From Rokosovsky's military configuration, it can be seen that his tactics seem ordinary. He relies on cities and fortifications to weaken the offensive momentum of the German armored troops, successfully dragged the enemy down, and then used a small group of elite armored troops to fight back. +, anyway, this set of tactics is nothing strange, as if people on earth can use it.

However, the tactics that everyone can use does not mean that everyone can use them well. Some people use the same moves to shock the earth, while some people are just fart. Why? The connotations are different.

For example, Rokosovsky's defensive tactics used to block and delay the German army were completely different from those of the usual sense of defense. He adapted to local conditions or came up with solutions when there was no way.

Yes, although Rokosovsky mobilized a considerable number of Kalingovic residents to participate in the emergency repair of fortifications, the time is really limited, and Guderian came too quickly. Although these hastily emergency repaired fortifications have a depth of 40 kilometers, please note that the depth of these fortifications does not mean that the range of these fortifications is full of fortifications, because this is impossible!

There are 50,000 militias, but they are really nothing to do with construction work over a range of 40 kilometers. Moreover, most militias lack heavy machinery and can only use shovels and pickaxes at hand, and their efficiency is really not high.

Let's put it this way, it is a defensive position of 40 kilometers, but in fact the 6th Army did not even have a complete line of defense. All positions were intermittent, one piece in the east and one piece in the west, and looked like Lai Zitou.

It is a joke to use such fortifications to resist the elite German tank second cluster. But the cruel reality is that this is not a joke. Rokosovsky had to rely on these unreliable fortifications to resist Guderian for twenty days!

It seems like this is an impossible task? But a tactical master like Rokosovsky can turn the impossible into possible.

Rokosovsky understood that hard resistance is absolutely not possible, so he adopted a liquid defense tactic. Each position has a small number of troops. After being attacked by the German army, do not resist it. If you can withstand it, then carry it for a while. If you can't, then retreat quickly.

Some comrades may want to say, what the hell is this guiding ideology? Isn’t this just to encourage the troops not to resist?

It’s not that you don’t resist, but that you choose a flexibly strategy to resist. You can’t stand it anymore. What’s the point of continuing to resist is to cause unnecessary casualties? Every soldier on Rokosovsky is precious and cannot be wasted at will.

So the strategy he adopted was to put the enemy in and wait slowly. How to wait slowly? Please pay attention to the defensive depth of the forty kilometers. Although there is no complete overall defense line at the depth of the forty kilometers, small defensive positions of various platoon-company levels are scattered. In the depth of the forty kilometers, as long as there are decent buildings, highlands, woods and rivers are used by Rokosovsky. Every time the German army advances about one or two kilometers, it will hit a Red Army position.

According to the German army's combat intention of capturing Kalinkovic, we must definitely fight. Bypassing these positions is equivalent to leaving a bunch of time bombs on the logistics line. Therefore, the German army must clear mines. As long as each blocking position can be delayed by the German army for an hour, not to mention the depth of 40 kilometers, isn't it a big problem to delay for forty hours?

Forty hours seem too short? It depends on how you calculate it. There are few night battles or night attacks on the European battlefield. From five in the morning to six in the evening, this is about ten hours. The time for Germans to eat and take a break is deducted. It is probably the limit to be able to eliminate ten "landmines" a day. Forty mines will take at least four days.

Moreover, this is estimated using the most optimistic calculation method. In fact, some relatively dangerous positions must be more than an hour. According to Rokosovsky's judgment, the depth of this forty kilometers should be able to buy him at least five days. Moreover, Rokosovsky has never been a fool who only gets beaten but does not fight back. How could he watch the Germans smoothly crush his defense line? For example, on the afternoon of the first day of the battle, the Germans captured a lot of positions were taken back under the sharp counterattack of the mobile troops he reserved. This is equivalent to saying that the Germans spent a whole morning in vain.

Please note that this is just the beginning. For a long time in the future, Guderian will be tortured by Rokosovsky's sharp counterattack methods. For example, after the daytime battle on the first day, Guderian discovered that his troops had only advanced 1.5 kilometers forward.

This shocked the tank monster. With the attack strength and combat effectiveness of the second tank cluster, it was not a big deal to push forward ten kilometers in a day. However, after the battle on this day, it only advanced 1.5 kilometers, which shows that the battle on the front line is very fierce!

But what Guderian couldn't understand was that if the battle was going so fiercely, several division commanders and army commanders on the front line should have complained and complained loudly, but he did not hear similar words all day long, and even the attacking troops rarely called for reinforcements during the battle. Generally speaking, this situation only occurs when the battle goes smoothly.

The problem arises. Judging from the results of the battle, the battle was not going smoothly at all, and all the troops did not complete the scheduled tasks. But why didn't the troops complain?

This problem troubled Guderian, who immediately went to the 10th Mobu Division to check the situation. During the day's battle, the 10th Mobu Division only advanced one kilometer forward, which was the worst-performing force.

