USSR 1941

  Chapter 828 preparation

  In this case, of course, an attack must be launched immediately, although the Soviet army is not even ready at this time.

The problem is... At this time, there are still two hours before the scheduled attack time. If the Soviet army is ready and launches the attack at the scheduled time, I am afraid that the German army will even arrive with reinforcements and prepare blocking artillery fire and even ammunition. There is no suddenness in launching an attack, and there will be heavy casualties.

  At this time, the attack was launched immediately. Although the Soviet army was insufficiently prepared, the German army had just discovered that it was also insufficiently prepared.

  So, after 20 minutes of preparation...the reason why it takes 20 minutes of preparation is because the communication equipment of the Soviet army is backward, and many units need to be notified by the communicator.

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 for troops with hundreds of battles. Communication equipment is limited.

  For example, a certain unit has not yet been deployed, or it has just been deployed and has not had time to pull the telephone line, and their radio cannot be turned on while they are marching, and even some units do not have a radio... At this time, the only way to communicate orders is to use the communication soldier.

  The communication unit was not only slow in conveying orders, but also had a very serious problem: before the communication unit returned, the headquarters could not confirm whether the unit had received the order.

   To put it simply, the headquarters sends a communication soldier, who not only needs to convey the order, but also returns to the headquarters: "Report, the order has been accurately conveyed!".

   At this time, the headquarters can rest assured that this unit has received the order.

   This means double the time.

Doubling the time is not bad, if the communicator is killed by the enemy on the way to or back...then the process has to be repeated, and it may even fall into an endless loop, that is, the communicator keeps running on the road , but the headquarters and the commanded unit have never been able to confirm whether the other party has received the order accurately.

  So, the 51st Army can be ready in place within 20 minutes, which is considered fast.

But in fact, they were still not fully prepared... Only after the war did Shulka know that a considerable part of the troops did not receive orders, but they saw the signal flares and artillery preparations, and then the commander knew what was going on. He waved his pistol and shouted: "Comrades, it's time to make the enemy pay the price, go!"

Hearing this, Shulka once again lamented that the Soviet army was too ambitious. The battlefield was not a joke. They dared to charge without receiving orders...but the battlefield at that time really needed them to charge .

   This may be a habit of Soviet commanders who always fail to convey orders in place, or it can be said to be a kind of self-consciousness or a tacit understanding.

  The violent gunfire rang out the moment the three flares lifted into the air.

   During these three days, the Southern Front transferred almost the entire artillery and ammunition of the Front to Milove.

  Because it is obvious that fighting in other directions is not important, including Karachi.

   But despite this, because the Southern Front suffered heavy casualties in the previous battles, and the artillery was no exception, there were only five artillery regiments and three rocket artillery battalions that could be gathered on the front line of Milove.

  At this moment, batch after batch of these artillery guns opened fire in the direction of the German army, which only caused the German defense line to shake and the mountains were filled with gunpowder smoke.

  The reason for "one batch after another" is actually a tactic of artillery combat.

  At this time, the Soviet artillery actually had enough ammunition, which also included supplies from the Supreme Command's active organization of reinforcements.

  But the artillery still needs to fire "one batch after another", because if they all fire together as soon as the fire starts, it is tantamount to exposing all artillery positions to the enemy.

  So the German army will have the upper hand in the artillery battle: the German army is targeting the Soviet artillery positions, and the Soviet army is firing at the German defense line.

Therefore, in actual combat, the artillerymen will try their best to be cautious even when preparing artillery fire for the infantry charge. It is obviously necessary to divide them into several batches to fire. Prepare to suppress the 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, and the Soviet army discovered the German artillery position because the German army opened fire, and then organized counter-suppression... You come I go round and round until one side is really unable to move.

   But it’s easy to say, and there are various factors such as the accuracy and speed of artillery observers, artillery quality, artillery performance, and quantity.

   Obviously, the Soviet artillery quickly gained the upper hand... This is mainly because the German army used most of the artillery to attack Karachi, and the attack has consumed a lot of ammunition but has not been replenished in time.

  So, in the eyes of Shulka and other infantry, the shells fired from the direction of the German army soon became less and less, and finally disappeared, leaving only the artillery fire of the Soviet army constantly bombing in the direction of the German army.

   After about 20 minutes of bombing, fighter planes appeared in the sky.

Although the air is full of gunpowder smoke, it can still be distinguished from the black cross on the wing that it is a German plane... The German army found that it was at a disadvantage in artillery, so they stopped fighting the Soviet army head-on and used the air force to fight artillery The way.

   This was not in Shulka's plan.

   Shulka's plan was to launch an attack two hours later, and it was already dark and it was difficult for fighters to play a role.

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 an air force to fight. Fighters fight together.

For a while, there were explosions, machine guns, and the piercing roar of the engine when the fighter plane was shot down... The air combat battlefield is just above the forward position, so when the planes are shot down, they fall nearby, and there is even a fighter plane in the distance. Shurka's ambush exploded at a position of more than 500 meters, and the speed was so fast that Shurka hadn't had time to identify which side's fighter it was.

   At that time, I only felt a gust of wind passing over my head, and then there was a "boom" and a shock.

  At first, Shulka thought it was a shell, but when he saw a ball of fire erupting in front of the position, and there was a part of the wreckage of the plane in it, he realized that it was an airplane.

   It took about half an hour before the artillery fire advanced deeply towards the German army.

  At this time, three more flares rose into the air... It's time to attack.