Chapter 381: The Resilience of a Great Power

The sergeant major seemed to be the Führer's absolute support, and Louel had seen it more than once, and when he was fine, the sergeant major would often take out the book "Mein Kampf", an autobiography written by the Führer, that he would even mumble something when he saw excitement, and his expression was excited.

At this time, he was not afraid of the threat of the guns of the Russian partisans, and was the first to rush forward.

On the other side, in the middle of a forest, Zhuoya, who had cut his hair short and wore a cloak, constantly commanded the partisans around him to launch a fierce attack on the German train.

"Zhuoya, the enemy is pressing up, and they are outnumbered by us, what should we do?"

Zoya raised his gun to aim, pulled the trigger, and steadily killed a German soldier, turned around and said: "Retreat, retreat to the depths of the forest, don't be surrounded by them, we have blown up this railway, they can't continue to move forward, we retreat to the forest There is more opportunity, eat this group of Nazi demons little by little!" ”

"Yes, everyone retreat!"

Zhuo Ya, who was born in Longxing Military Academy, also has a deep understanding of the guerrilla warfare that Zhou Yu believes in, and is even more comfortable using it in his hometown with extremely vast and complex terrain.

"Sir, the enemy is starting to retreat, should we chase it?"

The Germans, after discovering that the guerrillas who attacked them had begun to retreat into the woods, decisively chose to stop the pursuit.

"Don't fall for these Russians, stay on guard, move the supplies on the train first, the railway has been destroyed by these guys, and we can only move forward on foot."

By this time, the gunfire had gradually become sporadic and farther and farther away, and the short fierce battle just now, the new recruits of Luel had ended before they even saw the enemy.

But it was this short-lived encounter that they will never forget.

Because just now, a veteran who was sitting in the same carriage with them all the way, a calm and steady veteran like a war machine, he was shooting forward on one knee, but as soon as he stood up and ran forward for less than two steps, he was suddenly hit in the right eye socket by a cold gun, and a large blood hole exploded in the back of his head, and he fell to the ground on the spot and lost his breath instantly.

Bruno followed the veteran closely, and the blood from behind the other man's skull splattered his face, which made Bruno's lips turn white with fright, his hands and feet trembled, and he didn't say a word for a long time.

"Bruno, are you alright?"

Luel and several other recruits gathered around him with concern, checked back and forth, left and right, and only after making sure that the comrade was not injured did he relax a little.

"Dead...... He just died...... I don't even know where the bullet came from, but he hit it so accurately that the veteran's head exploded! This...... Is this war? ”

Faced with Bruno's question, another veteran walked past him and threw down a sentence lightly: "The real war has not yet begun, you rookies, you will know in a few days that today's battle is nothing." ”

After the soldiers had brought all the supplies off the train, the sergeant major ordered to rest in place and wait until dawn the next day to start the operation.

Some of the reinforcements were in charge of the perimeter guard, while others were buried in pots and cooked, making pots of hot soup from food that they couldn't carry for long, at least to keep the recruits' eggs hot at night.

"All veterans change their posts every fifteen to twenty minutes, and the other recruits should rest as soon as possible after eating, and no noise is allowed!"

When the sergeant major had finished giving the order, Lusaku and Bruno and the other recruits silently said God bless in their hearts, for they were so tired from the long journey and the tense ambush battle that they had just been lying on the ground that they did not want to move a finger at this time.

Several partners lay next to each other, but they were obviously very tired, but they couldn't feel sleepy for a while.

Bruno, who had always been a topic of conversation, had not yet recovered from the incident and had become silent, while another recruit, Crete, cautiously moved into the ears of his companions and said in a very small voice: "I have just heard the conversation between the two commanders, and we are one of the several troops sent to support the army after the first defeat after the successive battles. ”

"I can't believe that our army will also fail, I don't know what happened to my brother and their side......"

While the ordinary soldiers on the German side were lamenting that their Imperial army would also lose the battle, the top brass of the Soviet army was already anxious to become ants on a hot pot.

