The Third Reich in Desperation

"30 cigarettes per person, a bottle of brandy for every four people." Modly distributed generously.

"Long live!" The soldiers cheered thunderously after hearing this.

Alcohol and cigarettes have always been the traditional needs of the troops.The consolation of tobacco and alcohol can relax the mind and temporarily forget the anxiety and fear of reality. It is like an antidote for soldiers who have to deal with death.

Modley's eyes signaled Loya to go aside, and Loya didn't dare to follow Modley carelessly when he saw this.

"Go ahead and divide your company into two platoons to be responsible for the demolition and transfer of the camp, and tell your regiment commander later to put the main battalion and artillery battalion on standby and obey orders at any time. We are going to assault the bridge where the Soviet army is stationed!"

After hearing this, Luo Ya immediately saluted and replied: "Yes!"

Then he trotted away to deliver the order.

The reason why Modly didn't go directly to Loya's team leader, but came to Loya's camp first and asked Loya to help spread the word, there is an inside story.

The head of the 135th Infantry Regiment where Loya belonged unfortunately died a few days ago.Also killed was the deputy head of the 135 regiment.And the temporary acting head who took over the work of the head was Lieutenant Colonel Felix, who was not too good.

Generals whose level does not match their positions are not unique to the Soviet Union.Although these phenomena were more common in the Soviet army due to the great purges, there were also a few such cases in the German army.

For example, Felix, although his military literacy is almost in a mess, because he joined the Wehrmacht as early as the first round of expansion of the [-] Wehrmacht, and later happened to participate in military operations in the Rhineland, Austria, Poland, France and other regions , can be regarded as rich experience, so he barely mixed up to the rank of lieutenant colonel all the way.

During the war, it took more than ten years to be promoted from private to lieutenant colonel. This speed is really not fast, especially on the premise that this officer participated in a large number of key battles.

If it weren't for the repeated interruptions of one sudden military operation after another, Felix would have entered the military academy long ago.And due to a series of accidents, Felix has never been able to enter the military academy, but his rank has been promoted to lieutenant colonel.

But fortunately, Felix is ​​very self-aware. Although his military level is not high, he is good at listening to the opinions of his subordinates who graduated from the military academy.For example, in the 135th regiment, Felix likes to ask Loya, a talented company commander who graduated from a military academy, about everything.

This is also one of Felix's great strengths.You know, in the Soviet army, General Pavlov not only listened to the suggestions of his subordinates, but even Zhukov's warnings were ignored by him, and he even attracted his revenge for framing Zhukov.

In the Soviet army, people like Pavlov can reach the general level.In contrast, the very few people in the German army like Felix who were promoted because of the war were only at the rank of lieutenant colonel.

From this point of view, even if the German army's officer selection mechanism is still insufficient, it is much better than the Soviet army.

So in the end, even Modly in the logistics department knew that the real person in charge of the 135th regiment was not their acting head, but the little company commander Loya.

It didn't take long for the 135th regiment's camp to be in a state of panic and panic. Tents were dismantled, tanks were preparing for work, and soldiers were busy loading bullets.

After finishing their work, the soldiers waited for the departure order from the acting commander Felix, and rested in place.

Although Loya's opinion is often Felix's order, Felix is ​​still the actual acting head after all, and the 135th regiment still has to wait for his order.

Before the operation, the army not only faced huge physical and mental pressure, but also had to encourage themselves over and over again. Before the charge, they were smoking cigarettes, and few people touched the brandy.Despite the sulfa drugs being dispensed, the fear of injury and death haunted and tormented them.Today is bound to be a sleepless night.The night is so long, the whole team is full of tense atmosphere, and the relaxation when they are stationed has disappeared. Some people lie down and doze, some people sit in a daze. He seemed to stop for a while and look ahead. Although there was nothing worth seeing in front of him except for a thin soldier who seemed to be asleep at this time, he still looked forward from time to time. really looking at something.

In the early morning, Second Lieutenant Chongpei of the 135rd Company of the 3th Infantry Regiment watched the second hand on his watch complete the last few seconds before 2:22.As soon as the gunfire sounded, he jumped out of the trench dug in advance.

"Let's go!" he shouted to his brothers in the commando.

"Come on!" One after another steel helmets rose from the tall grass.The German soldiers sprinted across the railway bridge, the second lieutenant at the front, the sound of gunfire drowning out the clatter of their boots on the thick planks of the bridge.Along the tall guardrails on both sides of the bridge, they stooped and rushed towards the opposite side of the bridge.

Deep in their hearts, there is always a lingering worry: Will the bridge be blown up?

After all, this is the bridge where the Soviets laid explosives in advance. If Stalin's counterattack order did not require the use of these bridges, the Soviet army would have blown up here long ago.

Fortunately, until the end, the bridge was not bombed. All the Soviet sentinel had time to do was to shoot a burst with the submachine gun in his hand, and then fell to the ground.

