A Willis jeep was driving on the streets of Hangzhou, and in the cab of the jeep sat an officer wearing a Type 40 armored corps' black combat uniform and a black boat-shaped cap. The officer was blonde and blue-eyed www.biquge.info with fair complexion, a pair of deep eyes and a cold and beautiful face formed a unique beauty, and the two-bar three-star rank on the collar was showing others that this was a colonel officer, she was not a bystander, it was Adele, who was the commander of the first armored division and the first regiment at the time.

The current time is October 15, 1941, a full year has passed since the last battle of Shanghai, in this year, although the Third Army and the Japanese army are still exchanging fire, but the scale of the battle is not too large, there is no longer a year ago that hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn to fight to the death scene, presumably the Japanese also know that Su Jin has become a wing, want to completely eliminate him is probably unrealistic, and Su Jin does not have the intention of expanding the territory outward, Instead, he took advantage of this rare time to develop Zhejiang's local economy with Zhang Zhizhong, who is the chairman of Zhejiang Province, and worked hard to expand the strength training team.

Although the Third Army did not engage in large-scale battles with the Japanese during this year, many major events took place in the international arena, the most shocking of which was the Soviet-German war that broke out in June.

At dawn on June 22, 1941, Hitler mobilized 190 divisions, 3,700 tanks, 4,900 aircraft, 47,000 artillery pieces and 190 warships, a total of 5.5 million people, divided into three army groups, and launched a surprise attack on the Soviet Union in the form of blitzkrieg from the north, center, and south, and the Soviet-German war broke out. In the first few months of the war, the German army triumphed all the way, and in just four months, the Soviet army lost millions of troops and more than 800,000 square kilometers of land, and this sudden war also shocked the whole world, even the generals of the Third Army, which was thousands of miles away, began to pay attention to this war, and just yesterday, the military commanders of all units of the Third Army at and above the regimental level also received an order to rush to Hangzhou to participate in the military conference, and Adele, who was leading the exercises in Shaoxing, also hurried to Hangzhou in person. In a hurry, she finally came to Hangzhou City at noon.

The car stopped in front of the headquarters of the Third Army, and Adele, who got out of the car, handed over her military ID card to the officer on duty at the door for inspection, and then walked to the door of the conference room under the leadership of a lieutenant.

Seeing Adele arrive, many people stood up to greet her, including two brigade commanders. Adele has been in China for almost two years, she has captured the hearts of many people with her strong military skills and efforts, coupled with her beautiful appearance and cold temperament, although she is not a Chinese, but there are still many officers who love him secretly launched an offensive against her, such as writing letters, sending flowers and other means, but the frustrating thing is that the German Yanma is unapologetic to those suitors, and those who love to pursue her are all closed.

Adele bowed her head and greeted the people in the room, then sat down next to Fred, who was on the left hand side of the long table.

Fred looked at his watch and whispered to her, "Adele, you're going to be late for two minutes!" ”

Adele said helplessly: "Dad, I have arrived as soon as possible, you must know that when I received the telegram, I was leading the troops to conduct exercises more than a hundred kilometers away, and I am already thankful to God that I am not late." ”

Fred shrugged helplessly and stopped talking, he knew very well his daughter's temper, and he had always attached great importance to discipline and time, since she said so, it meant that she did her best, just when he wanted to whisper, a voice sounded at the door, "All stand up, Chief Su has arrived!" ”

"Whoa!"

A neat voice sounded, dozens of officers in the conference room stood up and saluted towards the door, and then Su Jin, who was wearing a military uniform, walked into the conference room with a steady pace, followed by Zhou Yusheng, chief of staff of the Third Army, and saw Su Jin walking all the way to the first seat of the conference room and then glanced around at everyone, and then returned a military salute and said loudly: "Everyone, please take a seat!" ”

"Rite over...... Sit down! ”

"Whoa!" After everyone had finished saluting, they sat down.

Su Jin and Zhou Yusheng also sat down separately.

Su Jin's sharp gaze looked around everyone's faces, and then he said: "Everyone here may think it is a little strange, today is neither a major festival, nor has there been any major events, but I have gathered everyone over, why?" I know that all of you here are busy people, and I have a lot of things to take care of, so naturally I won't be idle and come to me to talk nonsense, but I can't do it, and I think it's better to talk to everyone about some things, so I called you all here. ”

Hearing the tone of Su Jin's words, many people who originally thought that something big had happened breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the expression and tone of their boss, it was estimated that it was really nothing serious.

Seeing that the originally slightly tense atmosphere began to ease, Su Jin continued: "Everyone, I remember that after the Soviet-German war broke out a few months ago, I once assigned you an assignment to let you carefully observe this war, and write a report in combination with the international situation and give it to me. ”

After Su Jin's words fell, many people began to look at each other, and some even had a layer of white sweat oozing from their foreheads. Although Su Jin has issued an order to forcibly implement the study culture in the army in recent years, calling on soldiers to be educated and idealistic soldiers, but after all, the foundation is still too thin, and many people cannot become a knowledgeable scholar in just two or three years even if they study hard. This is almost like asking for their lives, and now that Su Jin has begun to collect his homework, many people's faces immediately began to become bad.