Just after the German army invaded the territory of the Soviet Union, it was like a bamboo, and the Soviet troops on the border were defeated for thousands of miles.

Field Marshal von Bock's rapid corps even captured the Belarusian capital Minsk in just a few days, and encircled the Soviet army's third, fourth, and tenth armies totaling more than 500,000 troops in the area west of Minsk.

For this reason, General Pavlov on the Soviet side also became a scapegoat and was sentenced to death, and at the same time he was ordered to be arrested and handed over to a military court for trial and accountability, as well as Major General Alekseev, commander of the 6th Infantry Army, Major General Arushaniyan, chief of staff of the 56th Army, Lieutenant General Ivanov, chief of the People's Commissariat of Defense, Major General Kuzmin, director of the Tactics Teaching and Research Department of the Frunze Military Academy, Major General Leonovich, chief of staff of the 18th Army, and so on.

But are these people really guilty, or are they just scapegoating for a greater historical wrong? Perhaps only future generations can give them justice, but for this stage, these truths will be buried deep underground.

However, the death of General Pavlov also brought great stimulation to the remaining Soviet generals, who must be responsible for the lives of the soldiers at the cost of their own lives, which also played a certain positive role in another aspect, like a shot in the arm was injected into the body of the huge polar bear of the Soviet army.

After that, as the founder of the blitzkrieg theory, Guderian had the most thorough knowledge of the panzer, and in the early days of the war, he used the power of tank forces to the extreme, sweeping the Russian plain and the historic city of Smolensk with lightning speed, surprising his opponents and even the German command.

However, the Soviet army in the defeat all the way to the secret accumulation of strength, Timosinger and Zhukov two generals took turns to command the Soviet army to storm the German defense, in Yelnia, launched a protracted battle, which is also the most tragic battle since the two countries started the war, and this war also made the German armored blitzkrieg encounter Waterloo for the first time.

At the end of July, the battle around Smolensk entered a tug-of-war phase, where Guderian's 2nd Panzer Group fought the fiercest battles with the Soviets.

In order to defend the last fortress in front of Moscow, the Soviet side did not hesitate to invest a large number of corps to repeatedly attack the German avant-garde troops, and Guderian's Panzer Army could not get rid of the pursuit and interception of the Soviet army.

However, although the exhausted Guderian troops withstood the pressure and made their best efforts, and even formed a flanking attack on the Soviet army for a time, causing its infantry regiment to be routed and suffering heavy losses, the Soviet army was still stubbornly organizing repeated attacks on the Irnia salient.

In September, the Soviet Reserve Front under Zhukov's command also began to invest significant forces to attack the Germans.

On September 4, the Soviets dealt a heavy blow to the Germans and formed an encirclement of them, forcing them to begin a retreat.

Only two days later, the Soviets advanced to Ustrom and the area along the Striana River, and again turned to the offensive near Smolensk with the strength of four armies.

Although they failed to recover Smolensk in the end, they pinned down the German Central Group in this area for two months, greatly slowing down the German army's march on Moscow, depleting the combat effectiveness of its armored corps, and also making the blitzkrieg on which the German army relied for survival break down in front of the Soviet army for the first time, which also laid the groundwork for winning the future defense of Moscow in advance.

However, without the knowledge of the soldiers on the front line, Zhou Yu sent people to get in touch with the Soviet high-level and quietly supported them with a batch of tank and artillery design drawings, in exchange for the right to use the port in the Far East.

The Soviets, whose capital was already threatened, could no longer care about the Far East, and when Zhou Yu proposed to borrow the port there to transport supplies to the Chinese soldiers and civilians in the War of Resistance, they agreed without much consideration.

At this point, the private army of the Dragon Chamber of Commerce, which had taken control of the Bering Strait in disguise, docked one warship after another and troop transports in ports near the Far East, and dropped tanks, armored vehicles and soldiers on this continent.

"Hahaha~~~ Lao Tzu is finally back! To hell with that damn desert~! Little Japanese devil~~ Taste the power of your Grandpa Hu tank car~~! ”