After spending several hours with Bogolyubov, Rokossovsky noticed a strange phenomenon, the other party did not look like the chief of staff of the front at all, but like a waiter standing by the side of the restaurant waiting for the orders of the guests. Whatever he tells him to do, he will soon be able to accomplish; But if he didn't give orders, he would rather stand in place in a daze, and he didn't know to take the initiative to do these things that he did. In this regard, Rokossovsky asked puzzledly: "Comrade Bogolyubov, when Commander Vatutin was in the past, did you also have such a working attitude?" ”

Seeing Rokossovsky's unhappy look, Bogolyubov hurriedly explained: "When Commander Vatutin was here, he personally reviewed instructions and orders, and he personally completed the telephone calls and telegrams with the various army groups and commands, and I didn't need to do anything at all. ”

After listening to this, Rokossovsky frowned and asked: "I want to ask, as the chief of staff, why do you want the commander of the front army to be busy all day long with these things that should be your responsibility?" ”

Bogolyubov shrugged his shoulders and said a little helplessly: "I'm sorry, Comrade Commander, I can't help it, Commander Vatutin likes to hold on to all this in his own hands." ”

After listening to Bogolyubov's justification, Rokossovsky finally had a certain degree of understanding of the reasons for the poor performance of the First Ukrainian Front. He looked at Bogolyubov and said in a stern tone: "Comrade Chief of Staff, this will not work. It is your direct duty that you, as a general, a party member, should fully assist General Vatutin in his work. ”

"Understood, Comrade Commander." Bogolyubov said with some embarrassment: "I will definitely do my best to assist you in carrying out a good work in the future." ”

Considering that he was only a temporary acting commander, Bogolyubov would continue to cooperate with Vatutin's work in the future, so he took the initiative to say a few good words for Vatutin: "Comrade Chief of Staff, General Vatutin is a staff officer, probably because he has been in the General Staff for too long, so he has developed the habit of interfering in everything. You usually have to communicate with him more so that you can be his deputy. ”

"I remember, Comrade Commander." After listening to Rokossovsky's heartfelt words, Bogolyubov said gratefully: "When Commander Vatutin comes back in the future, I will do my best to cooperate with him in carrying out all his daily work." ”

Although Vatutin has temporarily left the First Ukrainian Front, Bogolyubov has had a little trouble when he called the commander of the Air Force, General Rasovsky. When the latter heard his name, he frowned and asked: "Comrade Chief of Staff, isn't it the commander himself who is responsible for issuing combat orders in peacetime, why did you change it today?" ”

When Bogolyubov heard this question from the other party, he was really a little crying and laughing, and his feelings were not counted except for Vatutin, who was the chief of staff.

Rokossovsky, perceiving Bogolyubov's embarrassment, stretched out his hand to him and said lightly: "Give me the phone, and I will talk to General Rasovsky personally." ”

"General Rasovsky," Rokossovsky said, putting the earpiece to his ear and turning into the microphone, "I am Rokossovsky, the acting commander of the Front!" ”

"Hello, Comrade Commander." Rokossovsky's name was like thunder to Rasovsky, and he quickly straightened his back and said respectfully: "It's a pleasure to talk to you, do you have any instructions?" ”

"What other instructions?" Rokossovsky asked unhappily: "Didn't the chief of staff, General Bogolyubov, give you the battle order?" I now formally inform you that all orders henceforth shall be given by the Chief of Staff; He is also responsible for the results you have to report. Do you understand? ”

"Understood, Comrade Commander." Rasovsky hurriedly replied: "Our air force will be ready to take off before dawn so that it can fly to the Jetmir area at any time to support our ground forces." ”

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It started to snow in the middle of the night, and by daybreak, the ground was covered with white snow. When the sentry on duty of the 20th tank brigade of the Soviet army was about to be laid off, he suddenly felt some shaking on the ground, and he listened carefully for a moment, and the roar of the tank engine was faintly heard in the distance. Based on his many years of experience, it was immediately judged that there were a large number of German tanks, which were heading towards the station of the tank brigade.

