The vast virgin land, the endless forests, the Russian-style rotten roads that burst the earth and dust, and the convoys crawling on the rotten roads, the march north to Leningrad was destined to be boring and boring.

When you are bored, you can tell jokes, but most of the time, Chen Dao is still used to discuss the battle situation on the northern front with Admiral Scheer.

The interior space of the VW82 barrel car was too small, and the two of them switched to a SDKFZ251 armored car.

Sitting in the armored car, two ammunition boxes were stacked in the middle of Chen Dao and General Scheer, and a map of the combat situation of the Northern Front was spread flat on the ammunition boxes.

After skillfully manipulating the map with a compass and a ruler, Admiral Scheer said to Chen Dao: "The pressure on Army Group North is too great, no wonder the Army Command will let us go north for reinforcements to help them open up the situation. ”

Chen Dao scratched his head, nodded and said: "Yes, the strength of the Northern Army Group is the smallest of the three army groups, but compared to the central and southern fronts, they have undertaken a lot of tasks, especially in the case of selective blindness of our army headquarters, no, it is a serious dereliction of duty, they bear a heavy pressure far beyond their ability to bear, so we have to go north to help them share part of the pressure, so that they can complete the task more efficiently." ”

As a veteran high-ranking army officer, Admiral Scheer's face became extremely ugly when he heard Chen Dao use the words "serious dereliction of duty" to describe the Army General Headquarters.

"Your Excellency, do you have conclusive evidence of what you said? If not, please withdraw the inappropriate term 'gross dereliction of duty'. The Army Command is the brain of the German Army, where the brightest minds of the German Army are brought together. If you don't have exact evidence. Don't judge them maliciously without permission. ”

Admiral Schelle's cold tone did not stir up any waves on Chen Dao's face at all. Chen Dao snorted coldly and said: "If it weren't for the incompetence of the Army General Headquarters, especially Halder's four-eyed boy, I wouldn't have appeared in front of you today, don't you want evidence?" I'll show you the evidence right away. ”

Chen Dao picked up a pencil and pointed to the battle line of Army Group North on the map and said, "Didn't you just say that Army Group North is under great pressure? Tell me first, where is the pressure on Army Group North? ”

Admiral Scheer did not hesitate to analyze: "Their greatest pressure lies in the width of the battle line, from west to east, the eastern front is a funnel-like terrain, and the further east the battlefield, the greater the width of the battlefield." In the area of the national border. Army Group North's battlefield width was about 300 kilometers, and after moving east into Estonia or advancing to the Leningrad line, the width of the battlefield increased to nearly 900 kilometers, which nearly tripled, which meant that if they could not get reinforcements from our northward or reinforcements from their base camps, their strength would quickly decay, and with it, a significant decline in offensive power. ”

"You're right, Mr. Admiral, tell you. The strength of Army Group North barely reached thirty divisions, which meant that they were each division. Whether it is an armored division, an infantry division, or a security division, on average, each division has to fight on a front as wide as 30 kilometers, and the pressure is not ordinary. This is the task assigned to them by our most intelligent Army Command.

Moreover, they will also capture Leningrad, the city named after Lenin, the importance of which I do not need to repeat, and the Russians will fight us to the death in this city. Anyone with the slightest military acumen could see the difficult situation faced by Army Group North, and the Army Command would certainly be aware of it, but in the battle plan they drew up, they did not even propose any solution to it. What is this not gross malfeasance, you say? Chen Dao said calmly.

Admiral Scheer retorted very unceremoniously: "The First Armored Army is going north for reinforcements, isn't it the response plan made by the Army General Headquarters?" ”

Chen Dao smiled, and the disdain on his face deeply stung Admiral Scheer.

