Hoffman nodded, since the successful imitation of the Motorola walkie-talkie and the introduction of the German-made small walkie-talkie into the field command system, the command efficiency of the troops has been improved a lot. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Keitel, Zeitzler, Rommel, Guderian, and others have heard his "ideas" for future military reforms, and although every "whimsy" in the Führer's mouth still seems to be very difficult now, it does not prevent them from understanding and adapting and absorbing it -- if someone proposed that future wars should be mechanized and blitzkrieg 10-15 years ago, this must be the case.

According to his request and "technical intelligence," German experts quickly developed a special radio system for the command headquarters mounted on a half-track armored vehicle -- this is not to say that Germany did not have a vehicle-mounted command radio system before, in fact, German radio equipment is considered first-class in the world, and the reason why it is prefixed with "special" is because this radio system is unique and uses a standard laboratory product -- transistors.

After the invention of the transistor in 1929, due to the difficulty of purification, cost factors, reliability, etc., has not been put into practical use, all radios use electron tubes, limiting the power of the radio, but Hoffman proposed that the transistor must be used to develop a new radio system, experts are very difficult to create this system and like an ordinary car radio system installed on an SDK251 command vehicle, although the production process is time-consuming and laborious, but the effect is far beyond the times, When it pulls out the 10-meter-high roof Yagi antenna and transmits a telegraph signal, it can achieve point-to-point communication anywhere in the world, and the distance can reach up to 400 kilometers when transmitting voice signals (it becomes less clear when ordinary car radio stations exceed 50 kilometers).

Speaking of Yagi antennas and magnetrons are the first things that Japan came up with, but they have not been taken seriously in Japan, Yagi antennas have been relatively popularized in Europe and the United States before the war, and the magnetron was occasionally discovered by German radar experts after Japan and Germany carried out technical exchanges -- the effect is very good when it is used to transform the sea beat radar, and the United Fleet admires Germany's radar and communication technology very much, and they did not expect that the source of some key technologies is actually in Japan.

Only two of these command vehicles were produced, each of which cost more than the Tiger tank, and all of them were given to Army Group South, and Manstein was not stingy, and the two division commanders Hube and Dietrich, who were responsible for the main attack, were each assigned one, and now this call was made by Hube to report to the command with an early attitude, and when he heard that the Führer was also at the headquarters and talked to him, he was obviously very excited.

Through the communication with Hube, Hoffman grasped the situation of the front line in time: Hube first launched an attack with a Tiger heavy armored battalion as bait, luring Rokossovsky to send tanks to encircle it, when the Red Army used 2 tank armies to try to encircle and annihilate this heavy armored battalion, the 16th Panzer Division quickly attacked and outflanked the two tank armies in a pincer offensive, and when the other side was anxious to send the last two tank armies into the field, Dietrich's Guard Flag Division and two other heavy armored battalions appeared, An unprecedented tank battle broke out between the two sides in the Morozovsk area.

There were 1,500 or more armored vehicles (tanks, assault guns, self-propelled guns) engaged in the battle, the Germans invested more than 800, the Red Army invested more than 600, and Hube and Dietrich each had a tank battalion on hand as a reserve, ready to go into battle at the last moment. Of course, it is said that 1500 armored vehicles are put into battle, but in reality there may be only 500-600 tanks engaged directly face to face, and the rest are either outflanking or providing support. Judging by Hubey's hearty laughter, it seems that the battle is going well.

After listening to the introduction, Hoffman immediately remembered the tank battle that took place in Prokhorovka in the historical Battle of Kursk: the protagonists of that tank battle were three SS Panzer Divisions, namely the Guards Banner, the Reich and the Skeleton Division, and their opponents were the 5th Tank Army of the Red Army. This time the protagonists were changed to the 16th Panzer Division and the 4th Tank Army, and the situation was undoubtedly much more favorable than the number of tanks on the German and Soviet sides in that battle - the Germans were outwhelmed not only in tank performance, but also in numbers.

He did not want to interfere in the decision-making of the front-line commanders, but when he thought of the situation in the Battle of Prokhorovka, the tank crews of the two sides were still fighting each other hand-to-hand after the tank was destroyed, he immediately admonished: "After the tank is destroyed, we must do everything to keep those car crews, and we must not let them do the work of ordinary infantry -- tanks can be rebuilt if they are gone, and they will never work if they are gone." ”

Hu Bei was stunned for a moment, and immediately agreed.

As he spoke, the telephone receiver was accompanied by the distant sound of shelling and the roar of bomb explosions, and in the interval between the explosions, Hoffman could clearly hear the sound of a large number of "ulla" on the front line, followed by a burst of "ulla".

