Eight Hundred Fifty-Nine Consumption
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"Have you arrived on the west bank of the Don River? How is the battle going? Is it intense?" Guderian's army group is currently attacking westward in an all-round way, so he needs to ask a lot of things because he is busy. (Baidu search net update is the fastest and most stable) .. Just a few hours ago, several of his attacking infantry divisions ran out of supplies, and he is solving this problem.
"The news from over there is that about 3,000 Soviet troops are crossing the river. An armored reconnaissance vehicle of our army immediately launched an attack on this Soviet army." The staff officer looked at the battle report in his hand and used Unsure tone. He wondered if an armored vehicle launched to 3,000 people was a mistake in the messenger.
Guderian led the troops on the front line. When he was in France, he was still the commander of the 1st Armored Army, and he often took an armored vehicle to the front line by himself. Once again, his assistant drove the armored vehicle into a ditch because of an artillery accident. So Guderian didn't question it after hearing the news, but just smiled kindly.
He walked over and looked at the message sent by his subordinates. There were places, people, and the number of captives in it. Obviously, this would not be a deliberate deception on April Fool's Day, so Guderian nodded and admitted this time. The effectiveness of the battle: "So, from the beginning of the offensive to the west bank of the Don, we have not encountered any decent resistance, have we?"
The staff officer was very angry when he mentioned this matter. You must know that the attack speed of the 1st Panzer Army can be said to be very fast. The German armored forces surrounded and wiped out.
In reality, the German army did not encounter any decent resistance, and the main force of the Soviets disappeared as if it had evaporated. If it was said that the Soviet troops retreated too quickly, the staff officers of the G Army would never believe it. There is only one hypothesis that can explain this phenomenon-the Soviets withdrew their main force in advance.
During the short time when the German troops in the southern theater were waiting for the arrival of supplies, the Soviets abandoned their positions, leaving only some troops to delay the German attack, while the main force quickly retreated back to the Don River without looking back. defensive line.
In this way, it is tantamount to saying that Germany did not systematically annihilate a main force of the Soviet Union on the way of attack, and in the defense line of the Don River and the subsequent street battle in Stalingrad, the German army will face those who were defeated by Rokossov. All kinds of main forces of the Soviet army that Sky found.
There is no effective force capable of annihilating the enemy in motion. This is not good news for the German army, because it also means that the German army will face all the elite Soviet troops that should be wiped out now in one breath in the future. Fighting a street battle for every inch of land with these troops in the city or in an area close to the city is something that all German commanders do not want to see.
"It takes a lot of effort to break through the Don line,
It's still acceptable. "Guderian sighed and said: "But when we start going north, we will hand over Stalingrad to the N Army, and it will be difficult for Küchler. "
"Yes!" The staff officer agreed with Guderian's words, and echoed: "We did not annihilate about 100,000 Soviet troops according to the plan. These troops will be on the shoulders of General Kuchler."
"Soviet commanders, the more you fight, the smarter you are." Guderian sighed helplessly: "When the war first started, the Soviet Union's purge had not yet completely ended. At that time, the Soviet high-level command structure was in chaos. You can easily fight a million-level annihilation battle."
What he didn't say was that when the fierce battles in Ukraine and Belarus took place, the German commanders became much more savvy, especially in the central region. We can only rely on some specific circumstances to fight some large-scale wars of annihilation in the southern region.
When the Khrushchev Group was annihilated in the Crimea, and the Battle of Kharkov and the Battle of Donetsk were over, the German army would no longer have hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops encircling the Soviet Union. The war became more and more bloody and stalemate. Most of the battles broke out between the two sides in the cities and their surroundings. The large-scale battles in the wild became less and less, and the cities that were contested were often turned into ruins.
"Send the situation here to the Supreme Command and tell the head of state the troubles we have encountered." Guderian finally issued an order, and then urged his convoy and guards to continue to move forward at the fastest speed, so that it would be sooner. He rushed to the Don River defense line and inspected the German army's preparations for crossing the river.
