USSR 1941

  Chapter 813 Leaflet

That night, transport planes flew over Stalingrad and dropped piles of leaflets from the sky... This task was easy to accomplish, on the one hand, because the number of German night fighters was small and it was difficult to fight at night, on the other hand On the one hand, there is a serious shortage of German supplies in Stalingrad.

  Although the German 6th Army has air transportation, even during the peak period of transportation, it can only barely meet one-third of the 6th Group's demand.

  In this case, the German 6th Army can be said to have no air defense capabilities at all...Air transport no longer transports anti-aircraft artillery shells, except for 88MM anti-tank shells.

   This is a helpless choice made when supplies are difficult: in the case of limited transportation capacity, of course, priority is given to transporting urgently needed supplies, such as food, rifle bullets, medicines, etc.

  So the night is complete for transport aircraft, and at the same time the German-controlled area is easy to identify. Near Stalingrad, between the Don River and the Volga River is almost all within the German Army's range.

   Shulka and Zolotarev are not concerned with these, what they want to know is the repercussions of these maps.

   This is of course Shulka's request, and the Soviet political workers will not consider any repercussions.

And it is actually very easy to get this response, because at this time the German army also had Soviet spies... Ever since Shulka enlightened Akadyevich, the Security Bureau has never stopped instigating the German prisoners. Among them are many prisoners in the Stalingrad range.

In fact, it is easier for the captives in the Stalingrad area to instigate rebellion. The reason is that on a battlefield like Stalingrad, you are everywhere, and sometimes you hide in a basement for a few days without being found. It is a good excuse for those captives who were instigated to rebel. They can say that they were surrounded somewhere and have not been able to escape.

At the same time, it is extremely easy for these captives who have been instigated to transmit information. You must know that the street battles in Stalingrad are often fought by the German army occupying the bedroom and the Soviet army in the living room. A crater or a certain rock is pressed down.

  So the next morning, the feedback information came.

In fact, it should have arrived before that, but Zolotarev didn't think it was necessary to wake Shulka because of this... Shulka slept like a pig in the basement. Life in the car can still be said to be enjoyable, but sleeping in a rickety car always feels a little uneasy.

  After he came back, he found time to take a bath by the river... There is a small river two kilometers behind the Soviet defense line. Officers often drive here to take a bath, but soldiers are not so lucky.

  After that, I went back to the basement with ease and fell asleep under the quilt, although the quilt still had a musty smell because of the humidity.

Shuerka woke up at 8 o'clock the next morning. After a good night's sleep, she immediately felt refreshed... Sometimes people forget their physical condition. Before that, Shuerka felt like wearing a mask on his head Like a magic spell, I couldn't tell what was uncomfortable, I didn't care when I was busy, until I woke up and compared it before and after, I realized that I was living in a daze before.

   At this time Zolotarev handed over another telegram and said: "You are right, the Germans are getting nervous!"

   Shulka took the telegram and looked at it. It read: "The Gestapo searched for leaflets everywhere and destroyed them!"

  Before this, Shulka said that if the leaflet does not work, then the Germans will not look at it as before.

  And if it works, it can deal a blow to the morale of the German army, and the Germans will find a way to block it.

   Obviously, the attitude of the Germans towards the leaflet belongs to the latter, which also shows that the leaflet has a role, although it is only a defensive map.

   "Now, we can issue the amnesty order!" Zolotarev asked.

  He was in a hurry because, as said before, Zolotarev considered any delay a waste of time.

   "No!" Shulka replied: "We should wait a little longer and continue releasing defense maps tonight!"

   "But... in this case, there will only be eight days left for the amnesty!" Zolotarev said.

   "What we want is the effect, Comrade Zolotarev!" Shulka said: "And the effect is not always proportional to the time, just like having more troops does not mean stronger combat effectiveness!"

  Zolotarev thought for a while, then nodded and said, "Well, you are right!"

   As he spoke, he ordered to continue distributing the defense map, and it was a timely updated defense map.

   This is a psychological tactic.

The reason is that there were too many "false" things in the previous Soviet propaganda. The defense map was in the hands of the German army and it was difficult to cause them much damage in such a short time. But if one day, two days, three days... the Soviet army will update the latest every day The defense line map and informed them to the German army, the German soldiers verified several times and found that there was no problem, so they believed in the authenticity of the line of defense map from quantitative change to qualitative change.

   Sure enough, the German army seized this point, or Paulus used this point to fight back.

   Paulus knew the leaflet at ten o'clock at night, less than two hours before the Soviet army distributed the leaflet.

Paulus was frowning and staring at the map at the headquarters. He hoped to find a feasible breakout plan, but he was disappointed again and again... All routes were blocked, and he seemed to only hope for Mann. Stein's Don Army.

  However, the offensive goal of the Don Army is too obvious, and everyone in the world knows that it is Karachi.

  If everyone knows that the Germans will attack Karachi, then of course the Russians will also focus on defending it.

Paulus knew what this was going to be like: although the imperial armies were always invincible, it was only because the Germans marched quickly and always caught them unawares that if the Russians were sure where the Germans were going to attack, the war would be very difficult. Soon to be in a quagmire.

  Moscow is like this, Stalingrad is like this, and of course Karachi, which Manstein will attack, is also like this.

  So, Paulus was not optimistic about the plan that the Don Army could take Karachi and rescue the 6th Army.

  Thinking of this, Paulus felt a little regretful.

  At the beginning, he shouldn't have believed what the head of state said. As the saying goes, "the military orders abroad will not be accepted."

   Now, it's too late.

   At this moment, the adjutant pushed the door open and said in a panic, "General, the Russians have dropped a large number of leaflets!"