Putting down the phone, he frowned and asked, "The Russians are fighting back?" Why is it always 'Ulla'? Without the shouts of our fighters. ”

"Führer, in fact, 'Ula' is not all the enemy's, at least half of it is our army, and our army is even louder."

After Weller's explanation, the others understood: the first "Ula" was the cry of the Russian Liberation Army, and they followed it with the slogan "For New Russia!" The second "Ula" was the Red Army, and they followed it with the slogan "For Stalin!" ”

"You dragged the Russian People's Liberation Army to attack the fortifications?" Hoffman asked, confused, "Didn't you keep saying that you should be on a defensive mission?" ”

Manstein turned his head to Keitel, and the look in his eyes was obvious: it was you who repeatedly explained that you wanted fewer dead, so of course I pulled the Russian PLA up and beat it!

Keitel shrugged his shoulders and gave him a helpless look, as if to say: "Don't look at me, the 50,000 casualty target is set by the Führer." ”

Manstein explained: "Didn't I bother with the speed of progress before you came? Pulling the Russian PLA up was a strategy to reduce the speed without arousing the suspicion of the Red Army, and it seems to have worked out quite well. ”

In the initial strategy of Army Group South, the Russian People's Liberation Army wearing German uniforms was the second echelon, ready to follow the breakthrough and expand the occupied area after the front-line troops opened the gap, but occasionally found that the Russian Liberation Army "pulled hatred" was particularly effective, ordinary Red Army units in the face of such a fierce attack of the German army most of the time only hastily resisted and retreated, but when the Russian Liberation Army came to attack, usually the two sides would fight to the end, and the battle would not end at all without the defeat of one side, The Russian Liberation Army was like a flesh and blood magnet, firmly attracting the attention of the Red Army.

Overjoyed, Manstein immediately took this characteristic to the extreme: he instructed the Russian Liberation Army to send 1-2 divisions to attract the attention of the Red Army in front of him, and then sent other troops to outflank him in a roundabout way, trying to prepare an encirclement for the Don Army Group in front of him, and Morozovsk was an important node in the encirclement. Manstein's heart is not dark, he doesn't want to kill the Don Front in one go, he just wants to eat 1-2 army groups of the other side, and it would be better if he could add another tank army.

"What are you going to do next?"

"Continue the offensive, push the Russians across the meanders of the Don and restore the front to the level it was last September." Lieutenant General Weller pointed at the sand table with his whip, "On the left flank of our army, General Hoth is holding back the enemy's Bryansk Front and Southwestern Front in clusters, and on the right flank of our army, General Kleist is holding down the Stalingrad Front and the Caucasian Front, and the main goal in the center of our Southern Army Group is to assault the enemy's Don Front. The total strength is 700,000 to 500,000, and the main areas have a force advantage of 1.5-2 times. In terms of technical weapons, the ratio of tanks to self-propelled guns in the central sector is 1500: 900, and the number of aircraft is 1500: 600, which has a 2-3 times advantage in the main breakthrough section. ”

"Considering that the spring thaw is approaching, the overall campaign window is only about a little more than three weeks, and the main forces will stop the offensive around April 15 and then use a week to retreat." "I wonder if this arrangement is enough to support the second phase of the 'Spring Awakening' campaign?" ”

Hoffman nodded: "In terms of time, it is enough, I would like to hear your plan and the arrangement of the second phase of the operation in detail." ”

"The enemy forces confronting this army group have a total of 5 fronts, with a total of about 2.3 million to 2.5 million men, and the goal of the first stage is to contain 4 fronts and focus on assaulting the enemy's Don front. According to the results of the tactical plan and the results of the war chess deduction, the results of the remaining four front armies are 15-200,000 people, the Don Front is also 15-200,000 people, tanks and aircraft are expected to be 1,000 and 800, and the permanent losses that our army intends to pay are ......," Manstein said after a pause, "The permanent losses of the German troops do not exceed 40,000, the Russian Liberation Army 30,000, the rest of the allied armies do not exceed 20,000, and the losses of tanks and aircraft are not higher than 300." ”

"As for the detailed plan for the second phase of the operation, it has not yet been finalized, but the goal is clear." Manstein drew a circle on the sand table, "By the end of May, the Caucasian Front of Tyulenev will be completely annihilated, and then 500-600,000 of the enemy will be eaten, and the total number of enemy troops on the southern flank of the Eastern Front will be reduced to less than 1.5 million, and our army will be united in the Don theater and the Inner and Outer Caucasus theaters, and if possible, the entire Caucasus region will be occupied." By then, counting the current 1,500,000 Army Group South, plus 1,000,000 Turkish and Iranian 150,000, we would have amassed 2,650,000 troops on the southern flank -- Stalin would need to draw at least 1,500,000 troops from the north and center to deal with it. At that point, Moder will be able to give it a go. (To be continued.) )