Burning Moscow

After our fighter planes finished shooting on the ground, they raised their noses again and hovered in the air for a few times. After confirming that there was no danger on the ground, they turned around and flew north.

Yushchenko brought two soldiers to the crater, squatting down and asking about our situation: "Commander, political commissar, are you not injured?"

I first looked at the backs of the two fighters who ran to the back of the car to check, then shook my head and said, "I'm fine. I don't know what happened to the soldiers in the car behind?"

Yushchenko turned to look at the burning jeep and saw two soldiers squatting next to their fallen comrades on the ground for inspection. He couldn't help sighing, and said in a regretful tone: "The German artillery fire is too fierce, it is estimated that they are all Sacrificed."

Not long after he finished speaking, the two soldiers ran back quickly, stood in front of Yushchenko, shook their heads with a serious expression, and signaled that all the soldiers in the car behind had died.

Hearing that all of his men had died, Yushchenko stood up abruptly, turned and ordered the two soldiers standing behind him: "You two should search for the enemy's corpse to see if there is any survival."

After the two fighters left, Yushchenko squatted down again and reached out to Kirilov and me to help both of us climb out of the crater.

After getting up from the crater, I felt a slight pain in my chest. When I looked down, I saw a few depressions on the left chest of the bullet-proof vest. This was just when the bomb was next to the car, and shrapnel hit the chest.上上. But fortunately, the quality of this bullet-proof vest is not bad, and it hasn't been punched, otherwise I might become a cold corpse just like the driver.

It didn't take long for the two soldiers who went to look at the German body, and then a terrified German soldier came over. When the soldiers pushed the German soldiers in front of me. I looked around for a moment, and then asked: "Who understands German?" I plan to interrogate the captured German soldier to find out what happened in the ambush just now.

Yushchenko also looked at the soldiers on the left and right, and then shook his head and said to me: "Comrade Commander, no one of us understands German. Or else. We will take the prisoners to Kongkouyi City, and there will surely be able to find someone who understands German. People."

As soon as Yushchenko finished speaking, Kirilov, who had been silent all the time, suddenly said, "I'll interrogate him." After that, he took a step forward and asked the German prisoners in fluent German. The German soldiers were first taken aback when Kirilov spoke fluent German. Then he talked with Kirilov.

When the exchange between the two came to an end, Kirilov smiled bitterly and said to me: "Comrade Oshanina, I’ve figured it out. The German tank broke down on the side of the road. The Germans are riding. He was repairing the tank with a motorcycle, and it happened to see us passing by. So what happened next."

After I heard Kirilov finished speaking, I couldn't help but smile. It seemed that my luck was really bad enough that I would encounter this kind of thing. But then I thought about it. Fortunately, I only brought out three jeeps and a dozen people. If I let a guard platoon ride with me in a truck, I would have been reimbursed by the German artillery fire.

"Comrade Oshanina, how do we go to Kong Ningyi City?" Seeing three jeeps still burning. Kirilov asked anxiously: "There is still about five kilometers away from the destination. If you have to walk there, it will take at least an hour."

"Comrade Political Commissar. We don't have to walk." As soon as Kirilov finished speaking, Yushchenko immediately said, and he pointed to the distance, "Look, there are a few German motorcycles there. We can ride them. Go to Kong Nieyi."

After getting my permission. Yushchenko and four of his men ran to the place where the Germans parked their motorcycles and rode one by one. Ride all the enemy's tricycles back. The motorcycle on which Yushchenko was riding opened the road ahead, and Kirilov and I were sitting in the sidecars of the second and third motorcycles, respectively. The captured German soldiers were tied back and thrown into the sidecar of the fourth motorcycle.

Our motorcycle team drove a short distance before they met a patrol team dispatched by Sederikov, equipped with two armored vehicles. The commander leading the team, I know, is a company commander, Captain Gritsenko.

He saw us appear and immediately ordered the armored vehicle to stop by the roadside. As soon as the car stopped, he ran over to report to me: "Report to the commander, comrade, because the observation post outside the city found that there was gunpowder in the south, so he immediately reported to the regiment headquarters. The regiment leader worried about what dangers you might encounter on the road. So let me bring a patrol team out to see what happened."

I didn't tell him the danger we just encountered, but asked straightforwardly: "Comrade Captain, where is Lieutenant Colonel Sergeikov?"

"In the command post in the city, several generals from the friendly army are also there." After Captain Gritsenko reported to me, he respectfully said to me: "Comrade Commander, please allow me to lead you."

