"Did you arrange for the brother of Commander Webb of the 17th Armored Division to fight?" Guderian asked in a serious tone to Dietrich, the party representative at their headquarters.
The two stood at the door of the church and looked at each other. Then, Dietrich waved his hand helplessly: "Okay, I lost. Yes, I admit that Masco was deliberately captured by me. We had already
The plan was to let seventeen of them deliberately carry only a small amount of ammunition, then find a position with sufficient cover, fire at the Soviet army from a long distance, and finally pretend to be captured out of necessity. Then, we here announced to the outside world that he
A glorious sacrifice."
"Why? I have an impression of Major General Webb's younger brother. He should be a major officer, right?" Guderian was a little confused: "Why should he be captured?"
"We gave him a forged identity as a machine gunner, but don't worry, he will regain his original identity and rank when he gets to Moscow." Dietrich smiled and gave Guderian an explanation that was not an explanation.
"Is this an arrangement by your SS?" Guderian thought for a moment, then shook his head: "Forget it, it's probably not an arrangement by the armed SS. This is a higher-level plan, right?
"
Dietrich nodded. He liked to communicate with smart people like Guderian. He didn't need to talk more nonsense, and the other party could understand his side of the matter.
"As expected of the head of state's confidant general," Dietrich mentioned this title with strong personal consciousness without hesitation: "This is a matter that the head of state handles. Although I can't tell you the specific content for the time being, I'm sorry, even if the party
Not many people within the Guards know about it."
"I understand this." Guderian nodded and said, "I just want to confirm why Ma Sike brought people to that location."
After all, Guderian also knew about Webb's combat deployment. Major General Webb should not make arrangements for the troops to appear in the arc area where the Soviet troops gathered. In addition, his brother Masko was also a party member of Webb's division.
Representatives have an important status and are generally responsible for political work. They rarely intervene in the military, let alone lead a team in combat.
"Just by looking at the location of a small force, you can tell that something is wrong. General Guderian is indeed well-deserved." Dietrich smiled and applauded.
"Then, may I ask, does your arrangement have any impact on the war situation? You know, this kind of military action often has a great impact on my command." Speaking of this, Guderian changed the subject.
, asked back to the original topic: "Will this help eliminate the Soviet troops east of Smolensk?"
Just this afternoon, Guderian suddenly received a report: They were using the few captured Soviet broad-gauge trains at Orsha Railway Station to arrest
The German logistics troops, who were transporting supplies from the rear to this forward supply depot, encountered a sudden roar of artillery at 2:30 in the afternoon.
A rapid and intensive artillery fire caused horrific casualties to the German troops near the station, and also blew up all the material trains they captured into scrap metal. The whole process took less than 10 seconds. After the brief shelling, everything fell into dead silence. The survivors
The German army immediately organized a search team and a security team, but they did not find the surrounding enemy troops, nor did they figure out what kind of artillery could pour so much ammunition in such a short period of time, and then move it?
Reports on the Soviet army's use of new artillery were quickly reported to the 2nd Armored Army Headquarters, but Guderian was equally puzzled. He sent an inquiry to General Huth of the 3rd Armored Army, but the other party said that he did not
I have never encountered this kind of Soviet artillery.
In other words, Guderian's troops won the lottery and became the first Soviet army to use this weapon against them.
This makes Guderian still feel lingering worries.
According to the intelligence provided by the logistics force, the Soviet army should be equipped with a piece of equipment similar to the German self-propelled artillery, otherwise it would be impossible to quickly move and evacuate after the shelling. In addition, the Soviet self-propelled artillery is, compared with other artillery,
, including the self-propelled artillery currently used by the German army, can quickly pour a large amount of explosives on the target, causing a very effective one-time strike.
Being able to invest a lot of firepower at once and leave quickly before encountering counterattack artillery fire. This is simply the nemesis of Guderian's armored forces!
Faced with this kind of effective weapon with ferocious firepower and large damage range, which can eliminate dense formations of troops in a large area, suppress the opponent's firepower distribution, and destroy enemy fortifications, Guderian basically had no good way to deal with it.
In the face of such a powerful artillery that ignores most defenses, all he can do is to continue attacking as he has done before, giving up defense, and treating offense as the best defense.
Guderian said frankly to Dietrich: "We speculate that the Soviet army should be equipped with a self-propelled artillery that is far more powerful than our army. If the Soviet army in front of them is not eliminated as soon as possible, their artillery units are found, and the opponent's use of
If you use any weapons, our army will be very passive."
"That's no problem. Let the troops who discovered the relevant information submit a report to the Wolf's Lair. The headquarters will help analyze the Soviet army's new weapons. I believe it won't be long before you can get the relevant data on this weapon." Dietrich
Xi agreed very confidently.
In fact, Guderian had already arranged to interrogate the senior generals among the prisoners. However, among the hundreds of thousands of prisoners, no one even asked for the reason. This shows how much effort the Soviet army put into keeping this secret weapon secret.
Now, all he can count on is the high command, which has always been known to have strong intelligence collection capabilities. It is said that the high command can even obtain the intelligence of the Pearl Harbor base, the most important military base of the US military in the Pacific, and then send it to Japan.
Man, this helped the Japanese win a great victory.
Correspondingly, it shouldn't be difficult to obtain information on this weapon.
In fact, at that time, the Soviet army only had a total of 7 trial-production models of this secret weapon, and formed the only special independent artillery company. The company commander was 36-year-old Ivan Andreevich Ferre.
Captain Love. Due to extreme secrecy, even the internal personnel of this artillery company do not know the official name of the secret weapon. Only the letter К can be seen on the gun mount.
And this independent artillery company equipped with secret weapons happened to be incorporated into the Western Front of the Soviet Union. Despite Pavlov's poor performance, at least the Western Front was known as the most elite unit with the best weapons and equipment in the Soviet Union before the war began. It had a secret.
Weapons, of course, are rationed to them.
Unfortunately, this weapon failed to play a role in the previous battles and did not even have time to show its face. It was not until Timoshenko arrived to take up a post in the Western Front that the special independent artillery battery that had been at the rear of the front was transferred to Smoleng
Execute combat orders in the surrounding areas of Sksk.