Red Moscow

  Chapter 562 Obsolete intelligence

  The German night raid force was wiped out, halting their attack on the assembly workshop for a day.

  The next day, they wanted to attack again, but they had no chance. So a new round of counter-offensive organized by Chuikov began. Since the main direction of the attack was to the north of the city, in addition to a few divisions that had just crossed the Volga River to participate in the attack, even the troops standing firm in various factories also launched attacks on the frontal enemy.

   Other places are fighting in full swing, but Sokov is the only one here, but there is no movement. Hearing the sound of gunfire from outside, Koyda couldn't sit still any longer. He pulled his political commissar together and went to the brigade command post to meet Sokov.

"Comrade Brigadier," Koyda entered the command post and saw Sokov sitting at the table, discussing something with Bely and Yakov in a low voice, so he raised his voice and asked: "Did you hear that?" Are there any gunshots outside?"

   "I heard it!" Sokov turned his head to look at Koyda, and asked with a blank face: "But Comrade Colonel, what happened outside has anything to do with us?"

"Others are fighting the enemy, but we are just sitting around doing nothing." Seeing Sokov's disapproving expression, Koyda couldn't help the blood rushing to his head: "If you don't have the courage to fight the enemy, I can ask the commander The officer asked him to let me take command of this force."

  Hearing what Keida said, the smile on Sokov's face gradually disappeared. He didn't expect that Keida would actually say that. When he was about to refute, Bely who was on the side said first: "Colonel Koyda, how do you know that the brigade commander doesn't want to fight the enemy? Could it be that the enemy who attacked us two days ago was just conducting a drill with us?"

  If Sokov said this, maybe Keida would have to refute, but he saw that the speaker was Bely, who had the same military rank as himself, and swallowed the words again.

Seeing that Koida was silent, Sokov said: "Comrade Colonel, do you think I don't want to participate in this counterattack? But no, we all go to attack. Who will defend our position? Once When the enemy turns to a certain section of our counter-offensive area and wants to occupy various factories while our army's defenses are empty, who will stop them?"

  Koida's face was originally full of disdainful expressions, but after listening to Sokov's analysis, he showed a pensive expression. Seeing that the other party had listened to his opinion, Sokov continued: "I just said that the counterattack was frustrated. There is another possibility that our army's counterattack went smoothly, but due to the limited force, we cannot expand the results of the battle. In this case In this case, if the superior puts us on the battlefield, maybe we will be able to play a vital role."

"Colonel Keida, please sit down." Yakov saw that after Sokov's explanation, Keida's expression was no longer as aggressive as before, so he called him to sit down and explained to him: " Before you came, Lieutenant Colonel Sokov was studying with us how to make our army's infantry coordination and air-ground coordination more perfect during the offensive."

"Bus-tan coordination, air-ground coordination?" Keida has been in the army for more than 20 years, and he belongs to the kind of old antiques that are a little out of date. Hearing these new terms mentioned by Sokov, he asked in surprise. :"What means?"

   "What else can it mean?" Bely smiled and explained to him: "Naturally, it means literally. Infantry and tanks work together, and the air force provides air cover for ground attacking troops. It's that simple."

   "I know we have a tank battalion, but I haven't heard that we can get support from the air force when we attack." Koyda asked dubiously: "Can our troops really get support from the air force when they attack?"

"That's right, there is also a fighter jet regiment, which is also under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Sokov." Bely nodded and said, "Therefore, we don't move. Once we launch an attack, the enemy's defense line will be destroyed in the shortest time. Inside, we easily broke through."

  Kaida came here originally only to let Sokov ask for a fight from his superiors, and also participated in this counterattack. But after arriving, I discovered that although Sokov did not participate in the offensive, he was not sitting there doing nothing, but was studying what tactics to use to break through the German defense. Thinking of this, he couldn't help saying apologetically to Sokov: "I'm sorry, Comrade Brigadier Commander, please forgive my recklessness. I thought you were trying to avoid the battle, but you have already started to make a battle plan."

  Sokov pointed to the map and said to everyone: "Commanders, according to reconnaissance, if we want to launch an offensive to the northwest, the first thing we encounter will be a battalion of the SS..."

   "What, there is a battalion of the SS here?" Hearing this, Keida couldn't help interjecting, "Comrade Brigadier Commander, leave the task of destroying this German army to our regiment."

"What, Colonel Koyda, what are you talking about? You want to lead a mixed regiment to destroy the SS troops in this battalion?" Sokov's jaw almost fell to the ground when he heard what Koyda said: "But your hands There are only 400 people in the army, so it is not realistic to destroy a German army with nearly 1,000 people?"

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Koida said carelessly: "Comrade Brigadier, although the German army has nearly a thousand soldiers, don't forget that they are SS troops and have no combat effectiveness. It is okay to wipe out the guerrillas in the back. When it comes to fighting us formally, they are vulnerable."

Sokov tapped his ears with his fingers, and said to himself silently in his heart: "Hearing hallucinations, it must be auditory hallucinations. What Colonel Koida said just now are all my auditory hallucinations." But he quickly I found that I didn't have auditory hallucinations, and Bely, Yakov and others looked at Keida in surprise, as if they were looking at an alien visitor.

Koyda noticed that everyone was staring at him, thinking that there was something on his face, raised his hand to wipe it, and asked a little embarrassedly: "Commanders, what are you all 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 have fought." Keida nodded vigorously, and said in a positive tone: "When the war first broke out, I was the commander of the regiment. At that time, my troops were surrounded by the German army. I thought that the entire army would definitely be wiped out. But The scout told me that there was an area ahead that was defended by the SS, so I led the remaining two hundred people to attack them. After half an hour of fighting, we successfully broke through the enemy's defense , killing and injuring more than 300 people, and seized a batch of their weapons, but I only suffered less than 50 casualties."

When Koyda said this, he took a sip on the ground: "What kind of weapons are they equipped with? They are simply a pile of tattered, and they are too heavy to carry. In order to speed up the march, I asked the soldiers to throw away all the captured weapons .”

Sokov felt that what the other party was talking about was not the SS at all, but 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 at the beginning was the German party?" Guards?"

"Is there anything wrong with this, Comrade Brigadier?" Seeing Sokov doubting himself, Koyda said with some dissatisfaction: "Although it was the first time I dealt with them, their uniforms are different from those of the Wehrmacht. I can recognize it immediately."

"Misha, I know what's going on." Just when Sokov was about to ask some more details, Yakov suddenly interjected and said, "Colonel Koida is right, the troops that fought against them back then were indeed The SS of the Germans. At that time, no one valued this army, 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 They changed their outfits and they gradually became an ace army."

  (end of this chapter)