Chapter 1227

I'm so anxious now that I'm afraid that he'll ask me more questions, so I said all he wanted to say: "yes, yes, senior general, it's them. But the first one to put the red flag on the radio building in Belgorod was the 272th regiment of the 90th division of the guards. "

"Comrade o'shanina, listen to your tone, you seem to be in a hurry now." Watujing didn't know that I was stamping my feet in a hurry, and he said slowly, "as a senior commander, you should keep calm at all times, otherwise you will make mistakes in decision-making when commanding the battle."

"Comrade General, I know all this." Hearing that watujing began to teach me in the tone of his superior, I couldn't laugh or cry. I sped up and said, "I'll call you. It's more important."

"Tell me." Knowing that I had something important to say, vatukin's tone suddenly became stern.

"Senior general, in order to ensure that the troops who rush into Kharkov will not be beaten out of the city by the counterattack German forces, I now ask you to do two things for me." After I finished this sentence, without waiting for any answer from him, I said to myself, "first, please ask general konev's Grassland front army to increase its attack on the north and east of Kharkov, so that the German army can not withdraw its forces from these two directions; Second, tanks. I need tanks now. According to the feedback from the battlefield just now, the enemy has a lot of tanks. If we don't have enough tank support, then the troops who rush into the city will fall into a bitter battle. "

"Don't worry, comrade oshanina." After hearing my two requests, vatukin was relieved and then said easily, "why do I ask? It's these two things. I can tell you now that half an hour ago, Marshal Zhukov himself gave general konev an order to attack. They are required to wedge at least three to five kilometers into the German position before dark, so as to reduce the resistance suffered by the Western offensive forces. "

When I heard the first news that watujing said, I felt a lot more at ease. Then I asked, "Comrade General, what about tanks and tanks? I don't know when we can allocate tank troops to us?"

"Why, o'shanina?" Watujing listened to me in such a hurry and asked strangely, "hasn't the Fifth Army of Kravchenko's close guard tanks arrived at your place by now?"

"Lieutenant general Kravchenko's tank army?" When I heard that, I was stunned. Then I said mistily, "Comrade General, I haven't received the notice that they are coming."

"Well, after repeated calculations last night, Marshal Zhukov felt that the strength of your existing tank troops was still inferior to that of the Germans." Vatukin patiently explained to me, "so I transferred the Fifth Army of the nearest guard tank to you in the night."

"But, comrade general, I haven't seen any trace of tank troops so far?" When I finished saying this, I covered the microphone with my hand and just wanted to ask bzikov to ask the observation post in the north to see if there were any tanks, akhromeyev, who was sent by me to supervise the erection of the floating bridge, came in quickly from the outside.

As soon as he saw me, he said excitedly, "Comrade commander, who are you looking at?"

Then he flashed aside and said to the outside, "please come in, Comrade General."

As soon as his voice fell, a dignified general came in from the outside. As soon as I saw the person who appeared, I felt a lot more confident. I nodded to him with a smile and said politely, "Hello, general Kravchenko. I just talked to commander vatukin about you, and you appeared!"

Before Kravchenko spoke, I heard vatukin's anxious voice coming out of the earphone: "Hello, Hello, oshanina, are you still there? Why don't you talk? "

I quickly released my hand covering the microphone and said apologetically, "excuse me, senior general. General Kravchenko has just arrived at my headquarters. I'm greeting him."

"If only the tank army arrived." "So you can use them in important places," said vatujing, relieved. Remember, if there's anything going on with the troops rushing into the city, call me at any time. "

After I put down the phone, I immediately went to shake hands with Kravchenko and asked nervously, "Comrade General, where are your troops?"

"The 20th, 21st and 22nd brigades of the guard tanks are still on the March. They will wait about half an hour before they can get here." Kravchenko shook hands with me and said, "but the sixth motorized infantry regiment of the guards is waiting in the back."

"Infantry, we can't use them yet." I politely responded, "what we need most at the moment is tanks." At this point, I called bezikov over and said to him, "chief of staff, please introduce the situation of our army to Comrade General, and be ready to reinforce the 89th and 52nd divisions of the guards."

With that, I quickly walked up to lophov and ordered him: "major, send out the messenger immediately and quickly set up a telephone line between the headquarters and the 89th division. I want to know the situation of the front line at any time."

When I watched lophov summon his men and assign tasks to them in a low voice, I picked up the phone and dialed the army headquarters of tavartkilaze. As soon as I heard his voice, I immediately said, "Comrade General, I order you to send the 77th division of the guards to enter the city from the Southwest of Kharkov, Join up with the 52nd and 89th divisions of Jinwei

"What about the 51st division of Jinwei?" Tavartkilaze heard that some troops had already rushed into Kharkov, but the second echelon I sent to the city was not his 51st guard division. He was a little worried. "Other troops are fighting with the Germans. Our division has no combat mission at present. If it goes on like this, I am worried that the mood of the commanders and fighters will be affected."

I knew that he was eager to fight, so I deliberately talked to his subordinates. But in order to appease him, I hesitated for a moment and said to him, "Comrade General, in addition to the fourth Route Army rushing into and out of the city, the other three routes are still competing with the German army for peripheral positions. The task of the 51st division of the guards is to wait for one of the troops to suffer serious losses, and then you can replace them. "

With that, without waiting for him to speak, I hung up the phone and dialed povsky's headquarters again. I said to povsky with a smile, "Comrade artillery commander, I have a glorious and arduous task to give you. I don't know if you can complete this task?"

