Chapter 13 Incompatible as Water and Fire

After dinner, the senior officers of the Rocossov combat group met again, with a defense map of Lokotov City laid out on the table they gathered around.

Yegorov was the first to speak, "I've placed both the first and third companies in the chemical plant. To be honest, it's fairly sturdy there. When it comes to withstanding enemy heavy artillery fire, the casualties should be lower than in the garrison."

"Another location that is quite suitable for artillery defense is here."

He pointed behind the fertilizer plant.

"The warehouse district, which is also made of very strong concrete buildings, where we can station the reserve troops, meaning the second company."

"Lokotov is half an industrial city, with many concrete structures, which is one of the few pieces of good news."

Yegorov paused, then added, "By the way, the logistics command has allocated one of their communications companies to us, and they have been busy all afternoon getting the telephone lines up."