This inexplicable order of Chuikov confused Lyudnikov, and he asked loudly in confusion: "Comrade commander, why do you want the troops to be withdrawn?" According to my fighters, a unit was attacking the German strongholds in the middle of the road. I sent my troops to attack because I wanted to help them. ”

Chuikov glanced at me, who was standing next to me, and then said to Lyudnikov: "At the moment Oshanina's separate division is attacking the Germans in the middle. Their commanders and fighters, under the cover of the divisional artillery battalion, advanced smoothly, and perhaps in another half an hour or less they would be able to clear out the remnants of the enemy in the middle and achieve a rendezvous with you. ”

"Comrade Commander, since it is General Oshanina's troops who are attacking, we cannot stand idly by. I think it would be all the more important for my troops to act aggressively to attract the attention of the Germans so that they could not concentrate on their allies. Our whole division must fight side by side with the commanders and fighters of the independent division......"

Without waiting for Lyudnikov to finish, Chuikov interrupted him later: "Okay, Comrade Colonel, stop talking." Perhaps thinking that his tone was too blunt, he slowed down his tone and said, "Your division now has no heavy weapons, and the strength to attack the fortifications is not enough, even if you pay heavy sacrifices for this kind of German fortification, it will be difficult to capture it, so let the independent division complete the battle to seize the middle ground alone." ”

Although Lyudnikov received the order, it would take some time for it to be conveyed to the troops. At this moment, the Germans, hidden behind buildings and rubble, were already firing at Lyudnikov's attacking team. The commanders and fighters who rushed to the front immediately suffered casualties.

On unobstructed open ground. Lying on the ground were the corpses of more than a dozen of our soldiers. The rest of the lying room fell to the ground. A light machine gun, improvised and swept through the enemy's hidden pile of rubble, causing dust to fly, and several German soldiers had to curl up and hide in positions where bullets could not reach.

Seeing that the enemy's fire was thinning, the machine gunner jumped up from the ground with his machine gun in his hand and ran forward. By the time the bullets smashed the ground around him like a boiling pot, he had jumped into a crater. Re-set up the machine guns and continued to fire at the Germans.

As soon as he hit half a shuttle, he was hit by a dense bullet and fell headlong on the machine gun. Almost at the same time that the machine-gun shooter fell, another fighter suspected of being a machine-gun co-shooter jumped into the crater. Seeing that the machine gunner was killed by a bullet, he hurriedly stepped forward and hugged the corpse and shrank into the crater.

After a while, the secondary shooter of the machine gun showed his head again, grabbed the machine gun and fired at the Germans hiding behind the rubble. The machine gun clattered incessantly, the machine gun trembled violently in the hands of the co-shooter, and the shells kept bursting to the side. The bullets fired from the muzzle of the gun knocked several Dekou who poked out of their bodies to the ground.

A dense stream of bullets raining down from above the building. Hit the secondary shooter. His body writhed and fell backwards, still clutching the machine gun in his hand, and a long line of disarmed bullets flew into the air as he fell on his back into the crater. 、

Seeing the soldiers of Lyudnikov's division constantly suffering casualties under the enemy's dense fire, I was so anxious that I jumped to my feet, but in my hurry there was nothing I could do to help these soldiers who were in danger.

It is not known whether the fighters received an order to retreat from Lyudnikov, or whether they felt that the German fire was too fierce to rush forward with the existing forces, and they began to retreat under the enemy's intensive fire. Some of the warriors carried weapons and ran to their positions; Some fighters fired two shots and then turned around and ran, and after running a few steps, they stopped and fired.

Seeing this scene, Bantai Leev was so angry that he scolded the street again and again: "Hell, hell! How did this battle be fought, I didn't see how fierce the enemy's firepower was, but we also let our commanders and fighters charge the enemy's defensive positions without any cover, didn't this send them to death? ”

Chuikov put down his binoculars, looked at him and said sternly: "Comrade Colonel, there is no bloodless victory, and in order to defend our great motherland, even if it is worth paying a great price." ”

When Pantai Laiev heard Chuikov say this, he was immediately speechless, and could only raise his binoculars and continue to watch the battle of the commanders and fighters of our division.

