Chapter 883

I thought that the battle had just ended, and our department had to rest for two days in Stalingrad. I didn't expect that wittkov would stare at the epaulets of the commanders and fighters after they got off the bus. For a long time, wittkov was surprised and said, "Comrade commander, you see, they seem to be wearing the new military rank in legend."

"It's not like it is." Then I patted wittkov on the shoulder, waved my head at him, and said, "well, my chief of staff, don't stand here to study the new rank. It won't be long before we can change it."

A group of us walked along the steps into the semi underground headquarters made of logs. Under the guidance of an officer on duty, we came to the room where the meeting was going to be held.

At the moment, there were only dark people sitting in the room. I stood at the door for a moment, waiting for my eyes to adapt to the light. I soon found out that the military ranks of the commanders here are not only the badges I wear, but also the epaulets like those outside the door.

When I looked at the table directly opposite, I found that in addition to my expected trekov, gurov, krailov and other leaders of the group army, there were rokosovsky and malining sitting at the long table. Next to malining was a general wearing a new military rank, who looked very familiar, and the work of the guards, Captain Klimov came in with five or six soldiers carrying a pile of boxes. With a smile on his face, gurov stood up and personally handed the boxes containing the newly established new medals to each commander.

I opened the box and took out the medals carefully. The medal is made of gold-plated copper. On the front of the medal are the silhouettes of four soldiers with weapons. It also reads "reward for defending Stalingrad". I turned the medal over and found the words "for our Soviet motherland" on the back.

While most of the commanders were appreciating the medals in their hands, I was surprised to see malining close to rokosovsky's ear, say a few words, and stand up casually. As soon as he got up, I guessed that he must have something more important to announce. Sure enough, he went to the front of the table, faced us, bowed his head and read the document in his hand: "in consideration of the need to promote the fighting experience of Stalingrad's defense war, the supreme command decided to disperse some combat experienced units originally belonging to the 62nd group army to each group army. Therefore, only the 39th division under the command of general Guriev, the 74th division under the command of general Sokolov, and the 79th division under the command of general wachuk were incorporated into the 8th group army. In order to replace the transferred troops, the 27th division under the command of general grebov, the 88th division under the command of general Vladimirov, and the 28th division under the command of general Vladimirov were decided The 82nd division under the command of Makarenko was incorporated into the 8th group army. All the newly added divisions have participated in the offensive campaign of Stalingrad and have excellent fighting tradition and rich offensive experience.

Gurov, a member of the military committee of the group army, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. He was transferred from the group army to a member of the military committee of the southern front army. The position of the military committee of the group army was taken over by Colonel cherneshof, a political commissar of the 39th division of Jinwei; Krailov, chief of staff, was transferred to the post of commander of the 21st army, and the post was taken over by major general Vladimirov. "

After reading out the order, malining introduced to us the new military commissar and chief of staff of the group army. It turned out that the major general sitting next to cherneshov was the new chief of staff, who was also the division commander of the 88th division of the guards.

"Comrade commander," vetkov next to me touched me gently and asked in a low voice, "the commander left the wachuk division in the group army, but what about the rest of our army? Will they be assigned to other units? "

In my mind, I was thinking about why the higher authorities wanted to give the Bantai leiev division such a long and obnoxious name. When I heard wittkov's question, I said absently, "don't worry, chief of staff. The higher authorities will make overall arrangements."

"Comrade commander of the front army," as I finished, I suddenly thought of wittkov's sonorous tenor in my ear, "allow me to ask questions?"

For the sudden appearance of this voice, it immediately attracted everyone's attention. Everyone looked up curiously at Vitkov standing beside me.

"Comrade commander of the front army," vetkov asked directly, ignoring everyone's curious eyes, "from the order just announced by general marinin, general wachuk's close guard 79th army, which belongs to our army, has been left in the close guard 8th Army just reorganized from the 62nd army, but what about our 79th infantry army? Why didn't you say how to arrange us? "

When I heard wittkov ask this question, I was afraid of making rokosovsky unhappy. I stared nervously ahead to see his reaction. Directly, rokosovsky raised his head, looked at wittkov in bewilderment, and then turned his eyes to trakov next to him.

"Colonel witkov," trakov said with obvious dissatisfaction, "although you are the chief of staff of the 79th infantry army, it is up to the headquarters of our group army and the headquarters of the front army to decide how to arrange the fate of the troops."

"But, comrade commander,...." wittkov was unconvinced to explain something, but was interrupted by rokosovsky who stood up. He looked at wittkov and said slowly, "Comrade Colonel, I can tell you now about the fate of the 79th infantry. After the study of the supreme command, it was decided to transfer major general oshanina's 79th infantry army to the 6th group army under the southwest front army of general watujing. In two days, your army will report to the new army. "

Hearing this arrangement, I couldn't help but be stunned. I thought that even if my 79th infantry army could not stay in the battle sequence of the 8th group army, it could be transferred to other front forces as reserves. Unexpectedly, it would be transferred to the southwest front army under the command of general watujing. Seeing that all the commanders were at a loss, malining continued to say on behalf of rokosovsky: "comrades commanders, our army successfully carried out the battle of ostrogozhsk - rososh and the battle of Voronezh - castornoy in January this year. In this way, the German army's defense in the direction of Kursk and Kharkov will be strengthened, There is a gap of 400 kilometers wide. The supreme command decided to take advantage of the good opportunity that our army had just won the battle of Stalingrad and severely damaged the Manstein troops to continue to launch a new offensive against the enemy. At this moment, the Red Army fighting in the south wing of our territory is divided into two main assault directions: one is the southwest front army under the command of general vatukin, which launched an attack from the lower reaches of the Donets River and rushed all the way to the Dnieper River, trying to recapture the Donbas Industrial zone from the enemy's hands and cut off the links between the Caucasian German army and the Ukrainian German army. On the other side is the Voronezh front army under the command of general Golikov. In front of them are the 2nd group army of the German army and the battle group of "RANTZ". There are nearly 15 infantry divisions and tankers, but most of them have suffered heavy losses in the process of rescuing Paulus. In this case, we have the conditions to launch the Kharkov campaign again. In order to strengthen the strength of the southwest front army, all the troops drawn from the 8th group army of Jinwei will be assigned to the southwest front army. "