Burning Moscow

The reason Trikov said this is because he knew in his heart that if officers and soldiers like Karpov and Nikolai were treated well, it would not only have military significance but also political significance. Once more Eastern Battalion commanders learn about the preferential treatment that their former companions received in our camp, they will be shaken. Even if they don’t rush to us immediately, at least their loyalty to the Germans will be great. discount. In future large-scale battles, the Germans will not only dare not use the Dongfang Battalion with confidence and boldness as before, but even specially deploy troops to monitor them, which will weaken their strength in disguise.

Although I was prepared for the casualties of Karpov Camp, I felt like a knife cut when I saw that there were only four soldiers following the ensign from the Lyudnikov division's queue. You know, at that time, I reinforced the Lyudnikov division but a reinforced battalion, with a total of 800 officers and men, but now there are only four people left.

Seeing the four fighters walking by, Cuikov frowned instinctively, and then asked me: "Comrade Oshanina, which of these four is Captain Karpov?"

I looked at the officers and men approaching us, and found that all four of them were unshaven and haggard, and the tattered uniforms were covered with mud. I looked at him for a long time and didn't recognize who Karpov was, so I shook my head and answered Cuikov in shame: "I'm sorry, Comrade Commander, I can't recognize who is Captain Karpov now."

"What about you, Colonel Lyudnikov." Seeing that I couldn't find the answer here, Trikov asked Lyudnikov who was standing in front of us: "Can you recognize who is Captain Karpov? "

Lyudnikov looked back for a long time, and finally shook his head and said: "I'm sorry, Comrade Commander. I can't recognize who is Captain Karpov."

Although neither Lyudnikov nor I recognized Karpov, the mystery was quickly revealed. The four of them came to us under the leadership of the second lieutenant and formed a neat row. After the second lieutenant finished reporting to Lyudnikov, the commander standing on the far right stepped forward and raised his hand to salute us. Then he said loudly: "Comrades commanders, Captain Karpov has been ordered to come, please give instructions!"

Seeing Karpov standing in front of him, Cuikov showed a smile on his face, stepped forward and took his hand, and said in approval: "Hello. Captain Karpov."

Seeing Cui Koff holding his hand, Karpov looked a little nervous. He said excitedly: "Hello, Comrade Commander, I am glad to see you here!"

Cui Kefu shook hands with him. He turned his head to look at me and said, "Comrade Captain, I am here today with your Master Oshanina. In addition to clearing the 70th Guards Division, it is also to welcome you to reunite with the Independent Division."

Hearing this unexpected news, Karpov, who was shaking hands with Trikov, was stunned. After a while, he tentatively asked me: "Comrade Master, is this true?"

"Of course it is true." I answered Karpov with a smile: "Comrade Captain, the Red Flag Independent Division welcomes you back to the team!"

Then Cui Kefu chatted with me a few more words. He followed Lyudnikov back to his division headquarters. While I was arranging for manual cleaning of the battlefield, I sent people to summon Kirilov, Akhromeyev, and the commander of the regiment in the city, and I wanted to convene a temporary military meeting. Discuss the next offensive direction of the independent division.

Our meeting was held in a newly recovered building. In order to ensure safety and prevent enemy attacks during the meeting, Bantai Lev even transferred Perskin’s tank battalion over. The few tanks are outside the building.

After the meeting started, Bantai Leyev first informed the commanders present about the battle in the morning. After the introduction of the situation. He turned his head and asked Kirilov and I who were sitting at the table: "Commander, political commissar, who of you will speak next?"

Kirilov cast his eyes on me. Asked in an enquiring tone: "Comrade Oshanina, it's better for you to tell the commanders. Feel free to arrange the next combat mission to them."

Hearing what the political commissar said, I did not refuse. I nodded and stood up and said to the many commanders in front of me: "Comrades, the artillery and infantry did a good job in the battle this morning. With more than 60 casualties, we recovered the middle ground that had been entrenched by the Germans for a month, and at the same time wiped out and captured more than 200 German soldiers. Next, our division’s task is to eliminate those who stayed in the north and in the city. German troops."

The fourth regiment commander Gaidar sitting below suddenly asked: "Comrade commander, can our offensive be supported by friendly forces?"

