Chapter 351 Vigor
"I think we should hurry, Comrade Rokossovsky!" Colonel Lavlentin replied: "This will catch the enemy off guard. We have already hit Tver, and the enemy is vulnerable!"
There seems to be no problem with what Colonel Lavliangin said, because at this time the Soviet army is learning from the interludes of the German "blitzkrieg".
Interspersing is to rush to the destination quickly and occupy it before the enemy is ready.
"This is beyond our expectations!" Rokossovsky said. "We thought you would be blocked by the enemy, so the 1st Guards Tank Brigade would be able to follow you... But now, you are already with the close The 1st Guards Tank Brigade has a distance of 20 kilometers, and they will have at least two hours to arrive!"
"I don't think it's important, Comrade Rokossovsky!" Colonel Lavlentin said. "We can handle it, as I said...the enemy is completely defeated. We may need two hours to take it." Tver, then the 1st Guards Tank Brigade will join us!"
"Okay!" Rokossovsky said: "Pay attention to your rear, I will let the air force and artillery cooperate with you to attack!"
"Yes, Comrade Rokossovsky!" Colonel Lavlentin stepped forward to answer.
This can be said to be a battle where Lavlenky is proud.
Before this, there had never been any battle that could be covered by the firepower of the air force and artillery at the same time, but now they are at Lavlenkin's call.
Colonel Lavlenkin didn't think much, and immediately ordered to the staff: "Report the position to the air force and artillery, we are going to bomb Tver!"
"Yes, Comrade Colonel!"
Thereupon, dozens of fighter planes, hundreds of artillery pieces, and rocket launchers bombarded Tver indiscriminately, and then a group of T34 tanks led the infantry "rumbling" towards Tver.
But what Colonel Lavlenkin didn't know was that his approach was in the hands of the German army.
This battle was personally commanded by the commander of the Fourth Army Kubiler, because he knew what the Klin salient and even Tver meant to the German army... If the German army can always maintain the offensive, then Tver does not seem to be that important. But if the German army wants to retreat, then it is the only way for several German armies.
It is true that because the ground is frozen in ice and snow, troops can move without relying on roads.
The problem is that there are many uncertain factors that do not rely on roads, and the marching speed will be very slow.
The reason is that the field is not flat, and even due to the battle between the enemy and the enemy, the field is full of bomb craters. In addition, there are mines, barbed wire, roadblocks, ravines, etc., all of which are covered by snow one meter high. Buried, cars can't move in it, tank tracks slip, etc., and even accidentally fall into the crater and be buried by snow.
Therefore, cross-country marches are only for combat or being blocked by the enemy, and terrain surveys are also required.
Therefore, at the moment when the Soviet army launched a counterattack, Kubil knew that the enemy's goal was Tver.
It is easy to know the enemy's target... Kubiler used Tver as a bait to set up an encirclement circle: it deployed the two undersized 6th and 7th Armored Divisions on the Tver side and prepared for it.
These two armored divisions suffered varying degrees of losses on the battlefield, especially the 7th Armored Division, which was first ambushed by T34 when attacking Volokolamsk, and then some tanks cooperated with the 14th Armored Division. The motorized infantry was sunk into the lake during combat... which directly caused the division to lose its combat effectiveness.
The blow this caused to the commander of the 7th Armored Division, Major General von Funke, was indescribable. When Lieutenant General Kubiler found him, von Funke was even ready to commit suicide because he had already I wrote a suicide note and gave it to my assistant to bring it to my family.
To be precise, it is another form of suicide.
"I hope you will let me go to the front, Your Excellency Lieutenant General!" Major General von Funke said to Kubiler: "Like other soldiers!"
"You are on the front line, Major General!" Kubil said.
"No, I'm not talking about being a commander!" Major General von Funk said: "It's about being a soldier, walking onto the battlefield with a rifle in hand... I hope I can die on the battlefield with honor!"
Kubile understood von Funke's thoughts.
As the saying goes, "the higher the hope, the greater the disappointment", Major General von Funke is the one who hopes to win against Rommel, because they command the same unit: the Seventh Armored Division.
However, the Seventh Armored Division was very powerful in the hands of Rommel, but in the hands of Major General von Funke, it suffered heavy losses and could even be said to be defeated.
This is difficult to accept for the aristocratic faction who look down on Rommel's origin, because he suffered double failures, losing to the enemy and also losing to his own people.
Kubil was silent for a while, and then replied: "No, major general, if I do this, it will undoubtedly be my negligence. I think that in the previous battle, you have no problem with command. Therefore, I will let you You continue to command the 7th Armored Division, what you need to consider is how to lead the 7th Armored Division to wash away the shame, not to escape in this way!"
These words convinced Major General Feng Ke.
As a result, the Sixth Armored Division and the Seventh Armored Division were transferred to Tver for reorganization... The German army repaired the railway line from the rear to Tver, so Tver had many tanks that had broken down on the battlefield and were waiting to be repaired. Tanks replenished from the rear to the front.
The Sixth Armored Division and the Seventh Armored Division relied on these tanks to restore combat effectiveness.
Up to now, the two armored divisions each have about 70 tanks, and they even got more warm clothes because they got the first month in Tver near the water.
Regarding the counterattack of the Soviet army, Lieutenant General Kubile said to the commanders of the two armored divisions: "The enemy's counterattack is likely to be fully prepared, so they may concentrate a large amount of artillery fire and air power. Caused us a heavy loss!"
The two division commanders have no objection to this, because with the current situation of the German army, they can no longer afford another "heavy loss".
"We need to avoid their sharpness!" Lieutenant General Kubil continued: "At the same time, we also need time to prepare. You know, our tanks and air force need more preparation time!"
This is determined by the temperature. The German army, neither the Air Force nor the Army, has any experience in fighting in such extreme temperatures.
"So, we have to wait for them to attack Tver!" Lieutenant General Kubil said, "When their artillery and air power, and even their tank forces, are concentrating on Tver, that's when we attack Already!"
(end of this chapter)
