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Volume 2: My Country Six Hundred and Eighty Eight.  Stalingrad

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    On March 30, 1943, two days after the suicide of Voroshilov, the former enemy of the Soviet Stalingrad Front, the commander-in-chief of the Soviet Army, the Battle of the Terek River ended!

    In this world-famous battle, the Stalingrad side suffered 335,000 casualties and 531,000 surrendered, captured, and missing.  More than 800,000 troops suffered a devastating blow here.

    The entire Stalingrad Front also suffered a devastating blow.

    The most elite unit of the German army, the Ernst Battle Group, achieved an incredible victory here!

    This was the most glorious victory in the history of the German army, and after this war, it basically established the final direction of the Battle of Stalingrad.

    As early as the 29th, the day before the end of the battle, the German army had already launched a forcible crossing of the Terek River. With the troops at Malinovsky's command, it was difficult to resist the German attacks from the air and the ground.

    But Malinovsky must force himself to stick here and buy as much time as possible for Marshal Vasilevsky.  £®  £®  £®  £®  £®

    But it seems that war is no longer based on personal will. Even if Malinovsky tried his best, he could not stop the enemy's attack.

    On the 31st, the German army successfully crossed the Terek River!

    While the Ernst Battle Group was victorious, the Manstein Group and the Guderian Group also defeated the Don River Soviet Army and surrounded 350,000 Soviet troops.

    On the 30th, on the day when the Ernst Battle Group won the Battle of the Terek River, the Manstein Group and the Guderian Group destroyed the Soviet troops in the encirclement, and then successfully crossed the Don River and occupied Karachi.

    The German troops sent by Turkey to attack the Caucasus were also overwhelming. The Soviet army was unable to stop the German troops from attacking simultaneously from several directions.  £®  £®  £®  £®  £®

    Strategic points everywhere fell into the hands of the Germans, and the German leading troops were very close to Stalingrad.  £®  £®  £®  £®  £®

    However, it is obvious that the Russians have no intention of giving up, and fighting is still breaking out on every front.  £®  £®  £®  £®  £®

    The situation in Stalingrad is not optimistic. In addition to the shortage of troops, food problems also seriously trouble the Russians.

    Vasilevsky urged Khrushchev to make a decision: to increase food rations for residents.  The increases are negligible - fifty grams for workers and seventy-five grams for extremely weak workers, dependents and children.

    A Stalingrad woman wrote in her diary at the time: "I was woken up by a piece of news at seven o'clock in the morning - an increase in food rations! The long-awaited good news of an increase in food suddenly fell from the sky when people were unprepared.  Somehow this plan was carried out without any fanfare or panic. £®People just ran to the bakery early in the morning. It is difficult to describe what happened to the increase in rations.  There are so many things that make the people happy. Of course, the problem is not just about the airtight wall.  A hole has been opened, a living hope of salvation has emerged, and I believe our victory is certain.¡±

    On this day, at spontaneous rallies held in various factories, thousands of people declared with confidence: "Now we must persist, we must persist to the end!" The increase in grain rations was regarded by them as a breakthrough.  The long-awaited ray of light in the darkness of the night of siege was the beginning of an end to this lifeless, almost tomb-like darkness.

    Such a big event happened without any publicity in advance. Some people think that it was arranged with good intentions: "Gifts should always come as a surprise."

    But, in fact, there is no purpose here.  Just yesterday, the leaders responsible for the defense of Stalingrad hesitated painfully before making the final decision to increase rations.  They knew they were taking a huge risk.  There are only more than 900 tons of flour in the city.  This amount of food is not enough to last even two days.

    Despite this, a decision must be made to increase food rations.

    Under the fierce fire of the German artillery, they had to bring in more food, 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 transportation of the Soviet army an extremely difficult and dangerous matter.

    Attacks on transport teams are constantly being staged.  £®  £®  £®  £®  £®

    And as Ernst.  The Brandenburg Commandos, which Marshal Brahm valued very much, once again devoted themselves to large-scale attacks and destruction against the Russians.  £®  £®  £®  £®  £®

    ?Previously, the German 6th Army and Hott¡¯s Tank Army used a beautiful drag-and-knife strategy to crush the Soviet offensive commanded by the old Russian Marshal Budyonny in the direction of Voronezh.

    At the same time, Ernst.  Marshal Brahm is quietly planning a bold move.  This action was considered "the most daring and possibly the most bizarre action" during World War II.

    The task was assigned to the 1st Battalion of the 800th Construction Training Regiment of Brandenburg. The 1st Battalion drew 62 volunteers from its subordinate "Baltic Company". These volunteers all spoke fluent Russian and their  The commander is the battalion's adjutant Adrian.  Feng.  Lieutenant Fulksam.

    Lieutenant Volkesam was born in Petersburg, Russia on December 20, 1914. His father was a senior German general who served the Tsarist Russian Navy.  Fulksam can speak Russian, English and German very fluently. He studied economics at universities in Berlin and Vienna.

