As the saying goes, things are changing. Not long ago, many officers and soldiers were envious of being able to be incorporated into the Don Front Army and participate in the liberation of Stalingrad. Some officers even used their connections to be transferred to the Don River Front... Shulka
I heard that more than a dozen officers were successfully transferred.
Although war is a filter that can filter out the dross accumulated in the army during peacetime, it cannot be frozen in a day. The intricate network of relationships in the army is very complex and deep. If you want to remove it,
Eradication cannot be achieved by a short-term war.
However, these officers who were transferred based on their connections soon regretted it.
I originally thought that the 51st Group Army was an abandoned and sacrificed unit, but unexpectedly, the situation suddenly turned around and the 57th Group Army fell into a bitter battle... Most of the officers transferred from the 51st Group Army were transferred to the 57th Group Army.
Of course, these self-inflicted officers are not what Shulka needs to consider.
What Shurka had to worry about was how to break through the defense line of the German 9th Panzergrenadier Division in front of him.
The term grenadier originated in the middle of the 18th century, that is, the era when both the enemy and the enemy lined up to shoot... The grenades at that time were large, so it was necessary to select elite soldiers with sufficient arm strength as grenadiers. Only in this way could they possibly use them.
Throw grenades from your team to the enemy camp to kill the enemy.
So after that, grenadiers were used to refer to "elite troops" in general.
The designation of the German Panzergrenadiers was just issued last month... Because the German offensive in the Soviet Union reached a stalemate, Hitler used the sense of honor of the old Prussian army to inspire the fighting spirit of the soldiers in order to boost morale and announced that the armored grenadiers would be
The mechanized infantry and mechanized infantry attached to the division were renamed "panzer grenadiers".
In other words, the 9th Panzergrenadier Division is actually a mechanized infantry. Mechanized infantry means that its tank and anti-tank capabilities are not as strong as those of the armored division.
The problem is... when the Soviet army crossed the Don River and attacked westward, many German anti-aircraft artillery units walking on the west bank of the Don River successfully withdrew from the theater.
The reason for this situation was that the Soviet army was blocked at Prodovitoye for a long time, so that the Soviet army lost the opportunity to pursue the German anti-aircraft artillery unit.
On the other hand, it was also due to Soviet strategic and tactical mistakes... As mentioned before, the Soviet army mainly attacked with mechanized troops and even cavalry. In order to speed up the mechanized troops, they only used light tanks and even used cars.
The rear-mounted artillery pieces were abandoned on the roadside.
This directly resulted in a German anti-aircraft artillery battalion being able to block the Soviet vanguard and causing heavy casualties... The firepower of the German anti-aircraft artillery battalion was very terrifying, because it had anti-aircraft machine guns, small-caliber anti-aircraft guns with a high rate of fire, and could even destroy
The 88MM anti-aircraft gun of any enemy tank.
These high-rate-of-fire equipment are all powerful weapons against cluster charges, and the Soviet army only knows how to charge in clusters.
As a result, when the Soviet army dealt with these German anti-aircraft artillery battalions, they often needed to encircle and annihilate them, that is, to outflank them from both sides and capture them by swarming in from all directions like a swarm of ants with the help of their numbers.
Major Ball, who was developed into a "spy" by Shulka, was captured by the Soviet army in this way.
As a result... at least a dozen German anti-aircraft artillery battalions successfully escaped back to the German-controlled area, and these dozen anti-aircraft artillery battalions were requisitioned by the German 9th Panzergrenadier Division and deployed their firepower on the ground.
On the Surovino line, there were two anti-tank trenches and a "tank cemetery" that were very troublesome... because in the previous attack, groups of tanks rushed up and groups were destroyed, and countless
The wreckage of the tanks was left on the position, so the Soviet army called this line of defense the "tank cemetery."
Such a line of defense can almost be said to be an iron wall.
And Shulka's plan must break through this iron wall.
Just when Shulka was worried about it, Andrianka came to her side and reported: "Comrade Shulka, Comrade Rokossovsky is here!"
"What?" Shulka looked up and saw Rokossovsky walking in from outside the headquarters.
As soon as Rokossovsky saw Shulka, he laughed heartily and stepped forward to give Shulka a big hug.
"Long time no see, my friend!" Rokossovsky said: "I didn't expect we could meet here again!"
"Comrade Rokossovsky, I'm afraid you came here specifically to see me!" Shulka said.
Rokossovsky smiled and nodded, saying: "You have seen through it, Shulka! So, you know why I came to you... I thought you would be transferred to the Don Front, no?
To think you actually refused!"
Only then did Shulka learn that Khrushchev's previous talk of transferring Shulka to the Don Front to participate in the battle to liberate Stalingrad was not just because of "relationships."
Shulka was right.
In fact, Rokossovsky knew from the beginning that the siege of Stalingrad was not as simple as the Supreme Command imagined.
Although the Don Front has become very powerful due to the dismantling of the Stalingrad Front, Rokossovsky has more and more troops and more and more power, but in fact Rokossovsky does not
Hope so.
Because for Dirokossovsky, although the Don River Front Army was originally the weakest among the several front armies, its mission was only to contain, harass and cooperate with the 6th and 64th Group Armies and the German 6th Group Army.
Combat.
In this case, Rokossovsky had great freedom. He could command his troops to deal with the enemy as he pleased. This was also his strength.
However, after taking over most of the troops of the Stalingrad Front and changing the strategic objectives of the Don Front, the Don Front suddenly became the main offensive force in the entire battle.
This is not to say that Rokossovsky does not dare to take on this important responsibility, but that his command will be interfered by the Supreme Command... If Rokossovsky is allowed to command, this battle will
It wouldn't be like this at all.
The biggest role of the Supreme Command is to conduct remote command, and if it fails, the frontline commander will take the blame.
At this time, Rokossovsky was the frontline commander who took the blame... Karachi was in trouble, and it was not the Supreme Command that had a headache, but Rokossovsky.
"We tried various methods to prevent the enemy from encircling Karachi!" Rokossovsky pointed at the map and said: "For example, building defensive positions on both wings, such as breaking through from the middle, but we failed! Manstein
He is a formidable opponent. He has no intention of entering Karachi and fighting with us on the streets, and they do not need to do so, but we have already lost!" (To be continued)