Regarding the question raised by Gaidar, I answered with a wry smile: "Due to the brutal fighting in the past few months, the troops in the city have been severely weakened. They cannot be supplemented by new troops and weapons. To provide us with any help. In other words, in the next half a month, or even longer, our division will be fighting alone."

"Commander, don't see that the enemy has more troops than ours, but their combat power is already vulnerable." Lieutenant Colonel Corsica's voice sounded from the crowd, "As long as we launch a few more attacks like this, the enemy will not be able to stop it. Living."

Corsgar's words immediately caused a chuckle in the surroundings. It seems that most of the battalion-level commanders have similar views with him. However, I frowned in my laughter and found that the attack this morning was too smooth, which is not a good thing. Many commanders have already developed a mood of underestimating the enemy, so that I will suffer a big loss in the next battle.

After everyone laughed, I coughed heavily, cleared my throat and continued: "Comrade commanders, I want to draw everyone’s attention to one thing. The reason why we were able to progress in the morning battle to seize the middle ground It went so smoothly, except that the infantry coordination between the commanders and the divisional artillery battalion was well done, and more importantly, the enemy was afraid of being beaten by our aircraft and artillery after our great counterattack began. Seeing my own The friendly forces were attacked, and their heavy weapons and technical equipment were concealed because they were afraid of being bombed. They did not provide the necessary fire support for the friendly forces, so we were able to seize the enemy’s position so smoothly. If everyone thinks that the enemy’s troops are like this If you lose your combat effectiveness, you will suffer unexpected losses in the next battle."

My words silenced the formerly cheerful commanders, and it was obvious that everyone had been dazzled by the little victory in the morning just now. Think that the enemy is the end of the crossbow, as long as we launch another fierce attack, the enemy will be completely destroyed by us. When everyone remained silent, I did not speak either. In my impression, after the counteroffensive began, except for the first few days. There is almost a month left, and there is no record of the 62nd Army in the historical data, which has to worry me. If you play well in the city, it will definitely be a big book in the history books; but now it is not mentioned, is it because the counterattack commanded by Cui Kefu not only did not cause the Germans to suffer due losses. And he was beaten to the ground by the Germans instead? In this uncertain situation, I must remain vigilant enough.

Seeing that there was no one to speak, I looked down at the map on the table, and then said: "At present, the German forces are in the Yerman District, the Dzerzhinsky District, the Red October, the Barricade, and the Tractor Factory District. , The assembly has about five divisions, of which two are armored divisions.

According to the judgment of the group army headquarters, the enemy we dragged into the city is facing the fate of running out of ammunition and food. Therefore, it is the best time for us to attack them at this time.

In the next battle, I plan to send a regiment of troops every day. Under the cover of two divisional artillery battalions, they attacked the area occupied by the enemy. After capturing the Yerman District, they attacked the German forces in the Dzerzhinsky District. I do not ask you to advance how many blocks every day, but I ask you to strengthen the defense of the area every time you occupy a building and retake a street. The Germans must not be allowed to retake these areas from our hands. "

"Comrade Commander," Akhromeyev waited for me to finish. Immediately asked: "The order of each regiment's attack, and the area to be attacked. How should it be allocated?"

I replied without hesitation: "I will hand over the task of capturing the Eelman area to the third and fourth regiments. The offensive will begin at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The offensive tasks will be completed by the third regiment.

The commander of the Fourth Regiment Gaidar stood up from where he was sitting and asked respectfully: "Comrade Commander, can I ask a question?" Seeing me nodding to express permission, he continued, "I don't know about our two regiments. , How much time do you have to complete the task of occupying the Yellmann area?"

"One week." I stretched out a finger and solemnly said to Gaidar and Ke Sijia who then stood up: "When your two regiments are attacking, you must pay attention to the cooperation with the artillery to minimize the casualties of the troops. Can it be done?"

After hearing what I said, Gaidar and Kosca looked at each other, and then replied in unison: "It can be done!"

When the two of them sat down, I ordered Sergeikov and Oleg again, and announced to them: "Two lieutenant colonel, the task of capturing the Dzerzhinsky district, I will hand it to you two. The regiment. Once the third regiment and the fourth regiment succeed in regaining the Yellmann area, your two regiments will immediately attack!"

"Yes!" The two agreed neatly, and both took their seats.

I was planning to ask Kirilov to do political agitation for everyone. As soon as I turned around, I heard someone calling me behind me: "Comrade Commander, please wait." I looked back and saw that it was the tank battalion who was talking. Major Perskin, the long, smiled and asked him: "Comrade Major, do you have anything to do?"

