Chapter 44: Don't Let the Tragedy Happen Again

Perhaps seeing what the old man was worried about, Yang Zhen shook his head and smiled: "Boss, he alone can't represent the collective, this guy's current appearance can't mean that all the Soviet generals are like this bear, among the Soviet generals, there are still many outstanding people." ”

"Actually, boss, according to the current situation on the battlefield of the Soviet Union, this guy can be said to be fighting well on the whole, at least decent, but on the battlefield, not only him, all the generals of the Soviet Union are subject to too many constraints, this guy has some pockets these days, but he still has a certain strength."

"Otherwise, he would not have been selected to be the commander of one of the two most well-equipped mechanized armies of the Southwest Front, the largest strategic group of the Soviet army, before the war, and as early as during the civil war, he served as a brigade commander, a qualification that is rare among the current Soviet generals."

"The great purge of the Soviet Union has indeed broken the backbone of the Soviet army's command system, so that most of the Soviet generals are too rigid and dogmatic in command and operation to carry out the orders of their superiors for fear of being purged, and they do not dare to have any qualifications, or even dare to make any independent decisions."

"For many people, the order of the superior is a qiē, even if the order of the superior is obviously wrong, they do not dare to have any objection, this guy has been in the prison of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for several years during the Great Purge, and it is not surprising that he has become like this after having an unpleasant experience."

"Under the ever-changing situation on the battlefield, it is strange that such a rigid command will not defeat the battle, and in addition, some senior commanders who survived the purge are too rigid in their thinking and do not adapt to the new combat mode of the German army, but they blindly adhere to the superiority, and failure is inevitable."

"In the face of the sudden attack of the German army, when the communication system has been disrupted, this situation has directly caused chaos, and the front-line combat planes did not dare to disperse to the field airfield before receiving the order, and the German planes were destroyed in rows like targets."

"The front-line troops need fuel and ammunition to fight, but these materials are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the enemy troops have already hit under their noses, but without Moscow's order, no one dares to open the warehouse, and watch the troops run out of guns and ammunition to meet the enemy, and the tanks are abandoned in large numbers because they do not have enough fuel."

"The overly rigid and dogmatic implementation of certain unreasonable regulations, officers at all levels did not dare to cross the thunder pool for fear of being purged, on the one hand, the troops put into battle lacked anything, on the other hand, a large number of supplies were captured by the Germans in the storage areas, and a large number of assembled recruits were captured in the assembly areas."

"There was not even an order, when the Germans had already knocked out their noses, the grassroots commanders of the Soviet army did not even dare to blow up these materials, boss, you are both clear-eyed people, who can ensure that communication and contact are always smooth during the war, and all aspects can accurately get orders from their superiors."

"It can be said that in the battle of Vyazma-Bryansk, the oil used by the German armored forces basically relied on the oil captured from the Soviet army, and to the Bryansk line, the German army has extended to the extreme supply line, which is simply unable to meet the daily consumption of all armored clusters."

"Without the replenishment of captured Soviet fuel, the German armored cluster would not have been able to fight this battle at all, because the fuel supply they received from their homeland could not meet such a large-scale movement of armored clusters, and without the replenishment of a large amount of captured Soviet fuel, it would have been remarkable that the German armored cluster could be half operational."

"Moreover, the damage brought to the Soviet army by the Great Purge is not only psychologically for senior commanders, but also for fear of being purged under an excuse in the daily training of the Soviet army, which has an impact on the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army, especially strict."

"When I visited the Soviet Union last year, I visited the exercises of some of their troops, and I felt that if war really broke out, according to their training methods at that time, if they did not make adjustments, there would be big problems sooner or later once they arrived on the battlefield."

"From the moment an artillery regiment received the order, it was unexpectedly unable to complete the assembly and retraction within 24 hours, and even if it rushed to the designated place, it could not complete the deployment within six hours, and the organization of the offensive of the troops at all levels was almost a mess, and the artillery fire preparations over there had already been launched for half an hour, and the infantry and tanks here had not yet completed the preparations for the attack."

"If this was in the Anti-Japanese Federation, I would have pushed them to the end a long time ago, not to mention being an artillery commander, even being an artillery company commander is unqualified, and such people just occupy a large part of their middle-level officers and even senior officers."

"When attacking, infantry and artillery coordination, infantry and tank coordination, ground-air coordination, there are quite a lot of problems, when the tank is attacking, it can hardly get any infantry cover, and when the infantry attacks, it can not get the cover of the tank, an army that advocates attack is too single in the use of offensive tactics, and will only attack in the front."

