In September 1942, the Battle of Stalingrad entered its final stages, when the commander of the Soviet Front, General Yelyonmenko, and the military commissar Khrushchev removed General Lopatin from his position as commander and replaced him with 42-year-old Trikov
Appointed in a time of crisis, Trikov was determined to turn the tide and made a vow: "I swear to live and die with this city, it is there, I live; it loses, I die!" ”。 After receiving the order to hold the city and resist the enemy, Cui Li immediately took up the command of the huihui troops to deploy and reorganize the army.
The Military Council made the final decision: Stalingrad is the last battlefield of our campaign, it must be fought against the tide, all the troops are gathered on the right bank, and they must not retreat to the left bank! Hitler, the German army, was also very impatient to see that the Russian army had resisted desperately for so long, and immediately ordered that Stalingrad be captured in the fastest time and the entire city should be occupied.
After receiving the commander-in-chief's order, the German army boosted morale and charged at the Russian troops stationed in Stalingrad, and the war in the city entered a white-hot situation. Because Szs is the last battlefield, the city is their last insistence, the Russian army is also desperately resisting, the German army is already unstoppable, and immediately attacked the Russian command.
Trikov did not order a retreat, and at this time, if he left, the soldiers would be even less confident, so he rejected the suggestion of the surrounding generals to retreat to the Volga, and still held his post. Although Trikov did not flee by example, one of the regimental commanders in the army was timid and afraid of death, and escaped from the battlefield.
After Trikov knew this situation, the military uniform was not worn, and quickly took the car to catch up with the regimental commander, after catching up, Trikov got out of the car and punched the regimental commander hard, the regimental commander was blinded by a sudden punch, did not know who the other party was, he turned back and also waved his fist to fight with Trikov.
The two people entangled and tore together for a long time, 42-year-old Trikov beat the regimental commander to a blue nose and swollen face, the regimental commander was beaten to death by Cui, and when he woke up, his soldiers told him: The person who just fought you is the commander! He told me to give you the tobacco! Only then did he realize that he had made a big mistake and was also learned by the commander, and finally he actually beat the commander, which was also ashamed and self-conscious.