The Third Reich in Desperation

The bridge sentry stopped the convoy according to regulations.

"Which department do you belong to? Why are you retreating?" An officer with the rank of second lieutenant led two soldiers up and asked the general-looking man in the co-pilot seat of the leading car.

"I'm mainly wounded soldiers from the 45th Infantry Division. Commander Kirponos has approved our division commander's request to transfer the wounded. Please let them go." The young, outrageous general with the rank of major general on his shoulders spoke. replied.

He seemed a little impatient.

The sentinel second lieutenant turned his head to look sideways. He estimated that the people in the car were indeed wounded Soviet soldiers who had retreated from the front line. Several people in the convoy showed their bandaged arms.

However, there was almost no blood on the bandages of those people.From the looks of it, they were just a group of cowards who were slightly injured and wanted to escape from the front line.

"What a bunch of cowards, don't they just want to hide behind a little injury?" The second lieutenant secretly scorned with a little disdain in his heart.He guessed that maybe the opponent's wounds might have been made by himself, probably just to mix up a wounded spot.

"Let's go, let's go." The second lieutenant gave the major general who obviously had a great background a look, and he didn't even bother to check his credentials, so he waved his hand and let him go.

After all, the other party is at most 30 years old.If it weren't for a more powerful background, let alone a major general at this age, he would already be a leader in the army if he could be a major.

Who knows, the convenience that the second lieutenant gave to the other party has not been appreciated by others.

The major general just nodded, then tapped on his driver's chair, motioning the driver to continue driving.

"Bah! A condescending relative!" The second lieutenant abused the other party again in his heart.

Afterwards, under the watchful eyes of the sentries, the convoy slowly restarted, maintaining the formation and driving on the bridge in a row.

What the second lieutenant didn't see was that Major General Guanhu, who had been ridiculed by him countless times in his heart, actually sneered at the second lieutenant when the second lieutenant looked away.

"Self-assessed idiot!" The young major general raised the corners of his mouth slightly, cursing softly in German in a small voice that only he and his driver could hear.

"Boom bang bang..."

Soon, after these troop transport trucks drove across the bridge, the "wounded soldiers" on the vehicle suddenly jumped out of the vehicle, pointed their guns at the backs of the Soviet soldiers guarding the bridge, and killed the soldiers at a very fast speed. A stunned Soviet guard detachment disarmed.

Then, under the incredible eyes of the Soviet second lieutenant on duty, the "Major General of the Soviet Army" took the lead in taking off his Soviet uniform and the bandages on his body.

It wasn't until the opponent changed into a set of black uniforms and took off the collar badges from the car to wear them that the Soviet officers and soldiers guarding the bridge realized that they were actually a group of German SS special forces in disguise!

In fact, in order to achieve an unexpected effect, so that the Soviet army had no time to blow up the ferry bridge and organize an effective defense on the other side of the river, General Model of the SS, in disregard of public international law, asked his soldiers to use the captured Soviet vehicles to dress up The retreating troops of the Soviet army deceived the Soviet troops guarding the bridge and completely captured the six important bridges in the entire section of the Transnistria, including this bridge.

And the ones dressed up as Soviet soldiers on the various routes are the avant-garde troops of the Skeleton Division of the SS.

Of course, word of the matter soon reached Reinhardt.

As for Model's illegal operation in violation of public international law, Reinhardt said as soon as he learned about it, he expressed his great appreciation for it.

Not only that, Reinhardt also asked Steve, the commander-in-chief of the SS, to follow Model's "new operation", and asked other troops in the SS to learn from this method to form some camouflage troops. "Shadow Troops"!

With such a shadow force, the German army will be able to develop more diverse tactical models.Not to mention much, in the famous second Ardennes counterattack in history, the German army used troops disguised as US troops to fight a successful counterattack.

And in this life, Model developed the "shadow army" belonging to the German army in advance in the SS, so Reinhardt simply followed this opportunity and vigorously popularized this kind of tactics based on the "shadow army".

Although the Soviet army also has shadow troops, there is a qualitative gap between the Soviet shadow troops and the German shadow troops!

The shadow troops of the Soviet Union are large in number, but their training quality is extremely low and their combat effectiveness is not high. They are used by the Soviet army as large reserves and cannon fodder candidates.

However, the shadow army established by the German SS now has a small total force, and its number is far less than that of the Soviet shadow army.But all the shadow troops of the SS are selected high-quality soldiers, their combat quality is much higher than that of the general SS, and they are proficient in at least one foreign language, possessing all the qualities of stealth combat.

Therefore, although they are both shadow troops, the German shadow troops focus on quality, and the Soviet shadow troops focus on quantity.Both sides have their advantages and use them in very different ways.

In terms of threats, the shadow troops of the German SS can even shake the enemy's psychological defenses, play a psychological warfare role beyond conventional tactics, and cause a strong sense of distrust and confusion within the Soviet army.

