Although the enemy has become the last of the crossbows, but because of the presence of those armored vehicles, their futile resistance is not without effect, at least many fighters still fall on the way to the charge.

The political commissar watching the battle next to him suddenly shouted: "Hell, how did you do it?" How did Major Schedurin personally lead the troops to charge, you must know that his command position was in the regimental command post, and not like a company commander with the soldiers to charge in person. ”

In fact, I just saw a man in the binoculars, holding a pistol aloft high, apparently a commander, turning to the soldiers, pointing ahead, shouting something. It's just that I didn't recognize this person as the commander of the 1075th regiment, Major Schedurin.

The battle continues. When the shells fired by our tanks destroyed several armored vehicles that were shooting wildly, and the cavalry rushed into the ranks of the German infantry and began to slash wildly, the Germans, who were still fighting the trapped beasts, threw away their weapons and raised their hands to surrender to our troops.

Our tanks and a steady stream of cavalry came to a halt in front of the position, and the infantry soldiers, except for a few who were guarding the prisoners, rushed up to hug and cheer with their friendly comrades. Soon I saw Major Shedurin and several commander-looking men descend from the trench and walk in our direction along the communication trench.

"It seems that the commander comrade of the other side is here, comrade division commander." Colonel Chistyakov, who was next to me, reminded me: "Shouldn't we go out to meet us, after all, we are joining forces with friendly forces, this is a big deal!" ”

"Great idea!" I very much agreed with the deputy division commander's proposal, put the telescope aside, and said to the political commissar with a smile: "Then except for the personnel on duty in our headquarters, the rest of the people in our command will go out to meet the commanders of friendly forces." ”

In fact, there are not many officers on duty, just two communication soldiers who are responsible for communication, Rao is so, I still see disappointment on their faces, after all, this is the first meeting after winning the battle.

A few of us were about to leave the headquarters to meet the commanders of friendly forces, when a communications soldier sitting next to the walkie-talkie stood up and called me: "Comrade division commander, your phone!" Then he added: "It was the commander of the army group, General Vlasov, who called." ”

I quickly stopped and ran over to pick up the headset from the communications soldier's mobile phone. Vlasov did not greet each other either, but asked bluntly: "Comrade Leda, how is the situation on your side?" ”

"Report to the commander, we have joined forces with the comrades of the 16th Army." I looked at the smiling political commissars around me before continuing: "The political commissar and I were about to go out to meet the comrades of the friendly army, but I didn't expect your call to come first. ”

"Mentor?! That's great! From Vlasov's tone, I felt that he was relieved, "You immediately hand over the position to the friendly forces, and then return to Kling with the troops." Mobilize forces and prepare to flank the German forces in the areas of Suvorovo and Botovo from the east in coordination with the troops of Deputy Commander Lin. ”

"Yes! I will arrange for it right away, and I will definitely return to Kling as soon as possible. ”

As soon as I finished the call with Vlasov, Commissar Yegorov came over and asked with concern: "Lida, what's wrong?" ”

I smiled wryly and said: "The commander called, let's hand over the position to the friendly forces at once, and then return to Kling and concentrate our forces to prepare for the attack on Botovo." ”

Next, I telephoned Major Panishev, the commander of the 1077th Regiment, the commander of the Cannon Regiment, and Colonel Hapsafo, the commander of the Far Eastern Independent Division in Cumbre del Sol, and asked them to immediately assemble their forces and move on to Kling.

The commander of the cannon regiment and Colonel Hapsafo were nothing, and when they heard my order, they immediately carried it out. Only Major Panishev complained, and the troops marched from Klin on foot for dozens of roads to Kryukovo, only to return the same way without firing a shot, and anyone else would feel uncomfortable. However, since it was my order, although I had opinions, I could only obey them. But unlike when they came, they didn't have to walk, but left in a truck.

After all the orders were given, I took the group from the division headquarters out of the headquarters and walked along the communication trench to meet the commanders of friendly forces. I hadn't gone far when I saw Major Schedurin hurrying towards me with a few men.

As soon as they got closer, they found that the friendly troops were all acquaintances. In addition to the commander of the tank brigade I sent to support the 16th Army, I knew the other three commanders in black cloaks and mink caps. Immediately behind Shedurin was the young and handsome commander of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps, Major General Dovator, and behind him were the commander of the 50th Cavalry Division, General Pliev, and the commander of the 53rd Cavalry Division, Colonel Melnik.

As soon as I approached, Shedurin, who was leading the way, stopped, leaned to one side, with his back against the wall of the trench, and began to introduce me to Dovatol: "Comrade General, this is the commander of the 8th Guards Division, Major General Oshanina. ”

Just as he wanted to introduce me to Dovatore, I waved my hand and said, "No need to introduce me, I am an old acquaintance with the general." After saying that, I stepped forward, raised my hand to salute Dovatore, and said in a friendly manner, "Hello! Comrade General! I didn't expect us to meet again so soon. ”

Dovator returned the salute, then gave me a strong hug, slapped my hand on the back a few times, and said happily: "Lida, you are so uneasy that you have defeated the Germans in such a short time, not only recaptured Kryukovo, but even sent a tank brigade to reinforce us." ”

After he let me go, I shook hands with the other three commanders one by one and said hello briefly. When I turned around, I saw a scene that surprised me, Commissar Egorov and Dovatar actually kissed while hugging, and the two big men kissed each other fiercely in broad daylight before parting. This kind of performance is too enthusiastic, people can't stand it, if I didn't know that this is a kind of etiquette of Lao Maozi, I would definitely think that the two of them are engaged in the base.

