Commander of the Eleventh Army, Littel. Feng. General Schubert was a gentleman with a gentlemanly appearance and a graceful aristocratic atmosphere.

When the 170 Infantry Regiment of the 391st Infantry Division was fighting KV-2 outside the city, in the northeast corner of the city of Iasi, General Schubert, with his adjutant, walked out of the basement in horror and came outside the villa.

Seeing the tragic situation of the residence in front of him, the grace and Sven on his body were gone at this time, and some were only angry and afraid.

The former residence, which was also the headquarters of the 11th Group Army, a three-story villa, had been reduced to ruins at this time.

The right half of the villa had collapsed by a full third, and the old masonry and rubble had formed a hill.

All the glass from the windows on the left side of the villa was shattered, and the floor below was covered with shards of crystal glass that were glistening against the rising sun.

Scraps of masonry were interspersed with shredded wooden planks of various furniture, dusty curtains, and a part of the torso of a dead body.

Glancing at the corpse with its upper body buried in the rubble, its lower body exposed to its waist, and the dusty trousers and leather boots on its legs and feet, General Schubert couldn't help but feel a flurry of palpitations.

His bedroom was on the second floor on the right half of this villa, and if it weren't for the quick reaction of Adjutant Captain Bierman, who heard the explosion of a nearby bomb and dragged himself to the basement, he would definitely be one of the people who would have been buried alive.

Looking at the extent of the destruction of the buildings around the street, Admiral Schubert judged that it was an air raid, not an artillery bombardment.

It's remote, there are no worthy military targets, why are the Russians bombing here? Did he come specifically for his own headquarters?

Regardless of whether the bombing was specifically aimed at the headquarters of the 11th Army, the gains of the Russian Air Force were still very large, half of the headquarters was destroyed, almost half of the members of the headquarters, communications equipment, and maps were buried in the rubble, and the command of the headquarters was in a state of semi-paralysis.

Will the Russian Air Force still bomb here? Does the command need to be transferred?

After a little hesitation, General Schubert decided to use the remaining half of the villa to rebuild the headquarters, and the war broke out early, and his troops were taken by surprise. The most important thing is to restore the command of the troops as soon as possible, and you can put your own safety behind you for a while.

The three military departments under his command cannot contact the headquarters, and without a unified command, they will definitely fall into chaos.

As the backbone of the headquarters. General Schubert calmed down, followed by the surviving members of the command, and then resumed work in the wreckage of the villa.

The command guard company began to dig up piles of rubble, looking for survivors and valuable office equipment.

The villa immediately became noisy, and the telephone rang. The shouts of the staff officers came and went.

After a dozen phone calls and seven or eight telegrams, Senior General Schubert knew the situation well.

Along the entire Romanian-Soviet border, the Soviet Red Army achieved a comprehensive breakthrough at the Prut River and was currently engaged in battles with the Eleventh Army, the Romanian Third Army and the Fourth Army.

If these three army groups were defeated, the Soviet Red Army could rush unhindered into the Romanian hinterland.

After the 11th Army and the two Romanian armies were assembled, most of them were deployed 10 to 20 kilometers behind the national border, in order to do a good job of secrecy and not to reveal the upcoming Barbarossa plan.

Only Romanian border guards remained on the border, which gave the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it. Successfully achieve a breakthrough.

General Schubert's gaze quickly swept over the left and right flanks of the Eleventh Army on the map.

With the ancient city of Iasi as the center, the three armies of the Eleventh Army were lined up.

On the left flank of the Eleventh Army was the Romanian Third Army, and on the right flank was the Romanian Fourth Army.

It had been four months since the Eleventh Army came to Romania, and during these four months, General Schubert had a lot of dealings with the Romanians and had an objective assessment of the Romanians' combat value.

The Romanian army could not help but have outdated weapons and equipment, and the quality of personnel was also backward.

Measured by German standards, the quality of the officer corps of the Romanian army is very poor, and compared with the lion of the German ** officer corps, the officer corps of the Romanian army can fully enjoy the title of sheep.

The officer corps is sheep. Ordinary soldiers of the Luo army can be called goats at best.

Not only are they not very willing to fight, but they are also illiterate, and it is difficult for them to grasp the combat intentions of their superiors during exercises.

Schubert once saw with his own eyes that a Romanian cavalryman did not perform well during a drill. They were severely whipped by their company commander with a horsewhip, and this kind of scene was completely unimaginable in the German ** team.

A flock of sheep leads a flock of goats, and the relationship between the two flocks is very unharmonious, and there is only one conclusion to the conclusion.

The Romanians were unreliable, the left and right flanks of the 11th Army were dangerous, and a retreat had to be thought out in advance.

Think again about the Soviet tanks mentioned in the intelligence brochures provided by the intelligence services. and the weak 25mm anti-tank guns in the Romanian army, General Schubert's concerns grew more and more serious.

If you're worried about something happening, then it's more likely to happen.

On the right flank of the 11th Army, the positions of the Romanian Fourth Army stretched southeast from the city of Burlad to Breila with a total length of about 120 km.

This line of defense, which clings to the right bank of the Danube, is being tested to the limit.

Rushing across the bridge over the river seized by the infantry, the Soviet Fourth and Eighth Mechanized Corps advanced in unison and ran headlong into the defensive line of the Fourth Army of the Romanian Army.

Two mechanized corps, each with two tank divisions and one motorized division.

