Sidorin, who was staying at the headquarters, received a call from Guchakov and asked directly: "Guchakov, have you found the brigade commander?"
"Found it, Comrade Chief of Staff." As soon as Guchakov finished answering this question, he immediately asked the question Sokov was concerned about: "Comrade Chief of Staff, the brigade commander asked me to ask you, near Mamayev Hill
Are there any troops stationed in the slave country?"
"The army of the servant state?!" Sidorin heard Guchakov ask this and couldn't help asking curiously: "I said Guchakov, why are you asking this?"
"That's it, Comrade Chief of Staff." Guchakov explained to Sidorin: "The brigade commander just discovered..."
Before Guchakov finished speaking, the microphone in his hand was taken by Sokov. Sokov said into the microphone: "Chief of Staff, when I was observing the enemy's position just now, I found a large group of people wearing khaki clothes.
Uniformed soldiers, followed by a group of tanks, attacked the Beigang position. Judging from their uniforms, this was definitely not the German army or the Dongfang Battalion, so I asked Guchakov to call you and ask if it was nearby.
What kind of army is there for a servant country?”
"No, Comrade Brigadier." Sidorin replied on the phone: "According to the information I have, there are no troops from the slave countries nearby at all. Maybe they are troops transferred overnight after the German troops were transferred away yesterday."
"Chief of Staff, do you have a way to figure out the number of this enemy?" In order to know himself and the enemy, Sokov asked tentatively: "At least you must know which slave country's army this is."
In response to Sokov's question, Sidorin hesitated for a long time before answering: "We also have a reconnaissance team nearby, and I asked them to figure out the origin of this enemy as soon as possible."
After hanging up the phone, Sokov asked the corporal again: "Comrade corporal, can your phone communicate with the battalion command post in Beigang?"
"Yes, Comrade Brigade Commander." The corporal nodded and replied in a positive tone: "The telephones used by the observation posts on the two hills have been specially modified so that they can call the police in the shortest time.
Report any observed enemy situation to the headquarters at any level."
Sokov did not remember that he had asked Maxim to improve any telephone lines. It seemed that all this was done by Vitkov after acting as his deputy. He quickly ordered the corporal: "Get me through to the battalion commander at Beigang immediately.
Place."
After the call was connected, Sokov heard Vitkov's voice coming from the receiver, and asked directly: "Comrade Deputy Brigade Commander, the enemy infantry and tanks have launched a charge towards the Beigan position. I want to ask,
Are you sure you can stop them?"
"Don't worry, Comrade Brigade Commander." Vitkov replied carelessly: "With a few broken tanks and hundreds of soldiers, we are confident to crush their attack."
Sokov used his binoculars to glance at the dark enemy troops in the distance, and said with a wry smile: "Comrade Deputy Brigadier, the Germans don't have many tanks, but they have a lot of soldiers. According to my visual inspection, there are not many.
To two thousand people.”
"What, the Germans sent out two thousand men?" Witkov asked in an unbelievable tone: "Comrade Brigadier, I want to ask, was it the observation post that reported to you?"
"No, it wasn't reported to me by the observation post." Sokov replied, "I saw it with my own eyes."
"Thousands of people, how is this possible?" Witkov said in confusion: "They just moved their troops north yesterday, how could so many troops appear overnight?"
"This is exactly what I want to find out." Sokov said through gritted teeth: "What is attacking you is not the Germans, but the army of a certain slave country."
"The army of the servant state?!" Witkov couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when he heard what Sokov said, and then said thoughtfully: "Could it be the Romanian army? According to the information I have, there is a Romanian division
It is stationed 40 kilometers away to the west. Could it be that the Germans saw that their own troops were empty and transferred this army over?"
"The Romanian army?" Sokov knew that there were Romanian troops among the German army's servants, but he didn't know anything about the enemy's combat effectiveness. He asked tentatively: "Comrade Deputy Brigadier, what is their combat effectiveness?"
how?"
