Burning Moscow

Apanashchenko was silent for a moment, and then said to the chief of staff of the regiment: "Comrade Chief of Staff, the change is coordinated by the base camp and the Weaponry Department. When it's time for you to change, you will change it yourself." After saying these few words, he changed the topic and asked, "I have to go to other troops. Do you know how to go?"

The regiment chief of staff quickly walked to Apanashenko's side, pointed to the east, and said: "Comrade General, walk east along this road for about two kilometers, and you will reach the station of another infantry division." After pointing the way, he respectfully asked Akhromeyev, "Do you need me to send someone to **** you?"

Apanashenko looked back at Yushchenko and the others who were standing near us, waved his head, and replied, "We take the guard squad with us. You only need to call the division headquarters of your neighbor. We just need to inform them in advance of the news that we are going to go."

Unexpectedly, after hearing his words, the regiment chief of staff quickly showed an embarrassed expression. Seeing his reaction like this, I asked with some dissatisfaction: "Why, Comrade Major, are you unwilling to do us this favor?"

The chief of staff of the regiment replied with a sad face: "Comrade Commander, it is not that I refuse to help, but that there is really no way to help you."

"Why?" Apanashenko was interested in the reply from the chief of staff of the regiment, and couldn't help but ask: "Comrade Major, why can't you help us?"

"That's it, Comrade General." The regiment chief was afraid that Apanashenko would get angry, and quickly explained: "Our regiment's communication equipment can only be used with superiors and the regiment's internal use, and cannot contact friendly neighbors. "

After Apanashchenko heard what the chief of staff of the regiment said, his face turned pale. He didn't say anything, but just turned his head and said to me: "Comrade Oshanina. Let's go."

When I returned to the parking place, I saw Yushchenko who was instructing the soldiers to board the car, and hurriedly shouted at him: "Captain Yushchenko. Come to me."

After Yushchenko came to me, I didn't wait for him to speak. So he directly told him: "Captain, get in the car, you take the seat of the co-pilot, and go with us." The reason I arranged for him to get in the car was to increase the insurance factor. What kind of danger is there? There are guards like him. The presence of personnel can at least buy us some valuable time.

Yushchenko said nothing. Open the front door and get in the car. But Apanashchenko asked me in a low voice curiously: "Comrade Oshanina, how can you let your subordinates ride in the same car as us?"

"Comrade Deputy Commander," I was afraid that he would object, so I explained to him: "This is close to the German defense zone. For safety, at least one guard must pass through the car. This safety factor can be greatly improved. "After listening, Apanashenko just nodded, then opened the car door and sat in.

On the way to the neighboring troops, Yushchenko sitting in the front row grabbed the assault rifle. He glanced at the car window with a vigilant look. And Apanashenko and I can talk about other things with peace of mind. He worriedly said to me: "Comrade Oshanina, I really did not expect that the divisions could not communicate directly. Once the battle with the Germans started, the cooperation between the units would be due to communication reasons. And be affected."

"Comrade Deputy Commander," I heard that he had discovered a problem in the unit, and I followed the tide and proposed a solution to him: "It seems that in the next preparations, direct communication between the divisions will be realized. It should become a big problem that must be solved, otherwise our troops will be in danger of being destroyed by the Germans in battle."

"You are right." Apanashenko said with deep feeling: "If it weren't for this trip to accompany you today. I probably wouldn't find this big problem. After I go back, I will meet with Vatutin. The commander reported this incident."

While we are talking. The speed of the jeep slowed down. Apanashenko asked the driver loudly: "Comrade Driver, what's the matter. Why is it slowing down?"

The driver turned his head and glanced at us, then quickly turned his head back, and reported: "Comrade Deputy Commander of the Front Army, I saw our officers and soldiers on the side of the road ahead. I plan to stop and ask for directions."

Hearing that this was the case, Apanashenko nodded and said: "Well, ask the soldiers in front, do you know how their division should go?"

