"Comrade commander, do you know how far one verst is?" Seeing Rokossovsky put down the phone, Lobachev, who was sitting next to him, suddenly asked a clueless sentence unexpectedly. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"One verst?" When Rokossovsky heard this unit of measurement, he immediately mentally converted this distance into kilometers, and then replied: "Comrade Military Commissar, there must be a little more than a kilometer." ”

"No, Comrade Commander, you didn't understand what I meant." Lobachev waved his hand, stood up and replied: "This is an allusion, I also heard a fighter mention it two days ago. ”

Rokossovsky was confused by Lobachev's inexplicable words, and he asked puzzledly: "What kind of allusion, how come I have never heard of it." ”

"The Brest Fortress was only one verst from the Polish border," Lobachev explained to Rokossovsky, "and before the outbreak of the war, the Germans said that they would take the fortress with only one charge. However, after the battle began, our defenders resisted and pinned down dozens of times their own German forces under difficult circumstances, and persisted in fighting for as long as a month. ……”

Hearing Lobachev mention the Brest Fortress, Rokossovsky immediately remembered that he had led his troops to relieve the siege there, but unfortunately because the enemy's strength was too strong, only a few defenders were rescued, and he withdrew heavily to the territory of Ukraine. Thinking of this, he asked curiously: "Comrade Military Commissar, is the soldier who told you this from the Brest Fortress?" ”

"Yes, Comrade Commander." Lobachev affirmed: "This warrior was rescued by you from the Brest fortress, but unfortunately was wounded and captured by the Germans during the Battle of Uman. However, he later managed to escape from the enemy prisoner of war camp and returned to us. The fact that the fortress held out for a month was something he learned from one of his comrades who had been captured in the fortress. ”

Rokossovsky waited for Lobachev to finish speaking, vaguely guessed what the other party was going to express, and asked tentatively: "Comrade Military Commissar, when you suddenly mentioned this matter, are you worried that our attack on Volokolamsk will become as protracted as the German attack on the Brest fortress?" ”

"yes, that's exactly what I was trying to say." Lobachev replied in the affirmative: "I don't think it's enough to just adjust the troops, and the tactics need to be adjusted accordingly." ”

"I see, Comrade Military Commissar." Without waiting for Lobachev to finish speaking, Rokossovsky decisively ordered Malinin: "Chief of Staff, call Colonel Gaidukov and ask him to immediately assemble troops, and when our bombardment is over, follow the tank units and launch an attack on Volokolamsk." ”

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When the Soviet Air Force bombed Volokolamsk, Rokossovsky mobilized a tank battalion and the 17th Cavalry Division, as well as the 1077th Regiment of the 8th Guards Division, to advance to the ruins of a settlement only two kilometers from the city, and as soon as the bombardment was over, he immediately launched an attack.

When the Soviet bombers had dropped all the bombs they were carrying and began to return home, the troops hidden in the settlements began to attack. Since Rokossovsky considered the snow on the edge of the city to be too deep, he replaced the troops that followed the tank assault from infantry to cavalry.

"The Russians are coming up!" The German soldiers, who had just escaped from their hiding bunkers, could not help but scream at the sight of the tanks and cavalry rushing towards their positions. Hearing the shouts of the soldiers, the officer next to him, who had just crawled out of the accumulated soil, lay down in the trench and observed the movement outside, and then also opened his voice and shouted: "The Russians have come up, everyone in place, ready to fight!" He was so nervous that even the roar of the tanks and the sound of the horses' hooves could not hide the tremor in his voice.

The surviving points of fire on the position immediately opened fire, and an MG34 machine gun was the first to go off. The machine gun shooter is desperately pulling the trigger, while the secondary shooter is holding the chain to avoid jamming. Under the interception of machine-gun fire, five or six cavalrymen immediately dismounted, and several horses fell over while running, and then tripped the horses behind, and were swept under the iron hooves around them along with their masters.

But this point of fire was quickly named by the Soviet tank guns, and in the flash of fire and loud noises, the main and secondary machine gunners and machine guns were thrown into the air, and then disintegrated and thrown everywhere. At the same time, the war horses in the high-speed impact are constantly advancing. In just a minute or two, the cavalry crossed the tanks that were opening the way in front and rushed not far from the trenches. Hundreds of war horses galloped wildly at the same time, and the movement of iron hooves trampled like rolling thunder, and the ground trembled.

