Chapter 1269

Although chisjakov understood my intention, kirilov and bezikov were confused about his explanation. Seeing that everyone was focusing on me again, I had to explain it to them again: "after being repulsed by our 40th army, the German army retreated along the road to Kiev. Although their morale is low, if they encounter our army's tenacious resistance, their desire for survival will be aroused in order to escape from the natural world. In this way, their combat effectiveness will be multiplied and unstoppable like a torrent. If we rely on weak defensive positions to block them under such circumstances, even if we barely block them, we will pay huge casualties. "

When I say this, I want to pause and see what reaction you have. Bezikov looked at me, nodded thoughtfully, and then said, "Comrade commander, what you said is very reasonable. The madness of the German attack is completely beyond our imagination, otherwise the 1243 regiment would not be crippled by the German in such a short time. "

Seeing that bezikov understood what I meant, I went on to say, "if the enemy is a flood, then our army is a dam. Once the dam is unable to support under the impact of the flood, the best way is to release the flood. When the flood comes out of the gap we opened, the impact will soon weaken, and then we can slowly clean up the mess. "

When I heard the metaphor, kirilov's face was suddenly enlightened. He nodded his head and said, "Rita, your metaphor is very vivid. I see what you mean. When the German saw that the passage in front of him was opened, he immediately saw the hope of life. In this case, even though he knew that there were enemies nearby, everyone thought that since there was a chance to live, he would run forward quickly. As long as he rushed out of the death zone, he would escape from life. "

"Yes, that's what it means." "In the process of the enemy's escape, our troops, which have been in ambush for a long time, suddenly attack them. They simply can't organize effective resistance, and the troops may collapse in an instant," chisjakov added

As soon as he had finished, the telephone on the desk rang. After listening to the phone for a moment, bizikov said to me with a smile, "Comrade commander, it's general nikolasov. He said that the enemy has entered the ambush area of the 52nd division of the guards. He asked if he could attack immediately."

"Strike After I said a light word, I felt that it was too short. Nekrasov might not be able to understand my intention, so I specially added: "tell Mr. Nekrasov that the troops should be alert when they attack, and prevent the Germans from jumping over the wall and turning around to bite us when we attack or pursue."

"I understand." Bezikov agreed and said to the microphone, "Comrade division, the commander orders you to attack immediately. However, when attacking, we should keep enough vigilance to avoid the Germans jumping over the wall to bite you

As soon as nikolasov hung up, Lukin's call came in. He said with some emotion: "Comrade commander, the German army has almost passed through our division's defense area. I beg you to allow me to lead the other two regiments to pursue the fleeing German army."

"No, comrade commander." For his request, I immediately denied it with an unquestionable tone: "if you all go to pursue the enemy, then who will defend the position?"

"A division of the 40th group army has just been stationed in our division's defense area. They can take over our defense." Lu Jin was deeply afraid that I would not agree with him. He also played a sentimental card to me: "Comrade commander, our 1243rd regiment almost lost all its casualties in the blocking battle. The whole division was filled with anger and wanted to pay back the blood debt to the Germans."

When I heard that there were friendly troops stationed in the defense line of Lu Jin's headquarters, my heart immediately became more secure. It is impossible for the Germans to turn around and go south even if they find that the road ahead is blocked. Besides, the commanders and fighters of the 375TH infantry division are eager to fight, so they should be given a chance to vent their emotions. Thinking of this, I nodded slightly, and then said: "Comrade commander, as long as you can persuade the friendly forces to help you hold your position, you can lead the troops to attack for a long time."

"Don't worry, comrade commander," Lu Jinxin swore to me, "I will persuade the commanders of the friendly forces to take over our defense."

After I finished the conversation with Lu Jin, I sat at the table for a moment. Then I got up and went to the wall to pour tea. Unexpectedly, as soon as I picked up the cup, the phone on the table rang again. I took a look at the position where the phone was placed and saw that akhromeyev had picked up the phone, so I continued to pour my tea.

Before I filled the cup with tea, I heard akhromeyev calling me: "Comrade commander, it's your phone." I put down the teapot and walked slowly towards the table with the cup half filled. I thought to myself, "I don't know if it's nikolasov or Lukin who's calling for me?"

Seeing that I was not in a hurry, akhromeyev's face showed a nervous expression. He covered the microphone with his palm and said to me in a low voice: "Comrade commander, it's general Moskalenko who is looking for you!"

Moskalenko?! I think the name sounds familiar, but I can't remember who it is for a moment. Seeing my blank face, chisjakov, standing at the table, reminded me in a low voice, "Comrade commander, general Moskalenko is the commander of the 40th army."

Oh, it's the commander of the 40th army! With such a reminder from chisgakov, I immediately remembered who this general was. Although I knew him as early as the battle of Stalingrad, he played an ignominious role in the fall of Zhukov in the history I know, so I always had a bad impression on him

I put the teacup on the table, took the microphone from akhromeyev's hand, took a deep breath, stuck it to my ear, and politely said, "Hello, comrade general, this is oshanina. What can I do for you?"

