Just when the defense line of Chuikov's troops was in jeopardy, the commander of the 147th Division, General Volkhin, called and said that the defensive positions of his division were being attacked by the enemy.

After listening to this, Kolpakchi's face changed a little, his fingers tapped uneasily on the wooden table, and after a while, he stood up suddenly, grabbed the large-brimmed hat on the table, put it on his head, and said to Gurov: "Comrade Military Commissar, the command is here to you, and I will go to the 147th Division to have a look." After saying that, without waiting for Gurov to say anything, he immediately pointed to me and said, "Lieutenant Colonel Oshanina, you go with me." ”

Sitting in the jeep heading to the headquarters of the 147th Division, I kept muttering in my heart: "When Zhukov commanded the battle, he stayed in the command headquarters, learned about the battle situation through telephone and telegrams, and gave orders to the troops. And Korpakchi, like Meretskov, as soon as there was an enemy situation at the front that was unfavorable to our army, he immediately took a group of people from the command headquarters and went to the front line to personally direct the battle. This is probably the difference in command style among senior commanders. ”

After driving for more than ten minutes, the jeep stopped next to a trench covered with camouflage nets. After the driver parked the car, he turned his head and said to Kolpakchi, who was sitting in the back, "Comrade commander, the division headquarters of the 147th Division has arrived. ”

Listening to the driver's explanation, I didn't dare to slack off, so I quickly pushed the door and jumped out of the car, went around the back door to the rear door on the other side, and opened the door for Korparkic.

When Kol Parkchi got off the bus, he thanked me and stood there for a while. After a few guards from the two jeeps in the back arrived. It led us down from a gap into the trenches.

We walked along the trenches and forward. The commanders and fighters they met along the way stopped what they were doing and raised their hands against the wall of the trench to salute Kolpakchi.

When there were still more than ten meters away from the division command post, the division commander General Volkhin and political commissar Kotov, who had received the news, came out of the command post with a group of staff officers. Volkhin saw that Korpakchi had personally come to his defense area, and when he raised his hand to salute, he asked in surprise: "Comrade commander, why did you come here in person?" ”

Kolpakchi asked straight to the point: "Comrade division commander, how is the situation?" ”

"Two attacks by the enemy. We all repulsed them. As soon as he said this, the rumbling of artillery was heard in the distance, and a small hill a kilometer away was being attacked by enemy artillery fire. One shell after another landed on our positions and exploded, raising black clouds of smoke.

Seeing that the enemy's shelling had begun again, Volkhin hurriedly greeted Korpakchi: "Comrade commander, it's not safe outside, let's go to the command post first." ”

Korpacic didn't speak, just nodded in agreement. The commander was seen walking into the division command post. Volhin followed in with a large group of people. I wanted to go in too, but I walked to the door and looked. The inside was too narrow, and when a dozen or so people stood inside, they felt a little unable to turn around, so they consciously retreated.

I looked up at the camouflage net above my head, and felt that such a camouflage should not be easy for the Germans to detect, so I found a position in the trench with a good view, raised my binoculars and looked at the position in the distance.

The enemy's shelling intensified, the shells fell to the point of explosion, and the whole position was covered in smoke and dust. Seeing this scene, I couldn't help but worry about the commanders and fighters on the position, who did not receive artillery support from our army, and could only hide in the fortifications and be beaten passively, and the casualties were certainly not small.

However, the enemy's artillery bombardment soon ended, and after the smoke cleared, the enemy's infantry could be clearly seen slowly advancing towards our positions under the cover of tanks. Hundreds of corpses and a few burning tanks lay in front of our positions, and this is a clear indication of the results of our commanders and fighters in the previous battle.

When the enemy was only 50 or 60 meters away from the position, the rifles and machine guns on the position opened fire together, and the dense fire net blinded the enemy who rushed up at once, and the soldiers in the front row fell down one after another, and the rear hurriedly lay down on the spot and opened fire. The tank stopped in place, slowly turning the turret, and from time to time fired a shell at a position with strong fire on our positions to cover the infantry attack.

After several tanks that were on cover were destroyed by our anti-tank guns, the enemy soldiers lost the courage to continue the attack, got up from the ground one after another, and retreated backwards to the starting position.

At this moment, I heard someone next to me calling me, and when I turned my head, it turned out to be a guard soldier from the headquarters. When he saw that I had noticed him, he hurriedly said, "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, the commander asked you to go to the division command post. ”

I followed the fighters back to the command post, and as soon as I entered the door, I found that there were far fewer people in the room, except for Korpakchi, Volkhin, and Kotov, there were only two or three staff officers left. I walked up to Kolpakchi, who was sitting at the table and looking at the map, raised my hand and saluted, and reported in accordance with the regulations: "Comrade Commander, Adjutant Lieutenant Colonel Oshanina has been ordered to come and take your orders. ”

Kolpakchi glanced up at me and asked, "Lieutenant Colonel Oshanina, where did you just go?" ”

I did not dare to hide it, and honestly replied: "I had too many people in the command post, so I went to the trench to find a place with a good view, where I watched the whole battle go on." ”

"What do you think after reading it?"

"I noticed that something was wrong with this attacking enemy."

