On January 9th, the weather was gloomy and the tiny snowflakes began to fall from noon. Until seven o'clock in the night, there was still no sign of stopping.

In the south of the city of Budogosi, on the south bank of the Ilmen River, Chu Sinan sat on a stone covered with felt blankets, and shared a bottle of vodka with Zaporozez, who was sitting opposite him. It has been a few months since he came to the Soviet Union in this era. Chu Sinan found that he had begun to be obsessed with this luxury product that tasted spicy but could temporarily forget his worries.

"Comrade Chu Sinan, do you want it?" The vodka in the tiny bottle was about to be drunk. Zaporozez flipped his shirt pocket, took out a pack of cigarettes from it, and shook it in front of Chu Sinan and said.

"Oh, thank you." Chu Sinan hesitated for a moment. He didn't smoke. He hated others smoking in front of him the most before. However, at this moment, he really wanted to smoke one. I heard that this thing can relieve the nervous nerves.

During these two days, Chu Sinan was undoubtedly under tremendous psychological pressure. Even Zaporozhez felt that the battle arrangements he had formulated were too bold and extremely vicious. If this battle was not good, then there was no need for the German army to encircle him, and the Soviet military court would be the first to come.

Faced with the German siege from three times facing Budogoshi, Chu Sinan did not mobilize troops from other directions to organize defense. On the contrary, he retreated two of the three reserve divisions that were originally displayed in the southern suburbs to the south, and finally retreated to the south bank of the Yimen River to build a defense line. At the same time, he also retreated the main artillery troops to that area.

On the front line responsible for the defense of Budogosch, only one and a half divisions were left, and a reserve division that was later added. The troops of these two half divisions were much smaller, but not much, mainly because compared with the German encirclement troops, these two half divisions seemed too weak.

Chu Sinan did not want to make much achievements on the front battlefield. He saw that the German army was determined to win against Budogos, and they also had an absolute advantage in military strength, especially in the equipment of armored troops, which was simply unable to compete on this front.

Under such circumstances, Chu Sinan made a decision that he was afraid of later, that was to use his two and a half divisions as the cost to burn together with the German encirclement troops.

In order to achieve this goal, Chu Sinan must make full use of the artillery firepower and the bombing of the air force. There is no big problem with the aviation force. Although the air force under the Beloye Lake Front Army is not large in scale, it is still no problem to take on a small batch of bombing missions. The most important thing is that it only takes forty minutes from the Vologoda base in the rear until it reaches the sky above Budogoshi, which has an absolute advantage over the German army in time.

The only thing Chu Sinan needs to consider is the issue of artillery, and this issue also has two aspects: first, where does the soldiers come from, and second, how to keep hidden.

There is no need to mention the issue of military source. Chu Sinan is not a god. He does not have the ability to sprinkle beans into a soldier. It is impossible for him to change a strong artillery force out of thin air. Fortunately, Konev's northwestern front army is behind his front line, and an artillery force affiliated to the front happened to be gathered in Upper Volochok, which is not far from Budogoshi. If it can be effectively arranged, I believe that this artillery force can appear at the most critical moment in the position that Chu Sinan needs them to appear.

Since there are soldiers, the remaining question is how to hide it, which is also crucial.

Although Chu Sinan was bold, he was not arrogant. He would never regard the German front-line commander as a fool, nor would he regard the famous Qusiral as a fool.

If the artillery team's march and arrangement cannot do a good job of concealing work, then once discovered by the German plane, the enemy's command system will soon determine its own combat intention. Even if they cannot speculate, for security reasons, they believe that they will not allow themselves to place such a large-scale artillery position safely and steadily at such a close to the frontier position of Budogosch.

In order to be able to hide well, Chu Sinan really spent some time. In the telegram he sent to Konev, he clearly required the artillery troops coming to rescue to make sure that their artillery vehicles should be completely painted white. At the same time, he tried his best to do a good job of concealing during the march and beware of German aircraft reconnaissance.

In this way, after nearly three days of arrangement, Chu Sinan's plan had basically been completed in the arrangement. Just about two hours ago, two artillery brigades from the Northwest Front also entered the position in time. At this point, on the Yimen River line south of Budogoshi, the Soviet army displayed a large-scale artillery position, including various artillery, totaling 947, which was enough to carry out a large-scale artillery attack. At least, the city of Budogoshi can be turned to the sky.

