Chapter 540: Withdrawal

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On the eastern front, the position of the 44th Infantry Division was busy. The German soldiers were packing up their luggage. When they received the order, the whole army retreated to the area west of the Dnieper River for defense.
Although they are now in position, they are only tens of kilometers away from Kharkov, but they still faithfully carried out the above order and rushed out of this dangerous position before the opposing Soviet troops counterattacked.
"Move faster! Move faster!" A German officer stood on the car, watching his busy men carrying various arms. The degree of mechanization of the German infantry troops is not as high as that of the armored forces. In most cases, manpower is still required to solve the problem.
For example, the infantry of the 44th Infantry Division are helping the division artillery carry large-caliber shells. These howitzers were shipped from France. Although it seems to be outdated, these cannons have made up for the embarrassment of the Germans' lack of large-caliber artillery to some extent.
German artillery is now using artillery from other countries, including French howitzers, the Netherlands and Belgium howitzers. These artillery messed up the logistics of German artillery, but they had to be used.
The days of German infantry are not as good as imagined. These soldiers are following the armored forces. They only have to rush on the road every day, and they are also responsible for transporting many other military supplies.
"Pile those tents on the carriage! Yes, pile them up! Fix them with ropes and don't fall down halfway!" A company commander of the battalion was asking soldiers to put the camping tent on the carriage. For infantry, the equipment of the car is still too extravagant, and only a part of the main mechanized group in the division is equipped with the car.
Most troops still use primitive equipment such as war horses, and some troops even have donkeys, relying on these animals to pull carts, and completed most of the material transportation at the end of the German troops. Don't underestimate these carriage mules, they can be said to be the most reliable "Benz cars" of the German transport force.
The German tanks drove forward and down, fighting all the way forward. On the roads behind, the German infantry could only chase and chase with their legs. These soldiers carried rifles and wore riding boots on the muddy soil. They have to give way to the car, so in most cases they can only stagger along the road.
Unlike armored forces that can pile up the load on the car, they have to carry a large part of their load on their backs. There are raincoats, engineer shovel, gas masks, ammunition, and changing socks and underwear. It's definitely not an easy job to take a pile of junk on the vast plains, so more soldiers are used to throwing away some less important things to reduce their weight.
In order to save these wastes, the troops had to use horse-drawn carriages to move along with the soldiers, and each company was equipped with a horse-drawn carriage to install tents and engineer shovel and other materials. Later, this method gradually became popular, so each carriage of the infantry had to help the artillery unit of the affiliated army to transport several shells, which was also considered to make up for the disaster caused by the chaotic shell type to the logistics supply.
"Really he's messing up. We ordered to retreat with the above command?" A veteran swearing with a cigarette holding a g43 rifle: "How long did it take to walk to this position, these aristocratic lords casually Say, we will be on the road for several days. "
Another young soldier smiled and piled the ammunition box for the machine gun on the carriage next to him, and nodded: "Isn't it? We walked here for ten days before we got here, and we dug trenches here for several days. Order, we go back to the place where we set off a few days ago, it ’s really free. "
With the order, a long team of infantry began to set off. Several trucks rumbling across the earthy road, rolled up the dust, and drove to the end of the distant road in the abuse of German soldiers. More infantry were scattered on both sides of the road, walking in groups of three and five in the usual direction.
Some soldiers are sitting around the carriage. Because of the fighting for several days, their arms and materials have been consumed a lot, so the free carriage is used as a tool to transport the wounded. Of course, some thick-skinned soldiers also squeezed up, holding many rifles and smiling as the surrounding soldiers hurried off.
The soldiers around put their weapons on the car, so they left their hands empty. But they still carried heavy bags and hurried on both sides of the road. To them, this war does not seem to have much to do with the fight, except to hurry, they only have to hurry.
"The 44th Division is retreating. They are the troops closest to Kharkiv. The Soviet troops did not pursue them. They did not seem to expect that our troops would retreat at this time." Ann, his troops are withdrawing from near Kharkov, ceding a lot of already occupied areas of Ukraine.
