When Basmanov and the others came to me, without waiting for him to speak, I preemptively asked: "Comrade Captain, has the 3rd Regiment begun to rescue the wounded?" Seeing that he nodded in affirmation, I continued to ask, because I thought of the tragic scene I had seen, so my tone of voice was very heavy and stern, "Do you understand what is going on, who threw so many wounded people there and left them to fend for themselves?" ”

Basmanov shrugged his shoulders and replied helplessly: "It's all clear, comrade division commander." I questioned the wounded, and they were all from the army group field hospital, which informed them last night that they would be sent to the east bank of the Volga River. Since this morning, 47o of their more seriously wounded have been transferred from the hospital to the open field, waiting for the troops to take them across the river. Unexpectedly, after staying there for several hours, not only did they not see anyone to pick them up, but they were also shelled and bombarded by the enemy, and the wounded were unwilling to sit still and wait for death, so they had to find a way to get out of there. According to our preliminary count, at least a third of the wounded have died. ”

While I was grieving for the tragic fate of these wounded, Basmanov suddenly changed the subject: "By the way, Comrade Division Commander, I came to you on the orders of the political commissar. ”

"The commissar is looking for me?!" When I left the division, I had already handed over the command of the division to Kirillov and Bandereev, and they could be in charge of all the affairs of the division, so what else would come to me? At the moment, I was not in the mood to play a guessing game with Basmanov, so I asked him directly the answer to the riddle: "Is there anything the commissar is looking for me?" ”

Hearing my question, Basmanov suddenly became vigilant. I looked left and right. Then he came close to me. He lowered his voice and said to me: "Comrade division commander, two generals have come to the headquarters. ”

"Two generals?" Seeing Basmanov's mysterious look, I knew that it must not be an ordinary person, and I lowered my voice and asked, "Do you know who the two generals in the command are?" ”

"I heard from the political commissar that it was the commander of the Front, Colonel-General Yeremenko, and his deputy, Lieutenant General Fu." When I heard these two names come out of Basmanov's mouth, I was overjoyed, and it was really effortless to find nowhere to find them. I've been wandering around the docks and riversides, and I didn't expect them to go to my division headquarters first. Thinking of this, I hurriedly beckoned to Basmanov: "Let's go, Comrade Captain, come back to the headquarters with me." ”

It hadn't been long since I felt something was wrong. According to Gurov, Yeremenko went out with someone after the telegram, and Chuikov sent me to meet him, even if he wanted to, he could not inform him. How could they go directly to the division's headquarters without knowing the foreboth?

With these questions in mind, I returned to command and walked in the door. I saw the familiar figure sitting at the table, hurriedly quickened my pace, nodded at Kirillov and the others who greeted me, and then went straight to the person to stand upright, raised his hand and saluted, and said respectfully: "Hello, Comrade Commander of the Front Army. The commander of the division, Major General Oshanina, reports to you and welcomes you to the division's headquarters. ”

Yeremenko stood up with his hand on the table, stretched out his hand to me with a smile, and said politely: "Comrade Oshanina, our general and his husband are going to the headquarters of Chuikov, passing by you, so we have come to rest. ”

Seeing that Yeremenko still didn't know anything, I hurriedly said: "Comrade commander, I have specially come to the dock to pick you up on the orders of the commander of the group army Chuikov and the military commissar Comrade Gurov. I've been looking for the docks for most of the day, but I didn't expect you to arrive first. ”

"Oh, Chuikov and Gurov asked you to meet us?" Yeremenko asked with some surprise: "In addition to greeting us, what other tasks did they assign to you?" ”

"They asked me to give you a detailed report on the results of these two days." As I spoke, I took out the stack of war reports from my briefcase, and when I was hesitating whether to report to him immediately, he had already raised his hand and took the war reports from my hand. After quickly flipping through a few pages, he turned his head and ordered the general, who was standing next to him without saying a word: "Comrade Fu, please contact them immediately and ask the commander of the 37th Guards Division, Major General Ruoludev, to immediately rush to the headquarters of the division." ”

"Yes." The general said yes briefly, and then he came to Razumeyeva's side and bowed his head to her. Soon, Razumeyeva began to call the headquarters of the army group with a microphone.

