Burning Moscow

According to the information captured, the German army will depart from Tomarovka's station at 5 o'clock in the morning on June 24. Based on the German marching speed, I judged that they should reach the Shell Waka area where we ambush between 7:30 and 8:00.

Early that morning, I took Povsky by car to the defense zone of the 51st Guards Division, and wanted to see with my own eyes how the results of the ambush were achieved. Out of concern for my safety, Yushchenko specially asked Bukov to take ten more soldiers with him, divided into two jeeps, and moved with us.

Unexpectedly, our convoy consisted of five jeeps. Not far from the headquarters, we were stopped by an oncoming jeep. Seeing this situation, Bukov, who was sitting in the co-pilot position, turned around and said hello to me, pushed the door and got out of the car, and went to the other party angrily.

Seeing Bukov’s back, Povsky said with a dissatisfied expression: "Damn, who is so bold that he rushed into the defense zone of the 6th Guards Army and stopped the commander of the Army from the car."

When the convoy was blocked by this suddenly emerging car, I used to be very angry, but at the moment when I heard Povsky say this, my thinking changed again. What he said was correct. Now I am on our own territory. I am the highest military chief. If the other party is not an important person, he would definitely not dare to stop my car casually. Thinking of this, I just said lightly: "Comrade Colonel, don't worry, when Major Bukov returns, we will know who is in the car ahead."

As soon as I finished speaking, I saw Bukov rushing over. He opened the car door, leaned in half of his body, and said nervously, "Report to Comrade Commander. In the car in front is General Apanasenko, Deputy Commander of the Front. He invites you to come."

I heard that the car that stopped us in front was actually General Apanashenko. Can't help but startled me. I quickly opened the door of the car next to me and ran towards the car quickly.

When I passed the first car in the convoy, I came to the Apanaschenko seat. When I was about to raise my hand to salute. But seeing the rear door being pushed open, Apanashenko poked his head out of the car. After looking at me, he ordered: "Get in the car, Comrade Oshanina."

"Yes!" I promised, and walked quickly over, bent over to get into the car, and closed the door.

After Apanasenko saw me sitting down, he leaned forward slightly, raised his hand and patted the driver on the shoulder, and told him: "Comrade driver. Turn around and go to the original destination." The driver nodded and started the car. He dropped his head in place, and then drove forward along the dirt road.

I didn't know where Apanashenko was going to take me, so I asked curiously: "Comrade General, why are you free to come to me today?"

Apanashchenko smiled and replied: "I heard that today there will be a wonderful battle in the defense zone of the 51st Guards Division, so I came here to take a look. When I passed by, I saw a small The convoy of drove out from the direction of the group army headquarters, and guessed that you might be in the car. So came to try your luck, I didn’t expect you to be in the car.

When I got into the car, I found that apart from Apanashenko and the driver, a soldier with a submachine gun was sitting in the seat of the co-pilot. I couldn't help asking worriedly: "Comrade General, why did you go out with only one guard? It would be dangerous if you encounter Germans on the road."

Unexpectedly, after listening, Apanashenko waved his hand with a smile, and said disapprovingly: "Comrade Oshanina, don’t worry, even if you encounter a German, you can easily escape with the driving skills of a comrade driver. ."

"Yes. Comrade General." The driver in the front row glanced back at me, then quickly twisted back. He said: "I have driven a car for more than 20 years, and my driving skills have always been good. Even if I encounter any danger, I can easily escape the enemy's encirclement with the deputy commander."

For the blind confidence of Apanashenko and the driver, I just responded with a wry smile, saying that no matter how good your skills are, can you run past the German cannonballs? During the Battle of Stalingrad, Colonel Zaharchenko, the commander of the 192nd Infantry Division, was overconfident and failed to organize a breakout in time when the division was surrounded by the Germans. As a result, during the final retreat, German artillery hit the car. And glorious sacrifice. If Apanashenko still doesn't take his safety so seriously, then sooner or later he will have an accident.

