Chapter 633 Black Bread

Many readers thought that the chapters about the airborne troops were cheating or cheating... But in fact, this battle was written based on real battles, and there was no cheating at all. Not only that, I also tried every means to make the Soviet Union's battle look more normal. In other words, the actual Soviet airborne troops performed even worse. This airborne operation was the Battle of the Dnieper River, and some readers have already seen it... The Soviet airborne troops' numbers and radio failures in the article are all real. The airborne time was slightly changed. I didn't dare to write about other mistakes made by the Soviet airborne troops in this battle, otherwise it would be regarded as "cheating".

As the Soviet army withdrew from the Caucasus, other parts of the 11th Army, such as the infantry divisions and Roman Asian troops that had not crossed the strait in the Kerch Peninsula, entered the Transcaucasus.

At this time, the Romanian troops played an unexpected role... Romania is an oil-producing country, and there are many soldiers in their army who have knowledge of the oil industry, and some of them were oil workers before they joined the army.

So needless to say, let the Romanian troops take over the management of the Baku oil fields, and even Hitler mediated with Romanian General Antonescu, and urgently mobilized some technicians from Romania to fly from the other side of the Black Sea to Baku to start the work of resuming production at the refinery.

(Note: At this time, General Antonescu was the one who held real power in Romania, and King Mihaly I did not have much real power)

The other thing is the defense of the Transcaucasus region.

There are no big problems in this regard, because there is a natural barrier of the Caucasus Mountains, and there are even supplies and fortifications left by Soviet soldiers on the Caucasus Mountains. Only the 1st Mountain Division needs to be stationed to defend a defense line of more than 1,000 kilometers.

The biggest problem among them is the problem of supply transportation... For high mountains and ridges, supply has always been the most troublesome problem, because there is no road and it is almost dependent on manpower, so there will be a situation where half of a bag of food will be eaten when it is transported up.

Manstein handed this problem to the two newly transferred Romanian mountain divisions, namely the 1st and 4th Romanian mountain divisions.

The gaps on both sides of the Caucasus Mountains were garrisoned by German infantry divisions, and the 22nd Armored Division was also deployed here on the side close to the Caspian Sea, which was Baku, which was more threatening.

Then there were arsenals that needed to resume production, food processing plants, and public security, etc.

Many of these problems were handled by Manstein and his staff... Although Manstein was also very troubled by these, who made him a marshal?

From this perspective, it is still necessary to arrange sheriffs to follow the occupation of the troops like the United States, and the sheriffs will start to restore the economy and transportation of the occupied areas as the troops advance.

The security forces in the German army are somewhat similar to this, but Qin Chuan has seen what these security forces do in Holm. It may be okay to let them maintain public security, because the people will be obedient to them, but when it comes to restoring the economy, transportation, order, etc., it can't be compared with the American model of sending professionals as sheriffs.

Qin Chuan didn't need to worry about these. What Qin Chuan and the First Infantry Regiment had to do was to take a good bath in the Caspian Sea, and then drink the "vodka" and food seized from the Soviets on the beach.

"Wow!" Werner shook his head after taking a sip of wine: "God, I still don't understand why these Bolsheviks like this kind of wine. They cruelly deprived me of the pleasure of enjoying the spoils of war!"

The Germans were still used to drinking wine and the like.

"If you eat some of this black bread..." Alfredo tore off a small piece of the black bread in his hand and put it in his mouth painfully, chewing it carefully and saying with a disgusted expression: "Then you will feel it is much better!"

Werner seemed to be unconvinced, took a bite of the black bread, and then spit it out on the spot.

"What is it made of?" Werner said, "I can't believe that the Soviets eat this!"

"I asked the same question!" The baker replied, "Buckwheat husk, wheat kernels, wheat bran, rice bran, and grass seeds and fine mineral powder..."

"Grass seeds and fine mineral powder?" Werner looked at the baker in disbelief: "Forget about grass seeds, why do you have to mix fine stone mineral powder? Do these Soviets have machines that can digest ore?"

"They said that this way they can eat faster, which means they won't get hungry so quickly!" The baker replied.

"God!" Werner complained.

Qin Chuan also tasted this kind of black bread. It does have a strange taste and is so hard that it is difficult to eat.

But...

"Just be content!" Qin Chuan said, "You know, a loaf of black bread like this is their daily ration for a class. Werner, the piece you just spit out is almost a meal!"

Werner's face was stunned.

"War is like this!" Eberhard said, "We just haven't been on this battlefield long enough. Think about the people who froze to death or starved to death during the attack on Moscow. If you were in that situation, would you still find this bread unpalatable?"

The soldiers fell silent after hearing this, and then each of them took a little bit of black bread and chewed it.

Most of these German soldiers had never experienced hard times. To be more precise, they had never experienced hard times like the Soviet soldiers on the Eastern Front, so some of them couldn't imagine what kind of conditions they were fighting under.

Suddenly, Qin Chuan felt a little sorry for those Soviet soldiers.

"Hey!" Just then, an excited shout came from behind.

Qin Chuan turned around and saw Conrad first. A familiar woman next to him was waving in Qin Chuan's direction.

The next second, Qin Chuan recognized her. It was Hannah!

When Qin Chuan realized this, he jumped up from the ground like a spring, and regardless of everyone's eyes, he picked up Hannah and turned around a few times.

"Major!" Conrad said, "I reminded you that I think you should be gentler!"

"Why?" Qin Chuan asked.

Conrad tilted his neck, and then Qin Chuan saw that Hannah had a wound on her face.

"What's wrong with you?" Qin Chuan asked.

"No, nothing!" Hannah smiled and said, "You know, this is my job!"

"Oh!" Qin Chuan quickly understood: "Was it injured during the test flight?"

"Yes!" Hannah nodded: "But it doesn't matter, it's almost recovered!"

"Which aircraft is it?" Qin Chuan asked.

The reason why Qin Chuan asked this was because the aircraft that could injure Hannah must not be an ordinary aircraft.

"Is it still V1?" Qin Chuan turned his eyes to Conrad.

"No!" Conrad shook his head.

"I can't tell you!" Hannah said: "Don't worry about me, everything is fine!"

"No, I know that's not the case!" Qin Chuan said: "Because any test flight accident can survive by luck!"

There is no doubt about this.

"I can tell you!" Conrad said: "Although the major is far from meeting the confidentiality requirements, the major is not an outsider, right?"

After a pause, Conrad said: "But even if I tell you... you don't know what it is."

Then Conrad lowered his voice and said: "Hannah is testing the Me163!"