He hurriedly rushed into the hidden part on the side, and after shaking the phone handle a few times, he put the microphone to his ear and said loudly: "Hey, hey, I'm a sentry, there are a large number of German tanks in the distance, and they are heading in our direction." ”

When the officer in the brigade duty room heard the report of the sentry, he immediately ordered the battle alarm to be raised. But after the heart-warming whistle sounded one after another at the tank brigade station, the brigade commander was alarmed, and he hurriedly called the officer on duty and asked loudly: "What happened, why did the battle alarm sound?" ”

"Comrade brigade commander," the officer hurriedly reported, "the sentry reports that in the distance it seems that a large number of German tanks are rushing towards us. ”

"Understood, Comrade Captain." After listening to this, the brigade commander praised the measures taken by the officer: "You did the right thing! ”

After the brigade commander put down the phone, he said to the chief of staff standing beside him: "Comrade Chief of Staff, give an order to the battalion commanders to immediately prepare for battle, the German tanks are rushing towards us. ”

After more than ten minutes, the brigade commander stood in his observation post and saw the German tanks in the distance with a telescope, twelve on one side, divided into four rows, and came towards his station with great momentum. He hurriedly put down his binoculars, turned around and grabbed the phone, and gave orders to the commanders of each battalion: "The first and second battalions will meet from the front, and the third and fourth battalions will make a detour from the two wings. ”

Seeing the Soviet tanks rushing out of the garrison in the distance, the German tanks slowed down, swayed the heavy turrets, and aimed the 88 mm caliber tank guns at the Soviet tanks rushing over.

When the distance between the two sides was still a thousand meters, the German tank commander gave the order to open fire. In the first round of firing, an armor-piercing shell pierced the frontal armor of a T-34, causing the detonation of ammunition inside the vehicle. In the violent explosion, the turret of the Soviet tank was lifted into the air and smashed heavily into the snow.

The commander of the tank that was hit was a battalion instructor, and he ordered the tank to rush to the front, remembering the morale-boosting effect. Who knew that his tank was destroyed by the Germans before it could be fired.

The battalion commander who followed behind, seeing that the instructor's tank was destroyed by the German tank from a distance, immediately realized that he had encountered the German Tiger tank, and hurriedly gave an order to the troops by radio: "Brothers, there are German Tiger tanks in front, and our tank guns pose no threat to them at such a long distance. Speed up, rush forward, brethren, as soon as we rush into effective range, we can take out all these damned German tanks and avenge the instructors. Advance~! ”

"Avenge the instructor!" The tankmen shouted to speed up the tanks and galloped towards the German Tiger tanks.

The German tanks quickly stopped and fired again, but this time they were unlucky, and the twelve shells fired did not hit the target, but fell on the open ground and exploded, and the mud pillars rose into the sky.

Soviet tankers understood that with the 76-mm gun of the T-34 tank, it was impossible to penetrate the 102-mm frontal armor of the Tiger tank at a distance of a thousand meters. The only way is to speed up and rush forward and engage the German tanks in close combat. So, they all rushed forward with full horsepower, trying to shorten the distance between them and each other.

Don't look at the Tiger tanks' heavy firepower and thick armor, but in the face of the Soviet tanks rushing at high speed, their hit rate was not high, and four rounds of shells were fired in a row, and only three unlucky Soviet tanks were destroyed.

Soon, the tanks of both sides were less than five hundred meters apart. The Soviet tanks, which had long been ready to attack, stopped one after another, fired at the German tanks on the opposite side, and then accelerated forward.

Most of the armor-piercing shells fired by Soviet tanks missed. The few armor-piercing shells that hit left only a white mark on the frontal armor of the German Tiger tank, which did not penetrate the opposing armor at all.

At a distance of 400 meters, the Soviets again carried out another round of artillery shelling, but this time it still did not achieve any results, and even the armor-piercing shells that hit the No. 4 tank in the second row failed to penetrate their modified frontal armor.

