Chapter 1118

Barksov's statement made me feel a strong panic. As the head of a division, he did not regain the confidence of the city. Would his commanders have the same mentality as him? No, this bhuttovo must be taken back from the German hands, and stick to the order of vatukin for more than three days.

Thinking of this, I looked at baksov and said, "Comrade Colonel, you should know the importance of bhuttovo. Once the German forces have established themselves, they will take this place as the starting point for their attack on oboyan. As long as oboyan fails, the road to Kursk will be opened. Comrade baksov, the situation is very critical. With the assault capability of the German armored forces, they will rush to oboyan in one or two hours. "

"It seems that we must expel the German army from the city as soon as possible and keep bhuttovo firmly so that they can't move forward." Barksov asked helplessly, "will you allow me to go to the front to direct the attack, comrade commander?"

Although barksov has been my subordinate for a long time, I have never seen him command the war and I don't know what his ability is. At this moment, he said that he would go to the front to command the battle, and I quickly said, "yes, comrade Colonel, I will go to the front with you."

Barksov frowned and said, "Comrade commander, if I were you, I would give up this ridiculous idea. As a group commander, you don't have to go to the front to risk your life. You should know that there is no place where bullets can't hit, or even be bombarded by the enemy. "

"Don't frighten me, comrade Colonel," I said with a disapproving smile at baksov's worries. You know, I've been at the front line almost all the time since I joined the army, and I've probably fought more than you can imagine. " At this point, I stopped for a moment, because I saw baksov's blush, and quickly slowed down and said, "I'm going to meet your men, see those who are going to recover butovo, and cheer them up as commander of the group army."

Barksov hesitated for a moment, then turned around and gave orders to the commanders standing at the table: "all the commanders, follow me. Let's go to the front line."

On the way to the front command post along the traffic moat, I asked baksov in a low voice, "Comrade Colonel, have the residents of butovo been evacuated?"

When baksov heard my question, he slowed down his pace, turned around and said, "Comrade report commander, after yesterday's meeting, I went back to the city and organized people all night to evacuate the residents." Because I didn't make a statement immediately after listening to it, baksov was a little nervous and took the initiative to admit his mistake to me: "Comrade commander, I'm wrong. I dare not evacuate the residents of the city without asking for your instructions."

I was stunned by baksov's words. Originally, I was thinking that if they didn't evacuate the residents in the city in time, the proportion of civilian casualties in today's offensive and defensive war would be amazing. Unexpectedly, baksov misunderstood me. He thought that I didn't speak, and he was blaming him in his heart. I said to him with a quick smile, "Comrade Colonel, look where you want to go. You have not only evacuated the residents overnight, but also contributed to it. "

My words did not reassure baktsov. He still asked uneasily, "didn't the superior say that evacuating the residents would have a bad impact on the morale of the troops?"

I waved my hand and said with disapproval: "the reason why the superior is unwilling to evacuate the residents is that our commanders and fighters have built fortifications and are ready to defend our defensive zone at all costs. All they do is for anyone to be evacuated to other places without leaving home. But look at today's situation. If the residents were not transferred overnight, how many innocent civilians would have lost their lives in the German shelling and bombing? It is because of this that I say that you have made the right decision. "

When I said that, I managed to stabilize baksov's mood a little bit. I then asked, "Captain, which unit are you going to send to attack butovo later?"

Barksov thought about it and replied, "I'm going to send 201 regiment to attack. They have been staying in the rear as reserves today and haven't participated in the battle yet."

Before we came to the front command post, we felt the atmosphere of the battlefield. It was not that sporadic shells fell on the front and back of the trench, exploded, and hot soil fell into the trench from the air, scattering all over us.

Baksov took us to the command post of a battalion, which was only 500 meters away from butovo. Watching a group of us walk into the shelter, the two commanders sitting inside quickly stand up and salute us.

The chubby lieutenant commander standing next to barksov was a close guard, and I said to barksov as I looked at him: "Comrade Colonel, your troops are doing well. Although they are suppressed by the German fire, they are very tenacious. I believe that as long as the artillery comes, these German firepower points can be destroyed one by one. "

Just as he said that, he went back into the observation post. Seeing his appearance, I asked curiously, "commander, shouldn't you transfer the tank company? Why are you still here?"

Shijerikov replied with a smile: "Comrade commander, today's tanks are equipped with car phones. I just need to go to the communication room next door and give them an order with a telephone. I don't have to go there myself. You see, in a few minutes, as soon as our tanks appear, it's our turn to beat the Krauts all over the place. " A few minutes later, six of our army's new tanks formed a neat line in the front of the trench. With the command issued, six tank guns fine-tuning angle, and then after a continuous dull sound, several tank shells across the sky, flying towards the German firepower intensive machine gun fire point. The shell accurately landed in the building and exploded. The air wave of the explosion lifted the human limbs and the parts of the weapon so high that the originally dense firepower on the German position became sparse. The tank company, which had achieved success in the first round, fired again. This time, the target was the German mortar fire points. Maybe it was the mortars that were hit, and after the earth shaking explosion, half of the buildings that stood on both sides of the street collapsed. In the flying smoke and dust, our soldiers, who had been hiding behind craters or big trees, appeared one after another and rushed to the city with weapons without saying a word. Seeing that groups of soldiers rushed into the flying smoke, while our tanks were still in place, I raised my leg and kicked Xie jerikov, and said with a smile: "commander, don't you see that all our soldiers rushed into the city? Don't let the tank company rush up, or we will be driven out when we meet the enemy's tanks. " I don't mean to be alarmist. As early as during the Moscow defense war, something like this happened. Our counterattack troops rushed into the city and met several German tanks head-on. Because there were no anti tank weapons, they had to withdraw from the city with heavy casualties. I don't want my troops to make the same mistake.