Seeing the bitter gourd face that everyone began to present, Su Jin and Zhou Yusheng glanced at each other, and both of them showed helpless expressions on their faces at the same time. Su Jin sighed secretly, although the generals and officers under his command have been trained by the war for several years, their command level and reflection on the operation are already very good, but in terms of the overall situation and the analysis and judgment of the international situation, they can only be said to be at the level of primary school students. Of course, Su Jin didn't expect his subordinates to produce a military strategist like Clausewitz or Jiang Baili, but at least he had to have a basic understanding and judgment of the international situation, otherwise people who would only stare at their own one-third of an acre of land were doomed to have little interest, and it was precisely because of this idea that Su Jin assigned that homework to these officers, but now Su Jin felt that his expectations were still too high.

Su Jin glanced around at everyone and said to Huang Weiguo: "Weiguo, you are the commander of the 347th Division, you can talk about your views on the Soviet-German war and the prediction of the future trend." ”

Huang Weiguo glanced at some people around him "gloating", glared at him, and then stood up, coughed lightly before saying, "Sir, I see it this way." According to the information we have received in these days, the war has been going on for less than four months, the Soviets have abandoned the entire Baltic coast on the northern route, 24 divisions of the Soviet army have been completely routed, 20 divisions have lost 60% of their personnel and equipment, and the German Army Group North has quickly reached the city of Leningrad. In the middle, Minsk, the capital of Belarus, fell, the Soviets retreated 350 kilometers, 30 divisions were annihilated, 70 divisions lost more than 50% of their personnel, and a total of 500,000 people were lost. On the southern road, the Germans had already driven straight to the Dnieper River, and then surrounded the main force of the Soviet Southwestern Front in the Battle of Kiev, including the commander of the Southwestern Front, General Kirponos, the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Tupikov, and a number of high-ranking generals and 660,000 Soviet troops were completely annihilated, and the Soviet army lost more than 1.5 million troops in just a few months, so I think that if the war continues at this pace, the Soviets will be finished in one to two years at most. ”

"Well, sit down!" Su Jin nodded noncommittally and motioned for Huang Weiguo to sit down, and then said: "From your answer just now, it can be seen that you still have a certain understanding of the current situation in the Soviet Union, do anyone here have different opinions?" ”

As Su Jin asked, the generals and officers present all bowed their heads slightly. For these people, if they are allowed to fight wars and assign combat missions, they will jump more than anyone else, but if they are allowed to express their views on the international situation, it will cost them their lives.

"Why, no one is talking?" Su Jin said with some displeasure.

"Sir, the department has something to say!" At this time, a general stood up, and Su Jinding couldn't help but show a smile on his face, "It turned out to be Fumin, do you have any high opinions to say?" ”

It turned out that the person who stood up was Sun Liren, the commander of the 350th Division at the time.

I saw Sun Liren raise his head and said loudly: "Chief Su, colleagues, I don't dare to be a high-level opinion, but I do have some shallow views on the situation in the Soviet Union that I want to discuss with you, please advise Chief Su and your colleagues together!" ”

"Okay, you say!" Seeing Sun Liren stand up, Su Jin was happy in his heart, his expectations for Sun Liren were still very high, this general who graduated from Tsinghua University and the Virginia Military Academy in the United States can be said to be a rare talent in both civil and military affairs among the generals of the national army in this era, Su Jin is looking forward to him being able to say some eye-catching insights.

I saw Sun Liren say: "I have a slightly different opinion on Division Commander Huang's opinion, just now Division Commander Huang said that the Soviets have suffered heavy losses, which is indeed true, judging from the current situation, the Soviets have lost 1.5 million in just four months, and the loss of nearly one million square kilometers of land has been lost. Since August 1940, when the three Baltic countries joined the Soviet Union, it covered an area of 10,000 square kilometers and had a population of 180 million. What does it mean that Germany has a land area of only 370,000 square kilometers and a population of only 80 million? ”

Sun Liren flashed resolute eyes and said slowly: "This also means that the ratio of land area between the Soviet Union and Germany is 60.5:1 (about 5:1 when the Soviet-German war broke out), and the population ratio is about 2:1. The total number of troops that Germany can mobilize is about 1,700, while the total number of troops that the Soviets can mobilize is 50 million, such a huge disparity also means that it is not easy for Germany to quickly conquer the Soviet Union, and now the Soviets have lost more than one million people, and the next battle has to be fought! ”

