USSR 1941

There is only one update today, and the third update will be added tomorrow! There are a lot of things to do at the beginning of school recently, sorry!

December 25th was Christmas in 1941.

Guderian's headquarters is located 9 miles south of Tula, which can almost be said to be the front line.

Guderian sat on a chair in despair, was silent for a while, then took out a pen and paper and wrote a letter to his wife: "The cold and poor living conditions, insufficient winter clothes, serious loss of personnel and supplies, meager fuel Supplies, all this has turned our military operations into a kind of torture, and the heavy responsibility has made me more and more frustrated. Although many words of encouragement have been said by all parties, no one can take the burden from my shoulders!"

After writing the letter, it was sealed and sealed, and then Guderian handed the letter to the adjutant and asked him to hand it over to the evacuated wounded to take it back.

Then, he took off his military cap from the wall and put it on his head, and ordered: "Retreat!"

"What?" The adjutant couldn't help being stunned when he heard the words: "But the head of state ordered..."

"I said it!" Guderian interrupted the adjutant: "Retreat!"

"Yes, General!" The adjutant stood up and passed on the order.

Guderian looked at Moscow and said to himself: "The attack on Moscow has failed, and we have suffered a defeat!"

Then, without looking back, he jumped onto the barrel cart and retreated to the rear with the guards.

As a responsible commander, Guderian doesn't care about the order of the head of state, what he cares about is the lives of the soldiers... If it is possible to win, he will fight with the soldiers at the forefront and persist until the last moment, but he knows At this point it is impossible to win.

In other words, the decision of the head of state was wrong, and Guderian would not make soldiers pay with their lives in order to obey the head of state.

However, Hitler got the news that night, and Guderian was immediately dismissed from his post.

Hoppner, commander of the 4th Armored Group, was dismissed for the same reason. There was even a General Sponack who was awarded the Knight's Cross and was sentenced to death.

If Hitler still had a glimmer of hope for capturing Moscow before, then at this time he should clearly realize that this battle cannot go on...all the troops and even the commanders who have been directing the battle on the front line are retreating , It is enough to show that the German army has no desire to fight.

But Hitler's order remained the same: "No step back!"

Although the German army could no longer take a step forward at this time,

But even waiting on the defensive line, Hitler made his soldiers wait there... Maybe, the enemy will collapse first under this pressure, who knows

But the truth is of course not what Hitler thought it would be.

When Hitler tried to stabilize the morale of the army with a large number of withdrawals and replacements of front-line generals, the Soviet army was actively preparing for a counterattack.

Zhukov made a phone call to the headquarters of the 1st Guards Tank Brigade.

"How are you getting ready?" Zhukov asked.

"We still need a few days!" Katukov replied: "The number of bazookas is not enough, and the ammunition is not enough!"

"What is lacking can be made up later!" Zhukov said, "Unless you plan to miss the counterattack time!"

"Of course not, Comrade Zhukov!" answered Katukov.

Counterattack is an exciting thing, Katukov certainly do not want to miss this opportunity.

In fact, even if Katukov was willing to give up, Zhukov would not let him do so.

Because the significance of the counterattack is not trivial, although the German army has no offensive strength, it does not mean that they have lost their combat effectiveness.

Therefore, if the Soviet army's painstakingly organized counterattack is blocked or even repelled by the German army, it must be a severe blow to the morale of the Soviet army and civilians... With careful preparations, the Soviet army can't even defeat the lingering enemy. Does that mean that When the enemy recovers, it is time for the Soviet army to be defeated

Therefore, in the counter-offensive, only victory is not allowed to fail, at least the enemy must be driven back a certain distance so that Moscow has room to defend.

Under this premise, the First Guards Tank Brigade is of course indispensable.

As a result, the first brigade of Guards Tanks immediately packed up and took the train to Moscow.

The soldiers have experience with this... They are probably the only unit that was pulled twice to Stalingrad for training during the Battle of Moscow and then sent to the battlefield immediately.

This time it took a little longer, more than thirty hours were spent on the road.

This is because there are trains bound for Moscow everywhere along the way, transporting people, supplies and equipment, one train after another is extremely crowded.

During the period, Shulka and others even saw a train derailed and overturned on the side of the road due to an accident.

The scene of the accident was a mess, with many wounded and supplies scattered everywhere.

If it is normal, you should first choose to evacuate these wounded from the accident scene to the hospital for treatment.

But this cannot be done in wartime, because it will delay the forward delivery of supplies and troops.

As a result, the wounded set up tents on the spot and camped in the ice and snow. The engineers who arrived just repaired the railway and resumed its traffic, and then trains drove past the accident site one after another.

For those wounded camped out in the wilderness at minus thirty degrees... Shulka didn't know what would happen to them.

Sometimes Shulka wonders what would happen if such an accident happened to the train of the 1st Guards Tank Brigade

After much deliberation, Shulka believes that the ending may still be the same: soldiers who can still fight may be taken away, and the wounded will stay first.

This is indeed cruel, but it is a helpless choice.

What's more, those soldiers who were taken away may not be a good thing. The destination they rushed to was a battlefield full of bullets.

The next afternoon, the train arrived in Moscow.

However, the soldiers were not allowed to get off the train, and of course they did not unload their equipment. The train waited quietly in a temporary parking tent.

The so-called temporary parking canopy is a branch of the railway that allows trains to park here without affecting the passing of other trains. There is a large canvas on the top... This is obviously to avoid being discovered by enemy planes and then bombing.

Because the snow will accumulate more and more, so such a parking canopy must be "cleaned" once in a while.

The "cleaning" method is very simple, that is, a few teenage children hold a bamboo pole and poke the top to let the snow slide down from it.

Although they were still childish and their faces were flushed from the cold, it was surprising that they had a pistol pinned to their waist... This is war, and even children cannot escape its clutches.

"Do we have enough bazookas?" the instructor asked worriedly, "We only have 300 bazookas!"

"If they did supplement us in the follow-up!" Shulka looked back: "Then it shouldn't be a problem, because...we can concentrate these three hundred on the front line!" () "Soviet Union 1941" only represents The opinion of the author's expeditionary soldiers, if the content is found to be in violation of national laws and conflicts, please delete it, and the position is only committed to providing a healthy and green reading platform.

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