The German army's attack on the north of the city was repelled again.
After Sokov heard the news, while feeling relieved, he also began to consider how to quickly defeat the enemy so that they would always stick to the north of the city like dog skin plaster.
"Comrade Commander," Vitkov suggested to Sokov: "I think Colonel Bere's tank brigade should be allowed to attack from the enemy's flanks and beat them up so that the enemy can be driven away from the north of the city."
"Comrade Chief of Staff, why don't I want to drive away these enemies quickly?" Sokov replied with a wry smile: "But if we really send a tank brigade to attack from the flank, our strength will probably be exposed. At that time, we will no longer face an attack from one division of the enemy, but maybe a siege from two or even three divisions."
"Even if they have two or three divisions, what's the point?" Witkov said carelessly: "You know, I have four infantry divisions now."
Seeing that Vitkov was so optimistic, Sokov couldn't help but sigh softly and said, "Comrade Chief of Staff, if the tank brigade and artillery division assigned to us by our superiors arrived, you might be able to attack the Germans from the flanks, beat them up, and drive them away from the north of the city.
But have you ever thought about it? Even if our troops want to wait. But the Germans are veterans who have experienced many battles and have rich combat experience, while most of our soldiers are untrained recruits. Once they fight, do you think we can stop them?"
"But we cannot let the enemy stay in the north of the city like this." Witkov reminded Sokov: "If we launch an attack from the west or south at this moment, I am worried that the Sivakov division will become isolated and will probably not be able to escape the destruction of the entire army."
"Don't worry, Comrade Chief of Staff." Sokov comforted Vetkov: "Because we have no air supremacy, both offense and defense will be very passive. After fighting during the day, these enemies from afar must be very tired. We can wait until late at night and attack them, so that we can win at a very small price."
"Night attack?" Witkov seemed not optimistic about Sokov's plan at all: "Comrade Commander, even if the German army becomes exhausted after the fierce battle during the day, if we want to launch a sneak attack on them, I think the chance of success will not be too high. Maybe as we fight, our sneak attack will become a strong attack. As you said, most of our troops are recruits who have just replenished the troops. They are very lacking in both their technical and tactical levels and combat experience. If they rashly ask them to participate in the night attack, they may suffer a big loss."
"Don't worry, I won't let those recruits take risks." Sokov turned his head and said to Cydolin: "Ltd Colonel Cydolin, immediately draw the right candidates from the 41st Guards Division, carry new rockets, quietly approach the enemy's camping area, and attack them with rockets."
"Comrade Commander," Cidolin asked respectfully, "I want to ask, how many rockets do you think are more appropriate to carry?"
Sidolin asked this question very skillfully. He did not ask Sokov how many people he planned to send to carry out this night attack mission, but cleverly asked how many new rockets he needed to carry, so that he could calculate how many people he planned to send.
"After the end of the Stalingrad defense battle, our superiors brought us a lot of new rockets." Sokov naturally understood the purpose of Cidolin's question, and replied: "I think I only brought sixty rockets, which are enough for the Germans to drink a pot."
"Don't worry, comrade Commander." After confirming the number of rockets, Cidolin silently calculated the number of people to be dispatched in his heart, he assured Sokov: "Even if our attack cannot severely damage the German army, their officers and soldiers will not be able to get excited when attacking tomorrow."
"Yes, tonight's night attack was just a harassment to the German army. The purpose was to disrupt their original offensive plan and enable our army to seize the time to consolidate and improve the fortifications."
After dark, a small team of 100 people, carrying a large number of new rockets, heading towards the German camp in the distance. They had already figured out the specific location of the German camp through scouts. When the Germans were sleeping, they could use dense firepower to eliminate as many enemies as possible.
For security reasons, the German army arranged the campsite twenty kilometers away from the frontier of the Soviet army. According to their ideas, the Soviet army would definitely feel that long-distance raids were not worthwhile, so they chose to give up so that they could sleep steadily in the campsite.
The German commander was a cautious man. Not only did he set up tight posts in important areas, but he also had more than a dozen patrol teams, leading military dogs to patrol everywhere in the camp. Not to mention the Soviet scouts, even if a rabbit ran in, he would be found in a short time.
But what the German commander did not expect was that in the middle of the night, dozens of objects dragging long flame tails flew over from a distance and landed in a camp full of tents. The sky above the camp lit up like daylight, and huge flames and explosions turned the entire camp into a sea of fire.
After the German division commander was awakened by the explosion, he looked at the officer rushing in panic and asked, "What's going on? What's going on? Did the Russian guerrillas blow up our arms?"
"Hisser Commander." The officer rushing in said in a panic expression: "It was a rocket, a rocket of the Russians attacked our camp. We don't know if they will continue to attack. For your safety, please follow us immediately." After that, the officer called two soldiers in, raised the division commander in pajamas, and dragged them out of the tent. They wanted to leave this place of death before the second round of attacks by the Soviet army.
"Damn Russian." The German division commander was shouted by two soldiers and staggered out, cursing constantly: "I dare not compete with me face to face, I only dare to do these tricks of sneak attacks. When I catch you, I will hang you all."
A loyal German driver came over in a bucket car. He pushed open the car door and shouted at the embarrassing division commander: "Sir, get in the car quickly, I'll take you out of here."
The two soldiers who were holding the division commander quickly came to the front of the car, hurriedly stuffed the division commander in, and then closed the car door. The two of them hung on the car doors on both sides, then slapped the top of the bucket car and shouted, "Hurry up, drive quickly, otherwise when the Russian shells hit, they would not be able to leave."