My Third Empire

The cold wind blowing from the wilderness made people involuntarily wrap their clothes tightly around their bodies. The cold wind on the Ukrainian plains is enough to make people in thick cotton clothes feel cold, and it is a complete disaster for people who lack clothing and food.

About 400,000 people were eventually surrounded in the encirclement near Donetsk. These Soviet troops trekked hard in the cold, ice and snow in an attempt to escape from this huge encirclement. But in the end they still failed. They were compressed in a small space and couldn't even break through.

Although the Soviet Red Army still has a small advantage in numbers, it even has an absolute advantage over the German troops in every direction of encirclement. But they lacked ammunition and food, and even lost their luggage on the way to escape. Now they are weak and lack fighting spirit, and they have no way to deal with the pursuit and interception of the German army.

Hundreds of cannons were left on the way of escape, and mortars were left in the fields like a piece of scrap steel pipe, and anyone could find the shells of these mortars not far away, and dismantled Gun mounts and targeting devices. If you search carefully, you can occasionally find boxes of shells, empty oil drums... In short, in the eyes of the German army, this is definitely an unorganized defeat.

What made these frightened birds desperate was that at the end of the road, they heard the news that the entire army of the Crimean Peninsula was annihilated. The 190,000 soldiers there put down their weapons and surrendered. Deported to concentration camps in Poland and Ukraine.

Fortunately, these Soviet soldiers did not have many cars, and almost no heavy equipment such as tanks, so their demand for fuel and spare parts was not very large. Because of this, these Soviet troops have not yet shown signs of large-scale collapse. If it was the main force of the Soviet army in Zhukov's hands that was besieged, it would have been defeated because of its inability to fight.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages. Such an army has no ability to break through because it lacks heavy weapons and no sources of ammunition. Facing the dense firepower network of the German army, simply using soldiers to carry out assaults is no different from going to die. After trying a few times, no one is willing to use their bodies to compete with German tanks. After all, there are not many outright lunatics like the Japanese.

At the beginning, the Soviet commanders and fighters were looking forward to the arrival of winter, and when winter came, the weather did help the Soviet Red Army a lot. But now the Soviet army in the Donetsk encirclement is looking forward to the passing of winter, because they don't have a lot of supplies for the winter.

The conditions of the Soviet defenders near Donetsk are slightly better, after all, they can still share some of the benefits provided by the city. However, the days of the troops stationed on the periphery of the entire encirclement were not so easy. They lacked winter tents, and people were frozen to death in the cold trenches every day.

What made the defenders most desperate was that their food reserves were about to bottom out.

When they were surrounded, they also fled backwards to reduce their load and discarded some food. In the impression of all Soviet front-line infantry, Donetsk should still have a lot of food reserves. It's a pity that when they arrived here, they discovered that the food was already in the Caucasus. This was Zhukov's rush order. In order to ensure that the supplies did not fall into the hands of the German army, he ruthlessly ignored the Soviet army in the encirclement.

In Zhukov's plan, the Soviet soldiers in the encirclement should take the initiative to break out of the encirclement due to lack of food, fight desperately with the frontal German armored forces, break through and reach the Caucasus, and participate in the encirclement of the Caucasus. However, anyone involved in the formulation of this order All the senior generals took the initiative to interpret this order as I took the food, and if you don't want to starve to death, find a way out by yourself! The only role you have left is to entangle Guderian desperately!

Damn bastard! He wants to starve us to death in Donetsk! A Soviet company commander squatted in the trench and cursed loudly at the Soviet commander-in-chief far away on the front line in Minsk. His hands were tangled up in his sleeves from the cold, shivering as he held his Mosin Nagant.

The wise and courageous commander-in-chief of the front line is almost an idiot in his mouth. This is what the grassroots soldiers think. Whoever gives them food so that they don't have to die is a really great general. As for the others, they are all floating clouds in the sky, or the bullshit around them.

Beside him, there were other Soviet soldiers, although they were wearing old military overcoats, they were still shaking from the cold wind. They all huddled in the simple trenches, waiting for the Germans on the opposite side of their positions to take away their small and pitiful lives. Everyone in this position has only a dozen rounds of ammunition left, and the supplementary ammunition from the superior has not been distributed for a long time. Some well-informed people are spreading rumors everywhere that even the division headquarters does not have much ammunition in stock.