The German commander in the trenches knew that the battle had reached the most urgent moment, and once the position he held was broken through by the Soviet cavalry, a large force of the Soviet army would be able to rush into the city again. So he brandished his pistol and shouted hoarsely: "Fire, fire immediately, and the Russians must not be allowed to rush past our positions." ”

With his shout, the surviving soldiers on the position immediately raised their weapons and opened heavy fire on the rushing Soviet cavalry. The hundreds of thousands of bullets that were splashed out in an instant were intertwined into an impenetrable web of fire, which immediately knocked the Soviet cavalry on their backs.

One cavalry after another swept through the dense bullets, but the remaining cavalry still rushed forward with bullets. In the billowing smoke and dust, the earth was trampled under the tremor of iron hooves, and the earth and snow piled up on the trenches fell with a clatter, and the hearts of the German soldiers were already in their throats. The shock of seeing the dense team of horses rushing towards you is beyond words. Although there were craters on the ground and dead bodies on the ground, they could no longer stand the sprint of the fully running war horses, and the German officers and soldiers could clearly see the sabers in the hands of the cavalrymen on the horses, reflecting in the sun.

"Grenade! Get on the bayonet! The German commander's voice had become shrill because of extreme fear. In his shouting, the German soldiers in the position reflexively pulled out their grenades, smashed them at the rushing cavalry, and then pulled out their bayonets and mounted them on their rifles, ready to engage the rushing cavalry in hand-to-hand combat.

Due to excessive tension, the German commander made a military mistake that any experienced veteran or officer would know: the use of grenades against high-speed cavalry would be greatly reduced. No matter how fast you move, it will take time from picking up the grenade and unscrewing the lid, pulling the fire rope to throwing it out, plus the delay of the grenade, even if you can accurately calculate the amount of advance, by the time the grenade lands, the war horse has already rushed over.

The ensuing facts also proved the mistake of this decision of the German officers. The grenades thrown by the Germans did not stop the impact of the horses, and the explosions only knocked out part of the cavalry, but the fragments produced not only injured the horses, but stimulated the horses to accelerate in an instant.

By the time the German commander reacted, it was already too late. The German firing points were destroyed one after another by Soviet tanks, and the soldiers who were ready to fight with the Soviets with bayonets watched as the Soviet cavalry crashed straight into the position and jumped up from the edge of the trench.

The cavalrymen, who were lying on horseback, flashed with cold light with their sabers stretched downward, and rushed towards the German soldiers who were standing still. Due to the tremendous inertia, many of the blades of the sabers slashed through the chests and heads of the German soldiers, and even caused half of Obifei's body to crash straight into the back wall of the trench. Because it was too fast, the neck that was cut was like a knife cutting tofu, and the war horse jumped for a while, and the head rolled off the neck, and then spurted out a foot-high blood from the cavity. Even if the soldiers who reacted quickly could barely raise their rifles to resist, under the high-speed impact, they were usually split into two pieces by people with guns. Where the Soviet cavalry passed, nearly 100 German soldiers fell in a pool of blood in just an instant. When the Soviet Air Force bombed Volokolamsk, Rokossovsky mobilized a tank battalion and the 17th Cavalry Division, as well as the 1077th Regiment of the 8th Guards Division, to advance to the ruins of a settlement only two kilometers from the city, and as soon as the bombardment was over, he immediately launched an attack.

When the Soviet bombers had dropped all the bombs they were carrying and began to return home, the troops hidden in the settlements began to attack. Since Rokossovsky considered the snow on the edge of the city to be too deep, he replaced the troops that followed the tank assault from infantry to cavalry.

"The Russians are coming up!" The German soldiers, who had just escaped from their hiding bunkers, could not help but scream at the sight of the tanks and cavalry rushing towards their positions. Hearing the shouts of the soldiers, the officer next to him, who had just crawled out of the accumulated soil, lay down in the trench and observed the movement outside, and then also opened his voice and shouted: "The Russians have come up, everyone in place, ready to fight!" He was so nervous that even the roar of the tanks and the sound of the horses' hooves could not hide the tremor in his voice.

