Burning Moscow

At the end of the meeting, I repeatedly emphasized to several regiment leaders: "Before dark, your task is to distribute weapons to recruits, and seize the time to carry out rapid training in shooting, dropping bombs, stabs, and tactical actions. Listen to understand. Yet?".

"Understood!" The commander here replied in unison.

Looking at the commanders with serious expressions, my thoughts rolled over, feeling that the task assigned to me by General Cui Kefu this time was too heavy. Although I also wanted to lead the military division, fought a few tough battles with the Germans, and performed well in front of the superiors, I did not expect to receive the task of covering the main retreat. With the disparity in power between the enemy and ourselves, it is an individual who understands that this task is not a life of nine deaths, but a life of ten deaths. At this moment, I felt as if I was an abandoned child.

But then I think about it, the reason why Cui Kefu gave me such an important task may be because I like to be ingenious with soldiers. If I lead my troops to take on the post-breaking task, he will feel more at ease in his heart. According to what I know about the Germans, they will take it lightly when they find that our army is retreating aggressively, and will relax their vigilance as they move forward. In this way, our division can take advantage of this opportunity to severely teach those arrogant chasing soldiers.

With this in mind, I said to everyone: "Comrades, after dawn tomorrow, the enemy will find that our large forces have retreated from the existing defensive positions, and they will rush forward quickly. Under normal circumstances, Our military division, who lacks heavy weapons and incomplete light weapons, can’t stop the enemy’s attack even if it’s lighted up. But this time the situation is different. After a long battle, the enemy has become exhausted. After occupying the position of our army, their large troops will temporarily stay for rest, and send small troops to follow our troops to pursue them and rush towards Stalingrad quickly.

And we can take advantage of the opportunity of their light soldiers to forge ahead, hit them severely by surprise, severely injure or even eat some of them. In order to achieve this goal, the Gaidar regiment should pay attention to the camouflage of the troops after entering the position, so as not to let the enemy spot us prematurely. At the same time, more investigators should be sent. Understand the enemy's movements and know yourself and the enemy. "

After I finished speaking, the expressions on the faces of the commanders became vivid. I said while the iron was hot: "Comrade commanders, when you return to the army, you must tell the soldiers that we must fight this battle well. Because we are not only fighting to cover the retreat of the main force of the group army, but also fighting for our own survival. Do you understand?".

This time, all the commanders stood up. Replied in unison: "Understood!"

Sejerikov, who has always been close to me, also specifically said: "Comrades commanders, I believe that our police division will not be wiped out by the Germans. According to my understanding of the division commander. As long as everyone follows her vision. If the battle plan is prepared and fought, we will definitely win the final victory.” Although Sergeikov’s flattery made me a little embarrassed, it also invisibly increased my confidence in victory.

As soon as the meeting was over, the commanders left one after another, hurried back to their troops, and set up combat missions to their subordinates.

I walked back and forth a few times in the command post, thinking about the deployment of the battle in my head, and felt that the only shortcoming was the communication problem. If this problem is not resolved, when the fight really starts, if the communication is not smooth, then my orders will not be communicated to the frontier in time, and the frontier intelligence will not be fed back in time. However, to solve these problems, you can only ask Cui Kefu to come forward. I raised my hand and looked at my watch. I guessed that Cuikov had already returned to the group army headquarters, and asked Razumeyeva to call the group army headquarters.

As soon as Cui Kefu heard my voice, he immediately asked with concern: "Oshanina, what's wrong, is there anything important to find me in such a hurry?".

"Comrade Commander, this is the situation." After I briefly recounted my combat deployment, I then asked him: "Our division's communication equipment is severely lacking, which is not conducive to the contact between me and the troops in the battle. Can you please ask the 208th Division to leave some of the communication equipment and related personnel for us when it evacuates, at least the telephone line of the division headquarters, because when the battle starts, this will be one of mine. command post."

"No problem," Trikov replied unambiguously, "You don't need to ask Colonel Voslibojnikov about this matter, and I can be the master. Communication equipment and related personnel will definitely not be able to give you, but in the village I asked them to hand over to your teacher in their entirety. Do you think this works?".

"Great, Comrade Commander, thank you so much!" I was only asking tentatively, but I didn't expect Cui Kefu to help me solve the problem so readily.

"Oshanina, I want to ask you a word." Cui Kefu asked hesitantly: "Do you think your police teacher can block the Germans for a few days?"

