Then rest for two days on another line of defense, and then hold on for another day, rolling over and over again... Every soldier fights with the hope of leaving the battlefield alive, so they are willing to unite to fight the enemy.
Otherwise, no matter how hard you try, you will eventually die, and you will easily develop the mentality of giving up, or even go to extremes to rebel and surrender.
In fact, people are all the same, but the Soviet high-level officials do not understand this and blindly require every soldier to stay on the ground and fight the enemy, which is obviously unrealistic.
"Good advice!" General Kilponos nodded and said, "Like I said, you are much better than those staff officers who have attended military schools!"
Shulka couldn't help but blush.
This is not what he thought of. The first person to create this tactic should be Liao Yaoxiang. When he commanded the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Burma, he used this "roller-type" tactic to defend while retreating to prepare for the subsequent defense line.
Buy time.
After the meeting, Shulka and Major Gavrilov took a jeep back to their base... To be precise, it was not a jeep but a car. The Soviets painted civilian cars military green and then threw them into the army for use by officers.
It was also given the name "GAS M1" officer command vehicle.
Such vehicles did not have strong off-road capabilities and the seats were difficult to adapt to the needs of the battlefield, especially since the Soviet Union was full of bad roads, so they were quickly replaced by "GAS 61, 67" and others.
"You are really surprising, Shulka!" In the car, Major Gavrilov, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned around and handed Shulka a cigarette and said, "I thought
You would think that the 'log house disguise' tactic was just luck, but you didn't expect another 'space for time' strategy!"
"It's still luck, Major!" Shulka leaned forward carefully, blocked the wind with his palms, and lit a match to light a cigarette for the major and himself.
The major laughed after lighting the cigarette: "Maybe, we really need luck now!"
After a pause, the major added: "What do you think, Shukaka?"
"What do you think?"
"For this war!" Major Gavrilov said: "Or Kiev, do you think we can withstand the German attack?"
"No, we can't!" Shulka replied, shaking his head.
"How can you be so sure?" Major Gavrilov was a little surprised: "Even if we have 'log house disguise' and 'space for time', we can't?"
"I think so, Major!"
"Why?" Major Gavrilov asked.
"I'm just talking nonsense, Major!" Shulka said: "I don't know, maybe it's because of intuition or fear, I always think that we can't defend Kiev!"
Major Gavrilov laughed: "Don't worry, Shulka! We will defend Kiev. We have more troops, ammunition, and other things than the enemy! We will defend it!"
But Shulka knew that this was not the case, and even he knew that Major Gavrilov was not sure, otherwise he would not have asked this question.
Shulka sighed and cast his gaze out the car window at the wilderness, thinking about what Major Gavrilov had just said.
What Major Gavrilov said is right. The Soviet army has more troops, supplies, and continuous reinforcements from the rear in Kiev. They have the strength to block the German Army Group South.
The problem is...the German Army Group Center has penetrated deeply into the heart of the Soviet Union and crossed the Pripyat Swamp. As long as Guderian's armored forces turn south, they will seize Kiev from the belly, and thus there will be the largest encirclement battle in history.
So, sometimes Shulka wonders, is all this he did just because of trouble?!
So what if I gain time?
So what if we successfully break through again and again?
What's the point of consolidating Kiev's defenses?
In the end, Kiev will still be unable to escape from a larger encirclement, and of course Shulka is no exception.
But what can Shulka do?
Convince Admiral Kilponos to retreat?
It is not that General Kilponos did not know about retreat. Historically, he requested to retreat time and time again, but was rejected time and time again. The famous general Zhukov also asked the Southwest Front to withdraw in time, but was dismissed on the spot.
Thinking of this, Shulka could only shake his head and stop himself from thinking about things other than these abilities. He could only take one step at a time and try his best to make this battle more beneficial to the Soviet army.
Another thing keeping Shulka busy is his new appointment as platoon leader.
If he is just the platoon leader, it is nothing, because he is actually similar to the squad leader. After several battles, the platoon has more than a dozen people: 6 people in the first squad, 4 people in the second squad, and 7 people in the third squad, plus him
This platoon leader... total number of people is 18.
The problem is that the superiors believe that the 333rd Regiment has repeatedly achieved military exploits, so they plan to recruit more personnel and build it into a heroic regiment and a model regiment.
This is not a problem in the first place. No one dislikes replenishing personnel. The Hero Group and Model Group are also so-so. Although the pressure will be greater after entering the battlefield, it also means that they can get supplies first.
The problem is that these additional personnel are all new recruits recruited from Kiev.
Major Gavrilov once protested: "Comrade Artemenko, if you want to build the 333rd Regiment into a model regiment, how can you replenish these new recruits?"
Artemenko is the new commander of the 27th Army with the rank of major general. He was originally the commander of the 95th Infantry Division.
"Major!" Artemenko replied: "We are in a state of war now, and the war situation is very tense. Do you think any army would be willing to give you well-trained soldiers? What's more, after these soldiers are assigned to your army,
Can you adapt to your command? You know we may be on the battlefield soon!"
It is true that soldiers need an adaptation process, and even commanders need to adapt to their own soldiers, but obviously there is no such time now.
Major General Artemenko patted Major Gavrilov on the shoulder: "Although the 333rd Regiment are all new recruits, they are brave people, because they are Kiev people, and when they know that the invaders are about to hit
They were organized spontaneously in Kiev, I believe you can command them well!"
As a result, a group of new recruits who did not even have complete military uniforms joined the 333rd Regiment.
Shurka's platoon was assigned fifteen people, and instantly the entire platoon had nearly half of its recruits.
Moreover, they were obviously not all organized and joined the army to resist the invaders as Major General Artemenko said.
Because on the first day, Shulka found a new recruit selling lighters to them.