Vitkov is worthy of being the deputy chief of staff of the group army, and he knows a lot of information that Sokov is not qualified to know. At this moment, the safety of Beigang is related. After thinking for a moment, he said decisively: "If I am not wrong,
If so, this should be the Romanian 20th Infantry Division, affiliated to the Romanian 3rd Army. In the early battles, this division used two companies to wipe out a division headquarters of our army and captured more than 3,000 soldiers.
people……"
After listening to Vitkov's introduction, cold sweat broke out on Sokov's forehead. In his mind, the Romanian army's combat effectiveness was scum, and it would be a joke for his own troops to defeat them. Who knows at this moment?
Only then did I realize that I had been misled by some false information from later generations. If I really thought that the Romanian army's combat effectiveness was poor and took it lightly, I might suffer a big loss.
Thinking of this, he quickly asked Vitkov: "Comrade Deputy Brigade Commander, the enemy has about 2,000 people, and the original defenders of Beigang plus the 400 marine battalion sailors only have about 600 people. They can defeat the enemy.
?"
"Don't worry." Vitkov said carelessly: "Don't say they come with 2,000 men, even if the whole division comes, I am sure to defeat them."
"Wait a minute," Sokov heard Vitkov about to hang up the phone, and quickly stopped him, and then asked: "What is the organization and equipment of the Romanian army? Can you tell me?"
"The Romanian Infantry Division is modeled after the German Infantry Division: it consists of three infantry regiments, a semi-motorized reconnaissance unit, an anti-tank company, a combat engineer battalion and two artillery regiments, with a total strength of 17,500 people." Vitko
The husband told Sokov: "As for the weapons and equipment, they use the ZB-7.92mm 1924-style rifle, ZB-26 light machine gun and ZB-53 heavy machine gun, and the bullets used are the same as those of German weapons.
"
When Sokov heard this, he secretly thought: Although the Romanian army uses Czech-style weapons, the bullets of these firearms are common with German-style weapons. If they can be captured, they can make up for the lack of ammunition on their own side.
.
However, he was only happy for a moment, and his mood became heavy again, because he remembered that several battalion commanders were complaining to him in the conference room, saying that the troops' ammunition was insufficient and they might not be able to sustain even a small-scale battle.
, requesting him to replenish bullets for them as soon as possible.
Looking at the dark-skinned officers and soldiers of the Romanian Army, Sokov finally asked: "Comrade Deputy Brigade Commander, let me ask you again, how many new rockets do we have left?"
"New rockets? No more, not even one." Possibly worried that Sokov would be angry, Vitkov also emphasized: "Comrade Brigadier, you are not on Mamayev Hill, so you don't know what the enemy is launching at us.
How violent the attack was. If it weren't for those new rockets, Mamayev Heights would have been lost long ago."
Sokov has no doubts about Witkov's statement. The new rockets that are causing headaches for the Germans today are black technologies that only appeared in advance after he came to this era. Since there is no such new weapon
Help, Mamayev Ridge may have fallen into the hands of the Germans long ago, as it did in history.
"Comrade Deputy Brigadier," Sokov realized that without the help of new rockets, even if there were hundreds of brave sailors in Beigan, it would not be easy to hold the position, so he planned to return immediately.
Headquarters, prepare the reserve team. When Vitkov and the others cannot support them anymore, they will rush over to provide support. "I will go back to the command post immediately and prepare the reserve team. When the situation there becomes tense, I will rush over to provide support.
"
"This is great, Comrade Brigadier." Even though Vitkov vowed to Sokov that it would be no problem to hold the position, he still didn't have much confidence in his heart. At this moment, he heard Sokov say that he was ready to send a reserve team.
After supporting them, he suddenly gained confidence. He expressed his position to Sokov: "As long as we have the support of the reserve team, no matter how many Romanian troops come, we will be sure to stop them."
As soon as Sokov returned to the headquarters, he immediately ordered Sidorin: "Chief of Staff, ask Captain Shamrih to come to my place."
"Comrade Brigadier!" Sidorin was very confused about Sokov's order. He clearly remembered that Sokov once said in public that more than 400 sailors under the command of Captain Shamrih
, is the reserve team of the entire brigade and must not be used easily until a critical moment. But now that the battle has just started, Sokov is preparing to use this reserve team. Is the situation really such a critical situation? Therefore, he puzzled
Question: "I want to ask, what happened that you wanted to put the reserve team into battle so early?"
