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Text 108. Kuban Grassland

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    Hitler returned to the "Wolf's Lair" in East Prussia. Since he agreed to the Chinese-Italian coalition's entry into Ukraine, he actually no longer had the need to stay in Vinnitsa.  Although the German army's offensive is weak, if it wants to defend the border lines between Belarus, the three Baltic countries and Soviet Russia, it is not a big problem. There are Chinese people in Ukraine and the North Caucasus. Even if all the German troops there are mobilized, I believe that the Soviet army  Nor could it shake the defense line composed of the Chinese and Italian coalition forces.  If the Chinese cannot hold the Ukrainian border, they will naturally increase their troops.

    Since the Chinese have been promised peace talks with the Soviet Union, the German offensive will always be subject to many constraints. If the Chinese are angered, even if they let go of their flanks, it will be enough for the Germans to drink.

    The only thing he could worry about was how to help the Finns hold on to the border they had retaken.

    On the contrary, the domestic situation made him even more worried. Since the U.S. 8th Air Force stationed in the British Isles, it has carried out more than ten large-scale bombings on industrial cities in Germany. For this reason, Air Marshal G?ring gradually lost Hitler's support.  Trust, he has been summoned to the "Werewolf" German headquarters more than once and was reprimanded by the F¨¹hrer.

    To this end, Hitler wanted to revive the abandoned "Sea Lion Project" and turned his attention to the British. Hitler had realized that if he could not defeat the British, even if he defeated Soviet Russia, the war would still not end.  The Americans will use the United Kingdom as a springboard, and they will land from Western Europe at some point.

    But the weak German navy made Hitler feel very helpless, and he did not want to face this reality.  The Third Reich's navy was probably no better than the Italians.  In the past hundred years, the German Empire has been like a lame giant.  Their army can sweep across Europe, but it cannot cross the English Channel, which is not very wide.  As long as they could not gain maritime superiority, the British did not have to worry about being defeated by the Germans. This was also the main reason why they dared to fight the Germans time and time again.

    Before the European War, it was the period when the German naval strength was closest to that of the British. Unfortunately, they encountered the Royal Navy's most prosperous era. In the end, they could only regretfully end the empire's status as a maritime power in a tragic way at Scarpaflo.  Dream.  The Royal Navy declined.  Even so, they were not something the German Navy, which had only begun rebuilding ten years ago, could contend with.

    If the war had not broken out so early, according to Hitler's expectations, the Third Reich Navy would have been able to compete with the British after 1946. If the war had started in 1949, then the British would not have been the third largest navy in the world.  Rivals of the Empire.  But why did the war start so inexplicably?

    The shells came with a harsh whistling sound through the sky.  The continuous explosions were like steam hammers weighing dozens of tons hitting the ground hard. The ground was shaking, as if the whole world was about to be destroyed.  O'Heim held his head in his hands and sat huddled in the muddy trench, trying his best to endure the shock caused by the shelling to his body.

    ¡°In the trenches that stretch for more than ten kilometers outside the small town of Korenov, everything is the same as Oheim.  German soldiers wearing German-style helmets with large rims and red combat uniforms. However, it can be seen from the eagle emblem on the armbands and collar badges that they are still somewhat different from the German Wehrmacht.

    The Waffen-SS "Viking Division" is mainly composed of a group of foreign German volunteers. At the most critical moment of the war in the North Caucasus and Kuban, this powerful force was once again sent to a distance from Krasno.  There is only more than fifty kilometers of the Korenov front in Dar.  This is the main breakthrough point chosen by the Soviet army.

    When the counterattack began in the Battle of Zhuyashviligrad, the Soviet Southern Front was under the command of General Yereomenko.  The main force immediately began to launch a large-scale assault on Rostov on the Don River. In addition, the North Caucasus Front commanded by Marshal Timoshenko also began to attack Tihoretsk and Krasnodar.

    After experiencing the initial consecutive defeats, the Russians regained their strength this winter. The victory in the battle of Zhuyashviligrad allowed them to regain their confidence. Paulus and his 6th Army had more than 300,000 men.  Falling into the siege of more than 1.6 million Soviet troops, they were eventually surrounded and annihilated.

