The bomb fell and exploded not far from Cuikov, and the soil raised immediately covered him. He heard the enemy planes in the air moving away, and he couldn't wait to arch out of the temperature-filled soil, climbed out of the crater with his hands and feet, rushed to the cover that had been destroyed, and looked down at it.
"Comrade Commander," the officer whose legs were pressed by the logs saw the dusty Cui Kefu appear in front of him and said with apologies: "I've caused you trouble."
"Look at what you said. I am your superior, how can I ignore you?" Cui Kefu stepped forward and held the other party's hand, comforted him and said, "Don't worry, we will rescue you."
"Where is the military doctor?" The officer's eyes turned to Cui Kefu and said weakly: "I have something to say to him."
"Come here!" Cui Kefu turned his head and saw a soldier holding a shovel, and quickly told him: "Call the military doctor quickly."
The military doctor hid in the crater not far away. The soldier went out and shouted twice, and then he followed. He came to Cui Kefu carefully, bent down and asked respectfully, "Comrade Commander, do you have any instructions?"
"It's not me looking for you, but he's looking for you." Cui Kefu pointed at the officer whose waist was pressed by the log and could not move, and said, "He said he had something to say to you."
The military doctor quickly came to the officer and squatted down, asking, "Do I have anything to serve you?"
"Military doctor," Perhaps because the injuries were too serious, the officer struggled to speak, so the military doctor had to put his head closer to hear clearly what he was saying: "Can you amputate me?"
"What, amputation?" The officer's words shocked the military doctor. He waved his head hard and said, "No, you must not. Now your waist is pressed by a log and cannot move. If you have amputation, you can only choose to start from your waist. Under the current conditions, even if you are amputated below your waist, you will die immediately due to a lot of blood loss."
Cui Kefu did not expect that the officer wanted to find a military doctor to amputate him so as not to add unnecessary trouble to his comrades. The corners of his eyes couldn't help but feel wet. He took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention and quickly wiped away the tears that burst out from his eyes with the back of his hands, and stood up to face the soldiers standing outside the cover: "Comrades, please find a way to rescue this commander. I, Cui Kefu, please give you." After that, he raised his hand to salute the soldiers.
…………
Back to the command center, before Cuikov had time to sit down, Krelov rushed to him and said in a panic: "Comrade Commander, something is wrong, something happened."
Cui Kefu's heart skipped a beat. Something happened? Could it be that the enemy has occupied the Red October factory? He quickly asked nervously: "What happened? Is the Red October factory lost?"
"Is the Red October Factory lost?" Cui Krelov's words stunned. He thought to himself why he had not received a report. But he soon understood that Cui Krelov misunderstood his meaning and thought that the Red October Factory had been lost. He quickly explained: "The enemy took advantage of our army's attention to the Red October Factory, the barricade factory and the silicate factory, and unexpectedly launched an attack on the Derrensky Tractor Factory. At present, the 112th Division's defense zone is in full swing."
When he learned that the battle was in the defensive area of ​​the 112th Division, Cuikov felt much more at ease and said casually: "Chief of Staff, call Major General Jorugev on their right wing to make the 37th Division of the Guards ready for support at any time."
"Comrade Commander, the bad news I want to tell you is related to General Jorugev." Krelov said with a sad face: "While the enemy launched an attack on the 112th Division's defense zone, he also dispatched aircraft to bomb the defense zone of the 37th Division of the Guards. General Jorugev's command was hit by a bomb, and his life and death are unknown now. What's worse is that Military Commissioner Gurov was also in his division headquarters at that time..."
When Cui Kefu heard this, he felt that his eyes were black and Venus was everywhere. If Krelov had not found something was wrong and held him in time, he might have fallen to the ground. Cui Kefu took two deep breaths, stabilized his emotions, and asked, "Comrade Chief of Staff, who reported to you? Is the source of the information reliable?"
"It's Colonel Omelichenko, the commander of the 109th Guards!" Krelov understood the purpose of Cuikov's question. He was worried about spreading false information to shake the morale of the army. He quickly replied with affirmative answer: "His command is not far from the division headquarters, and he witnessed the division headquarters being hit by a bomb with his own eyes."
"Organize personnel to rescue immediately." Cuikov was worried about the safety of Gurov and Jorujev, so he quickly ordered Krelov: "Be sure to rescue the military committee member and Jorujev."
"Don't worry, Comrade Commander, Colonel Omelichenko is already organizing personnel rescue." Krelov said with a serious expression: "If we are lucky, we can definitely save people."
"The military committee member and General Jorjeff were buried in the command center. The oxygen below might be consumed soon. Colonel Omelichenko immediately found a way to connect two pipes to supply oxygen to those buried below." Cuikov felt that if Jorjeff's command center was just shattered, and the casualties should not be too large, but if the oxygen inside was consumed, no one would survive: "When the pipe was connected and the oxygen supply to the inside began, it would not be too late to dig it up slowly."
"You are more thoughtful." Krelov flattered Trekov, then walked to the table and picked up the phone, called Colonel Omelichenko, and conveyed Trekov's meaning to him.
As time goes by, the situation near the factory area not only did not improve at all, but showed signs of deterioration. Colonel Yermolkin, the commander of the 112th Division, called and reported to Krelov: "Chief of Staff, about fifty enemy tanks broke through the left wing position of our division and were rushing towards the tractor factory."
"Hold on, Colonel Yermolkin, let your people hold me back." Originally, if Lujeff was buried in the ruins, Krelov was upset. Now he heard Yermolkin say that the enemy's tank was rushing from the left wing of the 41st Guards Division to the factory, and he couldn't help but be anxious: "If the enemy rushes into the tractor factory, I will send you to the military court."
