Toothache these days, only two chapters, rest for a few days and repeat it, sorry!

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The main German forces, under the leadership of Manstein, launched a thunderous attack on the garrison Soviet 20th Mountain Division.

Although the 20th Mountain Division was well-trained, the Mountain Division was generally equipped with only a small number of heavy weapons and equipment, and could not maneuver in the mountains.

In addition, the Soviet defense line was very poorly fortified, so the defense line can be said to have collapsed under the tracks of the German tanks, triggering a great escape.

But the Soviet army actually had nowhere to escape, because Novorossiysk in the rear was also in the hands of the Germans, although at this time the 9th Mountain Division was seizing the time to attack Novorossiysk In fact, the 9th Mountain Division had no time, because the Soviet soldiers on the front line who were frightened by the German tanks retreated like a tide, and the 9th Mountain Division was scattered in an instant.

Then, all of them rushed towards Novorossiysk without any order, and the crowd of people squeezed and trampled their feet, like the sea at high tide.

These Soviet soldiers still seemed to have a glimmer of hope that the German army in Novorossiysk would not have as much firepower as expected, and that they could break the German defense line and escape in one fell swoop through this mass offensive.

But soon they were disappointed

The Germans gave the Soviet soldiers a merciless answer with a dense barrage of bullets and shells.

For a three-kilometer road, it only took 20 minutes for the German Panzer Division to advance at a speed of 9 kilometers per incline.

As a result, when the Soviet soldiers heard the sound of tank motors behind them, they realized that they had no hope and could only raise their hands to surrender to the Germans.

In this battle, the German army annihilated more than 70,000 people in four divisions of the Soviet Army in one go, and the most important thing was that there were two mountain divisions in the Transcaucasian Mountains, which were also the only two mountain divisions in the Transcaucasian Mountains at that time, which also made the defense of the southern part of the Caucasus Mountains extremely empty, and only the troops in the fortifications of the Caucasus Mountains were guarded by the troops in the fortified areas.

When General Tyulenev received information about the fiasco in Novorossiysk, he could not help but turn pale as if the sky had fallen.

Originally, General Tyulenev thought that this victory was in his hands, but he didn't expect that just one battle would make the Soviet army elite.

"Comrade Tyulenev!" The staff officer said: "We still have the 417th Division and the Tank Brigade, send them to meet them!" We have much more troops than the Germans, and there is still a chance to defeat them! ”

"What do you know!" General Tyulenev impatiently interrupted the staff officer's words.

The advice of the staff officer obviously did not work, because the most important thing in Transcaucasia is the Baku oil field, so a force is needed to garrison Baku at all times, otherwise, the Germans only need to parachute a force into Baku to easily occupy the energy lifeline of the Soviet Union.

Therefore, the staff officer's words were ostensibly correct, even if the Transcaucasian Front lost four divisions and Novorossiysk in a losing battle, its total strength was still 130,000, which was more than twice as many as the 60,000 troops of the German army, and it was not without a chance to turn defeat into victory.

The problem was that the remaining Soviet troops were either recruits or foxes or engineers, and the elite infantry 417th and 52nd tank brigades could only be stationed in Baku without moving, which almost meant that the Germans could drive straight into the Transcaucasia and do whatever they wanted.

"Comrade Tyulenev!" At this time, the signal soldier looked at this side with the phone and said: "Comrade Stalin, phone!" ”

General Tyulenev, who was walking back and forth in annoyance, stopped like an electric shock, he swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and then slowly walked up to take the phone, and said in his heart: "Comrade Stalin! ”

"Comrade Tyulenev!" On the other end of the phone came Stalin's voice so cold that it chilled under your feet: "I wonder, what else do you have planned?" ”

"I hope you will send us reinforcements, Comrade Stalin!"

"You should know it's impossible!" Stalin replied: "We have already committed all the troops and supplies that we can gather in the south to the offensive against Kharkov!" ”

Tyulenev knew that this was true, and in fact these were the forces that had been accumulated for several months after the Battle of Moscow.

The North Caucasus Front may have had time to reinforce, but the result of the German offensive in the Don direction and the diversion of the North Caucasian Front would put the Don Line in danger of losing reserves.

After thinking about it, General Tyulenev said: "Airborne Forces, Comrade Stalin, I need Airborne Forces!" ”

Stalin on the other end of the line was silent for a moment, and then replied: "I will send you airborne troops, but it will take a few days, and you will at least need to keep watch, understand?" ”

"Yes, Comrade Stalin!"

After putting down the phone, Tyulenev stared at the map for a while, and then ordered: "Order the 392nd Infantry Division to immediately rush to the Tuapse area to garrison, and the 394th Division to rush to Sochi to garrison, and not to take a step back without an order!" ”

"Yes, Comrade Tyulenev!"

Tyulenev's idea was simple, he planned to use the method of exchanging space for time with these two infantry divisions, waiting for reinforcements from the airborne forces in the Soviet direction. At the same time, he urgently recruited new recruits in Transcaucasia to form a new mountain division, the 242nd Mountain Division, to be stationed in the southern Caucasus.

The 242nd Mountain Division was indeed urgently recruited by Tyulenev among the local population in history, but it should have been a few months later.

The performance of this mountain division on the battlefield was very surprising: they were almost all local people who took up arms after a simple training and went to the battlefield, and everyone thought that they were nothing more than a rabble. But they did quite well, especially in the groundbreaking use of fire trenches for defense against German tank attacks.

The so-called fire trench is to dig a deep trench and pour gasoline and diesel fuel into it, and Transcaucasia is next to the Baku oil field and refinery.

Then, when the Germans drove up under the cover of tanks, they set these trenches on fire into a fire trench in front of the Germans, and the Soviet soldiers hid behind the fire trenches to defend

The German tanks and infantry could do nothing about such a defense, because there was so much gasoline in the trenches that it could burn for days and nights, and even the Soviets could continue to add fuel to it.

This allowed the Germans to switch from an offensive plan to a defensive.

However, this time the 242nd Mountain Division of the Soviet Army did not have a chance to play.

Because at the Kerch airfield, a large number of transport planes and the German 7th Airborne Division were gathering there, and they were waiting for the moment when the Transcaucasian Front would move its troops one after another to the western mountain pass to resist the 11th Army, resulting in an internal void of troops.

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