Chapter 776

In another parallel time and space, the German army repeatedly fought for the area near Kerch in the whole battle of the crimson peninsula. This also led to a large number of German casualties and repeated battles in the entire crimson peninsula. When the German army finally captured the Sevastopol fortress group, it finally ended the battle of crimson which lasted for more than 200 days.

Today's German army occupies the right time, place and people, which is much better than the situation that Manstein dealt with alone. First of all, the German army cut off the support of the Soviet army in the Caucasus to the crimson Peninsula in advance in the crimson offensive and defensive war. Although this was caused by Khrushchev himself, it let the German army occupy the time.

Then, the Soviet Union did not continuously strengthen and renovate the military fortifications on the crimson Peninsula as it did in history. Most of the Navy's funds were spent on the huge Soviet class battleships, so there was no decent investment in the civil engineering of the crimson peninsula. Many of the areas originally intended to install armored turrets had only one shell, Without the real cannons in it, the German army had some advantages.

Finally, the Soviet army had no external reinforcements, and the elite inside had been consumed and destroyed. Although there was no lack of ammunition, there was no way to effectively counter the German attack because of the lack of soldiers. Finally, the whole Sevastopol fortress group fell down, and the poor marshal voroshlov fell into an isolated situation near Kerch. At this point, the Soviet Union's people and interests were completely lost, and the end of the entire crimson Peninsula campaign was doomed at that time.

Therefore, when Manstein initially formulated the offensive plan for the crimson Peninsula, he decided to attack the Sevastopol fortress group first, kill the hard bone first, and then obtain the sea supply line from Romania to Sevastopol, so that the German troops on the southern line can get supplies more conveniently.

"To recover and replenish the armored forces as soon as possible to the pre war state, I need sufficient oil to be transported directly from Romania. It seems that the problem of ships is no longer a problem. Turkey has promised to lend us 40 freighters, and Romania has 90, which is enough to transport a large amount of materials." Manstein stood in front of the map, pointed between Romania and Sevastopol, and ordered to his subordinates, "the port of Sevastopol will return to the pre war level as soon as possible. The day after tomorrow, I will hear that cargo can be loaded and unloaded normally here."

"General, 10000 additional soldiers have been assembled in Romania. There are 3000 local mercenaries, and 7000 Austrian youth and domestic soldiers." "The train carrying these soldiers threw them to tulca, Romania, and left," the officer in charge of replenishment reported

"The three divisions of the infantry are attacking in the direction of Kerch. The strength of the Soviet defense is much lower than that of Sevastopol fortress. Our advance speed is very fast. We are close to their core defense circle." The chief of staff pointed to the huge map on the wall with a pointer, and gave a detailed introduction to the current fighting situation of Manstein: "our army was counterattacked here and here, but the Soviet army did not seize any positions. They retreated in the early morning when our air force arrived."

You know, although the junction of Kerch and the crimson peninsula is also a long and narrow terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, without the support of the whole Caucasus behind Kerch, the defense line here is not as solid as it seems. At least for now, when the German army attacked, voloshlov's troops were defeated faster than Khrushchev's in Sevastopol.

"Report!" A German officer came up to Manstein with his papers and stood at attention to salute him? Long live Rudolph He is gentle and elegant. He comes from a famous family. His clean face is a young version of Marshal brauchich.

"Long live the Fuehrer!" Manstein's meticulous return, and then asked the nephew of blauchich who just came back from the front line with a smile: "what do you want to tell me in such a hurry to come back from the front line?"

"General! The news just came from the front line that Khrushchev's body had been found. He died on the way to attack, which is consistent with his style Brauchich's son solemnly said: "his body has been found, lying there for a day, but because of the weather, it is very well preserved."

"..." Manstein was silent for a while, and then said, "help him clean up, and then take the special train to the wolf's den. It's said that this former No. 2 figure of the Soviet Union has met our head of state. I don't know if it's true. But now that he's dead, it's also true. It seems that we've lost another opponent. "

The officer, who was related to the field marshal, immediately nodded: "OK, general, I'll do it now."

