In this case, of course, an attack must be launched immediately, although the Soviet army was not even ready at this time.
The problem is... there are still two hours before the scheduled attack time. If the Soviet army is ready and launches the attack at the scheduled time, the German army may even arrive with reinforcements and have all the blocking artillery fire and even ammunition ready.
If we launch an attack again, there will be no surprise at all and there will be heavy casualties.
At this time, they immediately launched an attack. Although the Soviet army was ill-prepared, the German army had just discovered that it was also ill-prepared.
So, after twenty minutes of preparation...the reason why twenty minutes of preparation was needed was because the Soviet army's communication equipment was backward and many units needed notification from correspondents.
This is the characteristic of the Soviet army's operations. It is difficult for them to respond quickly to some unexpected situations on the battlefield. Even the troops who have experienced hundreds of battles are no exception. This does not mean that the command is ineffective and the quality of the soldiers is poor, but that they are subject to
Communication equipment limitations.
For example, a certain unit has not yet been deployed, or it has just been deployed and there is no time to pull the phone line. They are on the march and it is impossible to turn on the radio. Some troops even do not have radios... At this time, they can only use communications troops to convey orders.
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Not only was the signal trooper's delivery of orders slow, there was also a serious problem: the command headquarters could not confirm whether the unit had received the order until the signal trooper returned.
To put it simply, the headquarters sends a communications soldier, who not only conveys the order, but also returns to the headquarters: "Report, the order has been conveyed accurately!".
Only then can the headquarters rest assured that this unit has received the order.
This means it takes twice as long.
Double time is not bad, but if the signal trooper is killed by the enemy on the way there or on the way back... then the process will have to be started all over again, and it may even fall into an infinite loop, where the signal trooper is constantly on the road.
Run, but the headquarters and the commanded unit are never able to confirm whether the other party has accurately received the order.
Therefore, it is considered fast that the 51st Group Army can be ready in twenty minutes.
But in fact, they were still not fully prepared... Only after the war did Shurka find out that a considerable number of troops did not actually receive the order, but they saw the signal flares and artillery fire preparations, and then the commander knew what was going on.
, waved his pistol and shouted: "Comrades, the time has come to make the enemy pay the price, charge!"
When he heard this, Shulka once again lamented that the Soviet army was too arrogant. The battlefield was no joke. They actually dared to launch a charge without receiving orders and the situation was unknown... But the battlefield at that time really needed them to launch a charge.
charge.
This may be a habit of Soviet commanders who always fail to convey orders properly. It can also be said to be a kind of self-awareness or tacit understanding.
The violent sound of artillery started the moment the three signal bombs took off.
During these three days, the Southern Front transferred almost the entire front's artillery fire and ammunition to Miloway.
Because it's obvious that fighting in other directions doesn't matter, including Karachi.
However, despite this, because the Southern Front suffered heavy casualties in previous battles, and the artillery was no exception, only five artillery regiments and three rocket launcher battalions could be gathered on the Miloway line.
At this time, these artillery pieces fired in the direction of the German army one after another, which only caused the German defense line to shake and cover the ground with smoke.
The reason why "one batch after another" is actually a tactic used in artillery operations.
At this time, the Soviet artillery actually had enough ammunition, including supplies that the Supreme Command actively organized reinforcements.
However, the artillery must fire "batch after batch" because if they all fire at the same time as soon as the fighting begins, it is tantamount to exposing all artillery positions to the enemy.
Therefore, the German army will have the advantage in the subsequent artillery battle: the German army will fire at the Soviet artillery positions in a targeted manner, while the Soviet army will fire at the German defense line. No matter how many artillery pieces there are, they will be knocked out one by one by the German artillery.
Therefore, in actual combat, the artillery will be as careful as possible even when preparing for the infantry charge. It is obviously necessary to divide the fire into several groups. When one group of artillery is preparing to bombard the German defense line, another group of artillery will be ready at any time.
Prepare to suppress German deep artillery.
As a result, a seemingly boring and boring battle immediately formed between the artillery: the German army discovered the Soviet artillery position and organized artillery fire to suppress it. The Soviet army discovered the German artillery position because the German army opened fire, and then organized counter-suppression... You
I go back and forth over and over again until one party really can't move anymore.
But it is simple to say, but there are various factors including the accuracy and speed of the artillery observers, the quality of the artillery, the performance of the artillery, and the quantity.
It was obvious that the Soviet artillery quickly gained the upper hand... This was mainly because the Germans had used most of their artillery to attack Karachi, and had consumed a lot of ammunition since the attack but had not been able to replenish it in time.
Therefore, in the eyes of Shulka and other infantrymen, the artillery shells coming from the direction of the German army quickly became less and less, and finally disappeared, leaving only the Soviet artillery fire that kept bombarding the direction of the German army.
About twenty minutes into the bombing, fighter planes appeared in the sky.
Although there was smoke everywhere in the air, you could still tell that it was a German plane from the black crosses on the wings... The Germans found that they were at a disadvantage in terms of artillery, so they no longer fought head-on with the Soviets and used air force to counter them.
Artillery way.
This was not part of Shulka's plan.
Shurka's plan was to launch an attack two hours later, and by then it was dark and it would be difficult for fighter jets to be effective.
However, the Soviet army at this time was no longer the Soviet army at the beginning of the war. They had long expected that the German army would send out its air force to fight, so before the German air force bombed the artillery indiscriminately, a group of Soviet fighter planes joined the battlefield to fight the German army.
Fighters fight together.
Suddenly there were explosions, machine gunfire, and the harsh roar of engines when fighter planes were shot down... The air combat battlefield was over the forward positions, so planes fell nearby after they were shot down, and there was even a fighter plane in the air.
The explosion occurred only more than 500 meters away from Shurka's ambush, and its speed was so fast that Shurka didn't even have time to identify which fighter it was.
At that time, I only felt a strong gust of wind passing over my head, followed by a "boom" and a series of vibrations.
At first, Shulka thought it was an artillery shell, but when he saw a fireball rising in front of the position, with some faint plane wreckage in it, he realized it was a plane.
After about half an hour, the artillery fire advanced deeply towards the German army.
At this time, three more flares rose into the air...it was time to attack. (To be continued)