Our convoy came directly to the No. 1 position next to the Shell Waka area. The 309 regiment commander, Lieutenant Colonel Lu Jin, received us. He guided us to an observation post on the position and introduced us: "Comrade generals, I think you may come to the position to watch the battle, so this spacious observation post was specially built. Even if the commander informs you later. Come here, you won’t feel crowded either."

After listening to Lu Jin’s introduction, I carefully looked at the observation post built in the trenches. The roof is thick logs next to each other, and the logs are fixed with big nails. At the moment, the observation post, although there are me, Apanashenko, Povsky, Lukin, and several staff officers, it still looks empty.

Some of the staff officers stood at the observation hole, using binoculars or gun mirrors to observe the outside situation, and some made marks on the spread of the battle map to indicate the situation of the enemy and the enemy.

Apanashchenko walked to an empty lookout hole, raised his binoculars and looked outside for a while, then turned around and asked me: "Comrade Oshanina, I don't know where your troops are in ambush?"

I walked quickly to his side, looked outside, then pointed to the hillside visible to the naked eye in the distance, and said to Apanashenko: "Comrade General, our troops are lying in ambush on that hillside."

After hearing what I said, Apanasenko raised his binoculars and looked over there. After a while, I heard him say again: "But I can't see anything except the low bushes on the hillside."

"No?!" Hearing what Apanashenko said, I quickly raised the telescope and looked towards the hillside. This look really surprised me. On the densely planted hillside, there is indeed no trace of fortifications at all. If I hadn't personally been there a couple of days ago to see the commanders and fighters building fortifications, I would have thought that Tavart Kiradze and Lukin were perfunctory.

I put down my binoculars and turned to Lu Jin who was standing next to me and said: "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, Comrade Deputy Commander of the Front Army can't find your defensive position. Please explain to him why.

When Lu Jin heard my order, he took a step forward quickly. Standing behind Apanashchenko, he respectfully reported to him: "Report to Comrade General, when we were building fortifications. The commander had come to inspect. At that time, she told us that we must do a good job of disguising. . Avoid being spotted by the enemy." When he said this, his face couldn't help showing a proud expression, "After our fortifications were built, after repeated attempts, we finally found an ideal way of disguising. Even if the Germans arrived. Under the hillside, if you don’t look carefully, you won’t find our fortifications."

When Lu Jin was reporting to us, there was a rush of footsteps at the door. Then Tawart Kiradze appeared at the door. He saw Apanashenko standing in the observation post and was taken aback. Then he asked in surprise: "Comrade Deputy Commander of the Front Army, why are you here?"

Apanashchenko seemed to have known Tavart Kiradze a long time ago. Hearing his voice, he quickly put down his binoculars, walked over to shake hands with him, and said, "I heard that you have an ambush today, so Come here to take a look."

Tawart Kirazzi heard him say this and glanced at me. He looked at Apanashenko who was shaking hands with him again, with an embarrassed expression on his face.

I noticed the change in his expression and understood what he was worried about. Quickly smiled at him and said, "Don't worry, General Tawart Kiradze, Comrade General and I are here to take a look. Today's battle is still under your command."

"Yes, Comrade Oshaninna is right." As soon as I finished speaking, Apanashenko echoed: "Don't worry, we will just take a look and will not interfere with your command."

After receiving the assurance from Apanashenko and I, the smile reappeared on Tavart Kiradze's face. He turned his head and looked at Lu Jin and asked, "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, the two commanders have arrived at your place. Why don’t they even have a cup of tea? They go out early, and they must have not had breakfast. You immediately ask someone to bring something to eat here Come."

After receiving the order, Lu Jin quickly arranged for someone to bring us early and hot black tea. When I, Apanashenko, Tavartkilasze, and Povsky were eating around the table, Lukin was standing next to us.

While eating, Apanashenko asked Tavart Kiradze: "Comrade General, your fortifications are well-disguised. I just looked at it with a telescope for a long time, but I didn't see any signs of fortifications on the hillside. Germany. People don’t come, as long as they come, they will definitely be crushed by you."

At this moment, someone in the room suddenly said aloud: "Be quiet, everyone, it seems that the Germans are coming?"

