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"Staff officer?" Major General Batrakov raised his eyebrows, and then replied: "Comrade Captain, I think you don't understand that every soldier in the 10th Division is not redundant. They are all in their due positions.
They also know what they want to do. Of course the staff officers are no exception, look at them..."
As he spoke, he raised his hands to the surroundings, and then continued: "Do you think any of them are free? No, comrade captain! They are all busy directing the troops to fight. Everyone is very busy, and you only have two companies.
The troops think that I will assign you a staff officer?"
"But, Comrade Batrakov..."
"No buts!" Batrakov interrupted Shulka: "I said, I will let them cooperate with you, you don't need to worry about this!"
Shurka could only respond helplessly and then walked out of the headquarters.
He knew that it would be pointless to continue arguing like this. After all, he was only a captain. More importantly, he only brought two companies of reinforcements. This person was not taken seriously by the division commander at all.
Vasily and his group were already waiting outside. When they saw Shulka coming out, they all stood up. Vasily looked at Shulka with questioning eyes.
Shulka shook his head and said things were not going well.
"I knew it would be like this!" Vasily said: "But I think this is normal, because when we fight in other places, this kind of situation will also happen without the cooperation of local troops!"
"So, this can also be said to be a kind of training?" Shulka asked.
"Yes!" Vasily said: "A kind of training. We must not only be careful of the enemy, but also be careful of our own people!"
Vasily deserves praise for this, he treats everything with a positive attitude.
If it were another person, he would have scolded his mother at this time... How could he come to help them fight and not get the support of the local troops? This is a hot face but a cold butt.
"What should we do now?" Vavinovich asked.
Compared to Vasily, Vavinovich is a bit silly, so there is no need to think that Vasily must be the one who plays the leading role.
Vasily turned his attention to Shulka, meaning to let Shulka make the decision.
Shulka thought for a moment and then said: "Rest, then familiarize yourself with the terrain and reconnoiter the enemy's situation!"
Vasily nodded slightly and said "Yes, Comrade Captain."
It can be seen from Vasily's expression that Shulka's decision coincided with Vasily's, although before that they had planned to enter the battlefield as soon as possible.
From Vasily's perspective, Shulka did have a reason to enter the battlefield immediately.
Because everyone is not optimistic about the cadet troops of these two companies, including the 10th Division. Shurka was ridiculed in the 10th Division just now. At this time, he should be more eager to show off his skills and tell the story with victory on the battlefield.
Everyone they are wrong.
but……
At this time, the more calm we should be, otherwise the entire army will be wiped out if we are not careful, even if the two companies brought by Shulka are elite.
The next step was arranged by Vasily.
He divided the troops into several parts for reconnaissance, and then found an unoccupied house nearby as a temporary headquarters... At this time, Stalingrad was full of such houses, but quite a few of them had become
ruins.
More than an hour later, pieces of reconnaissance information were brought back one after another by the reconnaissance troops. Vasily sorted them out and marked them on the map.
"The war seems to be calming down!" Vasily said: "The casualties of the 10th Division were indeed very heavy, which made them unable to launch a counterattack!"
Shulka understood what Vasily meant.
Night was originally the time for the Soviet army to counterattack and regain the lost ground, but the 10th Division did not do so.
"This is a good time for us to enter the battlefield!" Vasily said, "But..."
Shulka nodded to express his understanding.
Cold guns and cold guns are suitable for times like this when the enemy and we are in a stalemate, and it is still dark at this time. Harassment operations can make the German army panic and the grass and trees are all in pieces.
What's more important is that it can make the enemy unclear about the Soviet army's trump cards.
But now, it is easy to be misunderstood by your own people if you easily pull the troops to the front line, especially cold guns and cold guns... Cold guns and cold guns are fired in the dark. If the frontline troops do not receive the message in advance, after a gunshot is fired, not only the Germans
, the Soviet army also threw a bunch of artillery shells at the hiding place, so there was no one inside or outside.
"Batrakov made a mistake!" Shulka said.
"Yes!" said Vasily: "He should not refuse us!"
"I'm not just talking about that!" Shulka said.
"What?" Vasily didn't understand.
"At any time, we must not let the enemy guess our situation!" Shulka said: "If we can guess that the 10th Division is unable to counterattack, then the enemy can also guess it!"
Vasily said "Oh" and agreed: "So, even if the 10th Division is unable to counterattack, it should launch feint attacks in all directions to confuse or harass the enemy!"
"Yes!" Shulka said: "But now, the enemy already knows the weakness of the 10th Division, so it is not difficult to guess... that they will launch a fierce attack after dawn the next day!"
Vasily nodded in agreement.
Then he shook his head and said: "It seems that we have chosen the wrong battlefield. They may not survive tomorrow!"
"No, it should be said that we made the right choice!"
Vasily once again cast a puzzled look at Shulka. If he could not participate in the battle tonight and the German army launched a fierce attack at dawn the next day, the student troops would have almost no chance to participate in the battle. How could they say they made the right choice?
"We don't have to go into battle at night!" Shulka said.
"You mean..." Vasily looked at Shulka in surprise: "Tomorrow during the day? When the enemy is fully attacking?"
"Yes!" Shulka nodded.
"But it was daytime, Comrade Captain!" Vasily said: "The enemy has an overwhelming advantage!"
"Then let them not be able to exert their overwhelming advantage!" Shulka said, pointing to the location of train station No. 1 on the map, and said: "Here, we assume that tomorrow the Germans will break through our defense lines and attack the train station.
, our opportunity has come!”
Vasily said "Oh" and then nodded slowly.
The train station is dominated by large buildings, filled with tall warehouses, office buildings, rooftops, and sections of abandoned or bombed train carriages scattered on the railway.
These buildings would obviously make excellent hiding places for snipers.
Even the superior artillery and air force of the German army have no way to deal with them, because large buildings cannot be destroyed by bombs with just two hits or a few artillery shells, nor can they be destroyed by a few snipers with a large amount of artillery shells.
Blow up a large building.
Therefore, the German army could only send infantry into the occupation. (To be continued)