Chapter 1438

After listening to rokosovsky's guidance on the work in the city, I tentatively asked him, "Comrade General, do you want to go to the defensive positions outside the city?"

"Yes, of course." For my proposal, rokosovsky agreed very readily. He stood up and said to kirilov, "Comrade kirilov, if you have Rita to accompany me to the defensive positions outside the city, you can stay in the city and discuss with beloborodov about how to implement the wage card." With that, he shook his head at me and said in an unquestionable voice, "Rita, come with me."

Coming out of the garrison headquarters building, rokosovsky saw me walking towards the jeep and stopped me, saying, "we're just going to inspect the fortifications outside the city, so we don't have to take a car."

"Comrade commander," I heard him say, and quickly explained, "the fortifications to the north of moziri are 15 kilometers deep. If we don't take a bus, it will take us at least one day to complete the inspection."

"Well," after listening to me, rokosovsky realized that our fortifications outside moziri actually occupied such a large area, so he waved his hand and said, "get in the car!"

Not far out of the city, I saw a few jeeps parked on the side of the road, and several commanders standing nearby. At a glance, I saw that the leader of the team was the 22nd army commander of the guards, sivakov, and immediately told the driver, "Comrade driver, stop by the side of the road."

While the driver was slowing down to stop, I introduced to rokosovsky, "senior general, you see, outside, major general sivakov, commander of the 22nd army of the guards, came to meet us."

As soon as rokosovsky and I got out of the car, sivakov, standing on the side of the road, raised his hand to the brim of his hat and saluted both of us.

Rokosovsky took off his gloves, took sivakov's hand, and said in a friendly way, "major general sivakov, we want to see the fortifications you built, and please be our guide."

"Welcome, Comrade General." Sivakov gave me a quick glance and continued to report to rokosovsky, "we've been looking forward to your inspection of our fortifications."

"I hope you don't let me down." After releasing sivakov's hand, rokosovsky simply said, "well, major general sivakov, please show us the way ahead."

Sivakov and his men got on two jeeps and showed us the way ahead. Rokosovsky ordered the driver to follow closely.

On the way, rokosovsky said to me, "Rita, from the current situation, you will confront the ninth German army for quite a long time. If there is no solid fortification, it will not be able to block the German attack, so that they can tear a gap in your place and rescue the gomerie group trapped in our encirclement. "

"Don't worry, Comrade General." As for rokosovsky's worry, I said confidently: "the defense to the north of moziri and kalinkovic is as solid as gold. If the German army doesn't come, it will be broken as long as they come."

Rokosovsky didn't seem to believe me very much. He asked suspiciously, "are you so confident?"

I understand why rokosovsky is so worried. Although there are different arrangements between the 61st group army of rolov and the 65th group army of Batov on the left and right sides of our group army, the enemy's strength is not weak. On the west side there is the second group army of the German army, on the front side there is the ninth group army, and on the north side there is the fourth group army of the German army, These are all the main forces of the German central army group. They have beaten hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops to pieces. It is not difficult to deal with tens of thousands of our troops.

In order to dispel the misgivings of rokosovsky, I explained to him: "Comrade General, we have reinforced the fortifications on the basis of the original fortifications of the German army, and placed the strongest division on the first line, while the other two divisions are deployed in the depth of the defense."

After listening to my report, rokosovsky asked with great interest: "in your report, I saw that you ordered the troops to push the moziri line northward by 10 kilometers, while the kalinkovich line northward by 5 kilometers. Now I want to know, what's the purpose of your doing this? "

"Very simple, comrade general, in order to get enough defense depth." In the face of the fact that the military talent can easily crush my rokosovsky, I truthfully replied: "the defense depth of the two cities was only seven or eight kilometers. After moving the defense line northward, our defense depth reached more than 15 kilometers. In this way, our rear forces can respond in time when they are suddenly attacked by the German forces... "

After listening to my report patiently, rokosovsky nodded with a smile and said with approval, "yes, your defense deployment sounds very good. I believe that as long as you have a solid and perfect defense system to block the German attack, it will not be a problem at all."

"By the way, comrade general," I suddenly thought of the fierce fighting in other battlefields and asked, "how is our counterattack against the German army going? Is it going well?"

"It's a good game." Rokosovsky nodded and said: "because the German army did not expect our army to launch a sudden attack on them in such a cold season, we were unprepared. Because of the loss of unified command, the German army, which was divided and surrounded by us, had to adopt rigid defensive tactics and stick to fixed points. Therefore, when we attack, we can mobilize more than seven or eight times of their troops, as well as the number of aircraft, tanks and artillery, to carry out a war of annihilation against them.... "

I feel very familiar when I hear what rokosovsky said. If you think about it more carefully, isn't this the German tactics against the Soviet two years ago? However, the situation has changed, and the original attacker has become a defender. He has been beaten by the defeated generals in the past and has no fighting power.

Before long, I stopped the jeep in front of me and sivakov got out of the car and came towards us. Rokosovsky asked strangely: "why, so soon to the forefront?"

"No," I have visited the defensive positions in the northern suburbs several times. Just looking out of the window, I can judge the approximate position. I turned to rokosovsky and said, "this is only the second line position."

"How come I stopped just after I got to the second line position," rokosovsky said with some reluctance. "I should continue to drive forward. I want to go to the forefront to have a look."

