I looked at Chuikov in astonishment, and said in my heart that even if he personally pleaded, he could not get the air force assigned to the Stalingrad Front to be dispatched. The Germans have just suffered a loss, and they will definitely not give up, and they will definitely increase the intensity of their offensive in the future, and if we do not have air supremacy, we will be beaten passively.

Before I could speak, there was a sudden silence outside, and the noise of gunfire suddenly stopped. I hurriedly raised my binoculars and looked outside, only to see that the enemy was slowly retreating towards their positions, while the commanders and fighters of our army on the positions were busy hurrying to repair the fortifications, treat the wounded comrades, and carry away the remains of the martyrs. Traffic on both banks was temporarily interrupted due to the blowing up of the pontoon bridge over the river. The division's engineering units began to get busy in order to restore traffic as much as possible, and I could vaguely see many soldiers pushing oil drums down the slope and into the river, with ropes and tools to secure them.

"Has the enemy retreated?" Not far away, Chuikov's voice sounded.

I hurriedly put down my binoculars, and just as I was about to answer him, I heard the soldier standing at the window reply: "Yes, Comrade Commander." The enemy's armored forces retreated, and our artillery stopped shelling. ”

Although the enemy has retreated, they will definitely not be reconciled to the defeat of this attack, and they retreat only to prepare for the next attack.

"Oshanina," Chuikov, who was looking out the window with a telescope, suddenly asked me, "what do you think the enemy's intentions are?" ”

Chuikov's question stunned me, judging from the offensive posture of the German army, it is not very obvious. The impossibility is to occupy the defensive zone of our army. Advance to the crossing of the Volga. Completely cut off all communication between the city and the outside world, leaving the other armies alone with no food and grass and no reinforcements outside, and after destroying them, they occupied Stalingrad smoothly and successfully fulfilled the strategic intention of the German high command. I was silent for a moment before I hesitated and said, "Comrade commander, the enemy's intention is obvious, that is, to concentrate superior forces. Break through the defensive section of our army, advance to the bank of the Volga, occupy the pier that is connected with the east bank, and cut off our army from the outside world. ”

"You have a point." After removing the telescope from his eyes, Chuikov said thoughtfully: "The enemy is gathering so many troops here for the strategic purpose you just mentioned. Speaking of this, he turned around and ordered the operator again: "Take the headquarters of the group army for me." ”

After connecting with the headquarters of the group army, I saw that Chuikov said with a stern expression: "Comrade Military Commissar, the enemy's first attack was repelled by us. But judging by the current situation, they will definitely not give up. I guess they're going to attack even harder in the future. What the? Air force?! Unfortunately, no. I have just called General Khryugin, and he told me with great regret that our air force could not come to Stalingrad to help us in the war because enemy planes had taken control of our airfield. What do you and Comrade Krylov think about the current state of affairs? …… Well, I get it, I'll get back to the command when the time is right. ”

After Chuikov finished the call, I couldn't help but ask curiously: "Comrade commander, comrade military commissar, do they have any opinion on the current war situation?" ”、

Chuikov shrugged his shoulders and said with a sad face: "What else can I think, after a brief exchange of opinions among the members of the Military Council, everyone agreed that the situation is very clear, and the Germans are throwing all their forces against our 62nd Army. The enemy has absolute superiority in manpower, technical equipment, and firepower, and their aim is to strive to divide and encircle our 62nd Army, and then annihilate each of them. At present, the enemy's tooth decay is attacking the strip between the Stalingrad Tractor Plant and the 'Barricade' factory, and its immediate goal is to break through to the Volga River. From the analysis of the enemy's forces and weapons and equipment into battle, it can be seen that the enemy is doing everything possible to prevent our strong reinforcements from crossing the Volga River to reinforce the defenders in the city and prevent the delivery of ammunition to the defenders on the east bank. Suffice it to say that in the coming days, our 62nd Army will face a situation of unprecedented brutal struggle. ”

After listening to his words, I just nodded silently, it seems that the people in the army group headquarters are not eating dry food, they also see through the intentions of the Germans, and what they can do at the moment is to find ways to block the enemy's tidal attack. Thinking of this, I inevitably thought of a mess, and in this situation in front of me, they were equivalent to having been erased from the establishment of the division.

