Chapter two hundred and ninety-two cleaning the battlefield
In fact, compared to the brutal battle, Shulka thinks what is more terrifying is the cleaning up of the battlefield after the battle.
Cleaning the battlefield is a necessary process, otherwise corpses will block the trench passages, making it impossible for troops to support each other and to obtain ammunition, which will cause a lot of trouble before the enemy attacks next time.
At this time, you will see corpses in different forms of death, look at their appearance, and naturally guess the cause of their death.
A soldier was hiding in the trench, but everything else was intact. The Tianling Cover was overturned and he was lying on his back. At first, Shulka thought that the other half of his head was buried in the soil, but it was not until he lifted him that he discovered that this was not the case.
...This kind of injury should be caused by shrapnel, neatly cutting off one third of the head, allowing the brain circuits to be clearly displayed in front of Shulka.
Another soldier sat with his back against the trench wall.
He obviously went through a struggle before he died, which can be seen from the intestines he held in his hands. His own intestines... The shrapnel tore a large hole in his abdomen, and the intestines flowed all over the floor, and his hands
It was full of blood, and it was obvious that he was trying hard to stuff his intestines back.
His face was bloodless, his eyes were dull, and his face still retained the distortion and twitching caused by severe pain.
Shulka and the soldiers worked together to fulfill the soldier's wish. They stuffed his intestines back, and the veteran wrapped his belly with a piece of white cloth and tied it tightly.
Compared with these fallen soldiers, those wounded may be much luckier.
They were gathered in bomb-proof caves and awaited evacuation.
However, Shulka believes that they do not feel this is "lucky" at all, which can be seen from their helpless cries:
"Fucking villain, you just left me here?"
"Where is my foot? Can someone help me find it?"
"Doctor, doctor...I'm dying, I can't stop the bleeding!"
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Some people even yelled desperately:
"What are you doing? Those officers took us to the slaughterhouse!"
"Why are they doing this? We shouldn't be here!"
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Shulka understands this phenomenon. They feel that they may indeed be on the verge of death, so they indulge their thoughts and even hope that someone can tell them to "shut up" because of the pain.
So did the instructor, so he didn't take any action and instead smoked a cigarette with Shulka.
The sky gradually darkened, the battle finally came to an end, and the soldiers relaxed one after another.
Pukarev hunched over and walked to Shulka, rubbed his almost frozen hands, and reported to Shulka: "There are many casualties. Comrade company commander, there are only fifty-two people left in our company!"
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"Yeah!" Shulka nodded.
In fact, there are not many people left in the entire battalion, including the original garrison of the 1075th Regiment, which is probably less than 300 people.
"We probably won't be able to survive tomorrow, right?" the instructor asked.
Shulka was surprised that the instructor would ask this, because the instructor usually tells everyone:
"As long as we fight bravely, we will surely defeat the enemy!"
"No difficulty can prevent us from destroying these invaders!"
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These words are actually idealism, which completely ignores all objective conditions such as the balance of power between the enemy and ourselves.
But now, the instructor will ask such questions that are usually not allowed to be said.
"Maybe!" Shulka tightened his military uniform and replied: "Now, we may only be able to place our hope on two things!"
"What two points?"
"The weather will be colder!" Shulka replied: "Or reinforcements!"
The instructor nodded in agreement.
From the corpses of the German soldiers, the instructor knew that they lacked clothing to keep out the cold. If you casually opened the military uniforms, you could see that they were randomly stuffed with hay, newspapers and other items.
Therefore, if the weather gets colder, the German army may not be able to hold on or its combat effectiveness will be affected.
The Soviet army is obviously much better in this regard. At least they have no shortage of clothing to keep out the cold.
As for reinforcements...
The instructor is not optimistic about this.
"We don't have any extra troops!" the instructor said: "Even if we do, it's just a drop in the bucket, or some militias... You know, they won't be of much use!"
Shulka nodded in agreement.
With the advancement of mankind and the development of weapons, it is okay for militiamen without military training to be used in guerrilla warfare. Going to the battlefield is basically adding a series of casualties to the number of casualties, especially between the Soviet Union and Germany, there are always powerful tank group assaults.
on the battlefield.
"Will they bring tanks?" the instructor asked.
Shulka shook his head: "It's useless, the Germans have three divisions, and the muddy ground is blocked by ice, which means they can choose any place to attack!"
The instructor blew out a smoke ring and sighed. He knew that Shulka was right. Today the Germans' main attack direction is here, and tomorrow's main attack direction may be elsewhere, and Soviet tanks can only move at night.
, unable to maneuver during the day... If you want to use tanks for defense, you can only disperse the defense, but if thirty tanks are divided into a defense line of more than ten kilometers, it can almost be ignored.
"Is there no other way?" the instructor asked.
Shulka could only smile bitterly in return.
Shulka has also been thinking about this issue.
From a strategic point of view, Shulka may have won. He successfully allowed the Soviet army to hold on until now to make up for the one-month gap.
Shulka believed that even if the German army broke through Volokolamsk and marched towards Moscow, it would be impossible to capture Moscow.
The answer is obvious.
The Soviet army did not devote its main air force to supporting the frontline battle, which means that the Supreme Command has been conserving its strength in the air force.
Once the German army reaches Moscow, the situation will change... Although the performance of the Soviet Air Force fighter planes is not as good as that of the German army, and the quality of the pilots is not as good as that of the German army.
But the key point is that the Soviet army has a large number of anti-aircraft balloons in Moscow. These balloons are arranged in rows up and down, left and right, and are connected by steel cables in a spider web shape. Some of them are even hung with small bombs.
Coupled with anti-aircraft firepower, the Soviet army was able to isolate German fighters to a certain extent.
Therefore, it was possible for Soviet fighter planes to attack German armored forces from the air.
Even this can't stop it. After entering Moscow, there will be difficult street fighting.
What's more, the Far Eastern Front Army is also on its way...
In other words, at this time, the German army's strategic goal of attacking Moscow could no longer be achieved, but they didn't know it yet, or perhaps Hitler was unwilling to give up and continued to attack with a glimmer of hope.
There was no problem with this originally. The problem was that Shulka was on the front line and could be crushed by the tracks of German tanks at any time.