Chapter 854: Enter the Caucasus

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How big is the Caucasus? Many people may not have an intuitive impression. But when the German soldiers set foot on this territory, it was real that it was so unimaginable that they laid down a city, and there were more cities in front, they occupied a highland, but now It's just one of thousands of highlands.
Just as Soviet soldiers leaned their heads and watched German planes dive down one after another, throwing bombs into the distance without knowing where, their position, the limit of vision, a German tiger The tank knocked down a big tree with the thickness of his wrist and roared out of the woods.
Soviet soldiers leaned against their trenches. They looked behind the tiger tank. A further German tank went out of the woods. No one was surprised or yelled. They just pulled away silently. Use your own bolt to push the bullet into your gun.
No need to sound the horn, no reminders or orders, everyone knows that the battle has started, and their own destiny no longer belongs to themselves. On the battlefield, they can only live as much as possible, praying that God can continue Live on.
A shell fell on the position of the Soviet army, causing a panic. Then more artillery shells fell around the trenches, and a piece of mud was splashed. Everyone's panic was suppressed. Everyone curled up in the corners of the trenches with their weapons, praying that these terrible shellings would pass quickly.
"Damn, the Germans' artillery coordination became more and more proficient, and their troops began their artillery attacks, and the cover was really in place." A Soviet commander, holding his steel helmet, squatted in the trench and yelled. His voice was quickly submerged in the rumbling sound of a cannonball explosion, and he could not hear it a little further.
It was finally able to withstand this intensive round of artillery bombardment. Soviet troops judged by the power of the explosion and the trajectory. There were German howitzers with a caliber of 15o mm, Soviet goods with a caliber of 122 mm, and guys with calibers of 1o5 and 75 mm. It can be regarded as a large collection of existing German artillery.
When the soldiers of the Soviet Union shook the floating soil from their bodies and plucked their heads out of the trenches to observe the Germans on the opposite side, they now have dozens of tanks under the cover of the dense German Grenadiers, which are only 200 meters away from them. Less than the distance.
"Suddenly! Suddenly!" The German machine gunner lay down on the ground, the deputy shooter put the chain on his hand, the two set up a simple shooting position, and the barrage was spilled to the opposite position. Several Germans The machine gun positions opened fire at the same time, and the Soviet troops on the Soviet positions, which had been hit for a while, could not lift their heads.
"Boo!" After a long preparation, the first shot was finally heard from the Soviet position. A Soviet soldier carried his rifle and fired the first shot of the Soviet counterattack against the enemy. With this gunshot, the Soviets finally opened fire, but the thin rifle sound, compared with the fierce firepower of the opposite German army, was a little disproportionate.
A German commander standing at the edge of the woods put down the telescope in his hand and pointed his finger to the troops in front. He said to several officers around him: "The Air Force investigation said that the first line of defense of the Soviet army was only used to delay me. The army attacked, it seems so now. "
It seems to confirm the commander ’s words that the German Grenadier has advanced to the position of the Soviet trench along with the tank. A large number of Grenadiers entered the Soviet trench behind the tank, and the gunshots became more dense. Collapse, it doesn't seem to intend to defend this position at all.
A position changed hands, and the Germans had established a firm foothold on the way forward. With the continuous advancement of the tanks, more German grenadiers attacked the Soviet positions, and the Soviet soldiers' defeated begs were everywhere, and the fighting power of both sides. Not at the same level.
"It's not too difficult to cut into this position, because the air support is there, the Soviet artillery support can't be used ..." A German officer looked at the battlefield where there was no suspense in the distance. Said: "It is certain that the Soviet elite in the Caucasus is not here."
"There is not even decent artillery support. It seems that the Soviet Union really gave up Surovino." Another German officer shook his head and said, "The Soviets are becoming more cautious. This is not a good sign. They Instead of putting the army in the wild, we will fight with our cities one by one. "
With the German offensive, the position here has been completely captured. A small number of German troops escorted the Soviet prisoners back and retreated. It seemed that there were thousands of Soviet prisoners of war who followed the listless one, and they looked at the roadside docked with frustration. German armored command vehicles, as well as some motorcycles and bicycles.
