Chapter 839: Where is the end

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The air is still so dry. When winter is about to go, there seems to be no rain in the entire Russian territory, but the road here becomes muddy because of the melting snow, and there seems to be one more factor affecting the advancement of the German army. It's the irritating mud and potholes.
The Germans on the front are still in good condition. At least the two main German troops in the south have now entered a state of stagnation. The forces of Lundstadt and Klug stopped advancing after the siege of Smolensk, and the German forces in the south advanced to the Volga River Basin and threatened Stalingrad. .
But this does not mean that the muddy roads did not cause trouble to the Germans. The long supply line made the German logistics forces very depressed. They had to fight the muddy and broken roads to fight the various supplies that the front needed. Delivered to the combat forces on time.
This is a war invisible to smoke. This is a complicated project that is even larger than the frontline operations, and it is even more crippling. The German logistics forces even have more troops than the front-line combat forces. They desperately fight against various disadvantages. In addition to security, they have no other advantage than the front-line combat forces.
"Slow! Slow down! Do you know how expensive these devices are!" A German railway soldier was directing a locomotive to push a carriage full of rails along the railway that was being repaired bit by bit. He was flanked by a group of German engineers and some Ukrainian civilians who were expropriated. These people were unloading a section of rails from the carriage, and fixed these rails on the sleepers in accordance with the prescribed position.
Further forward, there are more than a dozen large trucks, which are piled up with new sleepers. Some soldiers and civilians are mixing these sleepers with the old sleepers on this railway, and then mix them one by one. Together, it becomes a railway with a density that meets European requirements.
Due to historical issues, in fact, in Ukraine and Belarus, the rails are divided into three different standards, which are the European standard rails implemented by Germany, the old narrow rails, and some wide rails that are Soviet standards. The rails are all European standards, but in Ukraine and Belarus, they are barely about half the number.
The remaining rails need to be transformed, but building railroads is not an easy task. At least building rails in wartime is a resource-intensive thing. Hundreds and thousands of tons of steel have to be rails, not tanks. This is extremely painful for the German army, which has insufficient production capacity and resources.
"Boom!" A railroad track was accurately placed on the sleepers by dozens of civilians and soldiers. On the other side, soldiers and civilians were slowly placing another rail. The construction site was in trouble, and farther away. Some German technicians with equipment are discussing how to improve some uneven areas and build more railway lines in parallel.
The German engineers fixed the positions of the rails and sleepers, and then began to embed the rail nails on them. The construction speed is already very fast according to the usual concept, but this kind of crazy railway reconstruction progress is still not available. Ways to meet the needs of the German advancement.
"I heard that the repair work over there was very fast, and it was basically able to keep the transportation smooth." An officer of the engineering department stood on the hillside not far away with his hands behind him, and he was also responsible for the railway laying troops beside him. SS officers of the security alert and officials of the local pro-German government in Belarus.
"After all, there are not many railways that meet the standards of the Third Reich in the Soviet Union. These railways were also the targets of the destruction of the Soviet Red Army when they retreated." He said: "Under the protection of SS soldiers, the work of repairing these railways has been smooth, but it is not enough to meet the needs of the frontline troops."
The commander of the engineering unit sneered. After all, the rank of colonel hung on his shoulder, which is already a genuine senior officer in the front line commander of the logistics unit: "The front line, those front line officers, soldiers, never I ’ve never been satisfied. If they were given oil, they would be short of food, and if they were short of ammunition, they would burn the oil again. "
The SS officers nodded and quite agreed with their temporary boss: "Yes, but they did attack quickly. The furthest unit now is less than 30 kilometers away from Stalingrad. And I heard Because of the use of special forces and helicopters for faster propulsion, the railway line there is still intact, which is even more difficult. "
In fact, because of the relationship between the Soviet Union and Germany during the previous period, the railway construction on the southern route was the best in the Soviet Union. There are several railways built entirely by the Germans, and there are more complete supporting facilities. In addition to being destroyed by the Soviets, most of the railways have become resources used by the Germans.
But the words are divided into two parts. On the one hand, because there are Caucasus oil fields in the south, the construction was the best during the honeymoon period in Sud. On the other hand, because the Caucasus oil fields are too important for the German army, Germany invested a total of four The army's strength is intended to open the situation in the Caucasus.
However, the German forces of the four army groups have put more pressure on the logistics than originally estimated. At least for now, these railroad tracks, which were finally built, are only enough to maintain about half of the supplies for these army groups.
In the central region, the A Group Army in Lunderstedt and the F Group Army in Kluger had less troops, but after they crossed Minsk, there were no more rails available, although several were seized in the area near Orsha A Soviet train was used to transfer materials, but there was still some embarrassment.
The Germans lacked oil tankers for transporting oil. These equipments are not high-end equipments in the country, and it is difficult to replenish production in a short period of time. Similar equipment in the Soviet Union is on the ground. Since the Soviet Union ’s war, only a small amount was captured by the Germans. Wide-gauge tank trucks are even rarer. The Germans have only made up a series of wide-gauge tanks to support the operations of the A Group Army.
"Let the soldiers work harder! Grievances go back to grievances, at least we do n’t have to kill our lives," said the colonel of engineers, who said to his adjutant behind him, "Put this railroad track to Orsha as soon as possible. , We can also save a lot of capacity. "
"Report!" The colonel's ambitions had not yet begun, and someone came to pour her cold water. A signal soldier walked uphill and gaspedly reported a bad news for him: "Colonel, the news just came, a Soviet guerrillas attacked a section of our railway in Belarus, and a line of military troops was Destroyed, we lost more than 40 people and lost more than 4 tons of food. "
"What about the nearby SS patrols? What are they doing?" The SS officer responsible for the security of the railway frowned and asked.
"The SS then arrived and rescued the remaining supplies. They put out the fires of the Soviets and annihilated the Soviets who attacked the train. But the two carriages have been burned and they are helpless." The telecommunications soldier looked at After reading the content of the message, he answered the question of another chief.
Everyone felt the pressure brought by the war, and the man-made destruction complicated many problems. The precise dispatch that the Germans were best at evolved into a disaster on train transportation. They rely on dense and well-calculated train transportation schedules to maximize the effectiveness of their railway lines, but once a problem occurs at a certain node, it will often lead to large-scale railway transportation paralysis.
In the German homeland, the materials transferred from the west line to the east line can be transported at an astonishing speed, and the effectiveness of the main railway line is fully displayed. But after entering Poland by train, and then to Minsk, the road will double the speed; then go east, from Minsk to the vicinity of Smolensk, the speed will drop three times.
Only the deceleration may be tolerable by the Germans, but the increase in transportation costs really made the Germans collapse. Often when a barrel of oil is transported to the forefront of the east, it means that another barrel of oil has been consumed on the road. This is the most unsatisfactory place for the German troops who are in short supply.
"The head of state has decided to set up material hoarding sites in Poland and some places in Belarus. At least in the next few months, we will work to improve the material transportation conditions in the rear and fight against the increasingly rampant Soviet guerrillas." SS The officer of the army looked at the west direction and seemed to be talking to himself or to the engineer colonel who was nearby: "The rest will depend on where our railway can be laid. "
"Boom!" Another section of railroad tracks fell heavily on the neat rows of sleepers and made a muffled noise. The German engineers were hammering the railway spikes with hammers, and they kept sweating, building the invisible railway desperately, and repairing the railway that seemed to never be repaired.
"We will try our best to lay it down, desperately." The engineer colonel stared at the railway that was not far away, and narrowed his eyes. "But, the enemy is trying to destroy these railways, we ourselves The generals hope that we will lay more railways, I really do n’t know, when will it end ... "