Imperial Overlord

"I don't know why, but the Germans' artillery began to become more accurate. Our defense line has been very passive these days, which is very unusual."

But it's a good testament to one thing, that he came back from the front with the most precise, untouched version of what Konev most wanted to know about the real front.

These situations are very valuable, at least Konev knows a basic state: Now the German troops have changed their play style, although it is not obvious, it has really changed.

"The soldiers responded, and suddenly the artillery fire was covered, very accurate, and then there would be many German snipers firing from all directions." The officer went to the front line and experienced what the soldiers said was a ghostly German unit.

"They are indeed like ghosts. Generally, the artillery fires first, then the hidden snipers are very good, and then the frontal attack." When talking about these things, he looked a little frustrated.

The city defense headquarters of the Soviet Army had also received reports from their subordinates that the German army had become more treacherous.

The blind attack was gone, but it began to attack frequently, and it was always the beginning of the shelling, which was very regular.

The most terrible thing is that this kind of artillery bombardment came suddenly, and it was always chosen to start when the Soviet army was least prepared. It was stormy at the beginning, as if it had eyes.

After the shelling, the enemy would use snipers to disrupt the Soviet command, and then the frontal troops would suddenly press on and attack.

This set of play was done in one go, causing the Soviet army to lose a large number of soldiers and personnel, and also lost its own defensive positions, but it was difficult to cause huge damage to the German army.

"The question now is, how did the German tactics change!" Konev remembered something, touched his chin and said to his subordinates.

Then he signaled that the other party could leave, and he turned around and walked to the file cabinet behind him, opened the cabinet door, opened some recently recorded files inside, and checked them in detail.

Originally these were not his jobs, but unfortunately he only vaguely remembered that there was such a document that recorded a special telegram.

The telegram was sent from the Smolensk region. At that time, Smolensk was not lost, but was surrounded by German troops.

Marshal Budyonny encountered similar problems when he was commanding operations at the front, so he sent a telegram to Moscow at the time, explaining the difficulties he encountered.

At that time, Stalin was actively preparing for Moscow, and he was not in the mood to ask about the Smolensk Theater, so this matter was shelved.

Later, everyone had their own affairs to be busy with, and the report on the very strange street fighting tactics of the German elite troops was shelved.

It is conceivable that there were no anti-tank weapons at that time. Everyone was building anti-tank trenches and arranging large and deep defensive positions. How could there be time to study the changes in German street fighting.

Now that things have come to an end, the situation is naturally different. Konev would like to know what unique view Budyonny, the deceased marshal, would have on this matter.

Sure enough, after some searching, he found the telegram from Smolensk.

It was full of Budyonny's worries about the battle of Smolensk, and there was deep despair between the lines.

"The tactics are basically the same... The German artillery has suddenly become more accurate, and Marshal Budyonny suspects that the German army has observers." Konev looked at the sentence on the telegram and read it very carefully.

Marshal Budyonny used his snipers to try to knock out the opponent's artillery spotters. Although it worked, he didn't win the battle.

It had a certain effect... After seeing this narrative, Konev frowned and read the telegram again and again.

"The telegram said 'it had a certain effect', which means that there are indeed artillery observers, and they are not ordinary observers. They are very technical." Holding the telegram, Konev said to himself. calculated.

In this way, the number of observers who can accurately guide the artillery attack cannot be too many, and the German side may not be able to afford it if it is really lost.

So it caused the following problem-although Marshal Budyonny dispatched Soviet snipers to kill as many of these precious observers as possible, he still failed.

There were many reasons for the failure, but Konev was quick to guess, at least one of them was because the German forces were sure to protect the observers.

"The German army will also dispatch soldiers to protect these observers as much as possible... So Budyonny has no way to destroy these observers, which leads to failure!" I have to admire, according to a few telegrams from afar, Konev guessed Probably something happened.

The Soviet Union had to respond to the German tactical changes, otherwise it would lose a lot of troops and make the situation even more passive.

The loss is still within the range that everyone can bear, but the loss of land is an irreversible loss.

Once the Germans have captured most of the city of Moscow, the effects of losing the capital will spread and cause other unnecessary troubles.

Therefore, there are not many choices in front of Konev: he can only find a way to destroy the German tactics and better guard Moscow~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Thinking of this, he immediately summoned his secretary , have them schedule a meeting of several front-line corps-level combat commanders.

"Budyonny can't afford to lose, but I can! I have more snipers who can devote themselves to this fight!" Pressing a few telegrams on his office desk, Konev bit Tooth said.

When all the people arrived, he immediately laid out a corresponding battle plan: "Let all snipers be ready for battle! They are going to take the risk to the place where the two armies exchange fire and carry out the most dangerous combat missions!"

"Go forward to the front of the position, look for the German observers, and then kill them, forcing the Germans to change this boring tactic!" He clenched his fists and said word by word.

"You mean that the German artillery became more accurate because they sent observers?" Hearing Konev's statement, several commanders asked in surprise.

Konev handed the telegram in his hand to his subordinate, and then introduced: "This is not the first time the Germans have used this tactic. They did it when they were in Smolensk."