"If the 1st Panzer Army's northward movement is a plan drawn up by the Army Command, do you think I, the Polish governor-general, are needed to come to the front to supervise the battle? You must not forget that my official position in the German Army is that of an adviser to the Army Armament Bureau, and this kind of combat operation will not send me as an adviser to carry out such combat operations under any circumstances. ”

What Chen Dao said was very reasonable, and Admiral Scheer was speechless for a while, and Chen Dao mercilessly continued to mend the knife in Admiral Scheer's heart.

Picking up the briefcase that was set aside, Chen Dao took out a document and handed it to Admiral Scheer.

"This is the detailed plan of the battle plan on the Eastern Front, you can take a look, can you find the part about this northward operation?"

Admiral Schell took the plan and scanned it quickly at a glance, frowning a little deeper with each page.

Chen Dao saw the subtle changes in Admiral Sher's facial expression, and continued to fan the flames on the side.

"You can't find it, I have read this plan four times, not to mention this northward operation, I have not even found the content of the reinforcements from the rear base camp, the northern army group has been completely ignored, not only the northern army group, in this eastern front battle plan, there is no interaction between the three army groups, they are simply fighting separately. The Army Command really disappointed me, but fortunately, it's not the first time, I'm used to it. ”

Admiral Scheer instantly felt that every word Chen Dao uttered was like a bullet, and his pride as a soldier of the German Army was instantly swept away.

What made him even more embarrassed was that there really wasn't anything in the battle plan about solving the thorny problems of Army Group North.

Deleted by the cruel reality of a resounding slap in the face, Admiral Scheer's self-esteem suffered a serious blow, and he was embarrassed and did not know what to say for a while.

Chen Dao watched coldly, and a sense of intellectual superiority surged uncontrollably in his heart.

I think that when he first saw this battle plan called "Barbarossa", Chen Dao, with his battlefield intuition cultivated by years of hard work on the front line, was keenly aware that there were serious flaws in this plan, but he couldn't say where the loopholes were.

After some painstaking research, a word called DOTA inspired Chen Dao.

Dota is a popular online competitive game in the future world. There are five heroes on each side of the battle. On three fronts, upper, middle and lower. and fighting in the wilderness covered in the middle of the three fronts.

Each side has three towers on each of the three fronts, which side can be the first to break through the defenses of the opponent's heroes, NPC creeps and three towers, attack the opponent's base camp, and demolish the opponent's base, which one will be convenient to win the final victory.

There is no doubt that Moscow on the Eastern Front had an unshirkable duty to play the role of a base on the Soviet side.

The operational directions of the three German army groups in the northern, central and southern regions corresponded to the upper, middle, and lower fronts.

On the Southern Front, NPC minions were formed by the German hero Fifth Panzer Army, "operated" by Guderian, as well as the 11th and 12th armies, as well as the armies of Hungary, Romania and Italy. On the territory of Romania and Hungary, fierce battles were fought with Soviet troops on the Southern Front, commanded by the Soviet hero Marshal Budyonny.

And on the Northern Front, that is, on the road, the Fourth Panzer Army "operated" by General Hepner faced the Soviet Hero General Kuznetsov, and according to reliable intelligence, behind the North-Western Front commanded by Kuznetsov, there was also the Soviet veteran Voroshilov's department.

On the two fronts in the north and south, the Germans pinned down the three heroes of the other side with two heroes, and in the middle of the road, they gathered the "three heroes" of the 123rd Panzer Army, and forcibly demolished the No. 1 defense of the Soviet army in the middle of Taminsk. and successfully sent the Soviet Army Central Hero General Pavlov back to the base Moscow to be shot, and the three heroes immediately marched to the Soviet Army's Central Road No. 2 Defense Tasmolensk.

The new heroes of the Soviet army, Zhukov and Yeremenko, were defeated by the powerful German offensive. The defeat retreated to the vicinity of Smolensk to form a defensive line.

At this time, in the battlefield situation, because of the geographical environment and the width of the battlefield, the attack of the hero Fourth Panzer Army of the German Army on the road was blocked, as long as it is a little tactical literacy of the DOTA players will know, at this time should quickly use the field between the middle and the north road and the fog of war as a cover, send at least one hero to the north, and cooperate with the Fourth Panzer Army to kill the opponent's lone hero Kuznetsov, breaking the stalemate on the northern front.