    The German army suffered the heaviest blow since the war began. More importantly, this battle allowed the Soviet army to regain its confidence in victory. The German army was overwhelmed by the Soviet army's crazy offensive and continued to retreat.

    If Krasnodar is lost again, hundreds of thousands of German troops may be forced to flee across the Sea of ??Azov in embarrassment.

    After a long time, the explosions like landslides and earth-shattering finally gradually became sparse. The officers shouted loudly to greet the soldiers to enter the fighting position. The soldiers hiding behind the anti-gun bunkers ran to the front trenches through the traffic trenches, carrying rifles or steel helmets.  The hard part made a clanging sound when it hit the inner wall of the trench.  The enemy was about to start attacking soon, and the atmosphere in the trenches became tense.

    The remaining snow in the Kuban grassland in March has completely disappeared. The entire Cossack grassland is covered with mud, and some green is beginning to appear in the soil.  Viking Division and Wehrmacht 336thThe Infantry Division and the Romanian 19th Infantry Division relied on a stream less than ten meters wide on the north bank of the Kuban River to engage in a desperate struggle with the Soviet 51st and 37th Combined Arms on the edge of the North Caucasus Mountains. As the war progressed,  The situation of the German army without reinforcements and supplements was particularly difficult.

    Oheim's Westland regiment defended several hills near the river valley on the south side of the entire defense line. Behind them, less than a kilometer away from the water, was Korenov. This town had been under artillery fire for several days.  It was reduced to ruins.  Because there are several slightly higher hillsides, this area has become an important support point for the entire defense line.  The Russians seemed to be aware of this. The defense area of ??the Westland Regiment became the enemy's key assault target and experienced the most brutal battles.

    After several days of fierce fighting, some of the original groves and bushes on both sides of the apricot bank were destroyed by artillery fire. Only a few bare tree stumps were left, and the weeds were turned into ashes, densely covered with sewage.  craters, and the entire frontier turned into pulpy mud, which made the Soviet attack extremely difficult.

    As the artillery fire gradually extended back, the enemy's attack returned, and the Russians tirelessly launched fierce attacks on the German defense lines again and again.  Countless gray shadows were shaking on the mud one kilometer away. The enemy was like a wave on the ground, rushing towards the German position, mixed with the roar of the motor. It was a powerful Russian tank.

    "Woo! Woowow!" At the front of the position, thousands of Russians roared, like a storm, hitting the German position, it didn't sound real.

    Ta-ta-ta-ta!

    The machine guns began to fire.

    Boom d boom!

    The anti-tank guns camouflaged on the position also began to fire continuously. Some enemy tanks were hit and burst into flames, but most of them continued to advance as if nothing had happened.

    When the crowd of Soviet troops advanced to only more than 600 meters away from the German position, there was a roar in the sky, and the sound of the aircraft's engines even drowned out the sound of guns and artillery on the ground.

    "Oh my god, so many planes!" the Sudeten crawling next to O'Heim shouted. O'Heim raised his head, and a dense fleet of aircraft appeared in the dazzling sky, flying over the position behind them.  There are more than a hundred aircraft.

    These fighter planes came down from the sky, their engines roared, and they dropped bombs on the crowd of attacking Russian soldiers, and then started strafing the ground with machine guns and aircraft cannons.

    "This is our plane, look at Messerschmitt, my God, those are Chinese planes, look at the military emblem on the fuselage!" The Sudeten shouted loudly, and was pushed to the ground by the sergeant major.  "Damn it, you're dying!" The sergeant gave the oblivious subordinate a hard kick with his leather boot.

    The Russians continued to rush toward the German positions despite the bombing, and soon they would be within the range of the rifles. "Woo-la, woo-la!" Bullets splashed on the position, making various horrifying sounds.  .  O'Heim looked for the target nervously, but after a while, the enemy's shouts gradually became quieter, and the Russians retreated before launching an attack.

    It seems that the new situation on the battlefield shocked the Soviet commander and immediately stopped all attacks.

    ¡°Leave a warning and withdraw from the front!¡± An order from the officers to cancel combat preparations sounded on the position.  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian.com to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Mobile users please go to read
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