    In 1939, Fulksam, who had excellent language skills, was recruited by the Military Intelligence Bureau of the German General Staff and joined the then-small secret service of the Intelligence Bureau - the 800th Construction Training Battalion of Brandenburg. He served in a series of special operations  , Volkesam was quickly promoted to lieutenant, and his talents were valued by his superiors.  £®  £®  £®  £®  £®

    The 8th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 800th Construction Training Regiment of Brandenburg is responsible for the specific implementation of this task. The company plans to use a platoon of troops to perform the task. Most of the members of the company are Russians who volunteered to serve Germany and were arranged to perform the task.  Among the twenty-four Russian-speaking personnel, fifteen are Russian spies from the German Military Intelligence Service. The commander of this team is also a Russian - Lieutenant Prohaska, who is from the Ukrainian original  He is a German minority and speaks fluent German, although his native language is Russian.

    The distance from the front line to their destination, the urban area of ??Maikamp, ??is about one hundred kilometers. How Lieutenant Fulksam's team arrived at Maikamp safely and secretly without being discovered by the Soviet army was part of this bold plan.  The essential.

    The planners of the Brandenburg Army played a great role in accumulating information before the war and in the early stages of the war. The German field reconnaissance department had always paid great attention to the interrogation of Soviet prisoners of war before the war and after the outbreak of the war. Many of them  The accumulation of information stems from the daily work of these intelligence personnel. The Germans who worked very carefully were very aware of some of the internal working procedures and details of the Soviet army, which greatly helped the Brandenburg unit's penetration work.

    Lieutenant Fulksam himself was undoubtedly involved in the details of the long-distance attack plan.  £®  £®  £®  £®  £®

    Lieutenant Volkesam and his sixty-man squad, wearing the uniforms of the security forces of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, bid farewell to the German staff officers who were seeing them off. Under the cover of darkness, they quietly crossed the Soviet forward position and infiltrated into a Soviet village.  , according to intelligence from German frontline reconnaissance personnel, a small group of Soviet soldiers were stationed in this village. These Soviet soldiers came from Ukraine and the Caucasus.

    Previous intelligence showed that these soldiers from the Caucasus often expressed dissatisfaction with the current Soviet regime, while soldiers from Ukraine generally acquiesced to these remarks.  Lieutenant Volkesam disguised himself as an officer of the security forces of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, alias Major Truchin, and led the disguised Brandenburg soldiers to deceive the guards, surround the sleeping Soviet troops and disarm them.

    The sleepy Soviet soldiers were ordered to sort them by ethnic group. The Caucasians were immediately taken to a section of the village. Then the German special forces opened fire in the sky, making the remaining Ukrainians in the village mistakenly believe that these Caucasians were all recruited by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.  The troops shot him.  £®  £®  £®  £®  £®

    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 Volksam solemnly reprimanded them for their "vacillation" and ordered them to board trucks and prepare to escort them to Maikenp.  "Court-martial."

    Volksam and his team disguised as Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs troops escorted these Soviet soldiers and successfully arrived at the Ministry of Internal Affairs security forces headquarters in Maikenp.

    The responsibilities of the security forces of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs were NKVD troops, which were subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union. They were stationed in major and medium-sized cities in the Soviet Union before the war and were responsible for domestic security and public security. After the war broke out, the NKVD troops were also responsible for supervising the armed forces and acting as supervisors of the battle teams.  tasks, equal rights

    NKVD troops were scattered in various large and medium-sized cities, and each unit was independent. For example, in some battles, although it was fully manned and well-equipped, the Soviet army just could not mobilize it to participate in urban defense battles. In the end, the Soviet Union's top  The headquarters ordered the division to enter the battle.  From this we can see the independence of the NKVD troops.

    On the other hand, the decentralized nature of NKVD forces means that the internal ministries of various regions do not have close contact with each other. This is different from the Soviet field operations.force.  Under the torrent of German offensive, the Soviet command structure was in chaos, and the NKVD troops were probably not much better.  It was precisely because of this that the German army adopted the method of infiltrating in disguise as NKVD troops.  £®  £®  £®  £®  £®

    The approaching German troops caused confusion among the Soviet troops.  Fulksam's commandos were divided into three groups and began to carry out the planned mission.  A group went to destroy the general communication system and cut off the telephone and telegraph lines leading to the front. Then this group took advantage of the chaos and quietly occupied the central telegraph office. They answered all inquiries and telegrams in an official tone and said that this place would be abandoned. This is exactly what many  What Soviet civilians and troops wanted to see; Lieutenant Volkesam commanded another group to occupy an important traffic artery in Maikenp, and performed the ordinary duties of the Ministry of Internal Affairs troops - to stop the retreat and improve morale.  Erkesam issued a series of erroneous orders to withdraw a Soviet anti-tank unit, an artillery unit, and an infantry unit on the way to the front, which ultimately caused a collapse of the entire Soviet defense line; the first two  The first group was to cooperate with the German offensive, and the third group was tasked with protecting the oil fields and refineries. This group successfully prevented the Soviet army's attempt to destroy the oil wells and refineries.  The Soviet demolition squad at the refinery mistakenly carried out the order and shot the entire Soviet demolition squad.