At this moment, sivakov came to our car. He reported to rokosovsky through the window and said, "Comrade General, we are here. Please get out of the car."

Rokosovsky pushed open the car door and said to sivakov unhappily, "general sivakov, I want to go to the first line to see how you stop here?"

Sivakov, who was criticized by rokosovsky, blushed and replied awkwardly: "Comrade General, the enemy occasionally shoots cold guns at our front line, or some snipers hide in a place not far from the trench, causing us a lot of losses. For your safety's sake, don't go to the front line. "

"What the hell's going on, Rita?" After sivakov finished speaking, rokosovsky immediately turned to look at me and asked impolitely, "why didn't you report to me that the German troops fired cold guns at your positions?"

Rokosovsky's question made me a little silly. In fact, it's not that I deliberately concealed it, but that I didn't know about it at all. You know, it's still my usual tactic to use cold guns and cold guns to deal with the enemy. I didn't expect that the Germans have learned to use our tactics to deal with us.

However, in front of rokosovsky, I can't put the responsibility on my subordinates, because even if I shirk the responsibility, I can't get rid of rokosovsky's dissatisfaction with me, on the contrary, it will make the people below feel cold. After a short period of weighing, I decided to take the responsibility on myself: "sorry, senior general, I don't think this kind of small action of the German army will do much harm to us, so I didn't pay enough attention to it."

After listening to me, rokosovsky snorted heavily twice, and then said to sivakov, "general sivakov, take me to see your fortifications. I hope you don't let me down too much."

Sivakov himself served as a guide, leading me and rokosovsky from one position to another. Rokosovsky went to the trench, carefully looked at the fire point, shelter, and measured the height of the trench with his own height. Occasionally, he would use his fist to look at the log panels in the trench to see if they were strong enough.

After we inspected the second line position for more than an hour, rokosovsky nodded with satisfaction and said to sivakov, "general sivakov, it seems that your fortifications are well repaired. I hope that when the Germans attack you, you can rely on these fortifications to block their attack and consume a lot of their living strength. Can you do that? "

"Comrade General, please rest assured." Sivakov replied with his head held high: "as long as there is still one soldier alive in our close guard 22nd army, the enemy will never be allowed to pass through our position."

Although rokosovsky was smiling at the people below, as soon as he got into the jeep, he restrained his smile and told the driver with a straight face: "Comrade driver, drive directly to the headquarters of the sixth group army."

I thought rokosovsky would leave with his guards after his inspection. But at the moment, when I heard him tell the driver to drive to my headquarters, my heart could not help but thump, knowing that I would be criticized by him later.

Sure enough, after returning to my headquarters, rokosovsky went to the table without a word, took off his hat, fell heavily on the table, and said angrily, "Rita, I'm so disappointed in you!"

Being busy at the table, chisjakov and bzikov were startled by rokosovsky's action. They didn't know what was going on, and they didn't dare to ask. They could only stand beside each other looking at each other.

Only listen to rokosovsky continue to say: "I think you in the continuous liberation of kalinkovic and moziri, the enemy has been beaten scared.". As a result, although the German army was driven far away by you from the vicinity of the city, they were not willing to fail and wanted to counterattack at any time. But what did you do? Although the defense line has been pushed five to ten kilometers to the enemy's defense area, it has not really suppressed the enemy. In the face of their constant consumption of your effective strength in the form of cold guns and cold artillery, you have done nothing. I am really disappointed. "

I know rokosovsky's character, and I know that sometimes he is just a knife in the mouth and a bean curd in the heart. When he is angry, he never treats things to others, so I keep silent wisely and listen to him patiently to express my dissatisfaction.

Finally heard him say: "you say, how do you plan to deal with this matter?" I knew that he had finished his anger, and he said the plan he was considering on the road: "Comrade General, since the Germans can deal with us with cold guns and cold guns, we can deal with them in the same way. I plan to dispatch sharpshooters from within the group army, organize sniper teams, go deep into the depth of the German army, and kill valuable targets. " When I heard that I was going to organize a sniper team to deal with the enemy, the expression on rokosovsky's face softened. He then asked, "how are you going to deal with the enemy's cold artillery?"“ It's very simple. I'll deploy artillery observers at the front. When the enemy fired cold artillery at us, the observer calculated the position of the German artillery and provided it to the artillery units in the rear. By our artillery units, the German run positions to implement fire coverage After listening, rokosovsky nodded, and then said, "now that you have a thorough consideration, then implement it as soon as possible." After that, he raised his hand and looked at his watch. He put the cap on his head again and held out his hand to me. "It's late. I'm going back to the headquarters of the front army. I hope I can hear your good news as soon as possible." After rokosovsky left, chisjakov first asked curiously, "Comrade commander, what's the matter? Why did the general get so angry?" I replied with a wry smile: "when we went to inspect the defensive positions in the outskirts of moziri, he wanted to go to the front-line positions, but general sivakov said that they were often attacked by German artillery and snipers, which caused a lot of casualties to our forward commanders and fighters. For the sake of the general's safety, it's better not to go."“ So that's what happened. " After he understood what was going on, chisjakov urged bzikov: "well, chief of staff, don't stand there. Come quickly and study how to deal with the cold guns and cold guns of the Germans."