"Chief of Staff, the situation has changed." Sokov told Sidorin the information he received from Vitkov, and finally said: "If the combat effectiveness of the Romanian army is really as the deputy brigade commander said,
They are so powerful, I am worried that the more than 600 people on the Beigang position will not be able to stop the 2,000 Romanian troops."
"Comrade Brigadier, I have an idea. Maybe we don't have to put the reserve into battle so early." Sidorin knew that a new counterattack would be launched at Mamayev Heights in two days. If it was exhausted too early,
Reserve team, what troops will be used to participate in the counterattack when the time comes?
"Chief of Staff, do you have any good ideas?" Hearing what Sidorin said, Sokov felt like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw, and hurriedly urged: "Hurry up and tell me."
"Although our new rockets have been exhausted, we still have some mortars." Sidorin suggested to Sokov: "When the enemy charges towards Beigan, we can use mortar fire and machine gun fire.
Suppress the enemy to reduce the defensive pressure on Beigan."
"How many mortars are there?" After learning that artillery fire and machine gun firepower could be used to suppress the enemy's attack, Sokov felt that if it could be effective, there would be no need to put the reserve team into battle prematurely, so he asked
:"How many shells does each mortar hold?"
"There are also twelve mortars." Sidorin replied cautiously: "There are a little less shells, but we can still ensure that each gun has eighteen shells."
Sokov has good mental arithmetic skills. As soon as Sidorin finished speaking, he calculated in his mind that there were still 216 artillery shells. Although it was a little less, there should still be no problem in suppressing the enemy's attack on Beigan. He clicked
Head, he said to Sidorin: "Comrade Chief of Staff, you first order the mortars to be in position and be ready to bombard the enemies who board the Beigang position at any time. However, the reserve team is still assembled as planned and ready to go into battle at any time."
When Sidorin heard that Sokov agreed to his proposal, he was secretly happy when he heard the next words. His face that had just shown a smile turned into a bitter look again: "Comrade Brigadier, you didn't agree to use artillery fire.
To suppress the enemy's attack? Why do we need to prepare the reserve team to assemble?"
"There are too many uncertainties on the battlefield." Faced with Sidorin's question, Sokov replied with a normal expression: "If our shelling just started and the mortar position was suppressed by the enemy's artillery fire, we would
What should we do to support the Beigang position? To resolve the battle and crush the enemy's attack, we can only rely on our infantry."
"Okay," now that Sokov had said it to this extent, Sidorin realized that it was unwise to contradict him, so he agreed, picked up the phone on the table, dialed, and spoke into the phone
Said: "I am Chief of Staff Sidorin, please ask Comrade Captain Shamrih of the Navy to come to the brigade headquarters immediately."
Shamrih lived not far from the brigade headquarters. He rushed over immediately after receiving the notice. He stood up straight in front of Sokov and asked respectfully: "Comrade Brigade Commander, what is your name?"
I'm coming over, what can I do?"
"Comrade Captain, I was originally going to let your troops rest for two more days." Looking at Shamrih standing upright in front of him, Sokov said apologetically: "But today's enemy attack is a threat to us.
It’s very big, and I’m worried that the Beigang position may not be able to be defended, so I plan to ask you to lead the reserve team to support it.”
When Shamrih received the call, he guessed that there might be some combat mission. Now that it was confirmed here in Sokov, he immediately felt more at ease. He smiled and replied: "Comrade Brigadier, our sailors have already
I have made all preparations for battle and can go into battle at any time. I will go back now to assemble the troops and wait for your order to attack at any time."
"Captain Shamrih," Seeing Shamrih about to leave, Sidorin stopped him and said with a serious expression: "There was once a force composed of sailors who fought tenaciously with the enemy in the city.
, and achieved considerable results. I hope your performance on the battlefield will not be worse than that of your colleagues, do you understand?"
In response to Sidorin's question, Shamrih said nothing, just nodded and walked out of the headquarters expressionlessly.
This chapter has been completed!