It is said that when the Soviets returned to Stalingrad, they were stunned by the ruins where the roads and railways were completely destroyed.

Not to mention chasing the Soviet army, the damage alone is enough for the Soviet army to be busy for several months... The mines all over the ground need to be eliminated, and mines are found in the fields, roads, and even brick and tiles.

The trouble is that when discharging these mines, you cannot use shells to blow them up first like in wartime, so you have to eliminate them manually, which is not only dangerous but also has a considerable workload.

What is more serious is the road and railway.

The road is not bad, and the roadbed is damaged and then repaired. The road bridge is broken and then built again. If the road surface is bumpy, then repair it. These are not difficult.

The problem is the railway... the sleepers were broken, the railway tracks were demolished, the tunnels and railway bridges were all blown up, which made the Soviet army cry without tears.

You should know that railways are an important logistics transport tool during wartime, and trains can transport equipment and supplies to the front line in batches.

But now... if these railways need to be rebuilt, it is basically more troublesome than starting from scratch, because the tunnel must be re-sited, and because all the equipment such as the metallurgical plants in Stalingrad were blown up, even the Soviet Union needed to be produced elsewhere before transporting them.

The difficulties are not just these.

The cold winter is coming soon, and the Soviet military and civilians must restore these facilities at temperatures of several dozen degrees below zero. If they cannot do it, they will not try to push the front line forward... because even if the front line is pushed forward, logistics transportation cannot keep up, and the troops sent up are almost going to die.

This is actually the benefit of fighting on other people's land.

There is a saying that "destruction is easy and difficult to build". Destroying the railway track means hanging an inverted hook behind the locomotive, and blowing up a tunnel means loading a few packs of explosives.

But the Soviets had to pay dozens of times, hundreds or even thousands of times the price to rebuild them.

What's worse is that this is the land of the Soviet Union, which cannot be done without reconstruction.

In this regard, destruction is actually the best tactic... In history, Mongolia used this tactic to drag down the economically prosperous Song Dynasty. It broke into the Song Dynasty and then ran away. After a while, the Song people were almost rebuilt, they broke into the burn, kill, and robbed, and withdrew. It won't take long to become an unguarded area and let the Mongolian cavalry gallop across the board.

But the Germans are not good at having this kind of tactics.

This may be because the Germans still have a little medieval chivalry, or because Hitler always stares at the land he occupied... As he said, we need to fight for more living space for the Germanic people, so the land captured is its own, and if it is its own, it will not deliberately destroy it, but will often do reconstruction work.

Qin Chuan didn't need to care about these. As an elite force, the 21st Armored Division would certainly not be used for retreat work. They took a train early to evacuate to the Caucasus region to build a defense line.

This camp in Qinchuan is quite special. They have helicopters, so of course they don’t need to take a train.

So, this can be regarded as the easiest marching.

Everyone drilled into the helicopter, and then the helicopter flew towards the Caucasus Mountains.

Conrad and Alexander also followed the First Infantry Regiment to the Caucasus.

Conrad was with the First Infantry Regiment because helicopters still had many things to improve... Equipment is always used to constantly discover problems and solve problems.

The First Infantry Regiment was the one who used these equipment and found equipment problems, while Conrad was the one who solved them.

The reason why Alexander moved with the First Infantry Regiment was that Paulus transferred Alexander to the First Infantry Regiment for training.

In fact, this is more about Alexander's own meaning... Paulus always wanted to keep Alexander by his side and take good care of him, but Alexander was unwilling to continue like this.

For this reason, Paulus and Alexander had a fierce quarrel, but in the end Alexander convinced his father.

Alexander was quite useful to the First Infantry Regiment, because according to Conrad... Hitler approved the production of helicopters, which caused the helicopter modification and production speed to rise sharply. Soon another batch of 20 transport aircraft and 10 armed helicopters will be taken off the line and sent to the Transcaucasus.

It goes without saying which unit these helicopters are used, of course it is the First Infantry Regiment.

In other words, the First Infantry Regiment will be built into a special unit maneuvered by helicopters.

Alexander, because he had cooperated with Qin Chuan several times before, needed someone like him to be the logistics commander of the helicopter troops in the rear. Alexander was also very satisfied with this allocation.

When he officially entered the First Infantry Regiment, he joked: "Major, I originally wanted to dig you into the 6th Army, but I didn't expect you to dig me into the First Infantry Regiment!"

The helicopter was flying, and suddenly the soldiers cheered loudly outside the window.

Qin Chuan looked out the window and saw a snow-white mountain peak coming into his eyes, rolling and undulating to the distance... The Caucasus Mountains have entered winter at this time. It has been covered with a layer of snow, and it has a unique flavor when looking down from the helicopter.

"The highest peak is 5,642 meters!" Conrad said: "And our helicopter cap is 7,000 meters, which means we can reach any place in the Caucasus Mountains. We don't need to travel through mountains and rivers like mountain troops. We just need to specify a location, go there, and then take a rush..."

"It won't be as simple as you think, Colonel!" Qin Chuan replied: "We are not a mountain army, and we even have altitude sickness for more than 5,000 meters. If we throw us on it, we will be frozen to death in a few days!"

"Oh, yes!" Conrad replied: "That is, it's time for you to do mountain combat training!"

Qin Chuan couldn't help but roll his eyes. The First Infantry Regiment was really conducting all-round training like modern special forces.

However, this seems to be necessary, because it is conceivable that the greatest use of helicopters is to take troops on flat ground in mountain combat. As Conrad said, go wherever they want. A height of more than 5,000 meters may take several days, more than ten days or even longer for ordinary mountain troops to climb, and some people will never reach the designated position.

But it only takes more than ten minutes for a helicopter.
Chapter completed!