USSR 1941

  Chapter 773 Outflank

   Then, everyone in the 51st Army Command breathed a sigh of relief, and then shook hands and hugged each other, as if they had won a victory.

   Then, the headquarters turned its attention to battlefield command again.

   "Everything is going well!" The staff officer reported: "Our army has occupied some anti-tank trenches!"

  The atmosphere in the headquarters eased again... Everyone knew that the fate of the 51st Army now rests in this battle. If this battle is lost, then the 51st Army must be blamed.

   Fortunately, the battlefield situation is now developing in a good direction.

  The Soviet army is developing in a good direction, and the German army is of course developing in a bad direction.

After Major General Moritz ordered the anti-tank guns to retreat, he soon realized that this was not a wise choice, because as soon as the anti-tank guns were withdrawn, the enemy's pressure was instantly reduced, which allowed the enemy tanks to attack the Germans at a closer distance. The firepower was suppressed, and the anti-tank trenches were soon occupied by the Russian army and became the trenches of the Russian army...

   At this time, Manstein made a phone call to Major General Moritz's headquarters.

   "How's the situation?" Manstein asked.

   "Very bad, Marshal!" Major General Moritz replied: "The Russians have changed their offensive tactics, and we are retreating!"

   "Changed offensive tactics?" Manstein was surprised by this. In his impression, the Russians' offenses were always the same.

  Moritz briefly reported the situation on the battlefield, and Manstein was secretly startled after hearing it... He knew that this was actually a multi-army coordinated tactic.

   After thinking for a while, Manstein ordered: "You can no longer retreat, General! You must block them, you have no room to retreat!"

   "Yes, Your Excellency the Marshal!"

   At this time, Major General Moritz also realized this.

  The battle quickly became fierce. Both the enemy and the enemy fought for every inch of land. A position changed hands several times in just half an hour, and both sides were jealous.

   But generally speaking, the Soviet army still has the advantage.

  The reason is that the Soviet army has tanks. At critical moments, the Soviet army can always rely on the firepower and defense of tanks to remain invincible.

   But Trufanov frowned.

   "With the current attack speed, it is impossible for us to occupy Karachi before dawn!" Trufanov said: "The enemy's resistance is very firm, and they have already begun to try to fight us hand-to-hand!"

   Shulka knew what was going on.

  The Germans were infantry and paratrooper divisions, while the Soviets were tank divisions equipped with tanks.

  Both sides say that the Soviet army is undoubtedly superior in terms of equipment, especially at this time the German army is not equipped with "iron fists". Apart from using anti-tank guns to block the Soviet army's T34, they only have grenades and explosives.

  So don't think about it, if the German army adopts traditional offensive and defensive warfare and the Soviet army changes its tactics, the German army will definitely suffer.

However, the German army is not a friendly person. They quickly learned the tactics of the Soviet army... In the past, the German army had superior equipment and the Soviet army had no choice but to choose close combat with the enemy. In this special period, it was the other way around. Take the initiative to fight the Soviet army in close combat when you are at a disadvantage.

   Fighting in the dark is almost inevitable if one side deliberately chooses close combat.

  So the advantages of the Soviet tanks could not be brought into play, and both sides were infantry fighting each other on the battlefield.

  The Soviet army was superior in strength, so they were not worried about hand-to-hand combat with the German army.

  The problem is that time is not on the side of the Soviet army, and German reinforcements may arrive at any time.

   "It's time for the 57th Army to launch a counterattack!" Shulka said.

   "They are counterattacking!" Trufanov replied: "But the Germans used buildings to build a defensive line, and the 57th Army was insufficiently supplied, so the progress was also slow!"

   After thinking for a while, Shulka said again: "Bring the tanks back in a batch and outflank them!"

  If the tank is unable to play a role in the frontal battlefield, seek a flank breakthrough.

  Trufanov agreed, and immediately organized a commando to launch an attack from the flank...but not long after launching the attack, he heard the staff report: "Encounter with the enemy and fall into a stalemate!"

   Trufanov sighed and said: "The enemy is ready!"

   Shulka was also a little helpless. It seemed that the German commander was a master of defense.

   What Shulka and Trufanov didn't know was that Manstein had the same idea at this time...

This is not because Manstein or Major General Moritz was prepared, but because Manstein and Shulka had the same idea at almost the same time, that is, to send an assault in the face of a stalemate. The team outflanked.

  The result was that the two outflanking troops of the enemy and the enemy collided fiercely.

   Shulka walked around the desk, then stopped suddenly and said, "If this flank can't outflank, why don't we try the other flank?"

   "The other flank?" Trufanov said: "But the other flank is the Don River..."

  Before he finished speaking, Trufanov opened his mouth halfway, then nodded and said, "Good idea! But... the naval infantry has already been sent to the battlefield!"

   "The 82nd Infantry Regiment!" Shulka walked out of the headquarters with Denisokov.

   The 82nd Infantry Regiment was used as an elite unit in this battle as a reserve.

  So they concentrated in the second-line trenches waiting for orders.

  As soon as Shulka returned to the headquarters, he immediately ordered Andrianka: "Get everyone ready for battle!"

   "Yes, prepare for battle!"

   "Ready for battle!"

  …

   Order the soldiers of the 82nd Infantry Regiment ready to equip and line up in the trenches.

   "Target the Don!" Shulka ordered.

   "Don River?" Andrianka was a little puzzled, but he still gave the order.

   Following Shulka's order, the troops marched towards the Don River... The trenches were dug all the way to the Don River, so this march only needs to advance along the trenches.

   After advancing for 20 minutes in the curved trench, I suddenly turned a corner and came to the bank of the Don River.

  That's when Andrianka knew what was going on...the amphibious landing ship.

   Yes, amphibious landing craft.

   That was Trufanov's arrangement to concentrate the amphibious landing craft on the shore.

  The amphibious landing ship is not only used for landing, and it is not only used for transportation. In a battle like the present...the enemy thinks that the flank is the Don River so it is safe, then they must be wrong.

  Amphibious landing ships can quickly penetrate their defense lines along the river and complete the outflanking, and then it will be the end of the German army.

   "Aboard!" Shulka ordered.

  The soldiers responded, and then boarded the amphibious landing ship in groups, and then started the motor and drove upstream.