According to the operational deployment requirements of the General Staff, his G Army must retract the extended tentacles and deploy defensive positions along the Dnieper River to shorten the front of the defense. Although such a decision yielded almost a third of the Ukrainian region, it was able to deploy troops steadily along the river and save limited troops.
"Our troops in Belarus are also shrinking, giving up their positions near Minsk. Soviet troops have also not pursued. The defense counterattack in Poland has defeated the Soviets, and they dare not take the initiative to launch counterattacks in the short term. "Gudrian nodded, and he has every reason to believe that Soviet troops will not fight back in the short term.
No general can bear the loss of more than 2 million soldiers in a short period of time, and launch a counterattack when the enemy takes the initiative to retreat-if the trap is arranged by another German army, the Soviet Union will be completely irretrievable. The Germans need time to restore their vitality. Obviously the Soviets also need time to make up for the trauma caused by the war.
The large-scale elastic defensive positions deployed by the Germans in Poland and the pre-arrested counterattacks adopted in the later period left too many nightmares for Soviet generals. Many Soviet soldiers remembered the painful retreat of hundreds of kilometers from eastern Poland. During the process, I felt my shudder. The German armored forces unexpectedly concealed until they encircled Kiev. It was a classic defensive counterattack tactic. This process can be directly used in military textbooks.
Over the entire Eastern Front for more than a month, German soldiers killed 110,000 people and wounded 280,000 people. They killed 700,000 Soviet soldiers and captured 1.5 million, almost half of the troops deployed in the western Soviet Union. . This glorious result encouraged the German side, some generals even began to discuss in private, feeling that the head of state's war strategy against the Soviet Union was too conservative, and Germany was fully capable of capturing the Soviet capital Moscow before the winter came.
This voice was deliberately ignored by the head of state. The guidelines of the German Supreme Command have always adopted the "New Barbarossa" plan prepared by Manstein, ignoring the military proposal concerning the massive invasion of the Soviet Union.
Berlin, the palace of the head of state, Akado looked at the more aging Augustus, and his heart was filled with emotions that he could not wait for: "Prime Minister, I know that the generals have been whispering in front of you to expand the scale of the Eastern Front. , You know our plan, we really are not ready to invade the Soviet Union. "
Germany is indeed not ready to enter a full-scale war. Although it seems to have won a brilliant victory in the Western Front, it also has a problem: Germany won too much in the entire war, resulting in a very large amount of materials gradually accumulated in the war. limited.
For example, the German team lacks cotton coats. This problem has been solved by senior German officials. The officers of the Logistics Department have tried their best to hoard cotton and turn it into winter shipments to western Ukraine, but it is still not enough to meet the needs of a large number of IDF soldiers.
Do n’t think it ’s a very easy thing to prepare cotton for 3.5 million troops. Everyone has received their school uniforms in the school. It ’s just a clothing distribution project for 500 battalions. If the scale is nearly 10,000 times larger and the area is as wide as hundreds of kilometers, does anyone think it is too much to give the person in charge of the logistics department a rank of general?
The winter of the army in the wild is definitely a very logistical matter. The Germans have not established a complete logistics supply support system in the Soviet Union. If they attacked Moscow all the way to the east, they are taking out the elite German troops for gambling. And Akado himself knows that 80% is still a gamble without money.
When you are not sure, lengthen your own supply line and shorten your opponent's supply line. This is something a fool will do. An attack along the way is to lengthen the distance between your troops and the rear. The withdrawal of injured soldiers, the replenishment of personnel, the transfer of materials, and the maintenance of weapons and equipment will become more and more difficult. The end of Moscow city is an end, not an end of victory , But the army's terminal to hell.
"I know the meaning of the head of state." Augustus nodded, and his hard work for more than a year made his body worse and worse. Although the medical environment in Berlin can be said to be the best in the world, it still can't stop this. Mr. Prime Minister went old: "So I recruited Brauchich and others to hold a situation analysis meeting on the Eastern Front in Berlin, so that the military people know that they are far from preparing for a huge war. . "
Augustus sighed a little, and even Akado didn't know what he was thinking. In fact, he lamented that in 1914, there was no one in Germany that could see the situation like Akado. If there was such a person at that time, Germany might go further ...
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