USSR 1941

  Chapter 866 Recruit

  Going to the training ground, Saraev couldn't stand it anymore.

  The scene was chaotic. The instructors on the "tank" (a car disguised as a tank) scolded, while the soldiers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs below were stunned, or running around like headless chickens.

   "Comrade Andrianka!" Shulka called forward, and the training ground was temporarily under the command of Andrianka.

   "Yes, Comrade Shulka!" Andrianka, who was observing the training, responded and ran back.

   "How's the training going?" Shulka asked.

   "Everything is going well, Comrade Shulka!" Andrianka replied: "As we estimated!"

   "What do you mean?" Sarayev asked.

   Andrianka looked at Shulka.

  Shuerka nodded and said, "Speak!"

"Let's put it this way, Comrade Saraev!" Andrianka turned his body sideways so that Saraev could see the situation on the training ground, and then explained: "As you can see, if this is On the real battlefield, I'm afraid half of your troops have already died!"

  Although Saraev saw the chaos in the 11th Infantry Division, he was still unwilling to believe it.

   "It's impossible!" Sarayev said: "They...they just haven't adapted to the BTS, just give them time..."

"The cooperation between infantry and tanks is only one aspect!" Andrianka interrupted Saraev unceremoniously: "Your troops are used to small-scale operations, especially at the company and platoon level, and at the company level and above. The team's sense of coordination is very weak, let alone the coordination of infantry and tanks, and infantry and artillery! Such troops go to the battlefield... Comrade Saraev, their individual quality and physical fitness cannot be fully utilized, because they are covered by artillery fire It's all gone!"

Saraev looked at Andrianka, then turned his dubious gaze to Shulka, and asked angrily: "You mean, other infantry can carry out infantry-tank coordination and infantry coordination well? Can evade enemy fire? Even recruits?"

   No wonder Major General Saraev was not convinced.

You must know that Major General Saraev is a major general of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs is strictly an intelligence agency. Of course, he knows the training level of ordinary troops, so even if he is killed, he does not believe that the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be on the battlefield. Those recruits are not as good.

   Shulka didn't answer, just said: "Or, we can go to the training ground of other infantry?"

  Major General Saraev did not object, so Shulka took Saraev to the training ground belonging to the 113th Infantry Regiment in another direction.

"This is another infantry regiment, Comrade Saraev!" Shulka handed the binoculars to Saraev, and said: "They lost nearly half of their troops in the previous battle, and only a thousand troops remained in the regiment." Two hundred people, 800 people have just been added, this is they are training recruits, and they are also training infantry!"

  Saraev raised his binoculars and took a look... In fact, he didn't need a binoculars to look at it at all, and he knew that it was much more orderly than the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs within the visual range.

   After watching for a while, Saraev said: "This doesn't explain anything, Comrade Shulka! They don't know anything, so they study hard!"

"That's the problem, Comrade Saraev!" Shulka objected: "The 11th Infantry Division, they think they know everything, that they don't need to study, that they can fight on the battlefield, but in fact they also Nothing... For the recruits, all we need is to teach them, but for the soldiers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, we have to get rid of the bad habits they have developed over the years! Which one do you think is more difficult?"

  Saraev couldn't help but fell silent when he heard the words. He somewhat understood what Shulka meant.

"Our tactics have fallen behind!" Shulka continued: "Perhaps you know this, and this is one of the reasons why our troops were defeated in the early stages of the war! Under such circumstances, all troops Feeling for change, some even spontaneous, sneaky, not just the 82nd Infantry!"

   Shulka was telling the truth.

  Because the battlefield is reality, tactics that keep up with reality mean survival, and failure to keep up means death.

The officers and soldiers fighting on the front line all want to live, but the superiors are clinging to the previous set of strategies and tactics unchanged... It should be said that the high-level Soviet army is very stubborn in the reform of strategies and tactics, even if they fail countless times. Let them learn from experience and lessons, but intensify.

  Because there is such a paradox: no one thinks that the defeat of the battle is due to one-sided emphasis on bravery, and one-sided belief that the defeat of the battle is due to not being brave enough.

  The high-level Soviet army can be stubborn, but the officers and soldiers on the front line cannot be "stubborn".

  So even though the top management is still clinging to the previous tactics, the frontline troops are already summing up experience and making changes spontaneously or secretly.

"For example!" Shulka continued: "When the enemy's shells came, they knew how to hide and build individual bunkers, but the 11th Infantry Division was still charging; when attacking the enemy's line of defense, they knew to call artillery, The 11th Infantry Division is still charging; when the infantry and tanks are coordinated, they know how to use the tanks as cover and also know how to cover the tanks, the 11th Infantry Division is still charging... So, Comrade Saraev, what do you think this will eventually achieve The results of it?

Before Sarayev could answer, Shulka said: "It's a corpse, Comrade Sarayev, the corpses of thousands of officers and soldiers of the 11th Infantry Division. The Germans can easily use limited bullets and shells to kill them." In exchange for the complete annihilation of the 11th Infantry Division, and an infantry division, even one with a large number of recruits...they still retain their strength to fight the Germans! This is the result, is this what you want?"

  Saraev listened now.

  He was silent for a long time, then nodded slowly, and said: "Now I understand why the superior ordered us to undergo training, Comrade Shulka! I also understand why the superior sent you to train the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs!"

   Then he handed the binoculars back to Shulka and said, "You are right, Comrade Shulka! Now, tell me what we should do so that we don't turn into corpses!"

   "As I said!" Shulka said: "Forget about the previous tactics and habits, you have to accept completely new tactics, and you have to learn from the infantry unit, just like recruits!"

   "I will tell them these words!" Sarayev said.

   "Just telling is not enough!" Shulka said: "We need to let them know that they are recruits, recruits who don't know anything!"

  (end of this chapter)