Chapter 150

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But guerrilla tactics are not something you can deal with if you want to deal with them.

Reichenau and Manstein pin their hopes on the SS... The SS consists of many departments, among which the task of special operations teams (also called commandos) is to carry out large-scale arrests, killings, searches for dissidents and Forces of the underground resistance, which included capturing Jews and sending them to concentration camps.

Special operations teams usually follow the occupying forces. That is to say, the regular troops attack in front, and the special operations team follows behind. Every time the army occupies a piece of land, the special operations team takes over a piece of land and is responsible for the security of the land, eliminating dissidents, etc. work.

This division of labor is not a problem for the German army, because it allows the army to concentrate on fighting in the front without having to pay attention to various troubles in the rear.

At the same time, the special operations team is more than enough to deal with those poorly equipped, unorganized stragglers, and even unarmed civilians.

but……

Now the guerrillas assigned by the Soviet army to various places are all veterans who have come down from the battlefield. Their military quality is much better than the German special operations team that usually only targets civilians.

So several times even if they had information about the guerrillas, they forcibly broke out of the siege, and the German special operations team suffered even more casualties, making them disgraced.

In particular, these guerrillas will also "break up parts into wholes into parts". When they need to fight, they "break up parts into wholes". Whole to zero" scattered among the common people and disappeared without a trace.

This caused Reichenau and Manstein a headache.

Reichenau even called the special operations team leader directly: "I think you should listen to General Manstein's ideas and implement martial law, registration and roll call..."

But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the captain: "I know what to do, Marshal, we have a lot of experience in this area, just like you have a lot of experience in the battlefield!"

The implication is that everyone should perform their duties and no one should care about others.

Reichenau had nothing to do about it, just like the Soviet Union had two systems, Germany also had two systems at this time... the Wehrmacht and the SS, and the SS was still above the Wehrmacht.

"We might be able to form our own troops to search!" Manstein said.

"No, General!" Reichenau rejected Manstein's idea without even thinking about it: "This will be considered a seizure of power!"

Then Manstein had nothing to say.

This is a very ironic phenomenon. The guerrillas hid under the jurisdiction of the SS and attacked the facilities of the Wehrmacht, but the Wehrmacht could not counterattack and could only rely on the SS. The SS dealt with these Russian guerrillas from the regular army. And very strenuous...

This made Manstein very passive. All he could do was to add police posts and defenses to important facilities.

But just like the "offensive superiority theory" pursued by the Germans, the defensive side is always the one that suffers, especially in a large area... because they have many points to defend, so they have to invest more troops, and they are always on tenterhooks. However, the guerrillas can slowly observe in the dark to find flaws, and then hit them with one blow.

But in fact, even if Manstein can really interfere with the affairs of the special operations team, I'm afraid it won't have much effect: this is the Soviet Union. Although there are rebel forces in Ukraine, the influence of the Soviet Union is still deep-rooted, and it is impossible to simply martial law and registration. will solve the problem.

These are not what Shulka needs to care about. He doesn't even know that he has accidentally hit the enemy's weakness, that is, the gap between the Wehrmacht and the SS.

Shulka only knows to continue to expand the training scale of the guerrillas, and then send the guerrillas out one after another.

Minsk, Kovel, and even infiltrated Brest... Brest is a good place for guerrilla warfare, because as I said before, it is a transportation hub, and roads and railways are densely distributed in the forest In a narrow passage between the swamp.

Here, the guerrillas only need to hide in the northern forests and occasionally use mortars to fire a few shells in the direction of the road and railway, which can make the German army unbearable.

Admiral Kirponos, on the other hand, worked hard to strengthen the defense from Kyiv to Odessa.

The main one is Kyiv, because Kyiv is like a sharp knife deep into the hinterland of the German offensive line. Although it is half surrounded by the German army, it is still a danger to the German army, that is, it may still become the German attack target in the future.

As a result, the Kyiv defense line has been re-consolidated, and this area of ​​Ukraine has formed a pattern of projecting guerrillas around Kyiv as the core to disrupt the enemy's supply line.

Shulka originally thought that he would continue to organize and direct the training and activities of the guerrillas in Kyiv... He even liked this job a little bit, although it was also very hard work, with all kinds of documents and information flying all over the sky. Erka was stunned.

But compared to the bullets, shells, corpses and blood on the front line, it is not much better.

During the occasional break, Shulka can light a cigarette and drink a cup of coffee in the lounge...this is called life.

However, such days are quickly becoming a thing of the past.

"Comrade Shulka!" On this day, when Shulka and Major Gavrilov were busy sorting out information, General Kirponos walked into the office.

This surprised Shulka and others, because General Kirponos rarely came to the headquarters in person since the guerrilla headquarters got on the right track. After all, he was the commander of the front army and had too many things to worry about.

"Comrade General!" Shulka stood up and saluted, and at the same time, it could be seen from Kirponos' expression that something had happened.

Admiral Kirponos called several other people to his side for a short meeting:

"First of all, I have to thank you for your contributions. This guerrilla headquarters was built by you alone. From training to going to the battlefield and then to follow-up command, the layers are distinct and interlocking. What's more valuable is that in less than one In just one month, a large number of guerrillas were trained and put into the battlefield to achieve brilliant results. On behalf of the Southwest Front Army, I would like to thank you for your contributions!"

"Comrade General!" Shulka said, "Do we have other tasks?"

Admiral Kirponos nodded, and then handed over a telegram, saying: "I hope to continue to cooperate with you, but... Comrade Zhukov needs the most elite troops to defend Moscow! They even called for The 333rd Regiment, I can't refuse!"

So Shulka understood that the next stop was Moscow.