Our motorcycle team followed Captain Gritsenko's armored car and entered the ruins of the empty city. When I arrived in the middle of the city, I saw a few remaining buildings. The surrounding bricks and tiles were all very clean. It seemed that after the German army regained the city, they cleaned the vicinity of their headquarters. This way, we don’t have to work hard to clean up piles of rubble.

The armored vehicles stopped in front of a building with sentry guards, and our motorcycle team stopped in turn. As soon as Kirilov and I got out of the sidecar, we saw a group of people pouring out of the building, and the Sergeikov, whom I knew best, was walking in the middle of the team. The commander who came to the front, wearing a gray army coat and a gray lambskin hat, from the four gold stars on his diamond-shaped collar, I knew at a glance that he was not someone else, he was my old superior General Rokosovsky.

I walked quickly to stand in front of him and raised my hand to salute him as a standard military salute. At the same time, I said: "Comrade Commander of the Front Army, Major General Oshanina, deputy commander of the 62nd Army, and commander of the Red Flag Independent Division will report to you. , I rushed to Kong Nieyi City on your order, please give instructions!"

After Rokosovsky raised his hand and returned a military salute, he stretched out his hands to hold my hand, and said excitedly: "Lida, I thought you would have to arrive after dark. I didn't expect this. It's coming soon."

After he let go of my hand, I turned my body slightly to the side and let Kirilov out of the side, and then I introduced Rokosovsky: "Comrade Commander, I will introduce you to you. This is Comrade Kirilov, the political commissar of our independent division. He is from the Moscow Central Committee."

"Hello, Comrade Kirilov." With a faint smile on Rokosovsky's face, he stretched out his hand and shook Kirilov lightly, then let go of his hand, and then his body was also Slightly one side. Introduce me to the commander following him. He pointed to a medium-sized general with a wrinkled face and firm face and said to me: "Lida, let me introduce him. This is Major General Batov, commander of the 65th Army."

"Hello, General Batov!" Although Batov and I are both major generals. But the other person is the commander of the group army, and I am just a nameless deputy commander, so I raised my hand to salute him first.

After Batov paid a gift, he offered to extend his hand to me and said, "Hello, Comrade Oshanina. I have heard Comrade Commander tell me about your deeds, but I didn’t expect to have the opportunity to see it with my own eyes. To you."

When I shook hands with Batov, a chubby general behind Rokosovsky walked in front of me. He smiled and said to me: "Lida, do you remember me?"

I took a closer look and found that it was Ma Lining, the former Chief of Staff of the 16th Army. During the defense of Moscow, he was a colonel, and now he has the collar of a major general. Seeing my acquaintances appear in front of me, I suddenly exclaimed in excitement: "So it's you, Malinin Chief of Staff." I let go of Batov's hand and grasped Malinin's hand. Shake vigorously.

Rokosovsky explained to me next to him: "Comrade Malinin is now the chief of staff of our Don Front. He also misses the days when he worked with you."

After the greeting is over. We walked into the regiment command post of Sergeikov. Because the house here is not big and there are too many people. Therefore, except for the senior commanders of the Don Front Army, I, Kirilov, and Sederikov, the rest were blocked from outside the command post.

I pulled Rashejerikov’s sleeve, and when he looked back at me, I asked in a low voice: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, do you have a quieter place here? I want to avoid bullets. Take off your clothes."

"Yes, comrade teacher." Sergeikov quickly guided me to a door, opened the door and said to me: "This is my lounge, you can go inside to change clothes."

After I entered the room, I closed the door. In addition to a bed, I saw that there was a small wooden table and a armchair in the room. I took off the ak47 that was on my shoulders and put it on the table, then sat on the chair again, taking off my body armor. I laboriously took off the bodysuit and put it under my feet. I took off my army coat and opened the pullover inside, and found that there were a few large areas of bruising on my chest, which were obviously caused by the shrapnel just now. Seeing such scars, I couldn't help but feel scared again. If it weren't for the bullet-proof vests to help me block the shrapnel, I would be really bad luck.