    The day after Volkesam's commando caused chaos at Maikenp, the vanguard of the German attack armor - the Reconnaissance Battalion of the 13th Armored Division - arrived six kilometers from the Brega River. The second part of the German plan  Begin execution.  A team of more than 20 people commanded by Lieutenant Prohaska disguised himself as broken Soviet soldiers and rode in trucks to blend into the defeated Soviet army that was retreating to Maikenp.

    Infiltrate to the bridge over the Brega River.

    When arriving at the bridge, the German commandos deliberately shouted in panic that they were being followed by German armored assault troops in pursuit. This caused chaos in the Soviet army's rout. Brandenburg soldiers took advantage of the chaos and began to dismantle the explosive devices placed on the bridge.  The political commissar of the Soviet bridge guard tried to stop the chaos but was pushed aside by the fleeing Soviet officers and soldiers.  The Brandenburg stormtroopers captured the bridge and held out until the arrival of the 13th Panzer Division, which arrived in time and the light tanks immediately passed and successfully linked up with Volkesam's stormtroopers.

    What is regrettable is that the commander of this small unit, Ernst.  Lieutenant Prohaska was killed in the battle to defend the bridge.  £®  £®  £®  £®  £®

    Lieutenant Prohaska succeeded Siegfried, commander of the 8th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Brandenburg Regiment.  After Captain Grabert, he was the second officer of the Brandenburg troops to die serving as the vanguard of the 13th Armored Division.  Captain Grabert was killed in the battle for the 13th Armored Division to seize the railway bridge over the Rostov River. He was posthumously awarded the Knight's Cross.  Feng.  Lieutenant Volksam was awarded the Knight's Cross for his bravery in this battle. Ernst.  After Lieutenant Prohaska was killed in action, he was posthumously awarded the Knight's Cross.

    The main reason for the success of this operation should be attributed to the German Military Intelligence Service's intelligence collection on the work responsibilities and procedures of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs security forces. Without this daily accumulation of intelligence as a reference, Volksam disguised NKVD troops to penetrate the Soviet rear for a hundred years.  It can be said that it is absolutely impossible to travel more than 100 kilometers.  £®  £®  £®  £®  £®

    A series of victories have made the morale of the entire German army unstoppable.

    As for Stalingrad, with the loss of Mai Kemp, German troops from all directions began to pour into Stalingrad, and the brutal defense of Stalingrad was about to begin.

    A large number of defeated troops retreated into Stalingrad, and there must also be a large number of German spies mixed among them. The Russians knew this very well, but they could not solve it.

    Vasilevsky now has no energy to consider these issues.

    If holding Stalingrad is his biggest concern.

    There is a shortage of soldiers, a shortage of weapons, a shortage of food, and a shortage of all the houses needed for war.

    Moscow has already sent a telegram, telling Vasilevsky clearly that in order to protect Moscow, Stalingrad will not be able to get reinforcements, but no matter how difficult it is, Stalingrad must not fall into the hands of the Germans!

    When he heard this order, Vasilevsky could only smile bitterly.

    What kind of order is this?  How can this be achieved?  No one could give him an answer.

    Even if Ming is used to fill the gap again, Vasilevsky does not have that many troops.

    Those temporarily armed workers' and citizen's troops have high morale, but the war cannot be won by relying on such troops.

    In mid-April, the leading German troops arrived outside Stalingrad and engaged in a firefight with the Soviet troops there.

    The vulnerability of the Soviet army, which had just suffered a disastrous defeat, quickly became apparent. They were simply unable to withstand the German assault.

      At this speed, the Germans will soon press the border in large numbers, and Stalingrad will be covered by enemy artillery fire.  £®  £®  £®  £®  £®

    Vasilevsky¡¯s prediction was correct. German planes finally appeared and launched an indiscriminate bombing of Stalingrad at the first opportunity.  £®  £®  £®  £®  £®

    Stalingrad is trembling, Russians are trembling.  £®  £®  £®  £®  £®  According to this form, Vasilevsky was not sure whether he could persist for a full month.  £®  £®  £®  £®  £®

    or.  £®  £®  £®  £®  £®  Shorter time.  £®  £®  £®  £®  £®

    Khrushchev also did everything he could. Almost all the civilian troops here were armed by him. Vasilevsky could not ask him to do better.

    Now, leave everything to God to decide.

    On the eve of the arrival of the German army, Vasilevsky continued to inspect the entire Stalingrad and his own troops. Now, these people will be Stalingrad's last hope.

    One telegram after another from Moscow was nothing more than emphasizing the importance of Stalingrad and urging Vasilevsky not to abandon this city named after the great Comrade Stalin to the Germans.

    ???????? Do they really understand what¡¯s happening on the front lines?  Vasilevsky definitely doesn¡¯t think so!

    ¡°Aside from issuing some inexplicable orders, what else will those people do?  But their destructive power is astonishing.

    Of course it is not a destruction to the Germans, but to our own people.  Without their random command, perhaps the current situation would be much better.

    Of course, Vasilevsky could only hide such thoughts in the deepest part of his heart.

    The flames of war are about to flood this place!
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