I looked out the car window and saw a dozen soldiers digging fortifications on the side of the road. When the car stopped steadily, Yushchenko went out and asked loudly, "Hey, Comrade Soldier, do you know how to leave your division?"

A middle-aged man wearing only a white overalls climbed out of the semi-formed trench with a shovel, walked to the vicinity of the jeep, and asked Yushchenko vigilantly: "Comrade Commander, where are you from? Is there anything in the division?"

"We are from the front army headquarters," Yushchenko is very experienced in dealing with these investigations, so he said to the soldier in an official tone: "I have important things to find your commander. Do you know where he is?"

Upon hearing this, the soldier hurriedly came to stand at attention, and then respectfully pointed in a direction ahead and said: "Comrade Commander, your car is looking forward along this road to the fork in front of the hill in front of you. Turn left at the entrance and drive forward for another four or five kilometers to reach the headquarters of the division."

After Yushchenko thanked the soldiers, our car continued to drive forward.

Looking at the commanders digging trenches on the hills on both sides of the road, I couldn't help frowning. After Apanashenko discovered my anomaly, he couldn't help but wondered: "Oshanina, why are you so preoccupied?"

I pointed to the busy commanders and said to Apanashenko: "Comrade Deputy Commander, look at them. Although those commanders on the hill have dug a lot of trenches, they can hardly stop the enemy's attack. ."

"Do you have any good ideas?" Apanashenko asked humbly after hearing this.

"This is not clear for a while. When I get to the place, I will draw a picture to explain it in detail to you."

After we arrived at the division headquarters of the infantry division, Apanashenko greeted the division commander, political commissar, and chief of staff, and called them all to the table to study the construction of fortifications together.

Apanashchenko first asked the fat colonel commander: "Comrade commander, on our way here, we saw your commanders digging trenches everywhere. How about it. If the Germans attack us, your division’s existing Can the line of defense block the enemy's attack?"

"Comrade Deputy Commander. Can you tell the truth?" The division commander did not speak, but the chief of staff next to the lieutenant colonel said.

Apanashchenko listened to his words. He smashed his face and said dissatisfied: "When did I let you tell lies."

Hearing Apanashenko's criticism of his chief of staff, the fat division commander opened his mouth. He just wanted to explain a few words, but was stopped by Apanashenko's eyes.

The division chief quickly straightened his body and reported: "Comrade deputy commander, although we have built a lot of fortifications, there are too many hills in the defense zone, and most of them are incoherent. So it is difficult for us to build a perfect one. Our defensive system. If we are attacked by the Germans, our existing defensive positions can support at most one or two days before they will be breached."

"Do you have any good solutions?" Apanashenko asked blankly.

Hearing Apanashenko's question, the three division leaders were silent and lowered their heads one after another, saying that they could not do anything about the status quo.

Apanashchenko waited for a while, seeing that the three of them were silent, he couldn't help but sighed in disappointment. He turned to me and said, "Oshanina, what can you do?" Then he turned his head. Explaining me to the three of them, "This General Oshanina was sent by the base camp to our military defense zone to inspect the construction of the fortifications."

After the three of them knew my identity. There was a look of horror on his face, because the Chief of Staff's report just now can be completely on the line and become a commander's incompetence. In order to make them feel at ease, before explaining my fortification ideas to them, I smiled and said to the division chief of staff: "Comrade chief of staff, can you get me paper and pen? I'm useful."

"Paper and pen?" After hearing what I said, the division chief of staff hesitated for several seconds before rushing to the wall and picked up the pen and paper from a table there. He quickly walked back to the table and placed it in front of me respectfully.

I coughed. Seeing everyone's attention is focused on me. I drew a few strokes on the paper with a pen, and then started my own explanation: "Comrades commanders. To defend against an enemy armed to teeth like the Germans, the first thing to do is to strengthen the solidity of the position to defend against the enemy. The army’s artillery and bombing kept our army’s viable strength. Secondly, it was necessary to make the position a complete defensive system so as to easily block German tanks and infantry attacks.

