Chapter 1235

Less than two hours after I gave tavartkilaze the order to assemble the troops, he called me and reported to me, "Comrade commander, the troops have assembled and can start at any time."

When Zhukov heard the news, he couldn't help saying with emotion: "I really can't see that tavartkilaze is quite capable. I thought it would take him at least five hours to complete the assembly. Unexpectedly, in less than two hours, the troops were ready to start. If I have a chance to see him, I'd like to ask him how he trained the troops, and how he could complete the assembly of the troops in such a short time. "

Seeing Zhukov's praise for talazzi, I laughed bitterly and said: the reason why the 51st division of the guards assembled so quickly was that they put into battle at the latest, almost without any fierce battle, Kharkov was recovered by us. The main force of the Division has not been dispersed, so the assembly speed is naturally fast.

After praising tavartkilaze, Zhukov said to Kravchenko, "Comrade General, it's impossible to let all your tank troops go now. Well, you first send a tank brigade to follow the 51st division of the guards. In order to make the troops ready to fight at any time, you will assign the tank brigade to each infantry regiment as a unit and disperse them. "

Accustomed to the centralized use of tanks, I was stunned when I heard Zhukov say so. But on second thought, it's not bad. Every infantry regiment equipped with tank battalion is a separate group. Once they encounter the German army, they can immediately fight, entangle them, and then annihilate the enemy when the troops behind arrive.

As the 51st division of the guards completed the assembly ahead of time, our departure time was also advanced to 5 p.m. In Zhukov's words, while it is still early, let the troops quickly advance to chuhuyev, strive to seize the city as soon as possible, and take it as our starting point of attack.

On the way ahead was the first echelon of Colonel Lukin's 309th regiment and 1st tank battalion. The guard camp led by basmanov and I worked with the second echelon. Originally, according to the plan, tavartkilaze and his military headquarters should be in the third echelon. Who knows, when he saw me in the second echelon, he temporarily changed his mind and asked his chief of staff to stay behind and follow me.

As the jeep was driving on the road, tavartkilaze asked me carefully, "Comrade commander, I heard that we went south to cooperate with the southwest front army?"

"That's right." As for his question, I immediately answered it positively, and then asked, "did Colonel bzikov not clearly explain the reason for your transfer when he explained the question to you?"

"Make it clear." Tavartkilaze nodded his head and replied, "the chief of staff said that as the vanguard of the whole army, the 51st division of Jinwei should seize chuhuyev first, so that our troops can have a foothold."

"Now that the task is clear, carry it out!" I said in an official voice: "after the capture of chuhuyev, it can be used as a camp and temporary military station for the troops. This is very good for restoring the physical strength of our commanders and fighters and maintaining the combat effectiveness of the troops."

"Yes, yes." Tavartkilaze said with a smile: "before Azzi's troops set out, I asked lieutenant colonel Lukin to send a scout to scout the enemy ahead. He is your old subordinate, and I believe his troops, as vanguards, will surely achieve unexpected results. "

I remembered that two thirds of the officers and men in Lukin regiment were new recruits who were only added after the German army was repulsed from Kursk by us. I immediately asked, "are the recruits added to the 309th regiment now effective?"

"Don't worry, comrade commander." Tavartkilaze said with some pride: "I don't know how lieutenant colonel Lukin trained. Just a week after he arrived, the technical and tactical level of the recruits was almost the same as that of the veterans of other regiments. Especially in the early morning of the attack, the three battalions under lieutenant colonel Lukin, with only two hundred men, broke through the German line of defense, rushed into their regiment headquarters and killed the regiment leader. "

"Well done." After listening to tavartkilaze's report, I can't help but look at Lukin with a new look. "You and I all know what the defense strength of the German regiment command is. It's impossible to attack without more than ten times the strength of the garrison. I didn't expect that Lukin used only two companies to complete the task that at least one regiment can complete."

As we were talking, a burned village passed by the window. Seeing the ruins of the village and the burned black trees all around, I can't help itching with hatred. I pointed out of the window and said to ta kiraz, "Comrade General, take a good look at the villages outside. The Germans owe us another blood debt."

Tavartkilaze turned to look outside the village, then nodded his head and said, "Comrade commander, don't worry, we'll get this blood debt back with interest sooner or later."

We drove a little further and suddenly stopped. When I heard the sudden gunfire in front of me, I knew that Lukin's avant-garde troops and the German troops were on fire. At this moment, a staff officer came down from the communication car in front of me, with a telegram in his hand. He quickly ran to my car, raised his hand to salute and handed a telegram to me. At the same time, he reported: "Comrade commander, the telegram was sent by Lieutenant Colonel Lu Jin, head of the 309th regiment. He said that he had encountered the enemy in the front, and the army was fighting fiercely with the enemy."

I took the telegram, nodded to the staff officer, then looked at the contents of the telegram, found that it was almost the same as what the staff officer said, and handed it to tavartkilaze. At the same time, I said optimistically: "since we are encountering the German army outside the city, the enemy must have no solid fortifications. As long as our tanks rush in front of us, the enemy will soon be defeated."

"When a tank rushes, it will defeat the enemy?" Hearing my confident statement, tavartkilaze asked suspiciously, "Comrade commander, you know that many German troops broke through during the day. Maybe there are thousands of Germans in the city. With only two or three thousand guards and a few tanks, can they beat the enemy to pieces? I don't really believe it will happen anyway. "

On hearing his suspicions, I didn't make any more introductions, just a faint smile, and then said: "Comrade General, as for the battle between lieutenant colonel Lukin's troops and the German troops, I think we are 70% sure of winning. If you don't believe it, you'll wait to see the result of the battle later! "

Although my jeep and the truck that followed with the guard battalion stopped, the infantry regiment of the 51st division of the guards and the tanks of the tank brigade were still advancing rapidly along the dirt road, ready to reinforce the friendly forces outside chuhuyev.

