Chapter six hundred and nineteenth official second generation
Shulka's pause was just in time, because Major General Jonas was also about to make a big fight at this time, but unexpectedly he punched the cotton and was unable to use it.
As mentioned before, the German army has a habit of fighting. When they encounter an enemy using new tactics and don't know how to deal with it, the first thing they do is to use the same tactics as the enemy.
There is some truth to this approach.
Because first of all, it is not easy to suffer losses if you use the same tactics as the enemy, and secondly, the quality of the German army is usually better than that of the opponent, so even the rear can have the upper hand.
Major General Jonas arranged this kind of sniper battle without even thinking about it.
"If they want to fight like this, let them fight like this!" Major General Jonas said.
As a result, the German troops on the front line soon launched a large-scale sniper battle.
But the battle came to an abrupt end just as the German army had achieved results.
The German officers and soldiers were still complacent about this, thinking that the Soviet army was frightened by them.
However, when it got dark, the intermittent gunfire and cannon fire started again.
At night, the cooperation of mortars and snipers is actually more needed.
Because the German army mainly defends in the dark, and the defensive side mostly hides in bunkers or behind ruins to be vigilant. This will make the snipers helpless or difficult to play their role. After all, the rifle is a direct-fire weapon, and it cannot target those behind the bunker.
The target poses a threat.
This is where mortars come into play.
The mortarman contacts the sniper and prepares to stare at the same bunker. The mortar fires shells at the bunker. The enemy is either killed or realizes that his position has been targeted by the enemy mortarman, so he panics.
He rushed out of the bunker and tried to jump to another position... At this time, he only heard a few "bang bang" gunshots, and the round of sniping was over.
The results of the battle were reported to Shulka in batches. The results were quite good, but in just over two hours, seventy-three enemies were killed, and another twenty were suspected of being killed.
The reason why we say "suspected kill" is because sometimes it is impossible to judge whether the target was hit in the dark night.
Among them, Vasily alone killed twelve.
Dimitri looked at the results and asked with some confusion: "Why didn't the Germans organize a sniper war to counterattack like they did during the day?"
"The Germans don't like the night, Comrade Dimitri!" Shulka replied: "Besides, they are frightened by us!"
"What?" Dimitri looked at Shulka in confusion.
What Dimitri didn't know was that Shulka played a little trick and asked Vasily to roam the front lines.
Vasily possesses extraordinary perception and acuity, and can suppress German snipers wherever he goes.
So Shulka asked Vasily to separate from the army and let him go back and forth on the defense line to snipe the opponent.
This created an illusion for the Germans. They thought that the Soviet camp suddenly had a few super-level snipers, and the Germans hiding in the dark were taken away with a "bang" without even being seen.
This put a lot of psychological pressure on the German army, and the night amplified this fear, so the entire team was beaten to the point of losing their temper. Major General Jonas had nothing to do about it, and could only wait for dawn in the hope of regaining a win.
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But what Major General Jonas didn't know was that Shulka would not let them go so easily.
"We should organize commandos!" Shulka said.
"Attack?" Dimitri said: "I'm ready, the 87th Infantry Regiment and the 91st Infantry Regiment!"
Then Dimitri pointed to the map and said: "I plan to let them attack from both sides of the defense line..."
"No!" Shulka interrupted Dimitri: "We only need one battalion!"
"A battalion?" Dimitri raised his head in surprise.
On such a battlefield, the strength of a battalion is not enough to fill the gap between the enemy's teeth, and the machine gun's "thud, chug, chug" sound disappears after a while.
"Yes!" Shulka pointed to the map and said: "Let them bring grenades and rocket launchers, spread them across the entire defense line, and sneak attack the enemy's bunkers under the cover of snipers. Do you understand?"
Dimitri couldn't help being stunned when he heard this. He was silent for a while and then said: "With all due respect, Captain! I don't think we can defeat the enemy if we continue like this!"
"Then what do you think we need to do to defeat the enemy?" Shulka asked, "Let the soldiers hold their guns and line up to charge at the enemy's muzzle?"
"I, I don't know..." Dimitri replied: "But with a sneak attack like ours, the enemy's losses are minimal, and we can't regain the lost land. We can do nothing but let precious time slip away from our hands."
Can’t get it!”
"Do you think we can get nothing?" Shulka asked.
"I don't see what we can gain!" Dimitri replied.
Shulka was not angry because of Dimitri's objection, on the contrary, he gained a new understanding of him.
If it were anyone else, knowing that the former division commander Batrakov was dismissed and sent to a punishment camp for not listening to Shulka's advice, then he would unconditionally implement it no matter what Shulka said.
But Dimitri did not do this.
This is a kind of courage, a kind of principle, or it can also be said to be integrity.
There is a great need for such people in the Soviet army.
Shulka did not answer Dimitri directly, but handed Dimitri a cigarette and asked: "I'm a little curious, Comrade Dimitri, how did you become a member of the NKVD army and be the official?"
From the school?”
Dimitri took the cigarette with some embarrassment and replied: "It's because of my father, Captain! He serves in the Security Bureau and is a major general!"
Then Shulka understood that he was a second-generation official.
Things in this world are sometimes so strange. Not all second-generation officials are the arrogant and domineering type. Especially in a furnace of intrigues like the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the second-generation officials who are protected by others are actually positive.
Because as mentioned before, in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, people who are good at playing politics are usually the ones who get to the top. Otherwise, they will not be able to survive here, and they will be severely stepped on by others as stepping stones.
However, the second-generation official was an exception here, because no one dared to take Dimitri's idea due to his father's face...or maybe those who really had an idea against him were secretly eliminated by his father.
As a result, Dimitri did not participate in these intrigues and political maneuverings. Instead, he was able to survive here innocently and became a colonel.
"You have a good father!" Shulka said.
"Yes, I think so too!"
"It's just that he may not have taught you much about how to deal with the enemy!" Shulka said: "We should never fight as the enemy wants!" (To be continued)