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The Legend of Trikov: A witness from Stalingrad to Berlin, Stalingrad, a first-class street warfare expert of the Soviet Army, created the original Poznan Street Warfare to create brilliant Berlin Street Warfare

author:Aurora History Review NHV

Trikov was a prominent Soviet general during World War II and was eventually awarded the rank of field marshal. Marshal Trikov was also a Soviet military adviser to China in the early days of China's anti-Japanese resistance, and was urgently recalled to China after the outbreak of the Soviet-German War. Trikov always fought in the front line of the Soviet-German war, especially when he was the commander of the 62nd Army, leading his troops to desperately guard the Volga River crossing in Stalingrad, winning the opportunity for Soviet reinforcements to cross the Volga River, so that the German army never completely captured Stalingrad, which played a key role in the entire campaign.

The Legend of Trikov: A witness from Stalingrad to Berlin, Stalingrad, a first-class street warfare expert of the Soviet Army, created the original Poznan Street Warfare to create brilliant Berlin Street Warfare

It was the experience of Stalingrad that allowed Trikov to accumulate valuable experience in street warfare, and he gradually became an expert in street warfare among Soviet commanders, and fully demonstrated his command ability in many future urban offensive battles.

The pre-judgment tactic of the assembly point was created by Trikov in the Battle of Stalingrad in response to the German counterattack, advocating "artillery doctrine" The Soviet army deployed the Katyusha rocket launcher and 122 mm howitzer on the relatively safe east bank of the Volga River, and made a good anti-aircraft camouflage; the front-line reconnaissance group carried a walkie-talkie to hide in a position close to the enemy, and once the German troops were found to have a concentration, the reconnaissance group immediately prejudged the possible assembly point of the German army and provided coordinates for the artillery on the east bank. The fatal blow struck before the German forces had assembled greatly weakened the German assault force that followed.

The Legend of Trikov: A witness from Stalingrad to Berlin, Stalingrad, a first-class street warfare expert of the Soviet Army, created the original Poznan Street Warfare to create brilliant Berlin Street Warfare

In addition, Trikov demanded that all Soviet troops be reduced to pieces, and a street warfare assault group should be established to participate in the battle, rather than a whole division and a whole regiment or even a whole battalion and a whole company as a unit to carry out a surprise attack, and a small group of troops repeatedly infiltrated the German occupied areas, so that the German troops could not understand the main direction of the Soviet army's attack, and could only be mired in the quagmire of street warfare. At Trikov's request, the officers and men of the Street Warfare Assault Group also carried out fierce fire on possible German houses, and the Germans often received surprise attacks without seeing the shadows of Soviet soldiers, with heavy casualties.

Poznan is the German military fortress in Poland in the later period, as early as the Kingdom of Prussia, Poznan was occupied by the Kingdom of Prussia, built a large number of exceptionally strong castles, and was upgraded by the German army to a field fortress city in World War II, at the time of the defeat of the German army, the Poznan Fortress was placed high hopes by the German high command, and the SS leader Himmler sent the SS die-hard Nazis to Poznan as the commander of the fortress, with nearly 60,000 German soldiers guarding the Poznan Fortress. As a first-class Street Warfare specialist for the Soviet Army at this time, Trikov was sent to Poznan to direct the Soviet troops to pull out this fortress that threatened the Soviet rear supply line.

In the face of the German army's elaborate Poznan fortress, Trikov also took out his Stalingrad street fighting skills, the German fortress was pulled out one by one by Trikov's street battle assault group, at the same time, in the face of the strong fortress, Trikov did not mobilize a large number of field troops, but mixed the rear engineers and combatants into a special street battle assault group, with special armor to protect the chest, the mix of sappers and combatants so that each branch of the army can play their strengths, the sappers actively blasted the German fortress under the cover of the combatants, The casualties of the Soviets in the capture of the fortress were greatly reduced.

Berlin was a famous metropolis in the world at that time, in order to defend Berlin, the German high command near Berlin gathered heavy troops, although Zhukov and Konev's troops successfully divided the German field corps on the outskirts of Berlin, so that it could not rush to the Berlin garrison, but the German 56th Panzer Army successfully retreated from the Celo Heights to the Berlin garrison. The German defenders used the streets and buildings to inflict great casualties on the Soviets, and the Soviet tank units became more and more vulnerable to german "iron fist" bazookas on the streets of Berlin...

The Legend of Trikov: A witness from Stalingrad to Berlin, Stalingrad, a first-class street warfare expert of the Soviet Army, created the original Poznan Street Warfare to create brilliant Berlin Street Warfare

At this time, Trikov was the commander of the Soviet Guards 8th Army, responsible for breaking through the main street line of defense, Trikov regarded Berlin as the second Stalingrad, under his excellent command, Trikov successfully took the German army one house after another, one street after another, and constantly approached the Reichstag and the Reichstag, making a great contribution to the Soviet army's capture of Berlin.

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