The news of Panfilov's sacrifice had not yet been fully digested, and a series of bad news followed. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoRokossovsky looked at the stack of battle reports in his hand with a grim face, the contents of which were much the same, all of which said that the enemy threw all new troops and continued to attack the positions of our troops. The swamps froze in the cold weather, allowing the German tank and mechanized units to gain more freedom of movement.

After reading one of the battle reports, Lobachev asked Rokossovsky curiously: "Comrade commander, what do you mean by the fact that the Germans have gained more freedom of movement?" ”

Rokossovsky put down the battle report in his hand, looked at Lobachev, and said with a serious expression: "Comrade Military Commissar, due to the freezing of the swamps, the German tanks will be able to smoothly pass through these swamps, bypass the settlements, and advance along the groves and bushes. If they could not move back to our positions, they would gather a large number of tanks to break through, and under the cover of powerful artillery and mortar fire, they would storm our defensive positions, while dive bombers would strike from the air. ”

"Comrade Commander, I have an idea." Kazakov, who also saw the battle report, came over, sat down next to Rokossovsky and said: "We should make full use of the maneuver of anti-tank artillery and tanks to carry out artillery strikes or assaults from the flanks of German tanks." ”

"Yes, that's a good proposal." Rokossovsky knew very well that in the current situation, in order to block the onslaught of the German army, it was far from enough to rely on his own ideas to give orders, and it was necessary to give full play to the role of pooling wisdom and efforts to formulate a series of preventive measures according to the offensive characteristics of the German army. After praising Kazakov's proposal, he said to Malinin, who had just finished the call: "Chief of Staff, do you have any good ideas?" ”

Malinin walked over, smiled innocently, and then said: "Actually, my idea is the same as what the commander said a few days ago, that is, to send sappers and German tanks to fight guerrillas, and let them take cars and carriages to the areas where German tanks are likely to pass and lay mines. Every step forward for the enemy will be extremely costly, and as long as their technical equipment is lost, their assault force will be greatly weakened. ”

Although these plans were discussed, they were immediately put into practice and had a certain effect, which had the effect of delaying the advance of the German army. A few hours later, however, the situation changed again. After the setback of the offensive, the powerful German army continued to increase the investment of troops. According to intelligence, while committing four tank divisions and one SS motorized division to the left flank of the 16th Army, they also deployed the 252nd Infantry Division to attack the friendly 5th Army, forcing the right flank of the army to retreat, thus creating a huge gap between the two armies.

After reporting this situation to Rokossovsky, Malinin anxiously asked: "Comrade commander, with the retreat of the right flank of the 5th Army, we are now in danger of being rushed by the enemy from the flank into the depth of our defense. If they were not stopped, they would be able to quickly advance towards the Volokolamsk-Moscow road. ”

Seeing that the situation was so critical, Rokossovsky couldn't help frowning and asked: "Chief of Staff, do we still have troops that can be used at the moment?" ”

"Yes," Malinin replied with a nod, "Colonel Beloborodov's 78th Infantry Division, they also have a regiment with a relatively complete formation, let them immediately go into battle?" ”

Rokossovsky picked up the phone and said to the operator: "Pick me up from the headquarters of the 78th Infantry Division, find Colonel Belorodov, I have an urgent matter." ”

As soon as he heard Beloborodov's voice coming out of the earpiece, Rokossovsky said without hesitation: "Hey, Colonel Belorodov, I'm Rokossovsky. ”

"Hello, Comrade Commander." When Beloborodov heard that Rokossovsky had personally called him, he knew that something important must have happened, and hurriedly and respectfully asked: "Do you have any instructions?" ”

"The enemy's forces have forced the friendly forces on the left flank of our army group to retreat." Because of the urgency of time, Rokossovsky did not bother to greet him, so he gave a straightforward order to Beloborodov: "Comrade Colonel, your task is to immediately order the troops to strike against the German fascist troops advancing rapidly on the Volokolamsk-Moscow road. Do you understand? ”

"Understood, Comrade Commander." After listening to Rokossovsky's order, Colonel Beloborodov replied with a serious expression: "In ten minutes, my troops will attack the fascist invaders who are rushing to the highway. ”

"Very well, I wish you success!" After Rokossovsky said this, he hung up the phone directly. Then he nodded at Malinin, who was standing in front of him, and said: "Colonel Beloborodov's troops, in ten minutes, will launch a counterattack against the German troops who are rushing into the depth of our army." ”

After listening to this, Ma Lining couldn't help but sigh and said, "Great, this is really good." As long as Colonel Beloborodov can repel the enemy, then our troops will not fall into the encirclement of the Germans. (To be continued.) )