Burning Moscow

[w.SuiMеng.lā, Batov and I looked at each other, and the eyes of both sides were full of shock. Because in our initial assumption, even if the two divisions of the First Army did not have the ability to break through the German line of defense, they had to There should be no problem blocking the German forces attempting to break through. Unexpectedly, their defense line was breached by the German forces, and many German forces escaped.

Batov got up from his seat, walked to the radio station, and said to the radio operator, "Immediately contact me the liaison officer in the Army, and ask what happened, how can the Germans easily Escaped?"

Batov was trying to contact his subordinates, and I was not idle. I told Akhromeyev, "Major, you go and ask Major Shuklin where his self-propelled artillery regiment has reached?" At this time, troops were sent to reinforce. The Army is definitely too late. I can only consider using artillery to bombard the German troops that broke through. The best candidate for this task is Shuklin’s self-propelled artillery regiment.

Before Akhromeyev could contact Shuklin, Batov hurriedly walked back, and said to me with an iron face, "Comrade Oshanina, the situation has been clarified for the troops of the First Army. After a long march, The commanders and fighters were exhausted. The commanders of the two divisions arranged a regiment to build fortifications. The remaining commanders and fighters were resting in makeshift tents. When most of the commanders and fighters were sleeping, the Germans suddenly attacked. I caught them off guard and easily tore a hole in their simple line of defense."

When I figured out the reason why the German army succeeded in breaking through the siege, it was not because of how brave the enemy was, but because the commander of the First Army underestimated the enemy and failed to take the necessary precautions, which caused me to smash on the table severely. Fist, gritted his teeth and said, "Damn, we could have damaged the three German divisions here, but the whole plan was disrupted by the forces of the First Army."

Batov waited for me to finish and said tentatively, "Comrade Oshanina, isn't our tactics during the day to encircle three ques? It only encircles the city in the east, north, and south directions. There are no soldiers to the west. , The enemy can leave the city swaggeringly"

"General Batov, the way we play during the day is completely different from what we are doing now." In order to eliminate the doubts in Batov's heart, I specifically explained to him, "We attack from the north, east, and south directions, which will let Germany People thought we did this for the purpose of driving them out of the city, so they stayed in the city and held on. But when the troops of the First Army moved to the west where there was no our army, the Germans noticed it. Danger, they find that their way of retreat has been cut off. If they are entangled with us here, they will inevitably be in danger of annihilation, so they will take risky actions to break through from the west where we have not had time to build a strong defense zone. "

My explanation finally made Batov understand what was going on. He tapped his fingers on the desktop and asked me sadly, "Comrade Oshanina, from the current situation, except for being entangled by our army. Except for that part of the enemy, the remaining enemies may all escape from the west, what should we do now?"

"It's not that easy to escape," I snorted coldly, and continued, "Even if I have to run, I will make them pay a painful price."

As soon as I finished speaking, Akhromeyev, who was ordered to contact Shuklin, walked back to me, pointed at the map on the table, and said to me, "Comrade Commander, Major Shuklin’s troops have arrived. This position, if deployed here, can bombard those German troops that are breaking through with artillery."

"Great," I saw the location of Shuklin's self-propelled artillery regiment, which was only five or six kilometers away from the German breakthrough. At such a distance, it could be bombarded with artillery fire. I looked up at Ahromeye. The husband said, "Major, you immediately convey my order to Major Shuklin to deploy the troops on the spot, and then use artillery to block the German breakthrough route."

"Yes, I'll go to deliver your order right away" Akhromeyev finished speaking, then turned and walked to the walkie-talkie, ready to deliver my order to Shuklin

As the order was issued, Shuklin ordered the self-propelled artillery regiment to deploy on the spot. According to the shooting parameters provided by the observation vehicle, the artillery regiment fired in the direction of the enemy’s breakthrough. The Germans had already broken through the defense line of the Group Army. They proceeded too smoothly. Reluctantly thought that the enemy in front of them had basically been resolved, and the remaining Soviet troops would fall apart when they saw their large forces rush out. But the so-called joy and sorrow, just when they were overwhelmed, there was a burst of long notes. The howling sound. When most of the German troops were still looking up at the air, the shells had fallen from the sky. In an instant, the road in the west of the city filled with fleeing German troops was blown into a sea of ​​flames by the dense shells.

Thousands of pieces of shrapnel burst out from the sky full of smoke and cannonballs, intertwined with layers of air-tightness, reaping the black smoke from the fresh lives, and the German soldiers are like torn rags and mustards. , Before falling from the air, the fragments of the limbs that were mixed with the blown up by the air wave and then collapsed to the sky

The German commander who was still in the city, now that his troops had been shelled by the Soviets, immediately shouted at his chief of staff angrily, "Let the division’s artillery corps fire back and suppress the Russian artillery. Cover our troops to break through smoothly"

The German commander’s order was quickly conveyed to the artillery regiment’s calculated position, and the artillery responded fiercely. But what they could not dream of was that Shuklin’s self-propelled artillery regiment had moved after five rounds of salvos. At the new artillery position, all the artillery shells fired by the German artillery fell on the open space.

Seeing that his troops continued to suffer casualties from the artillery fire, the German commander called the artillery captain and said in anger, "Damn, why didn't you suppress the Russian artillery fire? If it is because of your reasons, our breakout failed, I You will be sent to a military court and hanged all"

"Your Excellency General" was scared to death by the artillery captain, and quickly replied, "Our artillery is constantly fighting back, but the Russian artillery has never weakened. It seems that after a few rounds of shooting, they promptly Shifted the ground"

"Nonsense!" The German commander didn't know the new self-propelled artillery of our army, so he took it for granted that the artillery commander said this to shirk his responsibilities. He said viciously, "I will give you ten minutes to save the Russians. The artillery is wiped out. If at the appointed time, my soldiers are still being shelled by the Russians, then you can kill yourself."