Of course, it is not enough to just arrange the artillery. In the city of Budogosch, there is also a factor that attracts German troops, and this factor is what is commonly called "cannon fodder". There is no doubt that now, someone has played the role of cannon fodder. They are two and a half divisions who are still stationed in the city of Budogosch and stubbornly resisting the German siege.

Since yesterday afternoon, the German troops who had detoured from both sides of the east and west have already invaded the city of Budogosch. By this morning, the two German divisions who first entered the city have completed the encirclement of the entire Budogosch city. The German army obviously intends to fight quickly, so the rhythm and intensity of the attack are very high. Now, there is still guns and cannons in the city, which is the German encirclement troops, launching an attack on the Soviet front within the encirclement.

Chu Sinan did not know the specific situation of the battle in the city. Since he withdrew from the city, he issued a radio silent order to the command. This decision to avoid exposing the location of the front command also caused Chu Sinan to completely lose contact with the city of Budogosi. Now he can only judge the scale of the German offensive and the losses suffered by the Soviet army by observing the distance, as well as time speculation, to determine the last moment of launching the shelling.

The thin snow fell silently, gently on Chu Sinan's military cap. In just a moment, his entire cap and shoulders were covered with fine snowflakes.

He put the cigarette that Zaporozez lit for him on his lips and took a deep breath. Suddenly, a strong and choking hot breath surged from his mouth, scorching the mucosa in his throat and heading straight for the lungs.

"Cough, cough, cough..." Chu Sinan curled up after being choked and let out a violent cough. At the same time, tears in his eyes couldn't help but burst out from his eyes.

"Haha, don't suck so hard. It seems that you won't suck this thing." Zaporozez stood up and pounded Chu Sinan's back, and smiled.

After finally stopping the cough, Chu Sinan poured the last vodka into his mouth, and then smiled bitterly and said, "Comrade Zaporozez, are you a little too much to say? In order to win this battle, you can do anything..."

Perhaps it was because of that sip of smoke that Chu Sinan felt dizzy.

"This..." Zaporozez did not say anything. To be honest, he did not agree with Chu Sinan's approach. It was simply a careless act and used the lives of soldiers as a bargaining chip to win. In fact, over the past few days, Zaporozez has always felt that Chu Sinan is very similar to a person he admires in terms of combat style. That person is also so cold-blooded and so consequential. However, compared with Chu Sinan, this person's political career is very unhappy. He has now been exiled to Western Siberia. As for who this person, it seems that there is no need to say.

"Actually, I can't say that," Zaporozīz thought for a while, and finally said with relief. "War is always like this. Without sacrifice, you cannot win. What you decide to do now is to transform the form of sacrifice, which is no essential difference from any other battle. And most importantly, the current situation of the battle has forced us to this extent. To be honest, although I cannot agree with your approach psychologically, I have to admit that in this environment, only your approach can most effectively delay the attack of the Germans and thus win more time for us."

"Time?" Chu Sinan waved his hand unconsciously, and the cigarette between his fingers drew a red halo in his waving. At this moment, he suddenly remembered a movie he had seen, which was said by someone he hated. Now it seems to have a unique charm. "Yes, we have luxury goods like vodka; we have luxury goods like cigarettes; but we don't have time. So what we have to do now is to win time for ourselves."

Chu Sinan said this and stood up from the stone. His eyes looked in the direction of Budogoshi, then turned around and took off the hat on his head. While slapped the snowflakes falling on it, he shouted: "Comrade Lukoonki, send a signal, the time is almost over."

"Yes!" Lukoongi, who had been standing not far away, responded after hearing this, then took out a gun from his waist, raised it over the top, and pulled the trigger.

"Squeak!" A light blue signal flare soared into the sky, and the sharp howling sound it brought echoed in the dark wilderness for a long time.

The whistling sound of the signal flare gradually subsided, but the dark wilderness did not remain silent. With a deafening sound of cannons, a dense light rail like a meteor shower suddenly appeared in the dark night sky. These meteors that suddenly rose from the wilderness drew dense parabolas in the sky and poured rapidly over the city of Budogosi.

Tonight, the huge Budogosi will be destined to sleep without anyone...
Chapter completed!