Hearing me say this, Kolpacchi asked with interest, "Something is wrong?" What's wrong? Let's hear it. ”

"The combat effectiveness is too weak, and it can be said that it will collapse at the touch of a button. I am worried that they have some conspiracy to make us think that their attack is vulnerable, and when we let our guard down, they will pounce on us with a strong force and seize our positions in one fell swoop. ”

Korpakich laughed when he heard this, and I was so confused that I didn't know what he was laughing at. He laughed for a moment before he said disappreciatively, "Lieutenant Colonel Oshanina, you're too worried. There will be no conspiracy, and these enemies will have weak combat effectiveness. ”

I thought I had misheard, the Germans were weak in combat, so they could still beat Chuikov's troops into a mess. This is not to say that our army units are all improvised rabble. Is it more vulnerable?

Just when I couldn't figure it out. Or did General Volkhin solve the mystery for me: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, do you think that the combat effectiveness of this enemy is a little ridiculously low? At this point, he paused deliberately, and when he saw me nodding, he continued: "Because it was not the Germans who attacked our position. ”

"Not German?!"

"Yes, our frontal enemy, is a Romanian division."

"Romanian division?!" It dawned on me. No wonder the combat effectiveness is so weak, it turns out to be the army of the client state. In the battle of Borodino before, I had fought with the French volunteers, and at that time I felt that their combat effectiveness was weak, but I didn't expect to encounter the army of another country here, and they were still vulnerable. I look forward to the Battle of Stalingrad, which will begin in the near future, to see if they are as weak as they are as legendary.

While he was talking, a lieutenant hurriedly broke into the command post. Without even shouting the report, he excitedly shouted at Volkhin: "Comrade division commander. Airplanes, our planes! ”

Volkhin looked at the lieutenant with some displeasure, and said in a cold tone: "Comrade lieutenant, what is it worth your fuss about, didn't you see Comrade Commander here?" ”

Only then did the lieutenant see Kolpakchi sitting in the room, and hurriedly raised his hand to salute, and explained: "Comrade commander, I'm sorry, I didn't see you just now. I saw our fighter planes appear in the sky, so I hurried to report it. ”

"What, our fighters?!" Kolpacic showed an expression of disbelief, and it is no wonder that the battle has been fought for several days, and the air support mentioned by the commander of the Front, General Gordorf, has not appeared for a long time, and as a result, the air supremacy of the battlefield has been ceded to the Germans. In the absence of air cover, some of the battles we were able to win had to end in defeat. None of the people in the command post spoke, they were all listening. Soon, we all heard the clear roar of the airplane motor coming in from outside.

Kolpacic stood up and rushed out of the command post with one lunge. Seeing that the commander had left the command post, the rest of the people were not far behind, and they poured out one after another.

Standing in the trenches, I looked through the camouflage net above my head and saw dozens of warplanes flying over our trenches in a neat formation.

Our fighters gradually lowered their flight altitude and dived down to the enemy's starting position. A bomb goes down and falls on the enemy's tank, and the tank becomes a pile of burning scrap metal; Falling in the ranks of the infantry, a dozen or twenty soldiers were blown to pieces. A platoon of machine guns swept down can knock the enemy hiding in the position to the ground.

"Great, the boys of the Air Force are so good, they are so beautiful!" Seeing this exciting scene, Commissar Kotov couldn't help but shout excitedly. The rest of the people did not speak, but all of them had joyful expressions on their faces.

At this time, a staff officer came out of the command post, rushed straight in front of Korpakchi, raised his hand and saluted, and then reported: "Comrade commander, just now the military commissar called and said that General Chuikov's troops have launched a counterattack on all fronts after receiving support from our air force. ”

"Comrade Commander," Volkhin asked excitedly, "what should our division do, also attack?" ”

Kolpacchi looked at him with a smile on his face and said lightly: "My comrade division commander, what else can you do in a daze, why don't you hurry up and order our troops to also participate in the counterattack." "At such a time, in the face of such a favorable fighter, which commander is changed, he will not hesitate to choose to immediately counterattack on all fronts.

General Volkhin agreed, did not even salute, turned around and ran towards the command post. The people around him hurriedly stepped back and made way for him. Kotov shook his head with a smile, walked up to Korpakchi, raised his hand and saluted, and said in a very formal tone: "Comrade commander, Kotov, political commissar of the 147th Infantry Division, reports to you that the troops are ready and ready to charge the enemy in front of you, and are waiting for your orders!" ”

"Go for it, Comrade Commissar." Kolpacchi smiled and said, "Now it is our turn to teach the enemy a hard lesson, and you must give them a profound lesson, so that they will never forget it for the rest of their lives." ”

A few minutes later, with the sound of a loud trumpet, a group of warriors with weapons jumped out of the trenches, shouted "Ula", and pounced on the enemy.

Our fighters hovering over the battlefield very tacitly cooperated with the counterattack of the 147th Division. They threw bombs on the enemy's offensive positions and fired at the disorganized infantry with machine guns, destroying the enemy's resistance and opening the way for our attack. The grass-roots commanders of our army quickly saw the doorway, and when they knew that the Daodao fighters were covering our army's counterattack operation, they immediately commanded the troops to rush towards the area where the planes were bombing.

The offensive positions of the Romanian division were originally rudimentary, with only one or two improvised trenches, which could not withstand the strong fortifications of our army, and after a little resistance, the entire battle line collapsed, and the soldiers jumped out of the trenches with quick movements, and ran to the rear with their legs. Those who moved slowly were either killed on the spot by our commanders and fighters, or obediently raised their hands as prisoners. (To be continued......)

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