Eight Hundred and Sixty-Three See the Outcome
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"What did you say?" Rokossovsky asked loudly, grabbing the collar of the messenger. .. He felt that his deception tactics in the Don River Basin could fool the German army for 3 days no matter what, but he never expected that the German army broke through this line of defense in only 2 hours.
"You mean? The Germans on the Don River defense line did not make a tentative attack at all? Then they started crossing the river all at once?" Rokossovsky frowned and snatched the telegram from the direction of the Don River. It can be seen between the lines The desperation of the defenders in imminent doom.
The line of defense did exist, but the number of troops was not so large, and the German army bumped into it anyway, regardless of any losses. This baffled Rokossovsky, who had studied German tactics for a long time. He couldn't believe that the German army could easily see through his tricks.
Someone leaked their plans? In the first moment, Rokossovsky thought of this possibility, but he used the fastest time to deny his guess. After all, it is simply impossible to see through his entire plan in such a short period of time, and then send some key information to the German army.
Since the German army did not rely on spies to obtain information in advance, then the German commander possessed amazing wisdom. Rokossovsky thinks this is more likely - the commander of the opponent is one of the German soldiers that Zhukov is quite afraid of, the famous tank monster Guderian, it is not surprising that he can see through this scam .
But Rokossovsky still couldn't figure out how the other party saw through his carefully arranged scam. He thought that he designed every link very cleverly. Originally, every link of the whole plan should be impeccable.
"How did he see through my plan?" Rokossovsky let go of his men's collars, walked to the front of the map, looked at the huge German army that was constantly approaching him, and asked in a whisper.
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"Do you still need to see through this is a scam?" Guderian looked at his assistant with a smile: "My army has been fighting for almost two years. As long as the opponent fires and exposes the configuration of firepower, any one of my subordinates will investigate. The company commander of the company can know whether the opponent is a battalion or a regiment!"
Rokossovsky did use a lot of smoke bombs for his deception. First of all, his troops had been retreating a few days ago. The German army has been unable to find out the exact movement of the main force of the Soviet army. There will be an increase in the possibility of the main force of the Soviet army, and it will indeed make people suspicious and afraid to attack the Don River easily.
But there are exceptions to everything, Guderian proudly pointed to the troops he was crossing the river, and then he was full of confidence: "And I didn't plan to prepare anything in front of the Don River defense line.
These troops have been preparing for a whole month, just to cross the Don River quickly here today, and approach Stalingrad! "
"If the Soviet Army's Don River defense line is fake, then we only need to attack, and one punch is enough to break the deception, isn't it?" He expressed his thoughts: "And if the Soviet Army The Don River defense line is real, so the same attack is fine, aren't we thinking all day, how to eat the main force of the Soviet army in the wild?"
His assistant looked at Guderian, at the German armored vehicles and trucks passing by him, and the Panther tanks one after another. Suddenly I understood this simple truth: the main reason why any deception can be successful is that the opponent does not have enough strength! When the attacking party has enough determination to fight and possesses a combat capability that is absolutely superior to that of the opponent, they will only use the attack to smash everything in the face of any deception, and they will drop ten times with one force. This is the simple truth. .
One of the main reasons why Guderian ordered the troops to launch an offensive immediately was because he did not believe that the Soviet army would fight the German army in the wild. Based on this assumption, to promote his own thinking, he would find that the existence of the Don River defense line is very important to Germany. It is very advantageous, and the Don River defense line does not exist, and there is no need to waste time to confirm it-this does not require hesitation at all, so Rokossovsky's deception is doomed to be a futile trick from the beginning.
"Send a telegram to General Küchler at the back, telling him that we have successfully broken through the Don River defense line and are attacking the two wings of Stalingrad." Guderian ordered his assistant to quickly contact the N Army commander behind, Let his troops catch up to take over the front line of defense of Army Group G.
Then he thought about it again, and issued a second order: "By the way, send a telegram to the Supreme Command of the Führer, telling them that we have successfully broken through the defense line of the Don River."
