The decisive battle against the Third Reich

It is said that when the Soviets returned to Stalingrad, they were stunned by the ruins that had been completely emptied and even the roads and railways were completely destroyed.

Let alone a pursuit, the Soviet army would be busy for several months just with this destruction... There were landmines all over the ground that needed to be cleared. There were mines in fields, roads, and even brick toilets.

The trouble is that when clearing these landmines, you can't blow them up with artillery shells like you did in wartime, so you have to clear them manually, which is not only dangerous but also requires a lot of work.

Even more serious are roads and railways.

Roads are okay. It's not difficult to repair the roadbed if it's damaged by the bombing, build a highway bridge if it's damaged by the bombing, and repair the potholes on the road.

The problem was the railway...the sleepers were broken, the rails were demolished, the tunnels and railway bridges were blown down, which made the Soviet army cry without tears.

You must know that railways are an important logistics transportation tool during wartime. Trains can transport equipment and supplies to the front line in batches.

But now... if you need to rebuild these railways, you basically have to start from scratch, which is even more troublesome than starting from scratch, because the tunnels must be re-located, and because all the metallurgical plants and other equipment in Stalingrad were blown up, the Soviet Union Even the rails need to be produced elsewhere and then shipped over.

The difficulties don't end there.

The cold winter is coming soon, and then the Soviet military and civilians will have to restore these facilities at temperatures of tens of degrees below zero. If they can't do that, don't even think about pushing the front line forward... because even if they push the front line forward, But the logistics and transportation could not keep up, and the troops sent up were almost destined to die.

This is actually the benefit of fighting on other people's land.

There is a saying that "it is easy to destroy but difficult to build." To destroy a railway track is just to hang an underhook behind the locomotive, and to blow up a tunnel is just to install a few bags of explosives.

But the Soviets had to pay dozens, hundreds or even thousands of times the price to rebuild them.

What's worse is that this is Soviet land, and the Soviets can't help it if they don't rebuild it.

From this aspect, destruction is actually the best tactic... In history, Mongolia used this tactic to bring down the economically powerful Song Dynasty. They invaded, burned, killed, and looted, then ran away, waiting for the Song Dynasty to rebuild after a while. It was almost done, and they moved in again, burned, killed, looted, and withdrew. Soon it became an undefended area for the Mongolian cavalry to gallop around.

It's just that the Germans are not good at this kind of tactics.

This may be because the Germans still have a bit of medieval chivalry, or because Hitler always keeps an eye on the land he occupied... As he said, he needed to gain more living space for the German nation, so he captured The land belongs to you. If it is yours, don't destroy it deliberately. Instead, you often do the work of rebuilding it.

Qin Chuan did not need to worry about any of this. As an elite force, the 21st Armored Division would certainly not be used for retreat. They had already taken a train and evacuated to the Transcaucasus region to build a defense line.

This battalion in Qinchuan is special. They have helicopters, so of course there is no need to take a train.

Therefore, this can be regarded as the easiest march.

Everyone climbed into the helicopter, and then the helicopter flew toward the Caucasus Mountains.

Konrad and Alexander also moved to Transcaucasus with the 1st Infantry Regiment.

Conrad is with the 1st Infantry Regiment because the helicopter still has many areas for improvement...Equipment of this thing always continues to find problems and then solve them during use.

The 1st Infantry were the ones who used the equipment and identified problems with it, and Conrad was the one who solved them.

The reason why Alexander was transferred to the 1st Infantry Regiment was because Paulus transferred Alexander to the 1st Infantry Regiment for training.

In fact, this is more what Alexander himself meant... Paulus always wanted to keep Alexander by his side to take care of and protect him, but Alexander was unwilling to continue like this.

For this reason, Paulus and Alexander had a fierce quarrel, but in the end Alexander convinced his father.

The Alexander is quite useful to the 1st Infantry Regiment, because according to Conrad... Hitler specially approved the production of helicopters, which caused the modification and production speed of helicopters to skyrocket, and soon there will be another batch of 20 transport aircraft 10 armed helicopters came off the assembly line and were sent to Transcaucasus.

Needless to say which unit uses these helicopters, of course it is the 1st Infantry Regiment.

In other words, the 1st Infantry Regiment will be built into a special force maneuvered by helicopters.

As for Alexander, because he had cooperated with Qin Chuan several times in the past, he needed people like him to provide logistics command for the helicopter units in the rear. Alexander is also very satisfied with this allocation.

When he officially entered the First Infantry Regiment, he joked: "Major, originally I wanted to recruit you to the 6th Group Army, but unexpectedly you recruited me to the First Infantry Regiment!"

The helicopter was flying when suddenly the soldiers cheered loudly out the window.

Qin Chuan looked out the window and saw a snow-white mountain peak, undulating and extending into the distance... The Caucasus Mountains had entered winter and were covered with a layer of snow. Looking down from the helicopter had a unique flavor.

"The highest peak is 5,642 meters!" Conrad said: "And our helicopter ceiling is 7,000 meters, which means we can reach any place in the Caucasus Mountains. There is no need to travel through mountains and rivers like mountain troops, we only need to designate a location. Get there and rappel down..."

"It won't be as simple as you think, Colonel!" Qin Chuan replied: "We are not a mountain troop. We even suffer from altitude sickness at more than 5,000 meters. If we were thrown up there, we would freeze to death in a few days. "

"Oh, yes!" Conrad replied: "In other words, it's time for you to conduct mountain combat training!"

Qin Chuan couldn't help but rolled his eyes. The First Infantry Regiment was really trained like a modern special forces.

However, this does seem to be necessary, because it can be imagined that the greatest use of helicopters is that they can lead troops on flat ground in mountain operations. As Conrad said, they can go wherever they want, more than five thousand meters. For ordinary mountain troops, it may take several days, ten days or even longer to climb. Some people may never even reach the designated location.

But for a helicopter, it only takes ten minutes.

Therefore, if you don't know how to fight in mountains, you don't seem to be qualified to use helicopters... They can allocate helicopters to mountain troops. After all, it is much simpler to let them practice rappelling.