Chapter 1194

"What, you captured the German flag?" When Zhukov saw the telegram I sent him, he personally called my division headquarters to verify it.

"Yes, comrade marshal." Looking at the pennant in front of me, I affirmed: "the captured pennant is a pennant, which is divided into black, white and red from top to bottom. The white part in the middle is written with letters and numbers representing the number of the army. "

After hearing this, Zhukov said, "what you have captured is a command flag of the division headquarters, which is also the flag of the 19th armored division. By the way, have you occupied the whole city of tomalovka? "

"Report to marshal that the battle in the east of the city is still going on." Listening to the gunfire coming from outside, I continued to report to him: "I just transferred the 51st and 71st divisions of the guards to reinforce the 52nd division of the guards in the east of the city. I think we should be able to solve the battle before noon today. "

"Do you have the senior commander there?" Zhukov then asked.

I don't know why Zhukov asked this question, but I told him honestly: "major general sivakov, commander of the 22nd army of the guards, and major general tavartkilaze, commander of the 23rd army of the guards are all in the city."

"Immediately hand over your duties to major general tavartkiraze," Zhukov said in an indisputable tone. "Then you go to the northwest of Belgorod and join your deputy commander Danilov."

I have informed my superiors about the transfer of my troops to Belgorod, so it's not surprising that Zhukov knows about it, but I wonder what happened when he suddenly transferred me to that direction. Because I asked cautiously, "Comrade marshal, don't you know what important task it is to transfer me there?"

When I finished, Zhukov said briefly: "first, cooperate with the grassland front army and the seventh group army of the guards to launch an attack on bergerode; The second is to cut off the links between the German forces of Belgorod and tomarovka. All right, the attack on bergerode will start at 8 a.m. time is pressing. After you hand over your command right now, go and join general Danilov. Move quickly With that, he hung up without waiting for me to say anything.

Although Zhukov was in a hurry, I had a lot to arrange. First, ask someone to find povsky who is not in the headquarters, and then call tavartkiraze who is in the headquarters in the north of the city.

When tavartkilaze heard my voice, he asked with concern, "Comrade commander, when will you come back to the headquarters?"

"Comrade General, I will inform you formally now." I didn't care to explain to him, so I made a direct order saying, "from now on, you will take over the command of all the troops in the city. Do you understand? "

When tavartkilaze heard my command, he was stunned for a moment and then said in doubt, "Comrade commander, I don't understand. You are still in the city. Why do you want to transfer the command of the army to me?"

"Comrade General, I've just received an order from my superior to go to the outer command troops of Belgorod, so I'll give you all the troops in the city." Although it's only a matter of time before the whole city is recovered, I still told him: "after I leave, please remember to call all the division heads to inform them of this matter, so as to avoid the command getting into chaos. Do you understand? "

After listening to my question, tavartkiraze gave a straightforward answer: "I see, comrade commander. I will wipe out all the German troops in the city as soon as possible. "

As soon as I finished talking to tavartkilaze, povsky rushed back to the headquarters. As soon as he saw me, he asked me blankly: "Comrade commander, I'm gathering the scattered artillery in the city. Do you have anything important to send someone to look for me in such a hurry?"

"Well, comrade colonel." As our group army was not the main force in the attack on bergorod, there was no chance for the artillery of the group army to show their skills, so I decided to keep povsky in the city. In order not to let him be distracted, I explained to him: "I was ordered to command the troops to take part in the attack of Belgorod, so I handed over the command to general tavartkilaze. If possible, you can go back to the headquarters in the north of the city as soon as possible. It's much more convenient to command artillery there than here. "

"I see, comrade commander. I will go back to the North headquarters as soon as possible." Povsky held out his hand, shook it with me and said friendly, "have a safe trip."

"Thank you, comrade colonel." When I finished, I called out, "major busmanov!"

"Here it is As soon as I spoke, busmanov appeared at the door, standing upright for my orders.

As I walked out, I ordered him, "major, get the guard company together. We need to get out of here as soon as possible."

An hour later, we arrived at the headquarters in a village northwest of Belgorod. As soon as I walked into the headquarters, I found that in addition to Danilov and my three guards, there was an acquaintance inside.

I walked up to the man with a smile on my face, reached out to him with a smile, and said in a friendly way, "Hello, general rodymtsev. I didn't expect that we would meet again here."

Rodymzev quickly raised his hand to my forehead, saluted me, then took my hand and said respectfully, "Hello, commander oshanina, I didn't expect that we could meet here."

Looking at this comrade in arms at the battle of Stalingrad, I asked curiously, "Comrade General, how can you come to me when you are free?"

"Well, comrade commander." Before rodimzev could answer, Danilov said, "general rodimzev's close guard 13th division is now under the command of general katukov's close guard tank 1st group army. They are here today under orders to cut off the links between the German forces of Belgorod and tomarovka. "

When I heard Danilov say this, I felt a little surprised. My heart said, didn't Zhukov give me an order to cut off the connection between the two places? Why did the first group army of katukov's close guard tanks receive the same order now?

