I saw the scene out of control and rushed forward to maintain order. I stood behind the female correspondents and shouted loudly at them: "Girls, quiet, quiet, please keep quiet."

The girls who were shouting at Cuikov through the sending machine closed their mouths and turned their heads to look at me. I said to Tokareva with a stern face: "Comrade Lieutenant, please remember that you are soldiers, not ordinary people. General Cuikov called to report to the leaders of the front army, rather than discussing these irrelevant trivial matters with you."

Tokareva's face turned red when she said it. She lowered her head and apologized to me in embarrassment: "I'm sorry, comrade commander, I'm not strict in discipline, I will pay attention in the future." As she said that, she turned around and yelled at the female soldiers under her, "Girls, what are you doing around here and go back to your post immediately."

Although the girl was unwilling to accept her positive answer before she got Cui Kev's answer, she saw that her superior, Tokareva, was angry, so they had to leave and return to the communication equipment they were responsible for.

I walked to the phone and put on my headphones. I politely said to the phone: "Hello, Comrade Commander, I'm glad to hear your voice. Are you okay?"

"Osanina, I heard that you have regained the rank of major general. On behalf of Gurov and Krelov, I would like to congratulate you." Cuikov did not answer my question, but congratulated me on my reinstatement.

I said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Thank you, Comrade Commander. But if I can't go back to Stalingrad and continue to fight, I will find it hard to be happy even if I become a marshal."

Cui Kefu's tone suddenly became very serious: "Oshaninna. Do you know? If we had not made the decision to transfer the female soldiers yesterday, today's day, few of the female soldiers around you would probably survive."

His words scared me, and I said in my heart: Did the enemy accidentally touch the near headquarters again? I quickly asked, "Commander, what happened?"

"At noon, the fascist gang may have found out the location of my command, so they began to bombard and bombard the area where he was." Cuikov said in a deep tone: "The blasting bombs blew the entire area into a distortion and also destroyed several nearby oil tanks. The burning liquid poured out in large quantities, flowing towards the Volga River through our cover, and the command was submerged in the sea of ​​fire. After the burning oil flowed to the shore, it rushed to the barge and many logs washed by the river. The fire flowed down the river with the barge and logs. In an instant, it seemed that the entire Voga River suddenly burned, and the flames flew violently in the turbulent flow."

Listening to Cui Kefu's description, my hair stood up all over my body, thinking that Cui Kefu did not force us to move yesterday, but waited until today, how many female soldiers could safely reach the east bank of the Volga River. It is still an unknown number.

"Didn't you transfer it in time?" Because of my nervousness, I unknowingly held the sender tightly.

Cuikov laughed twice and continued to say, "Our communication line was burned down, and the contact with subordinate troops could only rely on radio, but the radio signal was unstable and was often interrupted at the most critical moment. Seeing that our command was surrounded by a fire, many commanders and fighters in the command were panicked. At this moment, Chief of Staff Nikola Ivanovic Krelov stood up and issued an order. He shouted at the commanders and fighters: "No one is allowed to leave! Everyone should continue to work in the undamaged cover department!... Restore communications with various troops and keep the radio open!"

After saying these words, he approached me and asked in a low voice: "Commander, how are we doing now? Can we hold on?"

I glanced at him and replied, "Don't worry, we can hold on!" Then I expressed my determination with what he said: "We will wipe our pistols when necessary."

Seeing that I was so confident, he also said readily: 'Okay, that's it!' Then he went to work hard again."

Hearing this, I could no longer control my emotions, and I said to Cui Kefu excitedly: "Comrade Commander, since the situation is so dangerous, you should transfer. Yes, transfer immediately without hesitation."

After my words made Cuikov silent for a moment, he continued: "Frankly speaking, when the fire just started, I jumped out of the cover, and felt the flames were dazzling and my eyes were blurred. I was indeed a little panicked, but General Krelov issued a loud order to everyone, including shouting "Ula" during the attack, becoming a force to inspire our battle. In this way, we stood on our posts surrounded by the fire and remained uninterrupted in command of the troops." Speaking of this, I heard him smile bitterly, "Although we were surrounded by the fire, we could not transfer because we did not have a prepared command. Since all the troops, including the engineers, have been put into battle, it is impossible to build a new command for us."

"Comrade Commander, Mihaev, the commander of the Independent Division's engineer company, was a construction engineer with high standards. I think he is fully capable of building a complete and safe command for you in a short period of time. Please allow me to continue to maintain command of the Independent Division, so that I can directly issue orders to Captain Mihaev."

"No need to do this," Cuikov politely rejected my suggestion. He continued to say in a plain tone: "Last night, Commander Yelemenko issued a special order to me that he must report to him once every night. Now is the time to report. Please call Chief of Staff Zaharov, and I want to report to him today's battle situation."

"Please wait, Comrade Commander." After I finished speaking, I put my headphones and the sender on the table, walked to a telephone, shook the handle on the base a few times, and then picked up the phone. A sweet voice from the female operator came from the receiver: "Comrade Commander, where do you want?"

After a moment of froze, I instinctively replied: "Please pick me up General Zaharov, Chief of Staff of the Front Army."

"Please wait!"

Soon, Zaharov's voice came from the receiver: "Hey. I am Zaharov. Where are you?"

"Hello. Comrade Chief of Staff, I am Oshanina." After revealing my identity, I briefly reported to him, saying that Trekov was waiting to report to him about the daytime battle.

"Okay, I'll go there right away." After he finished speaking, he hung up the phone directly.

Within a minute, a burst of rapid footsteps came from outside the door, and then Zaharov appeared at the door. He nodded at me and asked straight to the point: "Which line is Cuikov?"

