USSR 1941

  Chapter 779 Rewards

  The strategy of the Soviet army at this time is undoubtedly to fight steadily.

At this time, even the people of the Supreme Command know this, because there is no doubt that as long as the existing position is defended, the victory belongs to the Soviet Union, so the Soviet army has no reason to mess up and give the enemy a chance... If anyone proposes to continue to attack the enemy at this time If he attacked, he might be regarded as a traitor and handed over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for interrogation.

  So the 51st Army and the 57th Army did nothing, they just pushed the line of defense westward to the German Milovey Line and organized the defense honestly.

  It is necessary to push the line of defense to Miloway. This is to gain the defense depth for Karachi's garrison. Otherwise, Karachi will always be under the attack of the German army from the east and west and accidents will happen at any time. This is obviously not safe.

Since the German 6th Army was fighting with several other Soviet armies east of the Don River, and the German Don River Army was reorganized in Milovy, this gave the 51st Army and the 57th Army a rare respite. .

   If there is any fighting, it is that the air defense forces have a contest with the Luftwaffe from time to time... The German airlift plan is still going on. The transport planes are going to cross the Soviet encirclement, so the Soviet army deploys anti-aircraft troops near Karachi.

  So naturally, there was a contest between anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns and the Luftwaffe.

   None of this has much to do with infantry.

  Because the Luftwaffe had completely disregarded the Soviets near Karachi as a target...their main battlefield was Stalingrad, and it would be a waste for the Germans to use ammunition for the infantry in Karachi.

  So, when the Luftwaffe was fighting with the air defense force, the infantry built trenches and acted as bystanders with the mood of watching the excitement, and made a few jokes from time to time:

   "Look, where did they put the bullets and shells? Why didn't they leave those bullets for us!"

   "Damn it, those gunners were completely played by the Germans!"

   "If I were allowed to come, those planes should have been shot down by now!"

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  The Soviet anti-aircraft gunners were also inexperienced, so they were always deceived by the German Air Force's fake actions, which made the soldiers anxious.

   But these are the kind of people who worry about and gossip.

  The 51st and 57th armies have no worries about ammunition and equipment at all... Everyone knows that these two armies are the key forces to encircle the German 6th army, so no one will be missing these two armies.

On the night when Karachi was taken, the first batch of supplies was sent by the car troops, and the railway was opened two days later... It is said that this is a few engineering battalions plus more than 10,000 migrant workers composed of ordinary people. The result of rushing to repair railways and railway bridges.

  The slogan issued to them by the Supreme Command is: "Fixing the railway is victory! It is the victory of the Battle of Stalingrad!"

   These words are not empty words, because the railway determines the supply, the supply determines whether the Karachi defense line is stable, and the stability of the Karachi defense line determines the outcome of the Battle of Stalingrad.

  Then, the equipment and supplies of several trains drove into Karachi at night for emergency unloading... Transportation during the day is too dangerous, especially for railways like this one going to the front line, the trains may be attacked by enemy fighter planes even at night.

  If it weren't for the occupation of Karachi, it would be almost impossible to use trains to transport supplies.

  The reason is that the train is very dangerous on the front line, especially the smoke and sparks from the locomotive, which are very conspicuous even in the dark.

   But if you occupy a city, it will be a little different. Several large "train bunkers" can be built in the city as a shelter.

  The so-called "train bunker" is actually to use something like canvas to spread between several buildings to cover the sky. There is a railway below. The train stops there and is not easy to be found by the enemy air force, even if it fires flares.

   A stronger "train bunker" is to use a tunnel or an air-raid shelter to transform it. When the train drives directly into the air-raid shelter, there is no need to worry about enemy air attacks.

  However, due to the small number of tunnels and air-raid shelters and the large amount of engineering, they usually only stop for trains transporting important supplies, such as ammunition, or trains transporting tanks.

As a result, the equipment of the 51st Army was quickly replenished: brand new T34 tanks that had just come off the production line, mortars, rocket launchers, machine guns, and of course soldiers who had received relevant training... These pieces of equipment cannot be manipulated by just finding someone on the battlefield. If there is no supporting staff, the equipment transported to the front line is likely to be reduced to a pile of scrap iron.

  The 57th Army is similar.

  The tank troops lost by the two armies in the battle are recovering almost at the rate of one tank regiment per night.

   Among them, the 51st Army Group, in addition to equipment, also received a large number of canned beef and compressed biscuits from the United States.

   This caused a commotion to the 51st Army that was no less than when the first batch of T34 tanks were transported into the army.

  Zolotarev sent out the canned beef and compressed biscuits immediately. Each shift got a canned beef, and each class was divided into two palm-sized compressed biscuits, and then took the opportunity to launch a wave of political propaganda.

   "Comrades!" Zolotarev spoke on the radio. The Soviet army usually broadcasts wherever the troops go, so it is very convenient for the commander to say something to all the soldiers.

"This is the encouragement from our superiors and the affirmation of our heroic battle and victory in Karachi! We firmly believe that as long as we are united, we will drive the enemy out of our land and let all the people regain a life of adequate food and clothing... "

  These are indeed rewards for the victors, because the 57th Army does not have such "special care".

   Shulka also got some beef and compressed biscuits, the same size as the soldiers... This is Zolotarev to show that the officers and soldiers are consistent.

  Beef is indeed delicious, but compressed biscuits are harder to swallow.

   It's just that he won such a big victory, and the reward he got was just this "reward", which made Shulka feel a little unbalanced.

  At this moment, Andrianka, who was answering the phone, turned to this side with a look of surprise and said, "Comrade Shulka! The superior sent a reporter to interview you..."

  Shuerka said "hmm", the reporter is nothing special, and Shurka has seen it a lot. Compared with being interviewed, Shurka would rather give himself an extra can of beef.

   But Shulka soon found out he was wrong.

   "Do you know who this reporter sent by the superior is?" Andrianka asked.

  Shuerka stopped eating beef involuntarily, and he already guessed who Andrianka was talking about.

  (end of this chapter)