What novel tactics did Rokossovsky come up with to deal with Guderian's key assault tactics? In fact, it was still a counterattack, but instead of investing valuable armored forces to counterattack, a part of the defenders of Mozyri was transferred to cross the Pripyat River and sneak into the back of the German army. The main targets of the sneak attack were the transportation nodes and material depots of the enemy's second tank cluster.

The surprise attack began in the middle of the night, and when the German sentries focused their attention entirely on the other side of the river, they had no idea that the Red Army soldiers had landed behind them in helicopters. They didn't expect to be attacked from behind at all, and they died silently in the moonlight, not to mention the alarm, and they didn't even have a chance to snort.

After taking control of the riverbank, the Red Army began to cross the river in an orderly manner, and two hours later, about an infantry regiment had infiltrated the rear of the German army and soon launched an attack on their respective targets.

The hastily prepared Germans were soon in disarray, and before they could organize a systematic counterattack, the Reds had withdrawn back to the south bank of the Pripyat River. So as soon as he woke up in the morning, Guderian received bad news - two fuel depots had been destroyed, an arsenal had been detonated, and more importantly, the warehouses where food was stored had been burned down by the Red Army.

"According to the results of the statistics, we can still use fuel for a week, but the food is only enough for the whole army for five days, and the headquarters of the army group told me that because of the rampant activities of the enemy's guerrillas, a considerable part of the railways and roads have been destroyed, and it is difficult to transport supplies in the rear forward. In other words, we are ready to deal with the shortage of supplies! ”

Guderian's mood can be imagined to be very bad, his second tank cluster because the main direction of attack is neither Minsk nor Kiev. So the supply priority is lower than that of the first and third tank clusters. Upon arrival in the Mozyri area. The 2nd Tank Group has not been adequately supplied. And now the material reserves, which were not sufficient, have been given by the enemy, isn't this fatal?

"Do you want to stop the offensive for the time being, wait for the lines of communication to be cleared, and then break through the enemy's defense line in one go?"

Guderian snorted coldly: "By no means, it is clear that our enemies are counting on such means as Tongguò to stop us from attacking, and this also proves from the other side that they really do not have too good means to deal with our key breakthrough tactics." We made it very uncomfortable for them, and in desperation, they jumped over the wall. So you can't give them a respite. Be sure to keep onslaught, if I'm not wrong, they won't last long! ”

Guderian's analysis hit the nail on the head, Rokossovsky really made this kind of calculation, since he couldn't stop the enemy, he could only stumble on the enemy and let the enemy stop himself. It's just that Guderian is not a vegetarian, although his troops are short of supplies, but he just stubbornly continues to attack, that is, he bets that the Sixth Army will not be able to stop him for three days.

So turn the day. The situation on the battlefield became worse and worse, and the Germans almost concentrated their firepower and invested it at any cost. The attack wave was like a wave, and this made Rokossovsky's lad suffer.

On the morning of that day, the poorly prepared Red Army was opened by the enemy's heavy blows, and the Germans advanced five kilometers in one go, which forced the troops on the front line to organize death squads to carry out a counter-charge, and the two sides pointed to Maiman, and the bayonets to bayonets fought hand-to-hand. In the end, the Red Army fought out two whole companies, and only then did they repel the Germans.

"Comrade Konstantin, we must adjust our tactics, and if we continue to fight so hard, the troops will not be able to hold out for a week! Throw in your armored forces to fight back! ”

In the face of the plea of the chief of staff, Rokossovsky still insisted on his opinion and categorically refused: "It is not yet time to put into armored forces." Send a telegram to the front command, informing them that we are under great pressure here, that air support is urgently needed, and that the air force is invited to bomb the enemy's troop concentration points and rear warehouses, preferably on a larger scale! ”

It can be seen that Rokossovsky is preparing to fight Guderian's seven inches to the death, and he wants to hit the supply lines and warehouses of the second tank group fiercely, completely paralyzing the ability of this armored division to advance forward.

Shaposhnikov reluctantly agreed to Rokossovsky's request, and to be honest, Lao Sha did not really want to throw too much air power at Kalinkovich. The reason is that the air force at his disposal is limited, and it is very difficult for Rokossovsky, but it is even more difficult for Kyiv.

Kyiv has been surrounded by the enemy for almost two months, and with the onset of winter, Shaposhnikov is under great pressure, and the problems of eating, dressing and heating more than a million soldiers and civilians in Kyiv are enough for him to have a headache, because land transportation is completely cut off by the enemy, and Kyiv's supplies are completely dependent on air.

Even with a large number of transport helicopters, Shaposhnikov still felt that the capacity was not enough, and he had to rely on the Air Force's transport planes and bombers for airdrops. It can be said that 30% of the transport planes and bombers of the Red Army were put into the front line of Kyiv, and it is here that Kyiv is still living tightly, anyway, once these bombers are withdrawn, Shaposhnikov will have to be cut off.

