Commander: Timoshenko, Military Councilor: Borisov), Chief of Staff: Vatutin, the three of them have not closed their eyes at all since yesterday, Timoshenko withstood the pressure and did not send mobile troops in his hands when the enemy situation is unknown, and when the battle situation is clear, Timoshenko will not send his own troops, and now it seems that Timoshenko's response method is completely correct, otherwise Odessa at this time is afraid that it is also an empty city without soldiers.

"Comrade Marshal, you see what we should do now, Germany has driven our Black Sea Fleet out of the port of Odessa, and the German army has surrounded us with more than 400,000 troops, we only have 120,000 regular troops, and the rest are some militia, which will not play much role at all."

Vatutin, the political commissar of the Ukrainian Front, was very uneasy and said what was in his heart to Timoshenko, and Timoshenko also had great pressure, his 120,000 troops were mobile troops, and there were two armies in cavalry alone, and the cavalry was not as good as infantry in defending the city, and it seemed that these war horses could only be used as rations for everyone.

Timoshenko had the 25th Tank Army and two tank brigades in his hands, with a total of about 800 tanks, all old and light tanks. The development of advanced tanks such as the T-34 and KV-1 has only been completed, and it is still being practiced on the field, and the T34 in history began mass production in June 1941 to equip the troops.

In 1931, Tukhachevsky began to reform the Soviet army, and the following year the Panzer Army was created, and efforts were made to regularize and professionalize the Soviet army. Unfortunately, Tukhachevsky died before his ambition was rewarded, and he was executed during the Great Purge in 1937. The Panzer Corps he formed was disbanded, and the tanks were dispersed to the infantry units......

However, the poor performance of Soviet tank units in the Soviet-Finnish war in 1941 forced Stalin to restore the Panzer Corps. The Soviet Panzer Corps had two divisions, each with two tank regiments with a total of 400 tanks, plus a motorized infantry regiment and a self-propelled artillery regiment. By the end of that year, the Soviet Army had formed 9 Panzer Corps, and by the fall of 1941 it was planned to form 11 more

In 1941, the Soviet army had 20,000 tanks, more than the rest of Europe combined. The vast majority of these 20,000 tanks are obsolete light models, such as the T-26 light tank, which has 12,000 units. 8,300 units of the BT series of fast tanks. There were only 28 T-600 medium tanks.

Looking at the actual situation of the tank in the hands of Timoshenko, the BT-7 tank was finalized in 1935, with a total combat weight of 14 tons and an armor thickness of 6-13 mm. These indicators are similar to those of the German Pz2 tank. In terms of firepower. The BT-7 tank is armed with a 45 mm L / 46 cannon. At a distance of 500 meters, it can penetrate 38 mm thick armor, and it has nothing to do with hitting the Leopard.

The same effect is true for the T26, with the T28 medium tank being slightly better. The last modified version of the T-28 weighed 28 tons, had armor thickness of 40-80 mm, and was armed with a 76.2 mm L/28 gun, which could penetrate 61 mm of steel armor at a distance of 500 meters, which was not even pierced by the chrysanthemum of the German Leopard tank.

Timoshenko had already received a specific report from the front line, saying that the German tanks were huge and weighed more than 40 tons, and that anti-tank guns below 50 mm were useless, and even the 75-mm anti-tank guns, the largest caliber of the Soviet Union, could only penetrate Leopard tanks within 800 meters.

Germany's tank technology was originally at the forefront of the world, and Li Mo paid more attention to the development of tanks after crossing, and even the navy, Li Mo also let it go to the corner of the wall to draw a circle, Germany's resources, and funds really have no way to fight with Britain, France and the United States to build a naval force with gold, that can only be their own shortcomings, attacking the enemy's strengths, that is the most stupid approach.

"Boom...... Boom...... Bang...... Bump"

Suddenly Timoshenko felt the earth tremble violently, and the whole house swayed from side to side with the tremors, and the people of the Ukrainian command in Odessa, thinking that there had been an earthquake, hurriedly ran out of the headquarters, and the people who had just run out of the door hurriedly ran back, shouting in panic as they ran:

"Shelling, the German devils are shelling, everyone hurry up and put the gun hole...... Hurry up ......"

"Boom...... Bumper ...... Ahem...... Help me......"

Suddenly, a shell hit the command headquarters, and this shell immediately killed more than a dozen officers of the command headquarters, and those who did not die were there to call for help, but in this case, how to save it, it can be said that there is no way. Everyone rushed to the basement below the headquarters, which was made of reinforced concrete, which was quite sturdy, and if it weren't for a few direct hits from a 500-kilogram bomb, there would be no problem.

Timoshenko was a veteran, and as soon as the ground shook, he felt that this was not an earthquake, but that the German devils were shelling fiercely, and judging from the degree of trembling on the ground, this shelling was very fierce and very large.

"Quick, quick...... Let's go to the basement. ”

Temoshengo took the lead in entering the basement with a few main officers, and did not run outside the headquarters like headless flies, otherwise the dozen or so corpses in the headquarters would be Timoshenge, and the veterans are different from rookies.

"Boom...... Boom ......"

"Damn German devils, this movement is too big, how many cannons do you have to bombard together!! The whole city is shaking. ”

"More than 5,000 doors...... Hey, now our Odessa is not easy to keep. ”

Timoshenko answered Borisov's question with great frustration, "Boom...... Sneer...... "The heavy shelling caused the dust on the basement to fall, fall on their bodies or suck it into their mouths, and everyone couldn't help but spit on it.

Even if the conditions inside the basement were not good, no one dared to go out, and the German shelling seemed to be endless, bombarding Odessa.

……

"Commander-in-Chief, Commander-in-Chief......"

"Oh, Deputy Commander-in-Chief, what's the matter?"

Li Mo felt that someone was pushing him, and quickly opened his eyes to see that it was Boke, and hurriedly tore off the cotton wool in his ear with his hand:

"Commander-in-chief, it's almost twelve o'clock now, the shelling has stopped, do we attack immediately or let the soldiers have enough to eat before attacking."

"Attacking what!! Let all the soldiers eat, and after an hour continue to shell a base of ammunition, and then order 350,000 German troops, plus 300,000 EU troops, to storm Odessa from sixteen directions, and the battlefield discipline will be enforced according to the order of ten kills, and the rest will be done for you, my deputy commander-in-chief, let me sleep until I wake up naturally. ”

After Li Mo finished speaking, he stuffed the cotton wool in his hand into his ears and began to sleep, leaving a stunned Bock.

"This, Commander-in-Chief, Commander-in-Chief......"

Bock still knows Li Mo very well, and Li Mo can't blindly command his own troops, because Li Mo knows that the tanks of the Soviet army in history at this time are garbage and useless for the current German tanks. At this time, the Soviet anti-tank means were also very limited, even cocktail Molotov cocktails were useless, and it was said that the engine of the Leopard tank was not afraid of Molotov cocktails at all.

…… (To be continued......)