Chapter 749 Coordinated Operations

The 51st Army has only one tank division with more than a hundred tanks... This is the result of reorganization after Surovikino suffered heavy casualties, and some of the tanks are wounded.

"But placing infantry divisions in the front can't change this situation!" Trufanov asked Shulka: "You mean, let the infantry conduct fire reconnaissance in the front?"

Fire reconnaissance is a common tactic used by the Soviet army. Simply put, infantry charge forward to attract the enemy to fire, and then find out the enemy's firepower deployment.

"You can say that!" Shulka replied, "but I'm not just talking about fire reconnaissance!"

Speaking of Shulka, he pointed to the map and said: "What I mean is that the infantry is lurking ahead instead of charging. At the same time, we distribute artillery observers and tanks to follow the infantry among the infantry. The signal troops follow up and the infantry advance. Wherever you go, the communication soldiers will set up the phone..."

Trufanov understood what Shulka meant: "Then let the tanks and artillery advance as fire support for the infantry?"

"Yes!" Shulka nodded.

"It's difficult!" said Trufanov. "They haven't been trained like this, they haven't fought like this!"

"I know!" Shulka replied: "But they need to do it now! So, I think the best thing to put forward is the naval infantry battalion... We happen to have enough naval infantry in our army!"

What Shulka said is actually what infantry soldiers do in modern warfare.

This tactic is simple to say, but it is not easy to do it.

The reason is that it involves the coordination of rifles, tanks, artillery, and even the air force... On the one hand, the requirements for communication equipment are relatively high, and on the other hand, the quality requirements for infantry are not as high as that of an infantry in this era. can meet the requirements.

Needless to say the reason.

The infantry must be able to command the artillery, and when necessary, report the coordinates and guide the artillery to bomb the target like an artillery observer, command the tank to shoot at the target, and even indicate the location for the air force...

This almost requires the infantry to be omnipotent, able to fight and rush if necessary.

Of course, it is not required that every infantryman is omnipotent, but there must be soldiers in the army who can do this and be prepared to cooperate.

Shulka wants to do this with the existing conditions,

Or to do this barely, on the one hand is to replace the walkie-talkie with a telephone line.

This is obviously a shortcoming. The telephone line is easy to be blown up by artillery fire and there is no guarantee. At the same time, the darkness of the front line will also lead to problems such as command and guidance confusion.

But now we can only make do with it.

On the other hand, the more serious problem is the quality of the troops...

This is divided into two levels. In terms of coordination, it’s okay to talk about it. As Shulka said, some artillery observers and tank followers are assigned to the infantry. The infantry can directly tell them if they want the cover of artillery or tanks. These arms then give orders to artillery and tanks.

The problem is that the Soviet infantry has never fought like this, and their tactical thinking is all stuck in World War II or even World War I... At this time, it seems to be World War II, but from Shulka's perspective, their tactics are very backward.

As Trufanov said, they have not received relevant training. They have been taught that when fighting, they should not be afraid of sacrifices and difficulties, and then grab their rifles and charge in the direction of the enemy...even the infantry guards are not afraid. exception.

In fact, the guard infantry should be said to be a typical example in this regard, because most of them are "not afraid of sacrifice" and "not afraid of difficulties" on the battlefield, and then heroically charge towards the enemy before they get the "Guard" designation.

So, if Shulka puts these infantry in the front... They have no synergy at all, and they still wave their pistols as usual: "Comrades, for Stalin, for the Soviet... Go!"

Then rush forward like a colony of ants, then everything is over, waiting for them are machine guns and shells, even if artillery observers and tank followers are deployed among them, even if the communicator has already connected the phone to them, it will not matter No supplement.

Because they don't know how to use it.

Therefore, Shulka needs naval infantry with higher education and better quality.

"They don't have many troops!" Trufanov hesitated.

Trufanov was born purely as an infantry soldier, and Shulka obviously valued naval infantry more, which made Trufanov feel a little uncomfortable.

But the battlefield is very realistic, and there is nothing polite to say. What Shuerka wants is more educated soldiers, because they are more flexible and reasonable, and they can understand Shuerka's tactical thinking faster.

"I know!" Shulka replied: "then replenish their ranks with infantry, just as we did in the attack on Surovikino, and commanded by naval infantry!"

The focus here is commanded by the naval infantry. As long as the commander understands, it doesn't matter whether the subordinates understand, because they only need to fight according to the orders of their superiors.

Trufanov turned his gaze to Zolotarev.

Zolotarev thought for a while and asked, "Are you sure you want to fight like this?"

"Yes!" Shulka did not hesitate.

"Are you sure this will work?" Zolotarev asked again.

"No, I'm not sure!" Shulka replied, "But I think you should at least try!"

"There are too many uncertain factors!" Zolotarev said: "For example, the reorganization of the troops, mutual cooperation, etc., it may cause the troops to fall into chaos!"

"I know!" Shulka nodded.

It can also be seen from these words that Zolotarev has a certain understanding of the military.

He is right, the new tactics are indeed good, if the various arms, namely infantry, tanks, and guns can be coordinated together, the result will double the overall combat effectiveness.

But if the Soviet infantry cannot take on this role to complete these tasks at all, then there will be no coordination, and the infantry will run around like headless flies because of too many tasks.

At this time Trufanov added: "In this regard, I think they are very experienced!"

"What?" Zolotarev didn't understand what Trufanov meant.

"I mean chaos!" Trufanov explained: "From the outbreak of the war until now, they have been fighting in chaos. So, I believe they will not be as negative as we think!"

After thinking about it for a while, Zolotarev nodded and said, "Okay! I have no objection. Then... Comrade Shulka! What are we going to prepare now?"

"I need the commanders of the naval infantry!" Shulka said. "All the battalion commanders, and the company commanders!"