Chapter 1250 Difficult Brothers Parted Ways (Plus 1)

"We found a few mice in the city's sewers." With exhaustion, Kartsev continued to explain: "When the explosion happened, the city was devastated, and all the buildings in the city collapsed. And this section of the sewer just happened to be blocked from both sides."

"That is to say, as long as we hide in the ground and we have enough air, we can support it?" Budyonny immediately deduced it. Kartsev also admired this inference, and he really deserves to be a senior Commander, thinking is active.

"However, it is difficult for us to build enough underground fortifications in a short period of time," said Admiral Kilponos on the side.

There are hundreds of thousands of defenders and millions of people in the city. If all the underground fortifications are built, it cannot be completed in a short time.

"Yes, so if the Germans are going to use this weapon to threaten us, we need to evacuate all the citizens and keep only our troops. If we start now, how many underground bunkers can we build? How many troops are left, but be careful, it must be completely sealed, that terrible weapon will consume all the oxygen in the air, and we also have enough oxygen cylinders to last us until the surrounding air is refilled ."

Where there is a spear, there is a shield. Weapons are not always omnipotent. Now, they have found the weakness of this terrible weapon, and in Moscow, such fortifications have already begun to be built. If the Germans use this weapon to destroy Moscow, their own Can also hold on.

"However, there are ruins all over the place. Even if we can survive the attack, what's the use? The city has been destroyed and has lost its value of defense, and we can't continue to fight in the ruins." Kilpo Admiral North said.

What's the use of leaving a ruin?

"Useful, at least, we are still holding on." Budyonny said: "As long as there is one person, the position is ours." As a veteran from the civil war, Budyonny is still firm.

After recovering from the initial shock, the Soviet army began to stabilize, as did the southwestern force.

For example, the commander of the 6th Army, Lieutenant General Ivan Nikolaevich Muzichenko, was a strong-willed and decisive commander.

The son of a sailor, he suffered from poverty and unfree labor from childhood, and in 1917 served in the Tsarist army on the Northwest Front. Joined the Red Army in 1918.

During the Russian Civil War, he was wounded 5 times: 1 on the head, 3 on the right hand and 1 on the back.

In 1927, he graduated from the Advanced Cavalry Course for Commanders of the Red Army. On the road from midship commander to division commander.

And just this year, under the age of 40, Muzichenko bypassed the military-level command and was directly appointed as the commander of the army. Began to command the Soviet 6th Army.

His army was stationed in the Lviv region of Ukraine. The group army has 2 infantry corps, 1 cavalry corps, 2 mechanized corps and other units.

His luck was quite bad. As soon as the battle started, his 6th Army took part in the border war. After that, he fought and retreated and retreated to Uman with his 12th Army.

They are in Uman, while they are holding on, they are actually repairing. After all, the German offensive route is Kyiv, and they are supposed to be safe in Uman.

It's a pity, who would have thought that the Germans would go straight to Uman without fighting Kyiv!

Now, they are surrounded together in Uman. Outside is the most powerful German tank force. What the consequences will be, even with the toes, I can think of it.

The headquarters of the two armies were both located in Uman City. After receiving the order, Muzichenko met with the commander of the 12th Army, Major General Bonederin. At this time, their faces were worried. color.

"There are at least three or four thousand tanks outside of us." Muzichenko said: "Now, if we want to rush out, we can only gather our tank troops together, rush through a weak spot of them, and then let the The cavalry went up, followed by widening the opening, and led our infantry to break through."

At that time, Muzichenko was very appreciated by Zhukov. The first successor of the cavalry regiment and the 4th cavalry division that Zhukov once commanded was him.

However, Ponegelin did not think so.

"The German tanks have strong impact and high mobility. If we rush out from one place, a large number of German tanks will soon block up." Ponegelin said: "We can't break out like that. , we have to separate and open our mouths from many directions, so that the Germans cannot take into account the whole situation, so that some people can successfully retreat, and, preferably, at night."

Ponegelin did not agree to attack together. That would only attract more enemies and would not help in breaking through. He wanted to break out at night. In his eyes, this had a higher chance of success.

"No, the German tanks have night vision, and at night our movement is more restricted, and if we don't come together to attack, we can't make a fist, we can't open the gap at all, all around Charge, there is no position to break through, and all our soldiers will be killed by the enemy during the breakout." Muzichenko said.

In terms of military rank, Muzichenko is one level higher, but in terms of command, the two of them command their respective army groups. If they can discuss it, they will break through together, but now, it is obvious that their opinions cannot be unified.

After retreating all the way, the two army groups cooperated relatively tacitly, but now, when deciding between life and death, they have conflicts, and neither can persuade the other.

Therefore, the talks between the two could only be an unhappy break up.

Back in his army, Muzichenko didn't have time to hesitate. He knew that after the Germans surrounded themselves, they would continue to shrink the encirclement.

So, don't delay too much.

"Order the troops, get ready this evening, we will break through tomorrow morning." Muzichenko issued an order to his adjutant: "Gather all our tanks together, the cavalry army is behind, the infantry is the last, we have to carry out A tragic breakout operation, success or failure is here!"

There is only one chance. This time, all the tanks are pressed. If we can't open the gap and we can't break through, it will be impossible to break through in the future.

He decided to break out of the encirclement early tomorrow morning, and Ponegelin was more anxious than him. After the two broke up unhappily, Ponegelin ordered to break out that night. What happened to Muzichenko, he no longer cares, he can only be responsible for the lives of his troops.