In this way, at 6 pm on June 23, the Skeleton Division of the SS advancing along the highway first arrived at a position less than 4 kilometers away from Ossad.

At 4:30 p.m., Model received a comprehensive report at the headquarters, and learned that the Skeleton Division's first troops had successfully used the "shadow troops" on various routes, and captured the 6th Soviet garrison without bloodshed. 5 of the bridges, and another bridge was also won through battle.

The Soviet army, who was still waiting to use the bridge to launch an attack, did not expect the German army to counterattack so quickly. The panicked Soviet defenders sent engineers to try to blow up the bridge, but the soldiers who detonated the bomb were often a few meters away from the fuse. The place was killed by the Germans.

The road bridge from Transnistria to Ossad fell into the hands of the German army intact, and the road bridge was only slightly damaged, and it can be used with minor repairs.

All of this went so smoothly, all thanks to the German "Shadow Troops" playing a standard special operations mode with high quality standards!

Text 720 Armored Warfare

On the southern front battlefield, the most powerful enemy faced by the German Army Group South was also commanded by Kirponos, the Southwest Front Army with the most abundant troops in the Soviet army sequence.

Although the defection of the seven Ukrainian divisions greatly reduced the strength of the Southwest Front Army.However, the main force in Kirponos' hands still exists, and he can always receive a steady stream of supplementary troops to restore his combat power.

Therefore, Marshal Rundsteder of the German Army Group South judged that in order to ensure that the southern main force of the Soviet army was wiped out in the early stage of the counterattack, it was necessary to penetrate behind the Southwest Front Army at high speed and prevent the main force of the Soviet army from shrinking to the third stage. Shore organization defense.

For this reason, the 1st Armored Group under the command of Marshal Rundstedt, at the beginning of the counterattack, made a high-speed assault in the direction of Kiev and the lower reaches of the Dnieper River, and prevented the Soviet army from retreating through the Dnieper River through roundabouts.

At the same time, the Motorized Infantry Brigade of the 3rd Armored Army of the German Southern Group, where Hart was located, also struggled to take on the task of flanking cover for high-speed assaults.Soon after the counterattack started, they drove into the Dubno area and searched for the cities of Lutsk and Rivno.

Coincidentally, this dungeon is exactly where the main force of the Soviet army's tank group on the southern line is deployed!

Today, Bork's Central Army Group has also officially launched a full-scale counterattack. This is precisely the best opportunity for the Southern Army Group to launch its second effort and achieve perfect cooperation with the Central Army Group.

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Plains of southern Ukraine.

A phalanx of more than 40 Leopard tanks advanced on the plain, followed by more motorized infantry.

The 602nd Tank Battalion has not encountered strong resistance since it launched a counterattack.They only helped the infantry destroy some Soviet firepower points and bunkers, but a Soviet tank has not been encountered, and there is no battle damage. Only 1 tank was withdrawn from the sequence due to a mechanical failure and was towed back to the rear for maintenance.

In command vehicle No. 101, Captain Conrad, the battalion commander of the armored battalion, was continuously issuing various orders to the entire marching phalanx.

In his heart, the sense of urgency at the beginning of the counterattack was completely gone.

Although there was no room for slack in the war, after the counterattack started, the performance of the Soviet army once again emphasized to the world that their defense level was ten times worse than their offensive level.

The battle went smoothly. Conrad made some calculations. His tank battalion destroyed at least 30 Soviet bunkers and firepower points, and destroyed no less than 20 Soviet artillery pieces.

It seems that the defense preparations of the Soviets were bad enough. It is estimated that they did not expect that they would take the initiative to attack themselves, but they would eventually be counterattacked by the Germans into their own territory.

But Conrad also knew that the deeper he went into the depths of the Soviet Union, the greater the danger his armored battalion would face.As a precaution, he dispatched some infantry transport vehicles to march on the two wings of the tank phalanx to prevent the tanks with poor vision from being ambushed by the Soviet army.

However, the cross-country ability of the half-covered armored personnel carrier is far inferior to that of his Panther tank, so it is often left behind.For example, at this moment, they don't know where they were thrown.

Conrad, who once again lost contact with the armored convoy, was thinking about whether to send a tank to turn around and look for the infantry, or to continue to rush in with all his strength.Suddenly, an avant-garde tank called to interrupt his thoughts: "Enemy tank, 2 o'clock direction, 3000 meters!"

Finally met the opponent!

Conrad asked loudly, "Quantity!"

"The number is unknown!" The commanders of the avant-garde Leopard tanks could only answer truthfully for a while.

In fact, the Soviet tanks were lying in the woods where the front force was strong. When they saw Conrad's German tank phalanx approaching, they rushed out of the position at the right time.