Chapter 184: New Ideas
At this moment, everyone's suppressed nerves were relaxed, and Andrei also understood that everyone was not afraid, but their mentality had changed, their own unit was originally a cannon fodder unit to be consumed at Mamayev Gang, but no one expected that this cannon fodder unit has now become an elite force, and now it has also won the Order of the Red Banner, and it will not be possible to become a guards division in the future, and now everyone's mentality is different, you must know that if you lose your position, the troops are estimated to have few people, and then I am afraid that you will have to withdraw to the rear to rectify, If this unit can fight until the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, it will be a great honor and benefit for everyone, just like Sergeant Larin in the documentary, thousands of Soviet soldiers who fought bravely in this war, and in the end he did not receive any awards. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoBut the victory in the Great Patriotic War is the best commendation!
And after listening to the words of the two commanders, the deputy division commander Yanayev also spoke: "Yes, we have been firmly guarding the Mamayev post for more than a month, and now we are not afraid of what tricks the Germans will do!" "This is the confidence that the ace army should have, no matter what tricks you have, I will hold the position, waiting for you to come.
And the two chiefs of staff echoed the words, now everyone's mentality has been adjusted, and at this time the news came from the command that the headquarters of the army group was surrounded by a sea of fire, and the headquarters was in an open field near a large oil storage and transportation station, and the Germans quickly launched artillery bombardment here, and both sides thought that the oil storage station must be empty. But after the battle, everyone was shocked, and the burning oil rushed to the trenches of the army group headquarters, but miraculously bypassed the command center. The telephone lines were burned out, the smoke was suffocating, and Chuikov was trapped in the fire for 3 whole days in history.
And now there is no way to rescue it, so everyone is also in a hurry, but fortunately, now it is fighting on their own, and there is nothing, at this time, seeing that everyone's mood in the division headquarters is a little low, Brezhnev, as a political commissar, hurriedly said: "Comrades, the Germans are still very strong, but now the Germans still have not occupied this great city, and they will never be able to occupy this great city, and the current setbacks are temporary." ”
As soon as he saw Brezhnev's statement, Andrei hurriedly followed up: "I believe that Comrade Commander will be fine, you don't have to worry." "Chuikov is also very unlucky, very good, very bad, because he went to China as a military adviser and came back with no important position, and he became the commander of a group army, so he didn't die in the Soviet-Finnish war, at the end of December 38, although Chuikov's 9th Army wedged into the Finnish defense area for more than 40 kilometers, but in the ensuing battle, his two main divisions, namely the 44th Motorized Infantry Division and the 163rd Infantry Division (with a total of 48,000 people, 335 guns, More than 100 combat vehicles and 50 armored vehicles), which were extremely unadapted to the cold climate of Finland, were annihilated by more than half of the Finnish army. As a result, Chuikov was relieved of his post as commander of the 9th Army. When the war ended, he was only the commander of the army group, but he was not seriously injured in this cruel Battle of Stalingrad, and because of his great achievements in sticking to Stalingrad, he was successfully promoted to the marshal of the Soviet Union in 55.
And if he fights to the end, this credit is big enough, and Brezhnev also thinks so, you must know that if you survive until the day of the victory of the battle, your gains are also very large, and you can climb up faster, and at the same time, as a political commissar, he also knows that he must boost everyone's morale, otherwise what use will he have.
At this time, a staff officer on duty hurriedly ran over and said: "Report to the division commander, political commissar, deputy division commander, chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, the forward reconnaissance detachment has discovered a new situation, and the German army has replaced a unit to guard the materials." ”
"Huh?" Andrei hurriedly asked, "What troops?" The staff officer said: "Report to the division commander, the Germans have transferred the Eastern Battalion!" "The Eastern Battalion, traitors to the motherland, all deserve hell!" Andre said viciously, and everyone next to him was also indignant, the Eastern Battalion is also known as the "Eastern Volunteer Army". The German army recruited on the Eastern Front was collectively known as the "Soldiers of the East", which included soldiers who had volunteered to join the German army from all over Eastern Europe, dressed in German uniforms and tasked with guarding the German lines of communication, fighting enemy partisans in the rear of the German army, and sometimes even defending unimportant positions on the front. These soldiers are usually battalions and rarely larger than that.
The Germans also usually sent SS monitoring teams to the camps of the Vostok battalion, these people were the most hated guys of the Interior Army, and for an officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs like Andrei, such a traitor to the Motherland should be shot!
But thinking about it carefully, Andrei suddenly had a bold idea, remembering where in China the united front is to fight for all the forces that can be won not only to fight the enemy on the battlefield, but also to divide and disintegrate the enemy through politics, if you can persuade the Eastern Battalion, anyway, wouldn't this be able to deal a hard blow to the Germans? But he is the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Stalingrad, and the internal affairs forces want to eliminate all traitors, and he actually wants to co-opt traitors, which is simply the Commission for Discipline Inspection to absorb corrupt officials! Moreover, Stalin had already ordered that all those who surrendered to the German army and served the German army were traitors to the motherland and must be completely eliminated.
And Andrei spoke his mind, and Brezhnev said: "Andrey, I know that your starting point is to change the current unfavorable situation. But have you ever thought that even if we let them anyway, it will only be an extra weak army, and the Germans will only have one less insignificant rebel army, which will not have a big impact on the situation in the entire Stalingrad region. ”
"Ilyich, you can't say that." To Brezhnev's words, Andrei immediately refuted. And with his own knowledge of history. Analyze the current situation for him: "Ilyich, you can't underestimate the forces of the Eastern Battalion. As far as I know, after the crushing defeat of the Germans at the city of Moscow, the policy towards prisoners of war also changed. The German commanders, with Hitler's tacit consent, began to select men from our ethnic minorities and prisoners of war to form the so-called 'Army of the East'. So far, the German army has formed 11 battalions of the 'Armenian Legion', 14 battalions of the 'Azerbaijani Legion', 14 battalions of the 'Georgian Legion', 5 battalions of the 'Caucasian Muslim Regiment' composed of Azerbaijanis, Chechens, etc., 34 battalions of the 'Turkestan Regiment' and 8 battalions of the 'Volga Tatar Regiment'. In August of this year, after the German Army Group South captured Elista, the capital of the Soviet Autonomous Republic of Kalmykia, Germany carried out anti-Soviet propaganda in this Kalmyk Mongol enclave, successfully recruiting 3,000 Kalmyk Mongols who had been deceived by them. ”
Andrei said a series of data, which made these people in the division headquarters stunned. After a long time, Brezhnev said: "If this is the case, it seems to make sense! ”