Burning Moscow

Chapter 1587: Polish army attacked

   Originally, Cui Kefu and I were going to wait for the sober soldiers to build the house, reprimand them for a while, and then return to the headquarters of the group army. But the plan could not keep up with the changes. The Chief of Staff of the Group Army called Cui Kefu and hurriedly said: "Comrade Commander, can you come back right away?"

When Cui Kefu heard the Chief of Staff's tone so hurriedly, he couldn't help being shocked, and asked quickly: "Chief of Staff, what's the matter?"

"The front army command called and said that there is an important combat mission." The chief of staff said anxiously: "Comrade Marshal asks you to rush back to the command center to accept the order."

Cuikov put down the phone, looked at me and said, "Marshal Rokosovsky said that there is an important task, and he wants me to rush back to the headquarters of the group army. Lida, what do you think about whether to accompany me back to the headquarters, or Stay here to supervise the soldiers building new houses?"

I am not very interested in building a simple military camp outside the village. Upon hearing Cui Kefu's question, I immediately replied without hesitation: "Comrade General, I will return to the headquarters with you."

On the way back to the town, we saw more than a dozen trucks with cannons. The soldiers sitting neatly in the cars were actually wearing Polish military uniforms. What surprised us even more was that the jeep continued to drove forward for a certain distance, and there was an out-of-sight Polish infantry on the side of the road. They lined up in a four-way column, and under the guidance of the red flag, they walked forward with their heads high. .

Seeing this scene, I turned my head to look at Cui Koff and asked in surprise: "Comrade General, what is going on? Why are there so many Polish infantry here?"

Unexpectedly, after hearing my question, Cui Koff shook his head and said blankly: "Judging from the uniforms of these soldiers, they should be troops of the First Polish Army. As for why they appeared here, I am not sure as well."

But when we returned to the headquarters, the mystery was solved. Rokosowski asked Trikov on the phone, "Did you see Trikov? Did you see the Polish infantry and artillery on the road?"

"Yes, Comrade Marshal, I saw it." After answering the question, Cui Kefu asked somewhat puzzledly: "But why did they appear in my defense zone?"

"General Sigmund Bellinger, commander of the Polish First Army, told me that according to the information provided by the People's Army in Warsaw, the German troops deployed to the south of Warsaw are the Wehrmacht stationed in Poland and their combat effectiveness is relatively poor." Rokosovsky said to Trikov: "So they plan to send a division to forcibly cross the Vistula at night to support the rebels fighting fiercely in Warsaw."

"A division?!" Hearing this, Cui Kefu couldn't help but interject: "I have four divisions on the West Bank, and there is no way to expand the landing field. They actually want to use only one division to break through the German defense to support Warsaw's. The rebel army is nothing short of a fantasy."

"Comrade Cuikov, you cannot say that." Rokosovsky explained to Cuikov: "In the rear of the enemy, there are countless Polish guerrillas active. Among them are the Lyudov Guards, the Lyudov Army, and the Krakow Guards. The Jov Army, the peasant camp. There are even mixed guerrillas led by Soviet officers who came to the enemy’s territory for various reasons. Although these organizations have different political tendencies, they have the same goal of fighting the common enemy. The Polish army only needs to If you can successfully cross the Vistula River, you will surely be able to receive the support of these armed forces and successfully rendezvous with the Warsaw rebels.

After Rokosovsky finished speaking, Cuikov asked slowly: "Comrade Marshal, what is the mission of our group army?"

"This attack was completed independently by the Polish Third Division." Rokosowski unexpectedly replied: "You only need to provide them with boats to cross the river."

Hearing that there was no need to cooperate with the Polish forces to launch an offensive, Cuikov let out a sigh of relief, and then replied easily: "I understand, I will arrange a river crossing for them."

Before dark, General Belinger, commander of the Polish First Army, came to Cuikov's headquarters. This well-groomed, serious-faced, and neatly dressed old soldier, after shaking hands with Cui Kefu and I, smiled and said to Cui Kefu: "General Cui Kefu, I want to stay in your headquarters tonight and command my troops. Fight, don't you object?"

Cui Koff put his hands behind his back, bowed slightly to him, and said politely: "General Bellinger, I am happy to help you!"

After a few simple greetings, I asked Bellinger: "Comrade General, I would like to ask, how do you plan to attack the enemies of the Vistula River, and how do you rendezvous with the rebels in Warsaw?"

Bellinger smiled at me, and then said clearly: "General Oshanina, for this attack, we have mobilized an elite third division and a newly formed howitzer regiment. As artillery bombarded the German positions on the opposite shore. At that time, our infantry took a boat prepared for us by General Trikov, and forcibly crossed the Vistula River. After we cleared out the enemy on the other side, our troops moved north again to join forces with the defenders who were standing in Warsaw."

Since Rokosowski had greeted in advance, this offensive was independently completed by the Polish Third Division, so after learning about the Polish Army’s offensive plan, I did not discuss the shortcomings of this plan with General Bellinger. Place.

The place to cross the river was chosen in the defense zone of the 4th Guards Corps. Attacking from here, as long as the Polish army can break through the German defense, it can reach the outskirts of Warsaw within two or three hours and join forces with the insurgents who are responding to them. Before dark, Cuikov ordered all the ships to be quietly sent to the assembly location of the Polish army.

The offensive began at eleven o'clock in the evening, and most of the German troops on the other side were already asleep at this time. Even if it was shelled, except for a few guard posts, the rest hid in the blastholes, so that the Polish troops could successfully land on the opposite shore with minimal casualties.

Seeing that there are still a minute or two, the Polish artillery deployed by the river is about to begin bombarding the Germans. General Bellinger suddenly said to his chief of staff: "Chief of staff, connect me to the artillery regiment. I want to speak with their head of staff."

The chief of staff nodded, walked to the table, grabbed the phone they had brought and shook the crank a few times, picked up the headset and put it to his ear, and said in Russian: "Hey, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com is looking for the artillery commander. , The commander wants to talk to him!"

After answering the call, the chief of staff handed the microphone to Bellinger. Bellinger took the microphone expressionlessly and said loudly: "Brothers, after five long years, we are back on Polish territory. We will soon be engaged in the battle to liberate the motherland. Now, in order to destroy the enemy, we have to fire on our own territory. This is the price of freedom. I ordered the artillery to fire at once and hit the fascist invaders fiercely. Long live Poland!” Maybe there are many artillery who answered the phone. People from the Soviet Union, so Bellinger’s remarks are in Russian.

Hearing Bellinger's order to fire the cannon, I hurriedly turned my ears to listen to the movement outside. After about a minute or two, there was a faint rumbling noise outside. The chief of staff looked at the red night sky outside and said excitedly to Bellinger: "Comrade Commander, our artillery has fired. It won’t be long before the soldiers of the 3rd Division will cross the Vistula River bravely. Rush to the bleeding Warsaw and rescue this suffering city from the claws of the fascist invaders."

The Polish army has attacked! But my heart seemed very heavy. There were tens of thousands of German troops near Warsaw, and it was too whimsical to rely on a Polish division to support the rebels in Warsaw. But as a friendly army, I can only pray in my heart for the soldiers who are about to fight, hoping that they can cross the Vistula smoothly and rush to their former capital to join the friendly army fighting there.

  

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