Chapter 616: Zhukov's Anxiety
It's just that as soon as the battalion commander Koprak hid, he immediately discovered that they were just a false alarm.
The Soviet Yak bomber group and Il-2 attack aircraft had no intention of bombing or shooting them.
The Soviet aircraft group left in a hurry after taking some pictures over them.
They didn't drop a single aerial bomb, not even the machine guns on the fighters.
In this regard, the battalion commander Koprak and the adjutant Gรผnter were both weak, and they felt a deep sense of prostration after the catastrophe.
At the same time, they also took a deep breath, and then they were full of doubts as to why the Soviet aircraft unit fled without firing a single shot.
All this is very abnormal, because the battalion commander Koprek does not have many anti-aircraft guns to defend himself, and the German aviation units that they need to support cannot immediately reach their position for combat support in a short time.
Therefore, this will be the best time for the Soviet air attack, but the other side is unmoved, only takes some photos and flies away as if nothing happened.
"Sir! Why don't you say these Soviet planes bomb us? Is there some conspiracy going on? โ
When the Soviet planes disappeared, Adjutant Gunt hurriedly asked the battalion commander Koprek.
"I don't know! However, we must report these anomalies to the higher authorities as soon as possible, and hopefully convey them to Marshal Moder and them as soon as possible! โ
The battalion commander Koprek also looked puzzled, staring at the direction where the Soviet plane that had disappeared without a trace, and did not look away for a long time.
"Yes! Sir! โ
Adjutant Jingte also nodded lightly.
And at this time, in Zhukov's; Inside the Temporary Command.
Zhukov, who had already withdrawn the front to Kharkov, was looking at the documents of the report on the reorganization of the units of the front after the battle on the Dnieper, as well as the letters of warning inquiries sent to him by Comrade Stalin.
Zhukov did not pay attention to Stalin's critical letters, which were probably just criticisms and threats after the defeat.
In the high-level of the Soviet army, many generals have already received such documents, and many of them have been removed from their posts and investigated.
Zhukov ignored it not because he was not at all afraid of Stalin's threats and warnings, but because he was now preoccupied with how to rest and reorganize his troops after the defeat in the Battle of the Dnieper, and how to better build a large number of fortifications to defend against a large-scale German counteroffensive.
Because for Zhukov, if even his own life and the lives of his troops are now going to be killed by the German army, then why is Zhukov still afraid of Stalin?
Therefore, among the various reporting documents he handles, he gives priority to those documents that are related to the life and death of the front-line troops.
In particular, he had just taken aerial photographs of the various sections of the German front-line defensive positions, and he focused on watching them even more.
Because he wanted to find out what the Germans were doing after the Battle of the Dnieper, and what combat actions and defensive arrangements they had taken, so that he could know how to deploy his troops and how to fight and defend them.
"Strange! Why did the Germans, after their victory in the Battle of the Dnieper, only conduct full-scale defensive positional warfare and constantly build a large number of fortifications and obstacles, without the slightest desire to take advantage of the victory to pursue our troops? โ
"This style of combat is not at all like Hitler's character, is it difficult that the moral army is plotting some kind of major counteroffensive plan?"
When Zhukov had finished looking at all the aerial photographs at hand, he suddenly muttered to himself in deep disgust.
Judging from the photographs of the German frontline positions taken by the reconnaissance planes he obtained, he did not see that the Germans had no intention of launching a large-scale counterattack in the short term, or that they would quickly send pursuit troops to pursue and kill them while they were defeated.
Zhukov was full of puzzles and was deeply uneasy.