Chapter 781

The cold wind, blowing from the wilderness, makes people involuntarily wrap up their clothes. The cold wind on the Ukrainian plain is enough to make people in thick cotton padded clothes feel cold. For people who are short of food and clothing, it is a complete disaster.

About 400000 people were finally surrounded by the encirclement around Donetsk. These Soviet troops trudged through the cold ice and snow in an attempt to escape from the huge encirclement. But in the end, they failed. They were compressed in a narrow space and could not even break through.

Although the Soviet Red Army still had a small advantage in number, and even had an absolute advantage over the German army in every direction of encirclement. But they were short of ammunition and food, and even lost their supplies on the way to escape. Now they are fragile and lack of fighting spirit, and they can't cope with the German siege.

Hundreds of big guns were thrown on the escape Road, and mortars were thrown in the field like a scrap steel pipe. Anyone can find the shells of these mortars not far away, as well as the split gun frame and aiming device. If you look carefully, you can occasionally find the shell box, empty oil barrel... In short, in the eyes of the German army, this is absolutely a disorganized defeat.

What makes these frightened birds despair is that at the end of their life, they heard the news of the total annihilation of the crimson Peninsula, where 190000 soldiers laid down their arms and surrendered. In addition to the soldiers who were defeated and captured before, almost 300000 people are being driven to the concentration camps in Poland and Ukraine.

Fortunately, these Soviet soldiers didn't have many cars or heavy equipment like tanks, so their demand for fuel and spare parts was not huge. Because of this, there is no sign of a large-scale collapse of these Soviet troops. If Zhukov was the main Soviet force under siege, it would have been defeated because it was unable to fight.

However, there are advantages as well as disadvantages. Such an army has no ability to break through the encirclement because it lacks heavy weapons and supplies of ammunition. Facing the dense firepower network of the German army, it's no different to use soldiers to carry out assault and go to death. After several attempts, no one is willing to use his body to compete with the German tanks. After all, there are not many 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 really helped the Soviet Red Army. But now the Soviet army in Donetsk's encirclement is looking forward to the winter, because they don't have much material reserves for the winter.

The conditions of the Soviet garrison close to Donetsk are a little better. After all, they can share the welfare offered to them by some cities. But the life of the troops stationed on the periphery of the whole encirclement was not so easy. They lacked tents for the winter, 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 reach the bottom. When they were surrounded, they fled back to lighten their burden and abandoned some food. In the impression of all the Soviet front-line infantry, Donetsk should have a lot of food reserves. Unfortunately, when they arrived here, they found that the food was already in the Caucasus. This is Zhukov's rush order. In order to ensure that the materials do not fall into the hands of the German army, he coldly ignored the Soviet army in the encirclement.

In Zhukov's plan, the Soviet soldiers in the encirclement should "take the initiative to break through the encirclement because of food shortage, fight a bloody battle with the front German armored forces, break through the encirclement and reach the Caucasus, and participate in the next encirclement of the Caucasus." However, any senior general who participated in the formulation of the order took the initiative to understand the order as "I have taken the food, and I will find my own way if I don't want to starve to death! The only thing you have left is for me to cling to goodrian

"Damned bastard! He wants to starve us to death in Donetsk A Soviet company commander squatted in a trench and cursed the Soviet commander-in-chief on the front line in Minsk. His hands were tangled in the cold, stuck in his sleeves, and shivered as he held his mochinagan.

The wise and courageous commander-in-chief of the front line was like an idiot in his mouth. This is the idea of the grassroots soldiers, who give them food so that they do not have to die, who is really a great general. As for the others, they are all floating clouds in the sky, or bullshit around them.

He was accompanied by other Soviet soldiers, who, though wearing old military coats, were still shivering in the cold wind. They were all huddled in simple trenches, waiting for the German on the opposite side of their position to take their little lives. There are only a dozen bullets left for everyone in this position, but the supplementary ammunition from the superior has not been released yet. Some well-informed people are telling stories everywhere, and even the division headquarters has little ammunition in stock.

If you can't get enough food, you can't get enough clothes. This is the real picture of the Soviet army besieged near Donetsk. Around them were German soldiers in winter white camouflage suits, thick sweaters, cotton padded suits and even thick snow boots. What is more despairing is that the German army had enough ammunition to deal with the Soviet army who tried to break through.

On their way back, they were the most elite G group army of the German army. What kind of combat effectiveness was this army? Looking at their previous achievements, we would not be able to fight a single battle; To the north of them is the guard of modle, a defensive master, who can break through modle's line of defense and go back to work as a deputy commander in chief; To the south of them is a dead end in the Black Sea; Although there are not many German troops on the front, what's the difference between fighting back and bumping into the M group army under Manstein's command and being killed?

The Soviet troops on the crimson Peninsula, at least supported by Sevastopol fortress group and Kerch fortress group, could at least struggle and show their heroic spirit. Unfortunately, there were only simple trench fortifications around Donetsk, and the defenders had no real support. It's not that there are no fanatical patriots who want to fight in the streets, but there are not enough ammunition and food, which will affect the civilians in Donetsk. It's really unnecessary to fight a battle that won't last long. So after this difficult choice, the Soviet garrison took a passive posture, waiting for the German army to attack“ If you eat hot cans in cold weather, you not only dare to make a fire, but also have candy and snacks to eat. " A Soviet soldier on sentry duty, looking at the German army eating lunch, said to his comrades: "I smell meat, really. If only we could have some of their cans. "“ Don't lie. I'm really hungry. If you look at other soldiers, we are also soldiers. Why is the gap so big? " Next to the sentry, a Soviet soldier with a gun complained. They were eating just now. As a result, the German army fired several 60mm mortar shells, and their lunch was completely ruined. One shell hit the iron pot and blew up half a pot of water and two cookers. The Soviet army here no longer cares about the so-called supervision, and their helpless situation has made them have no hope. Those political workers who fled all the way here are more desperate than ordinary soldiers, because they have heard that the treatment of political workers in German concentration camps is the worst, which is a bit of "occupational discrimination"“ well! Look over there! Look over there! Maybe we're about to eat German tin cans. " The sentinel Soviet soldier pointed to the distance and yelled in a subdued voice, "look! I've seen them. They are senior officers of our army! " Several Soviet troops who heard him shout stood up from the trench and looked not far from the position, where more than a dozen Soviet officers were holding white flags and slowly walking towards the German occupied position. They walked cautiously, as if afraid that the friendly troops on the opposite side or behind them would shoot. Until they got close to the German trench, they put down the dazzling white flag in their hands. In the evening, these Soviet officials returned from the German positions. They returned to their positions and passed through a group of soldiers full of expectations. No one here was willing to continue fighting. Many Ukrainian troops began to surrender on a large scale. The next day, 47000 soldiers from the Donetsk side of the Red Army of the Soviet Union laid down their weapons and surrendered to the G group army under the command of goodrian on the way to retreat, handing over their flags and documents. According to the agreement between the two sides, all the documents about the military and political workers of the group were burned, and all the political workers of the army were scattered and assigned to the fighting forces as ordinary prisoners. According to the surrender agreement, soldiers of Ukrainian origin can directly lay down their arms and leave the army to return home. Those who do not want to leave can accept the reorganization of Vlasov. As for Russian soldiers, they were sent to polish concentration camps as laborers. In a huge encirclement, the two German army groups swallowed 400000 soldiers around the whole Soviet Donetsk. The G group army and M group army were completely liberated, forming a high pressure situation on the whole Caucasus. With a single order, these two forces could break into the Soviet Union, threaten the oil production base in the Caucasus, and invade Stalingrad.