Veniamenko may have seen these advantages from the beginning. After all, he is the commander of the Airborne Army, especially the commander of the Airborne Army who has "ideological exchanges" with the German army. In addition, he has considered airborne points before, so the entire
No one expressed any doubts during the process. Only when Shulka talked about airborne landing in the city to launch mass warfare did he cast an unexpected look at Shulka...Obviously, even he didn't consider this.
Then Zolotarev asked: "Do you have any questions, Comrade Veniamenko?"
"No, I have no problem!" Veniamenko replied: "I completely agree with Comrade Shulka's plan. The triangular defense area formed by these three targets is very suitable for airborne operations!"
Veniamenko This is something that an expert will know as soon as he speaks.
In fact, this was Shulka's deliberate deployment. The reason why the triangular defense zone was more suitable for airborne operations, especially for Soviet airborne troops, was because the Soviet airborne troops had no experience and insufficient training.
What's worse is that with insufficient experience and training, they have to airborne operations at night... This will inevitably lead to a series of problems such as incorrect airdrop points and difficulty in gathering troops.
However, these problems can be minimized through strategic deployment.
This layout is a triangular area composed of three attack points.
To put it simply, if there is only one attack point, then the Soviet airborne troops can only land in one position. The result is that some troops will even be airdropped to an area dozens of kilometers away from the target, and will not be able to reach the airdrop point at all.
It will not be able to play a role. (Note: A year later, during the airborne operation on the Dnieper River, the Soviet Union's troops deviated dozens of kilometers from the airborne point)
But the triangular defense area is different. It looks like a triangular defense area. In fact, if it is used for airborne landing, it will be a circle with this triangle as the center. As long as you airborne at any point of this circle, you can use the proximity principle to rush to one of them.
Attack the point and engage in battle.
And this circle has a range of dozens of kilometers.
In other words, this kind of deployment can first make full use of these three thousand airborne troops as much as possible.
"The only shortcoming!" Veniamenko said: "It is that the troops are too small, only three thousand people. If we let them attack three targets at the same time, we will have to parachute everyone to the target area in the first batch, that is,
Saying that we have no reserves at all, we will not be able to provide them with reinforcements if something happens!"
Shulka nodded, Veniamenko was right to the point.
"So we can only win but not fail!" Veniamenko said: "As long as failure at any point is not only a loss for itself, but also makes the triangular defense zone that can reinforce each other become a linear defense between two points, this is easy
Divided and surrounded by enemies!"
"Yes, do you have confidence?" Shulka asked.
"To be honest, I'm not very confident!" Veniamenko smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Because we are dealing with the Germans, and they usually move very quickly, especially in the village of Butul..."
Veniamenko pointed to the location of Butur village on the map and said: "Compared with other places, the urban area of Miloway has people and guerrillas who can use it, and there are buildings to support street fighting. The No. 3 Highland occupies a favorable location and is dangerous.
But the village of Butuer has no people and no favorable location, so they can only rely on themselves."
Veniamenko is right, Butul village is indeed the most dangerous link.
To put it simply, attacking Milowe has the advantage of location and people, and Highland No. 3 has the location, but Butur Village is a small village where all the people have been expelled. The terrain is flat, the location, and people are not there.
What's worse is that it is relatively close to the German southern defense line and can be reinforced by German motorized troops within an hour, so it is the most difficult to attack and occupy.
"So we should focus on the village of Butul in the distribution of troops!" Shulka said: "At that time, our army will attack the German defense line with all its strength to attract its troops and attention. In addition, the airborne troops are occupying and controlling the Milowe Railway Station.
After that, immediately reinforce Butul!"
Veniamenko nodded and said: "This is the only way!"
Therefore, it is still unknown who will win this battle.
Of course, there is never a guarantee of victory on the battlefield. It can only be said that success depends on people and God. After all, it all depends on luck and the performance of the soldiers on the battlefield.
If there is any advantage, Shurka thinks it should be that the Germans were unprepared.
The reason why the Germans were unprepared was precisely because they had a large number of spies in the Soviet army, and these spies would tell the Germans that the Soviet Union had no airborne troops at all. Their airborne troops were all organized into infantry divisions and charged towards the defense line.
Therefore, the Germans would not have any psychology and facilities to defend against Soviet airborne troops, such as minefields, Rommel bamboo shoots, etc. (Note: Rommel bamboo shoots were Rommel's arrangement when he defended against British and American airborne troops in France.
, which is to sharpen something like a wooden stick and point it toward the sky. Although it is simple, it has considerable lethality and intimidation power against airborne troops.)
The German army was indeed unprepared for the Soviet airborne operations. At this time, they were shocked by the surrender of the 6th Army.
This was true of Hitler, and the same was true of Manstein.
"Shameful, this is the shame of the empire, a stain that can never be erased!" After receiving this information, Hitler angrily waved his little fist, jumped and shouted: "I just sent a marshal to this traitor.
Military rank, but he surrendered with the military rank that symbolizes honor, and his troops! He should commit suicide, so that his men will resist to the death! I believe those soldiers are brave, if Paulus hadn’t ordered
If you ask them to surrender, they will definitely! And they will eventually win. The Don Army is attacking Karachi, and they will soon open up the supply line! Paulus ruined this victory with his own hands..."
No one dared to speak because they all knew this was not true.
Even if Paulus did not surrender, even if Paulus committed suicide, the 6th Army would not be able to win.
But no one dares to say that, because once it is said... then who will be responsible for the subsequent failure?
If we continue to investigate, of course it was Hitler's mistake in command!
Or maybe Hitler actually knew it and he was just letting Paulus take the blame.
Göring deeply agreed with Hitler's words, because if Hitler said this, then the responsibility for this failure does not lie with him, and certainly not with the Air Force.
All because Paulus did not persist to the end. (To be continued)