719 Shadow troops of Germany
While the command of the Southwestern Front was still arguing over the choice of attack and defense, the Soviet troops guarding a bridge over the Dniester River suddenly noticed a not too long but very neat convoy coming from the road in the distance.
The car was full of soldiers, who looked like wounded Soviet soldiers, and the vehicles were also painted with the logos and numbers of the front-line troops.
The bridge sentry, in accordance with the regulations, stopped the convoy.
"Which part are you from? Why retreat? An officer with the rank of second lieutenant went up with two soldiers and asked the general-looking man in the passenger seat of the leading car.
"I am mainly wounded soldiers of the 45th Infantry Division here, Commander Kirponos has approved the request of our division commander to transfer the wounded, please let them go." The young general, who had the rank of major general on his shoulder, replied.
He still looked impatient.
The second lieutenant of the sentry looked sideways, and he estimated that the people in the car seemed to be wounded Soviet soldiers who had retreated from the front line, and several people in the convoy showed their bandaged arms.
However, there was almost no blood on the bandages of those people. It seems that it is a group of cowards who have been slightly injured and want to escape from the front line.
"What a bunch of cowards, don't you just want to hide behind with a little injury?" The second lieutenant said with a little disdain in his heart. He guessed that maybe the other party's wounds were all caused by himself, probably just to mix up the quota of a wounded.
"Let's go, let's go." The second lieutenant glanced at the major general, who obviously had a great background, and didn't even bother to check the documents, so he waved his hand and let him go.
After all, the other party is only thirty years old at most. If it weren't for a more powerful backstage, let alone a major general at this age, being able to sit as a major would already be the best in the army.
Who knows, the second lieutenant gave the other party the convenience of exercising, and others didn't appreciate it much.
The major general simply nodded, then tapped on his driver's chair and motioned for the driver to continue driving.
"Phew! There is no one in the eyes of the relationship! The second lieutenant cursed the other party again in his heart.
Then, under the watchful eyes of the sentinels, the convoy slowly restarted, maintaining a formation and driving on the bridge.
What the second lieutenant didn't see was that Major General To, who had been ridiculed countless times in his heart, actually sneered at the second lieutenant when he looked away.
"Self-asserted idiot!" The young major general curled the corners of his mouth slightly, and scolded softly in German in a subtle voice that only he and his driver could hear.
"Bang Bang Bang ......"
Soon, after these troop trucks crossed the bridge, the "wounded soldiers" on the vehicles suddenly jumped out of the cars, pressed their guns against the backs of the Soviet soldiers guarding the bridge, and disarmed the stunned Soviet guard detachment at great speed.
Then, under the incredible eyes of the Soviet second lieutenant on duty, the "Soviet Major General" took the lead in taking off the Soviet military uniform on his body and tearing off the bandages on his body.
It wasn't until the other party changed into a set of black uniforms, took off the collar badge and emblem from the car and put it on, that the Soviet officers and soldiers guarding the bridge found that they were actually a team of German SS special forces in disguise!
In fact, in order to achieve the effect of surprise, so that the Soviet army did not have time to blow up the ferry bridge and organize an effective defense on the other side of the river, SS General Moder ignored international law and asked his soldiers to use the captured Soviet vehicles, disguised as Soviet retreating troops, deceived the Soviet troops guarding the bridge, and completely captured six important bridges along the entire Transnistrian River, including this bridge.
And it was the vanguard of the SS skeleton divisions that dressed up as Soviet soldiers on the various routes.
Of course, the news soon reached Reinhardt.
Regarding Modell's violation of public international law, Reinhardt said as soon as he learned that he was ...... Greatly appreciated.
Not only that, Reinhardt also asked the SS commander-in-chief Steve to follow Moder's "new operation", and let other units within the SS also use this method to form some camouflage units, powerful "shadow troops" of the German army!
With such shadow troops, the Germans will be able to develop a more diverse tactical model. Not to mention, in the famous second Ardennes counterattack in history, the German army used units disguised as American troops to fight a successful counterattack.
In this life, Moder developed the "shadow troops" belonging to the German army in advance in the SS, and Reinhardt simply took this opportunity to vigorously popularize this tactic based on the "shadow troops".
Although the Soviet army also has shadow troops, there is a qualitative gap between the shadow troops of the Soviet Union and the shadow troops of Germany!
The shadow troops of the Soviet Union were numerous, but the training quality was extremely low, and the combat effectiveness was not high, and they were used by the Soviet army as a large reserve and cannon fodder alternate.
And the shadow of the German SS established today is not a large total strength, and the number is far less than that of the Soviet shadow troops. But all SS shadow units were selected from high-quality sources, and their combat qualities were much higher than those of the average SS, and they were proficient in at least one foreign language, possessing all the qualities of stealth combat.
Therefore, although they are both shadow troops, the German shadow troops focus on quality, and the Soviet shadow troops focus on quantity. Both sides have their own advantages and use them in very different ways.
However, in terms of threat, the shadow units of the German SS were more capable of shaking the enemy's psychological defense line, playing a role in psychological warfare outside conventional tactics, and causing a strong sense of distrust and confusion within the Soviet army.
Thus, at 4 p.m. on June 23, the SS skeleton division, which was advancing along the road, was the first to reach a position less than 10 kilometers from Osad.
At 4:30 p.m., Moder received a comprehensive report from his command that the Skeleton Division's first troops had succeeded in using "shadow troops" along all routes, and had bloodlessly captured five of the six bridges garrisoned by the Soviets, and the other one had also been captured by fighting.
The Soviet troops, who were still waiting to attack on the bridge, did not expect the German counterattack to come so quickly, and the panicked Soviet defenders sent sappers to try to blow up the bridge, but the soldiers who blew up the bridge were often killed by the Germans a few meters away from the fuse.
The road bridge from the Dniester to the vicinity of Ozad fell intact into German hands, and the road bridge was only slightly damaged and could be used with minor repairs.
All this went so smoothly thanks to the fact that the German "shadow troops" played a standard special operation mode with a high level of quality!
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