How many days? Whether a day can be blocked is a problem. How many days do you want to block it? You really value me too much. But these words can only be thought in my heart and cannot be said. I replied vaguely: "Comrade Commander, I can only say do my best, try my best to hold the enemy for one or two days, and buy time for the transfer of the main force. "When I said this, I was obviously lacking in confidence, and I could only say that I held it for a few days instead of blocking it for a few days.

"Very well, as long as your troops can block the enemy for two days, then the main force of the group army can smoothly retreat into the fortification area of ​​Stalingrad and prepare for all battles."

Putting down the earphones and microphone, I lowered my head and asked Razumeyeva who was sitting next to me: "Comrade Lieutenant, how many people are there in your communications company now?"

Razumeyeva quickly stood up and replied: "Report to comrade commander, when we came from the command of the group army, there were ten people. Today I asked other girls to select people who understand telecommunications in the division. They reported just now. That said, about forty people were recruited, and some of them were originally staff of the telecommunications bureau. With a brief training, they can complete the normal work of sending and receiving telegrams."

"This is really great." It seems that among the new fighters from the Gulag concentration camp, it can really be described by a large number of talents. You can find a few capable people in any profession. I quickly told Razumeyeva: "Second Lieutenant. You go choose a few shrewd and capable fighters. Hurry up and train. Then send them to the Gaidar regiment."

In the evening, Sergeikov and I were having dinner and talking about the training situation of the troops today. Heydar, Oleg, Morozov, and Perskin all walked into the headquarters to bid me farewell.

Seeing the four commanders standing in a row in front of me, when I thought that after the daylight tomorrow, I might not be able to see one of them, my nose was sour.

On behalf of everyone, Gaidar asked: "Comrade Commander, can we go now?".

I stretched out my hand and shook his hand, and said, "Lieutenant Colonel Gaidar. I hope you can win, and I will be here waiting for your good news."

Gaidar squeezed a smile on his face and said bitterly: "Comrade Commander, do you think that by tomorrow evening, the organization of the four regiments can still exist?".

His words made my heart tighten. Under normal circumstances, what he said was the fact that facing the enemy’s superior ground and air firepower combined with powerful ground troops, it is necessary to eliminate thousands of troops lacking weapon training and insufficient training. That is simply a sure thing. To cheer him up. I especially emphasized: "The enemy's strength is too strong. Don't fight the enemy hard. Use your brains. You must fight the enemy smartly. You must know how to save yourself and achieve the greatest results with the least casualties."

Hearing what I said, the expressions on the faces of Gaidar and the other three commanders became resolute. They all raised their hands to salute me, and replied loudly, "Please rest assured, teacher, we promise to complete the task."

I turned my head and asked Razumeyeva: "Comrade Lieutenant, have you sent all the communications soldiers to the regiment?".

Razumeyeva nodded vigorously and replied: "Report to Comrade Commander, in the two infantry regiments, I have sent a communications team. The communications team leader of the second regiment is Corporal Naja, and the communications team leader of the fourth regiment is Gulia. Corporal Yeva. After entering the designated location, they can contact us at any time through the walkie-talkie and telephone."

I nodded in satisfaction, turned my head, and said to Gaidar and them: "Then you guys will set off, good luck to you!"

After the four left, I turned to Sederikov: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, the observation post I asked you to prepare for me in the afternoon has been repaired?". Although I stayed in the garrison with the first regiment at the same time, I was always worried about the frontier war, so I asked Sederikov to build an observation post for me two or three kilometers away from the battlefield.

Sejerikov nodded vigorously and replied: "It has been repaired. Just three kilometers northeast of the defense line they are about to build, Lieutenant Colonel Gaidar, the observation post can accommodate five people, and a telephone line was specifically pulled. Staying there, you can observe the enemy’s situation and command the troops.” He paused for a while, observing my expression. Seeing that I didn’t raise any objections, he tentatively proposed: “You need to go and see. ?".

"No," I waved my hand and said, "The main force of the group army has not yet begun to retreat. If I go now, I will see a mess. It's meaningless. I'll talk about it tomorrow."

Seeing that I was not interested in inspecting the observation post, I didn't force it, so I left after hurriedly eating dinner.

That night, I stayed up all night again, staring at the map all night, thinking about the enemy's possible marching route, and figuring out how to fight to minimize the casualties of our army.