"Comrade Commander," Major Perskin asked with aggrieved expression: "I want to ask, what is the mission of our tank battalion?"

"Tank battalion?!" After a moment of stunned, I thought that when I just arranged the task, I really forgot the tank battalion. However, with the existing technical equipment of the tank battalion, it is really useless in the next street battle, so I opened the door and said to Perskin: "Comrade Major, due to the limited technical equipment of the tank battalion, In the next battle, it will be difficult to provide the necessary fire support for our infantry, so we will not arrange your combat missions for the time being."

"Comrade commander, even if the number of tanks in the tank battalion is limited, we still have hundreds of tankers who can use them as preliminary soldiers." Seeing that I did not assign tasks to the tank battalion, Pells was anxious. Saying to me without pleading: "Please trust us, we can definitely achieve better results than the infantry."

"Yes, comrade commander, please trust us." Seeing Major Perskin begging me to assign tasks, his deputy battalion commander Major Prikhodko and battalion political commissar Vajim could not do it anymore and stood up. , To help the battalion commander request a mission from me.

Seeing that they were eager to fight and couldn’t bear to slap their enthusiasm, I walked in front of a few people and said to them earnestly: “The three commanders, it’s not that I don’t want to assign tasks to you, but the two that will be captured next. In the district, all battles are carried out on floor by floor. The tank’s elevation angle is not enough to destroy the enemy hiding on the roof. If our tank enters the street where the enemy is not completely cleared, it will become the target of enemy anti-tank fighters. We have a limited number of tanks, and we can’t withstand such losses. Once all the tanks are lost, there will be no tanks available when we attack the factory area. Do you understand?"

After the three of them heard what I said, they replied neatly: "Understood!" They stopped struggling with me, and sat down again.

In the following time, the third and fourth regiments first launched an attack on the German-occupied Yellmann area. Because the tactics used by our army are very different from those used by other units in the group army, the enemy who sticks to this area is very uncomfortable with our style of play. After only sticking to it for five days, they have to withdraw in a desperate manner. This area.

After capturing the Yerman district, the first and second regiments immediately launched an attack on the Dzerzhinsky district. The first two days went well. Starting from the third day, December 3, the German troops familiar with our style of play not only blocked the successive attacks of the second regiment, but also launched counterattacks against the areas we occupied from time to time.

Due to the enemy's counterattack, the original one-sided attack turned into a tug of war. Some streets in the Dzerzhinsky District were occupied by our army during the day, and lost again by the frenzied German counterattack at night. In the daytime, they were afraid of the bombing of our air force and did not dare to use heavy weapons. When they counterattack at night, they used mortars to provide fire support to the infantry. Not only did they drive our infantry out of the occupied buildings, but at the same time, they also wiped out. Several artillery pieces from the Artillery Battalion of Captain Kurishenko.

Seeing that the enemy's resistance was so tenacious, I immediately put the regiment that had been on standby into battle, trying to restore our army's advantage in the Dzerzhinsky district. With the participation of the four regiments, the victorious Libra began to lean towards us again~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The battle went on on the evening of the 12th, and there were only a few houses on the last street in the Dzerzhinsky District. . Sergeikov, who commanded the battle in the front, assured me that as long as the troops launched another charge, they would be able to wipe out all the enemies in the Dzerzhinsky area.

But before Sergeikov’s victory came, I heard the rumble of cannons from outside. Then Gaidar, the commander of the four regiments fighting in the area, reported to me: "Comrade commander, when our regiment is launching a final assault on the enemy, the German army suddenly concentrated intensive artillery fire and bombarded my attacking troops. The troops with heavy casualties have now withdrawn. The starting position."

Before I could verify what happened, why was the German army so daring to risk being attacked by our army and using intensive artillery fire, Cui Kefu called. He ordered me on the phone: "Comrade Oshanina, the attack on the Dzerzhinsky district is suspended, and your troops are on standby, waiting for further orders!"

"What, stop the attack?" Cui Kefu's words confused me. I couldn't wait to ask on the phone, "Comrade Commander, why is this?"

"Because the enemy's reinforcements have arrived, they are attacking the rear of the friendly forces. The friendly forces have to turn around and go to the other side." (To be continued)