Manstein watched him go out. He went straight to the side of the huge map on the wall, looked up at the label carefully, and finally reached out and pointed on the map with his finger. He said in a cold voice, "now that Khrushchev has been driven out by me, are you... Voroshilov, ready for your funeral?"

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"It's all over, comrades." Of course, Voroshilov knows how many brushes he has. He has only about 100000 troops in his hands now. He is really hard up to keep Kerch and the surrounding areas. Hopelessly, he is in a more difficult situation than Khrushchev. After all, Kerch's ammunition reserves are not as abundant as Sevastopol's.

For a long time, Sevastopol fortress group has been built as the core of the whole Kremlin, so most of the reserve ammunition is also put in this solid fortress. Although Kerch also has some reserves, there are not as many as Sevastopol fortress group. For the sake of the war now, the consumption in the early stage has already stretched the bullets in the hands of the Soviet army. Now the German army has defeated Sevastopol, turned the gun head and aimed at poor Kerch, which makes the Soviet army in Kerch's direction more desperate. When Khrushchev was defeated and killed in Sevastopol fortress, voroshlov immediately felt the pressure in front of his defense line doubled. The strength of the German attack was many times stronger than when Sevastopol was still there. Several positions were immediately occupied by the German army, and his strategic depth was compressed and almost collapsed“ Damn Manstein! He's a real killer. " Voroshlov thought that the German army would take a rest after the attack and defense of Sevastopol fortress, but he did not expect that the German infantry began to advance almost the same day. His troops have been defeated again and again, and now they are about to be defeated back to the lower part of kerchicheng. Compared with Khrushchev, voroshlov was a well-known military man. He was one of the early marshals of the Soviet army, and made an indelible contribution to the preservation of the middle and senior Soviet officers in the Great Purge disaster. Now that he is in trouble, his first reaction is not to fight to death, but to continue to lose. Although on the map, Kerch is a dead place. It's almost the same as a desperate situation where the rear area is lost. The whole Kerch area is surrounded by sea on three sides, and the German army has occupied the only land. So it seems that his voroshlov will follow Khrushchev's footsteps. But only he knew that he had a way to go. Not far east of Kerch, on the other side of the Strait, was the Soviet Union's compound Caucasus. As long as he prepared a boat, it was not difficult for him to escape from the sky. These days, in addition to dispatching troops to cope with the German attack, he has been contacting Moscow to ask his old colleagues to run around and beg that he can return to the Soviet Union and continue to command troops in the Caucasus to resist the German invasion. Many officers felt that the marshal had contributed to the Soviet army and there was no need to force him to fight in such a place as Kerch. Khrushchev's death has given this matter a step forward. Everyone has left the responsibility to the dead, insisting that they are the victims of persecution. Everyone has selfishness, and everyone has his own fear of death. Once you give people hope and hope that they can live, then they will not do anything desperate. This is the reason why the siege system was used in ancient times. Now, seeing that his retreat is being planned successfully bit by bit, voroshlov naturally does not have the heart to fight to death. He shrinks the Kerch defense line bit by bit, waiting for the accurate news from Moscow of the Soviet Union, and he will run away with his tail between his legs. As for the life and death of his Soviet soldiers, he has no good way. Obviously, the less people know about this kind of thing, the better. Once tens of thousands of people cross the Strait and retreat to the Caucasus, the whole thing will be exposed. Undoubtedly, it is a huge blow to the morale of the front-line Soviet troops. A group of people who have been classified as traitors have been forgiven, Then surrender or disobey the command for the time being will be rampant“ Send a telegram and ask Marshal Zhukov if I can move the headquarters to the Caucasus... Forget it, ask directly... When can I leave for the Caucasus? " Voroshlov knew his weight, and he directly bargained with Stalin. It was estimated that he would be rejected. So he went to Zhukov, the commander-in-chief of the front line who had been in love with each other, hoping that he could help himself. Zhukov, of course, did not disappoint him. He decided to arrange a fake identity for him and send him to the Caucasus to be an idle old man no longer involved in military affairs.