A battlefield analysis based on DOTA made Chen Dao's eyes suddenly brighten, but the excitement was followed by deep irritation.

As an immature Dota player, the battlefield situation can be understood, and the army headquarters Halder and Brauchitsch and the like are unaware, let alone formulate a response plan, which is really unbearable.

The more Chen Dao thought about Halder and Brauchitsch's corpse vegetarian meal, the more angry he became.

Admiral Scheer came back to his senses and looked at Chen Dao, and what he saw was Chen Dao's distorted expression when he was angry.

After a slight hesitation, Admiral Scheer decided to take the initiative to break the awkward atmosphere between the two.

"Your Excellency the Governor, since the Army General Headquarters has not formulated a plan to reinforce Army Group North, who gave the order for our northward operation this time?"

"Of course, I reminded the Führer, who then gave an order through the Supreme Command, and only then did this operation take place."

Sure enough, it was the masterpiece of the "Your Excellency Brother-in-law" in front of him, no wonder he appeared here, and the guess in Admiral Schelle's heart was confirmed.

I recall that at the beginning, before the French battle, after I and my colleagues in the army heard the prophecy of "Your Excellency Brother-in-law" about "the destruction of France in eight weeks", they used to wantonly ridicule and ridicule, especially during the dinner, the special title of "Your Excellency Brother-in-law" and his prophecy that was not even as good as a layman became the best topic to promote drinking.

After the end of the French campaign, the whole of Germany was immersed in the cheers of victory, but the cheers of the senior generals of the German army were weak.

Just because "Your Excellency Brother-in-law" and his great prophecy, yes, is "great prophecy".

This prophecy became a curse that weighed on the hearts of every senior Army officer.

As time passed, the eight-week prophecy was deliberately avoided by the German army officers, and gradually refrigerated, and no army officer would take the initiative to mention it.

However, when this incident was almost forgotten by everyone, only half a month after the outbreak of the war on the Eastern Front, the Army Command was seized by the "Your Excellency Brother-in-law" again.

Admiral Scheer was an upright soldier, and although he was one of the senior generals of the army, he had to admit at this time that the army command had indeed made a serious mistake, and this mistake could not be described as "serious dereliction of duty", and he could not find a suitable excuse to cover it up.

After thinking about it, Admiral Scheer made a decision that he would use the time he had been fighting side by side with the "Brother-in-law" to make sure that he would perform well and use his achievements to reshape the Army's image in the eyes of the "Brother-in-law."

Determined, Admiral Scheer asked: "Your Excellency the Governor, our ultimate goal is Leningrad, but what are our current priorities?" Cooperate with Army Group North to annihilate the Northwest Front? ”

Chen Dao nodded and said, "Yes, our immediate task is to destroy the Northwest Front under the command of the Russian hero General Kuznetsov and prevent them from retreating to the rear and joining up with another hero, Marshal Voroshilov." ”

Admiral Scheer's eyes lit up with a terrifying light.

"Your Excellency, do you use the word "hero" to describe Kuznetsov and Voroshilov, are they very powerful?"

Chen Dao scratched his head in embarrassment, his mind had been immersed in the World War II version of the DOTA battle situation analysis, and the word hero was just blurted out subconsciously, as for Kuznetsov and Voroshilov, whether they were five scum or combat effectiveness, he didn't know anything.

Just seeing the fire of fighting spirit that began to burn in Admiral Scheer's eyes at some point, Chen Dao naturally used a move to provoke the general.

"Yes, their combat effectiveness is extremely strong, and when you fight them, you must remember not to underestimate the enemy."

The fire of fighting spirit in Admiral Scheer's eyes burned even more vigorously, and it had a tendency to develop into a prairie fire.

"Thank you, Sir, for the reminder, I remember these two names." (To be continued.) )