"Well...you can't read German. I'll read you what the report above says. Listen carefully."
"The Führer's army achieved a great victory. In the southern battlefield of Poland, it severely damaged the enemy's tank division, Stalin's ace unit. The enemy ran out of fuel and abandoned the abandoned tanks and fled in panic. The Führer's army is pursuing them bravely. Germany continues to make great strides! Hi, wash
Boss."
Malashenko finished reading the first paragraph of the first page of the newspaper. The photo below shows an IS6 heavy tank abandoned on the roadside. The turret has the obvious Guards logo on the right and
The emblem of the Leader's Division, with several smiling Wehrmacht soldiers standing next to it, posing with guns as a backdrop. It is indeed clear at a glance that this is a good tank from the Leader's Division.
"Well, this is the first day's newspaper, and there are more at the back. Look at this one again, and I'll read to you the second day's newspaper."
Lavrinenko on the side blinked and said nothing. He was probably a little dumbfounded now and didn't quite understand what was going on. He didn't even bother to eat anymore, and just waited for Malashenko to go down.
The translator read the newspaper, but the political commissar sat aside with a mysterious smile and said nothing.
"The next day, let's continue."
"The Führer's army bravely pursued the enemy and achieved continuous results. The enemy's close tank division suffered heavy losses again! Several enemy elite Stalin Type VI heavy tanks were captured and will soon continue to pursue the remaining enemy troops who fled."
After reading the text, the picture below is another is6, but this time the shooting angle is different from the last time. The shooting was changed from the right side to the left. It is still the angle of lying on the ground and shooting from bottom to top. It is
With the sky as the background and no surrounding scenery visible, a German infantryman sitting on the turret looked very showy.
"Okay, let's continue, it's the third day."
"Well...there's something new this time, let me take a look."
"We had a fierce exchange of fire with the enemy's 1st Tank Division, and our army won a great victory! Many Stalin Type VI heavy tanks were paralyzed, forcing the enemy to abandon their vehicles and flee. We achieved many victories. Advance! Germany! Hi, Shampoo.
"
The picture below has been changed again. This time it is an is6 that has rolled over into a ditch on the roadside. The track seems to have been interrupted and collapsed on the ground. However, the background is the reverse slope of the road slope, with bare and meaningless soil.
The slope is the background for most of the photos. The German guy took the camera very well. Basically, except for the dirt slope and the sky in the distance, there are no iconic features.
This photo is also taken from the right angle. There are also the Guards logo and the division emblem of the leading division on the turret. The German soldiers in the photo have also changed. This time there is a smiling German counterattacker with an iron fist on his shoulder.
The tank driver probably meant that the Iron Fist paralyzed the is6, causing it to abandon the vehicle and be captured by the Germans. However, the number matches the description and seems to be fine.
"On the fourth, fifth, and sixth days, there was no new work. It was either pursuit or encounters and firefights. The Germans' victory. This photo is of a tank on fire. It was taken from the front right. This is a complete tank.
It was burned down, leaving only an empty shell. Even the turret was blown away. Tsk, wouldn't it be good for the Germans to drag it back and use it themselves? After all, they won a great victory and gained control of the battlefield, right?"
"The next one is the last one. Let me take a look at it on the seventh day."
"Basically annihilated the enemy's first tank division, a small number of remnants escaped, the enemy abandoned a large amount of heavy equipment and fled, our army captured countless, the soldiers took photos in victory, and Germany continued to advance!"
There is no tank in the last accompanying photo. This time it is replaced by a truck, and it is a relatively special crane modified from a US truck chassis. It is an emergency repair and support vehicle. The general Red Army tank unit does not have this thing, even if it has US-made truck equipment.
It is rare to have the luxury of modifying it for use. The implication is that this kind of rare equipment is only qualified for leaders to equip?
Malashenko felt that this might be what the Germans wanted to express. Anyway, looking at the bunch of German soldiers standing in front of the truck in the photo, they were very happy.
"These photos add up to nearly thirty or forty. Where can we lose so many is6s in southern Poland? Those German guys were chased and beaten by us, and they didn't even have time to run away. I...I don't understand
, what on earth is going on?”
Obviously, Lavrinenko, who has a relatively simple mind, has not seen the tricks and routines involved. Malashenko, who is not very talkative, did not answer directly without comment, but turned his head and glanced at the political commissar comrades beside him.