I quickly took him to the phone that Tokareva was responsible for, picked up the headphones and the sender on the table, handed them to him, and kept a smile and said, "General Cuikov is waiting to talk to you."

After Zakharov thanked him, he put on his headphones, held the microphone with one hand, and took out a notebook and pencil from his pocket with the other hand, and began to record the battle situation reported by Cui Kefu. Because I was not far away, I could see what was written on the notebook by tilting my body a little.

It read: "At dawn, the enemy began to launch a new attack on the defense zone of our army. The Gurdiev Division blocked the enemy's attack before 18 o'clock. However, at the end of the day, the German army surrounded the two wings, and the division had to retreat south of Nizhneujinsky Street and retreat to the other side of the railway. The left wing was placed on the Winnitsky Street. One of the division's commanders, Major Marclov, was seriously injured in the battle.

The Smehotwarov Division fought against the enemy for public bathhouses and cooking utensils throughout the day. Although the public bathhouses changed hands several times during the day, they are still in our hands. The division suffered heavy casualties, with only 200 to 250 commanders and fighters left in each regiment.

The Guriyev Division repelled all the German attacks on the "Red October" factory. The Gorishne Division, Vachuk Division and Rodimtev Division held their positions to fight against several attacks launched by the enemy on the left wing of the army.

We judged from these battles that the enemy's attempt was to rush to the Voga at all costs, occupy the main factories, and then develop an offensive southward along the Volga from there."

Zaharov wrote almost the same in his notebook and asked Cui Kov: "Comrade Cui Kov, are there anything else to report?"

"We found out," because Zakharov took off his headphones and held them in his hand, so that I could clearly hear Trekov's voice: "From the Mokraya Mechetka River to the 107.5 highland, on the front of about 5 kilometers, the enemy concentrated five divisions (including three infantry divisions and two tank divisions), and there were many reinforcements. In addition, the German army also transferred about 40 engineer battalions from other parts of the Soviet-German battlefield and from Germany's mainland. The German battle in the Orlov area was not only to solve the protrusion, but also to divert our attention to carry out major assaults to the factories. Faced with this situation, we decided to send the Ruolujeff division to defend the tractor factory.

After the 37th Division's regiments occupied the defense line, they immediately entered the battle early this morning to block the enemy infantry and tanks that had broken through the combat formations of Gurdiev's division and Yermoorkin's division.

The army needs to have a breathing time, even if it is a day, and needs to rectify the team, assemble artillery, supply ammunition, and replenish personnel, so that the next step is to drive the invaders out of the residential area of ​​the tractor factory and the town of Baricard with local counterattacks. The front commander asked us to start the counterattack early this morning. But the army could not do this at all. Because we were exhausted here, and transporting ammunition through the Volga River has become increasingly difficult because of the German uninterrupted shelling and bombing."

After listening to Cuikov's report, Zaharov said impatiently: "Comrade Cuikov, the front army will try to satisfy you all the requirements put forward by your army. The 84th Corinthian Tank Brigade, which was strengthened to you last night, hasn't it been crossing the river and reaching the city?"

Regarding his doubts, Cuikov defended: "Comrade Chief of Staff, due to the lack of transport ships, only light tanks can cross the river at present. After these light tanks arrived on the right bank, they were immediately incorporated into the combat formations of the Jorugev Division and the Gurdiev Division. They can only be used as fire points, because they use them to counterattack to fight the German tanks, which I personally think is irrational. Also, during the day, the enemies were dispatched nearly 2,000 times over the city factory area. From dawn, all the troops' actions stopped. Due to the fierce bombing of the enemy, the injured soldiers could not even leave the bomb trench and bunker before dark, and could only be sent to the health battalion by the health officers when dark came."

I think the contents of Cuikov's statement are true and credible, but at this moment I can only be a listener honestly and cannot talk to Zakharov about his views. Fortunately, Zakharov is not an unreasonable person. He nodded and said, "Comrade Cuikov, I received a notice that General Philip Ivanovic Golikov, who had just returned from Moscow, will cross the Volga River tonight and go to your command center to supervise the implementation of the counterattack plan."

Hearing that the deputy commander was going to inspect the city, Cui Kefu said with some embarrassment: "Comrade Chief of Staff, can the deputy commander cancel this trip?"

"Why?" Zaharov was shocked by the words of Cuikov. He asked in confusion: "The deputy commander's itinerary has been arranged long ago, why should it be cancelled?"

At this time, Cuikov did not conceal his bad situation from the chief of staff: "The communication and communication situation in our command center is getting worse and worse, and it cannot be improved due to the enemy's bombing and shelling. Obviously, the fascist gunners and mortar gunners already knew the exact location of our command post and kept aiming and shooting our command post directly. Mortar shells landed at the entrance of my cover from time to time and exploded. The casualties of the command post were increasing every moment. It is obvious that it is no longer safe and the deputy commander cannot come here to take risks."

Zaharov was stunned after hearing this. He pondered for a moment, and then asked solemnly: "I will be responsible for the deputy commander. What I care about now is that since your place can no longer be used as a command center, I suggest you transfer it immediately. Do you have a suitable place to serve as a new command center?"

There was no sound in the headphones, probably because Cui Kov was considering it. After two or three minutes, Cui Kov's voice came from the headphones again: "Comrade Chief of Staff, after my research with Krelov and I, I decided to transfer the Group Army Command to the command of the Sarayev Division. The division has now been withdrawn to the east bank for reorganization, and we can use the command they left behind. But in this way, we need to move about 500 meters to the tractor factory defense line along the bank of the Volga River."

"Then let's move as soon as possible, Comrade Cui Kefu." Zaharov said friendly to the sender: "As for the deputy commander's affairs, let me do it." (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!

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