The German commander walked over to the front of his armored command vehicle, paved a map on the motive hatch, carefully examined it for a while, and then pointed at the area around Surovicino with a second lieutenant following him. Said: "Let your reconnaissance troops search forward in a fan-shaped manner and return immediately when they encounter resistance. I want to see how many positions the Soviets gave up west of the Don River."
"Yes! Sir. Advance 2o kilometers? Or 3o kilometers?" The second lieutenant looked at his sir and wanted to confirm his distance.
"Go forward, as many kilometers as you can advance, as many kilometers as you can!" The German commander climbed into his armored vehicle, looked at the dense Soviet captives in front of him, and said, "Build accurate road signs. At lunch in the city of Noor, my armored unit will ensure that it is always going west. If your reconnaissance unit is in trouble, you can contact my tank captains nearby. "
"Follow the order! Sir! Long live Yuan!" The second lieutenant stood saluting, and then watched the Soviet captive behind him, and walked to his six-wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicle. As this reconnaissance vehicle moved, there were several armored vehicles of the same model around, as well as some motorcycles and off-road vehicles.
At this time, a barrel truck drove from the road not far away and stopped next to the armored car of the German front line commander. A division staff jumped off the barrel truck and stepped forward to salute the regiment commander. "I'm here under the command of the division commander to check the progress of your troops. The situation has changed. It seems that the Soviets are systematically abandoning their defensive positions west of the Don."
"Yes, Chief of Staff. My troops just confirmed the intelligence of the Air Force reconnaissance aircraft through a short push. Their resistance was very slight. It can be said that these places were given to us by the Soviets." The commander of the regiment turned back He jumped off the armored vehicle again, walked in front of the chief of staff of the division, and arbitrarily performed a military salute before saying: "I'm ordering the troops to search for the attack forward, all areas on the west bank of the Don River."
The division chief of staff nodded and said, "The problem you said was encountered by another armored division next door. When they were attacking, the Soviet army was crushed at the touch, so they gave the army a report. He said that they would occupy the west bank of the Don River with the fastest degree and encircle tens of thousands of Soviet troops here. "
Not only did the attack here feel like a punch on cotton, but farther away, the Germans who attacked Pererazovsky rushed directly into the city and then on the road behind Perelazovsky She caught up with the retreating Soviet infantry and directly captured 25oo Soviet captives.
Along all the lines of defense between Pererazovsky and Surovich, the Germans successfully broke through, and they also captured a total of 15ooo Soviet prisoners of war, but these captives were civilians who had just been armed. Many people do n’t even have bullets.
These Soviet soldiers have been completely abandoned by Rokosovsky. They have been cut off supplies from a day ago, hungry and waiting for news from the rear on the position, but were waiting for a large-scale German air attack while waiting. There are also fierce attacks on the ground. They were at a loss, wondering why the main force east of the Don River did not support them, and why the artillery and anti-aircraft guns and other weapons and equipment were rushed back to the east of the Don River.
When they knew that they had been abandoned, they had been escorted by the Germans to concentration camps far away in Ukraine and Poland. Their only purpose in staying on the ground was to pile up in the middle of the road like rubbish, slow the German offensive degree, and win so little time for the main Soviet troops east of the Don.
The Soviets who didn't want to defend the front line at all did so in a thousand miles, and Manstein's forces attacked even better than Guderian's G Army. An armored regiment he used as a striker went down to the town of October in the process of going south, and stopped the offensive in order to wait for fuel.
In contrast, Guderian's troops were much more conservative. After his troops advanced dozens of kilometers, they stopped attacking because they couldn't figure out what the Soviet army was doing.
Then the Germans reached the banks of the Don River. The two sides met on the defense of the Don River. The Soviets and the Germans carried out brief shelling. After the German bombers visited again, the Soviets voluntarily stopped this provocative behavior. Instead of crossing the Don River in a hurry, Guderian waited for his infantry to arrive, and then began to build a pontoon to cross the river.
In the Caucasus battle kicked off, within 48 hours of the Germans' full-scale offensive, all the German offensive plans were completed, and most of them were completed. But everyone is not happy because they know that the Soviets are intentionally shrinking their troops