Chapter 11: Fight your way out without a retreat

"No, it won't." Falkenson seemed to comfort Adrian.

But this answer dashed Adrian's last hope. Okay, I just won't let me go.

Adrian tried his best to restrain his emotions and said, "If I had a way, would I adopt it?" ”

Falkenson actually wanted to reject Adrian's inquiry, because this is not what a major general should say, marching and fighting is not child's play, and you want an affirmative answer without even saying a word? Falkenson wondered if this guy had graduated from a military academy.

Adrian's sentence was actually angry, and he didn't have the idea that Kenson promised himself, but he remembered that Hindenburg was also in this house before, and he came up with a countermeasure according to the script at that time, but was ignored by Hindenburg, and the last scene seemed to be repeated.

"I can't guarantee action or not, but I will value your proposal. You must know that every operation requires the approval of the Berlin General Staff. Falkensen still couldn't say no to him, but made it clear that he wouldn't be like Hindenburg did.

Adrian was surprised to hear Marshal Falkenson's answer, after all, the old marshal did not reject his absolutely stupid question, but rather valued himself. This is like the first time that a primary school student has been valued by the teacher, so that Adrian, who originally planned to get by, has a little hope, maybe the old marshal in front of him can really set things right?

Falkenson didn't bother Adrian when he looked at his already wandering eyes, but stood quietly with Adrian.

Adrian, who finally came to his senses, looked at the old marshal still waiting for his reply, and said embarrassedly: "I have some ideas, but I still need to think about it carefully." ”

Falkenson sighed secretly and nodded: "It's okay, it's really difficult to come up with a countermeasure for a while, but the shape and spirit are changing rapidly, and I hope you can ignore the past suspicions, young man, the days are still long, don't be so careful." Falkensen's words were actually secretly telling him to stop worrying about that little between you and Hindenburg, and to look at the situation in front of him, and to do it if he didn't want to be unlucky.

Adrian said as if he hadn't heard: "I need to find some people, these people have different official positions, and I hope that the commander-in-chief will make it convenient." ”

Falkenson agreed without hesitation, and he still knew the truth that people are easy to do. He also added that at this stage, he can exercise the same rights as him in the transfer of personnel. This is already very powerful, after all, his logistics chief plus the rank of major general is still not enough for the entire Eastern Front, and the level is not necessarily called, let alone those generals who are higher than him.

Adrian left the headquarters and did not return to the logistics command post, but arranged for a herald to pass on some of the news from here, and designated Hans Kruger as the chief of logistics to temporarily replace him, but he found a bunker in a trench in the camp of the base camp and set up camp. After all, this is the front line, unlike his logistics command post in the rear, where he can live in a high-profile civilian house and hang out all the time.

Adrian didn't ask too much for comfort, but ordered the orderly soldiers of various departments to crowd into this bunker and sorted out the list of personnel above the rank of lieutenant officer on the entire Eastern Front, while he himself took the history book and tried to find those cattle who had made a name for themselves in the future, hoping to gather them together and come up with a roughly feasible plan to give to Falkensen.

Of course, Falkensen's side didn't just expect Adrian to come up with a countermeasure, he had his own staff and his own personal team, and Adrian was just one of the options he had prepared for himself.

Adrian is looking for people who must have a certain amount of actual combat experience, and also have a certain number of good records in the later generations, otherwise he can only be trusted with the brilliance of the later generations and now he has no actual combat experience, but he is already very bad on paper, and he doesn't want to be ashamed.

After a quick look at his history books, he asked the orderlies to compare the names of the people they had copied, and found that most of these people did not serve on the Eastern Front, or they were simply still on the Western Front, and only a small number of them served in the Berlin General Staff, so Adrian had to circle a few people he particularly liked and copied another copy, and sent it to Falkensen, hoping to be transferred from the Berlin General Staff to the Eastern Front. Falkensen did not refuse, Adrian did not talk about the ability to march and fight, but it is not bad to mention knowing people, after all, he has the experience of a military school, and the logistics office of the Eastern Front can operate so efficiently is inseparable from Adrian's personnel transfer and promotion, this matter is not only known to people on the Eastern Front, but also known to the Berlin General Staff, after all, Adrian has poached a lot of talents from the Berlin General Staff, but at that time they were just poached lieutenant-level officers, and now Adrian's military rank is high, and he has begun to poach colonel-level officers.

Günther Hans von Kluge was one of those on the list, and he couldn't have been happier when he received the order. Taking the initiative to apply for a transfer and being appreciated by others, poaching from an existing unit are two different concepts, and the latter is obviously more proud. What's more, a senior who is not quite famous wants to poach himself, which makes Klug even happier, and without saying a word, he went home and simply said goodbye and got on the special train arranged by Adrian. Kluger was led by the attendant to a car close to the front of the car, only to find that there were already more than a dozen people of different ranks sitting in this car, from colonel to second lieutenant, and so on. He thought to himself, could it be that these were all transferred to the Eastern Front? Kluger saw a colleague who served with him in the Berlin General Staff and planned to go over and ask what was going on.

Günther Hans von Kluge found Witzleben, who had been wounded on the Western Front and had been transferred back to the General Staff, and Kluge had heard of Witzleben's deeds, and had been wounded twice on the Western Front, for which he was awarded the Iron Cross twice, and was promoted to lieutenant on the eve of his transfer.

At this time, Kluger, who was only a second lieutenant, walked up to Witzleben and saluted a military salute, which made Witzleben not embarrassed, but it was really because there was more than one colonel in this carriage alone, and you saluted me a lieutenant because you wanted to embarrass me?

Witzleben politely replied and motioned for him to sit casually, but Kluge spoke again.

"Lieutenant, are you also going to serve on the Eastern Front?" Kluge asked the question in his mind. However, it was a colonel next door who answered him.

"That's right, this carriage was specially prepared for us by Major General Eric, and as far as I know, the General Staff has unreservedly supported the operation on the Eastern Front this time at the behest of the Chief of the General Staff Moltke and His Majesty. Except for those who had already carried out operational deployments on the Western Front, all the personnel on the list of major generals were transferred back and went directly to this carriage with the transfer order. Because of the urgency of time, the first batch of personnel will set off tonight, and the specific time is unknown, it is confidential, that is, you are also one of them, so I will tell you. After the colonel finished speaking, he continued to hang his hat and continue to recuperate.

"I thought it was Major General Eric's handpick, hehe..." Klug smiled awkwardly after listening to the colonel's answer, but the colonel, who didn't want to deal with him, took off his hat and continued: "You guessed correctly, the people who can enter this carriage are all people hand-picked by the major general, up to the major general, down to the people who are only alternate second lieutenants, but they are all people who ask for names and wants. Just as Kluger was about to continue, the colonel, as if seeing through his intentions, continued: "Don't ask me why, I don't know, but I guess Major General Hoffman should know." With that, he pointed to the front of the carriage.

Just as these people were on the road one after another, Adrian, who was far away on the Eastern Front, stared at the telegrams coming from all over the place and took a deep breath, and then said proudly in front of a group of orderlies: "There is no way back, then kill one!" ”