Along with the Soviet artillery bombardment, the last artillery of the Swedish Volunteer Division's counterattack force was blown up on the artillery position that had already exposed its position.
Amidst the splashing artillery fire from the Soviet army, the Swedish soldiers, who were still aggressive an hour ago, have now become more timid than sheep. The soldiers jumped out of the trenches and scrambled to escape from the fiery red position. In the thick smoke,
One after another, the disgraced volunteer soldiers were fleeing.
"Don't block me!" A grassroots commander of the Swedish Volunteer Army brutally kicked away his comrade who had stumbled in front of him and ran in the direction he came from.
In the panic, many grassroots commanders were disrupted. The explosions coming from behind continued to destroy their already fragile nerves all the time.
One hour, just one hour. This ambitious counterattack ended with the complete defeat of the Swedish division, the "first force in Northern Europe".
Those fighter planes and artillery that they were proud of were submerged in the Soviet army's huge firepower as soon as they had a confrontation. In the Nordic army, the Swedish division, as the only unit with fighter planes and artillery, can indeed be counted.
The presence of emerging strength.
However, they were only comparing themselves within the Nordic army, which lacked guns and artillery!
Compared with the Soviet army, their heavy weapons are just a drop in the bucket. They only have a total of 25 fighter planes, but the Soviet army can dispatch 250 in one batch. They only have a total of 27 cannons.
But there are also more than 400 artillery pieces in one local direction of the Soviet army.
The little preparation of the Swedish division was really not enough in front of the wealthy Soviet army. At the first moment of contact between the two armies, these soldiers from Sweden immediately realized what a stupid thing they were doing.
The mantis acts like a chariot, and he overestimates his own capabilities!
If they were not the attackers and took the initiative to attack, causing the Soviet army to be unprepared for the counterattack and unable to concentrate all their strength to attack the Swedish division, I am afraid that they would not even have a chance to escape.
Now, while the Soviets have not yet reacted, they are only bombarding the Swedish Volunteer Force's positions with artillery and planes, leaving an opportunity to "turn in." If they stay on the position and resist, it is estimated that the entire army will be annihilated.
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"Run quickly! If it's too late, you'll have no chance."
"You guys! Don't shoot stupidly there. It's useless if you can't hit their plane. You'd better run!"
"We're leaving first, so hurry up. If the Soviet army starts charging later, none of us will be able to escape."
In the chaotic camp of the Swedish Division, the volunteer division troops at all levels who had lost contact with the division headquarters during the first round of Soviet bombings began to break up under the leadership of grassroots commanders.
If they had only heard their own propaganda before, these arrogant volunteers in Yelang blindly believed that they were powerful. Now, under the education of the shells falling on their heads in reality, no matter how slow they react, they should understand one fact -
The Soviet army with powerful firepower had an absolute upper hand!
"Swish, swish, swish..." Knowing that the outcome was doomed, the Swedish soldiers who were lucky enough to survive the Soviet bombing decisively abandoned their rifles and rifles that had become useless and only added weight.
Ammunition, leaving behind all the "burdens" that can be discarded, so that you can run faster and live longer in the future. With luck, you might be able to escape... No, it's a turn
Go to the Swedish mainland and consolidate the country's national defense.
When he saw that his fighter plane was under direct contact, it was shot down by the oncoming Soviet Yak fighter. When he saw that his artillery position only fired the first round of artillery bombardment, the coordinates were exposed, and then he was devastated by the Soviet heavy artillery.
After being struck and wiped out, even the strongest warrior cannot remain indifferent.
Finally, when I saw that the division commander who lacked battlefield experience was attacked by Soviet bombers in the uncamouflaged division headquarters, more than ten senior commanders of the entire Swedish division and an entire guard company were all killed on the back of the slope.
When at the headquarters.
The defeat was inevitable. Moreover, it was out of control!
Therefore, this vigorous counterattack was terminated with the destruction of the top command just 5 hours and 28 minutes after the decision was made to launch.
An infantry division of more than 8,000 people fell into a state of leaderless skirmishing with the death of a dozen commanding personnel. Such a thing would be almost unheard of in the armies of other countries, especially the German army.
It can happen!
If we follow the German army's entrusted command method, even if all senior officers are lost, as long as there is still one non-commissioned officer, the team will not collapse!
This command method invented by Moltke Lao gives subordinate commanders huge autonomy, so that when encountering a situation, they do not have to ask their superiors for instructions on every detail, but can make immediate decisions on their own. This can reduce the number of combat commands.
link, and greatly improve the command speed, thereby gaining the initiative on the battlefield.
At the same time, this command method also avoids the confusion of lower-level officers due to loss of contact with superiors.
If there is no order from the general, the commander will take command. If there is no command from the commander, the lieutenant will lead the team. Even if the officer dies, the non-commissioned officer has the right to step in. Of course, if there is no one left from the officer to the non-commissioned officer, then the war will be over.
It's time to end.
However, the Swedish Volunteer Division, which has not lost most of its middle-level commanders and almost all of its grassroots commanders are still alive, does not have such a model, nor does it have the consciousness of fighting to the death...
Even if they have learned the command command model represented by the French army and invented by Napoleon, they can still barely maintain their position under this "institutional rigidity" model.
They were too inexperienced and too lacking in courage. Whether it was the division commander's order to blindly face the enemy, the layout of the positions, the concealment work of the headquarters, the deployment of artillery firepower, the determination of the attack time, etc., there was no
One is in place and reasonable.
To put it bluntly, even an officer who had just graduated from a German military academy would not have been able to make such a hazy decision, and he would have led indiscriminately again and again.
Under normal circumstances, an army will be on the verge of collapse when its casualty rate reaches 30%.
In the Battle of Verdun, known as the turning point of World War I, the proud French elite troops managed to sustain a casualty rate of 38%.
Since the start of World War II, the German 30th Infantry Division has set a new record, enduring a casualty rate of nearly 90%, and then actually being able to launch a counterattack.
Now, following the German 30th Division, the Swedish Volunteer Division has once again set a new record for troop casualties.
Yes, they once again set a new record for the casualty rate of a division-level troop collapse - at the moment when morale was at its highest, the entire division quickly collapsed with an overall casualty rate of less than 5%, setting a negative record!