USSR 1941

As the so-called feng shui turns, not long ago, many officers and soldiers were envious of being incorporated into the Don River Front Army and joined the ranks of the liberation of Stalingrad. Some officers even used their own connections to be transferred to the Don River Front Army... Shulka I heard that more than a dozen officers were successfully transferred.

Although war is a filter that can filter out the dross deposited in the army during peacetime, it is not a one-day cold freeze. The intertwined network of relationships in the army is very complicated and deep, and it is necessary to destroy it. Uprooting is not something that can be achieved in short-term wars.

However, these officers who were transferred by virtue of their connections soon regretted it.

Originally thought that the 51st Army was an abandoned and sacrificed army. Unexpectedly, the 57th Army suddenly fell into a bitter battle... Most of the officers transferred from the 51st Army were transferred to the 57th Army.

Of course, these self-inflicted officers are not what Shulka needs to consider.

What Shulka should care about is how to break through the defense line of the German 29th Panzergrenadier Division in front of him.

The term grenadier originated in the middle of the 18th century, that is, the time when the enemy and the enemy lined up to shoot... At that time, the grenades were large, so it was necessary to select elite soldiers with sufficient arms as grenadiers. Only in this way could they use Grenades are thrown from one's own team to the enemy's camp to kill and injure the enemy.

So after that, grenadiers were used to refer to "elite troops" in general.

The number of the Panzergrenadier of the German army was just obtained last month...Because the German offensive in the Soviet Union was at a stalemate, Hitler used the sense of honor of the old Prussian army to inspire the fighting spirit of the soldiers in order to boost morale, announcing that the armored grenadiers The mechanized infantry and mechanized infantry assigned to the division were renamed "armored grenadiers".

In other words, the 29th Panzergrenadier Division is actually a mechanized infantry, and mechanized infantry means that its tank and anti-tank capabilities are not as strong as the armored division.

The problem is... When the Soviet army crossed the Don River and attacked westward, many German anti-aircraft artillery units scattered on the west bank of the Don River successfully withdrew from the theater.

The reason for this situation is that the Soviet army was blocked in Plodovitoye for a long period of time, so that the Soviet army lost the opportunity to pursue the German anti-aircraft artillery units.

On the other hand, it is also due to the strategic and tactical mistakes of the Soviet army... As I said before, the Soviet army mainly attacked with mechanized troops and even cavalry. The mechanized troops only used light tanks or even cars to speed up The rear-mounted guns were all discarded by the roadside.

This directly led to the German anti-aircraft artillery battalion being able to block the Soviet vanguard and causing heavy casualties... The firepower of the German anti-aircraft artillery battalion was terrifying.

Because it has an anti-aircraft machine gun, a small-caliber anti-aircraft gun with a high rate of fire, and even an 88MM anti-aircraft gun that can destroy any enemy tank.

These high-speed equipment are all sharp weapons for dealing with group charges, and the Soviet army just happens to only know group charges.

As a result, the Soviet army often needed to encircle and annihilate these German anti-aircraft artillery battalions, that is, to surround them from both wings and take them down like a colony of ants with a large number of people.

Major Bauer, who was developed into a "spy" by Shulka, was captured by the Soviet army in this way.

As a result... At least a dozen anti-aircraft artillery battalions of the German army successfully fled back to the German-controlled area, and these dozen anti-aircraft artillery battalions were requisitioned by the German 29th Panzergrenadier Division and deployed their firepower on the ground. On the Surovikino line, there are two anti-tank trenches and a "tank cemetery" that are very troublesome...Because in the previous attack, teams of tanks rushed up and teams were wiped out. The wreckage of the tank was left on the position, so the Soviets called this line of defense the "tank cemetery".

Such a line of defense can almost be said to be an iron wall.

And Shulka's plan must break through this iron wall.

While Shulka was worrying about it, Andrianka came to the side and reported: "Comrade Shulka, Comrade Rokossovsky is here!"

"What?" As soon as Shulka looked up, he saw Rokossovsky walking in from outside the headquarters.

As soon as Rokossovsky saw Shulka, he laughed heartily and stepped forward to give Shulka a big hug.

"Long time no see, my friend!" Rokossovsky said, "I didn't expect that we would meet here again!"

"Comrade Rokossovsky, I'm afraid you've come to see me!" said Shulka.

Rokossovsky nodded with a smile and said: "You saw through, Shulka! Then, you know why I came to you... I thought you would be transferred to the Don Front Army, no I thought you refused!"

Only then did Shulka know that Khrushchev had previously said that Shulka would be transferred to the Don Front Army to participate in the battle to liberate Stalingrad was actually not just because of "relationships."

Shulka was right.

In fact, Rokossovsky knew from the beginning that the siege of Stalingrad was not as simple as the Supreme Command imagined.

Regardless of the fact that the Don Front Army has become very powerful because of the dismantling of the Stalingrad Front Army, Rokossovsky has more and more troops and more power, but in fact Rokossovsky is not Hope so.

Because for Dirokossovsky, although the Don River Front Army was the weakest of several front armies, its mission was to contain, harass, and cooperate with the 62nd and 64th Army and the German 6th Army. fight.

In this case, Rokossovsky has a lot of freedom. He can command the troops to deal with the enemy as he likes, which is also his strength.

However, after receiving most of the troops of the Stalingrad Front and changing the strategic target of the Don Front, the Don Front suddenly became the main offensive force of the entire battle.

This is not to say that Rokossovsky is afraid to take on this important task, but that in this way, his command will be interfered by the Supreme Command... If Rokossovsky is let go to command, this battle It's not going to be like this at all.

And the biggest role of the Supreme Command is to command remotely and if it fails, the frontline commanders will be blamed.

At this time, Rokossovsky was the front-line commander who took the blame... Karachi was in trouble, and the headache was not the Supreme Command but Rokossovsky.

"We tried various methods to prevent the enemy from encircling Karachi!" Rokossovsky pointed to the map and said, "For example, building defensive positions on the two wings, such as breaking through from the middle, but none of them succeeded! Manstein He is a formidable opponent, he has no intention of entering Karachi to fight us in the streets, and they don't need to, but we have already lost!"