Chapter 108 Chain Reaction

The follow-up impact of landmines is getting bigger and bigger, because the German army bought more time and laid more and more mines.

Shulka's main force is not bad, because there is a reconnaissance force in front of the auxiliary force to clear mines. As long as Shulka and others don't leave the road, they will generally not be in danger of being hit by mines.

However, when the car is staggering forward, from time to time, you will see a few more wounded or corpses on the side of the road, and occasionally you will see bombed cars or even tanks.

What surprised Shulka was that there were still soldiers injured by the "wooden shell mine" lying on the side of the road... It was easy to see that the wound was full of wood chips, which were difficult to clean , because a small part of it breaks off in the muscle causing infection.

"What's going on here?" The thief also discovered this: "How can the Germans have wooden mines?"

"That's probably what they captured!" replied the veteran. "You know, they captured a lot of our equipment during the attack!"

This is a fact. Many Soviet troops fled before they even had time to detonate the ammunition depots, so a large amount of equipment fell into the hands of the Germans.

Of course, most of this equipment is useless to the Germans, who usually distribute these captured equipment to the rebels... As mentioned before, there are many rebels in Ukraine and elsewhere who are dissatisfied with Moscow.

Except mines.

At this time, the German army lacked landmines, and landmines did not have the problem of inconsistent ammunition, so of course they would use landmines here.

Using the mines of the Soviet army to deal with the Soviet army... The soldiers feel embarrassed, or it can be said to be ashamed, when they think of this.

However, this seems to be a normal thing, just like the artillery captured by the Soviet army will also hit the German army with shells.

Then the car stopped again.

The soldiers are used to it. The speed of mine clearance in front of them can't keep up with the marching speed of the main force, so the troops always stop and go.

But this time it's not because of that.

Shulka jumped out of the car and found the convoy parked outside the village.

The villagers seemed to have heard the noise from the road but did not come out. Occasionally, a few windows would poke their heads out to look around, and then they would close the windows with a "bang".

Looking in front of the convoy, Shulka realized that there were a few people coming to greet him. They seemed to be the person in charge here, with a smile on his face but a bit of panic in his eyes.

This made Shulka a little unbelievable. You must know that these are the people of the Soviet Union, and this is the Soviet army.

After thinking about it for a while, Shulka understood: the Germans once occupied this place, and the villagers probably welcomed the German army. Who knew that the Soviet army is back now...

But these people's worries are superfluous. The Ninth Army is busy chasing the enemy now, and they just want to ask about the situation of the Germans.

"Shuerka!" At this moment, a German barrel truck passed Shulka and stopped, and an officer wrapped in a raincoat jumped out of the car.

Shulka took a closer look and saw that it was Major Gavrilov.

"Look!" Major Gavrilov raised his head behind him and said, "My new car, isn't it good?"

"Paid from the Germans?"

"Of course!" replied Major Gavrilov.

The German barrel car is indeed easier to use than the civilian cars used by the Soviet army, especially on this kind of muddy road full of pits.

"Then you have to worry, Comrade Major!" Shulka said: "You know, there are many recruits in our army, and they are likely to mistake this car for the enemy's car!"

"So I only use it on the march!" Major Gavrilov replied with a smile.

After a pause, Major Gavrilov said: "Do you know? The Germans have stepped up their offensive against Odessa!"

"What?"

"Odessa!" said Major Gavrilov, "they sent a large number of bombers in that direction,

There are Romanians and Germans, they are laying mines in the port, and bombing the port and warships in spite of the danger..."

This weather is not suitable for fighter planes due to low visibility, but it will be different if the target is a large warship.

"Besides!" said Major Gavrilov, "they sent at least one additional division to Odessa!"

"German division?"

"Yes, the German division!" Major Gavrilov nodded: "We haven't found out their numbers yet, but we only know that the German division is very powerful. In just one day, Odessa's middle defense was destroyed by them." Breakthrough!"

"How did they get to Odessa?" Shulka asked.

"Glider!" Major Gavrilov replied. "Landing on a glider. Have you ever heard of that thing?"

Shulka looked bewildered.

But of course this was pretended. As an ordinary Soviet soldier, he shouldn't know this.

Although Shulka knows that the Soviet Union is even trying a tank that can fly into the sky at this time... The Soviet Union hopes to combine the tank and the glider, and then let the tank fly directly to the battlefield instead of maneuvering like a snail from the land.

Of course, this attempt ended up being unrealistic.

"Never mind that!" said Major Gavrilov. "Anyway, the Germans have arrived in Odessa, though I'm sure they'll pay a fair price, you know . . . flying a glider in this weather, but They arrived and made a difference in Odessa!"

After a pause, Major Gavrilov continued: "We estimate that Odessa is likely to fall within the next three days!"

Hearing this, Shulka was a little confused.

In history, Odessa was not occupied by the German army so quickly... In fact, the Battle of Odessa was fought by the Romanian army. There should be no German army, and it was the German army brought by the glider.

Then Shulka understood.

This should be some kind of chain reaction: the Soviet army in history should not have defended Kyiv or even organized the 9th Army to launch an anti-encirclement, and Kyiv should have been surrounded by the German army and fell into a bitter battle.

Now, Shulka has changed all this, so the German army has to speed up its attack on Odessa in order to deal with the anti-encirclement of the 9th Army...

"So we have to get to Odessa before then?" Shulka asked.

"Yes!" Major Gavrilov replied: "Otherwise, what we have to face is a Romanian army group plus a German army division. In addition... the Italian expeditionary force also changed their marching direction. Desa. More importantly, Odessa is a place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack!"

So the situation became very serious for the Soviet army at once.

"But now!" Gavrilov looked ahead and smiled bitterly: "It's almost impossible to get there before they capture Odessa!"