Enemy shelling and bombardment resumed half an hour later. Due to the number of artillery and aircraft used by the enemy this time, the vicinity of the observation post was also affected after the last time. The dust kicked up by the explosion made those of us who stayed in the house have to close our eyes and cover our noses so that the dust does not get lost or poured into our nostrils.

The ground shook violently like chaff in the sound of the explosion at our observation post, and the sand from the ceiling fell in addition to the dust that drifted in from the window. As bombs or shells continued to explode in our vicinity, I couldn't help but worry that a bomb or shell that was out of direction would hit the observation post where we were located, and that there was a danger of the guide collapsing.

With the smoke obscuring the sky and even the sun in the sky, we can only faintly see a round bright spot hanging high in the air when we are lucky, occasionally casting a glimmer of light from the smoke.

The enemy planes had dropped and shot all the bombs and bullets they carried, flapped their wings and flew off into the distance. Although the enemy's artillery fire no longer shelled the forward positions of our troops, they began to extend their fire, bombarding the factories in the factory area in the distance, and the armored troops, who had long been prepared, took the opportunity to rush up.

It is not known whether the artillery of our army ran out of shells, or shifted positions, and this time Chuikov did not give another order to open fire to the artillerymen. Seeing that the German tanks rushed towards the forward positions of our troops, they were followed by groups of armored vehicles and sporadic three-wheeled motorcycles.

This time the German tanks learned their lesson, they stopped more than two hundred meters from the forward positions of our troops and suppressed the heavy fire of our troops with artillery fire. Cover the infantry coming down from the back armored personnel carriers. Attack on the positions of our troops.

This style of play of the enemy. Obviously out of the expectation of our commanders and fighters. Perhaps because the German shelling had not stopped, there were not many troops in the trenches, except for a few observation posts. In the face of the swarming infantry, sporadic fire from the positions was simply useless. In less than three minutes, the enemy had rushed through the first line of trenches and continued to rush in depth.

Seeing that the enemy easily broke through the positions of our troops, Chuikov was so angry that he cursed loudly: "Hell, hell. How did this 37th Guards Division get it? The Germans have broken through our line so lightly, and when the battle is over, I will personally bring the commander who held this line to a court-martial. ”

The Germans who had broken through our first line of defense did not go far, and before they could approach the Genesh River, a dense field of bullets suddenly came out of a building that had collapsed to a height of only two floors, and the German soldiers who were rushing forward in a crowded group were suddenly knocked down in large areas. At the same time, a puff of white smoke came out of two adjacent windows on the first floor at the same time, and I immediately recognized that the anti-tank guns hidden inside were firing.

The two anti-tank guns had a good crosshair, both hit the target. A shell hit a tank that was in front of it. Directly lifted off the shells of the tank, and the bare body was soon surrounded by flames. And the other one. It hit an armored car in the back, the front half of the car was blown to pieces, and the rest of the rear half was quickly surrounded by flames.

The number of defenders in the building seemed to be quite large, and when they saw that the attacking enemy was suppressed by our fire, they immediately launched a counter-charge. Hundreds of commanders and fighters rushed out of the buildings, in the trenches, and by the cliffs by the river, and rushed towards the enemy without hesitation, armed with their weapons.

When I saw this charging force, I now had not only soldiers in khaki uniforms, but also sailors in black naval uniforms, and militiamen in civilian clothes. In addition to the submachine guns, machine guns, and rifles installed by the troops, there were also old-fashioned rifles with long spears and spikes used during the October Revolution to attack the East Palace.

