While the Southwestern Front Army Headquarters was still debating the choice of attack and defense, the Soviet sentries guarding a bridge over the Dniester River suddenly spotted a not-so-long but neat convoy approaching on the highway in the distance.
The vehicles were filled with soldiers, who looked like wounded Soviet soldiers from their attire. The vehicles were also painted with the logos and numbers of the frontline troops.
The bridge sentry followed the regulations and stopped the convoy.
"Which section are you from? Why are you retreating?" An officer with the rank of second lieutenant went up with two soldiers and asked the general-looking man in the passenger seat of the leading car.
"What I have here are mainly wounded soldiers of the 45th Infantry Division. Commander Kilponos has approved our division commander's request to transfer the wounded. Please let us go." The young and shameless general with the rank of major general on his shoulders said.
replied.
It seemed that he was quite impatient.
The sentry second lieutenant turned his head and took a look. He estimated that the people in the car seemed to be wounded Soviet soldiers who had retreated from the front line. Several people in the convoy even showed their bandaged arms.
However, there was almost no blood on the bandages of those people. It seemed that they were just a group of cowards who were slightly injured and wanted to escape from the front line.
"What a bunch of cowards, don't they just want to hide in the rear with a little injury?" the second lieutenant said to himself with a little disdain. He guessed that maybe the wounds on the other party were all caused by himself, probably just to be a wounded person.
quota.
"Let's go, let's go." The second lieutenant glared at the major general, who obviously had a great background, and waved his hand to let him go without even bothering to check his ID.
After all, the other party is only thirty years old at most. If he didn't have a more powerful backer, he would already be a leader in the army if he could become a major general at this age, let alone a major general.
Unexpectedly, others did not appreciate the convenience that the second lieutenant gave the other party.
The major general just nodded, then knocked on his driver's chair, signaling the driver to continue driving.
"Bah! An arrogant person!" the second lieutenant scolded the other party again in his heart.
Then, under the watchful eyes of the sentries, the convoy slowly restarted, maintaining its formation and driving in a single file on the bridge.
What the second lieutenant didn't see was that Major General Guanhu, whom he had ridiculed countless times in his heart, actually also sneered at the second lieutenant when he looked away.
"You idiot!" The young major general raised the corners of his mouth slightly and cursed softly in German in a small voice that only he and his driver could hear.
"Bang bang bang..."
Soon, after these troop transport trucks passed the bridge, the "wounded soldiers" on the trucks suddenly jumped out of the trucks, put their guns on the backs of the Soviet soldiers guarding the bridge, and killed these soldiers at extremely fast speeds.
A stunned Soviet guard detachment disarmed.
Then, under the incredulous look of the Soviet second lieutenant on duty, the "Soviet major general" took the lead in taking off his Soviet uniform and pulled off the bandages.
It wasn't until the other party put on a set of black uniforms, took off the collar badges from the car and put them on that the Soviet officers and soldiers guarding the Loser Bridge realized that in front of them was a group of German SS special forces in disguise!
In fact, in order to achieve a surprise effect so that the Soviet army would not have time to blow up the ferry bridge and organize an effective defense on the other side of the river, SS General Model ignored international public law and asked his soldiers to use captured Soviet vehicles to disguise themselves.
The retreating Soviet troops crossed the sea and deceived the Soviet troops guarding the bridge, and completely captured six important bridges in the entire section of the Dniester River, including this bridge.
The people dressed as Soviet soldiers on each line were the vanguard troops of the SS Skeleton Division.
Of course, this matter soon reached Reinhardt.
Regarding Model's illegal operation that violated international public law, Reinhardt expressed his appreciation as soon as he learned about it.
Not only that, Reinhard also asked the SS commander Steve to follow Model's "new operation" and let other units in the SS also use this method to form some camouflage troops. The German army's powerful
"Shadow Troops"!
With such a shadow force, the German army will be able to develop more diversified tactical models. Not to mention, in the historically famous Second Ardennes Counterattack, the German army used troops disguised as American troops to fight
A successful counterattack.
In this life, Model developed the "Shadow Force" belonging to the German army in the SS in advance, and Reinhardt simply took this opportunity to vigorously popularize this tactic based on the "Shadow Force".
Although the Soviet army also has shadow troops, there is a qualitative gap between the Soviet shadow troops and the German shadow troops!
The Soviet Union's shadow troops were numerous in number, but their training quality was extremely low and their combat effectiveness was not high. They were used by the Soviet army as large reserves and cannon fodder candidates.
The total strength of the shadow troops established by the German SS today is not large, and the number is far less than that of the Soviet shadow troops. However, all the shadow troops of the SS are selected from high-quality sources, and their combat quality is better than that of ordinary SS troops.
It is much higher, and he is proficient in at least one foreign language, and has all the qualities of stealth combat.
Therefore, although they are both shadow forces, Germany's shadow forces focus on quality, while the Soviet Union's shadow forces focus on quantity. Both sides have their own advantages and use them in completely different ways.
But in terms of threats, the shadow troops of the German SS were more able to shake the enemy's psychological defenses, play a psychological warfare role in addition to conventional tactics, and create a strong sense of distrust and chaos within the Soviet army.
In this way, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon on June 23, the SS Skeleton Division, which was rushing along the highway, was the first to arrive at a location less than 10 kilometers away from Ossade.
At 4:30 in the afternoon, Model received a comprehensive report at the headquarters. He learned that the vanguard troops of the Skeleton Division had succeeded in using "shadow troops" on various routes and captured 6 Soviet troops stationed without any blood.
5 of the bridges, and the other bridge was also captured through battle.
The Soviet army, which was still waiting to use the bridge to launch an attack, did not expect the German counterattack to come so quickly. The panicked Soviet defenders sent engineers to try to blow up the bridge, but the soldiers who detonated the bomb were often a few meters away from the fuse.
where he was killed by the Germans.
The road bridge from Transnistria to Ossade fell into the hands of the Germans intact. The road bridge was only slightly damaged by the bombing and can be used after a little repair.
The fact that all this went so smoothly is entirely due to the high quality of Germany's "Shadow Force" and its standard special operations model!