809 lost a port

Compared to the galloping speed of the German army's forward advance, this speed is even slow for tourism. However, with some government agencies, there are still many people dragging their families and mouths, and the speed can't be faster.

"Stop!" Hearing the news from someone, the secretary hurriedly shouted to the driver. The reason why he is so positive is because he really wants to get out of the car to breathe and rest by the way.

Stalin didn't want to sit in the car anymore, so he said a word, and then waited for the secretary to come and help him open the door.

Getting out of the car, Stalin looked at the secretary beside him, and then took a telegram from a distant distance from the hand of the messenger on horseback.

The convoy had already stopped, so the troops of the escort also stopped, and ordered one after another, and Vatutin, who was sitting in the back car, also came over at this time.

This Marshal Rongma, who was also pale at this time, could have come here as a flat train, but now that he has walked so many rugged detours, he is naturally very haggard.

He stood beside Stalin, watched Stalin's face become more and more ugly, and did not know what had happened again.

"Leningrad is lost." Stalin did not make Vatutin wait too long, and immediately said the contents of the telegram.

Then, all that Stalin was thinking about was the political shock caused by the loss of the city named after Comrade Lenin and the bad effects on him personally.

Losing the city named after the great men of the country is not a trivial matter. As the movie Soldiers Say in the city, this city is not Kiev, not Minsk, but Stalingrad! Stalingrad!

Now, Stalin could perfectly copy this line: it's not a mess there, it's Leningrad! That's the city named after my mentor and senior!

It's a pity that no matter how angry he is now, he can't change this fait accompli.

So he could only hand the document to Vatutin, sadly lit his pipe, put it in his mouth, and took a deep breath very, very hard, and let the spicy sensation permeate his lungs.

"Leningrad is lost, and the pressure in the Moscow direction is even greater." After all, Vatutin was a military commander, and after he saw the telegram, his first reaction was that Army Group North, as well as the Finnish troops, had been liberated!

The Finnish troops are fine, after all, they are not numerous, and they are more than enough to defend but not enough to attack.

However, these Finnish troops could help the German troops to guard the rear, maintain law and order, and even do some escort work.

Against some scattered Soviet partisans, the Finnish units were armed with captured German munitions, and they also had a high combat effectiveness.

After all, this army, which once defeated the Soviet attack, once came out of Simon? Heyer is such a terrible death.

And after the liberation of Army Group North throughout Germany, they could advance directly to the north of Moscow.

In half a month at most, the originally safe area north of Moscow will become a front line for both sides.

The western part of Moscow was already on the front line, and the southern sides were fiercely contested, but the initiative was always in Guderian's hands.

Rokossovsky had been planning a counterattack in the south to recapture some of his positions in order to secure the southern sector and prevent the Germans from actually encircling Moscow.

Now it seems that Rokossovsky's efforts may not have any effect - because the Germans are already crushing from the north, numbering in the hundreds of thousands!

If the north of Moscow is reduced to a battlefield, then a local victory in the south will not matter. When the time comes, Moscow will be surrounded on three sides, and it can really be said that it will be precarious.

On another point, Vatutin immediately thought of the problem of ports: if the Germans could use the important ports of the Soviet Union, would the supply problem that plagued the German army be solved?

"That's the city named after Comrade Lenin! How could it be lost there? Voroshilov ...... How could he be defeated so easily? "Stalin did not yet realize the seriousness of the fall of Leningrad on the military side.

It's not that he can't realize it, but in a short period of time, he hasn't shifted his thinking from the side of political influence to the side of military strategy.

Stalin was more military-savvy than many heads of state – the only problem was that he, like the historical Hitler, was a half-ass.

The failure of the Soviet invasion of Poland, which was caused by his intervention, was the fuse for Tukhachevsky and Stalin to turn the other cheeks.

Of course, it doesn't really matter whether the pot belongs to Tukhachevsky or Stalin and Voroshilov.

"The great leader, Comrade Stalin...... If the Germans had taken control of Leningrad, it would have been possible for the Germans to transport more ammunition to the front! Let Stalin vent for a minute, while the other party rested his mouth, Vatutin interjected.

Only then did Stalin realize that he had not only lost the city named after Lenin, but also a port with a significant throughput!

With this port, the Germans had one more transport route. In the past, transportation could only be carried out by railways in Poland and Belarus, but now it is possible to solve part of it by sea.

This made him very uneasy, because once he changed his mind to the military command model, and applied the Leningrad model, he could easily think of another way......

Yes, the Black Sea! The Mediterranean Sea is now an inland lake of the Axis powers. If as soon as Turkey agrees, then it will not be difficult for German transport ships to enter the Black Sea.

Through the unobstructed Mediterranean route, the German army will soon be able to transport large quantities of supplies to the Ukrainian front, which is the real disaster of the Ukrainian defense zone.

"It is unrealistic to retake Leningrad now, but it is necessary for us to give an order to hold all the ports of the southern front!" Stalin drew inferences and said to Vatutin.

"Even if you have to give up, destroy the entire port, blow up everything you can, and leave!" Later, he added another sentence to Vatutin.

Vatutin smiled bitterly and said: "Great leader, Comrade Stalin, have you forgotten the intelligence sent by the Americans about Sirte? ”

Many of the mysteries of Britain's failures in North Africa were sent to the United States as intelligence.

American research shows that the German army has a new technology that can build a temporary port in a short period of time.

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