Chapter 859: Consume

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"Arrived on the west bank of the Don River? How is the battle going? Is it fierce?" Guderian's group army is recently attacking the west, so he needs to ask a lot of things. Just a few hours ago, several of his infantry divisions on offense cut supplies, and he was solving the problem.
"The news from there, about 3000 Soviet troops are crossing the river. An armored reconnaissance vehicle of our army immediately launched an attack on this Soviet army." The staff member looked at the battle report in his hand and used it when speaking Not sure tone. He didn't know if an armored vehicle launched 3,000 people or not if the person sending the message was wrong.
Guderian took the frontline troops. When he was in France, he was the commander of the 1st Armored Army. He often rode an armored car to the frontline to sway. Once again, his assistant drove the armored vehicle into the ditch because of the artillery's accidental injury. So Guderian did not question this news, but just smiled friendly.
He walked over and read the message sent by his men. There were people in the place and the number of captives. This obviously would not be a deliberate deception on April Fool ’s Day, so Gudrian nodded and admitted this time. Effectiveness of the battle: "So, from the beginning of the attack to the west bank of the Don, we have not encountered any decent resistance, are we?"
The fact that this staff member mentioned this matter is also anger. You must know that the attack speed of the 1st Armored Army can be said to be very rapid. If there are really elite Soviet troops in the area west of the Don River, it would have been The German armored forces were surrounded and wiped out.
In reality, the Germans did not encounter any decent resistance, and the Soviet main force disappeared as if it had evaporated. It is said that because the Soviet troops withdrew too fast, the staff of the G Army did not believe it. There is only one hypothesis that can explain this phenomenon. The Soviets withdrew their main forces in advance.
In the short period of time when the German troops in the southern theater were waiting for supplies to arrive, the Soviets abandoned their positions, leaving only some troops to delay the German attack, and the main troops quickly retreated back to the Don River without looking back. Defense line.
In this way, it means that Germany did not form an organization to annihilate a Soviet main force on the way of the attack, and in the subsequent battle of Stalingrad in the Don defense, the German army would have to face those who were killed by Rokosovsky All the main forces of the Soviet army were found.
There is no living force that can annihilate the enemy in the movement. This is not good news for the Germans, because it also means that the Germans will face all the elite Soviet troops that should be eliminated now in the future. Fighting against these forces in the city or in areas close to the city is a battle in the streets, which all German commanders are reluctant to see.
"It's acceptable to break through the Don River line with as much effort as possible." Goodrian said with a sigh. "But when we started to go north, we handed over Stalingrad to the n-group army. Now. "
"Yeah!" The staff agreed with Guderian's words and agreed: "We did not annihilate about 100,000 Soviet troops according to plan. These forces will be pressed on General Küchler's shoulders."
"Soviet commanders, the smarter they are fighting." Guderian sighed helplessly: "At the beginning of the war, the Soviet Union's major cleansing was not completely over. At that time, the Soviet high-level command structure was in chaos. Our army It could easily be a million-level annihilation battle. "
What he did n’t say is that when the battle between Ukraine and Belarus was fought, the German commanders became much smarter, especially in the central region, and it was already impossible to want hundreds of thousands to hundreds of thousands of siege wars. We can only rely on some specific circumstances to fight some large-scale annihilation in the southern region.
When the Khrushchev group was annihilated in the Crimea, and then the battle of Kharkiv and Donetsk ended, the Germans no longer had hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of encircling Soviet troops. The war has become more and more and stalemate. Most of the places where the two sides broke out are in and around the city. The kind of large-scale wild battles have become less and less, and the cities that have been contested often become a ruin.
"Send the situation here to the Supreme Command, and tell the head of state that we are in trouble." Guderian finally gave the order, and then urged his convoy and the guard to continue to advance at the fastest speed, so early He rushed to the Don River line and inspected the German preparations for crossing the river.
