"I need to know a date, Matevic!" General Pukaev did not intend to let Matevich go just like that: "I can even give you more troops, but Holm must be taken, understand?" ”

"I understand, Comrade Pukaev!" Matevic hesitated, then replied: "I hope ...... Can you give me a month! ”

"A month?" Pukaev was a little surprised: "You are asking for a lot more time than Vardani!" ”

"Obviously, he was wrong!" Matevich replied: "We are not facing ordinary enemies! ”

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a long time, and then Pukaev's voice came again: "Tell me, what do you need?" ”

"I need more air defense, infantry and tanks!"

"You're going to get these!" Pukaev replied: "I hope you remember the lesson of Vardani!" ”

"Yes, Comrade Pukaev!" Matevich stepped forward to reply, and couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

Pukaev did what he said he would, and the next day he transferred an air defense regiment to Matvich.

Matevich took this air defense regiment in a triangle of battalions, encircling Holm in the middle.

In this way, no matter which direction the Luftwaffe approached Holm, it would be flanked by two anti-aircraft battalions.

"All you have to do is not let any transport planes enter the airspace of Holm!" Matevich said to the commander of the air defense regiment.

"Yes, Comrade Commissar!" The commander of the air defense regiment replied.

This is basically impossible, because there will always be a few transport planes that break through the Soviet air defense network, after all, the German transport planes are very safe "Junker 52", and they only need the blink of an eye to fly over Holm and drop supplies.

Matevic knows this, so he doesn't have any hope for it.

The point is that the German transport aircraft can no longer carry out low-altitude airdrops as before under the threat of anti-aircraft fire, so the airdrop accuracy is reduced in stages.

Qin Chuan's side quickly felt the pressure...... As usual, the Air Force also airdropped eighteen boxes of supplies a day on six transport planes, and before it could receive ten boxes, it would soon only receive five boxes, and then two or three boxes would be good.

Holm, on the other hand, had more and more supply needs.

One reason was that the Soviets were carrying out almost continuous harassing attacks on the German army...... Obviously, the Soviets were depleting the ammunition of the German army in this way.

The other is that the number of Soviet prisoners is constantly increasing...... Soviet prisoners were a headache for the Germans, and their numbers were quite large, more than 1,000 captured in just one successful encirclement battle, and nearly 2,000 in the successive battles that followed.

These 2,000 people were not like the Soviet people, most of whom were old, weak, sick and disabled, or women and children, and the prisoners were all young and middle-aged and all of them had military training, and if they were not careful, a rebellion would cause great problems for the German army from within.

Therefore, the Germans held these prisoners in schools, divided them into rooms, and then guarded them with barbed wire.

These are still secondary problems, and more importantly, the two thousand prisoners also have to consume food, which means that the Germans themselves have tightened their belts, but they still have to give food to the prisoners.

"For the first time, I don't think it's a good thing to capture an enemy prisoner!" Colonel Slane said.

"It's easy!" Major General Hartmann said, "We can dispose of all these prisoners!" ”

Looking at the eyes that the officers threw at him, Major General Hartman spread his hands and said, "Isn't it? If you don't, then I'm more than willing to do it! ”

"That's two thousand, General!" Colonel Slane said.

Although shooting prisoners on the battlefield is not a big deal, especially on the Soviet-German battlefield, the size of 2,000 people would be unimaginable to everyone.

"Uh-huh!" Major General Hartman nodded: "This is indeed a problem, because it means that we will consume at least two thousand rounds of ammunition!" ”

The officers looked at Hartman with shock, and they could not imagine how Major General Hartman could be so indifferent to life, even more so than the soldiers who fought the enemy on the battlefield.

Qin Chuan was not surprised, because the German police force did just that, shooting and killing enemy civilians or prisoners who were powerless to resist, and the SS also took on some of this responsibility.

This is completely different from the Wehrmacht, which has a sense of honor and mission.

It is for this reason that the team that assassinated Hitler in history wanted to co-opt and control the Wehrmacht, hoping to rely on the Wehrmacht to take power in Germany after Hitler's death.

"No, we can't do that!" Colonel Slain shook his head and said: "This will have side effects, such as the Soviets realizing that the only result of being captured is death, then they will resist desperately!" ”

"Yes!" Lieutenant Colonel Gerhard agreed: "This will greatly increase the enemy's combat effectiveness, and at the same time they will shoot our captured soldiers!" ”

"Oh, come on, they seem to have done that!" Major General Hartman said.

Major General Hartmann is right, this happened two days ago.

Maybe it's to vent the anger of not being able to attack Holm, maybe it's a deterrent, or maybe it's a pastime...... The Soviets drove more than a dozen German prisoners to the middle of the two lines, and then knocked them down one by one on the way back to the German lines by practicing marksmanship.

"That's another story!" Colonel Slane said to Hartman, "Anyway, don't have any more thoughts! ”

"Okay!" Major General Hartman shrugged: "Then feed them with food!" ”

With that, Major General Hartmann walked away.

Major General Hartmann is actually not too worried about the supply problem, they have an advantage...... You can go to the Soviet people and rummage through the cabinets to find their hidden food.

It can also be said to be a kind of sadness in Germany, where the Wehrmacht fought the enemy on the front line and won victory after victory, but their position was always below the SS and police forces...... As is now, the danger and hardship are borne by the F-FDTL, and the police force is able to take advantage of the F-FDTL protection while also taking advantage of the supply advantage.

"So!" Colonel Slane said, "Now, that's what we need to think about!" ”

"Colonel!" Qin Chuan said: "I think we have only one choice now, and that is to let the command increase the airdrop to us!" ”

"But they don't want to do it!" Colonel Slein said: "As I said before, our air force is blocking the interspersed forces of the Soviets!" ”

"What if ......," Qin Chuan said, "what if they realized that the presence of Holm could precisely delay the penetration of the Soviets?" ”