As soon as Sun Liren's words fell, Li Wei said: "Division Commander Huang, the account can't be counted like this, what you just said is only the war potential of the Soviet Union, but to turn potential into strength is not just based on a piece of data, how much money, materials and time will be spent during this period, and can the Soviets form a huge force again so quickly to fight the Germans?" You know, what the Germans are best at is blitzkrieg. As far as I know, at the beginning of the war, it took only 3 weeks for the Germans to advance in depth to 400~600 kilometers in the territory of the Soviet Union. ”

"Not necessarily!" At this time, Huang Baitao also spoke, only to see him retort: "As the saying goes, the end of a strong crossbow is not enough to wear Lu Min, although the German blitzkrieg is powerful, but it is based on a powerful air force, unexpected main attack location and new tank tactics, the Soviet Union is not France and Poland, it has a vast and boundless space, with the elongation of the battle line, the Germans' logistics will become more and more difficult, and finally it will become overwhelming, and it is uncertain whether the blitzkrieg can continue." ”

"Division Commander Huang, I don't agree with what you say, you must know that the Soviet Union's economic center of gravity and population are mainly concentrated in their western region, and most of their eastern areas are vast and uninhabited areas, and few people visit, so as long as they occupy the western region of the Soviet Union, the Soviets will lose most of their war potential, can they still fight?" Li Wei continued to retort.

Huang Baitao's head shook like a rattle: "Not necessarily, if this is the case, the Soviets can move the capital." Just like us in China, we will move the capital to Wuhan if we lose Nanjing, and we can also move the capital to Chongqing if we lose Wuhan, in short, as long as there are people, it will not be a problem! ”

"The Soviet Union is not China, and their geographical location determines that moving the capital is a difficult thing, and we can't compare them with China."

Several people began to argue, and slowly the entire conference room of officers and generals also joined the discussion.

Looking at the red-faced officers arguing with each other, Su Jin did not get angry but nodded secretly. It is a good thing to have arguments, benign arguments can open up people's thinking even more, and it can also make these generals who originally only focused on the country to look at the international community, on the surface, Huaxia has not solved its own problems but began to care about the Soviet-German war, which is purely superfluous, but Su Jin thinks that such things can improve the generals' thinking and overall situation, and it is very beneficial to their growth.

The argument lasted for nearly an hour, and in the end, almost all the officers in the entire conference room participated, and dozens of officers debated the views of Sun Liren, Huang Baitao, Huang Weiguo, and Li Wei, and neither side could convince anyone, and finally Zhou Yusheng forcibly stopped the debate.

"Okay, don't argue first, now let's listen to Chief Su's lecture first!"

Everyone stopped arguing and turned their eyes to Su Jin. Su Jin smiled faintly, turned his head to the two people who didn't speak, and said, "Adele, you and Fred haven't spoken, I want to know your opinion." ”

In the face of dozens of sharp eyes, Adele did not have stage fright, but said calmly: "In fact, I have exchanged opinions with Division Commander Fred a few days ago, and we agreed that it is very difficult for Germany to quickly destroy the Soviet Union without the intervention of foreign forces. Although Germany's armored forces and blitzkrieg are powerful, as General Huang Baitao said, this is based on a powerful air force and new tank tactics, which are fatal to France and Poland, which are small in terms of land area, but it is different for the huge Soviet Union, the Soviets have enough time, space, resources and troops to spend with the German army, although I used to be a member of the German army, it stands to reason that I should be biased towards Germany, but I still have to say fairly, It may be very difficult for the Germans to defeat the Soviet Union quickly, and this war will turn into a protracted tug-of-war! ”

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

After Adele finished speaking, Su Jin applauded softly. He nodded with a smile and said: "Very good, Adele said it very well, and your analysis has its own reasoning, I also think that Germany's strategy of wanting to quickly destroy the Soviet Union is doomed to bankruptcy, in addition to the above reasons, the United States and Britain will not watch Germany occupy the Soviet Union, because it will be a nightmare for them." Therefore, Roosevelt would support the Soviet Union even if he fought hard. ”

Hearing this, Huang Weiguo and Li Wei's eyes dimmed a little, and Su Jin's speech directly set the tone for this matter, and then Su Jin said: "But you only saw the war between the Soviet Union and Germany, but you forgot the movements of the Japanese who were close to us, which makes me feel very sorry." ”

"Japan?"

Everyone was taken aback, and Li Wei couldn't help muttering: "The Germans are fighting with Lao Maozi, what does it matter to the Japanese?" Could it be that the Japanese have the courage to fight with Lao Maozi again? ”

The people around him also talked a lot, and they didn't understand why Su Jin suddenly wanted to talk about the Japanese when they were talking about things between Germany and the Soviet Union.

Looking at the confusion in everyone's eyes, Su Jin sighed lightly and said lightly: "Everyone, haven't you ever thought that the Japanese would fight with the Americans?" (To be continued.) )