"I'm not wrong, General Krelov." Chisdakov said with a serious expression: "Based on the intelligence we just obtained, the German army has launched an attack on the flanks of my Sixth Army. Their counterattack was code-named 'Operation Donetsk'."
Seeing Krelov's shocked look, Chisdakov added: "General Krelov, I did not exaggerate the facts at all. The situation on the battlefield may be worse than what we know. Once our Sixth Army is repelled by the enemy, the defense zone of the 21st Army will be directly exposed to the enemy, and a fierce battle with the Germans will inevitably be inevitable."
Krelov did not believe what Chisdakov said in his heart, but when he entered the command center, took all kinds of information from the chief of staff, and after careful reading, he found that the situation was more serious than what Chisdakov said, because while the other party brought people outside to greet him, new war reports came.
In the new battle report, it was mentioned that the German army used a new type of tank that could easily penetrate the front armor of the Soviet state-of-the-art T-34 tanks at a distance of one thousand meters, while the Soviet tanks could not destroy the opponent's tanks even at a distance of five hundred meters. In a tank battle that ended not long ago, the Soviet army lost forty tanks, while the German army only lost two, and they were old No. 4 tanks.
After reading the battle report, Krelov remembered that he kept laughing at Sokov on the way here, feeling that he was too panicked. But now it seemed that the other party was not panicked, but accurately judged the situation on the battlefield. Thinking of this, he quickly called the Chief of Staff again and asked: "Chief of Staff, where is Colonel Sokov who comes with me?"
"Report to the commander," although Krelov has not done the handover with Chisdakov, the chief of staff has changed his name: "I have arranged him to rest in the room next to him. Do you need to call him over?"
"Yes, my comrade Chief of Staff." Krelov said anxiously: "I have something important to ask him, and invite him here immediately." As soon as the Chief of Staff left, he urged Chisdakov, "General Chisdakov, let's take over the command now."
After Chisdakov handed over command to Krelov, he did not leave immediately. He stayed here to find out what Krelov was going to say to a friendly division commander.
"Col. Sokov, you are here." Seeing Sokov come from outside with his chief of staff, Krelov immediately greeted him and handed him the battle report in his hand: "Hurry up and take a look at these battle reports."
Sokov quickly browsed the battle report in his hand. Only the battle report about tank warfare did he spend a little more time studying it.
Seeing that Sokov put down the battle report in his hand, Krelov couldn't wait to ask: "Col. Sokov, how do you view the current situation?"
"Comrade General," Sokov felt that he needed to remind Carola to give him a bonus and make him more vigilant. After all, whether he could defend Lugansk in the future depends entirely on whether he could get assistance from him. If the enemy defeated the 21st Army before attacking Lugansk, he would not be able to escape the destruction of the entire army. Therefore, he said seriously: "I think the situation is very serious, and the balance of victory began to shift towards the Germans."
No one thinks Sokov's statement is alarmist. On the contrary, not only Krelov but Chisdakov, they want to listen to him continue to analyze the next situation.
Sokov picked up the battle report about tank war, shook it in his hand, and said, "Based on this battle report, I dare to say that the enemy used their most advanced Tiger tank in tank war. This tank can easily penetrate the front armor of the T-34 tank at a distance of one thousand meters. Our tank needs to be four hundred meters away to penetrate the 102mm armor on the front of this Tiger tank.
In other words, when both sides are engaged in tank battles, the enemy's Tiger tank can stop in the distance and destroy our marching T-34 tanks like a target. But our tanks have no way to deal with them."
As the former chief of staff of the 62nd Army, Krelov naturally knew that Sokov's troops had seized a tiger-style car, so he could only place the hope of the other German tiger-style car on Sokov: "Is there any way to deal with the German tiger-style tank?"
"Not only our T-34 tanks cannot penetrate the armor of the Tiger tanks, but even the commonly used 45mm anti-tank guns have no effect." In order to ensure that Krelov's troops are not defeated by the German army, Sokov decided to say what he knew: "After my research, I found that the 85mm anti-aircraft gun and the A-19 122mm howitzer can destroy the German Tiger tanks at a long distance. They are both nemesis of the Tiger tanks."
"Comrade Chief of Staff," Krelov, after he finished speaking, he quickly turned around and asked his chief of staff: "Does there be these two types of artillery in our army?"
"Yes, Comrade Commander." The Chief of Staff of the Army nodded quickly and replied: "We have about a hundred of these two types of artillery, but they have been assigned to each division."
"The Chief of Staff should concentrate these artillery to use." Krelov's skill in using artillery was naturally not comparable to that of the chief of staff in front of him: "This will create a firepower advantage over the enemy's tanks on the battlefield."
"I understand, comrade commander." The Chief of Staff of the Army quickly replied: "I immediately ordered people to concentrate these artillery and then hand them over to the command of the Artillery Commander of the Army."
Although Sokov knew that the Soviet army later installed the 85mm anti-aircraft gun on the chassis of the T-34 tank and transformed it into the famous SU-85 tank destroyer. Under the current circumstances, it was obviously unrealistic to build such a new technical equipment, so he did not propose it.
Seeing that there was no longer anything I had to do here, I should rush back to Lugansk as soon as possible and urge the troops to strengthen their defenses to prevent the enemy who defeated the Sixth Army of the Soviet Army and rushed towards Lugansk. Therefore, he looked at Krelov and asked, "Comrade General, I have completed my mission, are you allowed to leave?"
"Of course, Colonel Sokov, you can leave." Krelov smiled at Sokov and said, "Thank you for escorting me here to take office. Also, if you encounter any danger there, please notify me in time, and I will never sit idly by."
Chapter completed!