Chapter 122 General

The Soviet Ninth Army fought all night...in fact, it cannot be called "fighting", but should be described as "chasing and killing", because the Romanian army failed to organize a decent resistance along the way.

This is not their fault. Objectively speaking, the Romanian army is considered good among the servants, except for Finland, which belongs to the Romanian army.

The problem is that they are not equipped enough and have no deep-rooted hatred for the Soviet army... The Finnish army is brave in combat. It is understandable that the Soviet Union invaded Finland not long ago. The "servant army" can be regarded as a true ally of Germany.

As for the Romanian army, their feud is precisely their comrades in arms rather than enemies...Hungary and Bulgaria, who are also German servants.

It is for this reason that Germany has never dared to place these armies on the same battlefield, let alone coordinate them.

So what else could be asked of the Romanian army?

But the battlefield is the battlefield, there is no reason to speak.

The Ninth Army's penetration of the weak position between the two lines of defense of the Romanian Army caused heavy losses to the Romanian Army... They almost lost all their artillery and supplies, and the headquarters were also occupied by the Soviet Army one after another. What major general, Lieutenant generals and senior generals of various ranks were captured and killed in an endless stream.

But there is one special one.

It was when the sky was just dawning, and Shulka and others were still advancing behind the tank.

If there was any trustworthy tank in the USSR at this time, it was the T26. Although it had thin armor and poor defense, the point was that the firepower was quite good and the failure rate was low, which allowed the infantry to at least have a usable tank.

For example, on an occasion like this, without the coordinated operations of T26, it would be hard for Shulka to believe that there would be such a result.

I don't know if it was because of the excitement of victory or some other reason, but the tank in front of Shulka drove for ten hours without the driver shouting that he was tired.

The sun slowly rose from the east, and the surrounding world gradually became clearer. The equipment and clothes discarded by the Romanian army were all over the ground... Bullets, guns, cars overturned on the side of the road, and several ammunition boxes fell out and shattered , Bullets and shells were scattered all over the place, and there were even clothes and underwear hanging from tree branches.

Judging by the ashes beneath the clothes, the Romanians appear to have tried to dry them.

It can also be seen that they panicked when they fled.

"There is a situation!" At this moment, the long-legged person walking in the front yelled, "Germans, two o'clock!"

The soldiers who were about to fall asleep immediately woke up as if being pricked by needles. The infantry raised their rifles and hid behind the tanks. The tank followers immediately passed the information to the tanks. The two tanks stopped, turned their muzzles and then Just two shells passed.

"Don't shoot, don't shoot!" Shulka heard shouts from the opposite side, speaking in unfamiliar Russian: "We surrender!"

This kind of situation has become accustomed to Shulka and others, because similar things are repeated all night.

But this time it was a little different. When Shulka leaned out with a few soldiers holding their rifles, he found two barrel cars parked in front of him, German-style barrel cars.

This is not surprising, German barrel carts can be seen everywhere on the battlefield, even if this is the battlefield of the Romanian army.

The difference is that the two colonels who got out of the car and surrendered were German colonels, and these two colonels still seemed to be followers, because the rear door of the barrel truck was opened.

German chief officers have a habit, they prefer to take the co-pilot seat, although theoretically this position is more dangerous.

But this seems to be normal, because the co-pilot has a good view and can understand the situation or danger at the first time... The chief officer hopes to know the situation as soon as possible. This can be said to be an occupational disease or subconsciousness.

These, of course, were not Shulka's concern.

At this time, Shulka was thinking, if the colonels are all followers, then what is the rank of the chief officer?

Major General?

lieutenant general?

To everyone's surprise, the one in the barrel cart was an admiral.

Shulka couldn't help being surprised when he saw a German general collapsed in the co-pilot seat.

"Who is he?" Shulka asked in English.

The German colonel, who was looking nervously at Shulka and his party with his hands raised, froze for a moment, and then replied in English: "He is General Schobert, Eugen Ritter von Schobert!"

"Schobert? Schobert, commander of the 11th Army?" Shulka couldn't believe the answer.

"Yes!" The German colonel nodded, his voice trembling: "Our barrel cart triggered a mine, General Schobert..."

Needless to say what happened next, because Shulka saw it all.

The Soviet soldiers cheered unanimously. After all, it is not uncommon to encounter a German general, even though they did not capture or kill him.

Shulka's mood is a bit complicated.

This is not because he is a general. Shulka knows that the battlefield does not care about your rank. Both the general and the sergeant must bear the danger, but the danger of the general will be less.

Shulka just felt that it was a misfortune... In history, Schobert died because the plane accidentally landed on a minefield laid by the Soviet army. He didn't expect to change his method and still die because of the minefield.

What's even more ironic is that these mines were probably planted indiscriminately by Romanian soldiers in order to resist the pursuit of Soviet troops in the rear.

If Admiral Schobert is still alive at this time, I'm afraid he will curse these stupid Romanians again.

But now he obviously couldn't do that.

Then Shulka thought that this might not be a good thing for the Soviet army, because it was the famous German general Manstein who replaced Schobert as the commander of the 11th Army.

After several actors carried Schobert's body out of the barrel cart and put it on the side of the road, Shulka gave the order: "Go ahead!"

A group of people followed the tank and continued to advance into the morning fog.

In this battle, the Soviet Ninth Army not only successfully rescued Odessa, but also defeated the Romanian Fourth Army, annihilating 81,000 Romanians, of whom more than 30,000 were captured.

In addition, there are a large number of artillery, ammunition, cars, etc., but because the equipment of the Romanian army is backward, it seems that only cars can be used for these things.

It is a pity that more than tens of thousands of people passed through the Transnistria Gulf, and most of them broke through the encirclement of the Soviet army and fled back... The Soviet army was short of troops, and after the main force broke into the middle zone, there were not many troops to complete the encirclement.

But this is not important, because so far, the Soviet 9th Army has surrounded the German Army Group South in a general direction, that is, from Kyiv to Odessa.