According to the terrain of your division’s defense zone, I think that the defensive positions should establish support points, build Zhanhang, implement circular defenses, control each other, and form a defense system based on support points, so as to achieve the purpose of dividing the German combat formation.

There are many ways to establish a support point. The first is to use two tunnels running through the front and back of the hill, and a horizontal tunnel in the middle of the two tunnels is connected to make it an ‘h’ line. The exterior is connected by trenches, and the fortifications are located at the four exits of the tunnel.

The second type is to cross two tunnels left and right to form an "x" shape. The outside is linked by trenches. Various launch positions are placed on both sides of the mound, so that it can emit firepower to a range of 300 meters around it. This kind of support point can be used as the backbone defense point of the basic position..."

When I first started talking, the three divisional commanders showed disapproval expressions on their faces, but as I spoke more and more deeply, the expressions on their faces became serious, and the chief of staff even took out his notebook and started. Record it quickly.

After I finished talking about the shapes of a few fortifications, I pushed the drawn sketch in front of the division chief of staff, and finally said: "Remember, no matter what style of fortifications, you must set up strong troops on the reverse slope. There are anti-impact trenches, traffic trenches, and even tunnels on both sides of the mound."

The chief of staff of the division waited for me to finish, and asked carefully: "How should the forces at these support points be deployed?"

"The number of troops hoarded at the support point should be at least more than twice the original defense force." When I said this, seeing the puzzled expressions on everyone's faces, I explained further: "For example, there is a company stationed in support. At least two companies should be kept as starting positions for counterattack against the Germans."

After I finished speaking, Apanashenko smiled and said to his men: "Comrades, you have all heard what General Oshanina said. Are there any other questions now? If so, just Bring it up all at once, and let her give you a detailed answer."

"Comrade General," the teacher's political commissar who had been silent this time said, politely: "I want to ask what are the basic requirements for fortification construction?"

Looking at the division political commissar wearing round glasses in front of me, I instinctively turned my head and glanced at Apanashenko. At this moment, the teacher’s voice rang: "Comrade General, please don’t get me wrong. My political commissar graduated from the Leningrad University of Architecture. He is particularly interested in these architectural matters. If you don’t If we object, we also want to hear."

"Yes, Comrade General." The chief of staff of the division also said with help: "We also want to learn more useful information from you. This is very helpful for us to build fortifications."

"General Oshanina." The political commissar of the division, including the commander and the chief of staff, said to me with a smile on his face: "I have seen the construction drawings of the'Oshaninahao' sent to us by my superiors. Tell me sincerely. Well, after I watched it, I really admire you, because such an anti-tank trench can only be designed by heaven, so I..."

The flattering of the political commissar of the division is very useful to me~www.NovelMTL.com~ Although the anti-tank trench is the Golan trench I copied, I still smiled his compliment to me without blushing, and said to him politely: "Since the comrades of the political comrades want to understand the basic requirements of fortification construction, then I will say a few more words."

I paused for a moment, drank my saliva, and then continued: "In fact, the basic requirements for fortification construction are very simple. First, the location of the fortifications should be selected according to the tactical value of the terrain and the role of various fortifications in combat. set.

The second is the requirements for the degree of consolidation of the fortifications. Generally speaking, the thickness of the tunnel fortification should be about 20 meters, and the thickness of the entrance and exit of the tunnel should be at least 5 meters, and the opening should be flat to make it suitable for camouflage.

The third is the combat equipment inside the tunnel fortification. Shooting fortifications should be built at the turning points, and there must be special facilities for hoarding food, drinking water and ammunition inside the tunnel. "

After hearing what I said, the political commissar became more excited. He repeatedly asked: "Is that all? Anything else?" Seeing me stop, he didn't continue, and even pleaded with me, "Comrade General, please. Speaking in more detail? You have to know that all this is really great. If it can be promoted across the division, our chances of winning defense will be greatly improved." (To be continued.)