109 Armored Battles
The train was new, apparently from the United States, and Yelena was concerned with the rescue of ordinary civilians, and when it came to weapons and military supplies, it was put on the back burner. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 But his brother Victor is different, he doesn't care about the civilians, but believes that only when the battlefield is victorious, can the people be saved. Although it was already eight o'clock in the evening, the sky was still bright at this time, and this is what makes Leningrad special, where the summer is always so bright, and the winter is not only long, but the daylight is very short, and it is hardly dawn.
There are a lot of people on the platform, but compared to other platforms, there are more people loading and unloading goods here, Yelena's two sons were sent to the train, and the mother was worried, this time she sent her son away, brought some clothes, and brought their books, favorite snacks, fruits are oranges and grapefruits, and hot milk was also prepared, delicious cakes were also brought, afraid that they would be cold, and also brought down sleeping bags for the two little ones, and the small sports car they liked also brought, which was specially ordered by Yelena for her sons in the United States, with a diesel engine, and a bucket of ten kilograms of diesel fuel in the back box, the car was completely a miniature version of the sedan, But although the sparrow is small, two people have one each, but this time only one was brought, and the watches on the two children have positioning devices, but now there are no satellites, and they can transmit signals at most with it, but this is not bad, Yelena hopes to make the children as safe as possible. Because they had to take a boat, they were all prepared with life jackets, although for a four-year-old child, even if there were life jackets, it might not do much, but Yelena still prepared, because even the body armor was prepared, and it was not bad for this.
The train was about to leave, and Laisha had already started to cry, and Yelena couldn't help it, watching her son leave, Yelena felt like she couldn't breathe. Before leaving, I already missed them very much.
"Goodbye, Mommy, Grandma, goodbye!" Victor waved vigorously,
Andrei also cried and shouted at them, Yelena controlled herself, she was afraid that she would leave the child behind if she was impulsive. When there was no one in sight, Yelena helped her mother to leave. And the two brothers on the train, took out the small radio given by their mother, the small tape recorder given by their mother, not only can play tapes, but also listen to the radio, more compact, and equipped with headphones, the two brothers often use this to listen to foreign languages, this time left, they also specially asked their mother to record a whole set of songs for them, all of which were sung by Yelena herself, and also sung in the past, in various language versions, there are bel canto, and popular, it is said that there is also a Chinese national style of singing, and even opera, many languages they have not mastered, and the preferences of the two brothers are also different, Andrei likes Yelena to sing in bel canto singing"Scarborough Bazaar", while Victor likes to listen to Chinese opera and folk songs, because his mother sings so gently, but both brothers like the lullabies sung by their mother, lullabies in various languages, especially "The Nightingale Sings in the Cherry Orchard" in Ukrainian. The escort officer looked at the two young children, who honestly plugged in their headphones and listened to music, and they were a little surprised. Although the two children look very much like Volkov, Volkov is already extremely handsome, coupled with Yelena's genetics, the two children are very cute, white and fat, wearing elegant woolen suits and forward hats, just like little gentlemen, anyone who sees it will like it.
Yelena sent her mother home and went straight to the hospital, a few days after the last bombing, most of the wounded have stabilized, but some of the seriously injured cannot recover in a short time, so they are sent directly to the train and transported to the rear, so that more beds can be freed up.
Just as Yelena was patrolling around the ward and preparing to go to the medicine warehouse, the sound of shells exploding came, and Yelena hurriedly ran to the bomb shelter with everyone. When I saw a paramedic pushing the wounded, I went up to help. When we arrived at the bomb shelter, and everyone had settled down, the shells exploded in their heads.
The whistling shells continued to explode, and the sound and violent vibration seemed to shake the heart, and the bombing really lived up to its name, and this was not only material damage and casualties, but also a great psychological shock for the more people who survived! The bombing of the hospital, Germany was really as inhuman as the legend, Yelena thought in her heart, this matter must be well talked to Golovalov, who was in charge of propaganda, so that many people could understand that they could not surrender and survive.
