The headquarters is located in the beautiful and grand building occupied by Sokov and his men. At this moment, many windows of this building also emitted flames with black smoke. Dozens of warriors carrying buckets are using the water in the bucket to extinguish the still burning flames.
"Cerneshov, come here." When Chernexov was about to find someone to find out where Rokosovsky was, he suddenly heard someone calling his name next to him. When he turned his head, he saw Rokosovsky and several other members of the headquarters standing on a clearing outside the building.
When Rokosovsky saw Sokov behind Chernesov, he couldn't help but frown slightly. After the two approached, he asked in a stern tone: "Captain Sokov, why don't you stay in the nameless highlands south of the city? What are you doing when you run to the city?"
Just as Sokov was considering how to explain to Rokosovsky, Chernesov had already said first: "Comrade Commander, I asked him to come here. You also know that last night his troops went to sneak attack the German camp, killing hundreds of German soldiers, and seizing five howitzers. He led the team to send the howitzers to the car today, and happened to meet you send someone to call me again, so he took his own initiative and asked him to come here to report to you."
"So that's how it is." Rokosovsky smiled and said, "You did a good job last night. Not only did you drive away the invading Germans, but you also seized five heavy howitzers. These technical equipment are exactly what we need now. Well, tell us the details of the battle last night."
Sokov quickly agreed, and then he eloquently reported the battle last night to several army leaders, including Rokosovsky.
"Your war last night was beautiful and successfully crushed the German army's attempt to re-occupate the nameless highland." As soon as Rokosovsky and others spoke, they immediately spoke to him: "But the Germans are unwilling to fail. They will definitely launch an attack again. Your mission is to resolutely defend the nameless highland. Without the orders of me or Commander Cherneshov, you are not allowed to retreat at any step; at the same time, you are not allowed to move forward casually. Do you understand?"
Although Sokov was somewhat reserved about Rokosovsky's order, he still answered very simply: "Yes, Comrade Commander."
"Captain Sokov." Kazakov walked over and asked nervously: "General Cherneshov just said, you came to the city with a special way. I want to ask you, where is the cannon now?"
Sokov heard the out-of-the-art voice from Kazakov's tone. He was worried that the artillery would be destroyed by the shelling. He quickly turned his head and looked at Cherneshov and said to Kazakov: "Comrade General, all the artillery we seized has been handed over to the division headquarters."
"That's right, the howitzers handed over by General Kazakov and Captain Sokov are all in my hands." Cherneshov explained to Kazakov: "Comrade Artillery Commander, don't worry, the artillery is now in a safe place, and the German shelling will not damage these artillery."
As everyone was talking, a burly general came from a distance, followed by two soldiers carrying submachine guns. When there were still more than ten or twenty meters away, the general stopped and let the soldiers stay where they were. He walked over alone. He came to Rokosovsky and raised his hand to salute: "Comrade Commander, Major General Kiliuxin, the commander of the 324th Infantry Division, came to report, please give me instructions!"
"Hello, General Kiliuxin." After shaking hands with the other party, Rokosovsky pointed to Chernesov beside him and said, "This is Major General Chernesov, the commander of the 11th Division of the Guards. I think you should have met you a long time ago, right?"
"That's right, Comrade Commander, I met General Chernesov yesterday." Kiliuhin said, stretched out his hand to Chernesov and said friendly: "Hello, General Chernesov, I'm glad to see you here."
After shaking hands with Chernesov, Kilixin turned his head to Rokosovsky and said, "Comrade Commander, do you think the targets of the German artillery fire are very targeted, mainly commands at all levels, military camps and other places. I suspect that there are spies sent by the Germans in the city who are guiding the enemy's artillery. I suggest conducting a large-scale investigation in the city immediately and be sure to capture this damn spy."
"Let the matter of catching spies first." Rokosovsky waved his hand at Kiliuxin, and then said: "I called you two here today because I received a telegram from the commander of the Front when I was bombarded."
Chernesov asked, "Comrade Commander, what orders should our superior give us?"
Rokosovsky had a serious expression and said word by word: "Order our 16th Army to firmly defend Suxinic and continue to exhaust the enemy with offensive actions, causing it to lose the ability to hold on and accumulate strength." After hearing this latest order, Chernesov and Kiliuxin looked at each other, and both of them were shocked in the eyes of each other.
After a moment of pause, Chernesov said to Rokosovsky: "Comrade Commander, please be honest, these requests made by the Front are difficult to accomplish. It is one thing to wear the enemy with defense against action, and it is another thing to wear the enemy with attack action.
Our army had done it before moving to the general attack by defending against the enemy to fight against the actions of fatigue and to achieve balance of strength. However, in the condition of severe winter, can we 'tiring and weakening' the enemy with offensive actions?"
"You are right, Comrade Chernesov." As soon as Chernesov finished speaking, Rokosovsky nodded and said, "Although the German army has been repelled from Moscow and suffered huge failures, their strength is gradually recovering after suffering a series of blows from our army. It is unrealistic to think of destroying them all.
Judging from what I have learned recently, after a long period of combat, the troops have been seriously insufficient in personnel, and the divisions under the group army have shortages of machine guns, mortars, artillery and ammunition, and there are few tanks left in the Tank Brigade. The current situation of the group army forces made me realize that we cannot achieve decisive victory at this stage...."
Sokov, who was listening, learned from the words of Rokosovsky, the current difficulties faced by the 16th Army and the entire Western Front. Don’t see the counterattack under Moscow’s city going vigorously and defeating the Germans, but all these have passed. Now the Soviet army has become the last of its strength, and it has become extremely difficult to move forward.
Thanks to the book friend Kozlov, the old driver of the book, for his hopelessness and support from Earth Luobu!
Chapter completed!