Chapter 858

"To the West Bank of don? How's the fight going? Is it intense? " Goodrian's army is attacking the West in an all-round way recently, so he needs to get involved in a lot of things. Just a few hours ago, several of his attacking infantry divisions were cut off, and he was working on it.

"According to the news over there, about 3000 Soviet troops are crossing the river. An armored reconnaissance vehicle of our army immediately launched an attack on the Soviet troops." The staff officer looked at the war report in his hand and spoke in an uncertain tone. He didn't know if an armored car had launched an attack on 3000 people, and whether the messenger had made a mistake.

Goodrian led the troops on the front line. When he was in France, he was the commander of the first armored army. He often took an armored car to the front line by himself. Once again, his assistant drove the armored car into the ditch because of the accidental injury of the artillery. So goodrian didn't question the news, he just gave a friendly smile.

He went over and looked at the news sent by his subordinates. There were places, characters and the number of prisoners in it. It was obviously not a deliberate deception of April Fool's day, so goodrian nodded to acknowledge the effectiveness of the battle: "so from the beginning of the attack to the West Bank of the Don river, we didn't encounter any decent resistance, did we?"

The staff officer mentioned this incident with a lot of anger. The attack speed of the first armored force can be said to be very fast. If there were elite Soviet troops in the area west of the Don river, they would have been surrounded and eliminated by the German armored forces.

But in reality, the German army did not encounter any decent resistance, and the main force of the Soviet Union seemed to evaporate. If we say that it was because the Soviet troops retreated too quickly, the staff of the G group army absolutely did not believe it. Only one hypothesis can explain this phenomenon. The Soviet people withdrew their main forces ahead of time.

During the short period of time when the German troops in the southern theater were waiting for supplies, the Soviets gave up their positions, leaving only some troops to delay the German attack, while the main force quickly retreated back to the Don line without looking back.

In this way, it means that Germany did not annihilate a Soviet main force in an organized way on the way of attack. In the Don River defense line and the subsequent street battle of Stalingrad, the German army had to face all kinds of Soviet main forces that were seized by rokosovsky.

It is not a good news for the German army that it has not been able to annihilate the enemy's effective forces in the movement, because it also means that the German army will face all the elite Soviet troops that should be eliminated now in the future. All German commanders did not want to see a street fight with these troops in or near the city.

"It's acceptable to try to break the Don line." Goodrian sighed and said, "but when we start to go north, it will be difficult to give Stalingrad to the N army."

"Yes The staff officer agreed with goodrian's words and said, "we didn't annihilate about 100000 Soviet troops according to the plan. These troops are going to be on the shoulders of general troxerre."

"Commanders of the Soviet Union, the more they fight, the more shrewd they become." Goodrian sighed helplessly: "at the beginning of the war, the Great Purge of the Soviet Union was not completely over. At that time, the Soviet Union's senior command structure was in chaos. Our army could easily fight a million level war of annihilation."

What he didn't say is that the German commanders will become much smarter when they fight against Ukraine and Belarus. Especially in the central region, it's impossible to fight hundreds of thousands of encirclement and annihilation battles. They can only fight some large-scale annihilation battles in the southern region depending on some specific circumstances.

When the Khrushchev group was annihilated in crim and the battle of Kharkov and Donetsk ended, the German army would no longer have hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops. The war is becoming more and more bloody and sticky. Most of the places where the two sides fight are in and around the city. The large-scale battle in the wild is becoming less and less, and the cities that are contested are often turned into ruins.

"Send the situation here to the Supreme Command and tell the Fuehrer about our troubles." Goodrian finally gave the order, and then urged his motorcade and security forces to continue to advance at the fastest speed, so as to arrive at the Don River defense line early and inspect the German preparations for crossing the river.

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Akado's office, he and several combat staff, as well as brauchich, were discussing the combat situation on the south line. When goodrian's news came back, Manstein's news had been half an hour. The two of them were in the same situation, or their troops were in the same situation.

The Soviet army was shrinking its line of defense throughout the southern theater, leaving no resistance troops in many areas. They bombed bridges and even railways and roads, paralyzing traffic throughout the region.

This kind of damned tactics just hit the weakness of the German army. The German army first relied on the smooth traffic line to ensure the smooth attack of its troops; Second, they are very reluctant to engage in street fighting in the city and waste their own forces.

"The Soviet retreat was very clever. They concentrated their forces and extended our transportation lines." Brauchich pointed to the map and said, "the problems of general Manstein's M army are particularly obvious. They went south all the way and rarely met the Soviet army. There is news that the Soviet army is deploying defense in Georgia. " Akado looked at the changing marks on the map with a cold face. Two female sergeants were using long wooden putters to push the positions of several identified main Soviet forces on the map. These troops are retreating backward, and generally operate only at night to avoid interference from the German air force. This method is a bit like another time and space in 1944, when the German army was suppressed by the overwhelming advantage of the Allied air force, it could only use night operations to reinforce Normandy. If it is against the German attack, then this method of marching only at night will obviously slow down the speed, but if it is to turn around and run away, it will be able to run a long distance that night“ Katherine's Air Force... Can it destroy these railways and bridges and block the Soviets on this retreat road? " Akado pointed to the map and asked. When it comes to this kind of specific tactics, he doesn't express his opinion in most cases, because compared with other German generals, his tactical level is that of Khrushchev. Primary school students should not give higher mathematics lessons to a group of doctoral students, which is why akado is reluctant to express his views. However, sometimes he would ask some questions and ask the generals on the front line to give him a reasonable explanation. This made him learn a lot of professional command skills, as well as some modern war trade-offs. Sure enough, brauchich began to explain: "my head of state, Catherine did carry out sabotage bombing in some stations and transportation hubs, but the effect was very unsatisfactory. Many of the Soviet troops were pure infantry, and they had very little supplies, so they did not rely entirely on railway and road transportation. "“ So our limited bombing can't stop them from retreating. " Brauchich pointed to the place that had been bombed by Catherine, and further said to akkado: "we have bombed here and here, but the main force of the Soviet army only delayed the retreat, but still retreated 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 the reduction of the speed of Manstein's troops in pursuit." That's why the German Air Force didn't bomb the railway lines. In the future, Germany will have to repair these destroyed roads and rely on these roads for supplies and transportation. Only the Soviet Army's own destruction has made the German maintenance forces complain endlessly“ In this way, the troops in the southern theater will inevitably encounter the urban street fighting that we least want to see? " Akado looked at one familiar city name after another, including Grozny, Baku and so on, and finally murmured“ Yes, my head of state. But we have targeted plans for that. " Blauchich walked up to acardo's back and said, "this plan can let us not pay too much attention to the consumption of street fighting for the time being." Akado nodded. This plan was jointly formulated by some army radicals and the SS. It is not so much a plan as a disguised means to adapt to street fighting. The army plans to cooperate with the Ss to develop retired adult men over the age of 40 and non military children over the age of 15 and under the age of 18 to form a new army to fight in cities. Because these troops are not expensive armored forces, and they do not need to invest in large-scale training costs, they can withstand any consumption in theory. To put it bluntly, they are to make some cannon fodder to be consumed with the Soviets, and use non main forces to bear the terrible losses in urban operations. Of course, this plan is very inhumane for Germany itself, which is one of the important reasons why akkado did not approve it“ Tell Vlasov to come to my office! I want to talk to him! " After thinking about it, akkado said to blauchich, "if we have to consume soldiers, I don't want to consume the great people of Germany for nothing."—— Don't wait for two shifts today. When it breaks out, Longling will inform didi!