After listening to Sokolovsky’s explanation, I couldn’t help feeling full of emotions. When I was at a low level, I was just a small follower by Zhukov. I would do whatever he ordered me to do, as long as I didn’t get a big deal. He was very tolerant of all the mistakes. But since serving as the deputy commander of the front army, I have really understood Zhukov. Although he is a great military genius, he also has many shortcomings, such as his irritable personality, and sometimes he is very self-serving and can't listen to the slightest opposition. opinion.

After Zhukov answered the phone, he said to us: "Lelyushenko's chief of staff reported that a tank had just rushed to the headquarters only 30 meters before it was blown up by soldiers with anti-tank grenades."

Sokolovsky heard this and couldn't help asking nervously: "Nothing happened to General Nalyushenko, right?"

"What can happen to him?" Zhukov glared, and said grimly: "As soon as the German tank was blown up, he personally led a guard platoon to counterattack. According to the Chief of Staff, they had successfully repelled it. The first wave of the German offensive destroyed eleven tanks and killed more than 100 people."

"Very good results." Sokolovsky said with satisfaction after hearing this: "If they can always maintain such results, I estimate that after two or three hours, the attacking enemy will be completely wiped out by them. "

Zhukov faced me and asked, "Where are Grechko's troops?"

"Comrade Marshal, please wait a moment, I'll call and ask." I raised my hand and looked at my watch, and saw that the time had already passed unconsciously. More than an hour had passed, according to General Grechko's original statement. , His reinforcements should have arrived near Lelyushenko’s headquarters.

I picked up the phone and asked the communicator to connect me to Grechko's headquarters. After hearing the other party’s voice, I opened the door and asked, "Hey, General Grechko, where are your troops now? ?"

"Report to Comrade Deputy Commander." Grechko said hesitantly: "A few minutes ago, I just received...received a report from the reinforcements. He...they are currently away from Lelyushenko’s headquarters, and... And...about fifteen kilometers."

"What?" Hearing Grechko's answer, blood poured over my head. "Comrade General, you are no more than 20 kilometers away from General Relyushenko's command. Time has passed since I gave the order. In more than an hour, you have actually advanced only five kilometers. Are your troops all learning snail crawling?"

"No, Comrade Deputy Commander, please listen to my explanation." Grechko heard me angry and explained to me in a panic: "Although from the map, we are far from the command of General Lelyushenko. It’s only less than 20 kilometers away. But because of the muddy roads, our tanks and artillery didn’t last long before they got stuck in the mud and could only be pushed forward by the infantry soldiers. Besides, we assembled our troops. It took almost half an hour. I think we have advanced five kilometers in half an hour. This speed is not slow..."

I slapped the table abruptly and said furiously: "Comrade General, do you know that due to the slow actions of your ministry, General Lelyushenko's command was almost taken off by the Germans. I ordered You, within forty minutes, you have to get to your destination anyway."

"But the tank in front got stuck in the mud, blocking the convoy full of soldiers." Grechko complained to me: "Within forty minutes, my troops will not be able to reach Lelyushenko by any means. Command."

"Since the tank is in the mud, let your soldiers walk, and if the motorcycles are still usable, let them ride motorcycles." Although I know that Grechko is telling the truth, the military situation is urgent now. The German army was violently attacking the line of defense of Lelyushenko's troops. If reinforcements cannot arrive in time, then Lelyushenko will be in danger. Therefore, I said sternly: "Anyway, in forty minutes, I want to hear that your troops have arrived at General Lelyushenko's headquarters."

When I put down the phone angrily, I found Zhukov and Sokolovsky standing in front of me. Suddenly, I realized that what I had just done was suspected of being a surrogate. I blushed and apologized to Zhukov: "Comrade Commander, I'm sorry, I did not discuss with you, so I issued a combat order to the 1st Guards Army."

Who knows that Zhukov, with his hands behind his back, nodded at me, and said with a smile: "Lida, good job. I still said that. If you continue to keep it, you can become the chief of the front in half a year. ."

I just grinned at Zhukov’s praise, and then shifted the topic to the ongoing battle: "Comrade Marshal, do you think the Germans will attack General Lelyushenko tonight?"

"That's for sure, come and see." Zhukov waited for Sokolovsky and I to gather around his desk, then pointed to the map and said to us: "The Germans did not just attack Leliu from one direction. Shenke’s defense zone launched an attack, and fierce fighting took place in four other areas. This is why Lelyushenko’s troops could not deploy their troops to reinforce them when they saw the group army’s headquarters being attacked by the enemy. They were all effectively held back by other German offensive forces."

"Comrade Marshal," Sokolovsky said with a frown, "From the current situation, we cannot yet tell whether the Germans intend to open a space for Hubei's 1st Tank Army in the defense zone of General Lelyushenko. There is a gap, so our troops in other directions cannot be mobilized for the time being."

Zhukov sat at the table with his chin in his hands, frowning and thinking. After a long time, he raised his head, looked at Sokolovsky and said: "Chief of Staff, you call General Pukhov of the 13th Army and order him to keep two divisions and serve as a guard at the mountain exit. , The rest of the troops moved to Lelyushenko’s defense area overnight. At the same time, they ordered several other army groups to also quickly go northward to pursue the fleeing German tank 1st army group."

"Will the strength of the two divisions be too small?" Sokolovsky asked with doubts about Zhukov's order: "You must know that the German troops who fled into the mountainous area are at least 100,000 people. If they usually rush towards the mountain pass desperately, our troops will not be able to stop them at all."

