Chapter 333

After the assignment, I said in my heart: in any case, within my ability, I have done all the things I can do. As for how long this highland can last, I can only let fate decide.

I have nothing to do, carrying the rifle picked up around.

In the trench, the soldiers were reinforcing the fortification. When they saw me walking past, they stopped their work and stood at attention.

At the foot of the hillside, Lieutenant akhromeyev is directing his men to carry the bodies of the dead soldiers one by one to the side of the road. Then, Captain vitorganov's tanks will join the bulldozer to push the burned carriages away from the road and make way for the subsequent troops.

Looking at the troops that are passing one after another, there is no rush, no congestion, and everything is going on in an orderly way, I can't help nodding my head secretly. I feel that akhromeyev is really a talent. If he doesn't die in the battle, he will surely be outstanding in the future.

Just then, I heard sergeant grasimenko, the monitor of the guard, calling me. He turned around and saw that he was walking towards me with some commanders in big cornice hats. Although I didn't know who was coming, I took the initiative.

I quickly saw that the commander, who was a little old behind the sergeant, was a colonel. The rest of them were also school level officers. They ran two steps quickly and came to them. They raised their hands at attention and said, "Hello, comrade Colonel! Major oshanina, commander of the 1127th regiment, reports to you and is at your command. "

After the Colonel saluted me, he said with a smile, "Hello, major oshanina. I'm the commander of the 58th infantry brigade, Colonel zhizoulif Then he reached out to me and said, "I've heard your name on many occasions. I didn't expect to see you here today."

I was a little surprised to hear that, so I shook hands with him and asked curiously, "Comrade Colonel, have you heard of me? It's not very possible. You know, I've only been in front of warhoff for three months

Colonel zhicao Lifu stepped up his efforts and said with a smile, "major oshanina, I'm old comrades in arms with the commander of the 54th group army, feijiuningsky, and the commander of the 52nd group army, Yakovlev. At the same time, general Zhukov is also my old superior. In the conversation with me, they mentioned you more than once and praised you very much, So I was very impressed. "

Before I could speak, he went on, "o'shanina, what are you doing here?"

Pointing to the busy soldiers on the hillside, I replied with a wry smile: "the fortifications are being reinforced on the hillside, and the troops of the group army are being directed through this narrow corridor on the hillside. And I'm looking at the progress of this work. "

Zizoulif raised his telescope and looked around for a while. Then he pointed to the area where the German troops were deployed, frowned and said, "major oshanina, why are there German positions there? We should know that their position is so close to us that if they launch an attack, it is likely to cut off the narrow corridor behind us. In that case, the follow-up forces of the group army will be besieged again. "

I said with a bitter smile, "Comrade Colonel, I share your opinion. He specially reminded the superior of this problem, but it was ignored. At present, what I can do is to deploy the troops that I can command here and hold the high ground as long as possible, so as to ensure that more commanders can stand out from the encirclement. "

When I said this, rizaolifu was furious and asked angrily, "who is it? Who is your superior commander? We should know that this kind of behavior is a crime, which is to ignore the lives of more than 100000 officers and soldiers of our group army. Who is your superior commander? I will go to general meletskov and accuse him. "

I said in a low voice, "I'm under the command of Colonel anchufiev of the 327th division, but it's general privalov of the group command who won't let more troops stay to defend the highlands."

"Privalov?" Hearing this name, rizaolifu's anger weakened a little. No matter what, other people's ranks were higher than him, so he had to be cautious. He walked back and forth in front of me a few times with his hands behind his back, stopped and said, "general privalov has worked with me, and there is no denying that he is a brave soldier. But he also has many shortcomings, the most important of which is that his concept of war is a little old-fashioned, and he is often indecisive when the war situation is chaotic and unfavorable. " At this point, he stopped, looking down and frowning, as if thinking about something.

After a long time, he looked up at me and asked, "Comrade major, please answer me seriously. If I give you more troops and provide artillery cover, can you take the German position over there? "

I looked at the German position in the distance, nodded hard, and said sincerely, "Comrade Colonel, if you can supply me with 300 men, I will attack the enemy position."

"I'll give you a regiment." Rizaolifu said boldly. Then he turned around and told a commander behind him: "commander ceremnov, how many people are there in your regiment?"

The tall and burly lieutenant commander immediately stepped forward and replied loudly, "report to brigade commander, there are 1500 people in the 174th regiment. The regiment is fully equipped and ready to fight at any time."

Rizaolifu nodded with satisfaction and said to me, "major oshanina, I'll give you this regiment." Then he said to Lt. Col. cheremnoff, "from now on, comrade commander, you are under the command of major oshanina. She said how to fight, you will listen to, to carry out her orders. Do you understand? "“ Yes After a promise, the commander came to me, raised his hand and saluted me, saying, "major oshanina, commander of 174th regiment of 58th infantry brigade, lieutenant general chelemonov, reports to you and is waiting for your order." I was moved to tears by the trust of Colonel zhizolifu. I held his hand tightly and said thank you repeatedly. The Colonel let go of my hand and said, "Comrade o'shanina, time is running out. You can give orders as soon as possible." With a promise, I squatted down and simply piled up a battlefield sand table with the soil dug out of the trench. Then I found a broken branch and explained my battle plan to them. I lit the high mound and said, "this is the hillside where we are now. The artillery battalion directly under the brigade will be deployed here later." I raised my hand and looked at my watch. It was 6:20 in the evening. Then I said, "from 6:50, the artillery began to bombard the German positions. At the end of the ten minute bombardment, our tanks went out and the infantry followed After listening to my introduction, rizaolifu nodded and said, "do as you say." Then he stretched out, "the troops should be deployed as soon as possible and ready to fight at any time. I've been walking all day and I'm tired. I'll find a place to have a rest first. "“ Wait, comrade colonel. " Seeing that he was going, I stopped him and added, "I haven't finished yet." Seeing that he stopped, I went on, but this time I was telling lieutenant colonel chelemnoff: "Comrade lieutenant colonel, when infantry attack, the attack formation must be kept loose, so as to ensure that the probability of overlapping between the front and rear platoons is not high."“ But, comrade major. " After listening to me, cheremnoff interrupted me and asked, "if the formation is loose, it is impossible to guarantee intensive fire output in attack." I waved my hand and said what I just wanted to say: "Comrade commander, you don't know. If you really use the traditional dense formation, the impact effect is often very bad. If the formation is too dense, the weapons of the people behind our army will not be used, and the other party's weapon hit rate will be greatly increased, which will in vain increase unnecessary casualties of our army. "“ Major oshanina is right, commander chelemonov. Just follow her plan. " Seeing that zhecholiv's position firmly supported my statement, ceremnov had no choice but to agree and turned to deploy troops. Rizaolifu said to another major, "major awakov, don't be idle. Go and transfer your artillery battalion and prepare to teach the Germans a good lesson later." The major agreed and turned away. Rizaolifu stretched again and yawned exaggeratively. Seeing this, I immediately told sergeant grasimenko, "sergeant, the colonel is tired. Take him to the command post to have a rest." Grasimenko agreed, then made a gesture to zhecholif and said respectfully, "Comrade Colonel, please follow me. I'll take you to the command post."