A city's grain stock is generally not less than three months' needs of the city's population, which is the minimum standard, but Kokovsk's grain stock surprised Steiner, because he had only captured five million catties of grain. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The fact that the population of the Soviet city did not have enough food for a month shows how tight the food supply was in the Soviet Union.

(Falling leaves don't understand, the Soviet Union has the most extensive territory in the world, why are the people still hungry, even the Beijing era has not changed much, as soon as Britain and the United States sanctioned, Russia was short of materials.) ）

While driving away the citizens of Kolsksk, the whole city was filled with crying and screaming, women crying, children crying, even the male citizen was crying.

After the citizens of Kovsk saw the countless tanks and machine guns of the German army, these Soviet citizens could only turn back and leave their homes one step at a time.

Steiner, even if he could not bear it, must resolutely carry out the policy of expulsion, and now that this Kovsk is dead, it is for their good to expel these citizens.

Although Steiner wasted a day's time, he got food for his 70,000 or 80,000 troops that could not be eaten for a year, and Steiner did not have to worry about military rations now.

After expelling the citizens of Kovsk, Steiner ordered his three divisions to set up the city defenses, and the next thing was to meet the frantic siege of the Soviet army.

When Rommel received Steiner's telegram, he was very surprised, his brother actually threw out three divisions as bait, this is also bold, what should Rommel do, he has long been delegated to the front line commander, Rommel can only send Guderian a telegram of only four words - act cheaply.

When the bait thrown by Guderian reached the designated position, it was up to Stalin to make a move. According to the intelligence sent by German spies, Stalin mobilized more than 400,000 regular troops to encircle and suppress these bold German troops.

Steiner's 70,000 or 80,000 men were trapped in a lonely city, facing an enemy eight or nine times their size, which was extremely dangerous, and the Soviet Union could increase its troops at any time.

Steiner must be given some help, Rommel did not want the three elite German divisions to be completely annihilated by the Soviet army, and the myth that the Soviet artillery and the German army could not be defeated, although this myth must be shattered sooner or later, and the later it is shattered, the more beneficial it will be to Germany, and the greater the deterrent to the morale of the Soviet army.

What did Steiner need most at this time? Steiner has everything he should have, that is, the air force is a little worse, and Guderian went to support Steiner's fighters, because of the distance, they will not stay in the sky over Kovsk for more than twenty minutes.

Rommel decided to immediately send two aviation regiments to Steiner, and the airfield was built in the city of Kovsk, and as for how to build the airfield, it was Steiner's own business.

Steiner was so excited when he received a telegram that the two aviation regiments of the first platoon of the senate had come to support him in the operation, and he hurriedly ordered the square in Kovsk to be cleared out for an airfield.

Every city in the Soviet Union had a square, and the square was usually a statue of Lenin or Stalin, and the square was large and connected to the city boulevard, so it was easy for Steiner to build an airstrip.

One aviation regiment has one hundred and sixty-four aircraft, two regiments have a total of three hundred and twenty-eight, of which five groups are "BF109" fighters, four horizontal bomber groups, and as for how Steiner uses these air forces, that is Steiner's own business.

Steiner, of course, was well aware of the role of the Air Force, and after expelling the citizens of Kovsk, Steiner ordered all efforts to clean up Kovsk Square, which was not arduous and could be completed in half a day.

As soon as Steiner put the square in order, he sent a telegram to the General Command requesting the Air Force to station in Kovsk, and an hour later the planes of two aviation regiments flew over Kovsk.

To Steiner's delight, not only the entire two aviation regiments came, but also dozens of helicopters, all of which were equipped with small and medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns, which made Steiner even more grateful.

The most feared thing about the defense of the city is the large-scale bombing of the Soviet Union, if all the buildings are bombed into ruins, then Steiner will not be able to defend it, and now Steiner has the plane in his hands, and the air supremacy over Kovsk is guaranteed.

The city is defended, but it cannot be completely defended in the city, and that is when there is really no situation, Steiner will do that. If all the troops were placed in the city, as long as the Soviets were willing to bombard it with a large number of shells, the area of Kovsk, which was not very large, would be in ruins in a few days, not to mention the airfield on the square.

In response to this situation, Steiner deployed all three German infantry divisions outside the city, and more than 10,000 transports were stationed in the city of Kovsk, and more than 10,000 people became Steiner's supplementary troops and city defense forces.

As for the artillery, Steiner was also deployed outside the city, and Steiner's arrangement was to adopt a strategy of active defense. Don't use rigid passive defense tactics.

Steiner's arrangement, of course, also makes sense, he has two fully equipped tank divisions in his hands, and the German tank division with air force cover can only exert its maximum attack power in the field.

Regardless of whether Steiner's arrangement was correct or not, since Steiner, as the commander of the front, of course had the right to fight according to his own ideas, Steiner's arrangement could not even be made without consulting Guderian, and only needed to report his tactical arrangements to Guderian.

Three days later, Steiner had just set up positions outside Kovsk, and more than 400,000 Soviet troops had begun to reach the perimeter of Kovsk.

After the 400,000 Soviet troops arrived in Kowsksk, they did not attack immediately, but surrounded Kowsksk, and at the same time used a large number of excavators to dig several anti-tank trenches around the entire Kowsksk.

Of course, this is only a superficial phenomenon, and the deep reason is that the front commander of the Soviet army this time is General Vasilevsky, this person is much more stable, and later generations have a very high evaluation of him.

He was said to be "the instructor of the Stalingrad counteroffensive operation, the reconquistalist of the Crimea and the destroyer of Königsberg, the most talented general outside the troika of the Soviet Army." This man's outstanding military prowess can be seen.

Originally, General Vasilevsky was presiding over the deployment of Moscow, because the Wehrmacht was attacking fiercely, and the number and weapons were not at all less than that of the Soviet army.

Under these circumstances, General Vasilevsky advised Stalin to take precautions and begin to arrange the defense of the Soviet capital Moscow during the Kiev campaign, using positional warfare and attrition to drag the surging German army into the cold winter of the Soviet Union. (To be continued.) )