The method is actually very simple. Since the quality of the Soviet army has not yet reached the level where the entire army can carry out a cold-blooded campaign and can deploy it as freely as the Volunteer Army, then we should not expect to achieve it in one step but should gradually relax it.
The specific operation is not difficult: there are three platoons in a company, and two platoons are kept at the original position to defend at any time, while the other platoon is freed to disperse at various locations on the front line for sniper warfare.
Of course, Shulka will conduct some necessary training on these troops before dispersing.
At this time, the cadet unit can play a role. They are assigned to each company in pairs, and then take turns to conduct on-site training and guidance to the liberated platoon.
If there is any difficulty, it is that it is still daytime, and all actions of the Soviet army need to be completed hiding behind the ruins.
Fortunately, the German army's supplies are not as abundant as the US military's during the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea... If the US military finds a target or even a suspicious target, they will destroy the target with a bunch of artillery shells.
But the German army, if there are no relatively important targets or buildings that need to be blown up, they usually do not use artillery fire but rifles and machine guns.
This was determined by supply difficulties, and the Germans had to use sparingly: a box of bullets weighed just one artillery shell, and usually solving the problem with artillery fire could not be accomplished without a few consecutive rounds.
Therefore, the German army usually does not use artillery shells to solve problems that can be solved with bullets.
This provides opportunities and space for Shulka to implement this tactic.
Dimitri was a little worried about this. He hesitated and said to Shulka: "Captain, my soldiers are not outstanding in quality. They..."
Shulka knew what Dimitri was worried about.
NKVD troops have relatively little military training, and their military quality is even worse than that of ordinary Soviet infantry.
Of course, this refers to the Soviet regular army and not to the temporary force that was expanded after a few days of training.
The quality of the individual soldiers of the German army is much better than that of the Soviet army, and of course better than that of the NKVD troops.
Under such circumstances, letting the Soviet army and the German army engage in a sniper battle face to face... does not seem to be a wise choice.
Insufficiencies in marksmanship, experience, tactical movements, etc. may cause the Soviet army to lose to the enemy in the "cold gun and cold artillery campaign".
One of the reasons why the Volunteer Army's "cold gun and cold artillery campaign" on the battlefield to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea was able to launch smoothly and achieve great results was that the Volunteer Army were veterans from the Anti-Japanese battlefield, while most of the U.S. Army were recruits with no combat experience.
"Have confidence in yourself, Comrade Dimitri!" Shulka said: "This is also a kind of training!"
Dimitri seemed to understand something, then nodded slightly and stopped talking.
What is winning and what is losing?
If judged only by the number of casualties, then the low-quality Soviet army may have lost when it launched a "cold gun campaign" against the high-quality German army.
But if we judge from the strategic direction...the Soviet army, which has strong mobilization capabilities, will win if two soldiers are exchanged for one enemy.
What's more, there is a saying: "The battlefield is the best school."
In Shurka's view, the future direction of the Soviet army is not to defend Stalingrad, but to gradually improve its own quality and the command level of its commanders in battlefield battles.
This is what I said before. The Soviet-German war was actually a contest between the quality of the two armies: the quality of the German army declined due to the large number of veteran casualties to replace the new recruits, while the Soviet army had a large number of new recruits who were constantly fighting on the battlefield.
Becoming a veteran, the commander is in a similar situation.
When the quality of the Soviet and German armies reaches a balance or is close to balance at a certain point, whether it is Stalingrad, Moscow, or anywhere else, the German army will not be able to defeat the Soviet army that has home field advantage and super mobilization capabilities.
Therefore, the turning point of the Soviet-German war was not actually a certain battle or a certain point in time, but the invisible and intangible qualities behind the battlefield and the optimization and coordination of various arms.
To put it simply, the German army taught the Soviet army how to fight, how the various services of the Soviet army cooperated, and how the Soviet commanders commanded.
Now, Shulka is forcing the Soviet army to "study". If there are greater casualties than the enemy, then it will be regarded as "paying tuition".
To take a step back, even if they did not carry out a "cold gun and cold artillery campaign" to face the German infantry directly, the low-quality Soviet army would suffer greater casualties when facing the German army on any battlefield using any tactics.
So it's not about the application of tactics.
Then, the headquarters quickly became busy.
The implementation of tactics increases the command difficulty of the headquarters, because on the one hand they have to direct the troops to fight, on the other hand they have to coordinate and rotate the sniper troops, and in addition, they have to timely count the casualties of the enemy and ourselves in the sniper tactics.
But these are all made easier by telephone contact and the intervention of the student army.
In fact, the command of sniper attacks is basically the responsibility of the cadet troops, and statistics are no exception... Shulka does not believe in the statistics of the Soviet army, especially the NKVD troops.
This is not to say that Shulka does not believe Dimitri. In fact, Shulka was a little surprised by the honesty shown by Dimitri. He did not understand how a character like Dimitri could become a leader in the NKVD army.
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What Shulka didn't believe was the other officers. They were used to falsely reporting battle results, which was not even within Dimitri's control.
Shulka didn't want these fictitious data, so he asked the members of the cadet force to count and report directly to him.
The performance in the first battle was quite good. The casualty ratio between each unit and the enemy was basically the same, and some units were even lower than the enemy.
But Shulka knew that this did not explain the problem.
First of all, this is because of the participation of the cadet troops... The quality of the Soviet army may not be high, but the cadets are the most carefully selected, especially excellent snipers like Vasily.
Secondly, the German army was unprepared.
The Soviet army took advantage of the tactics... The three platoons on the entire defense line were sent out to shoot snipers, but the German army had no idea if one or two people came forward, whether they were prepared or not, even if the German army was aware of the problem.
It was impossible to organize a sniper operation of the same scale immediately.
Not to mention that the Soviet army fought with cold gun troops and cold artillery troops.
In this case, it is not surprising that the Soviet army could gain an advantage, even if the German army was of better quality.
However, Shulka knew that this was only temporary. Once the German army realized what had happened, they would take corresponding countermeasures.
Sure enough, the battle suddenly became fierce after more than an hour, and the Soviet casualties began to rise sharply.
"Suspend all activities!" Shulka ordered: "Wait until dark!"
Schulka made the Germans depressed, just like when the opponent was playing smoothly and suddenly called a timeout during the game, and then at night it was another situation. (To be continued)