And the German tank, whether it is the Tiger or the improved version of the Four, can easily punch a hole in the frontal armor of the Soviet T-34 tank at such a distance. With the dull sound of German tank guns one after another, the tanks of the 20th Soviet tank brigade were destroyed by the Germans one after another.

This tank battle lasted only half an hour, and the 20th Tank Brigade was almost completely wiped out, except for two wounded tanks that were lucky to withdraw from the battlefield, the remaining more than 40 tanks were destroyed by the Germans on the vast snowfield. The Germans only lost one Tiger tank and six No. 4 tanks, and two more Tiger and three No. 4 tanks were damaged, and the overall combat effectiveness was not greatly affected.

The tank brigade commander was in his own headquarters, stunned to see his troops annihilated, and was stunned for a while, before picking up the phone and calling the army commander, Major General Yu Shike, and said briefly: "Comrade commander, my tank brigade has been completely wiped out when it encounters the German Imperial Panzer Division. ”

After speaking, he didn't mean that Shi Ke finished speaking, so he hung up the phone directly, pulled out the pistol on his waist, and pulled the trigger at his temple.

When Rokossovsky heard the news that the 20th Tank Brigade had been wiped out in half an hour, he couldn't help but be furious and asked Bogolyubov: "Chief of Staff, where is our Air Force, why don't you go to support the tank brigade?" ”

Bogolyubov shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "Comrade commander, I just called General Rasovsky. He said that the weather was bad today and the planes could not take off, so for the time being they could not provide air support to the ground forces. ”

Hearing that the Air Force could not be dispatched, Rokossovsky couldn't help frowning, because he knew that the German Imperial Division was powerful, not to mention a tank brigade, even if a tank army stood in front of him, it was still in danger of being defeated.

While he was in a dilemma, a staff officer walked in quickly through the door, came to Rokossovsky and reported to him: "Comrade commander, a general has come from the Belarusian Front, saying that there is an urgent matter to see you. ”

"A general from the Belarusian Front?" Rokossovsky could not help but be stunned when he heard what the staff officer said, and he tried to think: at such a time, who would have traveled a long way from Belarus to meet him here? However, time was too short for him to think about it, so he instructed his staff officer: "Hurry up and invite him in!" ”

With little effort, the staff officer led a general through the door. After seeing the person who came clearly, Rokossovsky couldn't help but be overjoyed: "General Kazakov, how did you get here?" ”

After raising his hand and saluting, Kazakov replied in accordance with the regulations: "Report to Comrade Commander, I received an order from Moscow to come here as commander of the artillery of the Front. ”

"Great, that's great." Hearing that Kazakov had come here to take up the post of artillery commander, Rokossovsky was overjoyed: "I am worried that there is no suitable person to command the artillery, and your arrival can be regarded as helping me solve a big problem." After that, he introduced Bogolyubov, "This is General Kazakov, the newly appointed commander of the artillery of the Front in the base camp." ”

"Kazakov, this is the Chief of Staff of the Front, Bogolyubov." After introducing the two, Rokossovsky said to Kazakov: "If you have any questions, you can ask General Bogolyubov. ”

With the arrival of Kazakov, Rokossovsky suddenly felt that he was confident. As long as Kazakov commanded the artillery, even without the support of the air force, the Germans could still be defeated.

Rokossovsky, taking advantage of Bogolyubov's briefing to Kazakov, picked up the phone on the table and ordered the communications corps to connect to Katukov's command. "General Katukov, order your second and third echelons to speed up, to quickly converge with the first echelon as soon as possible, and to establish a strong defense to block the offensive of the Imperial Divisions," he said. ”

"Comrade Commander, please rest assured." Through the lesson of the 20th tank brigade in a short period of time, Katukov understood that in order to deal with the powerful German Reich division, it was necessary to concentrate superior forces in order to turn the situation on the battlefield in his favor. "We will never let the Germans pass through Jetmere, we will turn this place into a grave where they are buried."

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