The decisive battle against the Third Reich

The vigorous development of the Baku oil field is actually inseparable from a Swedish chemist who is well known to everyone in modern times... Nobel.

In 1875, Nobel was persuaded by his secretary to give up developing the arms business and chose to invest in the oil field in Baku. As a result, the Baku oil field, which was still in its primitive stage, soon had oil pipelines, refineries and was shipped to all parts of the world. oil tanker.

It was precisely because he owned the property rights of the oil fields here that Nobel was able to accumulate huge wealth and establish the Nobel Prize.

At this time, there were several times more oil fields and refineries in Baku than in the Nobel era, and they were densely distributed around Baku... There were more than a dozen oil fields, 1,900 drilling wells and five oil wells in an area of ​​15 square kilometers. A large oil refinery.

The German 11th Army advanced to these drilling rigs, oil fields and refineries and captured them.

Occupying them is not difficult. On the one hand, this is because the Soviet army is empty and unable to stop the German army. On the other hand, because General Tyulenev still holds on to the hope of taking back Baku, he did not order the blowing up of these oil refineries. Plants and oil wells, otherwise it is not difficult to blow up the refinery.

"Major!" Eberhard asked Qin Chuan with doubts when he saw the refineries and oil wells: "I don't think this is a good place for defense!"

"I think so too!" Richard, the commander of the first company, added: "Any shell fired by the enemy may cause a fire or even explode, but we are stationed near them!"

"Perhaps this is the reason why the major chose to garrison here!" Kuhn replied: "If the Soviets enter this area, they also know what they will face!"

Qin Chuan nodded and replied: "These are the things of the Soviets. They will hold on to the hope of taking them back, so they are afraid of them!"

"But Major!" said Captain Fogelman, commander of the third company: "If they find out in the end that they can't find these refineries, they will still choose to blow them up!"

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied: "That's why we need to take emergency protection measures for them!"

After occupying the refinery, the first thing the Germans did was to empty the refinery of gasoline.

"But how are we going to resist the Soviet tanks?" Captain Fogelman asked: "It's empty here!"

"We use gasoline!" Kuhn replied: "Gasoline from the refinery!"

"No, we don't need to go to such trouble!" Qin Chuan raised his head towards the oil pipeline in front and said, "We can just use it!"

Kuhn was right about the direction.

The Soviets could use fire trenches to stop the German 22nd Armored Division, and so could the Germans. After all, Baku would never be short of fuel.

The difference is that the fire trenches built by the Soviets require a large amount of engineering work. The German 11th Army cannot and does not have the time to build a wide and long trench like them and then pour oil and gasoline into it.

But the German army did not need to do this, because they actually built a defense line between the oil fields, that is, using trenches to connect more than a dozen oil fields around Baku, and there are oil pipelines between these oil fields...

Therefore, what they have to do is to dig a trench near the oil pipeline, and then dismantle the oil pipeline to allow the oil inside to flow freely.

Of course, this also depends on the specific terrain for different operations. If the terrain is low, the oil will flow back and burn itself. This requires the German army to first choose a higher location to garrison.

"In order to achieve better results..." Qin Chuan said: "We can even wait for the enemy to charge before releasing the fuel!"

The German officers and soldiers couldn't help but nod, because obviously, if the Soviet soldiers had discovered this from the beginning, they would not have chosen to charge and take the initiative to ignite the oil.

These tasks were not difficult to do. After all, the oil wells and oil pipelines were under the control of the German army. They even conducted a rehearsal in case something went wrong during the battlefield... The German army knew that they were about to face an elite Soviet infantry division. and a tank brigade, so we dare not take it lightly.

Three hours later, at two o'clock in the morning, the "rumble" of the motor was faintly heard in the darkness.

"Major!" the correspondent reported: "They are coming, three kilometers away from us!"

The German army is different from the Soviet army. After setting up the defense line, they will set up open and hidden sentries a few kilometers in front of the defense line. There are even soldiers from the Brandenburg detachment disguised as Soviet skirmishers and "escaping" into their ranks.

Therefore, every move of the Soviet army was under the control of the German army.

"I bet!" Werner said while eating the can: "They won't attack for at least half an hour!"

"Why?" asked the baker.

"Because I haven't eaten enough yet!" Werner replied: "They should at least wait until I finish eating before taking a rest!"

In a way, Werner was right, because the Soviet army needed to assemble and make preparations, such as arranging artillery and fire cover units, etc. Under normal circumstances, this did take half an hour.

But before he finished speaking, several red signal bombs and illumination bombs rose in the sky, and then several artillery shells exploded in front of the German position.

"You are wrong, Werner!" cried the baker.

"Go to hell!" Werner dropped the can in his hand and hurriedly grabbed the gun and jumped into the trench. Then he cursed: "These Soviets, are they so anxious to see Lenin?"

The German officers and soldiers couldn't help laughing.

Qinchuan was not surprised that the Soviet army would launch an attack so quickly, because this battle was a little different from the past... The Soviet army did not want to blow up the oil refinery. On the other hand, they knew that the German army did not have heavy equipment, so they would It is hoped that the tank troops will break through the German defense line as soon as possible and take back Baku, or it can be said that a surprise attack will be launched before the German army is ready.

Qin Chuan's guess was correct, that was what General Tyulenev thought.

At this moment, all he could think about was Stalin's gloomy face... The fall of the Baku oil field was not a trivial matter, because it almost determined how many tanks the Soviet Union could drive onto the battlefield and how many planes could fly into the sky, and even And cars and factory machinery.

Without oil and Baku, all these things might become a pile of scrap metal, and Tyulenev would become a sinner of the Soviet Union.

With this idea, Tyulenev did not even dare to report to Stalin. He hoped to recapture the oil fields as soon as possible and then report again, so that he might still escape.

but……

It was precisely because of this idea and his eagerness to recapture the oil fields that Tyulenev lost the calmness he should have as a commander and made the wrong decision.