Although Bandeliev did not dare to speak, when I saw the casualties of Lyudnikov's division, I still said bitterly: "Comrade commander, look at the charge launched by Colonel Lyudnikov, which cost forty or fifty commanders and fighters casualties, but did not even touch the enemy's fortifications. ”

Chuikov smiled bitterly and changed the topic to other directions: "Oshanina, what kind of plans do you have after the 70th Guards Division is relieved?" ”

I didn't know what Chuikov meant by this, so I could only answer honestly: "I obey your orders." ”

Unexpectedly, Chuikov did not assign me a specific task, but continued to ask: "I want to hear your real thoughts." ”

To tell the truth, my original plan was to follow Rokossovsky until the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, anyway, it won't be long before the Stalingrad Front will be placed under the command of his Don Front, and it is still very important to have a good relationship with the higher leaders as soon as possible. Unexpectedly, a telegram from Chuikov beckoned me back from the air. Judging from the current situation, the remaining units in the city have suffered heavy casualties, and the next counteroffensive will definitely be played by our independent division. Instead of waiting for Chuikov to assign me tasks, I should be the first to show my high profile and take on some dangerous tasks.

Thinking of this, I hurriedly and respectfully said to him: "Comrade commander, I think so. Even if Colonel Lyudnikov's troops are rescued, due to their limited strength, it is estimated that it will be difficult for them to achieve anything in the next battle, so I think they should be allowed to rest on the spot, and our division will continue to sweep the nearby German troops. The first thing to deal with was the five German divisions that were still entrenched in the factory area. ”

Chuikov waited for me to finish, a smile on his face. He smiled and said to me: "Comrade Oshanina, you are not simple, you can actually guess the next task assigned to you by the group army. Let's talk about what you plan to do with these five divisions of the German army. To know. Although they are in battle with us. There were quite a few losses. And there is not much ammunition and fuel left, but it will not be easy to eliminate them. ”

"Comrade commander, since the enemy's forces are several times ours, it is unwise to rashly launch a fierce attack on their positions." While thinking about it, I said my thoughts to Chuikov: "But since the air supremacy on the battlefield is in our hands, the German tanks are afraid of being bombed and do not dare to attack casually. This greatly reduces the pressure on our attack. For the sake of prudence, I believe that it is better to adopt the method of consolidating one place as it is occupied, and to advance step by step into the depth of the enemy. ”

"Won't it be too slow to fight like this?" Chuikov considered the problem from a different angle than me, and after listening to me, he immediately raised his own doubts: "Advancing step by step into the depth of the enemy, without a month or two, it is impossible to completely destroy all the German troops in the city." If only during this time Hitler had drawn reinforcements from the rest of the battlefield to the aid of Paulus. Our plan of encirclement and annihilation will be completely frustrated. ”

Although I knew in my heart that for various objective reasons, the Battle of Stalingrad would last for two months. But I can only keep this in my heart, but I can't say it to Chuikov.

Just when I didn't know how to answer Chuikov's question, I suddenly heard Bandereev cheering: "Great, amazing, our fighters are amazing!" Commanders and division commanders, come and see, our soldiers have rushed up, and they have taken three more buildings in succession, and are rushing towards the last two. ”

Hearing the shouts of Bandereev, I hurriedly picked up my binoculars and looked into the distance, only to see that almost the entire regiment had rushed forward, and some of the thousands of commanders and fighters were still carefully rushing around the ruins and forward, and some had already rushed into the buildings that had already been occupied by us to strengthen the defense of the buildings.

The commanders and fighters of the 2nd Battalion were searching for the remnants of the enemy in the newly occupied buildings, and many of them should have been specially trained in assault, and almost all of them had sapper shovels in their hands, and as soon as they found the enemy, they quickly rushed forward with sapper shovels and launched a bloody massacre against the enemy. Although I couldn't hear the movement in the building from a distance, I could imagine how strong the visual impact of this style of play was on the enemy. Sure enough. After a few moments, the remaining enemy completely lost their courage, and they threw down their weapons and fled backwards without hesitation. There are also soldiers who are frightened, standing directly in place and raising their hands high.