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"Führer! Our army has successfully broken through the Don River defense line, annihilating more than 20,000 defenders and taking more than 40,000 prisoners. General Guderian's forward reconnaissance force is less than ten kilometers away from Stalingrad." Syndra The latest developments on the front line were soon passed on to Akado, and at this time Akado was working with Marshal Brauchitsch to analyze the fighting situation on the front line.
"There is still no main force capable of annihilating the Soviet army... These Soviets are determined to turn all the cities into ruins." Akado said with a helpless sigh.
Unlike Westerners' understanding of war, Russians like to use their cities to defend themselves from their enemies. Western countries generally don’t like to stick to the city, because it will turn their homes into ruins; on the contrary, the Soviets like to stick to the city, and would rather die than give up to others-the more obvious is that Paris does not fight Instead, Leningrad and Stalingrad were destined to be destroyed.
"Even if the Soviet army is huddled in Stalingrad, we are sure to annihilate them!" Marshal Brauchitsch said to Akado: "My head of state, what needs to be worried about now is the supply line that is getting longer and longer. Let us There is growing concern. These supply lines are very unstable, and many places pass through areas of Soviet partisan activity, which does not bode well."
Akado nodded. This was also his concern. In fact, the German army's strength on the front line was not insufficient, but because of the different order of attack, which caused the frontal battlefield to expand and lengthen the defense line. As long as the Caucasus is captured, all unfavorable factors will be easily resolved.
But on the contrary, in the vast occupied area, there are enemy guerrillas and saboteurs everywhere. These enemies have involved a large number of German troops, and have also had a very adverse impact on transportation and resumption of production. The group army has been transferred to Belarus during the formation process, and while training, it is responsible for destroying the Soviet guerrillas in Belarus.
"There is another news that we have to treat with caution." After nodding, Akado handed a report to Brauchitsch with some concern: "My marshal, the news from the beehive, some Soviet troops Officers from the Far East troops showed up in Chelyabinsk and received some new tanks and other equipment."
"Have the Soviets deployed their troops in the Far East?" Brauchitsch took the report and read it carefully. This news is not good news for the German army, because once more troops appear in front of them, It also means that the Soviet army is even more difficult to deal with.
"Our opponents are not blindly being beaten passively." Akado sighed: "They are trying their best to deal with us. Chelyabinsk has recently received a large number of precision processing vehicles from the United States and expanded the The scale of production, the strength of the Soviets' armored forces is increasing, and the various weapons advantages we now have are being offset by our opponents."
This kind of thing has not just happened. During the Polish campaign, the German army hardly lost any tank troops. It seemed that only a few dozen tanks were destroyed on the entire Polish battlefield. This result became a bit scary when it came to the French campaign. The Germans lost hundreds of tanks. Although these losses were still insignificant compared to their opponents, winning has become not so easy.
Since the Soviet-German battlefield kicked off, the number of German tank losses has risen sharply, and it is now approaching the 1,000 mark. These losses are insignificant in the face of the huge tank production capacity of the German army, but for the German armored forces, they have already suffered heavy losses.
If you compare it with when Germany was just preparing to build its armored forces, these 1,000 tanks are already the total equipment of the three German armored divisions. In other words, this also means that about three armored divisions of the German army were wiped out-unknowingly, the German army lost almost a main armored army.
However, it is debatable that most of these lost tanks are new vehicles that have been in service recently. Because of the rapid expansion of the German armored forces, their training is seriously insufficient, and the tanks equipped are relatively old, so they are used in cruel battles. Annihilated by the Soviet Army. Although the loss was quite large, it hardly affected the speed of the German army's expansion, nor did it affect the quality of the German armored forces.
It should be noted that the improvement in firepower and armor of Soviet tanks is also one of the reasons for the rising losses of German tanks. When the electronicization of tanks has not yet qualitatively improved the performance of tanks, firepower and armor protection can often quickly close the gap in tank quality between the two sides.
"In any case, everything will not be known until after the defeat of Stalingrad!" Akado stared at the map with his hands behind his back, and he didn't know whether he said this to himself or to Marshal Brauchitsch.
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