"Come on, Comrade Chief of Staff." Unexpectedly, Colonel Yermolkin retorted: "I have less than a thousand men left in my men and have no heavy weapons. If I want to defend such a wide area, how can I block the enemy..."
Before Krelov could speak, Cuikov had already snatched the microphone in his hand and said in his ear: "Comrade Colonel, I am Cuikov. Immediately distribute your people to nearby buildings and let them let go of the enemy's tanks and only fight the infantry following behind the tanks. Do you understand?"
When Yelmolkin learned that Cuikov only let his people eliminate the enemy's infantry, he felt that he should be able to do it, so he answered readily: "I understand, Comrade Commander, I will let the soldiers hide in the building and eliminate the infantry following the tank."
"Comrade Commander," Krelov couldn't wait to ask, "Is this appropriate for us to let the enemy's tanks rush towards the tractor factory?"
"There is nothing wrong, my chief of staff." Cuikov looked at Krelov and said, "If there was no cover from infantry, even if the enemy's tanks rushed to the vicinity of the tractor factory, the troops that stood there would have a way to destroy them."
Since Cuikov said so, Krelov couldn't say anything else. He was silent for a moment and suddenly said, "By the way, why haven't I received Sokov's report yet? I don't know how the battle is in Mamayevgang?"
"Call now and ask." Cuikov was also very concerned about the situation in Mamayevgang. He knew that once the commanding heights were lost, the enemy would gain a greater advantage, so he urged Krelov: "See how the battle is there and whether they can block the enemy's attack."
Just when Trikov and Krelov were eager to understand the situation in Mamayev's hill, Sokov's troops had successfully repelled the attack of the Romanian army. Sidolin had seen the power of a new rocket before, so he could naturally imagine the power of the thunder cannon; but this was the first time Ivanov saw that the dense enemy infantry rushed towards Mamayev's hill under the cover of tanks. Dozens of thunder cannons placed on the hill were fired for two rounds, and the smoke at the foot of the hill suddenly filled the smoke. When the smoke dissipated, Ivanov saw that the enemy was rushing like a tide disappeared, and the land was filled with broken bodies. There were even two No. 3 tanks that were overturned by the power of the explosive pack explosion and stopped there to burn.
After seeing the situation on the battlefield, Ivanov returned to the command center and said excitedly to Sokov: "Comrade Commander, I really didn't expect that the thunder cannon you developed was so powerful. Our army destroyed at least thousands of enemies without any casualties."
Sokov was very modest about the huge results we achieved: "Comrade Deputy Division Commander, the reason why we achieved such great results is, on the one hand, because the power of the flying thunder cannons is indeed because of the huge power of the flying thunder cannons; on the other hand, the Romanian army underestimated the enemy too much. They thought we would have a hand-to-hand battle with them like the previous few days, so the queues were particularly dense during the attack, so that our flying thunder cannons could have the greatest effect. If it were the Germans' attack, their infantry queues would be relatively scattered, and the results we achieved would be much smaller."
"Anyway, it would be an amazing victory to eliminate thousands of Romanian troops at one time." Ivanov said unsatisfiedly: "I think I should report to the Army Command immediately and tell the commander and the commander and the others."
Sokov was hesitating whether to report the results of the Romanian army to Cuikov after he was taught a lesson. When Sokov was hesitating, the phone ringing on the table rang without warning. Sidorin picked up the microphone and listened for a moment, then handed it to Sokov, saying, "Comrade Commander, it's the commander's phone."
"Hello, Comrade Commander." Sokov asked respectfully at the microphone: "Do you have any instructions?"
"How is the battle situation there?" Cui Kefu asked loudly on the phone: "Have the enemy launched an attack on you?"
"Yes, the Romanian army on the front of Mamayev's hill launched a round of attacks on us." Sokov proudly replied: "But their attack has been blocked by us, and thousands of soldiers have been wiped out by us."
"What, you have eliminated thousands of enemies?" Cuikov, who was suffering from the decline of the troops, asked in surprise after hearing Sokov's answer: "What about your casualties?"
"About a dozen people were injured, no one died." Sokov was quite helpless when he said this. Logically, the enemy was hit by the flying thunder cannon as soon as he rushed to the foot of the mountain and suffered heavy losses. He didn't even see the shadow of his own soldiers, so the troops would definitely not suffer casualties. However, those injured soldiers were all moving in an explosive bag. Because they were too excited, they fell into a crater and sprained their ankles or dodged their waists: "In the next battle, I will remind the soldiers to pay attention and minimize unnecessary casualties."
When they heard Sokov's report, both Trekov and Krelov were stunned: they wiped out thousands of enemies and only injured more than a dozen people. Is this possible? If someone else reported this, even if the enemy attacked was the Romanians with poor combat effectiveness, the two would definitely think that the other party was bragging without hesitation, but Sokov's report this way would be much more credible.
"Col. Sokov," Cuikov did not wake up from his shock. He asked in a daze: "How did you do this kind of battle-loss ratio?"
"Comrade Commander, I made a new defensive weapon last night that can effectively deal with the enemy's attack." Sokov originally wanted to introduce the flying thunder cannon to Cui Kov, but then he thought that it was not that he did not trust other troops, but that he was worried that once they were equipped with the flying thunder cannon, once they were captured by the German army and copied, they might be used to deal with him. At that time, whether he could defend the Mamayev club with his own strength is an unknown. Therefore, this kind of shooting himself in the foot cannot be done.
Sokov's words aroused Cuikov's great interest: "Can you tell me what kind of weapon it is?"
"Comrade Commander, if you are interested, you can come to Mamayevgang to see it with your own eyes." After quick thinking, Cuikov decided not to promote the flying thunder cannons within the entire army. However, Cuikov, as his superior, can give him a long experience: "I will let you see with your own eyes how this weapon destroys the enemy in front of our positions."
Chapter completed!