Imperial Overlord

I don't know what other people think, but the Soviet battalion commander breathed a sigh of relief in his heart when he heard this changed combat order. . fastest update

He didn't have to lead his own soldiers, he only carried an insufficient base of ammunition, and the frontal assault on the heavily fortified German positions was simply the best news.

Yesterday he was ordered to start leading the troops out of the barracks and into the border area, when he was about to launch an attack on the German army, he could see that the entire Soviet army was not ready for war.

Most Soviet soldiers and their units did not receive adequate numbers of tents and other living supplies.

And many troops heard that they had reached the offensive area without even getting the ammunition. These troops only have ammunition they carry with them, which is simply not enough to support an attack.

Even his small battalion commander had an illusion that once the attack started, the entire Eastern Front might collapse.

But in the face of all this, he could do nothing at all. Under the shadow of the great purge, his little battalion commander could only obey orders and die in a trivial corner for the motherland.

Now, someone told him that the offensive plan was canceled, which is a great thing that deserves his cheers and celebrations...

Even so, he doesn't have the courage to laugh out loud now, he can only suppress his excited expression and ask: "Comrade... Is the attack on the entire front canceled, or is our attack plan canceled in this section? "

"I heard that all the offensive plans have been postponed... The word postponed is used above, but the order issued to all combat troops is that the offensive has been cancelled." The signal soldier said everything he knew. .

In fact, he saw more things than the battalion commander in front of him. When he rode his horse all the way, he saw many troops who were not ready for war and were traveling on rough roads.

Although the artillery unit is ready, many units are looking for suitable ammunition replacement due to the confusion of the reserve ammunition.

Compared with the rigorous bone puppets, the Soviet Union has a certain gap in this regard. The temporarily organized offensive clusters have all made troubles in logistical support and material distribution, to the point of collapse.

It is precisely because of this that the commanders of the various units did not dare to attack, and they all prayed in their hearts that the people above would change their minds.

God knows if their prayers worked, but they don't have to go on the offensive now, which is a good thing.

"I have to go to the regimental headquarters to confirm... This matter is of great importance, and nothing can go wrong." The political commissar on the side thought for a while, and suddenly said.

"Okay! I'll restrain the troops here to avoid any trouble. Comrade Political Commissar, go to the regimental headquarters to confirm the order. I will arrange for the guards of the battalion headquarters to **** you there! Be careful on the road." The battalion commander said with a smile on his face.

Anyway, he was already prepared. As long as his political commissar did not come back from the regimental headquarters with a new order, he would refuse to carry out any orders. This is not a violation of discipline, is it?

On the other side of the border, the German soldiers who had already been deployed in the trenches looked at the Soviet soldiers who had not crossed the border from a distance. After a while of noise, they didn't even mean to cross the border to call, and they couldn't figure it out. situation.

"I said... What were they yelling about just now? Why didn't they call me immediately after the clamor?" Behind the bunker, a recruit was holding a Mauser 98k rifle and nervously asked the veterans beside him.

The veteran around him didn't know how to answer this question, so he snorted coldly: "Who knows what they think... Don't load the bullets, they haven't crossed the line yet!"

When the offensive began, 80% of the Soviets would bombard with artillery first, a lesson that German observers brought back from Finland.

And it is very dangerous to load one's own rifle before the shelling begins. So the German soldiers were not loading their bullets, but just waiting, waiting for any kind of probing attack by the enemy.

"They won't think about it for a while, and don't think they don't want to fight again, do they?" The recruit leaned on the bunker, showing half of his head, looking at the crowd of Soviet troops who were still on standby in the distance, and asked again curiously.

"Don't fight? That's better..." The veteran kept his shooting posture motionless, and casually replied such a sentence. Who would have thought that the new recruit's nonsense would actually reveal the truth of the matter...

In the temporary command headquarters on the German border, Marshal Kluge and his command team were busy. Li Le knew that Kluge was not suitable for commanding armored units, so he was arranged with the old infantry army.

