The situation of the next battle was not much different from history, and the unprepared Germans were taken by surprise due to the suddenness of the campaign and the unexpectedly powerful artillery fire of the Volkhov Front. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThe field fortifications they had spent months or more building were quickly reduced to rubble under heavy artillery fire. After the shelling stopped, when the surviving German officers and soldiers struggled to climb out of the ruins of the fortifications, they were faced with the crushing of the tank tracks of the 8th Army and the ferocious charge of the infantry. After a little resistance, these German defensive positions were successively captured by the troops of the 8th Army.

In order to let the generals in the command headquarters have a more intuitive understanding of the progress of the battle, Colonel Semenov, chief of the operations department, specially hung a large map of the Sinianvino region on the wall, and also arranged for two combat staff officers to mark the movements of the enemy and us on the map as soon as possible according to the battle report sent below.

Since the battle situation was favorable to the development of their own side, the generals in the front headquarters, who were originally nervous, relaxed, sat around the rectangular conference table, drank hot black tea, ate the sumptuous food sent by the cooks, and were very happy about the speed of the Soviet offensive from time to time.

After lunch, Zaporozhyets, the military commissar of the Front, who had been silent and did not speak, looked at the time, then leaned over to Meletskov's side, and whispered to the commander who was reading the battle report: "Comrade Commander of the Front, it is already noon. We should not put the progress of the campaign. Reported to Comrade Stalin? ”

Meretskov thought for a moment, then nodded. Then he stood up, took the latest battle report, walked to the high-frequency phone, picked up the microphone and began to dial. Knowing that the commander was going to call the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, everyone in the room who was still chatting fell silent, and all eyes were on Meretskov and the microphone in his hand.

The call was quickly connected, and Meretskov politely said into the microphone: "Hello. Is it Comrade Pos Krebeshev? I am Meretskov, and I would like to report to Comrade Stalin on the progress of the battle for the Sinavino salient. After Stalin answered the phone, Meretskov hurriedly reported in a deferential tone: "Hello, Comrade Stalin! I have the honour to report to you that in the battle of the Bulge, which was launched in the early hours of this morning, our army has made tremendous progress. By 12 o'clock at noon, the 8th Army, which was tasked with assault mission, had opened an opening about five kilometers wide in the enemy's defensive area and wedged four kilometers deep into the enemy's defenses. ”

Speaking of which, perhaps, Stalin asked some question. Meretskov stopped the debriefing and waited a few minutes. He continued: "There are many reasons why we have been able to achieve such results. First of all, the German command did not expect the offensive of our troops, of course, this is only a guess on my part. In addition, the first assault of our army was sudden both in terms of campaign and tactics, and the German army, which had no convenience, was taken by surprise by us.

According to our interrogation of the prisoners, it was the 26th Infantry Corps of the German 18th Army that was defending the front of our army, and with the 227th Division on the left flank and the 223rd Infantry Division on the right flank, they were guarding the area on the west bank of the Volkhov River. After the artillery preparation of our troops, the attack launched by four infantry divisions of the 8th Army under the cover of tank brigades hit the junction of the two German divisions. First, the 19th Guards Division occupied the station, then the 24th Guards Infantry Division was on the left, and the 265th Infantry Division was on the right, successfully seizing all the positions of the German front line. ”

After the report, Meretskov returned to the conference table with a smile on his face, leaned forward with his hands on the edge of the table, and said excitedly: "Comrade Stalin is on the phone, and he is very satisfied with the results we have achieved today. He also asked us to make persistent efforts to pursue the victory, to achieve an early rendezvous with the Neva cluster of the Leningrad Front, and to break the siege of the city by the fascist bandits. ”

Although there was a lot of laughter and laughter in the headquarters, Andrei, who had nothing to do in the headquarters and stood by the wall to watch the lively Andrei, felt a faint sense of unease, because according to the memory of his previous life, the Soviet army's attack was crushed by the Germans.

The German commander Qu Hillel, a traditional Prussian soldier, remembers that his 18th Army stormed the southern outskirts of Leningrad, which caused the fighting around the city to become fierce. German tanks frantically rushed into Soviet positions, but they were destroyed one after another by the Soviet troops who were supported and participated in the battle by a large number of workers, and some of the stubborn Soviet fighters even carried anti-tank grenades and died together with the rushing Germans. Quchrell saw all this through his binoculars, and he was so amazed at the fighting spirit and fighting ability of the defenders that he had to admit the toughness of his opponents. So he reported upwards that it was no longer possible to succeed in continuing the offensive against Leningrad with the present fighting forces.

Although such a person who is not as famous as Guderian and Manstein and Rommel, but he also became a German marshal by virtue of his military talents, then the Soviet army is afraid that it will suffer, and the time came the next morning, the Soviet army attacked the south side of the Sinianavino Heights, but due to the serious consumption in the early stage, the Soviet army at this time was already at the end of the crossbow!

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