You must know that Rakovitsa has the strength of an army group, while Schobert only has an infantry division.
So it's hard for Schobert to imagine that Rakvitza would ask him for help.
But Rakovitza really needs to ask for help from Schobert, because the outer defense line has collapsed, and no matter how Rakovitza deploys his troops, it will not help.
But the war has reached this point, even the German army is powerless.
"General!" At this time, Rakvitza could not care less about his grace. He asked Schobert for help in panic on the phone: "The Russians have broken through our defense line, and their tanks are advancing deeply towards us!"
This is not true. The Soviet tanks did not just advance in depth toward the Roman and German defense lines, but divided their forces into two groups, advancing in depth along the way, while the main force of the other group advanced in the middle area between the outer defense line and the middle defense line.
This was the strategy that Shulka had previously set with Major General Tokarev.
Originally, Major General Tokariv really wanted to advance in depth and hit Odessa in one go, but Shulka did not agree with this approach.
"Comrade General!" Shulka said: "I don't think there is much significance in doing this. Although it is possible to break through two lines of defense, the enemy may fill the gap and build a new line of defense!"
There are 20 kilometers between the first and second lines of defense. This distance takes at least more than an hour for tanks to capture the second line of defense... If everything goes well, it will take two hours.
Two hours were enough for the Romanian army to respond and build a vertical line of defense. At that time, all the Soviet army had was a narrow passage, which could easily be cut off again by the Romanian and German armies.
"I think!" Shulka said: "We should attack the Romans' weakness directly, which is to penetrate the middle ground as quickly as possible!"
As a result, the Romanian army was in chaos.
Because the Romanian army troops stationed in the middle zone are relatively vulnerable units that need to be protected, such as engineers, artillery, field hospitals, logistics troops, headquarters, etc.
First of all, they are not combat units, to be precise, they are not units that fight the enemy head-on.
Secondly, they never expected that Russian troops would suddenly appear in the rear, and they were also tanks.
As a result, they were caught off guard and became chaotic. Many people wanted to run but didn't know where to run.
"Hold them off!" Schobert shouted at Rakovitsa.
At this time, Schobert's heart was already filled with the roar of a thousand grass and mud horses, but he knew that this was not the time to curse, because his fate was already linked to these bastards.
"I will reinforce you immediately!" Shobert said: "Stabilize your position!"
"Yes, General!" Rakvitza replied.
Then Schobert gave an order and detached a regiment from the 22nd Infantry Division and rushed to the front line.
The reason why a regiment was transferred was partly because Schobert only had cars carrying one regiment of infantry...these cars also came from the Romanian army, and the German 22nd Division that landed here basically had no heavy equipment.
On the other hand, the German army needs to maintain its offensive line.
This approach is of course correct. Schobert knew that the more this happened, the more he had to maintain his defense line. If the east wall was demolished to repair the west wall, the Soviet troops in Odessa would soon attack.
However, just because Schobert knew this does not mean that others knew it.
What Schobert didn't know was that the desperate Rakoviteza urgently transferred the troops attacking Odessa back to the middle ground.
This brings up a bigger problem: the middle-level defense line is useless because it has to face enemies from both directions in the middle zone and Odessa at the same time...
Petrov was not a fool. He didn't know what to do at this time. He gave an order and the defenders of Odessa launched a counterattack behind the Romanian army.
If the German army could still block the gap with the Romanian army before, now this failure is like a landslide, no matter how many people pile up, it will be buried.
At this time, Shurka is advancing behind the tank... The more cautious you are when chasing the enemy, after all, dogs will jump over walls when they are anxious. In order to escape and save their lives, the enemy may spontaneously organize at any time.
He will turn around and bite you hard.
Therefore, most of the Soviet troops advanced behind the tanks.
There were also a few troops who tried to get past the tanks and attacked forward, but they soon disappeared like mud cows into the sea... After all, the enemy was a group army with hundreds of thousands of people.
In fact, sometimes there is no need to be so hasty in pursuit, because those who are running for their lives in a hurry will block their own way in the panic.
For example, when Shulka and others were advancing, they saw that a not-so-narrow bridge was blocked tightly and could not pass. When Shulka and others came up with the tank, they immediately caused panic in the Roman army, and then it became a piece of cake.
The people rushed into the river desperately... As a result, many people who could not swim drowned in the river, and those who fled in a hurry raised their hands and surrendered.
The road was littered with vehicles, artillery, ammunition and supplies abandoned by the Romanian army.
At first, the Soviet soldiers would grab the supplies when they saw them, but later they didn't even bother to look at them. Some people even found them funny at their crazy behavior of grabbing bread.
"I regret it!" The thief looked at the discarded beef cans on the roadside and sighed: "I snatched three cans and brought them all the way here!"
"And that piece of horse meat you cut off?" Leonev asked.
"I ate a little and lost the rest!" the thief replied, "I found you were right, I really shouldn't have taken it with me in the first place!"
The soldiers burst into laughter.
What impressed Shulka most deeply was the occupation of a field hospital.
It was obviously an abandoned field hospital, with broken limbs and broken arms everywhere, as well as dead bodies and injured people who could not move.
When you walk in here, you will have the illusion of walking into a slaughterhouse, except that the people here are not animals but people.
The wounded looked at the Soviet troops walking towards them one by one, with complex expressions in their eyes, but they were not entirely afraid. Shurka believed that many of them actually hoped that the Soviet troops could help them end their suffering.
"What should we do with them?" the actor asked.
"Just pretend you didn't see it!" Shulka ordered: "Keep moving forward!"
It was basically impossible for the Soviet army to treat them. The Soviet army itself did not have enough medicine to treat the wounded soldiers, not to mention that these people were invaders.
Therefore, it is not difficult to guess what their final fate will be.
When bursts of artillery fire came from the south, Shulka knew that the enemy's defeat was certain... That was the sound of Odessa's counterattack.