The German night attack troops were completely destroyed, which suspended their attack on the assembly workshop for one day.
On the second day, they wanted to attack again, but there was no chance. Therefore, a new round of counterattack organized by Cuikov began. Since the main direction of this attack was in the north of the city, in addition to the several divisions that had recently crossed the Volga River, they even attacked the frontal enemy.
The fighting was fierce elsewhere, but Sokov was the only one here, but there was no movement. Koida could no longer sit still when he heard the sound of gunfire coming from outside. He pulled his political commissar and went to the brigade command post to meet Sokov.
"Comrade Brigade Commander," Koida entered the command post and saw Sokov sitting at the table, whispering to Bere. Yakov was talking about something. He raised his voice and asked, "Did you hear the sound of gunfire coming from outside?"
"Heard!" Sokov turned his head and looked at Koida, asking blankly: "But Comrade Colonel, does everything that happened outside have anything to do with us?"
"Others are fighting against the enemy, but we sit in nothing." Koida saw Sokov's disapproval, and couldn't help but blood surged upwards: "If you don't have the courage to fight against the enemy, I can ask the commander to ask him to command this force."
Hearing Koida's words, the smile on Sokov's face gradually disappeared. He did not expect Koida would say that. Just as he was about to refute, Bere, who was beside him, said first: "Col. Koida, how do you know that the brigade commander doesn't want to fight the enemy? Did he attack our enemy two days ago just conduct exercises with us?"
If Sokov said this, maybe Koida would have to refute a few more words, but when he saw that the person who spoke was the same as his military rank, he swallowed the words he said.
Seeing Koida silent, Sokov said, "Comrade Colonel, do you think I don't want to participate in this counterattack? But no, I will participate in the attack. Who will defend our position? Once the enemy turns into a counterattack in a certain part of our counterattack area, and wants to take advantage of the empty defense of our army and occupy various factories, who will block them?"
Koida's face was originally filled with disdain, but after listening to Sokov's analysis, he showed a meditative expression. Seeing that the other party had listened to his opinion, Sokov continued: "What I just said was the situation of a setback in the counterattack. There is another possibility that our army's counterattack was very smooth, but due to limited troops, it was impossible to expand the results of the battle. In this case, if the superiors put us on the battlefield again, maybe we can get a crucial role."
"Col. Koida, please sit down." After seeing Sokov's explanation, Koida's expression was no longer as aggressive as before, so he called him to sit down and took the initiative to explain to him: "Before you came, Lieutenant Colonel Sokov was studying with us how to make our army's infantry and tank coordination more complete during the attack."
"Bousan and airfield cooperation?" Koida has been in the army for more than 20 years, and is an old antique that is a bit unsatisfied with the times. When he heard these new terms Sokov said, he asked in surprise: "What does it mean?"
"What else can it mean," Bereh explained to him with a smile: "Nature means literally, infantry and tanks fight together, and the air force provides air cover to ground attacking troops, which is that simple."
"I know we have a tank battalion, but I haven't heard that we can still get support from the Air Force when attacking." Koida asked half-believingly: "Can our troops really get support from the Air Force when attacking?"
"Yes, there is also a fighter flight regiment, which is also under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Sokov." Believe nodded and said, "So, if we don't move, we will have to break through the enemy's defense line in the shortest time."
Koida came here just to ask Sokov to his superiors to fight and also participated in this counterattack. But after coming, he found that although Sokov did not participate in the offensive attack, he was not sitting there doing nothing, but studying what tactics to use to break through the German defense. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but apologize to Sokov: "I'm sorry, comrade brigade commander, please forgive my recklessness. I thought you tried your best to avoid the war, but you had already begun to formulate a combat plan."
Sokov pointed to the map and said to everyone: "Comrades, according to the reconnaissance, if we want to attack in the northwest direction, the first thing we encounter will be a battalion of the SS..."
"What, there is a SS battalion here?" Koida couldn't help but interrupt and said, "Comrade Brigade Commander, you can leave it to our regiment to complete the task of eliminating this German army."
"What, Colonel Koida, what did you say? You want to lead a mixed regiment to destroy the SS troops of this battalion?" Sokov almost fell to the ground when he heard Koida say this: "But you only have four hundred people in your hands. It's not realistic to destroy a German army of nearly a thousand people, right?"
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Koida said carelessly: "Comrade Brigade Commander, although there are nearly a thousand German troops, don't forget that they are SS and have no combat effectiveness. It's okay to clear out the guerrillas from behind. If they talk about fighting a regular battle with us, they will be vulnerable."
Sokov used his finger to dig his ears and said to himself silently in his heart: "Audit hallucination must be auditory hallucination. What Colonel Koida said just now was all my auditory hallucination." But he soon discovered that he did not have auditory hallucination. Bere, Yakov and others also looked at Koida in surprise, as if they were looking at an alien visitor.
Koida noticed that everyone was staring at him, thinking that there was something on his face, and after wiping his hand, he asked embarrassedly: "Comrades Commander, you all look at me doing. Is there something on my face?"
"Col. Koida," Sokov asked tentatively to figure out what happened: "Can I ask you, have you ever fought with the SS?"
"Fight." Koida nodded vigorously and said in a affirmative tone: "When the war broke out, I was a regiment commander. At that time, my troops were surrounded by the German army. I thought they would definitely be destroyed. But the scouts told me that there was a location ahead, defended by the SS, so I led the remaining more than 200 people to attack them. After half an hour of fighting, we successfully broke through the enemy's defense, killed and injured more than 300 people, and seized a batch of their weapons, and only less than 50 people were killed or killed."
Koida said this and spat on the ground: "What kind of weapons are they equipped with? They are simply a pile of rags, and they are too heavy to carry. In order to speed up the march, I asked the soldiers to throw away all the seized weapons."
Sokov felt that the other party was not talking about the SS, but a bit like the Oriental Battalion's mismatched mismatched troops, so he asked: "Comrade Colonel, are you sure the troops you defeated were the German SS?"
"Is this still wrong, comrade comrade commander?" Seeing that Sokov had suspicion of himself, Koida said with some dissatisfaction: "Although it was my first time dealing with them, their uniforms were different from those of the National Wehrmacht, and I could recognize them at a glance."
Chapter completed!