When the German commander was investigating the responsibility, we got a report from Shuklin. Seeing our army’s artillery fire, the German army that broke through was blown to the ground, my mood improved a lot, but I always remember the self-propelled artillery. The ammunition carried is limited. If there are no shells at the critical moment, the Germans will escape.

I called Akhromeyev in front of him and said to him, "Comrade Major, you send a telegram to Major Shuklin and ask if they have enough shells. Don't run out of ammunition in the middle of the shot."

"Don't worry, Comrade Commander." Seeing that I was asking about this, Akhromeyev quickly said to me with a smile, "I just asked Major Shuklin, and he said that for this operation, they brought the ammunition cart. Together, we have prepared five base ammunition for each gun, enough for the Germans to drink the pot."

"That's good." I heard that Shu Klin had planned for a rainy day. I was relieved to think that the final solution to the battle was the infantry. I called Seleukin and Sejerikov respectively and asked them to immediately lead the troops and bypass the city from the north. Drive in quickly to the west to block the passage opened by the Germans. Of course, I also sent Shamrich’s tank battalion in order to have greater confidence.

Seeing that I was deploying troops, Batov asked tentatively, "Comrade Oshanina, do you think I need to deploy a division from the troops in the south, but reinforce the friendly troops in the west?"

"No need, General Batov" I heard him say so, and immediately politely rejected his request because the performance of his troops before dark disappointed me too much, so I might not be able to help them at this time. If we don’t know how to do it, we will be dragged down. “I’ll transfer two divisions to rush over, and the force should be enough.”

Batov is also a wise man. From my answer, he guessed the reason, but he said calmly, "Well, Comrade Oshanina, since you say no, I won’t do that. I’ll order They stepped up their offensive force to contain more German troops and cannot let them escape from us easily."

Just as the troops of the echelon circumvented the city from the north, our army no longer hid them. The troops on the north, east, and south all increased their offensive forces at the same time, facing the second path of the German army. Or the third line of defense attacked fiercely and the Germans who were sticking to the outer positions also refused to give up, and fought fierce battles with our army.

I stood in front of the observatory, raised my binoculars and looked at the battlefield of blood and fire ahead, thinking in my heart that if there were no errors in the direction of the First Army, I would not need to transfer the two divisions of the First Echelon to the west, as long as Strengthening them to the north or east will speed up the advancement of the troops.

When I was thinking about it, I suddenly felt as if someone had walked into the command post, and the whole room suddenly became quiet. I put down my binoculars, turned my head and looked behind and waited for the people to be seen. I was overjoyed and hurried to greet me. , And said excitedly, "Deputy Commander, Chief of Staff, why are you here?"

The commander who entered the headquarters was no one else. It was Chistiakov and Bezikov who stayed in Smolensk. When they shook hands with me, they replied, "Comrade Commander, I Knowing that you are in urgent need of troops here, so I brought the 67th and 7th Guards Division to support you"

I looked behind them and saw that there were only a few staff officers from the headquarters. I didn't see Kirilov's shadow, so I couldn't help but curiously asked, "That's right, why didn't I see Comrade Military Commissioner?"

"Originally, we planned to bring the whole army over, but we received an order from our superiors that we must keep troops in Smolensk and wait until the new troops go to change defenses." Bezikov reported when shaking hands with me, "So Comrades from the Military Commissioner, two commanders, and the 77th Guards Division remained in Smolensk."

I waited for the two to say hello to Batov, and then asked Bezikov, "Chief of Staff, where are the other two divisions?"

"It's about seven kilometers away from here," Bezikov replied with a smile. "The deputy commander and I were worried that you were waiting in a hurry, so we drove over here first."

"Where is the tank army?" I heard the sound of guns coming from outside, and suddenly remembered that if there were tank troops to support, the next battle would be much easier, so I raised my voice and asked, "General Bere's Guards Tank No. 5 Where is the army?"

"Due to the limited capacity of our trains ~www.wuxiaspot.com~, the tanks of the Tank Army are all driven along the road" Kistyakov took the conversation and said, "After they arrive in Zhilobin, they will have to carry out a short period of time. Rest and maintenance before they can rejoin the battle. I guess they won’t be able to get here before noon.”

"Deputy Commander, Chief of Staff, since you two are here, let's take command of the battle." After I said this, I looked into the room and said with some embarrassment. "But the space in this room is limited, and it may not be able to accommodate more. More personnel and communication equipment"

As soon as I finished speaking, Bezikov said, "Don't worry, Comrade Commander, before we came here, we saw that there was a shelter next to it, which was quite spacious inside. I think we will set up the communication room there."

"Comrade Chief of Staff, let you take full responsibility for this matter." Since Bezikov is here, I can be the treasurer of many things. I will explain my work to him, and then I will talk to Batov and Chiss. Dyakov studied how to deploy battles next

After listening to my introduction of the battlefield situation, Kistyakov frowned and thought about it, and then suggested to me, "Comrade Commander, although our echelon is rushing to the west of the city, I think even if they Enter into the battle, and the battle may also be stuck in a stalemate by then. I think it would be better to give the German troops a way to withdraw from the city.)