However, after thinking about it for a long time, Shaposhnikov still met Rokossovsky's request, because he knew very well that the pressure on the Sixth Army was too great, and if he was not given enough support, the Mozyri line would collapse, and at the same time, the 16th Army was not prepared, so once it collapsed, the chain reaction was that the Red Army, which had just begun to stabilize the front, would be cut into a big hole again, and the swarms of German devils would rush into Russia, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

The air strike that Rokossovsky wanted was finally there, and the Ukrainian Front concentrated one bomber division and two attack aircraft divisions, and continuously launched heavy bombardments on the second tank group. In the words of Chief of Staff Guderian: "This is the most fierce air raid our army has suffered since the outbreak of the war, and the crazy polar bears seem to be about to blow everything to pieces. Whether it's fuel, ammunition, or food and medicine, it's all down to a minimum, and what I didn't expect is. Heinz (Guderian) still ordered us to continue the offensive......"

Guderian was well aware. This heavy bombardment was directed at his supplies. Isn't it clear that the Red Army devoted 75% of its air power to strikes at the second tank cluster, material warehouses and communication lines, and only 25% on battlefield support?

But Guderian was also a stubborn man, he saw through Rokossovsky's attempts, and the more someone tried to force him to stop, the more he had to rise to the occasion, Guderian was convinced that as long as he continued to storm the enemy, he would collapse sooner than he did.

The situation becomes interesting. Two men of equal genius and stubbornness collide together, both of whom believe that they have discovered each other's weaknesses and that they can win if they strike at the enemy's weaknesses. Both of them refused to change, and directly led to the battlefield environment becoming extremely harsh.

In the following day, both the Red Army and the Germans felt exhausted, and if it were not for the desperate cheering of the superiors on both sides and the strict enforcement of battlefield discipline by the supervising teams, I am afraid that the soldiers on both sides would have picked on each other at the same time.

Not only did the soldiers not be able to hold on, but in fact even Guderian and Rokossovsky were exhausted. In a letter to his wife, Guderian wrote: "The Russians have refreshed my perception of the limits time and time again, and these fellows are no longer the rude, careless, and ignorant gray animals I knew in the First World War." It has to be admitted that the Bolsheviks remodeled them well. They have become a very difficult group of troublemakers...... Of course, I am still full of confidence. After all, my soldiers are more elite, and if it weren't for those unexpected factors on the battlefield, I would have ended the battle long ago. And now I still firmly believe that victory can only be mine! ”

Rokossovsky also commented on the German soldiers: "This is a group of well-trained and combative Nazi bandits, who have been fanatical by fascism and who have exploded into great combat effectiveness despite the lack of supplies. If all the German devils were so difficult to deal with, the Great Patriotic War would have become very long and arduous...... However, I am still full of confidence that the enemy's offensive will never last indefinitely, and that they will be tired, even if they do not feel tired, and it will be useless if they run out of ammunition...... Every day I was calculating the consumption of the Germans, the first day the field artillery and mortars almost never stopped, and the second day, the field artillery could only fire intermittently, and today the mortar fire has become more cautious, it is clear that the enemy's ammunition is already very tight, all I need to think about is how to consume the enemy's ammunition faster! ”

On this day, Rokossovsky again ordered the Red Army in Mozyri to cross the river and attack the enemy, and the time of the attack was chosen to be during the day, and most importantly, he gave the order: "Make the noise as loud as possible!" ”

The reason for this order was entirely because Rokossovsky did not expect to defeat the opponent with a flank attack, and all Mozyri's troops needed to do was to consume a little more German ammunition.

For Rokossovsky's rogue methods, Guderian also couldn't cry or laugh, but he could only see the moves, and he couldn't ignore the enemy, right? However, if it is to be managed, the consequences are also very clear, and it will inevitably add an additional burden to the already very tight supply of ammunition. Moreover, Rokossovsky also shamelessly launched waves of "night raids" at night, of course, this so-called "night raid" basically belongs to the thunder and rain, just to consume the German army's ammunition reserves.

After another whole day of tug-of-war, the Germans finally struck, refusing to continue their attack unless sufficient ammunition could be supplied. Faced with this painful situation, Guderian also sighed helplessly, he knew that the enemy's conspiracy had succeeded, and he had to stop the pace of the attack and wait for the rear to deliver enough supplies. In other words, he lost this round!

However, Guderian was not discouraged, he was not inferior in skills, but lost in weak logistics supplies. And he still thinks that he still has a chance, as long as he solves the supply problem in a targeted manner, then crushing the Russians in front of him is not a big problem at all.

On the one hand, Guderian ordered the troops to stop and recuperate and consolidate their positions, so as to prevent the positions that had been occupied with great difficulty from being returned by the Soviets; On the other hand, he is also actively thinking about countermeasures, looking for a better way to defeat his opponent.