Sitting in the jeep, I calmly listened to the gunfire coming from the front. I thought to myself, if Lukin's troops, with the cooperation of the tank battalion, could not even defeat the German troops, it would be a great disappointment to me. I leaned back and rested my head on the back of my chair, while tavartkiraze was restless, afraid that his troops would suffer. After all, the German army has just been expelled from Kharkov by us. No one knows where their main force has gone. If the enemy retreats to chuhuyev, it can only blame us for our bad luck. Then the battle we are engaged in now is purely a fight against stone with eggs. Then what I have to consider is not how to push south, but how to safely withdraw Kharkov.

However, the situation was obviously not as bad as I thought. After about half an hour, the gunfire in front of me suddenly became sparse. This kind of change makes me feel uneasy like tavartkilaze. My eyes keep glancing at the communication car in front of me, hoping that someone will come out quickly and tell me the war situation in front of me.

Can wait for a long time, but did not see anyone in and out. Unexpectedly, at this time, tavartkilaze became more calm. He said to me with a smile, "Comrade commander, it seems that you guessed right. Our troops have won!"

"Our troops won?" I'm curious about his judgment. Like me, he's sitting in the car without any information. How can he know? How can he know that my family has won unless he has a good eye or a good ear“ On what basis did you make such a judgment? "

He pointed out the window and drove past trucks and tanks from time to time. He said with a smile: "you see, if the war situation ahead is not good, maybe the tanks will make way for the trucks and let them rush to the front to reinforce. But now the formation of the troops has not changed at all, and they are still moving forward at the original speed, which proves that we have won the battle in front of us. "

After listening to tavartkilaze's analysis, I thought it was quite reasonable, so I nodded and said, "so is lieutenant colonel Lukin. What's the situation in front of us? Even if you don't send a telegram, you have to send someone to report it. Let's have a clear idea. As a result, it's good now. There's no news at all. We're worried here. "

I'm thinking about whether I should get off the bus and go to the communication car in front to see if there's a telegram from Lukin. As soon as I put my hand on the handle, before I could push the door open, I saw a three wheeled motorcycle in the distance, coming towards us against the line of troops. Seeing this motorcycle suddenly appeared, the stone hanging in my heart fell to the ground. I took my hand back and said softly, "here we are at last!"

"At last Almost as I spoke, tawalter killazer let out a cry of joy.

A few minutes later, the motorcycle stopped next to us. I pushed the door open and asked the officer who had just come out of the straddle: "Hello, comrade commander, did commander Lu Jin send you?"

The officer straightened up and reported to me, "yes, comrade commander, it was lieutenant colonel Lu Jin who sent me to report the war situation ahead to you." With that, he took out a few pieces of paper from his briefcase and handed them to me.

"Bring it to me quickly." I can't wait to take the paper from his hand and look at it carefully.

Lu Jin described in detail how they found the enemy and how they exchanged fire with the enemy. Lu Jin wrote about this process for a long time. It took me five minutes to read it. After I handed the report to tavartkilaze, I raised my head and asked the officer standing in front of me, "Comrade commander, where is your commander, Lieutenant Colonel Lukin?"

"After the enemy outside the city was repulsed by us, he fled to the city, and the commander led his troops to rush into the city."

"Is the enemy's resistance tenacious?" Tavartkirazer looked at the report and asked without looking up: "is it a sudden collapse or a resistance before he retreats to the city in an organized way?"

The officer took a look at his superior and immediately straightened himself up and said, "report to the commander, when the first battalion took the lead in fighting with the enemy, the enemy was still very tenacious and suppressed our attacking troops with machine gun fire, which made it impossible for us to move forward. But when the tanks of the tank battalion appear, the enemy's resistance becomes weaker. " Although the contents of his report were very detailed in Lu Jin's report, the officers saw what we wanted to hear and went on to say, "Comrade commander, seize this favorable opportunity and organize troops to attack the enemy's positions again. The enemy's hastily constructed position was vulnerable before our attack. Soon, under the cover of tanks, we broke through the German lines from many places. The enemy couldn't resist it, so the quick ones fled into the city, while the slow ones laid down their weapons and surrendered to us one after another. " As Lu Jin's report did not mention their achievements, I couldn't help asking: "Comrade commander, have you got statistics of your regiment's achievements?" The officer shook his head and said regretfully, "I'm sorry, comrade commander. As the battle has been going on, we haven't had time to count the specific results." Perhaps seeing the disappointment on my face, he quickly added, "although there is no accurate data, according to my observation, more than 20 German tanks and armored vehicles, more than 50 motorcycles and more than 300 soldiers were destroyed. Today's roads are full of burning wrecks of tanks, armored vehicles and motorcycles, as well as scattered German bodies. " I'm very satisfied with the result. I took a look at tavartkilaze, and then said to him, "Comrade General, should you order the troops behind to speed up the March so that our army can quickly control the whole of chuhuyev?"“ Yes, comrade commander, you are right. " Tavartkilaze said, pushing open the door on his side, jumping down, turning to me and saying, "I'll go to the communication vehicle and give orders to the regimental leaders to speed up the March and join commander Lukin's troops as soon as possible."