Continuing to hold down the few guards in their hands is definitely not what these Ukrainian generals want to see. They fought with them, not for nothing. But if he obeyed the unanimous request of the front-line officers and approved the retreat, not only would he not be able to explain it to Stalin's side, but it would be a shameful failure for the entire "thunderstorm" plan, and he himself would not be able to accept it.

Now, counting the Southern Front, which fought side by side with the Southwestern Front, the strength of the enemy and us is roughly one to one. And it was not because the Germans had Romanian allies that they had an advantage in numbers.

Such a ratio of troops is enough to ensure that the Ukrainian troops, with oppressive tactics, at least solve the Romanian army!

Despite this, Kirponos originally suppressed this tactic in his heart and did not immediately order an attack. It wasn't until he got the Northern Front, after the German army joined forces with the Finnish army, that he had completely recovered the three Baltic countries, and shifted his focus to an all-round march to the hinterland of the Soviet Union, that he made the decision to fight on the southern front!

The attack arrows, composed of Ukrainian units, have been rushing to the Romanian army's attack positions in front of each other, and have been thrown into a war of attrition with an attack.

This time, when the news of the appearance of German troops finally came back from the front line, Kirponos grabbed the phone.

"Order all the Guards! Advance! ”

……

"Ulla!"

The Ukrainian units of the Southwestern Front have made a record that they can be proud of. In the face of lack of ammunition and extreme shortage of supplies, they fought with the three Romanian army groups commanded by the Romanian chief Antonescu.

A very interesting phenomenon is that both sides know that it will be much easier to defend, and both know that the other side will attack.

However, neither side chose to defend, and both chose to be the difficult attackers.

On the side of the Central Powers, Romania bore the losses and losses.

And on the Soviet side, this is Ukraine making sacrifices for the sake of the overall situation.

It's just that after firing a few shots and rushing out of the sortie position, the Ukrainian troops quickly looked for cover nearby, forming a state of confrontation with the Romanian troops in an encounter battle.

"Ivan! Damn, what are you doing, rushing to the front to find death?! ”

"What, the commissar is supervising the battle in the back? Why didn't he come up himself, listen to me, and almost retreated with everyone, and was too abrupt. ”

"Those parasites, rob us of our food, make us Ukraine hungry to fight for them, and in the end they don't give us weapons to replenish, let us die with our bare hands!"

“..........”

These stopped Ukrainian units are not discussing offensive tactics, but just changing places and indiscriminately scolding the high-level commanders in the rear after being driven out of the attack positions by the political commissars.

"Hey, if it weren't for these bastards in the rear, threatening us with our families, who wouldn't want to rebel long ago? Now I heard that Zhukov and Pavlov had a conflict, but they did not send us logistical supplies, so that we were caught in the middle and suffered. A lieutenant colonel officer, leaning behind a small house that had been abandoned for a long time, sighed.

Now a Ukrainian unit here is barely stationed on the basis of an uninhabited town abandoned by the war.

Behind them were the commissars who oversaw the war, and in front of the town were the Romanian enemy troops.

So, they simply stationed in this uninhabited town, and after a while, after a period of fighting, they withdrew to the sortie position.

"Humph! When supplies were delivered, we were detained, and when the time came for the war mission, they never forgot about us. The Ukrainian division commander who took the lead also scolded with his subordinate officers at this time.

Because he is a Ukrainian, even if he is a division commander, he can't escape the fate of cannon fodder and is driven to the front line by one.

"General, it's not a way to go on like this!" The lieutenant colonel staff officer who sighed before saw that the division commander had spoken, and quickly answered.

"Yes, if this continues, we will have to be forced to die on the front line. When we're all dead, those bastards in the rear will be able to take over our homes and enslave our families even more brazenly. Another lieutenant colonel joined the high-level meeting.

"It's just that we can't do anything," seeing that everyone was not shy about talking about it, a colonel who had been full of complaints for a long time actually chatted along with him: "Even if we surrender to the other side, those bastards can still do something to our family." In this way, our lives are saved, but the lives of our families cannot be saved. ”

Over the years, Ukrainians have been persecuted. The Soviet Union suppressed the Ukrainians in the future, and all kinds of means were not less. Those who catch strong men and rush into the army to be cannon fodder are not bad, at least they have enough to eat. But their compatriots, who went to the concentration camps, were sent to Siberia not a few, and countless people died of hunger and exhaustion!

If it weren't for the fact that Germany had formed a cooperative, under the supervision of the Soviet government, a large number of Ukrainian workers were recruited to build a network of railways and roads, and then the Germans would have fed the Ukrainians. It is estimated that if this is not the case, there will be hundreds of thousands more Ukrainian souls who starved to death!

"Commander, do you have anything you can do? As long as you ask, we will listen to you! ”

Several Soviet officers, at this time, regarded their own Ukrainian division commander as a life-saving straw, looking forward to a direction.

"Why, what can I do?" The division commander who was expected by everyone only smiled bitterly, covered his forehead and said in a deep voice: "There is no bright way out, but I heard that it seems that many people in the railway and highway departments in China have been accepting bribes from the Germans, and they have also saved a lot of Ukrainian workers." ”

Saying this, the division commander raised his head and continued with a gloomy gaze: "I heard from a friend that Germany sent a businessman named Schindler to recruit Ukrainians to work in the railway complex. Although we were now at war with Germany, these German merchants and technicians who declared that they were willing to continue building roads for the Soviets were retained. ”

In the end, the division commander slowly got to the point: "I think maybe we can ask Germany to contact the businessmen who remained in the Soviet Union, contact the officials they have bribed, and protect our families, and surrender to Germany......"

……

"General Paulus."

Through the telephone lines that had been set up, Moder, who commanded the SS, was making direct conversations with Paulus about the situation of the war.

"You can turn around and attack further north." On the phone, Moder's tone was still calm and calm, and he couldn't hear a little anxious look.

With the microphone in his left hand and his right hand in one hand, he spoke to Paulus: "I appreciate your kindness, but I want the SS to carry out all the fighting in the southern provinces." ”

"Kirponos finally chose to mobilize the main forces to deal with General Manstein." A certain del spoke in a flat tone, as if he was saying something unimportant, "Locally, your Sixth Army and General Manstein's 11th Army have the advantage of forces. ”

"But if we don't divide our forces, the pressure on your face will be ......," Paulus said with his usual respectfulness, "except that, according to the plan you have proposed, the SS will face nearly twice as many Soviet troops as itself." ”

Originally, on the southern front, the ratio of forces between the two sides was close to one-to-one. But if the two heads Paulus and Manstein were to bear fewer Soviet troops, the number of enemies left for Moder to deal with would naturally be more.

"Execute," Morder paused, his tone gradually becoming like a cold blade: "Although the SS has fewer troops in this battle, the southern provincial border was lost from us before!" ”

"What we throw away, we get it back!"