"Comrade commander, if you have any tasks, please let me know." Povsky confidently said: "our artillery will never let you down."

"Well, since you are so confident, I'll give you a task." I restrained my smile and said to him, "the troops of the 89th division of the guards have rushed into the city from the southwest of Kharkov. The Germans will never watch our troops rush into the city. They will surely launch a crazy counter attack. So I order you to send an artillery regiment to the city to strengthen general sherekin's troops and smash the German counterattack. "

"Yes, comrade commander." Povsky assured me: "I will send the most effective artillery to the city."

I held the phone and thought about it, then called sivakov. When sivakov heard that I was calling, he was immediately excited: "Comrade commander, do you know? Our fourth troops have rushed into the city from the southwest of Kharkov? "

"I see, comrade commander." In order to prevent the 89th division of the guards from being driven out of the city by the German army, I should be able to take all preventive measures with my own ability“ I order you to let the other Third Route Army continue to launch an uninterrupted and fierce attack on the German peripheral positions. We must firmly contain the enemies in these places. We must never let them take part in the counterattack against the 89th division of the guards. Do you understand? "

"I understand." Sivakov agreed loudly and then said to me in a low voice, "Comrade commander, the troops are attacking the German defensive positions. The casualties are very serious. Can you send me reinforcements?"

"I'll make the 51st division of general tavartkilaze's guards your reserve. Once the casualties are too heavy, let his troops fill in the direction

"Comrade commander, the matter of the reserve team has been solved, but then a new problem arises." Sivakov hesitated and said, "general tavartkiraze is the commander of the 23rd army of the guards, and I am the commander of the 22nd army of the guards. Who should be the commander of the troops at that time?"

"General tavartkiraze is older than you. When your two army headquarters are combined, he will take charge." In order to stop sivakov from thinking about the loss of command, I added: "don't worry, as long as general tavartkilaze's troops are still serving as reserves, you don't have to hand over the command."

After watching me make a phone call, chisjakov said with emotion: "Comrade commander, I have listened to your deployment carefully. If you can't get a firm foothold in Kharkov city like this, you can only say that the combat effectiveness of our troops is really poor."

After listening to these words, I nodded and said, "yes, comrade deputy commander, I have done what I should do for them. If the two division commanders, sherekin and Nekrasov, are unable to resist the German counterattack, then I should consider adjusting their positions. "

Kravchenko, when I had finished with chisjakov, came up to me and said, "Comrade commander, I have discussed with your chief of staff. After the 20th brigade of the guard tank arrived, they went with the motorized regiment to reinforce the 89th division of the guard. The other two tank brigades are engaged in frontal offensive operations. "

"Great, Comrade General." Hearing what Kravchenko said, chisjakov turned red with excitement. "I believe that with the cooperation of your tank troops, the three-way forward attack troops can also quickly break through the German peripheral defense."

"Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough Managarov, who was ignored by us, raised his voice after coughing a few times and asked, "do you want our commanders and fighters to watch the excitement in the back when you are fighting in front?"

"Comrade General, the situation is not what you think." I saw managarov's displeasure on his face, and quickly comforted him, saying, "the four divisions your army has put in are enough to give us an advantage in military strength. Besides, you don't have any more troops in your hand now

"Who said I didn't have troops in my hand?" before I finished, managarov couldn't wait to interrupt me and said angrily, "I still have two infantry divisions that are basically complete. In addition, when the 48th infantry arrived, I could still draw out two divisions. In this way, I can put at least four divisions into combat. Comrade commander, tell me how you plan to use these four divisions. "

When fighting, no one thinks that they have too many troops, and I am no exception. At this moment, listening to managarov say that four infantry divisions can be put into battle, my heart suddenly a burst of ecstasy. But I tried to keep myself calm. I turned around and asked bzikov, "chief of staff, what do you think should be done?" After listening to my question and thinking about it, bzikov replied, "comrades commander, judging from the war reports we received, the position of the first army is the most difficult one at present. I suggest that the two divisions in the hands of general managarov be put in this direction first. As for the other two divisions of the 48th infantry army, they can be incorporated into general govorunanko's forces when they arrive. Our attack in this direction is progressing very smoothly. If we increase the number of troops, we may be able to break through the defense outside the German army and rush into Kharkov today. " Managarov may have heard from bzikov that the troops could rush into Kharkov as soon as possible. He immediately became interested and said in a flurry of voice: "yes, yes, just do as chief of staff bzikov said. I'll let the two divisions that are in the process of recuperation rush to the position of the first route army and follow the command of general baksov. " With that, he called major general volgeng, his chief of staff, to mobilize his troops. After about 40 minutes, the special line between Xie Liujin and I was finally opened. I heard Xie Liujin's voice coming out of the earphone, and the sound of explosions one after another. Then I asked in a loud voice, "Hello, Mr. Xie Liujin, what's the situation there?" As the explosion was too loud, sheriujin had to say to me in a loud voice: "report to the commander, at present, our division and the 52nd division of general nikolasov's guards have taken control of the liubojing area to the west of Kharkov. The Germans are unwilling to fail and are organizing troops to carry out an uninterrupted counter offensive against us. Relying on the terrain, our commanders and fighters launched a fierce battle with the German armored forces