USSR 1941

  Chapter 745 preparation

  When night fell, Shulka, Trufanov and others made a series of preparations.

For example, secretly transferring supplies and troops to high ground and high-lying positions, such as reorganizing the amphibious landing force... the designation of the amphibious landing force has always been there, but they are considered useless or ineffective after crossing the Don River It is small, so it is used as ordinary infantry.

  From this point of view, the naval infantry is really sad. When crossing the river, they rushed to the forefront, and during the land battle, they became the infantry again.

  But the soldiers wearing sea soul shirts seem to have gotten used to it a long time ago, and have no complaints about it. (Note: The sea soul shirt is a uniform with blue stripes unique to the Soviet Navy. Because the Soviet Navy performed well during World War II, the sea soul shirt was loved by Soviet soldiers and was often used by infantry after the war.)

  The problem is that the naval infantry suffered casualties in the previous battles, and some units were beaten to a few people in the entire platoon, which forced Shulka to reorganize it.

   This is very important.

  Because only naval infantry can operate amphibious landing ships and are familiar with water, what is needed after the flooding of Surovikino is soldiers with these specialties driving amphibious landing ships and leading troops towards the enemy.

   However, the reorganization is not difficult. It only needs to transfer a few teams from the infantry division to supplement the naval infantry battalion.

   It's just that at this time, the unique painting style of the Soviet army will appear: naval infantry wearing different military uniforms and ordinary infantry are mixed together to fight.

  Trufanov is responsible for the mobilization of reinforcements.

  In fact, Shulka was supposed to be responsible for the mobilization of reinforcements, and Trufanov was responsible for the deployment of front-line troops.

   After all, Trufanov is the commander of the 51st Army, and he is more familiar with the deployment of the entire army. On the other hand, Shulka had close contacts with Rokossovsky, and it was easier to transfer troops from the Don Front Army.

   But Zolotarev objected.

   "Frontline combat is more important!" Zolotarev said: "And this is a battle that the Supreme Command is extremely concerned about. We can't make any mistakes! So I suggest that Comrade Shulka be responsible for the deployment of troops on the frontline!"

   This is not a "suggestion", it is clearly an order.

   Moreover, Zolotarev obviously did not believe in Trufanov's ability.

   This made Trufanov a little embarrassed, but he agreed without saying anything... Of course he didn't dare to say anything at this time, not to mention that he didn't feel wronged by losing at the hands of Shulka.

  The benefit of the full support of the Supreme Command for the plan was that the reinforcements were mobilized very smoothly. That night, two aviation divisions, one fighter aviation division and one assault aviation division were transferred to the second-line airport for standby.

The implementation of interspersed requires fighters and attack aircraft. The reason is as mentioned before. Fighter aircraft are used for air combat to gain air supremacy, and attack aircraft are used for ground combat. The Soviet army is not strong in fighter jets, that is, it cannot fully grasp the air supremacy, even when fighter jets are dispatched.

  Therefore, the Soviet Air Force will have a high probability of fighting enemy fighters when fighting on the ground.

If it is a bomber, its ability to attack the ground will not be much better than that of an attack aircraft, and it will only wait for death when facing enemy fighters. Therefore, it is not practical and popular on the battlefield, unless large-scale bombing is required. Targets that attack aircraft cannot destroy, such as permanent fortifications and the like.

Then the Supreme Command also transferred two tank divisions from the Don River Front Army... These two tank divisions are the reserves of the Don River Front Army. They were originally used to reinforce Karachi or take back Karachi, but now it seems that they are completely useless. This is necessary.

  However, Shulka felt that it was not necessary to reinforce the tank division at this time.

  The reason is that once the battle begins, the 51st Army should complete the interspersed and joined forces with the Southwest Front Army in about two days, otherwise the battle situation may develop in another direction.

It is basically impossible for the two tank divisions that have been reinforced to follow the rhythm of the 51st Army and go into battle within two days. in this way.

   At this time, it would be more realistic for a few mechanized divisions to rush to Surovikino to stabilize this point and prepare for the 51st Army.

   But it seems that Shulka does not need to worry about this, because Zolotarev then told Shulka that this is only the first batch of reinforcements, and several support troops will come to reinforce the 51st Army.

  In fact, all of this was caused by the Supreme Command. Originally, the right wing of the 51st Army was the 57th Army, and the 57th Army could well cover the flank of the 51st Army and implement reinforcements.

  Who knew that they were eager to eat Stalingrad again, which would change the direction of the 57th Army's attack and point its troops directly at Karachi.

   The result was that the 51st Army was too weak to deal with Manstein's return blow.

During this period, the Soviet Army was actually making a series of meaningless troop movements: first, it transferred troops from the 51st Army to the 57th Army, and the 57th Army was encircled. 51st Army Group.

  But it doesn't make sense to say these now.

   "It's time for us to retreat too!" said Trufanov.

  The headquarters of the group army is in the basement, and the basement will definitely not escape the end of being flooded, so they can't stay where they are.

   Zolotarev nodded, so Trufanov ordered everyone to move and quickly sorted out the information.

   On the other side of the night, Major General Ellen, commander of the German 29th Panzergrenadier Division, was looking at the map.

  Major General Ellen always feels that there seems to be some crisis in front of him, but he doesn't know what it is... Usually people who stay on the battlefield for a long time have a more sensitive sixth sense, and Major General Ellen is one of them.

  And Major General Ellen also believed in his sixth sense, because several similar incidents had happened before, and Major General Ellen followed his sixth sense to successfully escape the enemy's ambush.

   This time, this feeling rose again in Major General Ellen's heart.

   But Major General Ellen hesitated.

   Or hesitation cannot be said, because Major General Ellen doesn't know what danger is coming, so he doesn't know how to hide.

  Withdraw Surovikino?

  This is a very important stronghold, and the double anti-tank trenches and the anti-aircraft guns in the permanent fortification can well block the enemy's attack, there is really no reason to retreat.

  Enemy attack?

   Their attacks will still be repulsed as before!

   What the **** is that?

   After thinking for a while, Major General Ellen said to the adjutant: "Order the engineers to build a line of defense after ten kilometers!"

  (end of this chapter)