As soon as the sky fell, Sederikov came to the headquarters. He reported to me: "Comrade Commander, the car is ready and we are waiting outside the forest. Can we set off?".

I rolled up the map on the table and stuffed it into the map bag, and told him: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, I will take Pugachev, Razumeyeva and my guard class to the observation post. You and yours The troops will stay here, waiting for my further orders."

When I said to let him stay behind, the expression on Sederikov’s face became extraordinarily ugly. He mumbled: "Comrade Commander, the battle may start soon, but you let me stay here to watch the fun, you Do you think this is appropriate?".

I handed the bag to Pougachev who came in, turned my head and smiled and said to Sederikov: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, don’t worry, you will fight some of the battles. If so many troops are placed in the trenches, Let the enemy’s artillery bombard the plane, the casualties are not small. Don't worry, when you attack, you will be able to show your skills."

Seeing that I have said it to this point, Sederikov is not good at imposing, and can only helplessly say: "Yes. I stay here. I am waiting for your further orders."

A jeep and a truck parked outside the forest. I ride the jeep, and the truck rides the guard squad. When I got into the car, I saw Pugachev walking towards the truck. It seemed that I wanted to go to the passenger seat of the truck. I quickly stopped him: "Comrade Captain, come here and go with my car."

The captain ran all the way, and got into the car after opening the door of the co-pilot. After he sat down. Turning and looking at me, he asked for instructions: "Comrade Commander, do you want to go?". Seeing that I nodded in agreement, I immediately ordered the driver: "Drive!"

The observation post that Sergeikov built for me is on a hillside. Since there are no trees on the slope, only low plants, I am afraid that when the vehicle is parked on the slope, the enemy's reconnaissance plane will find it, so I order them to return, and call the driver when necessary to come and pick us up.

Observe on the top of the hillside. It is a semi-buried shelter because the top is covered with shrubs and weeds. It's impossible to find a reconnaissance plane flying through the air. It can be seen that Sergeikov is very attentive to this observation station. There is a one-meter wooden table in the middle of the room, which is reserved for radios, telephones, maps, and a few long wooden stools. Let people sit and rest.

I walked into the observation post with Razumeeva, Pugachev and Vera. The other two soldiers stayed outside as a guard. In a bush a little further away, the guards were concealed. Other fighters.

While Razumeyeva was setting up the radio station, I raised the telescope and looked into the distance. I saw two long trenches connected by traffic trenches on the open ground in the southwest. It was quiet in the trenches, no one could be seen. I don't know if the troops were hidden or they didn't enter the trenches at all. I turned the camera to the west again, and looked at the small village that originally belonged to the headquarters of the 208th Division. It was also quiet there, with neither people nor smoke, as if it had been abandoned.

I put down the telescope and turned to ask Razumeyeva: "Comrade Ensign, is the radio set up?" Seeing her nodding, I immediately ordered her: "Immediately contact Lieutenant Colonel Gaidar, I want to speak to him."

Razumeyeva pointed to the phone on the table and said to me cautiously: "Comrade Commander, that phone was set up yesterday, so I can contact Lieutenant Colonel Gaidar."

Hearing what she said, I smiled. After picking up the receiver, I shook the handle on the phone a few times. When the call came through, I hurriedly asked: "Hey, is it Lieutenant Colonel Gaidar? This is Oshanin. Na."

"Hello, comrade teacher, I am Gaidar, what instructions do you have?"

"Lieutenant Colonel Gaidar, let me ask you, where are your troops? Why do I see no one in the trenches?"

"Reporter Commander, didn’t you tell me to hide the troops? If you can’t see it, it proves that our soldiers are well concealed. If you can’t see it, the enemy will never think that we have a army waiting for it. Come here with them. By the way, not only the infantry is concealed, even Morozov’s artillery company is also concealed behind the position. I don’t think you found them either."

Hearing what Gaidar said, I suddenly remembered that Morozov’s artillery company was indeed deployed behind Gaidar’s position, and I had not seen it just now. I dropped the phone, went to the observation hole and raised the telescope again to observe carefully. There was still a dead silence in the trenches, and there was no single figure in sight. But behind the second line of defense, a few haystacks caught my attention, because the distances between the one-person haystacks are all the same.