Moskalenko recognized my politeness with a kind of estrangement. After a moment's silence, Moskalenko said, "general oshanina, my troops crossed the Dnieper River today and successfully captured two German cities. At present, one of my divisions has followed the fleeing enemy into the defense area of your group army. As the commanders and fighters are very tired from continuous fighting, I would like to ask you to let your troops take over the task of investigating the German army, so that my commanders and fighters can have a good rest. Is that ok? "

"No problem, no problem, general Moskalenko." I was worried about how Lukin would persuade the friendly commanders to defend the positions on their behalf. At the moment, when I heard Moskalenko's request, I really wanted to doze off. Someone gave me a pillow. I quickly pushed the boat along and said, "we are friendly forces. I will tell the commander below to handle these little things immediately. You can rest assured."

Moskalenko also knows that I have something to do with him. He may have prepared a lot of things to say in advance, but I didn't expect that I would promise so readily that he didn't even have the chance to say it. However, he may feel that it's impolite to hang up in such a hurry and chat with me for a long time.

When I put down the phone, I rubbed my numb smile face, then looked up at bezikov and asked, "chief of staff, is there any feedback from the front line?"

After hearing this, bzikov shook his head and said, "not for the time being, but I think I'll be able to receive the battle report from the front line in more than ten minutes."

I nodded, picked up my tea cup, sipped the tea slowly, staring at the map, thinking: in addition to the main force, there may be a small group of German troops who have crossed the line of defense of the Lukin division, which will flee to Kiev, they may flee to smira and kosson respectively. There is a division of Colonel chejerikov in smira, and the enemy poses no threat to them; In Kesong, there is only a motorized regiment of the Fifth Army of the close guard tank. If a large number of enemies rush past, they may suffer.

I was thinking about whether I should call Kravchenko and ask him to send a tank brigade to reinforce Koson when lophoff came up to me, handed me a telegram, and said with a look of joy: "Comrade commander, general Nekrasov called and said that the whole German army collapsed directly after being hit by the 52nd division of the guards."

When I heard what lophove said, I raised my eyebrows. I was afraid that I had heard it wrong. I asked again, "Comrade major, what do you say? After the enemy was attacked by us, the whole army collapsed directly?"

"Yes, comrade commander." Lophov looked down at the telegram and said, "general nikolasov reported that the whole army collapsed directly after our attack on the enemy. The soldiers did not run along the road towards Kiev, but scattered in all directions."

I took the telegram and read it carefully several times. Then I put it on the table and looked at chisjakov and kirilov, who were looking at me. They said, "yes, from this telegram of general nikolasov, the enemy's troops collapsed directly after our attack. If they run along the road towards Kiev, it can be called a retreat, or they may regroup after ten or twenty miles, and then turn around and bite us. But judging from the current situation, the enemy has turned into a mass of loose sand. In addition to a small number of enemies, they also rushed to Kiev along the road, and most of the remaining enemies ran aimlessly in all directions. "

"What shall we do next?" Asked bezikov, looking at me.

"Comrade chief of staff, since the enemy has become a group of loose sand, it's time for us to beat the water dog." With that, I stood up and gave an order to bezikov: "you should call general sivakov, commander of the 23rd army of the close guard, and ask him to send two close guard divisions to attack immediately, so that they can take part in the fight against the remnants of the German army."

"Yes, since the enemy is demoralized, we should pursue and fight hard." As soon as I finished, chisgakov echoed. He continued: "I believe that as long as kaniv's troops attack again, they can safely escape back to the enemy in Kiev, there will not be many people."

"By the way, chief of staff, please call general Kravchenko again." At this time, I finally made up my mind to let the Fifth Army of close guard tanks go out, and then decisively gave an order: "let him send a tank brigade to attack, to destroy all the enemy's armored forces at the fastest speed, and strive not to let go of an enemy."

Although I also understand the saying that an enemy will not be let go, I can only talk about it. After all, there are forests all around. If the desperate enemy goes into the forest, unless we use several times of our forces to search for them, someone will surely miss the net. However, when giving an order, we have to mention it, otherwise it will not be powerful enough.

In the next more than an hour, nikolasov and Lukin kept calling or telegraming me, telling me where they had defeated the enemy's defenses, and how many enemies they had captured, and so on. From akhromeyev, who is responsible for recording the results of the war, chisjakov asked for the war report he had just received. After reading it for a while, he frowned and said to me, "Comrade commander, something is wrong?" His words startled me, thinking, did he find any plot of the enemy? Thinking of this, I can't help asking with a little guilty: "Comrade deputy commander, what's wrong?" He put the war report in front of me, pointed to it and said to me, "Comrade commander, you see, in the war report of the 52nd division of Jinwei, besides how many enemies were destroyed, the number of prisoners was also written. However, commander Lukin's war report did not provide prisoners at all except for the number of German resistance and the number of enemies he destroyed. " I picked up the war report and read it. I soon realized that it was so. So I put down the war report, sighed, looked up and said to chisgakov, "Comrade deputy commander, in fact, the reason why lieutenant colonel Lukin didn't mention the issue of prisoners is that they didn't catch any prisoners at all."“ What, no prisoners? " After listening to what I said, chisgakov could not help shouting: "Comrade commander, you see, in general nikolasov's report, he has captured more than a thousand prisoners. No matter how poor their division's combat effectiveness is, commander Lukin can't catch even one or two hundred prisoners?" With a wry smile, I replied, "Comrade deputy commander, I think you have made a mistake. It's not that they can't catch the prisoners, but that they didn't intend to catch them at all."