At this moment, a DP-27 light machine gun roared in the air-raid trench of the Soviet bridge guards.

Fortunately, a wrecking team from the 87st Company of the 1th Engineer Battalion has been assigned to the commando of Second Lieutenant Chom Pei.The four soldiers of the obstacle removal team rushed towards the target machine gun, and the leading non-commissioned officer accurately threw a grenade and smashed it into the air-raid trench.

Accompanied by a dull "bang", gunpowder smoke rose, and the sound of the DP-27 light machine gun stopped.

Second Lieutenant Chompei and engineers rushed through the air-raid shelters that had been bombed to pieces, then descended from the left and right sides of the bridge to the embankment of the railway, and set up their machine guns to prevent the Soviet army from retaking the bridge. ,

In this position, they found that the Soviets had strapped explosives to the middle piers of the bridge, but they had never detonated them.

So, the soldiers of the wrecker team quickly ran to dismantle it.At the same time, Chong Pei checked the pier with the beam of the flashlight from time to time to make sure that there were no other detonating devices hidden elsewhere.

After confirming that there was nothing, Chongpei slid a piece of green glass off the flashlight, and the beam turned green.Then, like a stationmaster at a railway station, he waved his torch over his head and back, signaling that the bridge was occupied!

Immediately afterwards, the first German armored reconnaissance vehicle drove quickly across the bridge.

They crossed a bridge over the Transnistrian River, and then moved on to Kiev.

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In the dull afternoon, the air was filled with restlessness and uneasiness, and several trucks slowly drove towards the army not far away.After these trucks arrived at their destination, a stout man wearing an officer's military cap got off the leading truck. The company commander Loya knew him. This man was called Modley, and he was a captain of the logistics force. Loja understood What does his arrival mean? Everyone has been looking forward to his appearance these days.

Captain Modly walked past Loya, smiled slightly, and said to several truck drivers behind him: "Distribute the extra rations to every vehicle here immediately."

Modly lowered the tailgate of his van and opened a large trunk containing spirits, cigarettes, and chocolates.

"30 cigarettes per person, a bottle of brandy for every four people." Modly distributed generously.

"Long live!" The soldiers cheered thunderously after hearing this.

Alcohol and cigarettes have always been the traditional needs of the troops.The consolation of tobacco and alcohol can relax the mind and temporarily forget the anxiety and fear of reality. It is like an antidote for soldiers who have to deal with death.

Modley's eyes signaled Loya to go aside, and Loya didn't dare to follow Modley carelessly when he saw this.

"Go ahead and divide your company into two platoons to be responsible for the demolition and transfer of the camp, and tell your regiment commander later to put the main battalion and artillery battalion on standby and obey orders at any time. We are going to assault the bridge where the Soviet army is stationed!"

After hearing this, Luo Ya immediately saluted and replied: "Yes!"

Then he trotted away to deliver the order.

The reason why Modly didn't go directly to Loya's team leader, but came to Loya's camp first and asked Loya to help spread the word, there is an inside story.

The head of the 135th Infantry Regiment where Loya belonged unfortunately died a few days ago.Also killed was the deputy head of the 135 regiment.And the temporary acting head who took over the work of the head was Lieutenant Colonel Felix, who was not too good.

Generals whose level does not match their positions are not unique to the Soviet Union.Although these phenomena were more common in the Soviet army due to the great purges, there were also a few such cases in the German army.

For example, Felix, although his military literacy is almost in a mess, because he joined the Wehrmacht as early as the first round of expansion of the [-] Wehrmacht, and later happened to participate in military operations in the Rhineland, Austria, Poland, France and other regions , can be regarded as rich experience, so he barely mixed up to the rank of lieutenant colonel all the way.

During the war, it took more than ten years to be promoted from private to lieutenant colonel. This speed is really not fast, especially on the premise that this officer participated in a large number of key battles.

If it weren't for the repeated interruptions of one sudden military operation after another, Felix would have entered the military academy long ago.And due to a series of accidents, Felix has never been able to enter the military academy, but his rank has been promoted to lieutenant colonel.

But fortunately, Felix is ​​very self-aware. Although his military level is not high, he is good at listening to the opinions of his subordinates who graduated from the military academy.For example, in the 135th regiment, Felix likes to ask Loya, a talented company commander who graduated from a military academy, about everything.

This is also one of Felix's great strengths.You know, in the Soviet army, General Pavlov not only listened to the suggestions of his subordinates, but even Zhukov's warnings were ignored by him, and he even attracted his revenge for framing Zhukov.

In the Soviet army, people like Pavlov can reach the general level.In contrast, the very few people in the German army like Felix who were promoted because of the war were only at the rank of lieutenant colonel.

From this point of view, even if the German army's officer selection mechanism is still insufficient, it is much better than the Soviet army.

So in the end, even Modly in the logistics department knew that the real person in charge of the 135th regiment was not their acting head, but the little company commander Loya.