Chapter 852

The heavy artillery bombardment weakened the German firepower in the building. As our troops attacked the building, the muzzle flames of the windows disappeared one after another, proving that the fighting had been carried out in the building instead. Another group of regiments of infantry, and lost no time in the building is fighting launched a charge.

At this time, there was another violent explosion, and the wall on the left side of the bottom of the building was full of fire and smoke. When the smoke cleared, I saw a big hole in the wall. And just rushed to the front of the building's officers and men, have poured into the building from this gap.

"This major Morozov has a very good brain." I murmured to myself, "if we use the way we attack gorodyser, let alone an ordinary building in front of us, even the reinforced concrete fortifications will be destroyed under the bombardment of heavy howitzers."

With the addition of the new force, the Germans in the building gradually couldn't resist it. I saw many more soldiers jumping from the windows on the second floor. However, this time, they didn't encircle our soldiers in the building from behind, but turned around and ran to the distance. But soon our soldiers leaned out of the window, carrying their weapons and shooting at the fleeing German soldiers. In addition to a few legs quickly escape from the sky, the rest fell at the muzzle of our soldiers.

The troops of the fourth regiment had just captured the building in the center of the airdrop field. Before I could give any orders, a second lieutenant officer ran in and reported to me, "Comrade division commander, there's a call for you in the regiment command post." In order to attract my attention, he specially stressed that "it was the Group Commander himself who called."

When I heard that it was trekov's phone call, my heart said what he wanted me to do at this time. Is there any arduous task to give me? But I didn't dare to delay. I followed the second lieutenant and rushed to the command post of the fourth regiment.

In the command post, besides Gaidar, his political commissar Xia Ping and the commander of the 1st artillery battalion of the division, major Morozov, were there. When they saw me enter, they stood up from their seats and raised their hands to salute me. I nodded at some people, then went to the table, picked up the phone on it, and politely said to the receiver, "Hello, is that Comrade commander? Hello, I'm o'shanina. What's your instruction

"Comrade oshanina," came trakov's hoarse voice from the receiver, "I just came back from the headquarters of the front army, and I heard Comrade Vasiliev say that you once called to report to me the cause of the failure of the friendly forces." At this point, he stopped for a moment, and then tentatively asked, "are you telling the truth?"

"Yes, comrade commander." To trekov's question, I answered positively, "these truths are based on the confessions of the prisoners."

"Don't you think the prisoner is lying?" After listening to my reply, trakov was still dubious.

"I think what the prisoner said is true." In order to make my words more convincing, I specially added: "there is no need for prisoners to lie on such matters, because if we only interrogate a few more prisoners, their lies will be exposed. And from the details they described, it's our army's consistent offensive style. " Speaking of this, it suddenly occurred to me that trikov had left the headquarters yesterday to attend a meeting in the front army. Until now, he had just returned, which proved that the meeting he held was very important. So I asked tentatively, "Comrade commander, you went to the meeting all day. I don't know what the head of the front army said?"

In the past, I would never ask these questions casually, but now I still hold the title of deputy commander of the group army, and it's natural for me to inquire about these things from trikov. After hearing my question, without any hesitation, trakov said what I wanted to know: "the 4th armored group army of Hote outside the encirclement is advancing very fast. It was 50 Russian miles away from Paulus's troops in the daytime yesterday, but under their fierce attack, our defense line has been broken through again and again. Now the distance between the two German troops is only 10 Russian miles, Both sides can see each other with high-power telescopes. "

Trikov's words startled me, saying that because of my appearance, the German army failed to capture the mamayev post throughout the campaign, and the Soviet army also sacrificed thousands of officers and soldiers. In this case, the situation of the Soviet army is much better than in history, but why is it still so embarrassed by the German army? Could it be that my appearance led to the deviation of the known history in this place, that the battle of Stalingrad would end in the defeat of the Soviet army?

Thinking of this, I was shocked out of a cold sweat. After a while, I summoned up courage and continued to ask, "Comrade commander, I don't know what measures the front army is going to take to prevent the German army from joining forces?"

"General yelomienko decided to let the 57th army stop attacking the city," trakov told me without any concealment. Instead, he told me what he had decided at the meeting. "He turned around to cooperate with the allies of the southwest front army to stop the German forces coming from the encirclement. And the task of entering the siege was accomplished by the 64th army alone. " At this point, he sighed, and then said with some helplessness: "general shumilov, commander of the group army, asked me to ask you if there is any way to break through the German position in the shortest time and further compress the enemy into the city. In this way, the distance between the two German forces will be widened again. "

As for the performance of the 57th and 64th army groups a few days ago, I was very angry. If I were not a former subordinate of general shumilov, I would not give advice to him. After thinking for a moment, I said to trikov truthfully, "Comrade commander, I think general shumilov should be allowed to attack the enemy's positions. It's a kind of continuous attack. We can no longer retreat after losing a certain amount of troops as before, but we should increase the offensive forces one after another. At the same time, the German positions were bombarded continuously, even if they hurt their own people. I don't think the enemy can persist in this kind of fighting with will and fighting spirit. "

After listening to my suggestion which is similar to a bad idea, trakov was stunned. After a long time, he hesitated and said, "Comrade oshanina, if general shumilov's troops really fight in the way you said, the casualties of the troops will be astronomical."

