Malashenko was not interested in the situation where the group of Germans on the opposite side were trembling in the trenches or standing in the fortifications shouting Stalin's name and preparing to fight to the death any Russians who dared to invade.
, neither know nor want to know.
In Malashenko's view, they are just a group of Nazis who are about to die anyway, so why should they care with what kind of mentality they have when they die? It won't be long before all the fascists who are stubbornly resisting will be turned into a pile of minced meat.
, Malashenko and the leader will keep their word.
"The troops are almost assembled. The first and second batches of troops required in your plan are basically all in place. It is estimated that they will arrive within half an hour within half an hour. Now you can start taking action.
What are your plans?"
Lavrinenko, who had just ran to the middle of the slope to take a look at the general situation, returned and was communicating with Malashenko who was standing next to his command vehicle. After learning the information Lavrinenko said,
Malashenko spoke immediately.
"What about the other directions? Chuikov won't just let our division work for him in the front, while he watches from behind?"
It's just a joke to say that, it doesn't mean that Malashenko and Comrade Lao Cui have anything to do with each other.
After all, the current leading division has been temporarily placed under Chuikov's command. As expected, it will remain the same in the subsequent Battle of Berlin. Given the importance of the Battle of Berlin, Chuikov has to save some use of the leading division. Now
Using the leader so thoroughly and solidly is obviously not worth the gain, and the time has not yet come.
Lavrinenko also didn't care much about Malashenko's half-joking tone. He knew that sometimes his old friend would act like this when something made no sense, so he immediately told what he learned about the situation.
"Friendly troops on the east and west wings are also advancing in an orderly manner. Thanks to us, after the German defenses on the frontal battlefield at the top of the highland were breached, the German troops on the left and right wings showed obvious signs of shrinking their defenses. They are probably afraid that we will break through.
Attack their flank from the opening position."
"Friendly forces were able to make progress as a result, and the resistance they encountered was not as intense as expected, but the whole process was still not smooth. It is true that those fascists will not stick to the end, but they will still use various favorable terrains and fortifications
It is also true that the bunker tried its best to block the delayed friendly forces before retreating, and it caused some trouble."
"Oh, by the way, if you hadn't mentioned this, I would have almost forgotten about it. I just met our communications director on Banpo Yao. He brought people up to check the communications deployment situation. By chance, he told me about it.
A matter."
"What do you mean, the friendly troops on the right next door just sent a liaison officer over to ask if we can assist them in attacking to the right, and send troops to attack the enemy positions on the right wing. The liaison officer even brought a combat map, and wanted to
We have marked out all the lots for them, so we don’t take it for granted.”
Malashenko became somewhat interested when he heard this, and then followed Lavrinenko's words and asked further.
"Then what's the answer? What happens next?"
Lavrinenko waved his hand.
"How else can I answer? At that time, we were having a great time on the high ground, with heavy artillery firing and rockets roaring. The Germans in front of the position left tons of corpses and wreckage before they retreated, and even ate them afterward.
Let’s launch a wave of land bombing.”
"Comrade Political Commissar, of course, said there was nothing he could do to help. He pointed to the movement on the top of the high ground, and then pointed at the troops of our division who were climbing up from the bottom of the high ground to the top of the high ground, and said, "All the combat troops of our division are here.
We have been put into action, and we are temporarily unable to spare excess troops to cooperate with the operation. Please understand." That's it."
"If you ask me, Comrade Political Commissar is right. We have our own battle to fight, and we should fight it mainly on the frontal battlefield. It's fine if we don't ask them to cooperate with us, but now they are asking us to cooperate with them? It sounds outrageous.
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Lavrinenko, who was almost furious, kept complaining about what he thought was outrageous, but Malashenko was already keenly aware of something, a detail that was extremely easy to miss.
"Wait a minute, you mean, when the friendly forces' attack was blocked just now and they came to ask for our cooperation, we were fighting fiercely with the counterattacking German troops on the top of the high ground? Is this the time?"
"Well"
Lavrinenko didn't come to his senses for a moment, but after thinking about it, he didn't think there was anything wrong, so he simply nodded towards Malashenko.
"That's almost it. What's wrong?"
"So that's it. I probably guessed the reason why the Germans rushed to attack. I'm afraid it's not only to test our strength, but also to regain the lost position if possible. More importantly, it's to delay us with fighting, Germans.
We are also afraid that we will suddenly advance from left to right after occupying a prominent position."
"It's not difficult to choose any direction, cut vertically, and cooperate with friendly forces to eat a large group of Germans who have not yet completed their evacuation. Without a large number of armored units and heavy artillery firepower, it is almost impossible to send troops to stop us.
of."
"The position in any direction will soon be lost due to a double attack, and a lot of troops will be lost who have no time to escape. The Germans are probably afraid of this."
Lavrinenko, who seemed to understand but not understand, gradually understood some of the situation, but there was still a question lingering in his mind.
"It's unbelievable. Do the Germans really think so? What happened to those Germans who ran out of position and waited outside, but were eventually blown away by us together with the deserters? They were just waiting for an opportunity to attack and
Receiving friendly forces?"
Not only Lavrinenko, but also Malashenko thought this was a bit strange, but when he couldn't make up his mind, he could only speak to Lavrinenko uncertainly.
"Maybe it just seems so simple on the surface, and it's actually reasonable and justifiable."
"But since the Germans have shrunk their defenses and maintained their troop density and front stability by abandoning the defensive area, do you think there will be another possibility? Maybe what we just experienced was not a contest between fishermen and fish.
Is it a competition between two fishermen?"
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Malashenko's analysis came out of the blue, and Lavrinenko, who was unprepared, blinked and quickly turned around to understand the twists and turns.
"You mean, the Germans are also fishing for us? In fact, they have no shortage of troops after shrinking their defenses. They are just waiting for us to launch an attack rashly and rush forward, crashing into their core defense area, and then causing a head-on collision due to lack of preparation.
flow, and then be forced to retreat?"
Malashenko was not sure that his guess was true, but at least Lavrinenko did think of it together with him.
"But this can at least explain the so-called "empty frontal defense force" illusion, right?"