Although the enemy's tanks were parked a few hundred meters, they did not dare to fire casually when they saw the counterattack troops that were quickly wrenched together with their own soldiers, and they were afraid of accidentally injuring their own people. The German soldiers, who had lost the cover of artillery fire, were beaten to the ground by the surprise counterattack of our troops, and had to fight and retreat to the first line of defense that they had just broken through.

Because the Germans advanced too quickly, they did not consolidate their defenses in the first trench at all, and this defeat could not be held at all, so they could only retreat to the tank queue in the distance. The commanders and fighters of the Guards Division and the militiamen hurriedly entered the trenches and, relying on the fortifications they were familiar with, opened fire on the retreating German soldiers.

The second German attack was again repulsed, but they did not retreat far, and only withdrew five or six hundred meters before stopping. As soon as I thought that the Germans might have conspiracy in doing so, the artillery fire, which had been extended for firing, shrank back and fell back on the forward positions of our troops.

Seeing this, Chuikov became relaxed, he put down his binoculars, and said disapprehantly: "Comrade Oshanina, don't see the enemy's momentum, but their fighting style is too dull. The can't just bombard the planes with artillery first, and then have tanks cover the infantry charge. Speaking of this, he pointed to the battlefield in the distance and said confidently: "There is now masonry and rubble and large and small craters, and the mobility of German tanks is limited, so they can only rely on infantry to charge." I believe that our commanders and fighters will be able to hold off the enemy. ”

Chuikov's judgment was accurate, and in the next few hours, several German attacks on the tractor factory were all repulsed.

I looked up at my watch, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon, and I had been running from morning to now, and my stomach was rumbling with hunger. After hesitating again and again, he finally mustered up the courage to say to Chuikov: "Comrade commander, now that the enemy's offensive has stopped, and then they will shell and bombard the positions of our army, why don't we go back to the headquarters first and rest for a while, eat something and come again?" ”

Hearing me say this, Chuikov also raised his hand to look at his watch, nodded and said in agreement: "You're right, it's not too early, I should also go back to the headquarters to find out how the battle is going in other areas." ”

As we were walking out, he said apologetically to me: "Comrade Oshanina, you are hungry." In the morning, I wanted you to go to Khogarsky to eat Tula's specialties, but unexpectedly, the Germans stirred it up. Now that the enemy has stopped attacking, let's go back and eat something and come back later. ”

As I walked out of the building, I saw a lot of people standing in the traffic trench across the road. When he saw us come out, one of them suddenly waved at me desperately. I fixed my eyes and saw that it was my guard battalion commander Basmanov, who was now staying in the traffic trench across the road with the soldiers of the guard platoon.

The entrance to the traffic trench is only seven or eight meters away from the exit of the building, and it can be walked a few steps away. I was just about to move forward, when suddenly someone called Chuikov from behind: "Comrade commander, please wait a minute. I turned my head and saw that it was the same operator who had just run out of the building, and when he walked up to Chuikov's side, he leaned close to him and whispered something in his ear, and Chuikov kept nodding his head as he listened.

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted not far away: "Air raid, air raid!" ”

Hearing the shouting, I hurriedly looked up into the sky and saw an enemy dive bomber hovering over us. I nervously stared at the enemy planes in the air, and at the same time shouted loudly to Chuikov: "Comrade commander, there are enemy planes, quickly hide." ”

Chuikov glanced up and said lightly: "It's okay, it's just an enemy plane, and it won't show us." After saying that, he continued to talk to the operator.

The German pilots, not knowing whether it was a blind cat that had killed a mouse, or whether they had two large targets below, circled twice in the air, and then suddenly swooped down on us.

Seeing the dive of the enemy plane, I was so frightened that I grabbed Chuikov and pulled out, and at the same time shouted in a panic: "Commander, the enemy is coming, run!" ”

Chuikov also seemed to be able to spot the enemy's dive, and after running two steps with me, he passed me. But he still grabbed my hand tightly and pulled me towards the traffic trench not far away.

Almost as soon as we plunged into the traffic trench, an earth-shattering explosion was heard behind us. (To be continued!)

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