Chapter 1044

Just as four shots rang out in a basement in the far central part of Italy, at the southernmost end of the eastern battlefield, Germany's first mountain division was crossing the mountain forest in front of them, and behind the mountain was Baku, the destination of the expedition they had always hoped to reach. Top story,

This is the source of the Soviet Union's becoming a world industrial power in a short time, and it is the oil producing area that the Germans have been longing for. As long as the German flag is planted in this land, the oil-rich Soviet Union in the world will change its position and role with the oil-poor third empire.

So when the Soviet Red Army soldiers stationed on the top of the mountain saw the German soldiers, there was another fierce gunfight between the two sides. We all want to fight for these lands, so we can only use blood to judge who is more suitable to rule this land. The German army launched a fierce charge, and the Soviet army launched the most tenacious counterattack.

"News from 402th regiment, they are facing the German army." A staff officer pointed to the location of 402 regiment on the map and reported the battle to his commander: "the German army launched a tentative attack, but the fire was quite fierce."

"Should we start blowing up oil production equipment?" The commander took a look at the person in charge of the engineering unit and asked, "Comrade Colonel, to be on the safe side, if you agree, we should now sign to blow up the oil production equipment here."

The German army has surrounded it, and a few oil carriers have been sunk near the dock. Baku can be said to have been completely isolated from the world, at least they have not received any decent supplement for half a month. This makes Baku's defense system in danger of collapse. Therefore, several Soviet generals present here have a sense of powerlessness of being short of major generals.

A large number of materials were sent to Moscow to fight the battle that decided the fate of the Soviet Union. So the remaining value of this remote oil producing area is to destroy all the equipment and not leave a drop of oil to the Germans. But after all, it is a huge and systematic project, which is not as easy to operate as expected.

Even if you blow up a bridge, you need to weigh the pros and cons over and over again, not to mention such a huge thing as blowing up an entire oil field. This is similar to the scale of blowing up a city, and even more than blowing up a huge city in terms of economic value and possible future impact.

"The 51st army headquarters called. They found the enemy in the German SS uniform on the front. They judged that it was the main force under Manstein, the 8th SS armored division." Another Soviet officer walked into the messy headquarters with documents in his hand. The news he brought confirmed that the situation was getting worse. The main force of the German army had bypassed the rolling mountains and appeared on the narrow plain near Baku.

It's not an unknown unit of any kind. It's the 8th SS Panzer Division of Germany! When the army went south to enter the Caucasus, it once played a dream propulsion speed faster than the attack speed of Rommel and goodrian. The army went south a little faster than the 200000 defeated Soviet Red Army, which completely disrupted the Soviet deployment of Baku defense.

What's more terrible is that this unit is generally used as a fist by Manstein, a general known as a German wise general. Behind this unit is the famous main force of the M group army, the 13th armored force of the national defense force.

In addition to the 13th armored army, Manstein had more than 800 tanks of various types and assault guns in the front. These heavy armored vehicles were just the absolute superiority of the Soviet Red Army. It is a pity that these Soviet troops stationed near Baku do not even have enough anti tank weapons.

"Damn it, this Manstein is too steady! At the beginning of going south, this guy was still advancing very fast. We deliberately gave up our flaws and wanted to fight guerrilla warfare in the mountains and disturb his supply line. Who knows... "A staff officer looked at the map angrily and complained quietly.

Another officer standing next to him shook his head. He also agreed with his colleagues: "at the beginning, the advance speed was extremely fast, but once he entered the mountain area, he was steady enough to make a camp step by step - the most exasperating thing was that, taking advantage of the opportunity of making a camp step by step, he even turned back and ate the 100000 scattered troops surrounded by us! He has already calculated our ideas, so that they will be accurate to this point! "

Those who are not familiar with Manstein will be completely bewildered by his crazy advance in the first ten days of going south. The general of staff, who did not show his fame in France or make great achievements in Ukraine, was really familiar with the high-level allied forces until he was in charge of the offensive and defensive war in the crimson peninsula. This general, who likes to quantify his attack steps accurately, is a real master of battle. Compared with Rommel and goodrian, his greater advantage lies in his accurate control of the troops.

He has been working as a staff officer within the national defense force and has been transferred from the headquarters of the staff to the army. So he has more experience and ideas as a staff officer than the generals like Rommel goodrian who have been on the front line. He attaches great importance to the supply of troops, and is good at thinking about the enemy's ideas and the countermeasures that should be taken. He firmly believes that he will not make mistakes, and then waiting for the enemy to make mistakes is the truth of victory in the battlefield.

So when his troops were about to fight in the mountains, he immediately carefully gathered up his own pace, and then turned back to mobilize the following infantry to clean up the scattered Soviet troops in the rear. The reason is very simple. He does not want to expose his army's logistics supply lines to the guns of enemy guerrillas, so he prefers to postpone the advance to Baku. However, in fact, he should not have been silent for such a long time. The more complicated reason is that in order to organize the northward battle of guderry jiag group army, the fuel supply of his southward troops was cut off for several days. So he ordered the armored forces to detour from Chechnya to Baku plain, had to wait for a long time on the way, and then set foot on the journey again. Of course, these are not the inside information that Baku's Soviet garrison can know. They only know that Manstein stopped his progress at the place where he should stop, leaving them a huge failure and a situation similar to one-sided battlefield“ Did you contact the Caspian fleet? If they are willing to help, there should be some equipment that can be snatched away... "A Soviet general sitting in his office spoke. Since general rokosovsky's defection in Stalingrad, there have been no decent senior generals in the southern theater, In the early days, tiemuxinge was ordered to take over the command of Baku, but before he arrived here, Stalingrad fell. Because of this, all the defense here needs to be solved by several armies and the commanders of the front army, and the speed of dealing with problems is slower. For example, on the issue of how to deal with Baku's refining equipment, we have two opinions: transport away and blow up. Since the German fw-190d fighters began to appear in the Caucasus sky, the blue sky and white clouds here have been dominated by the German fighters with gray camouflage. These damned Third Reich planes will visit the Caspian Sea around Baku every day, destroying all the ships they see. Thanks to the Stuka and stuka-2 bombers piloted by these German pilots, fewer and fewer ships dare to load and unload oil equipment at the port near Baku, so the plan to transport these large equipment has become extremely slow. As the German ground forces approached, the idea of blowing up the equipment gained the upper hand“ At night, two other ships will venture to land, but the tonnage is limited, so they can't carry anything. The wounded has been delayed for two days, if they don't arrange it tonight... "The officer in charge of contacting the Caspian sea transportation fleet answered all the news he knew. For many days, he could only say something frustrating, Today is no exception“ Then we have to blow up all the equipment! Start with some important, immovable large equipment, first remove the important parts, and then blow them up with explosives! " The general, who was temporarily elected to handle affairs, ordered: "if there is not enough explosives, use shells! In a word, we can't leave anything to the Germans... "The atmosphere in the room became depressed. After all, it was a very worrying thing to blow up these equipment. Now the soldiers holding steel guns and placing explosives on these equipment may have been the workers who assembled these equipment in those years. They spent ten years building today's Baku, but they had to blow up all their youth dedicated to the motherland after an order“ But At this time, a middle-aged man in a suit who can go in and out of the headquarters suddenly spoke out his different opinions. He is not a soldier, but he represents many government officials here: "if we blow up these equipment, there will be no bargaining chip to negotiate with general Manstein!" His words made everyone look at him. Under Stalin's order to destroy Baku and live with him, his words were no different from treason. But he still spoke calmly and continued to say the words that brightened everyone's eyes: "the Germans want oil, we give it to him. Everyone will live, won't they? "