While waiting for the arrival of Joludev, Yeremenko slammed the stack of battle reports on the table and said angrily: "Out of trust, we entrusted the 37th Guards Division with such a difficult and honorable task as holding the tractor factory. But as a result, Ruoludev betrayed this trust and ceded the tractor factory to the enemy. He's sinning, he's sinning. The more Yeremenko spoke, the more angry he became, and he slapped the table again and again.

Due to the recent poor communication, although Kirillov and his family knew that the battle in the factory area was fierce, no one told them what the specific situation was, so when they saw Yeremenko's thunder, they could only look at each other. Seeing Yeremenko so angry, I understood that he must have had some misunderstanding, so I hurriedly stepped forward and said politely: "Comrade Commander of the Front Army, I have been staying at the headquarters of the group army for the past two days, and I know very well about the battles in the factory area, I think you may have a misunderstanding about the 37th Guards Division, can you introduce you to the division's table in battle?" ”

Yeremenko stared at my eyes for a long time, and finally nodded reluctantly and said, "Well, let's hear it, I want to know what is going on." You know, communication with the 62nd Army has not been smooth recently, so we can't get the latest battle situation in time. ”

Since Yeremenko was willing to give me the opportunity to talk about the experience of these two days of fighting, I naturally could not waste such a reality, and after organizing some words in my head, I began to tell him: "Comrade commander, January 14. The Germans massed forces of 3 infantry divisions and 2 tank divisions on a four-kilometer front. An attack was launched on the factory area. The preparation of powerful aviation and artillery fire at dawn was the prelude to this offensive. Behind the ears. The bombing of enemy planes and the firing of artillery continued until nightfall. The number of sorties by enemy aircraft amounted to 3 thousand sorties in a day. During the shelling and bombardment of the enemy, the explosions were deafening, and the air was shaken by the rumble. Everything was scorched, dusty, and smoke, and five meters away, nothing could be seen. ”

Chuikov handed me the battle report, although I only roughly flipped through it. But I remember most of the above content. Yeremenko's expression was unusually calm when he heard me retell the contents of the battle report, and he even beckoned Kirillov and the others to sit down and accompany him to listen to my report.

"At eight o'clock in the morning, the German fascist troops went on the offensive. The main directions of their assault were tractor factories and 'barricade' factories, and the areas defended by the 37th Guards Infantry Division, the 95th Infantry Division, the 3O8th Division, and the 84th Tank Brigade were fiercely attacked by them. Among them, the 37th Guards Division, commanded by General Joludev, although exhausted from the brutal fighting, was in a narrow strip of ground in front of the division's defensive positions. The enemy threw another fully manned infantry division and dozens of tanks.

All the lives on our positions after the terrible aerial bombardment and artillery fire. It seems that they have all been ruined by the enemy. When the enemy thought that they could swagger through the collapsed buildings and occupy our positions in the burning and lifeless earth, they realized that they had miscalculated. When they charged together, every inch of land and every stone in front of them was immediately rejuvenated. The defenders of Stalingrad skillfully used natural and artificial bunkers and stubbornly held their occupied positions.

The battle for the tractor factory was fierce, with almost every house, every floor, and even every staircase going on. A number of isolated buildings and streets between the 'barricade' factories and the new village of tractor factory workers have changed hands several times. The commanders and fighters of the 37th Guards Division and the 95th Infantry Division, as well as other units belonging to the army group, hid in the rubble of trenches, buildings or collapsed houses, and attacked the enemy with grenades, Molotov cocktails and various weapons. Mortar groups and anti-tank guns carried out direct aimed fire on enemy tanks.