"Comrade commander, in order that we can win the final victory, we can't care so much." Seeing that my proposal was rejected, I was worried: "if the 64th group army followed their original way of playing, it could not cause any substantial damage to the German forces who were sticking to their positions, except for constantly making heavy sacrifices. Instead of losing our valuable soldiers in futile attacks, we should concentrate on the main force and go all out, which may have an unexpected effect. "

Obviously, he was not convinced by me. He still hesitated and said, "this matter is too much involved. For the sake of safety, I will consider it first and then decide whether to tell general shumilov."

At the end of the call with trakov, I put down the phone and asked Gaidar, "Comrade commander, the building in the middle of the airdrop field has been taken down. What are you going to do?"

"Comrade division commander, I plan to garrison a company in the building, under the command of captain kiricheng, a company commander, equipped with more machine guns to block the whole airdrop field. Once the enemy is found to be in this area, I will carry out fire suppression and wipe them out." At this point, he stopped for a moment, and then asked hesitantly, "Comrade division, the target of this building is too obvious. If our army enters, will it not be shelled and bombed by the German army?"

I laughed at his worries, and then said, "Comrade commander, you think too much. The German army has been trapped in our encirclement for such a long time, not to mention that their shells are almost consumed, even the fuel of the tanks is estimated to be running out. Otherwise, in recent attacks, they have used tanks and artillery to support infantry attacks less and less? As for bombing, you don't have to worry any more. Don't you see that the air supremacy of the whole Stalingrad region is in the hands of our aviation forces? "

Before Gaidar and I finished speaking, bandeleev came in from the outside and said to me on his own initiative, "Comrade division commander, the airdrop field outside has been controlled by our army. Next, I want to see the area of a regiment. If we can also occupy an airdrop field, then we can greatly reduce the supply that the enemy can get. "

"Comrade deputy division commander, I agree with you. Go quickly." At the beginning, I asked bantaileiev to be responsible for the first and fourth regiments fighting for the airdrop of materials with the German army. Now the fourth regiment has completed half of the task here, and there is no practical significance for him to stay here any more. So I readily agreed to his request, and finally said with concern: "pay attention to safety on the road!"

I stayed in the command post until ten o'clock, and walked into a lieutenant from the outside. He just wanted to speak, but unexpectedly found so many people sitting in the command post, so he closed his mouth in time and stood in a daze. Gaidar stood up and said to the lieutenant, "Comrade lieutenant, if you have anything to do, please report it to the commander."

After listening to Gaidar's words, the lieutenant raised his hand and saluted me. At the same time, he respectfully reported: "Comrade division, the enemy's air force has begun to air drop."

Thinking of the fact that our army has occupied the airdrop field for several hours, I am deeply afraid that the German army has changed the airdrop area, so I tentatively asked, "Comrade lieutenant, is the enemy's transport plane still airdrop in the airdrop field just occupied by us?"

The lieutenant nodded his head hard and answered in a affirmative, "yes, sir, the enemy is still Airdropping in the same place."

After thinking about it, I turned to Gaidar and said, "Comrade commander, immediately order lieutenant Vassily to organize all the snipers assigned to your regiment and concentrate fire on parachutes in the sky. These airdropped materials must not drift to the enemy's defense area with the wind."

"I'll arrange it now." Gaidar reached out and picked up the phone on the table.

"Lieutenant Vassily? I'm Colonel gedar As soon as the phone rang, Gaidar gave a direct order to Vasili: "the division commander ordered that all your snipers be organized immediately to shoot at the parachutes in the air and let as many materials as possible fall into our control area. Do you understand I see. That's very good. I hope you will not let down the trust of your teachers and comrades. " Then he hung up.

After he put down the phone, he reported to me, "Comrade division, Lieutenant Vassily will lead the sniper to attack immediately."

I nodded, and then told Gaidar: "Comrade commander, when the airdropped materials are landing, you should not only send troops to carry the materials, but also be alert to the German counterattack, and never let the enemy snatch the materials from under our eyes."

Without waiting for Gaidar to show his determination to me, Morozov next to him said, "please rest assured, sir. Our artillery will cooperate with the soldiers of the fourth regiment and resolutely guard the airdrop site. We will never let the German take away the materials." When I heard Morozov's statement, I remembered that he had just bombarded the building with heavy artillery. I raised my hand and knocked heavily on his helmet. I laughed and scolded, "major Morozov, I just want to criticize you. When dealing with an ordinary building, you should bombard it with heavy artillery at such a short distance. You are not afraid to blow up the whole building and bury our commanders and fighters together. " Morozov took off his helmet, scratched the back of his head and replied with a embarrassed smile: "Comrade division, I was also worried. Seeing that the resistance in the building was too fierce, I was afraid that our troops would pay too much, so I ordered the heavy howitzers to fire. But please rest assured that in the next defense, as long as the German army does not send out tanks, I will only use the Rockets captured from the German army to provide artillery support for our troops. " With the sniper team led by lieutenant Vassily, most of the materials slowly falling over the airdrop field fell into the airdrop field after the parachute was punctured, and the materials floating to the German positions were very few. When the German army saw that so many materials had fallen into the area controlled by our army, it immediately organized a large-scale army to snatch them. But as soon as they entered the airdrop site, they were first strafed by the machine guns of the infantry of our army who stood in the building, and then bombarded by the artillery battalion of Morozov. Finally, they lost 70 or 80 bodies and withdrew in ashes. According to the final statistics, except for 13 packages of 200 packages dropped by German transport planes, the rest were captured by the officers and soldiers of the fourth regiment. Bantaileiev also called at noon, saying that after seizing the enemy's airdrop field, a regiment also seized a large number of German airdrop materials.