However, after some visits, Guderian still did not understand what was wrong, because according to the description of the officers and soldiers of the 10th Division of the Mobu, the battle today went smoothly and the enemy's resistance was not fierce. If it weren't for the Soviet army launching a powerful counterattack to repel them in the evening, the result would be completely different.

"How much better is it different?" Goodrian did not accept this conclusion, and he questioned: "How many enemies have you eliminated?"

Regarding this question, the division commander was helpless and spread his hands: "The enemy's resistance is relatively fragile. Often, our main force ran away as soon as they pressed up..."

"What?" Guderian continued.

"Then?" the division commander recalled and replied honestly. "Then follow the established combat procedures. We continued to attack the enemy's deep positions. After fire reconnaissance, our first round of offensives was repelled. After we immediately began to adjust, and after adding firepower and more troops, we successfully repelled the enemy..."

Guderian listened very carefully. He asked questions at every key point, but the answers obtained could not solve the questions in his heart. Apart from the two counterattacks at noon and evening, the Soviet army did not seem to be very good. But why did these two counterattacks make his troops' efforts in vain?

Is it careless?

After thinking for a long time, Guderian did not come to a definite conclusion. In desperation, he could only continue to observe and see if there would be similar accidents in the battle of the new day. However, what Guderian did not expect was that in the early morning of the new day, the Soviet army suddenly launched a counterattack. A short but very rapid artillery fire attack caught him off guard. Then the Red Army's armored troops rushed forward, crushing his defense line in minutes. He drove his troops away like sheep.

"Has the enemy's reinforcements arrived at the battlefield?"

Guderian was very impressed by the two previous large-scale counterattacks of the Red Army. Although both counterattacks failed and paid a considerable price. To be honest, the German army was also beaten to a very bad situation. If the troops were not adjusted in time and the Air Force was not strong enough, it might really not be able to stop the Soviet offensive.

So after entering Belarus, Guderian had been carefully observing the movements of the Soviet army. He suspected that the other party would launch a third similar counterattack. At that time, they were probably in danger of lacking air force cover.

At this time, when the 10th Mobu Division of the Mobu was attacked by a large number of Red Army armored troops and was crushed and driven away the sheep, he immediately suspected that this was the beginning of the enemy's third large-scale counterattack.

He asked nervously, "How many tanks are there?"

The division commander replied nervously: "No less than two hundred vehicles!" Finally, he added: "Most of them are T-34 and T-35, and there is basically no shadow of BT tanks."

Two hundred T-34 and T-35 are not a joke. When the war broke out, it was difficult for the Soviet army to invest 200 T-34 and T-35 to launch an attack in one go, which fully demonstrates that this is a long-planned counterattack!

Guderian immediately attracted great attention. On the one hand, he ordered the army to be more vigilant and consolidating positions and guard against the larger wave of counterattacks of the Red Army. On the other hand, he quickly called Boke to remind him to pay attention to the new trends of the Soviet army.

"The enemy has the ability to launch a new round of offensive?"

Boke was also shocked by this information. To be honest, he was much less timid than Guderian. He was very worried about the situation where the two tank clusters under his command were too deep into the enemy's front. He was very worried about the Soviet army encircling the second and third tank clusters from both wings and encircling them. More than once he tried to persuade Guderian and others to take steady action. Unfortunately, Guderian did not accept it and the head of state was not happy. And now it seems to be an opportunity to correct the mistake?

Bock immediately telegraphed the wolf's den, described the situation of Guderian's report in a relatively exaggerated and worried tone, and proposed to suspend a new round of breakthroughs and stabilize the front.

When Hitler received this urgent telegram, he thought something was wrong with the Central Army Group. When he opened the telegram, he saw that it was Boke's request to stop. He was furious: "Idiots, a group of stubborn people! How can he stop the attack at this time? This is to let the tiger return to the mountain, and let the Bolsheviks breathe this breath. This is a crime against the empire!"

The furious Hitler immediately sent Bok a telegram in the most severe tone, demanding that Bok not stay and launch a new round of offensive immediately to win Belarus and Ukraine in early October. In Hitler's words, "The Russians are at their end. As long as we win a big victory in Minsk and Kiev, they will collapse immediately. In this way, we can completely capture Moscow and Leningrad in early November and force the Bolsheviks to surrender!"

It should be said that Hitler's judgment on the battlefield was relatively correct. If he could indeed fight an annihilation war in Minsk and Kiev and destroy a large number of Red Army's vitality again, the Red Army would be really hurt. Unless he could transfer the main force of the Far East back to Europe to fill the pit, he would really have to kneel down.

Therefore, Hitler's suggestion of continuing to maintain the offensive was correct. The German army did not need to stop and reorganize the front or rest. But at the same time, Hitler also had some wrong judgments. There were problems with the two offensive cores he identified.

There are indeed a large number of Red Army soldiers in Minsk and Kiev. If they can be eliminated, it will be a great thing. However, please note that the Red Army has changed considerably from before. The attack-to-attack-to-attack that Tukhachevsky advocated was declared bankrupt. There is only one way before the Red Army, that is, firm defense and stable front.

