Chapter 1636

When the bell rang at two o'clock, I stepped into the classroom.

As soon as I entered the door, I heard a majestic voice shouting, "stand up!"

I turned my head and looked in the direction of the sound. The officers sitting in the classroom stood up together and stood on their seats like poles.

I went to the platform and put the folder in my hand on the desk. Then facing the officers below, he said in a loud voice, "comrades, please sit down!"

"Sit down!" Another password was issued from the crowd.

With the command, the officers who stood straight sat down.

I didn't start the lecture immediately, but looked around. The students' table is divided into five rows, each row of six people, just 30 people. If you look at their epaulets, either the colonel or the lieutenant commander, or the major with the lowest rank, will soon grow into the backbone of the army.

Looking at the back of the classroom, there were not only marshals Zhukov, bujoni and voroshlov, but also several officers with star epaulets.

Seeing so many people come to watch my lecture, my heart beat faster. In order to enhance my confidence and attract the attention of the students, after coughing gently, I turned to the blackboard and wrote down today's content on it. At the same time, I said aloud, "the content of our lecture today is how to defend and attack in the city."

When the title I'm going to talk about is written on the blackboard, my mood suddenly calms down a lot. Facing the students off stage, instead of looking at them, I turned my eyes to the wall behind me and began to give a lecture: "comrades, with the development of the battlefield situation in favor of our army, we have already changed from the original defenders to the attackers.

In the next battle, we will fight with the enemy not only in sparsely populated open areas and no man's land, but also in the most economically developed and densely populated cities, such as Berlin.

Before introducing urban offensive and defensive warfare, let's first discuss the issue of urban defense... "

"Comrade General," before I finished, a general stood up beside bujoni. He raised his hand high above his head and asked, "since we are already attackers on the battlefield, is it necessary for the students to learn the defensive tactics of the city?"

Although I don't know each other, according to my judgment, the other party should be a college teacher or something, so I politely answered him and said, "this general, a boxer has such a saying: if you want to learn to hit people, you must first learn to be hit! The same is true on the battlefield. We can't just think about how to beat the enemy. We should also consider that when the enemy is stronger than us, we have to turn to defense temporarily.

For example, our army appeared many times during the attack, and the troops had already rushed into the city. However, under the frantic counterattack of the German army, because of the unfavorable defense, in the end, the troops suffered heavy casualties and were forced to retreat from the city. If our commanders and fighters can master more defensive skills, I think they will be much less likely to be driven out of the city by the enemy. "

With these words, I deliberately stopped and watched the teacher sit down again before continuing to say: "urban warfare, also known as street warfare. The biggest difference between street battle and field battle is that the battlefield is divided by countless buildings arranged according to certain rules, and any tactical unit is in a relatively closed and narrow scene, which limits the observation of both sides and the use of firepower.

Let's think about it. In the street battle, the intricate streets, the enemies who don't know where they will come from, the bullets that suddenly fly out of the ruins or buildings, and so on, all of these make the township head full of uncertainties. In this kind of environment, who can flexibly use the tactics of the street battle, who can take the initiative in the battlefield... "

When I said that, I stopped again and calmly observed the expressions of all the people in the classroom. The students were all busy writing, while Zhukov in the back row was frowning and thinking. Bujonny and voroshlov gathered together and whispered, while several other teachers, like the students, were recording what I said in the book.

Seeing that everyone was listening attentively, my mood also became cheerful. I went on to say: "let's talk about the battle of Stalingrad first. This is a battle I once personally participated in

In Stalingrad, the main tactics of the German army were joint operations of various arms. They attached great importance to the coordination of ground bombing by infantry, engineering, artillery and air force. In order to counter this tactic, our commanders adopted the strategy of close pressing, trying to keep their front line close to the German army, so that the defense lines of both sides became crisscrossed, which led to the German artillery unable to play the advantages of long-range attack.

The enemy and US fought fiercely for every street, building, room and sewer. By the beginning of 1943, because there were no complete buildings in Stalingrad, our commanders and fighters could only use the ruins of the bombed buildings to cover themselves in the street battle with the German army. "

"General oshanina," as I pause, a teacher in the back asks, "I heard that you invented an effective fortification in the war of Stalingrad. Can you tell us something about it?"

This teacher's words made me feel necessary to introduce this fortification designed by engineer captain Mikhail yev to the commanders here. "Comrades commanders, the new fortification just mentioned by this teacher was designed by one of my engineer company commanders. The place where he chose to build the fortification is a three story building.

In the basement of the building, a 45mm anti tank gun was set up facing the street to bombard German tanks or armored vehicles entering the range; On the first floor of the window, the deployment of machine gun sandbag shelter, sand on the floor, can prevent the enemy's shrapnel damage; The second floor is guarded by ordinary soldiers, who can not only shoot at the enemy from the window, but also throw grenades below; The third floor is the location of the commander and sniper, which can not only observe the enemy's movement, but also snipe the enemy's commander. As for the attic, it was also used. Our artillery set up 82mm mortars here to bombard the enemy's dense infantry formation through the blasted roof.

