The tactics of front-line flat push and fan-shaped deployment are really stupid, but the German army has just finished resting, and occupies the advantage of firepower, mobility and personnel, this short assault tactic is very violent to use, the German army used 4 armored armies on the central front of more than 800 kilometers, including 12 armored divisions, 8 armored grenadier divisions, 26 infantry divisions, including powerful forces, like a bulldozer, to assault, infiltration, destruction trilogy to break through the effective defense line of the Red Army, The overall battle seems to be a repetition of the small Battle of Barbarossa, but it seems to be more rapid than Barbarossa's original advance. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

On July 8, the Red Army abandoned Mikhaizhovka, and more than 30,000 of the broken troops were either killed or captured, and nearly 10,000 wounded and sick could not be transferred and fell into the hands of the Germans.

On 9 July, the Germans occupied Kalininsk, and the two Red Army infantry corps defending it collapsed.

On July 10, the Germans crossed the Don River from the Mikhaizhovka line and quickly occupied positions on the left bank of the Don River.

On 11 July, the Germans had advanced 200-250 kilometers on a front of more than 800 kilometers as a whole, occupying Kacharinskaya at the southernmost point of the southern route, only 75 kilometers from Stalingrad; The 3rd Panzer Army in the center reached the outskirts of Sakhatov from the front, and the 2nd Panzer Army occupied the Red Army City and threatened Sakhatov from the southern flank; The northern front was fought all the way to Penza, and at any time it was possible to turn south and directly attack Sakhatov, which was more than 200 kilometers away.

The next target of the German attack was Sakhatov, a hub city in the middle reaches of the Volga River. Stalingrad is 350 kilometers south of Sakhatov, 500 kilometers north of Kazan, and 400 kilometers east of Kuibyshev - where many Soviet state institutions and foreign embassies are temporarily stationed, and they are now facing another move after moving from Moscow less than two years ago.

The capture of Sakhatov meant the military cutting off of the Volga and the semi-encirclement of Stalingrad from the north, west and south, and although there was still a long way to go before the actual encirclement of the city, the strategic situation of the Red Army deteriorated sharply.

However, the German army was optimistic and worried, and while the progress was good and the successes on the front were frequent, Zeitzler was also keenly aware of something unusual from the reports of the battle situation reported by the various units, and the troops generally reported that the Red Army had no heart of resistance, was about to collapse at the first touch, and occupied the target area with great speed, but the actual number of enemy troops destroyed was not large. The four armored armies fought for nearly a week, and the total number of enemy troops actually destroyed was less than 300,000 (including more than 100,000 captured), which not only did not compare with the battle of the castle, but also dropped in quality.

Zeitzler personally went to inspect the annihilated Red Army units, and found that most of them were the new number troops formed at the turn of this spring and summer, and they had no combat effectiveness, or they were relatively poor in combat effectiveness, weak will, and poorly equipped personnel in the old number of old numbers.

What made the Germans even more troublesome was that there were still a large number of Russians left in the occupied area, all of them starving to the bone, many of them had been hungry for 4-5 days in a row, and they had even forgotten when they had eaten last time. If you had changed to the previous SS special squad, you might have been pulled out of the assault when you encountered these people. However, after the establishment of the Russian Liberation Army, Hoffmann had already issued an order that the Wehrmacht and the SS were strictly forbidden to contact the civil affairs of the enemy-occupied areas, and that all daily affairs should be managed by the Russian Liberation Army, and that the German army should convey the relevant civil affairs instructions through the officials of the Russian Liberation Army.

The interrogation soon revealed that these old and sick people were deliberately left behind when the Red Army retreated, on the one hand, they were unable to move and could not keep up with the pace of transfer; On the other hand, with the exception of a few, the majority are incapacitated - a complete burden, and nothing useful is left for them.

This did not happen in one place or in a few places, but in a number of newly occupied areas, and finally, after urgent consultations, the General Staff decided to allocate a small amount of food from the military rations of the various ministries for the relief of these civilians.

By 12 July, the Germans were stunned to find that the total number of troops they had used for the attack was less than 800,000, but the population of the occupied areas that depended on German rations for their livelihood had suddenly increased by more than 200,000, and the 100,000 Red Army prisoners of war who had been captured suddenly increased by more than 300,000 mouthfuls, and the food became scarce all of a sudden.

The situation was quickly reported to Schmunt, the quartermaster of the Eastern Front, who felt that the matter was very tricky: although it was a hundred to kill all these people, on the one hand, he felt that he could not do it, and on the other hand, there would be serious political problems; It was not a matter of raising them, although they could be given only a small amount of food, but there were 300,000 mouths waiting for relief, and it was foreseeable that the population would increase every day as the German army advanced rapidly.

He couldn't make up his mind about what to do with this group of personnel, so he could only send a telegram asking for instructions to Berlin, and Vlasov stubbornly sent a telegram saying that "I hope to provide relief to the Russian victims without affecting the operation of the troops", which was also forwarded to Hoffman by the General Staff.

After much deliberation, Hoffman finally ordered the camp to be built on the spot to keep them barely starving to death, and then gradually turned back with the capacity of the train carrying supplies, with the Russian Liberation Army maintaining order and the German army supervising it.

Schmund set the standard of refugee relief with the characteristic delicacy of the Germans: four Russian civilians or three Red Army prisoners were given one ration of food equivalent to the average soldier of a combat unit, but not meat, to maintain a state in which they barely starved to death, so that the result of the statistics showed that it was equivalent to an increase in the ration needs of 80,000 to 90,000 troops, just enough to exhaust the potential of the campaign's transportation and storage.

Unexpectedly, as soon as refugee camps were set up in various places and began to distribute food for disaster relief every day, a large number of Russian civilians and Russian stragglers who had been hiding poured out of nowhere.

By 15 July, the number of refugees had exceeded 700,000. The train capacity is only 30,000 to 40,000 per day, and it will take 20 days for the camp to be fully transported at the earliest, and this is based on the premise that no new population will be added - no one is optimistic about this.

At this time, the daily food consumption of the refugees was equivalent to the rations of 200,000 German troops, and after reporting at various levels, Hoffmann decided that in view of the small consumption of ammunition during the battle, he would approve the compression of ammunition supplies and replace them with food transportation, and demanded that supervision be strengthened to prevent lawlessness. (To be continued.) )