In the war, civilians are desperate, at this time looking at the panicked people, running around, packing valuables, running out of the city, some people pushing bicycles, some people leading horse-drawn carts or ox carts, the residents on the streets in the bombing have nowhere to escape, there are men, women, old people and children lying in pools of blood, no matter who you are, no matter how good you look, in front of the bomb, you are still unrecognizable, mutilated corpses, young and lovely children, how can a tragic word be described? Volunteers braved enemy fire to extinguish fires and rescue fires, and some were responsible for carrying the wounded to hospitals. Even though the hospital was also a target, who would think about danger at this time? Or where is it not? Yelena didn't even have time to inquire about her mother's condition.
The shelling continued intermittently throughout the day, from hospitals, to schools, factories, and residential areas. Yelena has been busy with the operation, busy with the rescue, until late at night the next day, Yelena is tired, Boris came to the hospital to look for her, knowing that Yelena is not injured and is working, so he is relieved, he asked people to pass a message to Yelena, informing the family that everyone is fine. Yelena was extremely glad to hear the news, if the child was still there, or the child was outside, then the possibility of encountering danger was very high. After the outbreak of the war, Yelena hurriedly transferred all the troops to the territory of the Soviet Union, not only the armored division in northwest China, but also cars, airplanes and a large amount of fuel in Outer Mongolia, all kinds of military supplies were transported to the territory of the Soviet Union.
ACCORDING TO THE LATEST REPORT, THE DIVISION HAS 833 TANKS OF THE LATEST TYPE, 450 ARMORED VEHICLES, 230 ARMORED INFANTRY FIGHTING VEHICLES WITH ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS AND HEAVY MACHINE GUNS, 270 155MM SELF-PROPELLED TRACKED GUNS, 700 VEHICLES AND 230 TANKERS. THERE ARE 45 MEDICAL VEHICLES, IN ADDITION, THERE ARE 120 230MM LARGE-CALIBER TOWED ARTILLERY, A TOTAL OF 20 COMMUNICATION ELECTRONIC VEHICLES AND COMMAND VEHICLES, AND SOME ENGINEERING VEHICLES. With a large amount of fuel, ammunition and support supplies, it marched into the territory of the Soviet Union. The speed is not slow, sometimes there are poor roads and vehicle breakdowns in the middle, but these are not big problems. On the territory of the USSR, there were trains that were delivered directly to the nearest front, that is, to the Southwestern Front under the command of Volkov. This armored division is also a teaching team, originally set up to have a full force of 16,000 people, but due to the increase in vehicles and the responsibility of training, more than 28,000 people came back with them at this time. In addition, the planes belonging to the Panzer Division were also escorted all the way, and the entire flight team had 80 fighters and 20 bombers, and four large transport planes began to travel to and from the Soviet Union and Yelena's supply points in various places. By this time they had arrived in Ukraine, and they had already made contact with Volkov and were already fighting.
Ground-air coordinated operations are the key to whether the armored forces can play a role, and compared with other units of the Soviet Union at this time, whether it is tank troops, artillery, or even pilots, the Soviet troops are far from catching up, not to mention that the equipment of the Soviet army at this time is backward, at least in front of the German army, it is a completely crushed situation. Although the number of armored divisions looks quite large, they are only relative to the Chinese battlefield, if they are placed in the Soviet Union against the German armored group, the role that this armored division can play is not at all comparable to that of the Chinese battlefield.
Volkov's Southwestern Front numbered about 760,000 men, including Radiyan Mussorgsky's 5th Army, Galperin Karpov's 6th Army, Mikhail Slutsky's 26th Army, and Augusta Oshanin's 12th Army. His chief of staff was Vladimir Grechko. Sokolov was the commander of the guard battalion, that is, the special operations battalion, and Yantyuk was his commissar. Michurin is a communications company responsible for electronic warfare and searching for battlefield intelligence.