The surviving points of fire on the position immediately opened fire, and an MG34 machine gun was the first to go off. The machine gun shooter is desperately pulling the trigger, while the secondary shooter is holding the chain to avoid jamming. Under the interception of machine-gun fire, five or six cavalrymen immediately dismounted, and several horses fell over while running, and then tripped the horses behind, and were swept under the iron hooves around them along with their masters.

But this point of fire was quickly named by the Soviet tank guns, and in the flash of fire and loud noises, the main and secondary machine gunners and machine guns were thrown into the air, and then disintegrated and thrown everywhere. At the same time, the war horses in the high-speed impact are constantly advancing. In just a minute or two, the cavalry crossed the tanks that were opening the way in front and rushed not far from the trenches. Hundreds of war horses galloped wildly at the same time, and the movement of iron hooves trampled like rolling thunder, and the ground trembled.

The German commander in the trenches knew that the battle had reached the most urgent moment, and once the position he held was broken through by the Soviet cavalry, a large force of the Soviet army would be able to rush into the city again. So he brandished his pistol and shouted hoarsely: "Fire, fire immediately, and the Russians must not be allowed to rush past our positions." ”

With his shout, the surviving soldiers on the position immediately raised their weapons and opened heavy fire on the rushing Soviet cavalry. The hundreds of thousands of bullets that were splashed out in an instant were intertwined into an impenetrable web of fire, which immediately knocked the Soviet cavalry on their backs.

One cavalry after another swept through the dense bullets, but the remaining cavalry still rushed forward with bullets. In the billowing smoke and dust, the earth was trampled under the tremor of iron hooves, and the earth and snow piled up on the trenches fell with a clatter, and the hearts of the German soldiers were already in their throats. The shock of seeing the dense team of horses rushing towards you is beyond words. Although there were craters on the ground and dead bodies on the ground, they could no longer stand the sprint of the fully running war horses, and the German officers and soldiers could clearly see the sabers in the hands of the cavalrymen on the horses, reflecting in the sun.

"Grenade! Get on the bayonet! The German commander's voice had become shrill because of extreme fear. In his shouting, the German soldiers in the position reflexively pulled out their grenades, smashed them at the rushing cavalry, and then pulled out their bayonets and mounted them on their rifles, ready to engage the rushing cavalry in hand-to-hand combat.

Due to excessive tension, the German commander made a military mistake that any experienced veteran or officer would know: the use of grenades against high-speed cavalry would be greatly reduced. No matter how fast you move, it will take time from picking up the grenade and unscrewing the lid, pulling the fire rope to throwing it out, plus the delay of the grenade, even if you can accurately calculate the amount of advance, by the time the grenade lands, the war horse has already rushed over.

The ensuing facts also proved the mistake of this decision of the German officers. The grenades thrown by the Germans did not stop the impact of the horses, and the explosions only knocked out part of the cavalry, but the fragments produced not only injured the horses, but stimulated the horses to accelerate in an instant.

By the time the German commander reacted, it was already too late. The German firing points were destroyed one after another by Soviet tanks, and the soldiers who were ready to fight with the Soviets with bayonets watched as the Soviet cavalry crashed straight into the position and jumped up from the edge of the trench.

The cavalrymen, who were lying on horseback, flashed with cold light with their sabers stretched downward, and rushed towards the German soldiers who were standing still. Due to the tremendous inertia, many of the blades of the sabers slashed through the chests and heads of the German soldiers, and even caused half of Obifei's body to crash straight into the back wall of the trench. Because it was too fast, the neck that was cut was like a knife cutting tofu, and the war horse jumped for a while, and the head rolled off the neck, and then spurted out a foot-high blood from the cavity. Even if the soldiers who reacted quickly could barely raise their rifles to resist, under the high-speed impact, they were usually split into two pieces by people with guns. Where the Soviet cavalry passed, nearly 100 German soldiers fell in a pool of blood in just an instant.

"Great, our cavalry is amazing." Seeing the wonderful chopping performance of the cavalry troops, Zakharov, who was watching the battle situation at the observation post, couldn't help but applaud repeatedly.