Chapter 958

Godunov listened patiently to my deployment and nodded his head, indicating that he would carry out my orders without any discount. Perhaps for the sake of concern, as soon as I finished, he immediately said, "Comrade commander, there will be a battle here soon. I suggest you go back to kilovgrad immediately."

Naturally, I understand his kindness, but at this time, I really don't want to go back to kilovgrad. First, there are kirilov, wittkov and bantaileiev. They are in command; Secondly, once the war broke out, the city would certainly become the key target of the German army. In addition to shelling the city, the enemy would even send out planes to carry out indiscriminate bombing. It's much better to stay in the village of drofia. German people don't waste their bombs for such a small village. The biggest possibility is that the enemy will use small-scale artillery and tank guns to bombard the villages.

I didn't want him to know the small calculation in his heart, so I waved my hand and said with a little impatience: "OK, comrade major. Please pay attention to your identity. It is the major general who commands the major, not vice versa. By the way, is the telephone line between you and the artillery battalion ready? "

"Please rest assured, comrades in chief," gordonov nodded and said positively, "the Division has sent us several communication soldiers. Not only have the telephone lines to the artillery battalion been laid, but my command post can even directly communicate with the platoons."

"Good. Then get ready. " With these words, I turned and walked towards the village.

On the way back to the village, Yushchenko said to me cautiously: "Comrade commander, I think major Godunov has a point. Zhuofeya village is not very safe. We should..."

"Comrade captain," before he finished speaking, I interrupted him directly, frowning and discontented, and asked, "do you want to let me escape and go back to the city?"

"No, it's not like that, comrade commander." Yushchenko saw that I was angry. He waved his hand desperately and said unexpectedly, "I'm not asking you to go back to the city, I'm asking you not to set the command post in the village."

"Why? Comrade captain. " Yushchenko's answer aroused my curiosity, so I stopped to ask.

"I think once the battle starts, in addition to the fortifications we just left, the villages will also become the focus of German artillery attack." Yushchenko shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "Comrade commander, as you know, the village is full of wooden houses. As long as two or three of them are shot and set on fire, the whole village will soon be engulfed by fire and smoke. If we want to transfer the headquarters at that time, it is estimated that our casualties will not be small. "

As for Yushchenko's statement, I stood in the same place and thought it was reasonable. So I nodded and then told Yushchenko, "Comrade captain, you have a good point. The headquarters must not be set up in the village. But where can we move to to ensure safety and see the situation on the battlefield in time? "

"Comrade commander, please have a look." Yushchenko pointed to a small slope not far away and said to me, "I think I can see the whole battlefield from there."

I looked at the surrounding terrain. This slope should be the highest position nearby, and it is five or six hundred meters away from the village. Even if the German army shelled the village, it would not be affected much. Thinking of this, he waved his hand forward and ordered loudly, "come on, comrade captain, let's go up and have a look."

Without much effort, I came to the top of the earth slope, raised my telescope and looked in the direction of the national defense fortifications. We found that we can not only have a panoramic view of Godunov's defense area and the plain in front of us, but even the town more than ten kilometers away. Seeing this, I can't help but feel happy. I have a wide field of vision and can build an observation post.

I put down my telescope and said to Yushchenko, who was standing beside me, "Comrade captain, gather your men immediately, build an anti slope shelter behind the slope, and build an observation post on the top of the slope. Speed up, the enemy will not leave us much time. "

"Yes, comrade commander." Yushchenko agreed in a loud voice, and then ordered a member of the Ministry to go down and call in the staff.

After a while, not only the commanders and fighters who stayed in the village came, but also the two signalmen who stayed in the headquarters followed them.

I looked at the operator and asked, "Comrade operator, what's the matter? Do you have a telegram?"

"Yes, comrade commander." "Just a few minutes ago, the chief of staff sent a telegram in person. I was just about to send it to you when the captain's men came to call us and said that you were going to set up the headquarters on the hillside. "

"Yes, comrade telegraph operator, you two will stay there after the anti slope bunker is repaired." After receiving the telegram from him, I suddenly thought of another thing and quickly added: "by the way, if possible, you should seize the time to lead me a telephone line leading to the front line. After all, it's too easy to be eavesdropped by the enemy if you talk with a telegraph."

"Please don't worry, commander. We'll do it right away." The two signalmen replied in unison.

The battle officially began at 2 p.m.

The enemy's fourteen tanks formed a battle formation, divided into two rows, seven in each row, and stormed towards major gordonov's position. Behind the tank, there were sporadic tricycles and infantry in scattered formations.

I stood in the observation station on the top of the slope, holding a telescope in one hand and a telephone in the other, shouting at the microphone: "Hello, Hello, Captain kurishenko, the German tanks are coming towards us. You must stop them. Major Godunov's infantry don't have any long-range anti tank weapons. Once the enemy approaches, they can only let the soldiers rush up and blast the tanks with anti tank grenades and flasks. "

"Yes, comrade commander." At the other end of the line, Captain kurishenko replied in a hurry, "Twelve anti tank guns of our battalion are ready to fire. However, the enemy's tanks are still far away, at least two kilometers away from us. At such a distance, the shells can't penetrate the front armor of the enemy's tanks. We have to put them closer and hit them again. "

"All right, comrade captain." When I heard what kurishenko said, I had no choice but to say, "as soon as the enemy's tanks enter the effective range, they will fire immediately. Do you understand?"

"I understand!" Kurishenko replied loudly.