When I walked out of the house, I saw that everyone was sitting around a wooden table, and Rokosovsky was telling Kirilov something. I quickly walked over to Kirilov. Sitting next to him, I heard what Rokosovsky said clearly: "...for this counteroffensive, we were preparing for this one or two months ago. We are moving to the Stalingrad area. In the course of the army, we overcame numerous difficulties. These difficulties were caused by the weak railway transportation capacity in the area north of Stalingrad and the east bank of the Volga River, the muddy roads in autumn, and the continuous attacks of German aviation and artillery on the crossing of the Volga River. The German aviation also carried out assaults on the railway communication line to Stalingrad. The troops and equipment transferred to the Southwest Front and the Don Front must pass through Balasov-Povorino-Saratov- Ilovlia is on the front line; and the troops and equipment transferred to the Stalingrad Front must pass through the Urbach-Baskonchak-Akhtuba (East Bank of the Volga) line. Military supplies for the Stalingrad area In September, the transportation volume was 22,292 wagons, and in October it was 22,126 wagons. So far in November, the number of wagons in use has far exceeded that in October. Even so, the supply of wagons is still in short supply, so some troops and corps had no choice but to From Astrakhan and Kamyshin to the assembly area on foot, the distance is three to four hundred kilometers long...."

"Comrade Commander of the Front Army," Kirilov waited for Rokosovsky's words to fall behind, and asked curiously: "Before the counterattack, what kind of strength did our three armies possess?"

After Rokosovsky took a sip of water from the teacup on the table, he continued: "We have three fronts participating in this great counterattack. General Vatutin’s Southwest Front includes the 21st Army, The 1st Guards Army, the 5th Tank Army, the 2nd and 17th Aviation Army were deployed on the 250-kilometer zone from Pavlovsk to Kletskaya on the east bank of the Don River. There are 18 in the formation of this front army. Infantry division, 3 tank corps, 2 cavalry corps, 1 tank brigade, 1 motorized infantry brigade, 3 tank regiments, 1 motorized regiment, 1 artillery division (total 8 regiments), 1 destroyer brigade , 59 artillery regiments and mortar regiments. They have to deal with the 21 divisions and 2 brigades of the Italian 8th Army and the Romanian 3rd Army. Although the enemy has some advantages in numbers, their tanks, artillery and mortars There are fewer guns.

The Don Front Army consists of the 65th, 24th, and 66th Army Groups and the 16th Group Army of the Air Force, fighting on the 150-kilometer-long strip from Kletskaya to Jerzovka. The front army has 24 infantry divisions, 1 tank army, 6 tank brigades, 2 fortification areas, 40 artillery regiments and mortar regiments. To deal with the 10 divisions of the German 6th Army. The enemy is not as good as our army in terms of number, artillery and mortar.

The Stalingrad Front Army consists of the 62nd, 64th, 57th, 51st, and 28th Group Army and the 8th Aviation Group Army, spreading over the 450-kilometer-long strip from the northern outskirts of Stalingrad to Astrakhan. The 62nd and 64th armies continued to defend the city of Stalingrad, while the 57th, 51st, and 28th armies covered Stalingrad from the west to the lower Volga River in Astrakhan. The front army has 24 infantry divisions, 17 infantry, destroyer and motorized infantry brigades, 1 mechanized army, 1 tank army, 1 cavalry army, 7 fortification areas, 63 artillery regiments and mortars. group. To deal with part of the German 6th Army and the entire Tank 4th Army, as well as the Romanian 4th Army, a total of 19 divisions. ..."

When Rokosovsky reported a bunch of data like a few treasures~www.wuxiaspot.com~Kirilov quickly took out a pen and paper from his briefcase to record it. I looked up at Rokosovsky. Seeing that he didn’t mean to stop Kirilov’s record, I knew that these military data were not top secret at this moment, so I listened to Rokosovs patiently. Ji's narration.

After talking about the strength of the various fronts, Rokosovsky turned his head and said to Malinin who was sitting next to him: "Comrade Chief of Staff, you can tell Lida how our troops broke through the German defense."

Malinen nodded and stood up to tell us how the 65th Army and the 24th Army, the main force of the Don Front, broke through the German defensive positions on the first day of the counterattack. "... From November 22 to 23, the 65th Army of General Batov occupied Zimlovs with its right-wing regiment and the 3rd Army of the Guards Cavalry of the 21st Army of the Southwest Front. The settlements of Kiki, Platonov, Orekhov, Logowski, Ubuzinovka, Golubaka, Wencai, etc. The 15th and 376th German Infantry Divisions and the Tank No. The 14th Division has retreated to Stalingrad to join their main force."

After Malinin introduced the current situation of the enemy and us, Rokosovsky took over the topic and said: "Now the situation of the enemy is clear, Lida, talk about your next consideration!" (to be continued)