The room suddenly became silent. Everyone stopped everything in their hands and listened to the movement outside with their ears sideways. I also listened carefully for a long time, but except for the footsteps of the commanders walking in the trenches and the lowered voices, I couldn't hear any more.

"Why can't I hear anything?" Povsky spoke first. He looked at the staff officer and said with some dissatisfaction: "I said, Comrade Lieutenant, did you hear me wrong."

The staff officer responded to Povsky's words, and was speechless because of nervousness. Fortunately, Lukin came out in time to relieve him: "Comrades, please listen to me to explain. I believe he heard it right. His ears are the most spiritual in our whole group, and he can hear even the smallest voice."

After hearing this, Apanasenko said nothing, stood up and walked to the observation hole, raised his binoculars and looked out. After watching for a while, I heard him mutter to himself: "It's very quiet outside. I neither saw the Germans nor heard any strange sounds."

Apanashenko’s words made me feel very embarrassed, and I looked at the staff officer in irritation, wondering if I should give him a few words. At this moment, Abanashchenko suddenly exclaimed. When all our attention was drawn to him, we heard him say loudly: "Tank, German tank!"

Hearing what he said, I, Tavart Kiradze, Povsky, and Lukin all rushed to the observation hole to observe the situation outside with a telescope or cannon.

I raised my binoculars and looked into the distance. I saw German tanks appearing on the distant plains. At first they were just a few black dots. But as time went on, these ideas got bigger and bigger, and they could soon be available. The model of the German tank can be seen clearly in the binoculars. I counted twelve tanks, one of which was the latest Tiger tank. The remaining tanks are either No. 3 or No. 4 tanks. Behind these tanks followed nearly twenty half-track armored vehicles, all of which were filled with soldiers.

See this situation. My heart felt more at ease, knowing that the information we had seized was true and credible. As for the Germans. I don’t know if they found any staff officers missing and lost important documents, but they were still stodgy and tried to bypass Yakovlevo and go deep to the rear of our army according to the plan.

Lukin left the observation hole, walked to the table, grabbed the phone, and said loudly into the microphone: "Hello. Major Gilkin? The German armored units have already appeared, prepare your soldiers for battle. Remember. , Pay attention to concealment, you must not let the Germans find you. When the shelling is over and the tank company initiates a charge, you will immediately lead the troops to rush up, understand?"

Lukin's words aroused my curiosity. If he didn't mention the tank company, I almost forgot that I had asked Colonel Bere to draw two companies to cooperate with the infantry. After Lu Jin let go of the call. I called him in front of me and asked, "Lieutenant Colonel, where is the tank company hidden?"

"Report to Comrade Commander." Lu Jin smiled and replied: "We dug a few underground bunkers on the front of the hillside, and our tanks are hidden there. Once the shelling is over, they can break out of the ground and face the chaos. The Germans launched an assault."

Concealing the tank in the ground and waiting for it to break out of the ground during an assault can indeed play an amazing role. After I nodded in satisfaction to Lukin, I turned my head and said to Povsky who was standing next to him: "Comrade Artillery Commander, our artillery can fire."

Povsky nodded and turned to an officer next to him and said, "Call your regiment commander. Order the artillery to fire and cover the marching German armored units."

When the officer turned to relay the order next to the walkie-talkie. Povsky explained to me: "Comrade Commander, he is an observer from the artillery regiment. He is responsible for providing firing parameters for our artillery."

After a while, a shell fell directly into the marching formation of the German armored units, and fell unbiasedly next to an armored vehicle full of soldiers. The armored vehicle exploded, and the armored vehicle with flames and smoke rolled a few times. Later, he was paralyzed there motionless. Some of the soldiers who fell from the car died on the spot, lying on the ground motionless. The soldiers who were lucky enough to survive burst into flames all over, and they suddenly fell down and stood up, crawling and jumping and jumping, trying to extinguish the flames burning on their bodies.