I find it strange that the collective farm’s manor does what it does to pile a few haystacks so far from the village, and they are so neatly arranged, so I can’t help but look at it a few more times. From this look, we can see the true face of the haystacks of Mount Lu. It turned out that the artillery of the Morozov Artillery Company was hidden in the haystacks.

I grinned and turned the camera to the front of the line of defense. Although our army’s defensive front is two kilometers away, because there is a small river on one side, German troops must cross the two lines of defense built by our army if they want to enter the village where Gydar is stationed.

I held the telescope and looked at it for nearly an hour. Not only did I find the shadow of the German mechanized unit, but also the reconnaissance plane in the sky. I couldn't help but doubt my own judgment. Didn't the Germans discover that our army had withdrawn from the original fortified position on a large scale? Otherwise, why didn't they send troops to seize these unconserved areas? "

Just when I was about to lose my patience, dust rose up on the distant horizon. I quickly concentrated and looked at the binoculars over there, and soon the enemy troops coming from afar came into my sight.

The enemy probably has a battalion of troops, with three parallel tanks in the front, five or six armored vehicles in the back, and trucks full of soldiers in the back.

Since I said beforehand about decentralization and let Gaidar ** direct the battle, after seeing the enemy appear, I didn't rush to call him to give orders, but continued to hold the binoculars to observe the enemy's situation.

Although my patience was very good, I didn't call Gaidar, but someone couldn't help but called me first. I picked up the microphone and realized that it was the second regiment commander Oleg. He lowered his voice and said excitedly: "Comrade commander, the enemy's troops are passing by an area not far from the underground tank depot. We need to attack them. Was one caught off guard?".

"No, comrade lieutenant colonel, no." I quickly stopped his impulsive behavior and told him solemnly: "The position of your regiment and tank unit should not be exposed casually. Continue to lurch. I will call you to inform you when we will attack. ." After finishing speaking, I hung up the phone without waiting for him to speak.

I saw in the telescope that the enemy's tank was getting closer and closer to our trenches, but there was still no movement in the trenches. Even Gaidar did not even call me to ask if I should shoot and intercept the enemy's tanks.

When the enemy tank was 100 meters away from the trench, the haystacks behind the second line of defense were lifted from the inside, revealing the cannon hidden inside. Looking at the nervously busy gunners, I couldn't help but squeeze a cold sweat for them, hoping that they could move faster and fire the gun before the German tanks found them.

Soon, I saw Morozov, who was wearing a big brimmed hat, emerged from nowhere, stood behind a cannon, raised his right hand holding a small red flag high, and looked around. Then he slammed down, and the artillery company's cannon fired for the first time.

The three German tanks that opened the road just drove to a place more than ten meters away from our trenches. One or two or three groups of flames rose on the body, and they drove for a distance, and then stopped by the trenches. . In the first round of the artillery company's firing, although several shots missed and fell around the tank and exploded, it destroyed all the enemy's tanks.

Then the second round of shooting followed one after another, smashing four of the six armored vehicles that followed immediately into burning scrap. The remaining two armored vehicles turned around and ran away. Not long after the car drove, it was overturned by the blast of a cannonball, hit the ground, and burned in four rounds. In addition, the end of that car was not much better~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Because it drove too fast, it ran into an oncoming truck. After the violent impact, most of the soldiers on the car were inertially dropped. Down.

At this time, the soldiers in the first trench of our army stood up and fired together with their machine guns, submachine guns, and rifles. They focused on the soldiers in the truck behind and the soldiers who jumped out of the car and fled back. The German soldiers caught off guard. They were beaten to death in piles under and not far from the car. Some soldiers were shot to death when they were about to jump off the car, and hung upside down from the baffle of the carriage with their heads down.

Seeing that the enemy was in chaos, the soldiers in the trenches jumped up and rushed towards the enemy with their weapons.

At this moment, the phone on the desk rang again. I thought it was Gaidar who was calling, and I was about to compliment him a few words. Unexpectedly, when I heard it, Oleg was calling again. He heard me. After the voice, he said anxiously: "Comrade commander, let our regiment and tank detachment attack from the side. As long as the Germans are cut off, I guarantee that none of them can run away."

Oleg’s suggestion made me startled, but seeing the four regiments of soldiers following the enemy in the distance, I gritted my teeth and said firmly: "No, Lieutenant Colonel Oleg. I repeat it again. Without my order, your regiment and Perskin’s tank detachments are not allowed to attack.” (To be continued...) ()