Chapter 872: Fight

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Akado sat quietly in his chair, listening to Marshal Brouchich from the General Staff of the Landing Army reporting the number of casualties of the n-group army and the supplementary information of the front-line troops.
The casualties of more than 10,000 soldiers did not allow the troops to advance by more than a kilometer. This situation first appeared in front of the German army general. Such a huge loss reminds people of Verdun and the Somme, the deep trenches and the endless barbed wire, like the cold iron plate, which makes people's memories full of trauma.
"My head of state, we expect to lose more than 200,000 people in Stalingrad, but the current number may not be enough. It is possible that the casualties will exceed 300,000, or even 400,000. This situation is not acceptable to us. , Would you please consider the alternative plan of the General Staff to order the n-group army to stop the offensive? "Brouchich closed the information in his hand and asked Akado, who squinted slightly and listened to the document he was reading.
No wise man will let himself trip over the same stone twice, not to mention the German Army General Staff who has always boasted of being smart. They hated any memory of failure, and devoted a total of 120,000 to matters that have a little problem. These stubborn and rigorous Germans summarized and summarized data, repeated research and deductions, and feared that they would appear once again. Trouble.
For the German General Staff, Verdun and the Somme are undoubtedly two large areas of shadow in their hearts. As Akado went all the way from victory to victory, and finally made them more hypocritical, the loss of thousands of troops in the German army is enough to make people fuss, and everyone seems to be unable to bear the pain caused by the loss.
"My marshal! Fighting, how can there be no dead? This is what you said to me when you persuaded me." Akado opened his squinted eyes and said to Brauchich: "Along the way When you came to the city of Stalingrad, the loss of this 10,000 people made you as a marshal ... are you afraid? "
Marshal Brahich laughed bitterly. As the marshal of the empire, of course he would not be so gaffeous because of the loss of these 10,000 people, but if he thought of what would happen next, this is why he was so entangled.
So he took a step forward, closer to Akado, and said: "My head, I am not afraid of the loss of the 10,000 soldiers now, but that this kind of casualties will continue ..."
"You're right, the casualties will continue this time." Akado interrupted his words, then stared at Braušić with a pair of eyes. When he was uncomfortable, he continued to speak. : "And this kind of casualties will reach the peak in Stalingrad, one hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, it is not the end!"
He said, stood up, and stood in front of Marshal Brouchich: "General Küchler is better than you, your own plan of attack! This is the soldier of the empire, this is the I deserve to entrust the front to his general! "
Akado picked up a report that was placed on the coffee table and handed it to Braušić, who received the document from the headquarters of the Army Group n in the southern theater of the Eastern Front. The signature is the commander of the group army, Quhillel.
The content of this document made Brauchich frown. It even read that the first stage was to wipe out the surrounding defensive positions of Stalingrad at the cost of the casualties of 50,000 soldiers. Librau Hicci could not help but scold Qu Xieler for coming. Generally, the Germans on the edge of the city would use armored troops. In this case, casualties will be suppressed to very few.
But even so, the report estimated that the German casualties will still reach the terrible 50,000 people, it is difficult to imagine how the German army will pay a heavy price once the real city battle begins. Küchler held down the documents and continued to see what happened. Küchüller also clearly pointed out that in the second stage of the offensive plan he might have lost 250,000 troops.
No one has doubted the difficulty and blood of the city ’s battles, but a commander of hundreds of thousands of troops vowed to say that fighting a city is not the price of completely occupying the city. It was actually a time of 300,000 people. This inevitably makes people feel too cruel.
"My head." After the entire report, Brauchich felt as if he was struggling in the blood of Stalingrad's corpse. He felt that the blood had soaked his clothes, making him whole. Muddy, very uncomfortable.
But he still had a difficult opening and said his own opinion: "General Küchler's style of play, although it saves a lot of resources, but the sacrificed troops are unavoidable ... It is a bit too much."