"We have two divisions at the mountain pass, and we can't just defend." Zhukov pointed the map with his hand, and said a little displeased: "You can order the soldiers to cut down trees, block the mountain trails, and slow down the German marching speed. So that our pursuit troops can catch up to them."

Before crossing, when I saw scenes in film and television works where trees were dropped and blocked the road, I wondered whether this method was effective. After I arrived in this era and personally experienced it, I realized how effective this practice of blocking roads with trees is. It is no less difficult for marching troops to pass a road blocked by trees than to climb a large tree of the same length.

Sokolovsky is obviously very proficient in this. After he listened to Zhukov's instructions, his face suddenly showed a happy expression: "Yes, Comrade Marshal, this method is really effective. I will do this. Call General Pukhov and ask him to send someone to cut down trees and block all the roads that go out of the mountain. As long as we have a blocking position nearby, it will be more difficult for the Germans to pass through this area than to reach the sky."

Seeing Sokolovsky's departure, I suddenly remembered the phone call from Szitemenko, and quickly said to Zhukov: "By the way, Comrade Marshal, there is one important thing. I forgot to tell you."

"What's the matter?" Zhukov frowned again thinking that something serious had happened.

"General Shtemenko, the Chief of Operations of the General Staff, called," I organized a vocabulary in my head, and then reported: "The Supreme High Command, in recognition of us and Marshal Konev’s troops, was in the Carpathians. The foothills defeated the German army and went to the border of Czechoslovakia and Romania to celebrate this major victory. At 9 o'clock tonight, 324 salutes were fired 24 times to pay tribute to us."

Zhukov's face was suddenly smiled by my change-over report. He tried his best to control his emotions, but the corners of his mouth were still slightly upturned. He asked, "Did Comrade Shtemenko made the call himself?"

"Yes, Comrade Marshal." I nodded and gave Zhukov an affirmative answer: "Comrade Minister said that he and his deputy Krezlov personally drafted the order to sound the first-level salute. "

Zhukov heard me say this, the smile on his face grew stronger, he must have understood in his heart that everything I said is true, because I don’t know Stemenko and Krezlov at all, even if I want to It is impossible to make up something that can be easily dismantled. He smiled and nodded, and said: "From the end of the Kursk battle to the present, the salutes have been fired more and more frequently on the Red Square. I believe this series of victories will definitely be a great encouragement. All the soldiers and civilians have strengthened their belief that we must win and that fascism must be defeated."

Sokolovsky came back after the phone call, and after sharing the good news I said, he reported to Zhukov: "Comrade Marshal, according to the report from the front, the German army seems to be gathering troops again and is preparing to launch against our defense zone. New offense."

"Is there a tank unit?" Zhukov was mentally prepared for the German attack. He only cared about whether the German army would use tank troops on a large scale before the new attack. So he asked nervously: "Does Lelyushenko have enough anti-tank weapons?"

"Relax, Comrade Marshal." To Zhukov's question, Sokolovsky replied confidently: "According to what I know, the 4th Tank Army is equipped with a considerable number of 40 rocket launchers. That weapon hits tanks. , The effect is really great. Even if the German Tiger tanks have a range of 200 meters, our rocket launchers can penetrate their frontal armor..."

When Sokolovsky introduced some parameters of the 40 rocket launcher to Zhukov, I couldn't help but muttered in my heart: The 40 rocket launcher is a weapon from later generations. If even the German tanks can’t handle it, Fronin is a senior in the military industry. The engineer is like crossing in vain.

"That's good," Zhukov said with contempt after Sokolovsky finished saying: "As long as our troops can support until dawn, even if the German army has more tanks, as long as our air force strikes, Can turn them all into piles of scrap iron."

At zero, the Germans once again attacked Lelyushenko's defense area from several directions at the same time. Before the start of the offensive, they first carried out violent artillery fire preparations, attempting to destroy our commanders in the fortifications with artillery fire, and then their tanks could once again guide the infantry to launch an impact.

However, it is a pity that the German army's wishful thinking has failed again. How could Zhukov watch his defense area being shelled by the Germans without paying attention? He immediately ordered the front artillery to return fire and suppress the German long-range artillery fire.

Just a few minutes after the Germans fired artillery, there were several artillery positions. Our artillery observers calculated the positions and distances~lightnovelpub.net~ Several guard rocket artillery battalions and self-propelled artillery regiments were bombarded, and these artillerymen were immediately bombarded. The position was misfired.

The artillery fire before the attack was interrupted by our army. The Germans, unwilling to fail, immediately stopped the artillery, let more than one hundred tanks as the lead, guided the troops of the two divisions, facing up to 30 kilometers wide. Lelyushenko's defense zone launched a new round of offensive.

Hearing the news that the German offensive was in full swing, Zhukov asked Sokolovsky with a serious expression: "Chief of Staff, what is the current defense situation near Lelyushenko's headquarters? If the Germans attack again, can they stop them? ?"

"Don't worry, Comrade Commander. An infantry division of the 1st Guards Army has built a defense near Lelyushenko's headquarters, and the Germans can't rush through." After the report, Sokolovsky sighed. With a sigh of relief, he said regretfully: "The terrain on the west is very conducive to the deployment of the German tank troops, and the area occupied by our army not only has narrow passages, but also ***** makes it difficult for our tank troops to move."

After Zhukov heard this, his brows frowned again, and I hurriedly came out to divert the subject: "We have several troops now moving towards the rear of the German assembly area. If we are lucky, wait until dawn, This group of Germans will fall into our siege. With the support of the air force, our troops are fully capable of destroying all the invading enemies. Then we can turn our heads and concentrate our forces to solve the problem in the mountains. Remnants of the German army in the city."

　　

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