The German night attack force was completely wiped out, thus suspending their attack on the assembly shop for a day.
The next day, they tried to attack again, but had no chance. Therefore, a new round of counterattack organized by Chuikov began. Since the main direction of this attack was to the north of the city, except for a few newly crossed Volga River,
Each division participated in the attack, and even the troops stationed in various factories launched attacks on the enemy in front.
The fighting was in full swing in other places, but here in Sokov, there was no movement. Hearing the sound of gunfire from outside, Koida could no longer sit still. He grabbed his political commissar and went to the brigade command with him.
Come meet Sokov.
"Comrade Brigade Commander," Koida entered the command post and saw Sokov sitting at the table, discussing something with Bely and Yakov in a low voice. He raised his voice and asked: "Did you hear that?
Are there gunshots coming from outside?"
"I heard that!" Sokov turned to look at Koida and asked with a blank expression: "But Comrade Colonel, does everything that happens outside have anything to do with us?"
"Others are fighting the enemy, but we are sitting around doing nothing." Seeing Sokov's disapproving look, Koida couldn't help but blood rushed to his head: "If you don't have the courage to fight the enemy, I can ask the commander
The commander made a request and asked him to let me command this army."
Hearing Koida's words, the smile on Sokov's face gradually disappeared. He did not expect that Koida would say this. When he was about to retort, Bely on the side said first: "Koida
Colonel, how do you know that the brigade commander does not want to fight the enemy? Are the enemies who attacked us two days ago just conducting exercises with us?"
If Sokov had said this, Koida might have retorted a few words, but when he saw that the speaker was Bely, who had the same military rank as himself, he swallowed the words as soon as they reached his lips.
Seeing Koida's silence, Sokov then spoke: "Comrade Colonel, do you think I don't want to participate in this counterattack? But no, we are all going to participate in the attack. Who will defend our position? Once
When the enemy switches to a counterattack in a certain section of our counterattack area and wants to take advantage of the empty defenses of our army to occupy various factories, who will stop them?"
Koida's face was originally full of disdain, but after listening to Sokov's analysis, he showed a thoughtful expression. Seeing that the other party had listened to his opinion, Sokov continued: "I just said
It is talking about the situation where the counterattack is frustrated. There is another possibility. Our army's counterattack went smoothly, but due to the limited strength, we were unable to expand the results. In this case, if the superiors put us on the battlefield again, we might be able to obtain the vital weapons.
role.”
"Colonel Koida, please sit down." Yakov saw that after Sokov's explanation, Koida's expression was no longer as aggressive as before, so he asked 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 tanks coordinate and air-ground coordination become more perfect during the attack."
"Infantry and tank coordination, air and ground coordination?" Koida has been in the army for more than 20 years and is one of those old antiques that is a little out of date. Hearing these new terms spoken by Sokov, he asked in surprise.
:"What means?"
"What else can it mean?" Bely explained to him with a smile: "Of course it means literally. Infantry and tanks work together, and the air force provides air cover for the ground attacking troops. It's that simple."
"I know we have a tank battalion, but I didn't hear that we can get support from the air force when we attack." Koida asked dubiously: "Can our troops really get support from the air force when they attack?"
"Yes, there is also a fighter flight group, also under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Sokov." Bely nodded and said: "Therefore, we will not move. Once we launch an attack, the enemy's defense line will be in the shortest possible time."
Inside, it was easily broken through by us."
Koida came here originally just to allow Sokov to petition his superiors and participate in the counterattack. But after arriving, he discovered that although Sokov did not participate in the offensive, he was not just sitting there.
He had nothing to do, but was studying what tactics to use to break through the German defenses. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but apologized to Sokov: "I'm sorry, Comrade Brigadier, please forgive my recklessness. I thought you tried your best."
To avoid fighting, who would have known that you have already started formulating a battle plan."
Sokov pointed to the map and said to everyone: "Comrade commanders, according to reconnaissance, if we want to launch an attack to the northwest, the first thing we will encounter will be a battalion of the SS..."
"What, there is a battalion of the SS here?" Koida heard this and couldn't help but interjected: "Comrade Brigadier, please leave the task of destroying this German army to our regiment."
"What, Colonel Koida, what did you say? You want to lead a mixed regiment to eliminate the SS troops of this battalion?" Sokov's jaw almost dropped to the ground when he heard what Koida said: "But your hand
There are only 400 people inside, but it’s not realistic to destroy a German army of nearly a thousand people, isn’t it?”
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Koida said carelessly: "Comrade Brigade Commander, although the German army has nearly a thousand people, don't forget that they are SS troops and have little combat effectiveness. It's okay to wipe out the guerrillas from behind.
When it comes to fighting a formal battle with us, they are vulnerable."
Sokov picked out his ears with his fingers and said to himself silently: "The auditory hallucination must be an auditory hallucination. What Colonel Koida said just now is all my auditory hallucination." But he quickly heard it.
They discovered that they had no auditory hallucinations. Bely, 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, and thought there was something on his face. After raising his hand and wiping it, he asked with some embarrassment: "Comrade commanders, what are you looking at me for?
Is there something on my face?"
"Colonel Koida," Sokov asked tentatively in order to find out what was going on: "Can I ask you, have you ever fought against SS troops?"
"We fought." Koida nodded vigorously and said in a positive tone: "When the war first broke out, I was a regiment commander. At that time, my unit was surrounded by the German army. I thought that the entire army would be destroyed. But
The scout told me that there was a section ahead that was 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 wounded more than 300 people, and seized a batch of their weapons, while I only suffered less than 50 casualties."
When Koida said this, he took a sip on the ground: "What kind of weapons are they equipped with? It's just a pile of junk, and it's too heavy to carry. In order to speed up the march, I asked the soldiers to throw away all the captured weapons.
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Sokov felt that the other party was not talking about the SS at all, but rather a miscellaneous unit with extremely poor combat effectiveness like the Eastern Battalion, so he asked: "Comrade Colonel, are you sure that the unit you defeated back then was the German party?"
Guards?"
"Is this still wrong, Comrade Brigade Commander?" Seeing Sokov doubting himself, Koida said with some dissatisfaction: "Although it was my first time to deal with them, their uniforms are different from those of the National Defense Forces.
I can recognize it right away."
"Misha, I know what's going on." Just when Sokov was about to ask for more details, Yakov suddenly interrupted and said: "Colonel Koida is right. The troops who fought against them were indeed
The German SS. No one thought highly of this unit at that time, so their equipment was very poor, and the weapons in their hands were almost all made in the Czech Republic. Later, with the combat effectiveness they showed, the German High Command gave them
They changed their costumes and gradually became an ace army."