He took a sigh of relief, and seemed to feel a little more comfortable before continuing to say to Akado in front of him: "I know that the offensive plan is to capture Stalingrad as soon as possible, but this may be a month as soon as possible, it may be For two months, was it too anxious to put troops into the city to fight so hurriedly? "
"I think the importance of Stalingrad doesn't have to be emphasized by me and the marshal, right?" Akado asked softly: "So I ordered Küchler to capture the city as soon as possible, which did not What's wrong. And you know, in the battle of Stalingrad, our army's loss ratio will not be higher than one-seventh. This is planned, and there is nothing worth repeating. "
Yes, many of the killed troops were prisoners left by the Soviet Union's cleansing movement that only trained for twenty days, and some volunteers from Ukraine. The use of these people to fill Stalingrad's pits is a consensus that the top German army has already unspoken.
After thinking of this, Brauchic's mood is slightly better. After all, it is foreigners who are sacrificed or a group of young German guys. This is actually a fundamental difference for a senior German general. At least the German troops in Braušić are elite and cannot easily spend their resources.
"But, my head of state." He thought a little bit suspiciously, and his tone was not as strong as before: "Even if the strength of our allies is so profligate, it is not necessary ..."
"We can weaken our allies in order to maintain our rule." In this regard, Akado is more professional than Blauchic. He handed Küchler's report to Brauchich if there was something wrong with the marshal's basic tactics, and not another reason: "We must take Stalingrad as fast as possible!"
Küchler's tactics were nothing more than to clear Stalingrad block by block. If you insist on evaluating this tactical arrangement, the only accurate adjective is rigid. In the late Qing Dynasty of China, there was a founder of the Xiang Army named Zeng Guofan. The basic tactic he planned for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was "to fight hard in a tough village". As a result, this set of tactics was almost completely copied by Küchler after 80 years. The report was handed to Akado.
Küchler divided the entire Stalingrad into countless small pieces, and then each small square cleared the competition. Guard the frontline areas with heavy troops and fight repeatedly with the enemy. His plan even calculated a few times for a region to best destroy the opponent's strength.
He also boldly persuaded Akado to launch special forces and conduct repeated cleanups in a small area to eliminate the enemy forces, to avoid the use of sewers and other facilities to penetrate and destroy the enemy forces. In order to deal with this tactic of the Soviet army, he suggested using elite small units to hold down the opponent, and then using large forces to annihilate.
On the other hand, Küchler did not care about Rokosovsky's counterattack, he even felt that the counterattack would cause greater casualties to the Soviet army, so he boldly speculated that Rokosovsky would give up within a month Large-scale counterattack of this means. This German general determined that the Germans would advance steadily and gradually, and then fully occupy Stalingrad. This is the most economical and fastest way to fight.
He predicted that the Soviets would desperately defend Stalingrad and tried to stay here for at least half a year. To this end, the Soviet army should invest more than 1 million troops. However, when the entire city has been reduced to ruins, the Soviet army's advantage will be completely lost, and it will become a place where the 300,000 infantry soldiers trained by the German army are galloping and galloping.
In his report, in order to refine the 300,000 elite infantry in Stalingrad, even if it lost 300,000 people, it was worth it. At least he felt that it would be well worth playing an elite n-group army in three months to help the Germans stabilize the forefront of the southern theater.
"It's useless to complain about the loss." Akado said to the Marshal Brauchich, who has a high reputation in the Army: "You carefully study General Küchler's frontline combat report. If there is no problem, I will Let him continue to attack according to this plan. "
"There is nothing wrong with the planning skills. Küchler is me and many senior army generals, so as a front-line commander, the battle plan he made is undoubtedly free of loopholes." Blauchic directly answered Akado confidently Question: "I'm just worried that the loss will cause the frontline soldiers to panic and increase domestic war exhaustion."
"It's better to end Stalingrad as soon as possible. Long pain is worse than short pain." Akado sighed. If there is room for choice, he does not want to attack the most inefficient city. But now the situation is that everything can't help him