspot.com~At this moment, our air force can provide us with reliable air support. So I stood up straight, straightened the military cap on my head, and said loudly: "Go, let's go back to the headquarters." After I said that, I took the lead and walked along the traffic trench towards the headquarters.

The communication equipment in the command post is much more complete than in the observation post. I asked Akhromeyev and the others to sit and rest first, and then I came to a radio next to Xie Liujin, and after the radio operator contacted Xie Liujin, I put on the headset and said loudly into the microphone: "Xie Liujin Commander, is our air force bombing the enemy's defensive positions?"

"Yes, Comrade Commander." Xie Liujin replied emotionally: "Our air force is carrying out a dive bombardment on the fortified German positions. Now I see rows of dust pillars rising from the enemy's position. There was a cloud of black smoke, and the enemy's line of defense was completely shrouded in gunpowder."

"This is really great." After listening to Xie Liujin's remarks, I began to give orders to him: "As soon as the bombing is over, your division will take the lead in attacking the enemy's position under the cover of the tank brigade. And close. The 77th Wei Division is the second echelon. After you break through the enemy's line of defense, you will go up to expand the breakthrough and eliminate the remaining enemies. Understand?"

"Understood, Comrade Commander." Xie Liujin replied loudly. (To be continued.)