I found that Comrade Political Commissar was also keeping a mysterious smile. The two of them looked at each other and said, "You understand and I understand."
"Hurry up and explain to Comrade Deputy Division Commander, don't let him really be deceived."
After hearing this, Malashenko smiled, nodded, then turned his head back and continued to speak.
"Here, look here, the first photo."
"Photographed from the front right. The Germans said this was a vehicle abandoned on the road. We ran out of fuel and threw it away. There is the mark of our division on the turret, and it is indeed our vehicle. But look here carefully. The first road wheel on the right
There is a corner missing or a gap on the edge. It may have been hit by something or bumped. The reason is not important, just remember it."
"Then there's this, well, the Germans said this is the is6 that was crippled and abandoned on the roadside. There's a guy holding an iron fist next to it. It happened to be taken from the right front angle. Look here. Look carefully. The first one is carrying a load.
There is also a gap missing in the wheel, in the same position."
"And this one, this one."
"The text accompanying the picture says that it was hit and caught fire. It was taken from the right rear. It looks a bit blurry, but you can still see the key points. Did you see that there is still a gap in the first road wheel?"
"This one, taken from the front left, you can't see the road wheel on the right. It has been completely blown up, and the turret has also flown away. But there is something else interesting. There is no helicopter on the turret, as in the previous pictures.
None, our division has very few old IS6s left that have not yet been equipped with advanced computers."
Lavrinenko didn't understand it right away, but that doesn't mean he's an idiot. Anyone with a normal mind would know what he meant after listening to Malashenko's words.
"You, you mean, the Germans took the same car of ours and showed it in four states: abandoned, track broken and discarded, on fire, and then the ammunition detonated and the turret was blown off? This...
What does this mean? Is there any special purpose? I don’t understand why, why I do this.”
Malashenko smiled and blurted out the words without thinking as he closed the newspaper.
"Of course it makes sense, in order to create what they call the illusion of "a huge defeat of a close tank division and a series of victories for the German army."
"Our division advanced south and north on the southern line of Poland, attacking from the left and right, and fought back and forth for more than 400 kilometers across the country. Comrade Political Commissar made statistics last time, and you probably haven't forgotten it. We were regarded as enemies by a certain comrade marshal.
The blocking and lagging troops in the rear have been tortured quite a lot."
"More than 400 kilometers of cross-country travel, no matter how reliable and durable the tank is, the hours of motorization cannot withstand such a torment, and then you will know. Our division was forced to abandon some that could not be repaired immediately. The more serious problems need to be overhauled
Replacement of the transmission or engine of the vehicle is the relatively large loss of non-combat equipment we discussed earlier."
"Our combat doctrine clearly states that when the troops encounter equipment wear and tear that cannot be repaired immediately during roundabout maneuver operations, the troops can immediately abandon the damaged equipment and organize the crews to return to the main force and continue to move forward. Troop command
Soldiers should focus on completing the predetermined campaign tactical objectives. Reasonable equipment abandonment will be allowed within an acceptable range, and the abandoned equipment will be followed up by subsequent friendly forces to recover and dispose of. I have ignored it."
"What's next...Hey, I'll take a breather and light a cigarette. Comrade Political Commissar will take over and continue to explain to you."
Comrade Comrade Political Commissar had the same idea as Malashenko, and as both knew the truth, the following words blurted out smoothly and neatly.
"Our division has independent combat capabilities after the synthetic reorganization. Even without the cooperation of friendly forces, it can rely on the synthesis of its own arms to independently complete many combat missions in complex battlefield environments. This is what we have determined. I don't know if it is because
In this regard, we are not given any troops to coordinate with us, and indeed there are no friendly forces to follow up to help us recycle and dispose of discarded equipment, which is different from before."
"In addition, we are fighting interspersed on the southern front of Poland, behind and behind the enemy. It is normal for the equipment that cannot be recovered immediately after being abandoned to be encountered by the Germans who are retreating all the way. After all, we cannot stop, intercept and delay
All the retreating German troops on the southern front can only fight as many enemy main forces as possible to buy time for the large forces on the frontal battlefield to catch up and encircle and suppress them."
"And then comes the most critical point."
"The Germans want to create news about their victory to boost morale and inspire people. It doesn't matter if they make false news, as long as they can deceive their own people. That's the purpose."
"So they needed creative materials, and the tanks abandoned by our division were spotted by those with more brains among them."
