Chapter 1848: Life and Death

Malachenko had just run to the entrance of the waiting hall alone, holding a gun. Under the dumbfounded gaze of the soldiers who had just entered the area, he had not had time to stop and give orders before he was confronted by Valosha, who had also led a team to come here in person. Read

Valosha, who had led a team to come here in person just to find Malachenko, finally breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing that the division commander in front of him was safe and sound, with no bullet holes or missing parts, the big stone that had been hanging in his heart finally fell to the ground.

"Comrade division commander, the combat mission is carried out by the officers and soldiers below. How can you run around like this? It's too dangerous to leave the tank. If the political commissar knows about this, he will definitely skin me alive! Before we split up and left, he repeatedly told me to ensure your personal safety. What will happen to the troops if something happens to you?"

Political Commissar Petrov went to the north with Lavrinenko and Kurbalov, preparing to arrive at the battlefield first and start the encirclement and suppression of the German troops in the northern salient.

The task of robbing the train on the southern road was led by Malashenko alone, but if you look at it from the side, this was also a kind of "completely letting go" of Malashenko in a sense, as no one could control him.

There was only one person in the entire Stalin Guards 1st Tank Division who could control Malashenko and dared to control him: Political Commissar Petrov. As for Vatutin, the emperor was far away. It was impossible for the commander of the front to remotely control the every move of a division commander all the time. After all, Vatutin was not the president of a logistics group who was good at commanding machine guns.

But with the departure of the political commissar and the separation of the north and the south, Malashenko is now in trouble. No one can control him. He really does whatever he wants and does whatever he wants. This worries Valosha, who can't contact the political commissar for a while, let alone report him. What should he do if the division commander continues to do this? ?

Malashenko doesn't know what Valosha is thinking about at the moment, and of course he has no interest in knowing or figuring it out. Malashenko, who only wants to quickly defeat the last resistance of the German stick, has no time to care about these things.

"No time for nonsense. I came here to personally command the infantry to fight, but since you are here, it's just right."

"The armored train has derailed and was prevented from escaping, but the Germans are still hiding in those armored carriages and resisting stubbornly and refusing to surrender! I don't have time to waste time with these fascist bastards. Mobilize your most elite infantry to take down those dozen broken carriages for me! I don't care what method you use. In short, we can't get heavy firepower support and can only use light weapons. We can't blow up our own treasures! Can you complete the task!?"

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Malachenko's order was issued unexpectedly, but fortunately, Varosha had already learned the latest battle report before setting off, and was originally making the latest tactical adjustments and preparing to arrange for execution.

Now Malachenko happened to ask himself to do so and issue orders. Varosha, who already had a basic plan in mind, immediately faced Malachenko with a serious face and spoke quietly.

"Comrade Division Commander, look here."

Varosha, who had already drawn the complete map on the map by hand, took out the train station map from his backpack and spread it out in the air, holding it in both hands to show it.

"I have studied it before I came here. The Germans who were pinned to death on the trackbed under the platform are now a group of remnants. They can't move forward or backward, and there is no hope of escape. They can only be nailed to fight in such a small area of ​​the trackbed under the platform. The troops under my command have basically completed the internal encirclement of the platform and are clearing out the remaining enemies. None of them can escape."

"My suggestion is to deploy troops from the south, north and east to attack the Germans at the same time, but don't rush to attack! We must create a large enough formation to let the Germans clearly understand that they have been completely surrounded. First of all, we must defeat their resistance in terms of morale."

"And in the west, I heard that Comrade Division Commander has led a team of heavy tanks to block this gap. These It is even more impossible for the Germans to escape from here. Climbing from the roadbed to the platform under the noses of heavy tanks is tantamount to seeking death. Just one car and two machine guns can mow them into meat paste. "

"If we can't use direct-fire heavy firepower to cover, the casualties of storming the armored train carriages will be too high. Comrade Division Commander, I think we should try to avoid it whenever possible. In any case, I always want to try to put pressure on the Germans and force them to surrender with substantial actions. A rash storm will only cause us to suffer unnecessary losses. This is worth a try after all."

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It is reasonable to press the enemy who is trapped in a desperate situation to surrender through the powerful force of pressing step by step. There is no shortage of such classic examples in the history of human warfare from ancient times to the present.

But the main problem at hand is that Malashenko lacks time, which is crucial and also the most precious time.

The Germans themselves know that there are no reinforcements around the train station and they are isolated and helpless, but this is only one-sided information. Malashenko has no idea that there is such a good thing.

In Malashenko's view, raiding the railway station and robbing the train to steal treasures were acts of stirring up a hornet's nest. Moreover, it also caused a severe defeat for the Death's Head Division, one of the four trump cards of the SS, causing heavy losses.

Malachenko guessed that the German command was now in a desperate situation, like an ant jumping on a hot pot. Correspondingly, the Germans were definitely desperately deploying troops and generals, trying every means to draw reinforcements from various nearby nodes, and rushing to the train station, the eye of the storm, from all directions, in an attempt to prevent the worst result of "the treasure is lost and the Skeleton Division is gone".

This is not only completely possible, but also definitely the most likely, even infinitely likely.

For every minute Malachenko delays at the train station, he will be surrounded by German troops rushing in from all directions, and the probability that he will not be able to leave will increase.

Moreover, even if the treasure is in hand, it does not mean that everything is completely settled. You still have to consider how to get the treasure off the broken carriage, and then toss it out and escort it away quickly. This must be a troublesome process that takes a lot of time, and you can imagine it.

After weighing all the pros and cons carefully in his mind, Malashenko had already decided what to do next, and finally spoke again to Varosha with a serious expression.