However, the disparity in power between the enemy and the enemy is too great. After more than four hours of brutal fighting, the enemy broke through the defenses of the 37th Guards Division, routed the left flank of the 112th Infantry Division and advanced to the stadium of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant. At 16 o'clock in the afternoon, the units of the 112th Infantry Division, the 37th Guards Division and the right flank of the 3O8th Infantry Division had been divided and surrounded by enemy tanks. The commanders and fighters had to continue fighting in the encirclement, and the command posts of the regiments remained in place to direct the troops. The battle was brutal, the command of the division commander, General Joludev, was hit by a bomb, and he and the members of the division command were buried in the collapsed shelter, and it was Commander Chuikov who sent the guard unit to rescue him and send him to the headquarters of the army group. Previously, the command of the 37th Guards Division had been taken over by the chief of staff of the group army, who directly commanded several regiments of the division by radio telephone.

By evening, the situation worsened, and the German infantry divisions 389 and 94, the 1oo hunting division, and the 14th and 24th tank divisions attacked the factory. In total, these units had 25o~3oo tanks. Each attack was preceded by a burst of heavy artillery fire and intensive bombardment by aviation. After the end of the actions of the powerful artillery and aviation, the tank echelons and the infantry that followed quickly charged our positions.

On January 15, fierce battles continued in the tractor plant area and on the northern section of the front of our army. The enemy again threw their 3o5th infantry division into battle and attempted to attack south and north along the Volga, returning to the rear of the main forces of our army and annihilating all our troops. The German artillery and aviation constantly suppressed the defensive positions of our army, and dispatched fighter planes to block the airfield on the east bank of the Volga River and prevent our air force from taking to the air, so as to ensure that the air supremacy of the battlefield was in their hands.

At the height of the enemy's offensive, the 37th Guards Division shouldered the burden of the main forces of the battle, and some of its individual detachments and part of its forces fought in the area of the Tractor Factory Workers' Village and Minusinskaya Street. The 95th Infantry Division and the 84th Tank Brigade were also engaged in hard fighting, and the rest of the army group also fought in different positions with small units of the enemy......"

When Yeremenko heard this, he raised his hand to interrupt my words and said in a dissatisfied tone: "Comrade Oshanina, you have been nagging for a long time, and you can't just want to say how tenacious the 37th Guards Division fought under the enemy's frantic attack. But does it work? No matter how heroic their commanders and fighters are, they can't change the fact that the enemy has occupied the tractor factory, right? ”

It is true that the tractor factory was lost at one time, and since Yeremenko said so, I had to nod with a wry smile and say: "Yes, Comrade Commander of the Front, under the powerful offensive of the enemy, the defenders of the factory area suffered so many casualties that the large German forces swarmed in and occupied almost the entire factory area. ”

Yeremenko sneered and said disdainfully: "Although General Ruoludev commanded the troops to put up stubborn resistance in the early stage, in the end, they still failed to hold this vital tractor plant. This alone would not be an exaggeration to send him to court-martial. ”

When I heard him say this, I suddenly felt that something was wrong, the lost tractor factory had already been recaptured by the Sederikov regiment with the cooperation of the 84th tank brigade in the counterattack operation last night, didn't Yeremenko know about it, otherwise he wouldn't have been on fire for the loss of the defensive section of the tractor factory? Thinking of this, I cautiously asked: "Comrade Commander of the Front Army, don't you know that the tractor plant has been recaptured by us?" ”

"What, the tractor factory was recaptured?" This time it was not Yeremenko who spoke, but General Fu, who was expressionless and had not spoken all the time, who asked me excitedly: "Comrade Oshanina, who did you listen to about this, are you not mistaken?" ”

My suspicion was further confirmed by my husband's words, and it seemed that they had not received our latest battle report at all, so I quickly explained: "General Fu, because the troops participating in the counteroffensive are a regiment under our division. The regiment, under the cover of the 84th tank brigade, after a night of fierce fighting, had already managed to recapture the tractor plant. At the same time, in the course of the counterattack, the tank brigade also attacked the camp of the German tank division, destroying nearly 100 tanks and armored vehicles. ”

"Comrade Fu," Yeremenko asked his deputy with a stern expression, "why do I not know such important information?" ”

When asked by him, the husband was dumbfounded for a long time before he said in a rambling voice: "Comrade commander, perhaps because of poor communications, this important information was not reported to the headquarters of the front army in a timely manner. (To be continued!)

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