"Attack!"

With the hoarse roar of the commissar sounded in the sortie position. One by one, the soldiers wearing the signature shirts of the Soviet uniforms rushed out of the trenches where they had just waited at their feet, with their guns in hand.

Kirponos stood in his headquarters, pacing back and forth, his face like iron.

Through the huge battle diagram on the wall, you can see that countless Romanian troops are lining up to pounce on the Soviet Southwestern Front. More than 40 Romanian divisions converged into a mighty torrent, repeatedly storming the Soviet defensive line.

And Kirponos is also soberly aware that when the main force of the German army also joins this attack, a tragic battle will begin!

From the door of the headquarters, Kirponos's thin and cold figure was really too much of a contrast compared to their previous commander, Zhukov. This figure made every Soviet officer present worry that Kirponos would be blown down by a gust of wind.

Just a year ago, the Southwestern Front, which was still the Kiev Military District, welcomed their last commander, General Zhukov. But just half a year later, Zhukov was replaced by Kirponos.

The staff officers of the Southwestern Front followed Kirponos, the new commander, for a short time, but these staff officers learned one thing from working together for at least half a year, that is, General Kirponos never fought a battle that he was not sure of!

Kirponos, who participated in the civil war in Soviet Russia and served as battalion commander, regimental chief of staff, deputy regimental commander, and regimental commander in the Red Army, graduated from the Frunze Military Academy and served as the principal of the Kazan Infantry School. Both the actual combat experience and the study of military theories can be said to be excellent.

During the recent Soviet-Finnish War, Kirponos, who was the commander of the 70th Infantry Division, was one of the few Soviet officers who could not be heavily damaged by the Finnish army. Therefore, he also received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union after the war.

Everyone thought that Kirponos's order to attack against attack was a well-conceived and well-thought-out decision.

No one doubted that when he gave the order to attack, it was the time to win!

However, no one knew that at this moment the palms of the Hero of the Soviet Union were already covered with sweat!

When he received the news of a full-scale counterattack on the north and south fronts of the Allied forces, Kirponos knew that he had been forced into a path where he could only move forward and not retreat!

Moreover, Stalin's coercive order to continue the offensive cut off Kirponos's last retreat.

Since the troops of more than 40 divisions of Romania were dispatched, in order to force out the main German forces hidden by Manstein, Moder, and Paulus, Kirponos has been holding out for 7 days! During this time, he even sent a total of six infantry divisions and launched eight near-lethal attacks. And the final result was nearly 40% of the battle loss rate! The number of troops under his command that can still maintain combat effectiveness has been sharply reduced from 34 divisions to 26!

Originally, this was nothing to Kirponos. Fighting a war will inherently kill people, and there will be sacrifices.

Everything must be aimed at victory. As long as you can win the victory, no matter how cold-blooded things are, a qualified commander must do without hesitation!

This is also a fact that his predecessor, General Zhukov, repeatedly emphasized to these officers and soldiers when he was in charge of the Kiev Military District, the predecessor of the Southwestern Front.

If the generals on the German side did hide the main German forces behind the numerous attacking forces in Romania, which were not very effective in combat, but were large in number, waiting for their main forces. Then, Kirponos will not hesitate to continue to carry out the same tactics, and also leave the elite Russian troops under his command behind, leaving the Ukrainians to fight the Romanians. Even at the cost of three times the sacrifice of the other party. It is bound to grind and consume the army under the fighting power of Romania into powder!

But now the situation is that the Ukrainian army, which has long been disgruntled by the heavy losses of the German southern provinces by refueling tactics, has become very noisy. The Ukrainian officers who occupied the reason were surging, and the Ukrainian officers in the command had cold faces, and the ridicule at the corners of their mouths was undisguised. In the communication telegrams between the Ukrainian troops, there is even more to say.

From that moment on, Kirponos knew he had no choice.

According to Stalin's orders and his own original ideas, it is obviously impossible to continue to use Ukrainian troops to use oppressive tactics against the Allied forces.

At first, the Ukrainian commanders on the front line were counting on waiting for the order to retreat, so they would have the courage to resist the Allied forces that suddenly switched from defense to offensive.

However, after the long-awaited order to retreat did not come, but waited for the idiot instructions of Stalin to continue the offensive, the Ukrainian Soviet troops on the front line no longer had the strength to hold out.

Due to the disagreement between General Pavlov and General Zhukov, the Southwestern Front, as well as the Southern Front, has not received a standard amount of material supplies for a long time.

A large number of weapons and ammunition supplies were seized by Pavlov in the rear, and only after a symbolic discount, 10 percent of the rear transport volume was slightly returned to the front-line troops.

As a result, it is clear that they have an excellent logistics and transportation network built with the help of the Germans, but the two Southern Front armies, including the Southwestern Front, have generally run out of pre-stocked ammunition and are seriously short of ammunition to carry with them.

There is really no better way to use such a force than to retreat. In other words, even if you are not allowed to retreat, as long as you can replenish the supplies that should be transported!

Now, many Ukrainian officers have blatantly spread complaints and negativity in the army.

It's no wonder that, from their point of view, not giving weapons and not letting them retreat, this is the standard use of cannon fodder. In particular, in order to cope with the main German force that may appear at any time, Kirponos put the ethnic Russian troops in his hands in the rear to avoid the battle, which made the Ukrainian forces even more unbalanced.

Not to mention that ordinary soldiers can't understand what Kirponos is doing, even most Ukrainian generals conclude that Kirponos only cares about the few troops with the title of Guards in their hands, and doesn't care about their life or death.

It is true that in Stalin's eyes, the consumption of Ukrainians, the consumption of local forces in Ukrainian regions, was also a means of strengthening the rule of the Soviet government. However, this is not what Kirponos did for the purpose of doing so.

After all, it is true that the combat effectiveness of the Russian units is higher than that of the Ukrainian ones. Of course, there are also reasons why Russian units are better equipped and equipped.

In other words, Kirponos is really thinking from the perspective of a commander, treating these Russian units as the elite at the bottom of the box.

It's a pity that his Ukrainian subordinates really can't think like this when they think about it from their own situation......

Genius one second to remember the address of this site:. Mobile version reading URL: m.