In fact, in 1940, when Volkov first arrived at the Kiev Special Military District, he made extremely in-depth and meticulous preparations, prepared orders to the armies before the outbreak of the war, surveyed the routes of movement and areas of concentration, and only finally issued combat orders, and he also conducted several exercises in order to exercise the reaction speed of the troops. At this time, most of the airfields in the Soviet Union were under repair, but Volkov, as a general with extremely high military acumen, naturally made a backup plan, which made the losses of the Kiev Military District at the beginning of the war to be minimal.
The training of troops cannot be completed in a short period of time, but the time is too tight, and they can only solve key matters, and he strictly ordered those troops who were put together in a short period of time and had a poor ability to cope with sudden incidents, because war was imminent. Volkov was not only a shrewd and capable military genius, but also an assertive and strategic expert who was good at seizing opportunities. On the eve of the outbreak of the war, when most of the commanders of other military districts and fronts were sitting in the headquarters of the big cities waiting for instructions from Moscow, Volkov had already entered the command post in Ternhopol.
At midnight on June 21, he reported to the headquarters in Moscow from the command post: a German deserter had brought intelligence that war was about to break out. At 0:30 on June 22, two hours before the outbreak of the war, the General Staff of the Soviet Army issued an order "The Armed Forces are ready for combat." By this time German agents had already begun to sabotage communications equipment in the western border areas of the USSR, and the communications equipment and methods of the Kiev Special Military District were the most advanced. An order from the General Staff. Volkov then gave an order to all his subordinate headquarters and other structures: "Resist the German attack by all means!"
Volkov remembered Yelena's evaluation of him, so he spent a lot of effort on studying defensive tactics, and also paid more attention to the political education of the troops, and if the combat effectiveness could not be improved in a short period of time, then brainwashing was always possible, right? No need to shout slogans, just tell them how the Germans treated prisoners of war, and we, as glorious Red Army troops, should rely on each other, absolutely not leave a single wounded, and bury the remains of our comrades as much as possible. Volkov changed his domineering temperament in the past, not only gave his subordinates full autonomy, but also was willing to listen to their opinions and care about their lives, especially when he usually treated these subordinates, there was no superior's frame at all. Although he is still strict and meticulous, he will also chat with you, and you will never hear a word of attack from his mouth again. As a result, the entire Kyiv Special Military District was unanimous and Stalin's military district for which Stalin received the fewest secret letters.
Volkov first inflicted a setback on the German 17th Army, which was attacking Lviv. The Germans in this direction said that they had "encountered unexpectedly stubborn resistance from the Russian defenders"; some German divisions had lost contact with each other in the first few hours, resulting in a gap of up to 10 kilometers wide; and the plan to surprise the important bridge over Rzemeil was also unsuccessful, with the result that the German 7th Army as a whole had little initial success and suffered great losses.
The German 1st Panzer Group, the invincible ace of the German army, also suffered a great setback in front of Volkov. On June 23, the day after the outbreak of the war, Volkov skillfully organized the 9th, 19th, and 22nd Mechanized Corps to carry out a counter-assault on the flank of the vanguard of the Kleist Panzer Group. These mechanized corps have been formed for a very short time, and their training time has been even shorter, and many of the equipment has not even been fully equipped. The same situation became the most common reason for the defeat of the mechanized corps in the first battle of the armies on other fronts, but under the leadership of Volkov, the troops with these problems also fought stubbornly. The Soviet counter-assault was so fierce that the German 1st Panzer Group, which was advancing frantically on French soil, was stunned in northern Ukraine, and the interruption of communications on the battlefield, the appearance of a large number of rocket launchers and extremely advanced tanks made the German troops in this area even more difficult to deal with. By the time Yelena's panzer division arrived, the changes on the battlefield were even more pronounced, and the Germans even lost air supremacy for a while, and a month after the outbreak of the war, the losses here were equal to the total number of tanks lost in other areas.
At the beginning of July, Volkov's tank and armored units suddenly burst out of the swamp to attack the German troops who were caught off guard, and on 10 July, again appeared on the southern edge of the Pripyat marsh, launching a rapid and fierce attack on the flank of the 1st Panzer Group.