When the Red Army was freed from the blind counterattack, the German army still wanted to use the gap of the Red Army's counterattack to boldly intersperse and fight an annihilation war like before. It was basically no chance. They had to fight a war of attrition around the Red Army's solid positions. It was difficult to quickly annihilate the live power of the Red Army!

In particular, it should be noted that both Kiev and Minsk are key areas of the Red Army’s pre-war Red Army. This area has a large number of solid permanent fortifications, and the German army’s firepower is really not very strong, so it is difficult to eat the Red Army in one breath.

The two key targets that Hitler has set are difficult to fight and are hard to deal with. If you are not careful, you can break the Germans' good teeth. And such tough battles are generally protracted, let alone the end of the battle in early October. I am afraid there will be no chance in early November. After the Soviet Union entered October, the weather was getting colder and colder, and the German army's supply line was quite long, so it would be a tragedy at that time.

Therefore, the two attack focus set by Hitler is obviously problematic, which is contrary to his original intention of quickly defeating the Soviet Union and forcing the Soviet Union to surrender. If he really wants to quickly attack the city of Moscow, the focus of the attack should be in the direction where Guderian is attacking.

Both Rokosovsky's 6th Army and Lukin's 16th Army were very weak. Taking Kalinkovic over the Dnieper River in one fell swoop, and then breaking into Russia is a piece of cake. Once such a breakthrough is completed, it is equivalent to cutting off the connection between the Belarusian Front and the Ukrainian Front.

At that time, these two fronts will have to fight independently. Moreover, in order to block Guderian and prevent Guderian from continuing to penetrate into the heart of Russia, the Politburo and the Military Commission had to draw troops from other directions to block the gap again. At this time, how could there be so many troops on the battlefield that can be drawn?

From the principle of proximity, both the Ukrainian Front or the Belarusian Front must transfusion blood in this direction, which indirectly reduces the pressure on the German troops attacking Kiev and Minsk, and may once again cause a domino effect.

Unfortunately, Hitler did not see this. His eyes were always staring at the big Soviet cities. He could only take Kiev and Minsk as soon as possible, and missed a good opportunity.

Of course, missing this opportunity does not mean that the Germans have no chance at all. Some military geniuses are very capable of creating miracles, such as Guderian, who almost regained this opportunity for Hitler again.

Back to the topic, back to Kalinkovic, when the 10th Mobu Division was caught off guard by the armored forces of the Sixth Army and retreated hastily, Guderian adjusted his deployment and prepared to welcome the third counterattack of the imagined Soviet army.

But in fact, such a counterattack did not exist. The commander of the 10th MoF Division was shocked and exaggerated the scale of the Red Army's counterattack. In fact, only two tank companies and a mechanized infantry company were put into the counterattack in the early morning of the day. There were no 200 T-34s and T-35s, most of which were BT-5s and T-26s, but there were many MB-lt armored conveyors.

Thinking about it, Rokosovsky regarded both t-34 and t-35 as sharp knives. How could he rush into the attack just one day after the battle? This is simply unreasonable. Soon Guderian also discovered this embarrassing mistake, because after waiting for a whole morning, he did not see the Soviet army conducting a large-scale counterattack, and in fact there was no small-scale counterattack.

Guderian immediately knew that he had misjudged the situation, or had been taken into the ditch by the 10th Mobu Division. He immediately adjusted the deployment again at noon and ordered the SS Imperial Division to replace the 10th Mobu Division, which shows how annoyed he was about the 10th Mobu Division.

According to Guderian's idea, the Imperial Master, the Nazi bandits, should be much better than the 10th Division of the Mobu, at least they would not continue to be embarrassed. But when the sun set on that day, he was stunned again.

The answer submitted by the Imperial Division was so dazzling that they only advanced 1 kilometer in the whole afternoon. The only difference from the 10th Mobu Division was that at dusk, the Imperial Division was not attacked by the Red Army, and this was also the key reason why they were able to save the results of this kilometer.

Guderian couldn't help but wonder, if the Red Army counterattacked again, would the Imperial Army be driven back?

So why didn't Rokosovsky fight back? In fact, he was originally planning to follow the routine of the previous day, which means he still had to fight back, but after carefully observing the Imperial Division's defense line, he gave up the counterattack.

The imperial division obviously learned from the experience and lessons of the 10th Mobu Division. Its position was strong and the soldiers were very vigilant. Obviously, this was to beware of the Red Army's counterattack. Isn't this a tough fight when the enemy is fully prepared?

Rokosovsky was not interested in letting his young man die in vain. After two days of hard fighting, especially for the raid before dawn, the soldiers did not sleep well at night. It would be better to rest early and accumulate strength and fight again in the future!

So on this day, there was no counterattack, and this made Guderian, who had been carefully prepared for a night and was ready to make the Red Army suffer a lot, wait in vain... (To be continued...)

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