USSR 1941

The Soviet army collected more than 300 ships that night.

These ships are not landing ships reinforced from the navy, but fishing boats requisitioned from the people.

Because Shulka quickly thought of something...

If the German pilots could not distinguish the landing ship, could they distinguish the other ships?

After all, on a fighter plane flying at high speed, the only way to distinguish targets is by the light of flares...

The radars of night fighters can only detect large or dense metal targets. The reason why they need the cooperation of ground radar stations is because even if the targets are detected, they cannot know how far they are from the ground in the dark.

This is the scariest, especially ground attack.

Because as I said before, if the interception of British fighter planes and bombers is carried out domestically, because the target is to fly at a certain height in the air, there is basically no need to consider the distance from the ground.

But if it is an attack on the ground, especially if you want to dive and straf or bomb the target, if you don't know the height from the ground, you will often commit suicide by crashing in a dive.

Ground radar plays a role in this regard.

When the night fighter is flying in the air, the German ground radar base station actually does not help the night fighter to detect the target, but detects the altitude of its own night fighter and transmits the data to the pilot via radio in due course.

In addition, the reconnaissance plane fired flares at the right time, so the attacks were completed one after another.

It is no exaggeration to say that this is the result of a high degree of coordination among German fighter jets, reconnaissance planes, and radars, and such ground attacks are quite dangerous.

This was already a tactic that was at the forefront of the world during World War II.

But the advanced is the advanced. Due to the limited conditions, it is still difficult for German pilots to distinguish and distinguish ships of similar sizes mixed in a pile.

Therefore, before the naval landing ship was transported to Stalingrad, Shulka requisitioned a large number of fishing boats from the people, even bamboo rafts, canoes and the like.

Among them, the bamboo raft is indeed a bit exaggerated, but as long as a few wooden boards are nailed casually, it can be disguised as a landing ship in no time.

Then Shulka quickly thought...if that is the case,

Why requisition? Why land a ship? It is enough to mobilize the troops to build rafts and bamboo rafts, isn't it?

The order was conveyed that night.

When the transportation was suspended, the entire 33rd Guards Rifle Division, which was responsible for protecting the transportation line, had nothing to do, and they happened to be responsible for building the bamboo rafts.

When the commander of the 33rd Guards Infantry Division heard this order, he thought that these bamboo rafts were used to transport supplies, so he complained to the group army headquarters a few times.

"Comrade Golikov!" said the division commander, Colonel Peter Shikov, "I don't think these rafts will be of much use. Will turn over and let the supplies sink to the bottom of the river!"

"You think these bamboo rafts are used to transport supplies?" Golikov asked back.

"Then they are..."

"They are indeed used to transport supplies!" Golikov replied: "But it's not the way you think. You just need to do your own thing, and you don't need to care about the rest!"

"Yes, Comrade Golikov!" Colonel Peter Shikov was a little puzzled, but he didn't dare to ask any more questions.

Golikov on the other end of the phone shook his head and sighed to Krylov: "Look, this is my right-hand man... At this time, he doesn't know what those bamboo rafts are for!"

"There is only one Shulka, Comrade Golikov!" Krylov comforted: "You can't ask too much from your subordinates!"

Golikov smiled wryly and said nothing.

Before that, Golikov always thought that his failure on the battlefield was due to other reasons, such as soldiers not brave enough, officers and soldiers not good enough, equipment not as good as the enemy, and so on.

In fact, the quality of the Soviet army and certain aspects of equipment are indeed inferior to the enemy. This is one of the reasons why the Soviet army often has superior forces but is defeated by the enemy.

But now, Golikov believes that is not the case.

Because the facts have proved this point...Under Shulka's indirect command and layout, it is also the Southwest Front Army, and it can even be said to be the remnants of the Southwest Front Army, but it blocked the German attack. momentum.

What is this indicating?

Golikov vaguely understood the problem: troops with poor quality have bad styles of play, and backward equipment also have backward tactics.

For example, what Shulka did in Stalingrad actually boils down to one principle: make every effort to use your strengths to find the enemy's weaknesses.

Thinking of this, Golikov felt that he had learned something useful and strengthened his confidence in defending Stalingrad.

Shulka on the other side didn't know Golikov's psychological changes, and he was busy preparing to deploy the next day's transportation.

"Two transportation lines are deployed in the south, and three are deployed in the north!" Shulka said, pointing to the map.

"False or true?" asked Major Mikhailevich, "or, which one is true?"

"It's all fake!"

"It's all fake?"

"Yes!" Shulka replied: "In the beginning, the Germans had sufficient ammunition and fuel, and the fighter planes and pilots were also well prepared... So, the first few transportation lines were all fake, let them do it freely. field!"

Major Mikhailvich couldn't help saying "Oh": "By midnight, their ammunition and fuel have been almost consumed, right?"

"Yes!" Shulka replied: "Maybe we don't need to wait until midnight, because the Germans didn't expect us to have so many landing ships..."

"That's right!" Major Mikhailvich said: "If we add the bamboo rafts and wooden rafts we made temporarily, excluding the landing ships for naval reinforcements, we have more than 500 ships, enough for them to fight for a while." of!"

In fact, this is the consumption of supplies, and the supplies of the Germans are not abundant, especially at this time...

At this time, Stalingrad has entered May, and as the temperature rises, the ice and snow melt in large areas, so the roads and railways are muddy everywhere.

In fact, the road conditions in the Soviet Union at this time are not just "muddy", it can be called another kind of swamp, full of mud, and even knee-deep water.

In addition, a lot of troubles caused by these stagnant water, such as mosquitoes, diseases and so on.

In addition, the Soviet army actively deployed guerrillas in the rear to destroy the German transportation line, making it very difficult for the German army to supply supplies in the direction of Stalingrad.

This makes the Battle of Stalingrad more like a battle for supplies.