USSR 1941

In this case, of course, an attack should be launched immediately, although the Soviet army was not even ready at this time.

The problem is... At this time, there are still two hours before the scheduled attack time. If the Soviet army is ready and launches the attack on schedule, I am afraid that the German army will even arrive with reinforcements and prepare the blocking artillery and even ammunition. There will be no suddenness to speak of if there is another attack, and there will be heavy casualties.

At this time, an attack was launched immediately. Although the Soviet army was insufficiently prepared, the German army had just discovered that it was also insufficiently prepared.

So, after 20 minutes of preparation...the reason why it takes 20 minutes of preparation is because the communication equipment of the Soviet army is backward, and many units need to be notified by correspondents.

This is the characteristic of the Soviet Army's operations. It is difficult for them to respond quickly to some unexpected situations on the battlefield, even for troops with hundreds of battles. Communication equipment is limited.

For example, a certain unit has not been deployed yet, or the telephone line has not been pulled just after it has been deployed, and their radio stations cannot be turned on while they are on the march, and even some units do not have radio stations... At this time, the only way to communicate orders is with the communication soldiers. .

Not only was the communication soldier slow in conveying orders, but there was also a very serious problem: before the signal soldier came back, the headquarters could not confirm whether the unit had received the order.

To put it simply, the headquarters dispatched a communication soldier, who not only had to convey the order, but also returned to the headquarters: "Report, the order has been accurately conveyed!".

Only then can the command be relieved that the unit has received the order.

This means that it takes double the time.

Doubling the time is not bad, if the communication soldier is killed by the enemy on the way to or from the way back... Then the process has to be repeated, and it may even fall into an endless loop, that is, the communication soldier is constantly on the road Run, but the headquarters and the commanded unit have never been able to confirm whether the other party has received the order accurately.

Therefore, it is considered fast that the 51st Army can be ready in place within 20 minutes.

But in fact, they were still not fully prepared... Only after the war did Shulka know that a considerable part of the troops did not actually receive orders, but they saw the signal flares and artillery preparations, and then the commander knew what was going on , waved his pistol, and shouted: "Comrades, it's time to make the enemy pay the price, go!"

Hearing this, Shulka once again lamented that the Soviet army was too ambitious. The battlefield was not a joke. They dared to launch a charge without receiving an order and the situation was unknown... But the battlefield at that time really needed them to launch charge.

This may be a habit of Soviet commanders who are always unable to convey orders in place, or it can be said to be a kind of self-consciousness or a tacit understanding.

The violent gunfire rang out the moment the three flares lifted off.

During these three days, the Southern Front transferred almost the entire artillery and ammunition of the Front to Milove.

Because it is obvious that fighting in other directions is not important, including Karachi.

But despite this, because the Southern Front had suffered heavy casualties in the previous battles, and the artillery was no exception, only five artillery regiments and three rocket battalions could be gathered on the front line of Milovey.

At this time, batch after batch of these artillery guns opened fire in the direction of the German army, only to blow up the German army's defense line and shake the mountains and spread the gunpowder smoke.

The reason why "batch after batch" is actually a tactic of artillery combat.

At this time, the Soviet artillery actually had enough ammunition, which also included supplies from the Supreme Command's active organization of reinforcements.

But the artillery still has to fire "one batch after another", because if they all fire together as soon as the fire starts, it is tantamount to exposing all artillery positions to the enemy.

So in the next artillery battle, the German army will have the upper hand: the German army opened fire on the Soviet artillery positions in a targeted manner, while the Soviet army opened fire on the German defense line.

Therefore, in actual combat, the artillerymen will try their best to be cautious even when preparing artillery fire for the infantry charge. It is obviously necessary to divide them into several batches to fire. Prepare to suppress the German deep artillery.

As a result, a seemingly boring and boring battle immediately formed between the artillery: the German army discovered the Soviet artillery position and organized artillery fire to suppress it, and the Soviet army discovered the German artillery position because the German army opened fire, and then organized counter-suppression...you Come and I go back and forth again and again until one party is really unable to move.

But to put it simply, there are various factors such as the accuracy and speed of artillery observers, artillery quality, artillery performance, and quantity.

Obviously, the Soviet artillery quickly gained the upper hand... This is mainly because the German army used most of its artillery to attack Karachi, and the attack has consumed a lot of ammunition but has not been replenished in time.

Therefore, in the eyes of Shulka and other infantry, the shells fired from the direction of the German army soon became less and less, and finally disappeared, leaving only the artillery fire of the Soviet army constantly bombing in the direction of the German army.

After about twenty minutes of bombing, fighter planes appeared in the sky.

Although the air is full of gunpowder smoke, it can still be distinguished from the black cross on the wing that it is a German plane... The German army found that it was at a disadvantage in artillery, so it stopped fighting the Soviet army head-on and used the air force to counter it. Artillery way.   This was not in Shulka's plan.   Shulka's plan was to launch an attack two hours later, and it was already dark and it was difficult for fighters to play a role. However, the Soviet army at this time was no longer the Soviet army at the beginning of the war. They had long expected that the German army would send an air force to fight. Fighters fight together. For a while, there were explosions, machine guns, and the piercing roar of the engines when the fighter planes were shot down... The air combat battlefield was just above the forward positions, so every plane was shot down and fell nearby, and there was even a fighter plane in the air. The explosion was only more than 500 meters away from Shulka's ambush, and its speed was so fast that Shulka hadn't had time to identify which side's fighter it was.   At that time, I only felt a gust of wind passing over my head, and then there was a "boom" and a shock.  At first, Shulka thought it was a shell, but when he saw a ball of fire erupting in front of the position, and there was a part of the wreckage of the plane in it, he realized that it was an airplane.   It took about half an hour before the artillery fire advanced deeply towards the German army.  At this time, three more signal flares rose into the air... It's time to attack.