The commanders and fighters of the 2nd Battalion, who were covered in enemy blood and red-eyed, did not stop, and after driving the enemy out of the building, they chased after them and rushed towards the next building. The German soldiers, who had been hiding behind the rubble, saw a large group of enemies rushing towards them, and wanted to shoot, but they were afraid of accidentally injuring their own people, so they could only see our commanders and fighters rushing in front of them, and had to fight a white-knuckle battle that they did not want to fight. The commanders and fighters of the second battalion wielded the shovels in their hands wantonly, and as long as the German soldiers who were still standing touched them, they would immediately be splattered with blood and return to Huangquan for five lives.

A few minutes later, a large group of troops poured into the last two houses, and the machine guns on the German upper floors fired for a moment, and then there was no sound, and it was estimated that the machine gun shooters inside had been killed by our commanders and fighters who rushed in.

Chuikov was stunned by what he saw, and I saw him secretly wipe the sweat from his forehead, then turned to me and asked, "Oshanina, where did you learn this style of fighting?" I don't think the Germans were able to resist them at all. This style of play of yours should be promoted throughout the army, so that we can achieve more victories in the next street battles. ”

I replied to Chuikov with a smile: "Comrade commander, have you forgotten that when our independent division was first formed, it was given the task of recovering a settlement occupied by the Germans. At that time, we had limited weapons, and I had no choice but to let the soldiers practice using cold weapons to fight in the enemy's houses. I didn't expect this style of play to have such a good effect in the battle with the enemy room by room, which I really didn't expect. ”

The battle ended after 20 minutes, and about 20 German soldiers with their hands raised raised walked out of the building under the escort of our commanders and fighters. At this time, Chuikov breathed a sigh of relief, turned to me, and said: "Let's go, Comrade Oshanina, since the remnants of the middle zone have been cleared, we can go to Colonel Lyudnikov to have a look." ”

Protected by Yushchenko's platoon of guards, we cleared the area, which was full of ruins and corpses, and walked briskly towards the defense area of the Lyudnikov division in front of us.

When Lyudnikov appeared in front of us, I would have barely recognized him if he hadn't taken the initiative to speak. His face was full of beard, his whole person looked black and thin, and the short leather coat he wore was covered with mud, and he couldn't see his original face at all.

After a few brief pleasantries, he and Chuikov turned to salute me and thanked us for our efforts to clear the siege. When he finished speaking, I immediately asked impatiently: "Comrade Colonel, I don't know where Captain Karpov I sent to you is?" ”

"Captain Karpov?!" Lyudnikov was a little unable to keep up with my leaping thoughts, and after repeating my name, it dawned on him that "Oh, Comrade Oshanina, did you mean the commander who last time brought a mixed battalion from the separate division to support me?" ”

"Yes, Comrade Colonel." I saw that Lyudnikov remembered Karpov and hurriedly asked tentatively: "Is he still alive?" ”

"Alive, of course alive, he doesn't die so easily." As he spoke, Lyudnikov turned his head and called a commander behind him and instructed him: "Second Lieutenant, go and call Captain Karpov from the Separate Division here, and say that General Oshanina of the Independent Division wants to see him." ”

Seeing the back of the second lieutenant leaving, I couldn't help but muttered again, saying in my heart that I don't know how many people are left in a battalion assigned to him last time.

"Comrade Oshanina," Chuikov asked me in a low voice after waiting for the second lieutenant to go away, "Is this Captain Karpov the commander of the Vostok Battalion who led his troops anyway last time?" ”

"Yes, Comrade Commander. That's him. After answering this, I explained: "The last time I called you, I wanted to transfer the captain back from Colonel Lyudnikov's unit, but because they were surrounded by the enemy, I had to dismiss this idea for the time being. ”

After hearing this, Chuikov was silent for a long time before he said: "You are doing the right thing, we must find ways to ensure his safety." (To be continued......)

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