Chapter 314 Cleaning up the battlefield
In fact, compared to the brutal battle, Shulka thinks that what is more terrifying is the cleaning of the battlefield after the battle.
Cleaning the battlefield is a must, otherwise the corpses will block the channel of the trench, making it impossible for troops to support each other and obtain ammunition, which will cause a lot of trouble before the enemy's next attack.
At this time, you will see corpses in different shapes, look at their appearance and guess the cause of their death naturally.
A soldier is hiding in a trench, everything else is intact, the Tianling cover is overturned and lying on his back,
Another soldier sat with his back against the trench wall.
He apparently struggled before his death,
His face was bloodless, his eyes were dull and dull, and his face still retained the distortion and convulsions caused by the severe pain.
Compared with these sacrificed soldiers, those wounded may be much luckier.
They were gathered in the bunkers waiting to be evacuated.
But Shulka believes that they do not feel that this is "lucky" at all, which can be seen from their helpless cries:
"Fucking villains, you just leave me here?"
"Where is my foot? Can someone help me find it?"
"Doctor, doctor...I'm dying, I can't stop the bleeding!"
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Some people even shouted desperately:
"What are you doing? Those officers, took us to the slaughterhouse!"
"Why are they doing this? We shouldn't be here!"
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Shuerka understands this phenomenon. They feel that they may indeed be on the verge of death, so they indulge their thoughts and even hope that someone will make them "shut up" because of the pain.
So did the instructor, so he didn't make much of a move, but huddled with Shulka and smoked.
The sky gradually darkened, the battle finally came to an end, and the soldiers relaxed one by one.
Pukarev walked over to Shulka with his waist down, rubbed his hands that were about to freeze, and reported to Shulka: "There are a lot of casualties, Comrade Company Commander, there are only fifty-two people left in our company! "
"Yeah!" Shulka nodded.
In fact, there are not many people left in the whole battalion, including the original garrison of the 1075 regiment, I am afraid that there are less than 300 people.
"We probably won't survive tomorrow, can we?" the instructor asked.
It surprised Shulka that the instructor would ask this question, because the instructor usually tells everyone:
"As long as we fight bravely, we will surely defeat the enemy!"
"No difficulty will prevent us from destroying these invaders!"
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These words are actually idealism, which completely ignores all objective conditions such as the balance of power between the enemy and ourselves.
But now, the instructor will ask such things that are usually not allowed to be said.
"Maybe it is!" Shuerka tightened his military uniform and replied, "Now, we may only hope for two things!"
"Which two points?"
"It's colder!" Shulka replied: "Or reinforcements!"
The instructor nodded in agreement.
From the dead bodies of the German soldiers, the instructors knew that they lacked warm clothes. If you opened the uniforms casually, you could see that they were randomly stuffed with hay, newspapers and other things.
So, if the weather is colder, the German army may not be able to hold on or its combat effectiveness will be affected.
The Soviet army is obviously much better in this regard, at least they do not lack clothing to keep out the cold.
As for the reinforcements...
The instructor is not optimistic about this.
"We don't have any extra troops!" said the instructor. "Even if there are, it's a drop in the bucket, or some militia...you know, they won't do much!"
Shulka nodded in agreement.
With the advancement of human beings and the development of weapons, militias without military training are fine for guerrilla warfare. Going to the battlefield is basically adding a series of numbers to the number of casualties, especially between the Soviet Union and Germany. The powerful tank group assaults at every turn. on the battlefield.
"Will they bring in tanks?" the instructor asked.
Shulka shook his head: "It's useless, the Germans have three divisions, and the muddy ground is frozen, which means they can choose any place to attack!"
The instructor exhaled a puff of smoke ring and sighed. He knew that what Shulka said was right. Today the main attack direction of the Germans is here, and tomorrow the main attack direction may be other places, and the Soviet tanks can only operate at night. , unable to maneuver during the day... If you want to use tanks for defense, you can only disperse the defense, but if 30 tanks are divided into a defense line of more than ten kilometers, it is almost negligible.
"Is there no way?" the instructor asked.
Shuerka could only respond with a wry smile.
Shulka has also been thinking about this issue.
From a strategic point of view, Shulka may have won. He succeeded in making the Soviet army persist until now to make up for the time gap of the last month.
Shulka believes that even if the German army breaks through Volokolamsk and marches towards Moscow, it is impossible to occupy Moscow.
The answer is obvious.
The Soviet army did not put the main force of the air force into the battle to support the front line, which means that the Supreme Command has been preserving its strength in terms of the air force.
Once the German army hits Moscow, the situation will change... Although the performance of the Soviet Air Force fighters is not as good as the German army, the quality of the pilots is not as good as the German army.
But the point is that the Soviet Army has a large number of anti-aircraft balloons in Moscow. These balloons are arranged in rows up and down, left and right, and the steel cables are connected into spider webs, and some of them are hung with small bombs.
Combined with anti-aircraft firepower, the Soviet army can completely isolate the German fighter planes to a certain extent.
Thus, it was possible for Soviet fighter planes to attack German armored forces from the air.
Even so, it can’t be stopped. After entering Moscow, there will still be difficult street fighting.
Besides, the Far East Front Army is also on its way...
That is to say, at this time, the German army's strategic goal of attacking Moscow could not be accomplished, but they didn't know it yet, or Hitler was unwilling to give up and continued to attack with a glimmer of hope.
There was no problem with this, but the problem was that Shulka was on the front line and would be crushed by the tracks of German tanks at any time.
(end of this chapter)
