"The first thing you have to do is to forget about the previous charging tactics!" Shulka held a bullhorn and shouted to the soldiers during training: "Although I still ask you to be brave, I do not ask you to be afraid of sacrifice, bloodshed, and even more so to charge the enemy at every turn!" ”

In fact, there is another sentence that Shulka wants to say, that is, there is no requirement to "not take a step back".

But Shulka didn't dare to say this, because if he said it today, someone from the Ministry of Internal Affairs would find him tomorrow.

But even so, the soldiers looked at each other when they heard these words, because it was different from the education they had received before.

"But, Comrade Captain!" One soldier asked, "Does it make a difference?" Isn't being brave not afraid of sacrifice and not afraid of bloodshed? ”

"Aren't they any different?" Shulka asked rhetorically.

The soldiers really didn't know the difference between the two.

This is a bit unbelievable to modern people, but for the people of this era, especially for the Soviet soldiers who have long been influenced by the Soviet army's operational ideology of blindly charging and killing the enemy, it is a difficult turn to turn around.

There was a famous Chinese general who studied in the Soviet Union, and the Soviet general asked the Chinese general what he would do when he was weak against the enemy.

The Chinese general, who was good at guerrilla warfare, replied without thinking about it: "If you can't fight, run away, and continue to fight in another place!" ”

This was immediately criticized by Soviet generals...... According to the Soviet Union's tactical thinking, even if it could not be defeated, it should carry forward the spirit of fearlessness and fight the enemy to the end, and the question of retreat would not be considered at all, at least at the officer level.

This is obviously not right, and it is also the rigid and rigid side of the Soviet army's tactics, which leads to the fact that the Soviet army always suffers heavy casualties on the battlefield, even when it has the advantage on the battlefield.

"Of course there is a difference!" "Because our purpose is to kill more enemies, to win the battle, not to show how brave we are......," Shulka said In my opinion, bravery is expressed in how many enemies we can kill and ultimately win, not whether we dare to charge at the enemy's gun! ”

The soldiers nodded thoughtfully.

This truth is actually very simple, even they think so in their hearts, but they don't dare to say it or do it.

"So, you have to understand one thing first!" Shulka continued: "If it is not necessary, or if it is not an order from your superiors, you should save your life as much as possible, only by saving your own life can you have a chance to kill the enemy, and have a better chance of victory!" ”

Shulka could only speak out in this relatively obscure way.

In fact, strictly speaking, Shulka is already dangerous to say this, because it is likely to be labeled as "afraid of war" and "greedy for life and afraid of death".

But Shulka had to do it again.

Otherwise, the 82nd Infantry Regiment would have had no more than a thousand men, 1,039 to be exact...... This is the number of people selected from the original infantry regiment in Shulka.

If these 1,000 people fought on the battlefield according to the tactics of the Soviet army, it would be a matter of a few minutes of charge.

Therefore, if they really want to play a role on the battlefield and change the fate of the 82nd Infantry Regiment, the only way to do this is to change their operational thinking.

This is crucial.

Of course, it is not just a matter of rhetoric to change the combat thinking of soldiers, but more importantly, to let them apply it in training...... Only if you do this in training, you will not be as brutal as you used to when you go to the battlefield.

And that's exactly what happened.

A significant number of these soldiers thought that Shulka was just talking, so they continued to use their old tactics in training...... Or it can be said that it is a habit, when you see someone rushing forward, you will rush forward.

Shulka held a loudspeaker behind him and shouted, "What are you doing?" There is simply no cover ahead where you can hide, hiding behind a carriage? Do you think that the enemy's machine guns and mortars cannot penetrate the rotten wood of the wagon?! ”

"This isn't the time to charge, you're dead, you know? It's dead! ”

"Hold your positions, cover your comrades, and back off!"

"Yes, done right! Cover each other, use the cover of buildings, and choose the enemy's fire blind spot to retreat! ”

……

To put it simply, Shulka is teaching them not to attack, but to retreat, to retreat, to retreat.

This caused Shulka to run into a little trouble in training, which came from Major Mikhailvich, who had attended a military school.

"Comrade Shulka!" Major Mikhailvich approached Shulka between trainings: "I want to talk to you about training!" ”

"Do you agree with my training style?" Shulka asked.

"So to speak!" Major Mikhailvich handed Shulka a flask: "To be precise, I agree with you in some ways, such as what you said that only by preserving your own life can you better kill the enemy and finally win. I think it's a long-term way of fighting, not looking at the present. But...... We've been training retreats! I don't think that the retreat will lead us to victory, Comrade Shulka! ”

"It's easy to charge, but it's not easy to retreat in an orderly way, Comrade Major!" Shulka took the flask and took a few sips before handing it back to the major: "At the same time, they also need to practice retreating!" ”

"It's going to break their morale and make them think negatively!" Major Mikhailvich lowered his voice and said: "I know what you think, Comrade Shulka, you hope that we can launch a counterattack at the right opportunity. But...... Some people use this tactic as an excuse to keep retreating in order to save themselves, and we can't even blame them, because that's the tactic we taught them! ”

"I think we should trust our soldiers!" Shulka replied, "I mean, if you want to build a real army, trust them rather than defend them. Otherwise, even if you organize an Overseer team behind them, it won't change anything! ”

This has been proven time and time again on the battlefield.

For example, on the Kerch Peninsula, and in large areas west of Moscow occupied by the Germans, the Soviets organized warlords on more than one occasion to turn their guns on fleeing soldiers.

But it has had a very limited and sometimes counterproductive effect...... As a result, the soldiers mutinied en masse and chose to surrender to the Germans.

"If it's useless, why do we do it when we know it's useless?"

"But...... How can we unreservedly believe in our soldiers, they will always have some people who are greedy for life and afraid of death! ”

"All we have to do is trust them!" Shulka replied: "Even if they make mistakes once in a while!" ”