"You think too highly of me, Comrade Andrianka!" Shulka silently lit the cigarette in his mouth.
"You are the 'breakout hero', aren't you?" Andrianka asked with a plea on her face: "You have led the defeated soldiers to defeat the enemy time and time again, and now you can do the same!"
"The problem is that we have no chance, Comrade Andrianka!"
"Opportunity, no, of course we have a chance!" Andrianka objected: "There will be a chance at any time!"
"So, what chance do we have?" Shulka disagreed.
After being stunned for a moment, Andrianka replied: "We can train rigorously and win a few victories on the battlefield, and then our superiors will change their impression of us!"
"The key point is this, how can we win several victories on the battlefield?" Shulka said: "With these soldiers? And these equipment? Our rifles are even old ones!"
Shulka is right. A considerable part of the equipment of the 82nd Infantry Regiment is refurbished goods, and some are even picked up from the battlefield and need to be repaired by themselves.
This is because a large number of Soviet troops were captured and lost a lot of equipment. On the other hand, the Soviet military industry was in retreat. At the same time, the Soviet army had a large number of new soldiers serving. As a result, the supply of rifles was tight.
Of course, with the Soviet Union's industry, if it went all out to produce rifles, it would not be to the point where it would not even be equipped with rifles. The problem was that the Soviet army still needed to concentrate a large amount of labor to produce aircraft, tanks, cannons, cars, etc.
"These are not problems!" Andrianka said: "As long as we win a battle, once... we can seize the enemy's equipment, and our superiors will increase our supplies, and then our situation will soon improve...
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"Comrade Andrianka!" Shulka interrupted him impatiently: "You know, this unit will probably... cease to exist after a battle!"
Shulka told the truth.
If the equipment and personnel are so poor, it means that the mission it performs is fire reconnaissance rather than conquest.
To put it simply, they are cannon fodder. People are used to test the enemy's fire points without fire cover, step on mines or waste enemy ammunition.
It is almost impossible to win in this situation, even for Shulka.
Andrianka was silent, and after a while she nodded and said seriously: "I understand, Comrade Shulka, please excuse me!"
It was obvious that Andrianka was disappointed.
But Shulka has nothing to do, because this is the fact, this force has almost been designated.
Shulka is not too worried about his future.
The reason is just like what he analyzed before. One of the important reasons why the Supreme Command threw the "breakout heroes" into this unit is that they were overconfident and thought that the victory was determined at this time, so there was no need for "breakout heroes" like "Breakout Heroes".
Talents like heroes.
but it is not the truth.
When the high command realizes this, the "breakout hero" will be used again, that is, Shulka will be transferred to other units, and may even be promoted again.
There is only one danger in this, and that is that before that moment, the 82nd Infantry Regiment will be used as cannon fodder and sent to the battlefield.
However, this may be very small, because Shulka knew that the focus of the next battlefield would be Kharkov... The confident Soviet army concentrated its forces in Kharkov to launch a fierce attack on the German army, but did not expect to be attacked by the German army.
counter-encirclement and hit Stalingrad along this gap.
The battle to attack Kharkov was fought by the Soviet Southwest Front and Southern Front, and had nothing to do with the Bryansk Front that was being reorganized.
In other words, all Shulka needs is to wait patiently.
Shulka did indeed do this. After all, waiting in the 82nd Infantry Regiment was not a difficult task. All he had to do was cooperate with Major Mikhailovich in some routine training.
The first battalion returned to the unit two days later.
As mentioned before, the 82nd Infantry Regiment will send a battalion to the city every week to take charge of security.
In fact, they are not only responsible for public security. When they return from the city, they will also bring back some food, drinks and other things given to the soldiers by the common people... The 82nd Infantry Regiment needs these supplies for maintenance. This also shows how difficult it is for them.
situation.
Valery ran to the headquarters immediately. He first saluted the regiment leader, and then stood in front of Shulka who was reading documents.
Andrianka was right, Major Mikhailovich never gave up training, or it could be said that he almost gave up before that, but Shulka's arrival gave him new hope.
Therefore, Major Mikhailovich discussed with Shulka almost every day how to organize troop training and how to improve their combat effectiveness.
Shulka wanted to tell him that all this was in vain. They had no basis for training, and there was no need to train, because then they would just give an order to charge everyone... For charging at the enemy's muzzle and muzzle,
That said, there is almost no difference between good and bad quality.
"What's the matter, Comrade Valery!" Shulka turned his attention from the documents to Valery.
"Oh, yes, Comrade Deputy Commander!" Valery replied as he took out a package of things from his bag, including bread, dried fish, and vodka in a small wine flask.
"What does this mean?" Shulka asked doubtfully.
"Sorry, Comrade Deputy Head!" Valery replied with a silly smile: "My mother specially asked me to bring this to you. I hope you can accept it!"
"Your mother?"
"Yes!" Valery replied: "I am from Ulyupinsk. She asked me to follow you to fight the enemy and obey your orders!"
Shulka was silent for a while, then nodded and said, "Okay, I'll accept it!"
"Thank you! Thank you, Comrade Shulka!" Valery shook Shulka's hand excitedly and kept saying: "Thank you very much, you are so kind!"
Then, Shulka immediately discovered that there was more than one person like Valery, because several more soldiers immediately brought some food to Shulka.
Soon, Shulka's desk was filled with gifts and even a few letters.
But Shulka did not open the letters.
"Why don't you take a look?" Andrianka asked: "Is it because you are afraid?"
Shulka did not answer.
"You have already guessed what will be written in those letters, right?" Andrianka said sarcastically: "Don't worry, you can read the contents, they won't eat you! No one will do anything to you.