Ammunition is exhausted, food is exhausted, clothing is lacking, and food is scarce. This is the true portrayal of the Soviet army besieged near Donetsk. Around them were German soldiers wearing winter white camouflage uniforms. These German soldiers wore thick sweaters and cotton jackets, and even their boots were thickened snow boots. What makes people even more desperate is that these German troops have sufficient ammunition, which is more than enough to deal with the Soviet troops who are trying to break out.

On the way they retreated was the most elite group g army of the German army. What kind of combat power is this army? Looking at the previous record all the way, it makes people lose any desire to fight; to the north of them is Model The defense master's rearguard troops can penetrate Model's defense line, and at least they can be a deputy commander in chief when they go back; their south is a dead end in the Black Sea; and although there are not many German troops on their front, they hit back and hit What's the difference between the m group army under Manstein's command and the death?

The Soviet troops on the Crimean Peninsula, at least relying on the Sevastopol Fortress Group and the Kerch Fortress, can at least struggle and show a heroic spirit that would rather die than surrender. It is a pity that the Donetsk There are only simple trench defenses around, and the defenders don't even have a real support.

It's not that there are fanatical patriots who want to fight in the streets, but because there is not enough ammunition and food, it is really unnecessary to involve the civilians in Donetsk and fight a battle that will not last long. So after this difficult choice, the Soviet defenders adopted a passive posture of waiting for death, waiting for the German army on the opposite side to attack first.

Look at people, eating hot canned food in cold weather, not only dare to light a fire, but also have candy and snacks to eat. A Soviet soldier watching the German army eating lunch, said to his comrades: I It smells like meat, really. It would be great if we could share some of their canned food.

Don't talk nonsense, I'm really hungry. Look at these soldiers, we are also soldiers, why is the gap so big? Beside the sentinel, a Soviet soldier holding a gun complained road. They were also eating just now, but the German army fired a few 60mm mortar shells over, and their lunch was completely ruined-one shell hit the iron pot, blowing half of the pot of water and two cooking soldiers .

The Soviet army here no longer cares about the so-called supervision. Their helpless situation has left them without any hope. The treatment in the concentration camp was the worst, with a bit of occupational discrimination.

Hey! Look over there! Look over there! Maybe we're about to eat the tin cans of the Germans. The Soviet soldier on guard pointed to the distance and shouted in a subdued voice: Look! I have seen it, it is a senior officer of our army!

The few Soviet soldiers who heard him shouted stood up from the trenches and looked towards a place not far from the position. There, a dozen Soviet officers were slowly walking towards the position occupied by the Germans with white flags in their hands. They walked cautiously, as if they were afraid of being shot by the friendly troops on the opposite side or behind them. They didn't put down the glaring white flag in their hands until they approached the German trenches.

In the evening, these Soviet officials returned from the German positions. They returned to their own positions and passed through a group of soldiers full of expectations. No one here is willing to continue fighting. Many Ukrainians are more Many armies have begun to experience mass surrenders out of control.

On the second day, the 407,000 soldiers of the Soviet Red Army in Donetsk put down their weapons. They surrendered to the G Group Army commanded by Guderian on the retreat road, and handed over their military flags and the documents they carried. .

According to the agreement between the two parties, all documents about the political workers of this group army were burned, and all the political workers of this unit were dispersed and assigned to combat units, and treated as ordinary prisoners.

The surrender agreement stipulates that soldiers of Ukrainian origin can directly put down their weapons and leave the army to return to their hometowns. Those who are unwilling to leave can accept Vlasov's reorganization. As for the Soviet soldiers of Russian nationality, they were sent to Polish concentration camps in batches as laborers.

In a huge encirclement, part of the two armies of the German army devoured 400,000 soldiers around the entire Soviet Donetsk. The G Group Army and the M Group Army were completely liberated, forming a high-pressure situation on the entire Caucasus. As long as the order is given, these two forces can break into the Soviet Union, threaten the oil production base in the Caucasus, and press on to Stalingrad.