"In addition to fighting to the death in the front, they don't seem to have studied the tactics of frontal attack and flank detour, and when defending, they don't pay attention to the cover of the flanks, or even have no flank cover at all.

"Radio communication is backward, and they do not pay attention to the use of secret language, and in many cases they directly use clear code communication, they rely too much on wired communication in combat, the number of radio equipment is strictly insufficient, and even a considerable number of officers cannot understand the flag language, cannot understand the sound of the horn, and the low-level command of the grassroots commanders is also an important part of the defeat on the battlefield."

"And when I study the outbreak of the Soviet-German war to the present, when the entire operation of the Soviet army has passed, they now have a serious problem, that is, the vast majority of their generals will not organize defensive operations, will not organize retreat, and when they encounter the attack of the German army, they only know that they continue to take chaotic counter-assaults to delay the offensive of the German army."

"When defending, in the face of the attack of the German armored group, the entire defensive position has no depth and no solid defensive support points, which causes even if it is an organized defense, all its defensive positions are suddenly broken by the German army, and then they are quickly surrounded, and the continuous tactical counterattack is almost a success example because of the chaotic organization."

"The current defeat of the Soviet army is not only a strategic failure, but also a tactical failure, they do not know defense, they only know how to blindly attack, their own tactical application, and they are extremely inferior, and the talent of a considerable number of commanders is simply unable to bear the responsibility they pay."

"In addition, the supreme leader blindly commanded in disregard of reality, and some senior commanders were too rigid in their thinking, and their operational concepts were still stuck in the military theories of the First World War and even the Soviet and Russian civil wars.

"The emergence of this situation undoubtedly has a great deal to do with the fact that the Soviet Union's purge of the Soviet Union has almost wiped out all experienced commanders at all levels; except for a few outstanding ones, most of the new commanders who have come up on rockets are not only incapable, do not dare to study new tactics, and only know how to passively and rigidly carry out the orders of their superiors, and they do not know how to use them."

"However, as the war progressed, a group of experienced Soviet commanders who were arrested during the purge were released and sent to the front line to lead troops to fight again, and at the same time, a group of rookies, as the war gradually matured, although they had to pay a heavy price, but relying on the geographical advantages of the Soviet Union, there was no problem in finally achieving victory."

"And judging from the tenacity of the Russians and their tenacious will to fight, there is no big problem for the Soviet Union to hold Moscow, and although the German army has now surrounded the eight Soviet armies in Vyazma and Bryansk, it seems that the results are outstanding, but they have lost the most critical time."

"In a month at most, Moscow will enter a cold winter, and now it has entered the late autumn Soviet muddy roads, which also limits the use of German mechanized troops, and at the same time, although the German army has achieved great results before, its troops have also suffered heavy casualties, and the loss of tanks as the main means of assault is also quite heavy."

"And the long supply line has restricted the German army's ability to replenish battle damage, and its assault capability has dropped to a dangerous point, and the fatigue of the division veterans is a taboo for soldiers, as long as there is no longer a defense of Moscow, there is a low-level mistake like Vyazma, I think the Soviet army basically has no big problem holding Moscow."

"Although the Soviet army has been failing in the most critical months, a group of young generals have come to the fore and grown up rapidly, although these generals are far inferior to those veterans who have been purged in terms of seniority, but their ability to accept new things and accept and adapt to new tactics is far better than those old qualifications, and they still cling to the views of the civil war period."

"However, in this war as a whole, it will take a long time for the Soviet army to truly reverse the current unfavorable situation and regain the initiative in the war.

"But in the war, the experience of growing up is often accompanied by a huge cost, I believe that in this war, the Soviets will achieve the final victory, but this growth is also a long and painful, in this war, the Soviets are destined to pay an astronomical price of casualties for their immaturity."

After analyzing the situation on the Soviet-German battlefield for the analysis of the two old commanders, Yang Zhen looked at the two old commanders in front of him and smiled bitterly and said: "The Great Purge has shattered the brains and spine of the Soviet army, which has delayed the Soviet army's research on new strategies and tactics for several years. ”

"And the military doctrine that used to lead the world has regressed by more than ten years at once, and in the history of our army, it has also experienced the price of blood, and how many outstanding cadres have not fallen on the battlefield, but have fallen under the knife of our own people, and the human head is not grass, and it will not grow if it is cut off."

"Two elders, I hope that after we establish our own regime, those things that were born in the Soviet Army will not be the same in ourselves, and the tragedy that was born in the Red Army will not reappear at one time, and we will not be able to recreate the tragedy in ourselves."

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