As the main force, there are two tank divisions, each under the jurisdiction of two tank regiments, each regiment is equipped with a KV heavy tank battalion, two T-34 medium tank battalions and a BT-5 light tank battalion.

After the reconnaissance battalion discovered the Romanian position on the opposite side, the vanguard of the 8th Mechanized Corps, the 12th Tank Division, would immediately deploy in battle formation, with KV heavy tanks as the lead and T-34 tanks following in the rear, to launch an attack on the Romanian 6th Infantry Division stationed near the city of Burrad.

Its left flank, the vanguard of the 4th Mechanized Corps, the 8th Tank Division, likewise attacked the positions of the Romanian 8th Infantry Division.

On the flat alluvial plain of the Danube, more than 500 tanks spewed flames and black smoke and creaked forward, and at a glance, the dense tanks almost obscured the land.

Faced with a powerful tank cluster, the Fourth Army urgently sent their strongest team, the 1st Panzer Division, to the front line.

The 1st Panzer Division of the Romanian Army has two tank regiments, the first of which is equipped with 126 LT-35 tanks from the Czech Republic, which weigh about 10 tons. The main armament was a 37-mm tank gun.

The second regiment was armed with Renault R-35 tanks imported from France, which weighed about 10 tons and was also armed with a 37 mm "bean gun" gun.

This force had an unrivaled force, at least in the eyes of the Romanians.

Fortunately in the midst of misfortune. Romania was planning to launch an attack on the Soviet Union, and its subordinate units were well prepared, and after receiving the battle order, the two tank regiments of the 1st Panzer Division set out quickly to support the infantry divisions at the front.

Long queues of tanks rushed along the road to forward positions. Instead of seeing Soviet tanks, they first encountered a group of Grim Reapers, who fell from the sky.

Four fighter planes with gray bellies and green paint on their fuselages flew over the road in a group.

When they flew over the tank column of the Romanian army on the road, the tail of the aircraft was sprayed with red five stars that were extremely dazzling.

The four planes then dispersed and dived down behind the tank column.

First, eight 250-kilogram bombs patronized the convoy, and the 20-mm cannons and 7.62-millimeter machine guns on the wings spewed fiery snakes, and shells were sprinkled on the marching troops.

Black smoke instantly rose from the power compartment of the two LT-35 tanks, and the rest of the tanks fled the road in a hurry, and two more LT-35s accidentally overturned and fell to the ground in the chaos.

Four aircraft, firepower and limited number. It caused more fright than damage to the Luo army tanks on the ground, and also took away valuable time.

After the four planes departed triumphantly, the scattered tanks of the Romanian army returned to the team at the call of the officer.

Work to save the wounded also began.

When the tank units of the Romanian army embarked on the journey again, they did not know that in the northeast sky, four four-plane formations were rushing towards them.

These planes were recruited by the same party as the four planes, and all of them had a common name, the Il-2.

When the 1st Romanian Panzer Division was subjected to a baptism of guns from the air, their infantry brothers were in a precarious situation.

Most of them are recruits who have not fought in battle.

They were a group of recruits who had been attacked by surprise and rushed into their positions.

They are a group of "goat" recruits led by sheep.

25-mm anti-tank shells were ejected. 37-mm anti-tank shells aided by the Germans were also ejected.

The anti-aircraft artillery units responded quite dutifully, and according to the teachings of the Germans, they operated the Vickers 1936 75-mm anti-aircraft guns in their hands to fire horizontally, and luckily let four or five Soviet tanks emit black smoke. Stop where you are.

They were thus exposed to their targets and were immediately destroyed by the whizzing shells.

When the recruits of the Luo army found that all the weapons in their hands could not withstand the enemy tanks, the survival ** was overwhelming, seeing the enemy tanks getting closer and closer, more and more Luo army infantry turned around and fled, running like headless flies to the rear where they thought they could survive.

The crisis on the right flank was soon detected by the FI-156 reconnaissance plane, which was sent to reconnoitre. Similar information was sent from liaison officers stationed at the headquarters of the Fourth Army in Romania.

General Schubert knocked on the location of the Romanian Fourth Army on the map and said: "Immediately send the situation here to the army group command, our right flank is about to collapse, and we must retreat." ”

Shortly after the communications staff officer left, Senior General Schubert and the officers around him raised their heads one after another, turned their heads to look at the roof.

"Enemy planes, enemy planes."

There were shouts outside, and the sound of anti-aircraft guns firing immediately rang out.

The staff officers hurriedly put away the map, and General Schubert followed the adjutant to the basement to escape the air raid.

After about twenty minutes, General Schubert came out of the basement again, looked at the mess of streets and the wreckage of houses, and said: "We can't stay here any longer, let's move to the outskirts of the west of the city." ”

Shortly after the long convoy drove out of the city, in the east of the sky, with its back to the sun, four more Il-2 planes rushed to the road and launched an attack on the convoy of General Schubert, which in an instant set off a bloody storm in the convoy, which was mostly light vehicles.

The VW82 barrel car in which General Schubert was riding was also overturned by a wave of air from a 250-kilogram bomb.

After the departure of the four Il-2s, when the surviving officers found General Schubert, who had been thrown out of the car and lay dying in the grass, only the last words of General Schubert were heard.

"Hansen takes over and carefully retreats reinforcements on both flanks" (to be continued.) )