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Chapter five hundred and eighty march

After receiving the telegram, Stalin realized the seriousness of the matter, so he immediately replied to Meheris:

"You have taken a strange bystander position that is irresponsible for the affairs of the Krim Front... Comrade Mehlis, you are not a bystander, but a responsible representative of the Supreme Command. You are responsible for all the successes and failures of the Front Army, and you should correct the mistakes of the Front Army's leadership on the spot... If you do not take various measures to organize the fight, but just criticize negatively on the side, then your problem will be even more serious!"

Stalin's telegram made Mehlis realize that he could not separate from the failure of the Krim Front, so he could only return to the command post to continue commanding.

But this may be another tragedy, because the result of his command was to angrily dismiss the commanders of the 47th Army and the 44th Army, General Chernyak and Korganov, and demoted the rank to colonel. Major General Bogdanov, the commander of the 51st Army, could not escape this fate, but he died in the subsequent battle to pursue the German army, so he was exempted from this punishment.

These are the only ways Mehlis can threaten people. Of course, he didn't know that dismissing the front-line commander at this time would seriously damage the morale of the Soviet soldiers... The front-line Soviet soldiers were panic and at a loss.

These are good things for the Germans who have already broken through the Soviet defense line. The "Grodek" Motorcycle Brigade blocked the Soviet army's pursuit with the 50th Infantry Division behind the Hall, and advanced all the way toward Kerch Port, and pushed 50 kilometers in one day... The day here refers to a day and a night.

This speed may be considered slow. The No. 3 tank has a speed of 40 kilometers per hour on the road, and it can walk 50 kilometers in just one hour after driving at full speed.

However, the advancement during wartime is completely incomparable to the speed of the march, because there will always be various situations along the way, such as being ambushed by the Soviet army, entering a minefield buried by the Soviet army, and the road bridge being blown up by the Soviet army, etc.

So this speed can be considered quite fast. You should know that the African legion is moving forward in the open desert at most 100 kilometers a day, let alone marching and fighting on the road.

"This may be the easiest battle we have ever fought!" Werner smiled and said, "We haven't played the show yet. I feel like I'm here to visit!"

"If we follow this speed..." The baker lit a cigarette hard in the shaking car, and then said: "We will be able to fight Kech tomorrow, and there will be a fierce battle there!"

"I don't think it would be a fierce battle, lieutenant!" Dominic said: "Maybe you have heard that the Soviets had only one army in the direction of Kerch. Although I don't know how powerful this army is, but..."

Speaking of this, Dominic reached out to grab the baker's cigarette and lit the cigarette in his mouth, and then continued: "But the Soviets always put troops with strong combat power in front and troops with weak combat power behind, so we will not have any fierce battles. If I guess correctly, they will hold their hands and wait for us in Kerch!"

The German army in the carriage burst into laughter when they heard this. Each of them was very excited about the huge victory in this battle... The three Soviet armies had been left behind by them.

In principle, the "Grodek" motorized brigade itself was surrounded by the Soviet army. After all, it was the Soviet army in front and behind, and the Soviet army had much more troops than the German motorized brigade.

However, the "encirclement" on the battlefield cannot be concluded simply by force.

Although the Soviet army behind the German motorized brigade had three armies, they could not get supplies, ammunition and fuel. Therefore, it is conceivable that as the war situation continued to develop like this, the three armies of the Soviet army would only become weaker and weaker as the battle continued to fight, and finally evolved into a situation where there were guns but no ammunition, and cars but no fuel.

On the contrary, this "Grodek" motorcycle brigade of the German army destroyed the Soviet supply line all the way and obtained sufficient supplies and equipment from the Soviet army... Although the weapons standards of the German and Soviet army were different, there were still many things to use.

For example, the 28th Hunter Division in front of the German army seized trucks of mines from the Soviet supply team and transported them to the 50th Infantry Division behind. The mines will not recognize their owners, especially the Soviet Union used a large number of square wooden hulls, which is what the German army called "small coffin". This thing cannot be detected because it is wooden hulls. The shrapnel produced during the explosion are also wooden shavings, so they usually only have no death... But because of this, they are more powerful, because the wounded are much more troublesome than the corpse.

For example, cannons, machine guns, poposa submachine guns, etc.

Among them, especially the Teggalev light machine gun (turntable machine gun) and the Poposa submachine gun. German soldiers kept piled up in the car, and there were more and more cars along the way... This has a lot to do with the poor communication and coordination of the Soviet army. Because the Soviet army was too large and the communication equipment was extremely backward, many troops did not have radio communication until the regiment level. Therefore, although the Kerch command had long known that the German army had broken through the defense line and attacked Kerch, the transportation and supply teams on the way could not inform them in time, so one team after another went to the German arms.

Even when they reached 39 kilometers, the German army seized a supply transfer station. This transfer station was transported by the Soviet army from Kerch or the Taman Peninsula and even in the Caucasus region on the other side of the Black Sea... Because the roads are muddy, sea transportation is much more convenient than land transportation.

On the other hand, the Soviet army did not dare to set the transfer station too far, otherwise it would be easily bombarded by enemy artillery fire.

What is somewhat incredible is that a place as important as a transfer station should have received news long ago to prepare for blowing up the supply station, but all this did not happen. Even after the German army occupied the transfer station, several transport ships docked at the port with a lot of supplies.

Qin Chuan vaguely knew the reason: At this time, the command of the Soviet army's Krim front was not considering whether to stop the German army from advancing, but thinking about how to shirk responsibility, so various mistakes that the German army could not imagine in command would occur.

This batch of supplies was too much for the Germans to count, and the warehouse was filled with bullets, shells and food.

It’s a pity that these bullets and shells from the German army were not needed, and at the same time they were still very dangerous to the German army... Once this batch of supplies fell into the hands of the Soviet army chasing behind, they would restore their combat effectiveness.
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