Chapter 132 Arrogant
The fact is that there is no need to add too many rollers at all, because the German engineers are not as fast as expected.
It should be said that the speed of mine mines can be faster, but the Germans estimate that the marching speed of the Soviet 9th Army will be much slower than them...
This is for sure, mines only need to dig a hole on the ground and bury them and then make some camouflage, but mine clearance needs to be found slowly in every place on the road, and even use military thorns to test it. Of course, the speed is much slower than that of mines. .
Under this premise, the German army retreated step by step.
In fact, they are mainly Romanians. Now the position where the enemy and us meet is the defense zone of the Romanian 3rd Army. The German engineers must wait for the Romanian troops to withdraw from this area before they can continue to lay mines.
But the Romanians... They seemed to be arrogant in the previous battles, especially this 3rd Army, they followed the Germans and advanced.
Although they followed the German army and advanced forward, at least they encountered a few large-scale Soviet troops on the road, so they won a few battles.
In this case, the 3rd Army is a little swollen.
The commander of the 3rd Army is Admiral Dumitrescu. When he received the order to retreat, he immediately called Lundstedt.
"Your Excellency Marshal!" Dumitrescu said on the phone: "The 3rd Army has two divisions in the Bershad area and an artillery regiment. Why don't we organize a defense?"
"Your courage is admirable, General!" Lundstedt replied: "But I don't think it is of any use..."
"But that is our supply line, Your Excellency the Marshal!" Dumitrescu said: "If they are allowed to occupy this railway and road, our front-line troops will be in a supply dilemma!"
"No, they won't!" Lundstedt replied: "As long as Odessa is still in our hands!"
"I think…"
"You don't need to think, General!" Lundstedt interrupted Dumitrescu impatiently: "All you need to know is to obey the order to retreat!"
"Yes, Your Excellency the Marshal!" Dumitrescu replied helplessly.
After putting down the phone, Lundstedt shook his head with a wry smile.
Two divisions, plus an artillery regiment... just want to block a Russian mechanized army?
You must know that this Russian mechanized army defeated the defenses of the Romanian 1st Armored Division and the German 198th Infantry Division one after another. It may not be appropriate to say defeat, and it is more appropriate to describe it as a defeat.
And Romania's two infantry divisions, lacking combat experience and equipment, can't even slow down the advance of the Russian army. Using them to stop the Russian army will only bring more trouble to themselves... because when they are besieged Sometimes it is necessary to squeeze out troops to rescue them, otherwise it will affect the alliance relationship and mutual trust between Germany and Romania.
More importantly, if the Russians drive the Romanian defeated army all the way south, the German engineers will not even be able to lay mines.
Considering these, Rundstedt would rather choose to ignore these two infantry divisions.
As for the artillery regiment... Lundstedt really dare not use the artillery regiment that uses mules and horses, because they are likely to fall into the hands of the Russians.
Admiral Dumitrescu did carry out this order, but his subordinates retreated slowly because of their victory, and many even laughed at the tense German engineers .
"These idiots!" Major Luca, the commander of the German engineer battalion, couldn't help cursing.
"They think they can defeat the Russians!" The adjutant said, "I really hope that the Russians can be let in and give them a hard lesson!"
"No, Koch!" said Major Luca, "That will get us in trouble!"
"I'm just talking, Major!" The adjutant laughed.
But what they don't know is that this talk will soon become a reality...
Just as Major Luca was directing his subordinate mine and assisting the retreat of the Romanian army, there was a faint "bang bang" explosion sound from the other side of the road.
"What's going on?" Major Luca, as the commander of the engineer battalion, of course knew that it was the explosion of landmines.
"Maybe some animal!" said the adjutant, "You know, horses or something, they ran into our minefield!"
The words of the adjutant reassured Major Luka, but soon Luka denied this statement, because the sound of the explosion was uninterrupted, and there was a faint "rumbling" sound of the tank.
"It's impossible!" Major Luca said, and then ordered to the adjutant: "Let them be quiet!"
"They" refers to the retreating Romanian army.
"Quiet, quiet!" The adjutant yelled loudly for a while before the people nearby fell silent.
Major Luca listened carefully, and this time he heard clearly that there was indeed the sound of a tank's motor in the explosion.
"It's a tank!" Major Luka said: "Russians!"
"How did they do it?" The adjutant was a little helpless.
"I don't know, but they are coming!" Then Major Luca shouted: "Ready to fight!"
The German engineers immediately took out their weapons and prepared for battle, and some engineers even spontaneously placed several anti-tank mines in the middle of the road... A well-trained army does not know what to do when it hears an order What, but having the initiative to know what to do when.
The Romanian army still did not respond.
That's the difference between them and the Germans... The Romanian army was ordered to retreat, so they didn't know whether to retreat or stay and fight.
Their stupid appearance made Major Luka yell angrily: "Didn't you say that you want to fight the Russians? Now is your chance, I wish you good luck!"
Of course the adjutant knew that Major Luca was speaking out of anger, and immediately ordered the Romanian army to prepare for battle like them.
At this time, the rain was a little lighter, but the sky was gray and hazy in the evening, which made it impossible for Major Luca to see what was going on in front of him, even with a telescope.
He only knew that the "rumbling" sound was getting louder and the explosion of the mines was getting closer and closer, and soon he could even hear the "cracking" sound of the tracks.
Major Luka was puzzled: Russians used tanks to clear mines?
This is impossible, because there are even explosions of anti-tank mines, but this does not stop the enemy from continuing to advance!
Getting closer, getting closer...
Then Major Luca finally saw clearly, they installed a roller in front of the tank, and the mines were detonated by these rollers.
"Fuck it!" Major Luca couldn't help cursing, and he realized that this time it was more ominous than good.
(end of this chapter)