This defensive fortress is not isolated. The entry and exit of the commanders and fighters are completed through a covered trench. In order to facilitate the soldiers to move at any time, the walls of the building also have holes for people to enter and leave. What's more, the unused windows and entrances should be blocked with sandbags to prevent the Germans from rushing in from these places. "

After I introduced this new type of fortification, one of the trainees raised his hand and indicated to me that he had a question to ask. I nodded at him and asked politely, "Comrade commander, do you have any questions?"

"Comrade General," said the lieutenant commander, standing upright in his seat, "I want to ask why there is no large-scale promotion of this defensive fortress in Stalingrad. Is there any defect?"

"Comrade commander, please have a seat!" I raised my hand, pressed it down, motioned the commander to sit down, and then introduced it to you: "every fortification has its own advantages and disadvantages, and this new type of fortification is no exception.

First of all, to build such a fortress, we must choose a building with more than three floors. At that time, after months of fighting, the buildings in the city were basically destroyed by the German artillery or air force. In other words, we could hardly find a suitable place to build this new type of defensive fortress to fight against the enemy's attack.

Secondly, you have just heard me say that in the fortress, anti tank artillery, machine gunners, snipers, mortars and many other arms are needed. You should know that in the later stage of the campaign, our troops were severely reduced. In many defensive areas, not to mention artillery and snipers, even the number of ordinary infantry was very limited... "

"Comrade oshanina," said bujoni, who asked curiously, "if the city can't build such a new defensive fortress, how can we defend it?"

"Comrade marshal, I think in addition to establishing defensive operations in major areas, combat teams should also be deployed on the road the enemy must pass." After I finished this sentence, I saw that bujonny's face was confused. Knowing that he had been away from the battlefield for a long time and was a little out of touch with the times, I introduced to him the combat team I mentioned in detail: "the combat team I mentioned is generally composed of three to five people, including snipers, machine gunners and anti tank men.

This configuration can be mobile and flexible in combat. For far targets, machine gun can be used to strafe; For the enemy's tanks or armored vehicles, they can be destroyed by rocket launchers; As for snipers, they are specialized in sniping valuable targets. During the Warsaw campaign, general askarepov's combat team caused heavy casualties to the German Waffen SS. "

What I said caused a new question from the trainees: "Comrade General, what do you mean by the valuable targets for snipers?"

"Comrade cadet, there are many valuable targets to snipe, such as enemy officers, machine gunners, mortars and so on." I looked at the student who asked the question and said slowly, "there is also the enemy's signalman. As long as he is found, he will be killed by all means."

I'm afraid that you don't understand me, so I specially explained: "you should know that in most street battles, it's extremely difficult to obtain intelligence, because the two sides often have their own sides and their own sides. They are changeable, crisscrossing, and the timeliness of intelligence is demanding.

Coupled with the limitations of communication technology, the installation rate of communication equipment is not high, and a small number of telephone lines may be cut off at any time. Therefore, no matter the enemy or our army, when the company platoon commander reports the combat situation to the battalion command post, most of them can only rely on the signalmen for information transmission. Once these signalmen become the prey of snipers, the battlefield intelligence will be delayed or even interrupted. "

After seeing you all, I suddenly realized, and I went on to talk about the most crucial part of street fighting: "the logistics in street fighting is also the key to the struggle between the two sides. Street fighting was originally a battle after the enemy broke the city. In this most difficult time, logistics supplies are like lifelines, maintaining the combat effectiveness and morale of the front-line troops.

Let's imagine that if in the street battle of Stalingrad, our army didn't fight to keep the Volga River Ferry, keep the water transportation line with the east bank, and constantly supply the living forces and ammunition to the city, could we win the final victory? "

Without waiting for everyone to answer, the bell rang after class. I simply packed up the things on the table and announced aloud: "I will talk about how to defend in the city war for the time being. In the next lesson, I will introduce to you how to attack in the city war. Class is over The student on duty called out: "stand up!" With his command, thirty students stood up in unison. I put the information under my armpit and walked out of the classroom quickly. As I am a temporary teacher, neither bujoni nor voroshlov has arranged a special office for me. After class, I can only go to the dean's office. I had just sat down on the bench in the dean's office when Zhukov and voroshlov came together. I looked behind them, but I didn't find bujoni. I couldn't help asking curiously, "where is marshal bujoni?" "He went to prepare the classroom for you," Voroshilov said After hearing this, I asked, "isn't the next class going on in the classroom just now?"“ That's natural, "said voroshlov with a shrug." as you can see, that classroom can only hold 30 or 40 people at most. If it's 200 people, you can't sit down. "“ Two hundred, what two hundred? " Voloshlov's words puzzled me: "not only 30 students, but also 200 students?"“ Rita, the city defense you just talked about is really wonderful. " Voloshlov explained to me: "I discussed with marshal bujoni and thought that more students should be allowed to attend the class, so I changed to the ladder classroom next class, which can accommodate 200 people." Before I could raise my objection, Zhukov said, "yes, Rita, you just gave a wonderful speech in class. I really didn't expect that you could sum up the characteristics of urban warfare so well, which is an eye opener for me. Next class, I'm waiting for you to summarize how to attack in the city. I hope you don't let me down Zhukov and voroshlov are all optimistic about me, which makes me feel pessimistic about my future destiny. If I am really left here to be a teacher, my dream of Marshal will be completely disillusioned.