Chapter 988

At daybreak, the sound of gunfire and explosion from outside the house gradually became sparse. According to my battlefield experience, this is a sign that the battle is coming to an end.

As early as a few hours ago, bantailiev's headquarters began to attack the east side of the bridge occupied by the German army, but because the enemy resisted tenaciously with strong fortifications, several charges were unsuccessful, and they also paid a great price. As the sky gets brighter and brighter, if we can't win the position on the other side and join forces with the friendly forces, we will suffer even greater losses once we wait for the enemy's plane to arrive.

I rubbed the vaguely painful temple, then rushed to Pugachev, who had just arrived at the headquarters, and said, "major, call general bantailiev and ask him about the situation there to see if he has joined the friendly forces."

Pugachev agreed and walked quickly to the desk. Just as he was about to pick up the phone, the phone on the desk rang first. He grabbed the microphone and said in a loud voice, "Hello, this is the headquarters. Where are you?"

After listening for a moment, he suddenly exclaimed excitedly: "what, meeting with the friendly forces?"?! Where? Near No.1 Bridge, before Levchenko could explain, a tank soldier who just came to her began to introduce to us: "comrades commander, maybe you don't know that in the battle, Levchenko saved 168 wounded people, captured an enemy and captured a machine gun from Romanians. Later, because of serious injury, he was diagnosed and treated as unable to continue to serve, and should have retired. But she can't help but refuse to accept the diagnosis and treatment that she can't continue to serve. She also strongly demands to learn tank driving skills and join the tank army. "

I know that tank soldiers are special arms, and they can't join if they want to. Besides, she is still a wounded who is diagnosed and treated as unable to continue to serve. If she wants to join, the difficulty coefficient will be higher. I was attracted by her legendary experience, so I can't wait to know how she joined the tank Army: "Mr. chief, can you tell me how you joined the tank army later?"

"Comrade General, when my request to join the tank army according to the normal procedure was rejected, I did not give up, so I went to the commander of the tank army, general Fedorenko." Levchenko told me about her experience of joining the tank army without concealment: "at first, the general refused me without hesitation. But instead of leaving, I cried to the general that my hometown voroshlovgrad had fallen into the hands of the Communist aggressors. As a Ukrainian, I couldn't watch my compatriots struggling under the iron feet of the enemy, so I insisted on joining the tank troops to fight against the Communist aggressors and rescue our enslaved people as soon as possible.

Maybe it was my words that moved general Fedorenko, who finally agreed to my request to join the tank army. When I was rejected by the doctor because of the disability in my right arm, it was general Fedorenko who let me pass the physical examination and entered the tank Academy in Stalingrad for a quick study of relevant courses. "

Hearing her mention of Stalingrad, I couldn't help asking, "so you also participated in the defense of Stalingrad?"

She nodded and said with certainty, "yes, Comrade General. My army, which had fought with the German army in the Don River Valley, suffered heavy losses and was evacuated to Tula, near Moscow, for repair. Not long after the completion of the rectification, he was transferred to the front line to take part in the battle for the liberation of Ukraine. "

After listening to her experience, not only did I nod my head in admiration, but also Yushchenko, who was standing behind me, kept whispering to the soldiers beside me: "great, this girl is really great!"

We were talking when several armored cars came from a distance, followed by a truck with a canopy. The motorcade stopped 20 or 30 meters away from us. Seeing the soldiers jumping from the truck, they quickly set up a guard formation near the armored car. They knew that general rebalko must have arrived.

I was hesitating whether to meet the past, just from the armored car down the group of commanders, has come towards me. At this time, I can't stand still, I can only face it.

The burly Round faced general who walked in the front stopped a few steps away from me, raised his hand and saluted, and said aloud, "Hello, comrade commander

"Hello, general rebalko." I hastened to return a gift, stepped forward, reached out and shook hands with him: "welcome to Kiev!"

Rebalko shook my hand and said, "Comrade commander, you are really amazing. But when I learned from Marshal Zhukov that you planned to launch an attack on Kiev, I didn't feel at ease. I thought that in a big city like this, the German army must be heavily guarded. Without a month or two, it would never be able to attack it. But I didn't expect that in just a dozen hours since the attack, most of Kiev has fallen into our hands. The capital of Ukraine finally broke away from the hands of the Communist aggressors and returned to the embrace of the motherland. "

"General rebalko," I said politely after he finished, "although we have captured Kiev, the enemy will certainly not give up. Manstein, who is at war with the Voronov front army and the southwest front army of our army, will surely deploy heavy troops to counter attack Kiev in the shortest time. With the strength of the 79th infantry army, it is very difficult to defend Kiev, so you should transfer your troops to Kiev as soon as possible to participate in the defense. "

Rebalko listened to me, nodded and echoed: "this is no problem. When we have cleared the remnants of the German army on the East Bank of Kiev, we can transfer all the main forces into the city to strengthen the defense force in the city." Kirilov, after rebalko released my hand, also extended his hand to him and introduced himself: "Hello, comrade deputy commander. I'm acting military Commissioner kirilov. Nice to meet you here. " Next, general rebalko introduced to me the commanders who followed him. Except for the commanders of the 12th and 15th armies, the rest were the commanders or political commissars of the tank brigades. After the greetings, kirilov kindly reminded us: "general Rita and general rebalko, although they are all our people nearby, they are on the battlefield after all. There are no scattered soldiers hidden by the enemy nearby. For the sake of safety, we'd better go back to the headquarters."“ Where is the headquarters? " After hearing kirilov's words, rebarkov immediately asked curiously, "is it in the malinski palace?" Kirilov shook his head and replied, "Comrade deputy commander, you may be disappointed. In the battle a few hours ago, the malinski palace was destroyed by the artillery fire of our army. Although it has not completely collapsed, it can no longer be used as the location of the headquarters. So just before I came here, I had ordered my men to move the new headquarters to the highest LADA building opposite the malinsky palace. " Rebalko felt sorry when he heard that the malinsky palace had been destroyed, but he said casually: "since the new headquarters is located in the supreme LADA building, let's go now. The government building is also a stone building, and there is a basement under it. Even in case of enemy bombing, we can move to the basement below in time. "