"Boom! Rumble! Boom ......."

Along with the Soviet artillery bombardment, the last artillery of the counterattack unit of the Swedish Volunteer Division was also blown up on the artillery position that had long been exposed.

In the midst of the splatters of Soviet fire, the Swedish soldiers, who had been menacing an hour before, were now more timid than sheep. The soldiers jumped out of the trenches, scrambling to escape from the fiery positions. In the thick smoke, one after another the disgraced volunteer soldiers were fleeing.

"Don't get in my way!" A grassroots commander of the Swedish Volunteer Army brutally kicked away his comrades who had tripped in front of him, and couldn't wait to run in the direction he was coming.

In the panic, many grassroots commanders were disrupted. An explosion came from behind them, and it continued to destroy their already fragile nerves all the time.

An hour, just an hour. This high-minded counterattack ended with the complete defeat of the Swedish division, which was the "first army in Northern Europe", and ended with a tiger.

The fighters and artillery that they were proud of were drowned in the huge firepower of the Soviet army as soon as they hit the surface. In the Nordic Army, the Swedish division, as the only unit with fighters and artillery, can indeed be regarded as a powerful existence.

However, they are only comparing within the Nordic army, which is short of guns and artillery!

Compared with the Soviet army, their heavy weapons are simply a drop in the bucket, very few. They only had a total of 25 fighters, but the Soviets were able to dispatch 250 in one batch. They had only 27 cannons in total, but the Soviets also had more than 400 cannons in one local direction.

The little preparation of the Swedish division was really not enough in front of the wealthy Soviet army. At the first moment of contact between the two armies, these Swedish warriors immediately realized what a stupid thing they were doing.

The mantis arm is a car, not self-sufficient!

If it weren't for the fact that they were the attackers and took the lead in the initiative to attack, the Soviet troops who were on the verge of counterattacking were not prepared and could not concentrate all their forces to attack the Swedish division, I am afraid that they would not even have a chance to escape.

Now, while the Soviets have not yet reacted and are only concerned with bombing the positions of the Swedish volunteers with artillery planes, there is still a chance to "turn in". If you stay on the position and resist hard, it is estimated that there will only be the end of the annihilation of the whole army.

"Hurry up and run! If it's too late, there's no chance. ”

"You guys! Don't shoot stupidly there, and miss their plane, it's useless. Let's run! ”

"Let's go first, you guys hurry up. After a while, if the Soviets start to charge, none of us will be able to escape. ”

In the chaotic camp of the Swedish division, the volunteer divisions at all levels, which had lost contact with the division headquarters in the first round of Soviet bombardment, coincidentally began to rout under the leadership of the grassroots commanders.

If you have only heard your own propaganda before, these volunteers who are arrogant and arrogant blindly believe that they are powerful. Now, under the education of the shells that fell on their heads in reality, no matter how slow they reacted, they should understand one fact - the Soviet army, which has strong firepower, completely has the absolute upper hand!

.......On the premise of knowing that the outcome was doomed, the Swedish soldiers who were lucky enough to survive the Soviet bombing resolutely abandoned the rifles and ammunition that were useless in their hands and had increased their weight, and left behind all the "burdens" that could be discarded, so that they could run faster and live longer in the future. If you're lucky, you might be able to escape......... No, it's a move to Sweden mainland to consolidate its own defense.

When he saw his fighter plane in front of him, he was shot down by the oncoming Soviet Yak fighter. When they saw that their artillery positions had only fired the first round of shelling, the coordinates were exposed, and then they were devastated by the Soviet heavy artillery, and after being wiped out, even the strongest fighters could not remain indifferent.

Finally, when the division commander, who lacked battlefield experience, was attacked by Soviet bombers in the undisguised division headquarters, and more than a dozen senior commanders of the entire Swedish division and an entire guard company were all killed at the headquarters on the back of the dirt slope.

The rout was inevitable. Moreover, it is out of control!

As a result, this vigorous counterattack was forced to terminate with the collapse of the top command at 5 hours and 28 minutes after the decision was made.

An infantry division of more than 8,000 people, with the death of more than a dozen commanders, fell into a state of leaderless stragglers. Such a thing would have been almost impossible for the armies of other countries, especially the Germans, to happen!

If it is according to the German commissioned command, even if all the senior officers are lost. As long as there is one non-commissioned officer left, the team will not collapse!

This form of command, invented by Moltke the Elder, gave the subordinate commanders a great deal of autonomy, so that when they encountered a situation, they did not have to ask their superiors for instructions on everything, but made decisions on their own. In this way, we will be able to reduce the number of operational command links, greatly increase the speed of command, and thus gain the initiative on the battlefield.

At the same time, this style of command also avoids the confusion of junior officers due to the loss of contact with their superiors.

Without the order of the general, it was commanded by the colonel. If there is no command from the officer, let the captain lead the team. Even if the officer dies, the non-commissioned officer has the right to come up. Of course, if there is no one left, from officers to non-commissioned officers, then the war should be over.

However, the Swedish volunteer division, which has not lost most of its middle-level commanders and almost all of its grassroots commanders are still alive, does not have such a model, nor does it have the consciousness of fighting to the death......

Even if they had learned the command-style command model invented by Napoleon, represented by the French army, they would be able to barely maintain their positions under this "rigid system" model.

They are so inexperienced and too lacking in courage. Whether it is the order of the division commander to blindly meet the enemy, or the arrangement of positions, the concealment work of the command headquarters, to the deployment of artillery fire, the determination of the time of sortie, and so on, none of them are in place and reasonable.

To put it mildly, even a newly graduated officer in a German military academy could not have made such a dizzy decision, and it was a reckless leadership over and over again.

Under normal circumstances, an army would be on the verge of collapse when the casualty rate reaches 30%.

In the Battle of Verdun, which is known as the turning point of World War I, the proud French elite troops were able to survive a casualty rate of 38%.

Since the start of World War II, the German 30th Infantry Division has set a new record, surviving to a casualty rate of nearly 90%, and then it can still launch a counterattack.

Now, following the 30th Division of the German Army, the Swedish Volunteer Division has once again set a new record for the casualties of the troops.

Yes, they once again set a new casualty data record for the collapse of a divisional unit - the whole division quickly collapsed with an overall casualty rate of less than 5% at the moment of the highest morale, setting a new negative record!