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In Akado ’s office, he and several combat staff, as well as Braušić are discussing the combat situation on the South Line. When the news from Guderian came back, the news from Manstein had reached half an hour. The situation encountered by the two of them is similar, or the situation encountered by the troops under the two of them is similar.
The Soviets are shrinking their lines of defense throughout the southern theater, and many areas have no resistance at all. They blew up bridges and even railways and highways, completely paralyzing the traffic in the entire region.
This tactic just hit the weak points of the German army. The first German army relied heavily on the smoothness of the traffic line to ensure the smooth attack of its own troops. The second was very unwilling to launch street fighting in the city, wasting its own troops.
"The Soviets were very smart in this retreat. They concentrated their forces and extended our traffic line." Blauchich pointed to the map and said: "The problems encountered by General Manstein's m group army are particularly obvious. They seldom encountered the Soviet army all the way down the road, and there is news that the Soviet army is defending in Georgia. "
Akado coldly looked at the changing markers on the map, and the two women officers were using long wooden push rods to push the positions of several of the main Soviet forces on the map. These troops are retreating backwards, and generally only operate at night to avoid interference from the Luftwaffe.
This method is a bit like another German army in 1944 in space and time. It was suppressed by the overwhelming air force of the Allied forces. It could only use night operations to reinforce the Normandy region. If you are attacking against the Germans, this method of marching only at night will obviously slow down the speed, but if you turn around and run away, you can run far in the night.
"Catherine's air force ... can destroy these railways and bridges, and block the Soviets on this retreat road." Akado asked, pointing to the map. When it comes to this specific tactic, most of his situations I will not comment on it, because compared with other German generals, his tactical level is that of Khrushchev.
Elementary school students do n’t give a group of doctoral students higher mathematics classes. That ’s why Akado does n’t want to give more opinions. But sometimes he still asks some questions, so that the frontline general will give him a reasonable explanation. This allows him to learn a lot of professional commanding skills, as well as some modern versions of war trade-offs.
Sure enough, Blauchich explained: "My head, Catherine did destructive bombing at some stations and transportation hubs, but the effect was very unsatisfactory. Many Soviet troops are pure infantry, and their load is very small. , So it is not entirely dependent on rail and road transport. "
"So the limited bombing of our army did not prevent them from continuing to withdraw." Brousich pointed to the place where Catherine had bombed, and further said to Akado: "Here, and here, we have all bombed, However, the main force of the Soviet army only delayed the retreat, but it was still retreating south. "
Then he sighed again, helplessly continued to explain to Akado: "But after our army lost these bombed railways, the supply of materials and transportation became more troublesome, which led to Manstein ’s When the troops pursued, their speed also decreased. "
This is why the Germans did not dispatch the Air Force to bomb the railway transportation line. In the future, Germany will have to repair these destroyed roads, and rely on these roads for supply and transportation. It is only the destruction of the Soviets themselves, which has caused the German maintenance forces to complain.
"So, the troops in the southern theater will inevitably encounter the city street battles we least want to see?" Akado looked at the familiar city names one after another, including Grozny, Baku, etc. , And finally murmured like a question.
"Yes, my head of state. But we have a targeted plan for this." Blauchic walked behind Akado and persuaded, "This plan will allow us not to take too much into account of the street fighting."
Akado nodded his head. This plan was jointly developed by some army activists and SS. It is not a plan, but a means of adapting to street fighting in disguise. The Army plans to cooperate with the SS to develop retired adult men over the age of 40 and non-military-aged children over the age of 15 to 18 years to form a new force and put them into urban combat.
Because these troops are not expensive armored forces and do not need to invest in large-scale training costs, in theory, they can stand up to any consumption straightforward, that is, to get some cannon fodder and the Soviets to consume, use non-main forces to bear in Terrible losses in city operations. Of course, this plan is very inhumane for Germany itself, which is one of the important reasons why Akado has not approved such action.
"Tell Vlasov to come to my office! I want to talk to him!" After thinking about it, Akado said to Braušić: "If I have to consume soldiers, I would not be willing to uselessly." The great people of Germany. "
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