Chapter 828

The reports of the second and fourth regiments were soon fed back. After the defeat, the German army retreated for two kilometers and was nervously redeploying its forces for another attack. The German troops attacking the mamayev post have all withdrawn from their starting positions after being beaten back by the commanders and fighters of the fourth regiment.

After hearing the report, I thought that the counterattack of Stalingrad's front army had officially begun. I no longer had to be afraid of wolves before and tigers after, so I decisively ordered akhromeyev: "chief of staff, call major Morozov and let his artillery enter the position immediately to prepare for shelling the German army in front of our field."

Akhromeyev agreed happily, so he picked up the phone and prepared to call major Morozov. Unexpectedly, kirilov raised his hand to stop him, and then cautiously said to me, "Comrade oshanina, will you wait and see what happens?"

"Don't worry, comrade political commissar." I understand in my heart the reason why kirilov prevented ahlomeyev from calling. He was worried that this counterattack would become the kind of counterattack that paid a huge price but did not achieve any results in the previous several times. That's why he wanted to be cautious. I knew the outcome of the counterattack very well, so I comforted him confidently and said, "don't you see the Rockets flying over the mamayev post? But the artillery of the front army is firing. After the fog is completely cleared, our air force should be out. Since the air supremacy is in our hands, what's so terrible? When the Germans have not recovered, they will be beaten completely. When we fight back later, we will also have less resistance. "

"But," kirilov said, still full of misgivings, "if after the fog has cleared, it is not our fighters but German bombers that appear in the air, then all the artillery units left in our division will be finished."

"Comrade political commissar, at this time, we have to gamble." At this point, I gave him a mischievous wink, and then said, "and I've always had good luck in gambling. I believe that when the fog clears, it will be our fighters that will appear in the air. " After that, I solemnly told akhromeyev, "chief of staff, what are you still doing? Why don't you call major Morozov soon?"

Although kirilov was not fully convinced by me, this time he saw akhromeyev on the phone, but did not speak. He just sighed a long time, still with a worried expression.

When akhromeyev was on the phone, I thought silently that since the artillery battalion had entered the position ahead of time, the tank battalion of major pelsken should also move to the rear of highland 106.5 ahead of time, and the major counter offensive had begun. I would no longer have to worry about the German air attack during the mobilization.

After akhromeyev finished his call to Morozov, I ordered him to call major perskin and let the tank battalion enter the attack position ahead of time. Perhaps I was too excited, and the following orders were not only messy, but also contradictory. However, akhromeyev gave full play to the qualities of an excellent chief of staff at the moment, transformed what he understood into orders, and arrived at all departments in an orderly way.

About half an hour later, after receiving a phone call, akhromeyev reported to me, "Comrade division commander, major Morozov reported that the artillery battalion is ready and waiting for your order."

I took a look at him and gave a short order: "fire immediately, bombard the German front in the East, and then turn around to bombard the German army in front of highland 107.5."

Akhromeyev nodded, then said in a loud voice to the microphone: "the teacher ordered that the gun be fired immediately. First bombard the German front in the East, then turn around and bombard the German army in front of 107.5. "

When the gunfire outside rang out, I suddenly had a whim and suggested to kirilov: "political commissar and deputy division commander, we can't see anything here. We'd better move our headquarters to the observation post on the top of the mountain. What do you think? "

"I agree with the teacher's proposal." Bantaileiev first expressed his support for my proposal. He also helped me to explain to other commanders: "if we all stay here, we can't command the troops according to the changes in the battlefield situation, so I think it's very appropriate to move the headquarters to the peak observation post."

At the end of bantailiev's speech, both akhromeyev and sherbina political commissar expressed their support in time. Kirilov, seeing that everyone had the same opinion, had no choice but to nod his head. Then he expressed his own opinion: "since we want to move the division headquarters to the observation post on the top of the mountain, I suggest that we also move the radio station, so that we can command the troops by radio."

Next, the headquarters began to move. In order to facilitate the command, not only a telephone should be moved up the mountain, but also the telephone line should be pulled up to keep in touch with the headquarters. And kirilov said to me when we started to be busy: "Comrade oshanina, I have something to do. I'll leave for a while, and I'll find you at the observation post on the top of the mountain later."

When I heard kirilov say this, I was very surprised. I said that there was something more important than moving the new headquarters at this time. However, on second thought, since he had to leave at this time, it proved that what he wanted to do was still very important, so I nodded and agreed very readily.

Standing at the lookout of the observation post on the top of the mountain, I saw the shell coming out of the high ground, whistling and landing in the German queue in the distance. In the rising fire and smoke, the German army was blown up, and I was very happy.

At eleven o'clock, the artillery barracks of Morozov stopped shelling. At this moment, both the German front positions and the German troops assembled in front of 107.5 highland suffered heavy losses. Just as the enemy was in a dilemma, our fighters appeared in the air. Our fighter planes in the formation of four planes swooped down from high altitude, dropped bombs and strafed, making the German army, which had suffered heavy losses, even worse.

Akhromeyev came up behind me and reported to me in a loud voice: "Comrade division commander, the telephone has been installed and the communication with the regiments is smooth. Please give an order."

My eyes have been fixed on the German troops who were blown up and fled by our warplanes. Without looking back, I told akhromeyev, "chief of staff, contact all the commanders immediately, and I will personally give them the order to attack."

