Chapter 276: Summer Thunder (8)
"My FΓΌhrer, it is not possible to go on like this, we are not going to Russia to do good deeds. www.biquge.info"Keitel, who heard the news, rushed to hear the news and looked anxious, "These personnel have restrained a lot of our manpower, material resources, and energy, and the troops are still fighting, which will affect the progress of the campaign......"
"What do you say?" Hoffman glanced at him, "Send the SS Einsatzgruppen to manage it with machine guns?" β
"This ...... This ......" beads of sweat poured out of Keitel's head, and finally he finally squeezed out a sentence, "It's not going to work." β
"So what do you say?"
"How about fending for yourself?"
Hoffman shook his head: "If there is no Russian PLA now, this is possible, but with them you can't do this." β
"Why not? I don't think Vlasov himself thinks so, besides, they dare to oppose what you decided? β
"He doesn't think so, and he will never dare to object, but don't you forget, the Russian People's Liberation Army now has more than 400,000 people, and these more than 400,000 people think the same way as him? Can you guarantee that these 700,000 civilians will not have the relatives, friends, and old friends of these 400,000 troops? Let's not say that we are here to liberate the Russian people, and if we don't save ourselves in the face of death, we will not be able to stand on our feet in the first place, what do you make the ordinary officers and soldiers of the Russian Liberation Army think? What do you think of us? Hoffman sighed, "Russia is so big and so far away from us, it is not possible to rule directly, we must have a friendly regime to help us and obey us, if this regime is not rooted in the support of its own people but purely by force, how long can its rule last?" β
"You always think that as long as our troops are in one day, the situation will not be chaotic...... But do you know how much we put into the Eastern Front? 80 percent of the combat troops, more than 70 percent of the war resources are all on the Eastern Front, and we cannot withdraw our troops for a day if the war does not end the fighting, and we have at least permanently lost 1 million people for the Eastern Front, and it will be difficult for the country to bear the loss of another 1 million. Can't the war end and we still maintain millions of troops in Russia and the countries of the East, right? Then we are the biggest fools in the world! There is no need to support them to establish an independent state, so they can just rule directly......"
Keitel thought and thought about it, and had to nod hesitantly, thinking that what the FΓΌhrer said made sense.
"So what do we do now?" He cried with a sad face, "Not only can you not kill but you have to take care of it, but you have to take out food for nothing, and what's more, the battle to besiege Sakhatov will be affected." This is no longer a military issue, this is a political issue. β
"Let the troops stop the front first, concentrate on transporting a batch of food, and then transfer people to the rear for resettlement, so that the Russian Liberation Army can free up energy to do this, and whoever does a good job can get the ideal position in the government in the future." Hoffman spread his hands helplessly, "Now keep the pressure on Sakhatov first, and then continue the military operation in two days, anyway, the enemy can't beat it, so let them hold out for a few more days." β
On 16 July, a rare scene occurred in the history of warfare, in which the attacking forces in the central theater of the Eastern Front were all notified to suspend their advances, consolidate and maintain order in the occupied areas, and to send the Russian troops back as much as possible, waiting for a few days before returning to the offensive. The Red Army's hundreds of thousands of troops failed to stop the German army's advance, but 700,000 civilians actually did it. However, the middle and senior officers of the army complained that none of them believed that the decision was wrong, and that the harm to civilians in war was inevitable, but the deliberate massacres and looting made conscientious troops despised.
Many soldiers angrily stated: "We thought that the defeat of Stalin was just a slogan, and from now on, this is not only not a slogan, but our goal!" We are going to destroy this cannibalistic system and destroy this unprecedented tyrant! β
But Hoffmann apparently underestimated the shamelessness of Comrade Steel, and in the days that followed, crowds of men poured in from all directions to German positions and refugee camps, most of them genuinely old, weak, sick and disabled, but also quite a few Russian partisans mixed in. The guerrillas' tactics are also not simple, they do not choose the German positions to attack, nor do they fight hard, but hide in dark corners to attack, or pretend to be the Russian Liberation Army to cause waves of chaos in the refugee camps; Or spreading rumors that the refugee camps are massacres and that all of them will inevitably die in the future, in short, they are trying to disrupt order by all means.
Of course, the Russian People's Liberation Army, which has repeatedly suffered losses, is not good at stubble, the slightest movement is a shuttle sweeping past, and there is also personal revenge, most of the time this way of dealing with it must be wrong, and it is inevitable that civilians will die under the bullets, which has aggravated the emotional confrontation and tension between Russian civilians and the Russian People's Liberation Army. Two days later, telegrams from the commanders of the armies, who had been overwhelmed, flew in like snowflakes to complain.
"Send in the SS special forces." Hoffman had no choice but to find Himmler and explained, "I have ordered the Wehrmacht and gendarmerie to take over all the refugee camps, the special task force is responsible for screening, and the Russian People's Liberation Army is responsible for transporting and transferring personnel. β
"Need a final solution? I asked the front line, and they were all old, weak, sick and disabled, and there was no value to be used. β
Hoffman shook his head: "If it is finally resolved, then we will waste all our efforts, we will have to get people to the rear anyway, it doesn't matter if the mortality rate is higher, it is the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, they will put this account on the heads of the Bolsheviks." β
"I've heard that there are quite a few of them, more than 1 million." Himmler smiled bitterly, "It took a lot of effort to arrest a million Jews, and to be honest, it was very troublesome to achieve a final solution all at once." β
"Close! Take it all! Hoffman gritted his teeth and said, "Even if it is 2 million, I will settle this account with Stalin in the future." β
Hoffman didn't know that Stalin's initial plan was 2 million, but the German army was advancing too fast, and the grassroots party organizations did not have time to deploy the organization, and among the 700,000 people, more than 300,000 were actually lured by the food and aroma of the German refugee camp, which was not a planned factor, but it was also enough for the Germans to be busy for a while.
After hearing a lot of disgusting news, Rommel finally came back with a very heartening news: his troops had successfully landed on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, met with little resistance, and sent troops to seize the nearby small port and find a large open space to establish an airfield.
"Very good, strike quickly, don't give Stalin a chance to breathe, the middle battlefield let his plot succeed, what to do with him here in the Caspian Sea?" (To be continued.) )