After saying hello to Dovator and the others, and after a few pleasantries, we returned to the headquarters together. After everyone had sat down and explained the whole situation in the Kryukovo region, I told him about the transfer of troops. In his lament, I asked the commissar and a few of them to stay behind to assist in the change of guard, and I left with Yushchenko and the fighters of the guard company first.

Both the artillery regiment and the 1077th regiment were now deployed. I thought that it would take more than half an hour for the artillery regiment to be dispatched, but after they completed the firing mission, they were ready to transfer, and all the artillery was hung on the towed truck, and immediately returned along the same road as soon as the transfer was ordered.

Grissa's jeep carried five trucks from the guard company with Yushchenko and me at the front, followed closely behind, and the convoy headed down the road to Klin.

Although the Grissa drove very fast, with ten kilometers left from Klin, it still did not catch up with the artillery regiment in front and the convoy of the 1077th regiment.

Just as I was muttering to myself whether the two troops had not yet set off, or if they had turned on some other fork in the road, or they might not have been able to catch up, the car suddenly came down without warning.

Because the car stopped too suddenly, the truck that followed couldn't brake, and the road was slippery, and it hit it directly, and our car suddenly flew out of the road before it fell heavily to the ground. I was carried forward by the tremendous inertia, and my body slammed into the back of the chair in front of me, and the violent impact shook my internal organs as if they were out of place.

I slowly sat up straight, took a few deep breaths, put my hands on my chest, felt the pain relieve slightly, and then asked Grissa angrily: "Comrade driver, what's wrong?" How could it suddenly stop? ”

Grissa turned his head and said helplessly with an apologetic face: "I'm sorry, Comrade Division Commander, the car broke down!" ”

At this time, the guards and soldiers in the back cars jumped out of the cars one after another, surrounded them and asked with concern: "Comrade division commander, you don't matter, right?" Are there any injuries? ”

I pushed the car door open and walked down, waved at the soldiers who came up and said, "I don't care. Then I walked to the rear of the car and looked at it, and found that there was not much damage, but a large piece of the tail was sunk in after being hit. On the other side of the detour car, I happened to see Yushchenko also covering his chest and getting out of the car, so I hurriedly stepped forward to help him and asked him with concern: "Comrade Captain, it doesn't matter, right?" ”

He shook his head vigorously and said, "It's okay, it's just that I was shaken, and my chest hurts a little." ”

Grissa walked over with his head down, bowed his head and confessed his mistake to me, saying, "Comrade division commander, I'm sorry, I didn't know that the road car would suddenly break down at this time. ”

I patted him on the shoulder and said magnanimously, "Comrade Grisa, you are a good driver, and we don't mean to blame you." Don't you say? Comrade Captain. "When I said this, I deliberately led the conversation to Yushchenko.

Seeing that I said this, Yushchenko, who had a bitter face, had to say casually: "Yes, Grissa." Neither the teacher nor I blame you, so don't worry about it. ”

"You fix the car first, and then catch up after repairing the car!" Then I said to Yushchenko: "Anyway, it's not far from Klin, so we'll take a walk on the highway before it's dark, and the rest of the people will catch up when the car is repaired." ”

"Yes!" Yushchenko agreed, ran over to convey my order to his men, stopped all the cars, waited for Grissa to catch up with them after repairing them, and then walked to Klin with two dozen fighters and me.

After walking for more than ten minutes, one of the soldiers who walked in front noticed a group of people on the side of the road not far ahead, and hurriedly turned around and shouted. Yushchenko, who was alerted, immediately changed his formation and asked the fighters to surround me in the middle in case anything happened to him.

At this moment, a shout came from the front: "Hey, comrades! I said, "Where are you going?" ”

I was relieved to hear that the other man was speaking authentic Russian, and I stepped forward with the soldiers who were in the way in front of me, and saw that they were all men in our uniforms, except for a few men with military rank sitting on a fallen birch tree on the side of the road, and the rest of them were standing around them, so I replied loudly: "We are going to attack Berlin and beat Hitler's mustache hard." Just not enough people, are you going to join us? ”

The warriors around me listened to my words, and immediately laughed.

Perhaps it was just me who had just come out of the crowd, and several of the seated commanders immediately stood up, and one of them ran briskly towards me. The burly, bearded, middle-aged commander stood in front of me and saluted, and reported: "Hello, Comrade General! Second Lieutenant Yuri reports to you that our troops have been broken up and hope to join your unit. ”

"You're welcome to join us." With that, I held out my hand to the second lieutenant.