After the artillery test fire was over, I saw the artillery observer talking loudly to the microphone of the telephony with a series of parameters. After a while, there was a scream of shells piercing the air, and fragments of shells fell into the marching formation of the German army and exploded. Countless explosion points suddenly exploded. The shrapnel that was splashed by the violent explosion and the flying debris were intertwined like a violent storm. The German tanks and armored vehicles were thrown into the air like toys and fell heavily. To the ground.

Although our army’s bombardment density was relatively high, the German army’s marching formation was so long that it was impossible to cover them all. Through the billowing black smoke that obscured the sky, I saw that the tanks and armored vehicles in the middle of the queue had become burning wreckage. The soldiers originally carried on the armored vehicles had long been torn to pieces by shrapnel flying horizontally. Various residual limbs and weapon parts were repeatedly lifted and fell heavily to the ground under the effect of the explosive air waves.

I saw that the artillery hit almost the same, and turned my head and said to Povsky and Lukin, "Comrade Artillery Commander, I think it's almost time to stop the shelling. Lieutenant Colonel Lukin, order the troops to attack, and strive to wipe out the enemy. "

The two agreed neatly, and then Povsky walked to the artillery observer and asked him to inform the artillery regiment to stop the shelling. Lukin picked up the phone on the desk and gave the command to attack Major Gilkin who was hidden on the hillside.

As the shelling ceased, more than a dozen new-style T-54/55 tanks arched out of the grass on the front of the hillside. They were covered in dust and turf and fired at the German tanks and armored vehicles that had fallen into chaos on the dirt road. The infantry concealed on the hillside, watching their tanks have attacked, also jumped out of the concealed fortifications, shouting and rushing down the mountain.

The sudden appearance of our tanks plunged the German armored units, which had not yet woken up from the shelling, into greater chaos. The armored vehicles began to back up desperately, trying to quickly get out of this dangerous area, but our tank soldiers would definitely not let them do as they wanted. The shells fired by the 100 mm tank gun immediately shattered the weak armor of the German armored vehicles. The soldiers were either killed or wounded immediately.

After the armored vehicles were killed, all the tanks switched their muzzles to deal with the remaining German tanks. Because the tanks on both sides are only two hundred meters apart, so long as the German tanks are hit, they cannot escape the fate of being destroyed. And the new Tiger tank finally found a chance of revenge after dodge the shells fired by our tanks. In panic, it fired a shot at our tank, and the shell was about to hit the nearest one. A tank.

I saw the fire and gunpowder rising from the body of the tank, and my heart seemed to be severely grabbed by someone. My heart said that at such a close distance, our army's tank must have been reimbursed. But when the smoke dissipated, I found that except for a black dent on the turret, the whole was still intact. Even the turret was still rotating normally, and the muzzle was always pointed at the surviving Tiger tank.

After the German Tiger tank fired a shot, it increased its horsepower in an attempt to quickly escape the battlefield. But no matter how far it ran, a puddle of mud was thrown up on its left side, and the shells fired by our tanks almost hit it. But its good fortune didn't last long~www.NovelMTL.com~ soon it was hit again. Smoke billowed from the observation hole in front, the body shook suddenly, and it stopped moving.

At this point in the battle, only ten minutes had passed. But this small unit of the German army was wiped out under the combined attack of our artillery and tanks. The infantry who rushed there didn't even have a chance to fire a shot, and the battle ended in a hurry. All they could do was to check whether the German officers and soldiers who fell from the armored vehicles could still find alive.

Seeing that this ambush ended so cleanly, Apanashenko said in surprise: "Comrade Oshanina, I really didn't expect that the battle could still be fought like this. You know, in this battle, Our army did not have any casualties at all, and easily wiped out an armored squadron of the German army."

Regarding Apanashenko’s feelings, I smiled politely, saying that the T-54/55 tank that Fronin brought to us was really extraordinary. It was hit by a German Tiger tank at such a close distance. It was not destroyed. It can be seen that if Katukov's First Army of Guards Tanks can be equipped with a large number of such tanks, in the next Kursk battle, it will be able to easily defeat the proud armored units of the Germans. (To be continued.)

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