Chapter 871

Akkado sat quietly in his chair, listening to marshal brauchich of the army general staff report on the casualties of the N group army and the replenishment of the front-line troops

For the first time, the casualties of more than 10000 soldiers did not allow the troops to advance more than one kilometer. Such a huge loss reminds people of Verdun and the Somme River, the deep trenches and endless barbed wire, just like the cold iron plate, which makes people's memory full of trauma.

"My head of state, we expect to lose more than 200000 people in Stalingrad, but the current figure may not be enough. It is possible that there will be more than 300000 casualties, even 400000. We are not willing to accept this situation. Would you please consider the alternative plan of the general staff and order the N group army to stop attacking? " Brauchich closed the information in his hand and asked akado, who was listening to him read the document with his eyes slightly narrowed.

Any smart person will not let himself be tripped twice by the same stone, not to mention the German army general staff, which has always boasted of being extremely smart. They hate the memory of any failure, and they are extremely concerned about things that have a little bit of problems. These stubborn and rigorous Germanic people sum up the data, study and deduce repeatedly, for fear that there will be another unexpected trouble.

For the general staff of the German army, there is no doubt that Verdun and Somme River are two areas with relatively large shadow area in their hearts. With akado moving from victory to victory all the way, they are more and more affected. The loss of thousands of German troops is enough to make a fuss, and everyone seems to be more and more unable to bear the pain caused by the loss.

"My Marshal! How can there be an immortal in war? That's what you said to me when you tried to persuade me. " Akado opened his squinting eyes and said to blauchich, "along the way, to the city of Stalingrad, the loss of 10000 people makes you... Afraid as marshal?"

Marshal blauchich gave a wry smile. As the marshal of the Empire, he certainly would not be so impolite because of the loss of 10000 people, but if he thought about what would happen next, that was the reason why he was so tangled.

So he took a step forward, got closer to akkado, and said, "my leader, what I fear is not the 10000 soldiers who have been lost now, but the casualties that will continue to last..."

"You're right. The casualties will last this time." Akkado interrupted him. Then he stared at blauchich with his eyes. When he felt uncomfortable, he continued: "and this kind of casualties will reach the peak in Stalingrad. 100000, 200000, are not the end!"

As he said this, he stood up and stood in front of Marshal blauchich: "general tricheler is better than you, your own attack plan! This is the soldier of the Empire. This is the general to whom I should entrust the front line! "

Akkado picked up a report on the tea table and handed it to brauchich, who took over the document. One of them came from the headquarters of the N group army in the southern theater of the eastern front and was signed by the group army commander, trachille.

Brauchich frowned at the contents of this document. It said that in the first stage, he was prepared to clear Stalingrad's peripheral defensive positions at the cost of 50000 soldiers' casualties. Riblauschich could not help but scold tricheler. Generally, the German army would use armored forces to clean up the edge of the city. In this case, the casualties would be suppressed to a small extent.

However, even so, the German casualties in the report are still estimated to reach a terrible 50000, which makes it difficult to imagine how much the German army will pay once the real urban battle starts. Tricheller took the documents and went on. Sure enough, in the second stage of the attack plan, tricheller also clearly pointed out that a total of 250000 troops might be lost.

No one has ever doubted the difficulty and bloodiness of urban fighting, but a commander of hundreds of thousands of troops has vowed that fighting a city is not the price of completely occupying the city. It is actually the time of 300000 people, which makes people feel that it is too cruel.

"My head of state." After the whole report, brauchich felt as if he was struggling in the blood of Stalingrad. He felt that the blood had soaked his clothes and made his whole body sticky and uncomfortable.

But he still spoke difficultly and expressed his own opinion: "although general troxerre's playing method saved a lot of resources, the troops sacrificed were a little too many."

With a sigh of relief, he seemed to feel a little more comfortable. Then he continued to say to akado in front of him: "I know that the attack plan is to capture Stalingrad as soon as possible, but it may be one month or two months as soon as possible. Is it too impatient to put troops into the city to fight?"

"I don't think the importance of Stalingrad needs to be emphasized by Marshal and me, do you?" Akkado asked in a low voice: "so it's not wrong for me to order trexel to take the city as soon as possible. And as you know, in the street battle of Stalingrad, the loss ratio of our army will not be higher than one seventh. It's planned. There's nothing to repeat. "

Yes, many of the troops killed in the battle were prisoners left behind by the great cleansing movement of the Soviet Union, which had only trained for more than 20 days, and some of them were volunteers from Ukraine. To use these people to fill the pit of Stalingrad is a tacit consensus of the German high level. After thinking of this, brauchich was in a slightly better mood. After all, it was foreigners who sacrificed, or a group of young German boys. For a senior German general, there was a fundamental difference. At least in brauchich, the German forces are elite and resources that cannot be easily wasted“ But, my head of state. " After thinking about it, he spoke with a little doubt. His tone was not as strong as he had just said: "even if our allies' forces are so extravagant, it is not necessary..." "only by weakening our allies can we maintain our rule." When it comes to this, akado is more professional than brauchich. If there is something wrong with the Marshal's basic tactics, and not for any other reason, he will give the report to brauchich: "we must take Stalingrad as quickly as possible!" Tricheller's tactics were nothing more than the elimination of Stalingrad block by block. If we insist on evaluating this tactical arrangement, the only accurate adjective is inflexibility. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a founder of the Hunan army named Zeng Guofan. His basic tactics for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was to "build a hard stronghold and fight a stupid battle". As a result, this tactic was almost completely copied by quxiler 80 years later, and the report was written and handed to akado. Tricheller divided the whole Stalingrad into innumerable small pieces, and then eliminated each small block. He defended the front area with heavy troops and repeatedly fought with the enemy. His plan has been accurately calculated, even if he competes for several times in one area and can eliminate the opponent's forces best. He also boldly persuaded akado to use special forces to carry out repeated operations in a small area where the enemy was eliminated, so as to prevent the enemy from using sewers and other facilities to infiltrate and destroy. In order to deal with this tactic of the Soviet army, he suggested using a small group of elite troops to hold down the opponent, and then using large forces to encircle and annihilate. On the other hand, drosiller didn't care about rocosovsky's counterattack. He even thought that the counterattack would cause more casualties to the Soviet army, so he boldly speculated that rocosovsky would give up the means of large-scale counterattack within a month. The German general firmly believed that the German army's steady and gradual advance, and then fully occupied Stalingrad, was the most economical and fastest way of fighting. He predicted that the Soviet army would fight to defend Stalingrad and try to hold on here for at least half a year. For this reason, the Soviet army should invest more than 1 million troops. But when the whole city had been turned into ruins, the advantage of the Soviet army would be completely lost, and it would become a place where the elite 300000 infantry trained by the German army would gallop. In his report, in order to temper these 300000 elite infantry in Stalingrad, even the loss of 300000 people is worth it. At least, he felt that it was very worthwhile to launch a hundred battle elite N group army in three months to help the German army stabilize the forefront of the southern theater“ It's no use complaining about the loss. " Akado said to field marshal brauchich, who had a high reputation in the army, "you study general traucheller's report on the front-line operations carefully. If there are no problems, I will let him continue to attack according to this plan."“ There's nothing wrong with his ability to plan. Tricheller is a senior general of the army and I, so as a front-line commander, his combat plan is undoubtedly flawless. " Brauchich confidently answered akado's question directly: "I'm just worried that the loss will make the soldiers on the front line panic and increase the domestic weariness."“ It's better to end Stalingrad as soon as possible Said akado with a sigh. If there is a choice, he doesn't want to attack the most inefficient city battle. But now the situation is that everything is up to him