Chapter 391: Surrender Without a Fight
"Attacking what!! Let all the soldiers eat, and then order the 350,000 Wehrmacht, plus the 300,000 Axis troops, to storm Odessa from eight directions, and you will be the commander-in-chief of Army Group South. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Then I'll take command of the battle, and you continue to rest."
Manstein, the deputy commander-in-chief, would not interfere with Guderian's specific command, although they were brothers, and this was the upward and downward effect, all thanks to the command habits of Führer Rommel.
Manstein and Guderian were confident that the victory in this battle was that the tanks of the Soviet army were rubbish and useless for the current German tanks.
At this time, the Soviet Union's anti-tank means were also very limited, and even cocktail ****** were not popularized on a large scale.
As for the large-caliber anti-tank guns of the USSR, it was only after the second half of 41, when Anglo-American aid to the USSR was sent to the front.
Since the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, the Soviet Union's anti-tank guns now have a maximum caliber of only 50 millimeters, and they cannot penetrate the German No. 4 tank at a distance of 500 meters, and the Soviet army's anti-tank grenade throwers cannot get close to the German tanks protected by armored vehicles, so at this time, the Soviet army has no good way to contain the German tank torrent.
The Germans attacked Odessa at the same time in eight ways, each attack group had about 50,000 or 60,000 troops, and the reserve troops were left behind, which happened to be the strength of two armies, and each attack group could also be supported by 80 German No. 3 tanks and 40 No. 4 tanks, as well as the corresponding Soviet armored vehicles, and the armored force of each assault group should be enough.
After Guderian's analysis, only by taking Odessa as soon as possible can we prevent this city from holding back the large number of troops of Army Group South, which is still carrying out a very arduous combat mission and a very tight time.
After the Germans finished their meal, they immediately divided into eight armies and stormed Odessa. And after such a long period of shelling, the Soviet side did not die and ran out of the bunker to breathe.
When the remnants of the Soviet troops ran out of the bunkers, the Odessa of this matter was already unrecognizable, the entire city became a huge ruin, and sixty percent of the buildings of the entire city collapsed in the shelling.
Most of the wooden buildings were burning, and the city was filled with fire and smoke, and the air was filled with choking smoke.
The quality of the Soviet army led by Timoshenko was good, and the Soviet troops, who were not killed in the shelling, began to rescue their wounded and began to repair the fortifications, even if the previous fortifications were completely destroyed, just find a ruin to repair it, and it will be an excellent fortification.
Speaking of the person of Timoshenko, he transferred the citizens of Odessa outside the city shortly after the outbreak of the war, and many Ukrainian citizens at that time still did not understand Timoshenko's behavior and secretly cursed Timoshenko as a "villain".
In order to better build fortifications in Odessa, Timoshenko drove the citizens of Odessa out of the city, and as a result, this unintentional move saved hundreds of thousands of citizens of Odessa from the fighting.
While the Soviets were busy, countless shells fell from the sky, and the losses of the Soviet Ukrainian Front were heavy.
Guderian had exhausted the 600,000 shells that Manstein had given him, but Army Group South still had its own shells! When the Germans finished eating and participated in the Soviet troops coming out to repair the fortifications, the cunning Guderian carried out another heavy artillery bombardment.
After another hour of heavy shelling, it can be said that the entire city of Odessa suffered even more serious damage, 80% of the houses in the city were destroyed, and those that did not collapse were crumbling.
The blow to the morale of the Ukrainian Front was even more serious from this shelling, which had just survived the five-hour shelling of the German army, and after the German pickpocketing stopped, they came out to repair the fortifications under the command of the commissar and endured their fear.
But the second round of German shelling began without warning, and this fierce shelling killed countless soldiers of the Ukrainian Front, and the Ukrainian Front was wiped out under the two indiscriminate bombardments of the German army.
You must know that the vast majority of the soldiers in the Ukrainian Front are Ukrainians, and their identification with the Soviet Union is not so deep, and some of Stalin's policies have also made Ukrainians very resistant, but they are forced to brutally suppress the means without large-scale resistance.
"Look at the history of posterity: Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, at a meeting with the delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, stressed that he hoped that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe would adopt a special document condemning the ****** of the 30s as an act of ethnic genocide against Ukrainians. Yushchenko said that the Ukrainian side will provide all the information about the ******.
The latest poll, conducted by the International Institute of Social Studies in Kyiv, shows that about 72% of Ukrainians believe that ****** is an act of ethnic genocide. At present, the parliaments of 10 countries have passed resolutions recognizing ****** as ethnic genocide. Between 1921 and 1923 and 1932-1933, there were two ****** in Ukraine.
But the famine was the worst between 1932 and 1933, when 7 million to 10 million people died. This figure was equivalent to 1/4 of the population of Ukraine at that time and half of the population of the eastern and central regions of Ukraine.
In November 2003, the United Nations recognized ****** that took place in Ukraine and other former Soviet republics between 1932 and 1933. The Ukrainian side is sure that without the ****** of those years, then the total population of Ukraine would have doubled and would have reached 100 million. The Ukrainian government has designated November 23 of each year as the day of remembrance of famine and ethnic repression. ”
Under such circumstances, how can the Ukrainian people regard the Soviet Union as their homeland, there is nothing more tragic in the world than to watch their relatives starve to death in front of them, but they are powerless, this pain is thorough, and the hatred is unforgettable.
Now that Germany has finally broken Stalin's cruel rule, especially the introduction of Rommel's land policy, it can be said that no one in Ukraine will still support Stalin's regime, even if that Ukraine is a high-ranking official in the Soviet Union, watching his comrades starve to death by millions and tens of millions, it is impossible to sincerely support Stalin.
The history of later generations has confirmed that it is not unreasonable why, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the CIS countries hated the Soviet Union more than the Western countries, successively put forward anti-Russian bills, actively joined NATO, and helped the United States build an anti-missile system to contain Russia.
"Boom...... Boom ......"
German tank assault groups and crowds poured into the city of Odessa, and the Ukrainian Front that did not die basically came out and surrendered directly under a white flag, if the commissar was Russian, it would be killed directly by Ukrainian soldiers, and if the commissar was Ukrainian, it would also come out and surrender without resistance at all. (To be continued.) )