Edmond looked at the burning tanks in the middle of the highway with a grim face, and said nothing.

"Lieutenant Colonel!" The adjutant said: "I'll send a few more tanks up right away!" ”

"No!" Edmund shook his head: "It won't be useful, they can hide one group of bazooka shooters in the graveyard, and they can hide another batch." Until our tanks are blown up......"

Lieutenant Colonel Edmond was right, Shulka hid in three batches of ten people each.

The reason why three batches are hidden is because if you hide too much to be effective, it is a waste.

There is less hiding, and the Germans will not be able to cope with it if they send tanks up.

Three batches are neither more nor less, and the 29th Motorized Infantry Division has a total of only twenty tanks (originally thirty, but ten were lost in the attack on Mamayev Gang).

If three more batches are blown up three times, they will almost be blown up.

As for assault guns...... Shulka wasn't worried about that at all.

The turrets of assault guns cannot be rotated, and they can be useful for attacking larger, more obvious targets in open ground, such as enemy pillboxes, firing points, trenches, etc.

If they are used in a cemetery like a place where there are headstones everywhere and soldiers can move quickly, it will be a failure...... The turret of the tank can rotate, so it can react quickly to the target, and the assault gun must rely on the body to aim at the target, which is a very difficult and time-consuming process, and by the time it is finally aimed at the target, the Soviet soldiers have long been moved elsewhere.

"So......" The adjutant looked at Edmond with a look of helplessness in his eyes, he had never experienced such a tactic, and there was nothing he could do at this time.

In fact, not only the adjutant, but Edmund was helpless.

But Edmund knew that the attack could not be stopped just like that, otherwise the Mamayev Hills, which had been fought so hard to win, would fall into the hands of the enemy again.

After thinking about it, Edmund said to the adjutant: "Ask for reinforcements immediately, we need more troops, it's infantry!" ”

"Infantry?"

"Yes!" Edmund replied: "Let them send more infantry, no tanks are needed!" ”

Edmund realized by this time that a battle like this could only be fought with infantry against enemy infantry instead of planes, tanks, and even artillery.

This is the right idea.

Because in this special terrain, if you still stick to the usual infantry and tan cooperative combat, it can only be said that you tie your hands and feet...... Tanks can't do much in such terrain, and they can even become a burden to the infantry, who have to protect the tank, thus exposing their position.

Although Andreas, the commander of the 29th Motorized Infantry Division, did not know what was happening at the front, he trusted Edmond's judgment.

This was a manifestation of the high quality of the German commanders, who always gave full freedom to the commanders of the front.

In fact, the same was true of Hitler in the early stages of the battle, which made the Germans very flexible in their operations, and they always made the best choice in time according to the changing situation at the front.

Until Hitler became less and less convinced of the Wehrmacht's loyalty to him, and at the same time repeatedly blamed the front-line commanders for the failures at the front......

In fact, this was the reason why Hitler lost the support of the senior commanders of the Wehrmacht.

Almost all commanders understood that the attack on Moscow was fought because Hitler was stubborn and did not listen to advice.

For example, Hitler's insistence on encircling Kyiv deprived Army Group Center of nearly a month of time to attack Moscow.

Another example is the attack on Stalingrad, and Hitler's insistence on splitting Army Group South into two armies and attacking the Caucasus and Stalingrad separately even made a completely unnecessary low-level mistake...... The 4th Panzer Army of Hort, which belonged to Army Group B, was assigned to Army Group A to attack the Caucasus, and then, when Army Group B was found to be insufficient, the 4th Panzer Army was transferred back to Army Group B.

This allowed the Germans, a whole Panzer Army, to move pointlessly back and forth between the Caucasus and Stalingrad.

If it may not have been a big deal at other times, but it was a transfer made in the face of the shortage of supplies and troops of the German army, you can imagine how many supplies were wasted and how many fighters were missed.

The German high commanders were not fools, they knew all these mistakes made by Hitler.

But Hitler blamed all these mistakes on the front-line commanders.

This has left IDF generals feeling humiliated and treated unfairly, but they also have bitter words of disappointment as they resist and are subject to dismissal or court-martial.

As a result, contradictions inevitably arise.

This was one of the reasons for the subsequent "assassination of Hitler", and if it were not for the dissatisfaction of the Wehrmacht generals with Hitler, this assassination organization would not have been able to succeed.

At this time, although Hitler had interfered too much, the German front-line operations still maintained the tradition of giving enough freedom and power to front-line commanders.

As a result, Major General Andreas did not think much about it, and immediately sent the 86th Motorized Infantry Regiment to reinforce Lieutenant Colonel Edmond and put it under his command...... Lieutenant Colonel Edmond was the commander of the 87th Motorized Infantry Regiment and originally did not have the authority to command the 86th Motorized Infantry Regiment.

But because of his familiarity with the principles of the battlefield, Major General Andreas temporarily gave him command.

The 86th Motorized Infantry Regiment moved quickly, but it took only 20 minutes to arrive at the cemetery.

The reason why it took more than 20 minutes was because the hospital and the school were almost so bombed that they could not even pass through them, so they simply marched all the way to the cemetery.

"Lieutenant Colonel Bauer!" Edmund spread out his map and said to the newly arrived commander of the 86th Motorized Infantry Regiment: "This is the area you see, a cemetery...... We must cross it and reinforce the Mamayev Heights. You know it's urgent, and we have to do it as soon as possible! ”

"Enemies in the cemetery are tricky, aren't they?" Lieutenant Colonel Bauer asked.

"Yes!" Lieutenant Colonel Edmund replied: "We have suffered heavy casualties, but we can't even touch their shadows!" ”

"That's normal, Lieutenant Colonel Edmond!" Lieutenant Colonel Bauer replied: "Because we identified this group of enemies not so long ago!" ”

"Their identities?" Lieutenant Colonel Edmond looked at Lieutenant Colonel Ball in confusion and asked, "Are they an elite unit?" ”

"No, quite the opposite!" Lieutenant Colonel Bauer replied, "They are a ragtag unit similar to a correctional battalion, and they have only been formed for a few months!" ”

This was very embarrassing for Lieutenant Colonel Edmond, because it meant that he was incompetent.

Lieutenant Colonel Bauer said, "But you don't have to think it's your fault, because you don't know who is directing them!" ”

After a pause, Lieutenant Colonel Bauer revealed the mystery: "It's the 'breakout hero', Lieutenant Colonel, you are facing the 'breakout hero'." Marshal Manstein failed to defeat him! ”