USSR 1941

Warehouse No. 5 was still buzzing, and Zogtanov, who was undergoing surgery, was sometimes distracted by the sudden explosion.

"Comrade Zogtanov!" The assistant asked beside him, "Shouldn't we do something?"

"What do you mean?" Zogtanov asked while busy with his work.

"Those soldiers!" the assistant replied: "They are not from the 10th Division. We may report this to our superiors! I think they have affected our work, and there are many wounded who thought the enemy would hit this building. Those The soldiers said the same, which caused panic among the wounded!"

Zogtanov was silent for a while, and then replied: "If you have the ability, you can report or drive them out!"

The assistant fell silent for a moment, he was just a medical soldier, and of course he didn't dare to attack the vicious combat troops.

"Not to mention!" Zogtanov continued: "Don't you know the basic qualities of a field hospital medical soldier? We usually need to work in this environment, if you feel that you are not competent... "

"No, Comrade Zogtanov!" The assistant quickly replied, "I have no opinion at all!"

Satisfied, Zogtanov turned his attention back to his hands and the wounds of the wounded.

After a layer of dust was shaken off the top of his head with a bang, Zogtanov couldn't help cursing inwardly... If it wasn't for his teacher, Dr. Anatoly, who spoke highly of this guy, Zogtanov Getanov would not allow these lunatics to mess around here.

"I actually believed what he said!" Then Zogtanov laughed at himself: "Think the Germans will come here tomorrow?!"

But at this moment, there was a whistling sound of shells in the sky, and then pieces of shells exploded nearby, and some even hit the warehouse.

"It's the Germans!" The assistant shouted loudly. He wanted to say something more, but his voice was covered by the "rumbling" gunfire.

Zogtanov was secretly startled while feeling the vibration from the ground. As a doctor in a field hospital, he certainly knew that it was German artillery fire.

Even because he has been on the front line for some time, he can roughly judge the intensity of the bombing from the sound and the degree of bombing.

It has been a long time since the Germans bombed such a large area as this time,

The last such bombing was a general attack they launched, and they managed to occupy half of the building of No. 2 Railway Station.

This time...

As time went by and the bombing did not weaken at all, Zogtanov became more and more convinced that the "breakout hero" was right. The Germans would indeed launch a violent attack during the day. This bombing was obviously their artillery fire Prepare.

"I seem to have misunderstood something!" Zogtanov said to himself: "I always thought that I was helping him, but it never occurred to me that they were actually trying to save our lives!"

Zogtanov couldn't help but be thankful that he had the relationship with his mentor, Anatoly, otherwise how many of the wounded today and around would have stayed in this basement forever.

On the other side, Major General Batrakov of the 10th Division Command also received the information immediately.

"Comrade Batrakov!" The staff officer reported: "The Germans launched a large-scale bombing of our defense line, and the artillery fire accurately locked our artillery positions and front-line fortifications!"

Major General Batrakov's face changed when he heard the information.

The German artillery could not accurately lock the Soviet artillery positions and front-line fortifications at night, especially the front-line fortifications, such as a bunker or a firepower point.

If the German army can do this, it shows a problem: they have been fully prepared for this large-scale artillery attack and they are targeted.

In other words, this may well be what Shulka refers to as a "massive offense."

At this time, Major General Batrakov certainly didn't think too much about this issue. He immediately ordered: "Order the artillery to suppress the enemy's artillery fire!"

This is a routine means of night artillery battles.

Shooting at night has a late-mover advantage, because the party that fires first often reveals its position because of the fire and smoke from the muzzle.

This allows the enemy to suppress it more precisely and inflict greater damage.

But after the staff made a phone call, he looked at Major General Batrakov with helpless eyes.

"Comrade General!" said the staff officer: "Our artillery has suffered heavy losses, and they are quickly withdrawing from their positions..."

To put it simply, the Soviet artillery was beaten helplessly in the first place.

And it is true.

The German army has a unique advantage over the Soviet army on the battlefield of the Tsaritsa River, that is, they can place artillery positions on the flanks of the Soviets... The south bank of the Tsaritsa River has been occupied by the Germans.

This also means that the Soviet artillery will fall into an embarrassing situation. They will be under the cross attack of enemy artillery from both directions of the German army. That is to say, the German army has no dead ends for the Soviet artillery positions, but the Soviet army is not the case .

Therefore, Major General Jonas, the commander of the German 389th Division, who commanded the battle, decided to take full advantage of this.

This is the motto of Major General Jonas. He always believes that the key to victory on the battlefield is not to be evenly matched with the enemy, but to maximize and use one's own advantages, because once this advantage expands to a certain extent, a series of chains will be directly generated The reaction collapsed the entire enemy line.

Although his theory is not entirely correct, it is also correct.

Because the war of World War II can already be said to be a systematic battle, infantry, tank, air and other arms can cooperate with each other. Once any arm is defeated, it is easy to be controlled everywhere.

To say that it is not entirely true is because the war at this time cannot be said to be a systematic war... A few years later, on the Korean battlefield, the Chinese troops were still able to stand firmly in the third place even when the air, tank, artillery and other arms were completely backward. eight lines.

At this time, the situation at Railway Station No. 2 was probably as Major General Jonas imagined.

Before that, he even sent troops from Branfenburg to scout the exact location of the Soviet artillery positions.

And knowing the enemy's artillery position, he resisted not destroying it.

Because Major General Jonas knew that if he destroyed it prematurely, it would probably be a warning to the enemy, telling them that he was going to attack and replenish artillery and even strengthen defense in time.

Now, the sudden attack launched by the German army before dawn caught the Soviet army by surprise, causing the Soviet army...to be precise, the Soviet army in the direction of the No. 2 railway station was almost without artillery for a long period of time.