But it is precisely for this reason that Kluge's army was brought to the forefront by the army commander-in-chief Brauchitch in this crisis.

"Again confirmation! What does it mean that the enemy is standing by, can they give us a reliable report... I want to know: the front line, what happened!" Kluge looked at the map and snarled angrily.

Letting him command the front-line defense mission is already disgusting enough. Now that the Soviet Union is about to launch the first shot of the offensive, suddenly there is no movement, which makes Kluger more guilty.

He suspected that the Soviet troops were making small moves and plotting some big conspiracy. Driven by this thought, his restless heart almost jumped out of his chest.

"Damn it! Call the headquarters and let the commander... know what's going on in front of us!" He was silent for two seconds, and then told the communications officer behind him to report the situation in front of him first.

"Could it be a diversionary battle... The enemy's main attack direction is Romania?" Kluge, who was in the defensive position near the central area, suddenly thought of this question, and became even more nervous.

Diverging from this idea, the opponent took the approach of oppressing but not attacking him in front of him. It was also likely that they wanted to contain him on the ground, and then break through from the two flanks to encircle his troops.

The more he thought about it, the more nervous he felt. Kluger felt that he should quickly ask the defenders in other areas, so that he could take necessary actions to protect himself in a critical moment.

But before he could grab the phone in his hand, the phone on the other side called. The caller was a new Panzer Army under Guderian, who had been deployed on his flank.

What Guderian asked on the phone was very simple: the Soviets stopped in strange places, is there some conspiracy…

So Kluge had to tell Guderian what he had encountered: "General, in front of me, the Soviet troops also stopped in an inexplicable position, they were very close to us, but they did not immediately attack. , which is very unusual."

"Maybe the Führer guessed right this time... the Russians are putting on airs." Guderian also clearly supports the Führer, who has provided him with more tanks and armored vehicles in the past three months.

"Maybe it's just that the Russians want to encircle and eat me and your troops in one go." Kluger thought for a while and said another less likely guess.

"I think it's impossible, Your Excellency Marshal." Guderian was very confident in his troops: "In that case, the Russians are too much... Their appetite is not so good!"

Not only the command headquarters on the front line, but also several general headquarters in the rear are also impatient, waiting for the further development of the matter.

Now, all the senior German commanders, including Brauchitch, finally understood a truth. Sometimes, fighting is more reassuring than this dangerous and weird waiting.

Everyone was speculating about what the Soviet troops were doing and what they were waiting for. After waiting for a sudden attack, it will quietly retreat, as if nothing happened.

"What on earth do the Russians want to do?" This question was lingering in the minds of every German commander at this time, and could not get rid of it.

And just when everyone felt like they were going crazy, and when the Soviet army was about to collapse due to an unknown order, the order to save the two countries was finally confirmed.

"Retreat! Return to our previous station... This is the order of the great leader, Comrade Stalin, and we must unconditionally implement it!" The political commissar who returned from the regiment had a much more relaxed expression on his face.

Obviously, the war made him nervous too, and following Stalin's orders to retreat was obviously a very good option to avoid the war and still remain decent. UU reading www. uukanshu.com

"Get out of here! Let's retreat!" The Soviet battalion commander finally got out of the nightmare of the war, and quickly gave the order to retreat, so the Soviet soldiers who had been tossing back and forth for almost a whole day dragged their exhaustion and started to leave backwards .

"The Russians have left?" On the position, the German infantrymen, who were already a little sleepy behind the bunker, saw the Soviets in the distance turn back, and then left the border a little bit, reminding their companions.

Soon, the news spread, more and more German positions responded, the Soviet troops in front of them left, and the tense atmosphere disappeared in an instant.

"They really left?" Obviously some people couldn't believe their eyes and asked in a daze.

It didn't take long for someone to be sure of what they saw and a voice from the field cheered: "God! The prayers came true! The Russians really left! They really left!"

Leaning in his bunker, the battalion commander of the German front line let out a sigh of relief, as if he had collapsed: "The Russians have retreated? That's great, we're not ready yet..."