Seeing my surprised expression, rodymzev quickly replied, "Comrade commander, to be exact, it should be our division company and you to cut off the connection between the two cities. I obey your orders. Please give them

"Well, comrade general, since you are ordered to be the same as us, I will send troops to assist you in this task." With that, I turned to Danilov and said, "Comrade deputy commander, take a regiment from the 77th division of the guards and cooperate with general rojmtsev to complete this task."

"Comrade commander, we can't use so many troops." Rodimzev said to me with a smile: "we only need to send out a regiment with the 77th division of the guards to finish the task of cutting off the German army." With that, he turned to point to a major general standing nearby and introduced to me, "this is major general baklanov, my deputy division commander." At this point, he said to me in a low voice, "I'll be transferred to another unit soon, and then he will take over the position of my division commander."

After listening to rodimzev's introduction, I smile and extend my hand to bakranov standing by: "Hello, major general, nice to meet you. I believe that under the command of general rodimzev and you, the 13th division of the guards will surely create more brilliant results. "

"Hello, comrade commander." Bakranov took my hand and said respectfully, "we, the 13th division of the guards, will cooperate with your troops."

After greeting rodymzev and his deputy division commander, I went to the table, looked down at the map on it and asked Danilov, "Comrade deputy commander, tell me about your attack plan."

"All right, comrade commander." Danilov pointed to the map in front of him with a red and blue pencil and said to me, "our troops have been deployed outside of Belgorod. When our artillery preparation is over, the group troops will follow the friendly troops and attack the city at the same time. The order of attack is the 89th division, the 77th division and the 90th division

After listening to what he said, I tried to recall the battle of Belgorod in my memory. I felt as if it had been mentioned in history books, proving that the battle was not fierce. So he did not raise any objection to Danilov's order of attack. He just casually asked, "what are the friendly forces?"

"The 53rd and 69th group armies of the grassland front army will attack bergorod from the north." Danilov didn't read any information, but he told me what I wanted to know: "the seventh group army of general sumilov's guards attacked from the South; The new arrival of the fifth mechanized army bypassed Belgorod from the southwest to cut off the retreat of the German army. "

I raised my hand, looked at my watch, and then said, "it's a quarter of an hour before the fight starts. The division commanders will return to their respective units first. As soon as the fighting starts, cut off the road from Belgorod to tomarovka and attack the city at the same time. " Speaking of this, I suddenly remembered that the sixth group army of the close guard wanted to be the first to rush into Belgorod in front of watujing, so I stopped Xie Liujin and stressed to him, "Comrade Colonel, I hope the red flag of your division will be the first to fly over Belgorod. Are you sure? "

At my command, Xie Liujin's face flushed with excitement. After a moment's hesitation, he replied decisively, "Comrade commander, please rest assured that our division's flag will be the first to fly over Belgorod. If you can't do it, you'll remove me. "

"All right, comrade colonel." I waved to Liujin and said, "do your best. Even if you can't be the first one to put the red flag in the city, I won't blame you. Go back to the army quickly. "

When Danilov and I were the only ones left in the headquarters, he asked me anxiously, "Comrade commander, will the order you gave to Colonel sherekin be a bit too hard?"

"Why do you say that, comrade deputy commander?" I asked curiously.

"We need to know what kind of assists our troops take." Danilov said with some regret: "moreover, the German army has a very strong defensive force in this direction. So if our troops want to rush into the city, they will pay a high price. "

"Comrade deputy commander, you are too pessimistic." After listening to Danilov's worry, I said with a smile: "our attack on tomalovka was also very difficult, but we managed to rush into the city. It not only annihilated most of the garrison in the city, but also almost completely annihilated the 19th armored division of the German army from which it came, and captured their flag. "“ Captured the flag? " Danilov obviously didn't know about it because he wasn't in the headquarters of the group army. As soon as he heard my news, he immediately opened his mouth in surprise. For a long time, he stammered: "Comrade commander, you are not joking with me, are you?"“ Comrade deputy commander, how can I joke with you on such a matter? " When I said that, I took out the captured command flag from my satchel, spread it out in front of him, pointed with my hand and said, "look, the flag is here." When Danilov saw the flag, his face muscles twitched twice, and then said, "although it's not the flag of the German armored division, it's more significant to capture this command flag." I waited for him to finish, put the flag away, and then said, "as long as our troops attack Belgorod first today, then we will have a chance to capture the real flag of the German army. Now let's check whether the communication with each division is normal, so that we can't get in touch with each other, and it's easy to miss things. " Danilov listened to me, nodded, and then yelled out, "Hello, is the communications officer in? Come in." With his shouts, a young lieutenant ran in, stood straight in front of us, and then respectfully asked, "comrades, what instructions do you have?" Danilov pointed at him with his hand and asked aloud, "Comrade second lieutenant, are the communication lines with the divisions open now?"“ Yes, comrade deputy commander. " The second lieutenant also replied in a loud voice: "at present, the telephone lines and wireless lines between the temporary headquarters and the divisions and regiment headquarters are kept unblocked and can be put into use at any time."“ Good. Keep going. " When Danilov finished, he waved his hand to the lieutenant and said, "it's none of your business here. Go down first." After the second lieutenant left, Danilov asked me with a smile, "Comrade commander, what should we do next?"“ The next thing we need to do is wait I also replied with a smile, "wait for the divisions to report to us the progress of the fighting."