Six hundred and sixty-eight.(1/2)
On March 30, 1943, two days after the suicide of the Soviet Stalingrad Front! Commander-in-Chief Voroshilov, the Battle of the Trier River ended!
In this world-renowned battle, 335,000 people were killed and injured in Stalingrad, surrendered, captured, and disappeared. More than 800,000 troops were hit here.
The entire Stalingrad Front also suffered a devastating blow.
The Ernst battle cluster, the most elite unit of the German army, achieved an incredible victory here!
This was the most brilliant victory in the history of the German army, and since this war, the final direction of the Battle of Stalingrad was basically laid.
As early as the 29th, the day before the end of the battle, the German army had already launched a forced crossing of the Delek River. With the troops that Malinovsky could control, it was difficult to resist the German attacks from the sky and the ground.
But Malinovsky had to force himself to stay here and win as much time as possible for Marshal Huasilevsky.
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However, it seems that war is not transferred by personal will. Even if Malinovsky uses all his abilities, he cannot stop the enemy's attack.
On the 31st, the German army successfully crossed the Terek River!
While Ernst's combat cluster was victorious, the Manstein cluster and the Guderian cluster also defeated the Soviet army in the Don River and surrounded 350,000 Soviet troops.
On the 30th, on the day when the Ernst battle cluster won the Battle of the Terrek, the Manstein cluster and the Guderian cluster eliminated the Soviet army in the encirclement, and then crossed the Don River successfully and occupied Karachi.
The German troops sent troops from Türkiye to assault the Caucasus region were also unstoppable, and the Soviet army could not stop the German troops from simultaneous attacks from several directions.
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The strategic points fell into the hands of the Germans, and the German leading troops were already very close to Stalingrad.
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However, it was obvious that the Russians had no intention of giving up, and the battle was still erupting on every front.
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The situation in Stalingrad is not optimistic, and the shortage of troops is caused by food problems.
Vasilevsky urged Khrushchev to make a decision: to increase the amount of food rations for residents. The increase was insignificant—the workers increased by fifty grams, the workers who were extremely weak, and the elderly and children who were supported increased by seventy-five grams.
A Stalingrad woman wrote in her diary at that time: "A news woke me up at seven o'clock in the morning - I'm increasing my food! The good news that I had been waiting for for a long time suddenly fell from the sky when people were unprepared. Somehow, the plan was realized without any ostentation or panic... People learned about this news, but they ran to the bread shop early in the morning. It is difficult to describe what the matter of increasing food became. How many things were related to this matter. Many people couldn't help crying. Of course, the problem was not just food... It was like a hole was dug in an airtight wall, and there was a living hope of salvation. I believe that our victory was indeed reliable."
On this day, at a spontaneous rally held in various factories, millions of people declared confidently: "Now we must persevere, we must persevere!" The increase in the amount of food rations was regarded as a long-awaited ray of light that broke through the darkness of the siege night, and was the beginning of this lifeless, almost grave-like darkness.
Such a big event happened without prestige. Some people think that this was arranged according to a kind intention: "The gift should always come as an unexpected one."
However, in fact, there was no intention here. The leaders in charge of the defense of Stalingrad had hesitated painfully before making the final decision to increase rations yesterday. They knew that they were taking great risks. There were only more than 900 tons of flour in the city. This was not enough for two days to save grain.
Despite this, a decision to increase rations must be made.
Under the fierce artillery fire of the German artillery, they had to transport more food in, but at the same time, the Germans obviously would not agree so easily.
The German air force continued to attack the Russian transport troops, and a large number of German commandos began to appear more frequently, which made the Soviet transport an extremely difficult and dangerous thing.
Attacks on the transport team are constantly taking place.
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The Brandenburg Commando, which Marshal Breme is very respected, has once again been involved in large-scale attacks and destruction of the Russians.
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Previously, a beautiful dragging scheme of the German 6th Army and Hott's tank army smashed the Soviet attack commanded by the old Russian Marshal Budonnie in the direction of Voronezh.
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Marshal Breme is quietly planning a bold action. This action is considered to be the "boldest and perhaps the most incredible action" during World War II.
The mission was given to the First Battalion of the 800th Building Training Corps of Brandenburg. The First Battalion drew 62 volunteers from its subordinate "Bolo Company". These volunteers could speak fluent Russian, and their commander was Adrian, the battalion's adjutant.
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Lieutenant Flksam.
Lieutenant Flksam was born on December 20, 1914 in Petersburg, 'St. His father was a senior German general who served the Tsarist Russian navy. Flksam was fluent in Russian, English and German. He studied economics in universities in Berlin and Vienna.
In 1939, Flksam, who had excellent language skills, was recruited by the Military Intelligence Agency of the German General Staff and participated in the 800th Construction Training Camp, a secret unit of the Intelligence Agency, which was a small secret force at that time. In a series of special operations, Flksam was quickly promoted to lieutenant, and his talent was valued by his superiors.
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The 8th Company of the Second Battalion of the 800th Brandenburg Building Training Regiment was responsible for the specific implementation of this task. The company planned to use a platoon of troops to perform the mission. Most of the members of the company were Russians who volunteered to serve Germany. Among the twenty-four Russian-speaking personnel arranged to perform the mission, fifteen were Russian spies from the German Military Intelligence Agency. The commander of this team was also a Russian, Lieutenant Prohaska, who came from the former German minority settlement of Ukraine and could speak fluent German, although his native language was Russian.
The distance from the front line to their destination, Mikemp, is about a hundred kilometers away. How Lieutenant Flksam's squad arrived at Mikemp safely and secretly without being discovered by the Soviet army was the key to this bold plan.
The planners of Brandenburg troops played a great role in the accumulation of data before and in the early stages of the war. The German battlefield reconnaissance department has always paid great attention to the interrogation of Soviet prisoners of war before and after the outbreak of the war. Many of the data accumulation comes from the daily work of these intelligence personnel. The Germans who were very careful in their work were very clear about some of the work procedures and details within the Soviet army, which greatly helped the infiltration of the Brandenburg troops.
Lieutenant Flksam himself undoubtedly participated in part of the details of the combat plan for this long-distance raid.
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Lieutenant Flksam and his sixty-man squad, wearing the uniform of the security forces of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, bid farewell to the German staff who saw him off. Under the cover of darkness, he quietly crossed the Soviet frontier positions and infiltrated into a Soviet village. According to the intelligence of German frontline reconnaissance personnel, a small group of Soviet troops were stationed in the village. These Soviet soldiers were from Ukraine and the Caucasus.
Previously, there was intelligence that these soldiers from the Caucasus often expressed dissatisfaction with the current Soviet regime, while soldiers from Ukraine generally had a default attitude towards these remarks. Lieutenant Flksam disguised as an officer of the Security Forces of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, a pseudonym Major Truchin, led the disguised Brandenburg soldiers to deceive the guards, surrounded the sleeping Soviet troops and disarmed them.
The sleepy Soviet soldier Meng Tongtong was ordered to be classified according to ethnicity. The Caucasians were immediately taken to a section of the village. Then the German special forces opened fire in the sky, causing the remaining Ukrainians in the village to mistakenly believe that these Caucasians were shot by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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In fact, these Caucasians were escorted to the other side of the front by the Germans. The remaining Soviet soldiers were mainly from Ukraine. Major Truchin, Lieutenant Flksam, solemnly scolded their "shaking emotions" and ordered them to board the truck and prepare to escort them to Mikemp to send them to "in military court."
Flksam and he disguised himself as a small detachment of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, escorted the Soviet soldiers and arrived at the Ministry of Internal Affairs Security Forces Command in Meekenpu.
To be continued...