Commander-in-Chief of the Defense of Odessa: Timoshenko, Military Councilor: Borisov, Chief of Staff: Vatutin. The three of them hadn't met since yesterday www.biquge.info and Timoshenko resisted the pressure and didn't send out his mobile troops when the enemy situation was unknown.

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 will also be an empty city without soldiers.

"Comrade Marshal, you see what we should do now, Germany has driven the remnants of our Black Sea Fleet out of the port of Odessa, and the German troops surrounding us can be more than 500,000 people, we only have 120,000 regular troops in our hands, 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.

At this time, the development of advanced tanks such as the T-34 and KV-1 in the Soviet Union had been completed, and the field practice was still being done, and the T34 in history also began mass production in June 1940 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 in the 1937 purge, while his Panzer Corps was disbanded and tanks were scattered to infantry units.

However, the poor performance of Soviet tank units in the Soviet-Finnish war in 1940 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 1940, the Soviets had 20,000 tanks, more than the rest of Europe combined. The vast majority of these 20,000 tanks are old and obsolete light models, such as 12,000 T-26 light tanks, 8,300 BT series fast tanks, and only 600 T-28 medium tanks.

Timoshenko's hands are full of these old and backward tanks, such as the BT-7 tank, finalized in 1935, with a total combat weight of 14 tons, and an armor thickness of 6-13 mm, which is similar to the German Pz2 tank, and in terms of firepower, the BT-7 tank is equipped with a 45 mm L/46 cannon, which can penetrate 38 mm thick armor at a distance of 500 meters, and even the front of the No. 4 tank cannot penetrate the front.

The T26 has the same effect, a little better is the T28 medium tank, the last modified version of the T-28 has a total combat weight of 28 tons, armor thickness of 40-80 mm, equipped with a 76.2 mm L/28 gun, 500 meters can penetrate 61 mm of steel armor, and it is also unable to penetrate the 80 mm frontal armor of the No. 4 tank, let alone the German Leopard tank.

Timoshenko had already received a specific report from the front line that the Germans were equipped with a tank called the Leopard, which was estimated to weigh more than 50 tons, and that the 50-millimeter anti-tank gun could not penetrate its front at a distance of 500 meters.

Germany's tank technology has been at the forefront of the world, Rommel began to support the research and development of German tanks very early, when Rommel ascended to the position of Führer, he spared no effort in the research and development of weapons in the army.

And the German Navy, Rommel also asked it to go to the corner to draw a circle, Germany's resources and funds, there is indeed no way to fight with Britain and the United States to build a naval force with gold, that can only be judged by oneself, attacking the enemy's strengths, that is the most stupid approach.

Suddenly, there was a rush of cannonballs, "Boom...... The sound of "booming ......" was incessant.

Timoshenko felt the earth tremble violently, and the whole house swayed from side to side in the trembling. The people in the command of the Ukrainian side in Odessa thought that there was an earthquake and hurriedly ran out of the command center, 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 headquarters, and with a "boom", the walls of the headquarters exploded violently without warning, rubble and shrapnel flew sideways, and gunpowder smoke filled the entire headquarters.

This shell immediately killed more than a dozen officers of the command, 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.

The swarm of people who did not die rushed to the basement below the headquarters, which was all made of reinforced concrete, quite sturdy, and if it weren't for a few direct hits from a 500-kilogram bomb, there would be no problem.

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

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

Temoshengo did not hesitate at all, and took a few major officers to enter the basement first, he did not run outside the headquarters like a headless fly, otherwise the dozen or so corpses in the headquarters would be Timoshenge, and the veterans are different from rookies.

"Boom...... The sound of "boom ......" entered the basement, causing people's ears to buzz.

"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 replied to Borisov's question in frustration, and the heavy shelling caused the dust on the basement to fall, fall on his body or suck it into his mouth, and everyone could not help but spit on it.

No matter how bad the conditions in the basement were, no one dared to go out and test the power of the German shelling, and the German shelling seemed to be endless, bombarding Odessa without any signs of stopping.

……

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

Manstein was Führer Rommel's former deputy commander-in-chief of the enemy on the Eastern Front, and his main job was to coordinate the combat operations of the three German army groups.

"Oh! General Guderian, is there something wrong? ”

Manstein felt that someone was pushing him, and quickly opened his eyes to see that it was Guderian, the commander-in-chief of Army Group South, and he hurriedly tore off the cotton wool in his ear with his hand:

"Commander-in-chief, it's almost twelve o'clock now, and we've been shelling for five hours, and the 600,000 shells you sent to our Army Group South have all been wiped out.

Fifteen hundred heavy artillery, each with 400 shells, was fired out without landing, and our artillery units reacted, and their arms were swollen. Now that the shelling has stopped, do we attack immediately or let the soldiers have enough to eat before attacking. ”

[Thank you brothers for your monthly passes, and thank you brothers for your blessings.] (To be continued.) )