But the tactics of the guerrillas are not something you can just deal with.
Reichenau and Manstein placed their hopes on the SS... The SS was composed of many departments. Among them, the task of the special operations team (also called the commando team) was to carry out large-scale arrests, killings, and searches for dissidents and
Troops of the underground resistance, including those who captured Jews and sent them to concentration camps.
The special operations team usually follows the occupying troops. That is, the regular troops attack in the front, and the special operations team follows behind. Every time the army occupies a piece of land, the special operations team takes over a piece of land and is responsible for the security of the land and eliminates dissidents.
Waiting for work.
This division of labor is no problem for the German army, because it allows the army to concentrate on fighting at the front without having to worry about all kinds of troubles in the rear.
At the same time, the special operations team is more than enough to deal with poorly equipped, unorganized stragglers, and even unarmed civilians.
but……
The guerrillas now assigned to various places by the Soviet Army are all veterans who have come off the battlefield. Their military quality is much better than the German special operations teams that usually only target ordinary people.
So several times, even though they had information about the guerrillas, they were forced to break through. The German special operations team suffered even greater casualties and became disgraced.
In particular, these guerrillas will "break them into parts". When they need to fight, they will "break them into parts" and gather together from all directions to launch a surprise attack on the target. Regardless of whether they succeed or not, they will soon "break into parts".
"Broken into pieces" scattered among the people and disappeared without a trace.
This gave Reichenau and Manstein a headache.
Reichenau even called the captain of the special operations team directly: "I think you should listen to General Manstein's ideas, implement martial law, register and roll calls..."
But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the captain: "I know what to do, Marshal, we have rich experience in this area, just like you have rich experience on the battlefield!"
The implication is that everyone performs his own duties and no one cares about anyone else.
Reichenau had nothing to do about it. Just like the Soviet Union had two systems, Germany also had two systems at this time...the Wehrmacht and the SS, and the status of the SS was still higher than that of the Wehrmacht.
"Maybe we can form our own troops to search!" Manstein said.
"No, General!" Reichenau rejected Manstein's idea without thinking: "This will be considered a power grab!"
Then Manstein had nothing to say.
This is a very ironic phenomenon. The guerrillas hide within the jurisdiction of the SS and attack the facilities of the Wehrmacht. The Wehrmacht cannot fight back and can only rely on the SS. The SS can deal with these Russian guerrillas who are from the regular army.
It’s very difficult...
This made Manstein very passive. All he could do was to add police posts and defenses on important facilities.
But just like the "offensive superiority theory" pursued by the Germans, the defending side always suffers, especially in a large area... Because they have many points to defend, they have to invest more troops, and they are always on guard.
, the guerrillas can slowly observe in the dark to find flaws, and then hit them with one strike.
But in fact, even if Manstein could really interfere in the affairs of the Special Operations Team, it would not have much effect: this is the Soviet Union. Although there are rebel forces in Ukraine, the influence of the Soviet Union is still deep-rooted, and it cannot be just a simple martial law and registration.
That will solve the problem.
None of this was what Shulka needed to worry about. He didn't even know that he had inadvertently hit the enemy's weak point, that is, the gap between the Wehrmacht and the SS.
Shulka only knew to continue to expand the training scale of the guerrillas, and then send out the guerrillas one team after another.
Minsk, Kovel, and even penetrated into Brest... Brest is a good place for guerrilla warfare, because as mentioned before, it is a transportation hub, with roads and railways densely distributed in the forest.
In a long and narrow passage between the marsh and the swamp.
Here, the guerrillas only need to hide in the northern forests and occasionally use mortars to fire a few shells in the direction of roads and railways to make the German army unbearable.
On the other hand, General Kirponos worked hard to strengthen the defenses from Kiev to Odessa.
The main one is Kiev, because Kiev is like a sharp knife deep into the hinterland of the German offensive line. Although it is semi-surrounded by the German army, it is still a danger to the German army, that is, it may still become a German offensive target in the future.
As a result, the Kiev defense line was re-consolidated, and the Ukrainian region formed a pattern of projecting guerrillas everywhere with Kiev as the core to disrupt the enemy's supply lines.
Shulka originally thought that he would continue to organize and direct the training and activities of the guerrillas in Kiev... He even liked this job a little bit, although it was also very hard, with all kinds of documents, intelligence, etc. flying all over the sky, which almost overwhelmed Shulka.
Erka was stunned.
But compared to the bullets, artillery shells, corpses and blood on the front line, it's not much better.
Occasionally, when taking a break, Shulka can light a cigarette and drink a cup of coffee in the lounge... This is called life.
However, such days soon became a thing of the past.
"Comrade Shulka!" That day, while Shulka and Major Gavrilov were busy sorting out information, General Kilponos walked into the office.
This surprised Shulka and others, because since the guerrilla headquarters was on track, General Kilponos rarely came to the headquarters in person. After all, he was the commander of the front and had too many things to worry about.
"Comrade General!" Shulka stood up and saluted, and at the same time, it could be seen from Kilponos's expression that something had happened.
Admiral Kilponos called several other people to his side and held a short meeting:
"First of all, I have to thank you for your contribution. This guerrilla headquarters was established by you. From training to going to the battlefield to follow-up command, the layers are clear and interlocking. What's more valuable is that it took less than one
In just a few months, we have trained a large number of guerrillas and put them into the battlefield and achieved brilliant results. On behalf of the Southwest Front Army, I would like to thank you and thank you for your contribution!"
"Comrade General!" Shulka said, "Do we have other tasks?"
General Kilponos nodded, and then handed over a telegram, saying: "I very much hope to continue to cooperate with you, but... Comrade Zhukov needs the most elite troops to defend Moscow! They even asked for it by name.
The 333rd Regiment, I can’t refuse!”
Then Shulka understood that the next stop was Moscow.