"General Modell! The massive artillery coverage of the Soviet troops, has begun! Our losses are gradually increasing, should we withdraw our troops now? ”

Chief of Staff Everfeldt, who had just finished the meeting, followed Moder to the defensive line near the frontline again, observed the Soviet artillery bombardment with a telescope, and said bitterly. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Go ahead! Evacuate all our tanks that have not been destroyed and the soldiers who have not been killed in battle for a defensive battle! Wait for the Soviet artillery to cover it before launching a large-scale offensive to lure the enemy into deep combat! ”

Modell agreed without hesitation.

"Yes! General Moder! I'll go right away! ”

Chief of Staff Everfelt immediately responded.

"That's right, John! Have all the false targets of our second and third defensive fronts been deployed? ”

As Chief of Staff Everfelt turned to leave, Modell immediately turned to Stare at Chief Operational Staff Officer John and asked.

"It's all ready, we have deployed more than 400 tank models and more than 650 artillery models on each point, so that the Soviet artillery team can see clearly!"

Chief Operations Staff Officer John nodded and replied.

"Good! Well done! As long as the Soviets waste all their massive firepower on our false model targets, then we will be able to be suppressed by their artillery fire less when we counterattack! ”

Moder applauded happily.

"Even so, the No. 3 and No. 4 tanks we have sent out now have been destroyed by them hundreds of them at once, and there are already more than a dozen Tiger tanks and Leopard medium tanks! Such tank consumption, not very good for us! ”

"It costs 100,000 Reichsmarks to make a tank No. 4, and the raw materials needed to make a tank No. 4 require more than 30,000 kilograms of iron, more than 100 kilograms of rubber, and more than 200 kilograms of aluminum; More than 60 kilograms of lead, 200 kilograms of copper, more than 60 kilograms of zinc, and a little more than 1 kilogram of tin. ”

"And now we have lost almost two hundred No. 4 tanks at once in the past two days, which is a lot of money! And the raw materials we need to make them are becoming more and more scarce with the disadvantage of the war! And this time there are more expensive Leopard medium tanks and Tiger tanks, so I think we should try to avoid actively attacking the impregnable defensive positions of the Soviet army. ”

Hearing Modell's appreciative words, Chief Operations Staff Officer John was not happy at all, but worried.

"None of the generals of the Soviet army are fools! They're shrewd! Since our goal this time is to annihilate one of the enemy's army groups, then such a small fortune still has to be paid, otherwise how could the Soviet army easily believe that the rout we will feign is real? In short, I will be measured, I will not waste the lives of our precious soldiers of our empire on meaningless battlefields! Even if I wanted to, the Führer wouldn't! ”

In this regard, Moder also suddenly restrained his smile and replied seriously.

"Then I'm relieved! By the way, there's something I still don't understand? Why did our troops often feign defeat in the two days of attacking the positions of various Soviet troops? Will this make the Soviets accustomed to our behavior and not fall into our trap of luring the enemy deeper? ”

Chief Operations Staff Officer John asked suddenly, a little confused.

"Do you remember what the Führer told us about the tactics of knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent in the Art of War?"

Modell once again shifted his gaze back to the frontline battlefield and said.

"Remember! But what does it have to do with the methods of warfare that we have now? Haven't we already entered a lot of intelligence agents into the camp of the Soviet army? ”

Chief Operations Staff Officer John asked, confused.

"The Führer once told me what to do if two armies met and we did not know the ability and strength of the other party's generals?"

"When I heard the Führer's question at that time, I was speechless for a while, and then my answer was similar to what you just said, all of which were to use our intelligence officers as the most important way to understand the enemy!"

"But the Führer gave me a good method, I heard that this method came from the ancient Huaxia Kingdom of a man named Wu Qi, who said that if he did not know the ability of the enemy generals, he could first send a small group of elite soldiers to attack the other side, and then immediately feign defeat and flee after a short battle; At the same time, it is necessary to observe the enemy's every move, and if the enemy pursues the victory, and pretends not to catch up; At the same time, if you see the weapons and equipment, money and flags that we have discarded and pretend not to see them, then the other party's generals are wise generals. ”

"On the other hand, if they devote all their forces to pursuit, and have no military discipline, no battle queues, and greedily pick up the spoils we have discarded, then the other party's general is a mediocre talent, then we can fight back desperately against the enemy without any scruples, and wipe them all out with one blow!"

"And in the past two days, even for most of the month, we have often used this method to fight against the Soviet army, and I found that the Soviet general who fought with us head-on was not a mediocre talent, but a wise general!"

"In addition, they also played Marshal Manstein's elastic defensive tactics very smoothly! As soon as a certain area of operations in our defensive line collapses, then the Soviets will not hesitate to gather their powerful forces, powerful artillery fire, and a large number of tank groups, as well as their increasingly powerful air power, with lightning speed, to attack our weak defense point that has a hole! Just like the tactics they're doing right now! ”

Moder explained patiently and in detail.

"How wise you are, General Moder! He actually put the art of war taught by the marshal into practice so quickly! I'm so impressed! ”

Hearing this, Chief Operations Staff Officer John immediately gave a thumbs up and patted his horse in agreement.

"Hey! Don't pat me on the back, let's fight this battle well! The generals of the Soviet army are all shrewd and cunning old foxes! After these years of brutal battles, their current generals will definitely not lose the combat experience they have accumulated to those generals who were purged by Stalin before the war! ”

Modell laughed angrily at the other party's behavior and reminded.

"Admiral Morder is right! I think so too! ”

Chief Operations Staff Officer John also immediately echoed with a smile.

Seeing this, Modell smiled bitterly, shook his head slightly, and was ready to ignore the sycophants of Chief Operations Staff Officer John.

"Ahh By the way, General Moder, why don't you go to the 2nd Panzer Army to consolidate the troops there and get in touch with those officers? ”

Chief Operations Staff Officer John suddenly remembered.