But before kurishenko's artillery battalion could fire, the enemy tanks fired first. Their shells landed in front of and behind our trench, exploded left and right, and set off billows of snow. There was even a shell directly hit one of our blockhouses. In an instant, the blockhouse was shrouded in smoke.

When the smoke cleared, I found that the blockhouse was intact except for a pit. Seeing this, I feel much more at ease. As long as the enemy's tank guns can not penetrate our blockhouse, then the next battle will be much easier.

When the enemy's tanks were only 500 meters away from our position, the artillery battalion of kurishenko opened fire decisively. Under the heavy artillery fire, five of the seven tanks in front of them suddenly became piles of burning scrap iron. Seeing his companion's experience, the tanks in the back row were in a panic. Some of them began to wander, while others began to reverse, causing a great confusion in the formation of the infantry following the car.

When I saw the artillery barracks' effect, I applauded and regretted that if the heavy artillery barracks were there, the German tanks would not be able to advance so close. All the tanks would have been destroyed by our powerful artillery fire in the process of advancing.

After all, the German army was well-trained. After a short period of confusion, they returned to normal. The tanks in the back bypassed the burning debris and continued to move forward. The artillery positions that have just been fired have become their primary targets. Seeing the enemy's tank shells fall on the artillery positions and explode, our artillery soldiers constantly fall down in the smoke and fire, my heart is bleeding.

I also observed the situation of the battlefield and found that the German troops in the town had already moved out. The more than 300 infantry following the tanks should be all the German troops could use. I put down my telescope, took the earphone and transmitter from the operator's hand, and contacted perskin, who was waiting in the forest: "Hello, major perskin? I'm oshanina. Do you see that? The enemy's tanks have passed in front of your ambush position. I order you to attack immediately, but all the remaining German tanks will be killed. Don't hesitate, major. Let's go

"Yes, comrade commander." I heard pelsten's excited voice in my headphones, and then he was shouting to his driver, "comrades, the commander gives orders and starts attacking. I order, assault begins

At the end of the call with pelsky, I picked up the phone again and rang Godunov. As soon as I got on the phone, I couldn't wait to ask, "Hello, major, what's the situation there?"

"Report to the commander," Godunov said calmly, "when the enemy's tanks shelled our army, the soldiers were hidden in the trenches or bomb shelters. Except for a dozen officers and men who were injured, none of them died. By the way, all the women from the village of drofia were placed in the nearest bunkers to the battalion headquarters, and there were no casualties. "

"Well done, well done." After I had praised him, I went on to say, "Comrade major, as soon as you see pelsky's tank battalion coming out from the side of the German army, you will lead the troops in the trenches to carry out a counter charge. It's better not to let an enemy run away. "

Although he knew that it would be difficult to complete the task, gordonov readily replied, "I see. Comrade commander, I'll inform the two company commanders below and ask them to organize the commanders and fighters quickly. As soon as the enemy's offensive line falls into chaos, we will carry out counter charge. "

"Good luck, major!" Then I hung up.

As soon as I put the receiver on the base of the telephone, the operator stood up and handed me a piece of telegraph paper. At the same time, he said, "it's an urgent telegram from the political commissar. It seems that there is something important."

I heard that there was something important, so I quickly put the telegram in front of me and looked at it at a glance. It turned out that kirilov had informed me that the captured German general Theodore Ike had forgotten him in the carriage because of the negligence of the nursing staff during the transfer last night. As a result, the seriously injured General of the SS was frozen to death. At the end of the message, he asked me what to do with Ike's body.

I took a look at the operator who was still standing in front of me waiting for the order, and simply replied, "tell the commissar to bury the body on the spot." Seeing that the operator sat back by the telephone and was ready to start sending telegrams, I quickly stopped him, and simply ordered him: "there is no need to send a telegram, just talk to the political commissar in plain language." After explaining this, I turned my attention to the battlefield. Yushchenko, who had been standing beside us and didn't speak, said excitedly at the moment: "Comrade commander, you see, our artillery battalion and tank battalion have done a great job. The artillery destroyed more than half of the German tanks, and the remaining tanks were also destroyed by the tank battalion that we suddenly rushed out of the forest. When the enemy infantry saw that the tanks they relied on were destroyed by us, they were scared out of their courage. You see, they are turning around and running away one after another. " At this point, he snorted and added contemptuously, "the Krauts don't look. Can they run past the tracks of our tanks on this plain?"“ Come on, comrade captain, don't be too complacent. " While I was holding up my telescope to watch our infantry commanders and fighters chase the German infantry who ran away in a hurry under the cover of tanks, Yushchenko said with a smile: "although our army has an advantage in the battlefield, it's really difficult to completely annihilate this enemy. We have too few troops." The battle ended in half an hour. The burning debris on the battlefield are all German tanks destroyed by our army, and pelsken's tank battalion is intact. Most of the corpses in the snow in the distance were German soldiers. Thinking that captain kurishenko's artillery position had just been shelled by German tanks, it seemed that there were still many casualties, I quickly dialed the artillery battalion. When I heard kurishenko's voice coming from the earphone, I immediately asked with concern, "Hello, comrade captain, I just saw that the enemy's tanks had shelled your positions. How about the casualties of the troops?"“ Report to commander, "kurishenko replied gravely," there are 12 anti tank guns in the whole battalion. Three of them have been destroyed in the battle just ended, and the other one has been seriously damaged and is in urgent repair. 28 Gunners were killed and 41 wounded. The combat effectiveness of the whole battalion is basically complete. "