In fact, the enemy's defense line cannot be called a defense line at all. The Romanian army's defense line is mainly the Don River defense line, with a defense depth of only five kilometers... This is related to the Romanian army's insufficient strength and the natural danger of the Don River.
The entire defense line of nearly 100 kilometers south of Stalingrad consisted of only one Romanian Fourth Army and two Italian divisions, one of which was also transferred to Stalingrad.
You must know that under this equal-length defense line, the Soviet army invested three army groups in the attack, but two of them had a smaller encirclement.
Therefore, the Romanian army's defense is a bit like an egg shell. It looks like there is something on the outside, but after the thin shell is broken, it is empty inside.
In fact, in general, it is still a matter of quality and preparation.
Because there is a saying of "layers of defense" in combat, that is to say, only these soldiers can build a line of defense every three kilometers. When the enemy attacks, they can fight and retreat. Each layer has enough supplies and defense to consume the enemy.
offensive energy and vitality.
The Romanian army should do this even more, because when the German army was fighting bloody battles in Stalingrad, they were doing nothing on the west bank of the Don River. If this time is used to build more lines of defense and retreat layer by layer in a planned way when attacked,
The Battle of Stalingrad would not have been so disastrous.
Because the Romanian army was poorly prepared, the 8th Shurka Infantry Regiment's attack went very smoothly. Several light tanks opened the way ahead, tearing apart the Romanian army's defense line and defeating it in just one charge... The Romanian army basically has no anti-tank weapons.
At the same time, they did not have enough courage to rush forward with grenades and explosive charges to blow up the tank, so as if they were suffering from tank phobia, they fired a few symbolic shots at the sight of the tank and then began to run away.
The difficulties mainly came from the muddy roads, and the railways that were less affected by rain mostly ran north-south, which made the 8th Infantry Regiment's march not very fast.
At this time, Shulka could hardly feel the battle, because he was following behind the troops in a jeep.
If I felt anything, it was the occasional gunshots and explosions coming from the front.
Denisokov was very interested in the American jeep he was riding in. He sat in the passenger cab and looked left and right, and asked the driver some questions from time to time.
At this time, the jeep has removed its roof in order to facilitate the accommodation of the radio... Jeeps with the roof removed are more suitable for the front line, because this allows the crew to shoot and get out of the car in an emergency, and at the same time, there is no need to worry that the roof will block the radio.
antenna.
If it is a second line, the canopy can be used to block wind and rain for better comfort.
Shulka held up a telescope to observe the surrounding battle situation and casually said to Denisokov: "If you have time, you should learn how to drive!"
"Can I?" Denisokov asked, his eyes widening.
"Of course!" the driver replied with a smile: "In fact, as an orderly or a guard, you should learn to drive, and you should also be able to drive a variety of cars! The reason... I think you should know!"
Denisokov nodded thoughtfully.
Of course he knew why. Their mission was to protect the safety of the leader. If the enemy attacked and the driver died, then of course the guards or orderlies would have to drive away.
After a while, Denisokov said: "So, Comrade Shulka, I am not a qualified orderly!"
Shulka smiled and said: "That's because you are not an orderly in the first place!"
Denisokov came out of a military academy and was trained to be a commander.
"I found that I couldn't do anything!" Denisokov said emotionally.
Shulka put away the telescope and said: "Do you know why your father asked you to become an orderly by my side?"
Denisokov shook his head.
"You are wrong, Comrade Denisokov!" Shulka said: "He does not want you to become a qualified orderly, nor a qualified soldier, but... next time if you encounter something like this situation, he hopes you can make certain decisions to solve these difficulties, do you understand?"
Denisokov suddenly understood, and then nodded heavily, as if he had found his goal and direction again.
We marched for more than two hours in the dark, and along the way we didn't even know whether we were friends or foes around us... Something like this also happened. As we drove more and more military vehicles, we suddenly discovered that there were several Romanian army vehicles next to us.
It turned out that these Romanian vehicles thought this was their deserter team in the dark, and because the roar of the car motors made it impossible to hear the voices, they consciously joined them and became prisoners who were delivered to their door.
However, these prisoners were a burden to the 8th Infantry Regiment, because they were passing through and pretending to be German soldiers. Bringing prisoners would be asking for trouble.
So it goes without saying what happened. These poor people were quickly disarmed, handed over their cars, and then pushed to the side of the road, where they knelt down in rows and were shot one by one.
At 9:15, the forward scout reported to Shulka that it was five miles away from Verkhovna Tsaczynski, or to be precise, it was five miles beyond Verkhovna Tsaczynski from the other direction.
The reason for crossing was that the German army was supposed to be coming from the direction of Stalingrad.
"Stop advancing!" Shulka ordered: "Get out of the car, pass on the order, and everyone put on German military uniforms!"
Shulka put on a ready-made colonel's military uniform... Only this could be worthy of his status as regimental commander.
But only the military uniforms, the equipment remains the same.
On the one hand, the reason for not changing the equipment is because there is no condition... There is no fully equipped equipment in the warehouse. On the other hand, the soldiers who are accustomed to using Soviet equipment suddenly switch to German equipment will not be used to it, which will affect their combat effectiveness.
Of course, in fact, the camouflage does not need to be so detailed, because it is dark night, it just needs to look like the German army.
"Remember!" Shulka said: "From now on, we are the German army!"
With that said, Shulka led the troops on foot to their destination...
After walking a few steps, Andrianka reported to Shulka: "Good news, we got information that there are two trains on Tsaczynski!"
This is not surprising at all, because Upper Chaczynski is an important transfer station. Trains sharing the same track often need to wait here when they meet, and some even wait for several hours.
This is one of the reasons why Shulka chose Shangzaczynski as his target.
Now, it depends on whether a train can be completely captured. (To be continued)