Akhromeyev agreed, went to the phone, grabbed the transmitter, and called out in high spirits: "I'm Shizhi, I'm Shizhi! One group, one group; Second regiment, second regiment You all listen carefully. The teacher wants to speak to you, and the teacher wants to speak to you! "

Hearing akhromeyev contacting the regiments, I put down my telescope and walked slowly to him. Akhromeyev contacted the rest of the commanders, handed me headphones and transmitters, and reported to me in a low voice, "all the commanders are connected."

Holding the transmitter, I said in a voice that was a little bit agitated: "comrades commander, our division has been fed up with the cowardice of the Germans in mamayev post these months. Now it's time for us to pay them back their blood debts. Comrades and brothers, for the sake of our great motherland, for the sake of our great commander Stalin, for the sake of Stalingrad, which we have defended, and for the honor of our red flag independent division, march forward! "

Not long after the order of attack was issued, I suddenly heard the melody of holy war. At this moment, I thought it was my illusion, but when I saw kirilov standing outside the observation post with a smile on his face, I immediately understood that it was not an illusion. He had installed a tweeter on the battlefield before, but never used it. Just now, he left just to activate the tweeter.

At the same time, a red signal bomb, representing the attack signal, was raised on the mamayevgang and 107.5 highland. Then the mountain tsunami like cry came into my ears, originally looked at the empty hills appeared thousands of officers and men, they chanted "Wula!" He rushed out of his hiding place with a weapon.

The officers and men of the first and fourth regiments flooded over the top of the North highland like a tide, and then quickly rushed to the foot of the mountain. The soldiers charged straight forward, trying to rush into the enemy's forward position as soon as possible, with mortars and heavy machine gunners dragging their own equipment behind the charge troops.

In the face of the tide of our troops, the German front kept silent. However, when our officers and men were only more than 100 meters away from them, the enemy in the position opened fire and returned fire. The soldiers who rushed to the front were caught off guard and fell down a lot. The rest of the soldiers fell down on the spot and fired back relying on the crater. The mortars and heavy aircraft Gunners seized the time to choose their own positions, and used artillery fire and machine gun fire to suppress the German troops in the trenches.

"Chief of staff," seeing this, I could not help roaring, "immediately ordered Morozov's heavy artillery to open fire and destroy the German resistance."

Bantai leiev, who was standing beside me, quickly stopped my impulsive order and explained: "Comrade division commander, you can't open fire. Our soldiers are too close to the enemy. Once you order the heavy artillery of the artillery battalion to open fire, you will hurt your own people by mistake."

I gave such an order on impulse just because I saw that the attack of my troops was blocked. When I heard Bantai leiev's words were very reasonable, I no longer insisted on my opinion, but turned my telescope to the direction of 107.5.

In my imagination, the battle in Highland 107.5 is much more cruel, so I will equip them with tank battalions in advance. I didn't expect that at this moment, the situation is totally different from what I imagined. About ten tanks of the tank battalion opened the way in front, followed by the same number of armored vehicles, and then dozens of trucks full of soldiers.

107.5 the enemy in front of the highland has long been defeated by our artillery and bombing. On the battlefield, fear is the most likely factor to affect the morale. When fear envelops the German officers and men, no matter how strong their will is, they can not avoid the fate of collapse. Seeing our armored forces rushing towards them, the morale of the surviving officers and soldiers suddenly disappeared, and hundreds of rout soldiers threw down their weapons and spread their feet and ran North madly. This escape completely doomed their fate.

It wasn't long before I could see the battle going on in the second and third regiments. I just imagined that the battle was still going on according to the sound of guns coming from afar and the dust column of black soil and white snow rushing high into the sky.

Looking back at the first and fourth regiments attacking the German forward positions, we can see that the firepower in the German trenches was greatly reduced under the suppression of our mortar and heavy machine gun firepower. Some of the officers and men who were close to the trench also bravely climbed out of the crater where they were hiding. In the face of the enemy's barrage of bullets, they crawled forward, tumbled and jumped, and quickly approached the German trench. Seeing that our soldiers were about to rush into the German trench, I suddenly felt someone pulling my sleeve. Turning around, it turned out to be akhromeyev. Seeing that I turned around and yelled at me, "Comrade division commander, your phone number." I thought which group leader was calling, so I put the receiver close to my ear and cried out, "Hello, I'm oshanina. Who are you?"“ It's me, comrade oshanina. " I heard trakov's voice coming out of the receiver. "What's going on there?"“ The second and third regiments have completely defeated the German troops in front of the 107.5 highland. At present, the battle is in the depth of the German troops. The first and fourth regiments are attacking the German forward positions. It is estimated that they will be able to seize the German positions in a short time and further develop in depth. "“ Comrade o'shanina, I just talked to the commander of the friendly army on the phone. According to them, the progress of all the troops is very smooth. As most of the troops of our group army have been seriously reduced, we are unable to launch a decent attack on the enemy, so we have to hand over this heavy task to your division. In other words, no matter which army is the first to rush into the city of gorodyser, I will name the battalion after its commander. Please convey my message to the soldiers. " When I heard the old words of trakov, I quickly made a statement to him: "please rest assured, commander. I will convey your words to every commander." After I finished my call with trakov, I turned to akhromeyev and said, "chief of staff, please get in touch with the regiments immediately and repeat what the commander said last night: no matter which army rushes into gorodyser first, it will order the army in the name of the battalion commander." As soon as I finished, kirilov and bantaileiev cheered in front of the lookout: "it's great, it's great, our commanders and fighters have captured the German front position."