"Catch a tank and take photos of four different states, choose the angle and background, and add appropriate text descriptions. This can be the results of four different leader tanks. The photos can be taken at once and saved
Save it for future reference, there are photos published in newspapers every day, which exactly corresponds to what they said in the report that they fought against the leader's division every day and achieved great victory."
"Then the Germans can follow our division's combat trajectory and look for it. We may leave abandoned equipment wherever we go. Anyway, there must be no friendly troops to recover it. It won't delay Germany too much if we just take pictures and leave."
It doesn’t take much time for me to run around. I just need to find a few cars to take enough photos at once. Anyway, I can multiply the number four times or even five times.”
"If the Germans are leisurely, they can even pull the tank to a farther distance, not too far, and take another set of photos. As long as the background is different and accompanied by appropriate text description, this is another loss of the leader's division.
Received a batch of precious IS6 heavy tanks."
"The reason why we can be so sure is because our division has registered and detailed post-war statistics show that there are only 8 IS6s in total that were irreparably non-combat losses on the southern front of Poland. I know it, and the division commander also knows it.
, Comrade Deputy Division Commander, you should also remember it."
"But look at these photos, there are thirty or forty vehicles in total. The Germans' captions all indicate that these are vehicles of the First Tank Division, the steel butcher Malashenko, and tanks of Stalin's security forces.
For the leader to suffer such a heavy blow is what they want."
"This created an illusion. The 1st Jintan Division was beaten and lost its armor and fled in panic. There were at least thirty or forty IS6s that were damaged in the battle, abandoned, and seized. There are still photos of this.
I guess the Germans will exaggerate and tell their troops that there are more that they didn’t have time to take pictures of. Multiply that by three, four, five, or six times, which would correspond to their statement that they almost completely wiped out the leader’s division.
.”
"Imagine how much of a morale boost this can bring to the front-line troops of the Germans? The troops of the Soviet ace tank division, the steel butcher Malashenko, who they fear the most, the most fearful, and the most fearful, will almost be completely annihilated. The Germans
This can be described as a turning point. I guess many people will believe them when they say that the Red Army is gone. The purpose is very simple, just for this."
Lavrinenko still couldn't figure it out. Although he understood most of it, he was still a little confused.
"But...if they meet us on the battlefield in the future, won't their lies be revealed and exposed? Wouldn't this be counterproductive?"
Comrade Comrade Political Commissar just laughed after hearing this. He specializes in political work and the spirit and morale of the troops. He can guess the German twists and turns with his eyes closed.
"It all depends on how you say it, Lavery."
"For example, the Germans can say that the leader division has been rebuilt again and is coming back, but we have eliminated the steel butcher once, and we can destroy them a second time. Victory belongs to us. Take courage and cheer up,
We will definitely win, and Malashenko and the rebuilt 1st Tank Division will be defeated again, so this is what the Germans want to boost morale."
"Some people will realize that this is false and a lie, but they will have to wait until they are captured by us and enter the prisoner of war camp to realize that they have been deceived. But what is the use at that time? They can't tell you again.
The living comrades who were not captured were deceived. Maybe we can tell the German soldiers who are still fighting that they were deceived, but it is useless. Who will believe the words of the enemy instead of one's own side? Unless they have witnessed the truth with their own eyes.
, such as being captured.”
"..."
Lavrinenko only felt that he was a little overwhelmed. How could these simple photos and newspapers be involved in so many things? Comrade political commissar could actually analyze it so clearly and fluently. He just listened.
I feel dizzy. It seems that this political commissar is really not something ordinary people can do.
Comrade Political Commissar finished his analysis, and Malashenko had almost finished smoking the cigarette in his hand. After taking a long puff of smoke, the butt of the cigarette flew out skillfully with one hand, and then he spoke.
"It's okay for them to spout lies and rumors as much as they like. As long as we know the truth in our own hearts, it's fine. The existing facts are not subject to human subjective will."
"This bunch of Nazis only have this ability. They won great victories all the way to their own border and then to their own homes. They won great victories, great victories, great victories. In the end, the capital was gone. When we marched into Berlin, I was stunned.
If we want to see how these nazis can achieve another great victory, I will engrave this great victory on the tombstone of Goebbels, the leader of the rumor mill, to commemorate what he said! It’s just our Red Army’s great victory in the Battle of Berlin!”