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The Third Empire - Chapter 1272

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:32:58 AM


Chapter 1272: 1272

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The landing troops fought for half an hour. After that, there was no more gunfire on the other side.

"Report to the division commander that our troops have controlled the other side." The adjutant was very happy to receive the news from the radio.

"Then build a bridge and cross the river immediately!" Weber said.

The bridge troops are already ready.

In the process of conquering Europe, the German army encountered all kinds of rivers. For shallow tanks, they can connect the vent pipe and go directly to the bottom of the river. When they encounter deep and wide ones, there is no other way, they can only go by bridge.

On the European battlefield, because of the chaos of the enemy, German troops can often send forward troops to seize the bridge, protect the bridge and let their main forces cross the river calmly.

In the Soviet Union, it will not work. Especially with the deepening, the Soviet army will no longer panic and begin to enter an orderly stage of resistance. When they retreat, they will often blow up the bridge. Even if Germany sends a few troops, they can't protect it. They can't compete with the main force of the Soviet Union.

Especially now, in order to stop the German army's attack, almost all the bridges here have collapsed, and Germany has long been prepared for this, that is, engineers build bridges.

Germany has realized mechanized bridge erection for a long time. For example, now, all the bridge erection vehicles are transformed from the original Panther 2 tank chassis. On the top of the vehicle, there are steel bridges. As the bridge erection vehicle moves to the front, the above bridges begin to turn over. Part of them are used as bridge legs, part as bridge deck, and a section of the bridge is built.

The bridge erecting vehicle behind continues to move to the already erected bridge, continues to build the bridge, and advances section by section. In the afternoon, it can build a bridge enough for tanks to pass.

At this time, other infantry units have begun to take unmodified wheeled infantry combat vehicles and cross the river. When they reach the other side of the river, in the swamp, as long as they are pulled by the modified infantry combat vehicles equipped with screws, they can be directly pulled to the hard shore land.

The speed of crossing the river is not slow. The subsequent infantry will firmly guard the beach position. The Dnieper River, which the Soviets thought was a natural graben, is only a small ditch in front of the German army.

When it was getting dark, tanks rumbled across the bridge. The 17th armored division, keep moving!

Generally speaking, throughout the war period, the Soviet command was quite chaotic. As long as one node of the Soviet tree command system was destroyed, some troops would fall into a state of no command.

At the same time, the Soviet command mode is also quite backward.

They rely on the radio, but on the battlefield, the signal of the radio is always disturbed. They rely on the messenger. The military situation is urgent. When the messenger passes the order, the situation changes, and they have to modify the order.

In this way, the chaos of the Soviet army was exacerbated.

The troops guarding the Dnieper River were actually forgotten by their superiors. The information about the capture of their positions was mixed with a lot of information, large and small, and was not reported in time.

So far, the Soviet army has not noticed that there is a big hole in their defense line. Along this big hole, the elite German armored forces have burst in.

It is said that at this time, there are heavy troops deployed by the Soviets. Even if an armored division comes in, it will be very dangerous and even surrounded and annihilated by the Soviet army.

However, the German armored forces are always so bold. Under the intelligence investigation of the air force, they made two detours in a row, bypassing the 20th military defense zone and the heavily guarded main road to Smolensk, and rushed directly to the southern urban area of Smolensk.

Dnieper River runs across Smolensk city and divides the city into two parts: residential area and commercial area in the south, accounting for 2 / 3 of the whole city, and industrial area in the north, accounting for 1 / 3.

In the south, only Lukin's militia was defending.

Lu Jin stayed in the urban defense headquarters in the north of the city and urged his boss anxiously.

At this time, timoshingo was responsible for the defense of the whole Smolensk front.

At the beginning, Pavlov's mistake led to the failure of the western special military region. When Pavlov was called back from the front line and shot, timoshingo replaced Pavlov and went to the western special military region.

Unfortunately, the failure of the western special military region was doomed, and timoshingo could not recover the situation. At Zhukov's suggestion, the base camp gave up Minsk and began to arrange the defense line behind, and timoshingo retreated and defended in Smolensk.

Timoshingo was under great pressure. At the beginning, he had been kicked to the Ural Mountain by Stalin for reflection because of a failure. If he failed again this time, it can be imagined that Pavlov was his example.

Tiemuxinge didn't dare to have any negligence. Almost every day, he was planning strategies and staring at his defense map.

In history, tiemuxinge is definitely not a loser, but a successful person.

Because he had a good personal relationship with Stalin, he was not involved in the great cleansing. At the same time, he won the Soviet Finnish war, forced Finland to seek peace and made great contributions.

Timoshingo took over as the commander of the Western Front Army under the critical situation in July 1941 and commanded the retreat operation in Smolensk. Although it paid a huge price, timoshingo succeeded in stabilizing the situation of the Western army and stabilizing the front until the German army launched the Moscow battle at the end of September 1941.

After that, he was transferred to the front line of Ukraine to command the Red Army, which had just been annihilated by 1.5 million people in Kiev and uman, successfully stabilized the front and successfully commanded Rostov's counterattack.

It can be said that Timoshenko is a figure who turned the tide in the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, the strength of the German army is far stronger than that in the historical period. Timoshenko knows how much pressure he has.

"Marshal, general Lukin is here." Just then, the adjutant's voice made tiemuxinge come back: "no, tell him I don't have time. The equipment he wants is being transported from the rear and will arrive tomorrow."

Tiemuxinge already knows Lu Jin's name. He is a popular man in front of Stalin, but tiemuxinge has no opinion about it. Such a tiger general is useful under his own hands.

However, tiemuxinge can't stand running to get equipment every day. Now he just disappears. Of course, the rear is adjusting equipment, but his men are lack of equipment everywhere. Can't he give all his equipment to his people's regiment? Those militia groups are now defending in the southern urban area. For the time being, the Germans can't fight. They have to pay close attention to the front line first.




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