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In Akado's office, he, several combat staff officers, and Brauchitsch were discussing the combat situation on the southern front. When Guderian's news came back, Manstein's news had arrived for half an hour. The situation encountered by the two of them is similar, or the situation encountered by the troops under the two of them is similar.
The Soviet army is shrinking its defense lines throughout the southern theater, and there are no resisting troops left in many areas. They blew up bridges and even railways and roads, completely paralyzing the traffic in the entire area.
This damn tactic just hit the weakness of the German army. First, the German army relied heavily on the smooth communication lines to ensure the smooth attack of its troops; second, it was very unwilling to start street fighting in the city and waste its own troops.
"The Soviet army's retreat was very clever. They concentrated their forces and extended our lines of communication." Brauchitsch pointed to the map and said, "The problems encountered by General Manstein's Army Group M are particularly obvious. They rarely met the Soviet army all the way south, and there is news that the Soviet army is deploying defenses in Georgia."
Akado looked at the changing markers on the map with a cold face, and the two female officers were using long wooden push rods to push the positions of the main Soviet forces that had been identified on the map. These units are retreating and generally only operate at night to avoid interference from the Luftwaffe.
This method is a bit like the German army in 1944 in another time and space. It was suppressed by the overwhelming superior air force of the Allied forces and could only use night operations to reinforce the Normandy area. If you are attacking against the German army, then this method of marching only at night will obviously slow down your speed, but if you turn around and escape, you can run a long way in one night.
"Catherine's air force...can destroy these railways and bridges, and block the Soviets on this retreat route." Akado asked, pointing to the map. When it comes to this specific tactic, he mostly I don't want to express my opinion, because compared with other German generals, his tactical level is at the level of Khrushchev.
Primary school students should not teach advanced mathematics to a group of doctoral students. This is why Akado is reluctant to express his views. But sometimes he would still ask some questions, so that the frontline generals could give him a reasonable explanation. This allowed him to learn a lot of professional command skills, as well as some modern versions of war trade-offs.
Sure enough, Brauchitsch opened his mouth to explain: "My head of state, Catherine did carry out sabotage bombing at some stations and transportation hubs, but the effect was very unsatisfactory. Many troops of the Soviet army were pure infantry, and their luggage was very small. , so it is not completely dependent on rail and road transportation.”
"So the limited bombing of our army can't stop them from continuing to retreat." Brauchitsch pointed to the place bombed by Catherine, and further said to Akado: "Here, and here, we have bombed, However, the main force of the Soviet army only slowed down the speed of retreat, but they were still retreating south.”
Then he sighed again, and continued to explain to Akado helplessly: "But after our army lost these bombed railways, the supply and transportation of materials became more troublesome, which led to Manstein's When the troops were chasing, the speed was also reduced."
The gain outweighs the loss, which is why the German army did not send out the air force to bomb the railway transportation line. Germany will repair these destroyed roads in the future, and rely on these roads for supplies and transportation. It is only the destruction of the Soviet army itself that has caused the German maintenance troops to complain.
"So, the troops in the southern theater will inevitably encounter the urban street fighting we least want to see?" Akado looked at one familiar city name after another, including Grozny, Baku, etc. , and finally murmured like a question but not a question.
"Yes, my head of state. But we have a targeted plan for this." Brauchitsch walked behind Akado, and persuaded him: "This plan will allow us to temporarily not have to worry too much about the consumption of street fighting."
Akado nodded. This plan was formulated jointly by some army radicals and the SS. It is not so much a plan as it is a means to adapt to street fighting in disguise. The Army plans to cooperate with the SS to develop retired adult men over the age of 40 and non-military-age children between the ages of 15 and 18 to form new troops and put them into urban combat.
Because these units are not expensive armored units and do not need to invest in large-scale training costs, they can theoretically withstand any consumption. Take terrible losses in urban combat. Of course, this plan is very inhumane to Germany itself, which is one of the important reasons why Akado has not approved such an action.
"Call Vlasov to my office! I want to talk to him!" After thinking for a while, Akado said to Brauchitsch: "If soldiers must be consumed, I don't want to waste them needlessly." Great people of Germany."
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