"For some reason, the German shelling began to become precise. Our defence has been very passive these days, and this situation is very unusual. "An officer covered in dust, standing in front of Konev looked a little worse.

But this is a good proof of one thing, he returned from the front, with the most precise, unpolished Konev wanted to know the real situation at the front.

These circumstances were very precious, and at least Konev knew a basic state of affairs: now the German troops had changed their way of fighting, and although it was a little imperceptible, it was a real change.

"The soldiers reacted, and suddenly the artillery fire was covered, very accurate, and then a lot of German snipers would fire from all sides." The officer went to the front line and experienced what the soldiers called a ghostly German unit.

"They are really like ghosts, usually the artillery fires first, then the very well hidden snipers, and then the frontal attack." He looked a little frustrated when he talked about these things.

Previously, the Soviet army's city defense headquarters also received a report from his subordinates that the German army had become more treacherous.

The blind attacks disappeared, but they began to storm often, and always began with shelling, very regular.

The most terrible thing is that this kind of shelling comes suddenly, and it always starts when the Soviet army is least prepared, and it is stormy at the beginning, as if it has eyes.

After the shelling, the enemy will use snipers to disrupt the command of the Soviet troops, and then the troops in front will suddenly press on and attack.

This set of tactics was done in one go, so that the Soviet army lost a large number of soldiers and personnel, and also lost its own defensive positions, but it was difficult to inflict huge casualties on the German army.

"The question now is, how did the tactics of the German army change!" Konev remembered something, touched his chin and said something to his men.

Then he motioned for the other party to leave, and he himself turned and walked to the filing cabinet behind him, opened the door, opened some of the most recently recorded files inside, and examined them in detail.

Originally, none of this was his job, but unfortunately he only vaguely remembered that there was a document that recorded a special telegram.

The telegram was sent from the Smolensk region, which at that time had not been lost, but was only surrounded by German troops.

Marshal Budyonny encountered similar problems when he was directing operations at the front, so he sent a telegram to Moscow at that time, explaining the difficulties he had encountered.

At that time, Stalin was actively preparing for the war in Moscow, and he was not in the mood to ask about the Smolensk theater of operations, so the matter was shelved.

Later, everyone had their own things to do, and the very treacherous report on the street fighting tactics of the German elite troops was put on the shelf.

It is conceivable that at that time there were no anti-tank weapons, and everyone was building anti-tank trenches and arranging defensive positions in large depths, so how could they have the time to study the changes in street fighting of the Germans.

Now that the situation has come to an end, the situation is naturally different. Konev wondered what Budyonny, the fallen marshal, would have to say about the matter.

Sure enough, after some rummaging, he found the telegram from Smolensk.

It was full of Budyonny's worries about the Battle of Smolensk, and between the lines was a deep despair.

"The tactics are pretty much the same...... The German artillery suddenly became precise, and Marshal Budyonny suspected that the Germans had observers. Konev looked at the sentence on the telegram and read it very carefully.

Marshal Budyonny used snipers to try to knock out the opposing artillery spotters, and although it had some effect, he ultimately did not win the battle.

It had a certain effect...... Seeing this narrative, Konev frowned, and read the telegram repeatedly.

"The telegram said 'it had a certain effect,' which means that there are indeed artillery observers, and they are not ordinary observers, they are very skilled ones." Pinching the telegram, Konev muttered to himself.

In this way, there could not be too many observers who could accurately guide the artillery attack, and the German side might not be able to afford to lose them.

So this led to the problem - although Marshal Budyonny sent Soviet snipers to kill as many valuable observers as possible, he still failed.

There were many reasons for the defeat, but Konev quickly guessed that at least one of them was because the German forces would definitely protect the observers.

"The Germans also sent soldiers to protect the observers as much as possible...... So Budyonny had no way to defeat these observers, which led to failure! "I have to admire, based on a few telegrams from afar, Konev guessed the general idea of what happened.

The Soviets had to respond to the Germans' tactical changes, otherwise they would lose a large number of troops and make the situation even more passive.

The loss is still within the range that everyone can bear, but the loss of land is irreparable.

Once the Germans had captured most of Moscow, the repercussions of the loss of the capital would spread and cause other unnecessary troubles.

Therefore, Konev did not have many options in front of him: he could only find a way to disrupt the tactics of the German army in order to better defend Moscow.

Thinking of this, he immediately summoned his secretaries and asked them to arrange a meeting of several front-line army-level combat commanders.

"Budyonny can't afford to lose, but I can't afford to! I have more snipers to throw into this fight! Pressing a few messages on his office desk, Konev gritted his teeth.

When everyone arrived, he immediately laid out the corresponding battle plan: "Let all the snipers be ready for battle!" They are going to venture to the place where the two armies exchange fire and carry out the most dangerous combat mission! ”

"Go out to the front of the position, look for the German observers, and then shoot them and force the Germans to change this boring tactic!" He clenched his fists and said word by word.

"You're saying that the Germans are getting more accurate because they're sending observers?" Hearing Konev's words, several army commanders asked in surprise.

Konev handed the telegram to his men, and then introduced: "This is not the first time that the Germans have used this tactic, they did it when they were in Smolensk. ”