After a long delay in the order to put the internal troops into battle, Andrei was now restless at the station, because he knew how disastrous the outcome of this battle was, and as in history, on June 19, the 29th Tank Brigade and the infantry that followed it finally broke through the enemy's defenses and joined up with the troops of the assault 2nd Army, which was attacking from west to southeast. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 InfoOn June 21, a corridor with a width of one meter was opened along the Chudovo-Novgorod railway line from the east and west, and a large number of wounded commanders and fighters of the assault 2nd Army withdrew from the encirclement. Unfortunately, however, the troops who followed the wounded, instead of expanding the breach and consolidating the flanks as ordered, withdrew with the wounded. The next day, the Germans concentrated their aviation and artillery fire and stormed the corridor, and the Soviet Red Army, which opened and supported the corridor, could not withstand the German attack, and the corridor was cut off. Meretskov ordered the 59th Army to strike from the west, and the 2nd Army from the east, again to strike in opposite directions along the railway line. In particular, he ordered the assault on the troops of the 2nd Army, destroyed all the heavy equipment, and integrated all the drivers and other professionals into combat teams, so that the assault could be carried out to the end at any cost. The assault was scheduled for 23 o'clock on June 23.

At 23 o'clock on the 23rd, the Soviet Red Army began to move, and fierce fighting lasted all night. In the early hours of the morning, a corridor was again opened along the railway line, and the exhausted assault units of the 2nd Army, with great difficulty, withdrew through the corridor. But by noon the Germans had taken control of the railway again. In the evening, the troops of the 59th Army once again opened the corridor, and along this corridor where the fire of both sides was crossfired, a number of troops were withdrawn one after another throughout the night of the 24th and the morning of the 25th. By 9:30 a.m. on the 25th, the Germans closed the corridor again, this time completely. The Soviet 2nd Assault Army suffered a fatal blow in this German encirclement: although 16,000 men broke out of the encirclement, 6,000 were killed, 8,000 were missing, 32,759 were captured, 649 artillery pieces and 771 tanks were lost. Commander Andrei Andreevich Vlasov surrendered as a shameful traitor.

But now Andrei can't do anything, for several days he continued to receive information from the GRU troops, and on the afternoon of the 25th, Andrei received a report that many of the remnants of the Second Assault Army had stopped resisting, and now they are all scattered to break through, and now all the infiltration teams are responding to the fighters who broke through, and it is okay to save one by one! Next, Andrei personally led people to the 378th Division because of a task, the superior ordered Andrei to assist in collecting the commanders and fighters who broke through, so Andrei immediately led Unit A to the 378th Infantry Division that was very close, because Andrei cleaned up the 378th Division before the battle, this division actually played an important role, and they received a lot of soldiers who broke through, so the actual loss figure was actually smaller than Andrey's memory, but it was only a few thousand more people saved.

This time, Unit A was General Afanasyev, who was escorting the Second Assault Army, and when they met, although they were also full of hostility to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, after all, it was the GRU fighters who rescued themselves, so when they saw Andrei, General Afanasyev still expressed his heartfelt gratitude, and Andrei asked: "Comrade General, I heard that when the headquarters of the group army broke through, it was divided into three groups. Do you know the whereabouts of the deputy commander, General Alfiliev, the head of the reconnaissance department, Colonel Rogov, in addition to you and General Vlasov's group? ”

General Afanasyev shook his head and said, "I don't know. Not to mention the other two groups, even the chief of staff, Colonel Vinogorodov, who broke through with me, was lost in the battle. ”

At this time, the phone rang on the table, and the general picked up the microphone and said in a deep voice: "I am General Afanasyev of the 2nd Assault Army, what is the matter?" ”

Andrei saw it, and his tone became agitated and said, "Hello, Kirill. Afanasyevich, I'm Afanasyev. Yes, I highlighted the encirclement. Thank you for sending troops to pick me up, I am currently at the division headquarters of the 378th Division, with Major Yakov from the Ministry of Internal Affairs......"

While I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard the voice of General Afanasyev calling me: "Major Yakov. ”

Andrei looked up and saw that the general was holding the microphone with his hand and calling me: "Major Yakov, come and answer the phone." ”

"Yes," he replied with some impatience, "Comrade Commander of the Front Army wants to speak to you." ”

I quickly stood up, took the microphone from his hand, put it to my ear, and then respectfully said into the microphone: "Hello, Comrade Commander of the Front Army, I am the acting division commander, Major Oshanina, and I am waiting for your orders. ”

Meretskov's voice came from the microphone: "Comrade Oshanina, I heard from General Afanasyev that it was the troops (GRU) under your command who rescued him, and he did a good job, well done!" I'm very happy with your performance! "The general's praise made my heart flutter, and although I tried my best to control my emotions, the corners of my mouth couldn't help but turn up slightly. I heard him go on to say: "You accompany General Afanasyev to the headquarters of the Front immediately." ”

Andrei asked: "Comrade General, may I ask if there is anything important?" ”

"Tomorrow morning a meeting will be held at the headquarters of the front, which will be attended not only by the commanders of the armies, but also by the commanders of the divisions. We will review some of the problems that were exposed during the 2nd Shock Army's breakout battle, as well as some of the arrangements for the new campaign. ”

Andrei hurriedly replied: "Understood, Comrade Commander." I immediately accompanied General Afanasyyev to the headquarters of the Front. ”

And this time Andrey is not only going to a meeting, but he is going to take a bastard to a court-martial!

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