Not to mention Guderian's movements, Rokossovsky let out a long sigh here, in fact, on the last day, his troops had reached their limit. If the Germans can still maintain the momentum of the previous day's attack. Then he was definitely the one who was defeated.

So for the first leg to win. Rokossovsky was merely cautiously happy, while he was thinking more about how to play in the next round. I'm afraid it's unrealistic to continue with the last round of play, the German has seen through his plan and made targeted adjustments, and the "forty-kilometer defensive line" he created has been worn out, and there is no more depth to squander!

Rokossovsky knew he had to adjust, given that there was still some time before the twenty-day deadline. And there is no room to retreat, there is only one way in front of him - to defend to the death!

Therefore, Rokossovsky quickly transferred troops from the "forty kilometers" line of defense, leaving only a few troops to harass the enemy on the "line of defense", and the main force retreated to the city of Kalinkovich and relied on three lines of defense that could be really connected to block the enemy.

Rokossovsky wrote in his war diary: "The most cruel and difficult round is coming, and we have no way to retreat but to fight the enemy hard!" ”

In order to prepare for the arduous positional warfare, Rokossovsky hoarded a large amount of supplies, and most importantly, rushed to repair a large number of fortifications, almost turning Kalinkovich into a large military camp, where every house, every trench, every barricade and every foxhole was garrisoned by the Red Army. For the officers and men of the Sixth Army. There were only two paths before them - either hold their positions or die with the enemy.

Just as Guderian and Rokossovsky were actively preparing for the second round of the fight. In addition to taking advantage of the Ukrainian empty surprise attack in the early days of the war to fight two beautiful battles of annihilation, when entering the front line of Kiev, Army Group South was difficult to advance in the face of the stubbornly defending Red Army.

In fact, not only did they not advance, but they were forced to retreat step by step, and the plan to capture Kiev turned into a painful siege, and the northward advance to Moscow and the eastward advance to Kharkov were also driven away by the Soviet army in minutes, and the existing front was maintained thanks to the lack of strength of the Red Army. It is said that Army Group South had aroused Hitler's great dissatisfaction during this period, and the Führer strongly demanded that Rundsteld resume the previous offensive and break through the Red Army's blockade and march quickly into the Russian hinterland.

In order to carry out the Führer's intentions, the German General Staff developed a new plan, the core idea of which was to find the weak defensive positions of the Red Army and then concentrate its forces to break through in one fell swoop. According to the understanding of the General Staff, at this time Guderian's front, that is, Rokossovsky's defensive line, was the weakest, and if elite armored units could be drawn from the Ukrainian Army Group South and inserted into the area, it was very likely that a big hole would be carved in the center of the Red Army front.

Along this opening, the 2nd Tank Group could quickly advance northward, passing through Bryansk in the direction of Moscow. The German General Staff judged that once such a breakthrough was formed, the Soviet defense line would completely collapse and the Bolsheviks would be captured.

Soon this new operational scheme was perfected, and Army Group South was to draw at least one army group into the Belarusian direction and break through to the north together with the 2nd Tank Group. At the same time, in order to conceal the operational attempts, and to paralyze and mislead the Soviet troops, Army Group South had to launch a feint in the lowlands along the Dnieper, leaving the Red Army as far as possible and preventing them from going to reinforce the 6th Army.

It has to be said that the efficiency of the German army was very high, and it only took a week from the initial intention to the specific battle plan, and on October 10, Army Group South besieging Kiev suspended its attack on Kiev, and a considerable part of its troops were transferred to Belarus.

And what were the Soviets doing when the Germans were trying to launch a new offensive? The Red Army at the front was still struggling to maintain the front, and in the rear, a new controversy had erupted.

Previously, after Li Xiaofeng proposed and Lenin seconded it, the rectification movement in the Red Army was launched, but there were considerable opinions and differences within the Politburo as to how to rectify the style. Trotsky believed that the rectification was to purge the Red Army of the cancer of escapism and retreatism, and that it was necessary for the Red Army commanders and fighters to identify the conviction that the Soviet Union, despite its vast territory, could no longer take a step back.

Li Xiaofeng resolutely disagrees with this, he believes that the rectification of the fear of the enemy has already been carried out, and the cowards in the Red Army have been basically eliminated, and the vast majority of cowards have been thrown into the punishment battalion and the meritorious atonement company, and the goal has been achieved.

Li Xiaofeng believes that the rectification style should be raised to a new level, and the targets of rectification are not those cowards and cowards, but the general political style of the Red Army commanders and fighters, which is simple and rude in politics, does not seek much understanding in military affairs, and is extremely dogmatic in action. Reversing these tendencies in the Red Army is the most important thing! (To be continued......)

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