USSR 1941

"The overall strategic direction is to exchange space for time!" Shulka told Akimovich: "When the enemy advances, we retreat, and when the enemy retreats, we advance. Use the ruins to keep a distance of 50 to 100 meters from the enemy!"

"Yes, Comrade Captain!" Because I have observed the actions of Shulka and others just now, I can understand it now.

This is actually not difficult to understand.

As I said before, because the Soviet army does not have air supremacy, there is no doubt that it is weak during the day.

Under such circumstances, the Soviet army could not head-to-head with the German army, and the result would inevitably be a disadvantage for the Soviet army.

But at the same time, the Soviet army can't just retreat blindly... From west to east, the width of the city of Stalingrad is only five kilometers. If you just retreat blindly, it will only take a few hours to be hit by the Germans to the Volga River.

Therefore, the retreat must be like what Shulka and others have done, always maintain close contact with the German army, and use the cover of the ruined buildings to lay barbed wire along the way.

The ruins, barbed wire and soldiers' resistance can slow down the enemy's progress to the slowest.

Sometimes it can even artificially create some favorable situations.

For example, what Shulka is doing now... the middle part deliberately retreats faster.

How could the attacking German army notice this? Seeing that the Russian army was repelled, they immediately pursued the victory.

So it didn't take long for the German offensive line to form a protrusion in the middle without knowing it.

At this point the Soviet flanks suddenly encircled the salient, and the Germans suddenly found themselves surrounded and the line of attack split into three unconnectable parts.

Major Weber was in that part of the siege.

He hid in the ruins and panted heavily. The battle between the ruins and the wreckage of the building made him very unaccustomed. Leading the soldiers to jump continuously and quickly on the sudden high and low terrain had exhausted his physical strength excessively.

The majors who are commanders are like this, not to mention other German soldiers.

"Major!" The adjutant reported to Major Webb: "We are surrounded!"

"I know this, Edward!" Major Webb comforted: "Don't worry, they can't do anything to us!"

Major Webb really doesn't worry about that,

Because he thought that the so-called encirclement by the Russian army did not pose much threat to them.

This is mainly based on Major Webb's confidence in the German army's air supremacy and the quality of the German army... If it is not possible, it can break out of the encirclement by blasting a bloody path with artillery.

But Major Weber soon discovered that was not the case.

"Major!" reported the adjutant, "the enemy is too close to indicate positions for the artillery!"

"Keep your distance!" Major Weber ordered.

"We tried, Major!" said the adjutant, "but they keep keeping a distance from us, they advance when we retreat, and we have no room to retreat!"

"Order the Second Company to cooperate with us to break through!" Major Weber ordered.

"The Second Company was blocked by enemy fire!" the adjutant replied.

"How did they block it?" Major Weber was a little curious.

"A passage without many ruins!" The adjutant replied: "There is nothing to see there, and the enemy has deployed a machine gun and a few snipers nearby!"

Major Weber couldn't help being stunned when he heard this.

It can be said that urban street warfare has no fixed tactics, because no one knows what the city's buildings will look like after being bombed indiscriminately, or even which buildings will be bombed and which will not.

If there is any tactic, it is to adapt measures to local conditions according to the situation after being bombed, analyze specific issues and make full use of every favorable condition.

For example, in this passage that is not buried by ruins, as long as a few limited firepower points are arranged, it can become a very good line of fire to divide the enemy.

"Let Captain Edman reinforce us immediately!" Major Weber then ordered.

"No, Major!" the adjutant replied, "Captain Edman says they'll have a hard time reinforcing the area!"

Captain Edman is the commander of the tank company, and Major Webb hopes to use tanks to tear a hole.

But the facts obviously let him down again, and the tank, which is restrained everywhere, can say that it is difficult to protect itself in this environment.

If the tanks barely reinforce this area, the more likely result is that they will be attacked all the way or be entangled with barbed wire all over the ground. Even if they rush here, they will become a pile of scrap iron.

At this time, Major Webb obviously lost his sense of proportion. He almost roared and shouted at the adjutant: "You tell him this is an order, move closer to this side immediately! Otherwise, I swear, I will send him to a military court!"

"Yes, Major!"

The adjutant responded, then turned around and ran towards the radio station.

But before he ran a few steps, he heard a "bang" gunshot, and the adjutant screamed and fell to the ground with his thighs in his arms.

It was Shulka who fired the shot.

He had been staring at this position for a long time... A captain frequently went back and forth between the two places, apparently an officer with a higher rank was waiting for him to report something.

Then, when he saw the captain running out again, he fired a round into his thigh.

With a distance of more than a hundred meters, it is not difficult to do this.

Shulka said coldly to Akimovich while pulling the bolt to load the gun: "The important thing is not to kill the enemy. On the battlefield, a wounded enemy is more valuable than a dead one, especially an officer! "

While speaking, two German soldiers jumped out of the bunker and ran to the captain's position.

Obviously, they wanted to go to the rescue.

Shulka quickly pulled the trigger to knock down one of them, then put away the rifle and changed positions.

Sure enough, several mortar shells roared towards the position where Shulka was hiding just now, and one shell almost exploded behind them.

When lying down again, Shulka said: "You have to learn to guess the enemy's psychology... They are not fools. In fact, they are all experienced veterans. If someone comes to rescue, someone must cover them!"

As he said that, Shulka raised his gun, knocked down the German soldiers who were dragging the captain to transfer with a "bang", and then took Akimovich to another position.

"Unbelievable!" Akimovich looked at Shulka with admiration in his eyes: "Comrade Captain, you seem to be able to do everything...not only is an excellent commander, but also an excellent sniper!"

"There is no conflict between them, Comrade Akimovich!" Shulka poked his head out to look at the battlefield, then immediately retracted his head, and replied: "In fact, they are the same in many ways, they are all trying to Put the enemy to death!"

At this moment, there was a gunshot from the opposite side.

"He committed suicide!" said Shulka. "It was a man!"

Shulka knew it without looking, because it was the sound of pistols.