USSR 1941

Chapter 677: recruits

??Chapter 677 Recruit

??On this day, Shulka was discussing equipment distribution with Andrianka.

The 82nd Infantry Regiment has been organized into a motorized unit at this time. Since it is a motorized unit, it means that there are more cars, armored vehicles and even tanks than ordinary infantry... Of course, the motorized infantry regiment does not mean that all of them are equipped with motorcycles. The infantry regiment, which generally refers to troops that carry out mobile foot combat in vehicles such as cars.

?? The word "motorization" is the same as "mechanization" in the Soviet Union and even Europe and the United States, but it has been refined in the modern army of our country: mechanization is more advanced than motorization, referring to troops that use armored tracked vehicles to maneuver.

??At this time, the Soviet army certainly didn’t pay much attention to it, but each regiment could still obtain a small number of armored vehicles. For example, the 82nd Infantry Regiment allocated 20 armored vehicles for the troops’ reconnaissance and necessary fire cover during the charge.

??At this moment, Mikhailvich pushed the door open and came in, he straightened up helplessly, and said, "Comrade Shulka! The first batch of 215 recruits has arrived!"

??Shuerka was a little puzzled. The recruits arrived as soon as they arrived. Why did you tell him, the regiment leader? What's more, all matters related to the recruits are handed over to Mikhailvich, so it is enough to carry out the training according to the original plan?

?? Perhaps seeing the doubt in Shulka's eyes, Mikhailvich said with some embarrassment: "I think you should go and see it!"

?? It wasn't until Shulka walked up to the group of recruits that he knew what happened.

?? Originally, he thought that this batch of recruits sent here were novices like before. Although they had no training or only received a small amount of training, they would have no major problems on the battlefield.

??However, what appeared in front of him were some immature children, and many of them were girls...

?? Shulka looked at Mikhailvich and the recruits in disbelief, and asked, "Are you sure you're not mistaken? These are the recruits assigned to us?"

?? "Yes, Comrade Shulka!" Mikhailvich said and handed over the list: "I called the names, and they are them!"

??Shuerka took the list and glanced at it. Seeing that there were only names on it and no more information, he handed it back to Mikhailvich.

?? "How old are you?" Shulka asked a recruit in front of him.

?? "Fifteen, Comrade Shulka!" The recruit stood up and answered, looking at Shulka with eyes full of glory and longing.

?? "What about you?" Shulka asked the other.

?? "Sixteen, Comrade Shulka!" The recruit replied: "I'm honored to be your subordinate, it's unbelievable, it's really you..."

If we say that under the condition of good nutrition in modern times, the Soviets at the age of 15 or 16 are already tall and big, but during this period, especially when they were young, they experienced the Great Famine... The most recent Great Famine broke out around 1932 , that is to say, they were fifteen or sixteen years old when they grew up during the Great Famine.

??Thus, all of them were small and frail, some not even taller than the rifles on their shoulders.

??Shuerka frowned, scanned the group of recruits with his eyes, and then said to Mikhailvich: "Choose out of them those who are just over 17 years old, and send all the others back!"

?? "Yes, Comrade Shulka!"

??Shuerka's words immediately caused a commotion among the recruits. Everyone looked at me and looked at you, but they didn't know what happened.

?? "Report!" At this moment a recruit stood up and shouted: "You can't do this, Comrade Shulka! We joined the army voluntarily!"

??Shuerka didn't want to talk to them at all. To Shurka, they were a bunch of little kids.

?? Unexpectedly, when Shuerka turned around to leave, the recruit quickly caught up with Shurka and stood upright in front of him, shouting in a high-pitched voice: "Report, we want to stay in the army!"

??Shuerka glared at the recruit angrily, and was about to go around, but the new name deftly blocked Shuerka again.

?? "Do you know what the first rule of being a soldier is?" Shulka asked.

?? "Yes, Comrade Shulka!" The recruit replied: "It is to obey the orders of the superiors!"

?? "Stand at attention!" Shulka ordered: "Turn left, walk together..."

??When Shulka thought the problem had been solved, the recruits did not expect to stay where they were.

?? "You seem to have forgotten what you just said!" Shulka said.

?? "Comrade Shulka!" said the recruit: "If we become your subordinates, of course we should obey orders, but..."

?? Shulka laughed bitterly, and Mikhailvich and others also laughed helplessly.

?? "What's your name?" Shulka asked.

?? "His name is Denisokov!" Political Commissar Viktorovich turned out from the team with a few guards.

"Comrade Shulka!" Viktorovich first shook hands with Shulka, then patted the recruit on the shoulder, and said, "He is my son, Denisokov, who has been in military training since he was a child." , I believe that his military quality, physical fitness, and political thinking will not be worse than others!"

?? "No, Comrade Commissar!" Shulka said: "That's not what I meant, but they are still children..."

"We have no choice, Comrade Shulka!" Viktorovich said. "For the sake of our country not to be ravaged by the enemy, we have to go all out! And this is what we should, because if the enemy occupies our territory and enslaves our people , they don't want to be soft-hearted to their children!"

?? Shulka had to admit that what he said was correct, although he knew that Viktorovich's words smacked of political propaganda.

??If the German Wehrmacht still talks about chivalry on the battlefield, then the German special operations team responsible for law and order and clearing the guerrillas in the controlled area is indiscriminate massacre.

?? "Has our military resources been so short?" Shulka asked feebly.

?? "No, Comrade Shulka!" Viktorovich replied: "I must correct you. In the face of enemy aggression, we will never lack brave soldiers until we drive them out of our country!"

?? Although this answer is lofty, it is meaningless.

??But Shulka vaguely knew why, and it was even related to Shulka, because it was he who formulated a plan for a comprehensive counteroffensive to force the German army to disperse reinforcements.

??Although most of this "comprehensive counterattack" was a feint, the people who charged were real, and so were the casualties.

??Because of this large number of troop gaps, and the simultaneous offensives in the South, North, and Central regions, and even the Caucasus and Crimea regions, the Soviet army had to further lower the age of enlistment to fill the vacancy.

?? In other words, all of this was actually caused by Shulka.

??(end of this chapter)