It's just that what Chen Yanlong doesn't know is that on the current battlefield on the Eastern Front; Because he launched the fortress operation in advance, unlike the original history, his army at this time was only 700,000 men; 1,800 tanks, 1,500 aircraft, 8,000 artillery pieces. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

900,000 people with posterity history, plus 2,700 tanks; 10,000 artillery pieces and more than 2,000 aircraft, which is a part less.

Not to mention that in the later stages of the Battle of Kursk, the total number of troops invested by the German army was 1.54 million, 16,000 artillery pieces and 5,000 tanks; and 5,000 airplanes, even more is nothing; If Chen Yanlong at this moment knew about this, he would probably be angry and spurting blood.

Eastern Front, Kursk.

Manstein had just returned to the command headquarters on a plane from Berlin.

And also transferred the headquarters from Zaporozhye, to a tram on the German front.

Inside the tram, there are operational maps of the Kursk region, and they are very precise.

"How many men have been mobilized from Army Group Center's 9th Army of General Modell, General Hermann Hort's 4th Panzer Army, Kempf's Group, the 52nd Infantry Corps, the 48th Panzer Corps, and the 2nd SS Panzer Corps?"

Manstein asked his chief of staff, General Busse, as he carefully scrutinized the battle map.

"The 52nd Infantry Corps, the 48th Panzer Corps, and the 2nd SS Panzer Corps under the command of our Southern Army Group have a total of 224,000 men, 925 tanks, and 704 artillery pieces, and the Kempf cluster on the right flank, with 10 divisions, 126,000 men, 344 tanks, and 25 artillery pieces, all of them are all here!"

"Army Group Center has 21 German divisions and 3 Hungarian divisions, with a total of 335,000 men, including 6 tank divisions, with a total of 590 tanks and 424 artillery pieces. It's also coming one after another! Marshal! ”

The chief of staff, General Busse, replied immediately.

"So when will the Führer get to Kursk! We're still waiting for him to have a military meeting! ”

Manstein continued to ask.

"This ...... I haven't gotten a call from the Führer yet! ”

The chief of staff, General Busse, hesitated for a moment and replied.

"I just received a call from the Chancellery in Berlin, and it's the night after tomorrow! Actually, it was supposed to be tomorrow, but the Führer called and said that he still had some things to deal with immediately! It seems to be about the emergence of a group of very hidden Soviet spies on our Eastern Front! ”

At this moment, Lieutenant Colonel Shuze Bitger, the chief of the training department, who was standing next to the chief of staff, General Busse, suddenly interjected and reported.

"Hmmm! Spy? When did it happen? How many of them infiltrated our troops? ”

Hearing this, Manstein suddenly raised his head from the map, stared sharply at Lieutenant Colonel Schutzer Bitger, the chief of the training department, and asked.

"I don't know yet, but the Führer has already sent someone to conduct a secret reconnaissance, and I heard that Canaris, the chief of intelligence and admiral; has been arrested by the armed guard led by the Führer himself! ”

Lieutenant Colonel Schutzer Bitger, Chief of Training, replied truthfully.

"What! The Führer personally led the team to arrest people? ”

After hearing this, Manstein's eyes suddenly widened and he was shocked.

"Yes! That's what the news from Berlin says! And when the Führer called us, he also admitted it! Moreover, the Führer also instructed us to tell the marshal that you must find a way to guard against the spies lurking in our army, as well as our Ennyima cipher machine, which has also been deciphered by the enemy forces such as Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States! Therefore, our cipher machine and cipher book must be modified as soon as possible! This is the Führer's order! ”

Shu Ce, the director of training, continued to report.

“……”

Hearing this, Manstein was shocked and stunned; His face was bloodless, as stunned as a wooden chicken, motionless.

As for General Busse, the chief of staff beside him, he was also speechless in astonishment and opened his mouth.

"Quick! Hurry up and give me a good investigation of how many Soviet spies are lurking in our Southern Army! Before I fight in Operation Fortress, I must find all these spies and imprison them! What are our counter-espionage agencies eating! ”

After a long time, Manstein suddenly roared like an angry lion that was thundering.

"Yes! Marshal! ”

Shu Ce, the director of training, was not nervous at all, and agreed in fear.

At this time, the Imperial Chancellery in Berlin.

Chen Yanlong was looking at the Minister of Armaments Albert Spear who gave him a lecture on the production of the new Tiger tank and the Panther tank.

Due to the fact that there are still a lot of technical problems with the new tank, as well as a shortage of raw materials; At present, the ThyssenHenschel plant is only capable of producing more than 20 Tiger tanks per month, while the Panther tank is only capable of producing more than 10 units per month.

Looking at such a poor production speed, Chen Yanlong's brows suddenly furrowed deeply, and his face was full of sadness.

The reason is simple, such low productivity; There is simply no way to compare with the United States and the Soviet Union, which have strong industrial capabilities.

"What should I do? With only a small number of tanks produced per month, how can I fight Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill? ”

After reading the production report, Chen Yanlong suddenly felt as if his body was covered by something; It was as if it had been drained of air, and it was soft, and it didn't have any strength at all.

"Forget it, the production of tanks, let Speer and Guderian figure it out for me! Now for me, I want to catch all the enemy spies lurking on the Eastern Front and all the army groups! Especially the Soviet spy named 'Werther', he has to find a way to find out! Otherwise, every move of the German army, as well as all the strategic and tactical deployments, would have been sold to the Soviet army by him! ”

After putting down the report in his hand, Chen Yanlong suddenly flashed with a fierce light in front of him, and muttered to himself.

Because Chen Yanlong knew very well that there were many records in the online historical materials of later generations: "During World War II, a large number of spies placed by Moscow in the rear of the German army - not only in Germany itself, but also in almost every country in Europe - were constantly busy with diligence, ingenuity and astonishing audacity long before the outbreak of war. These spy networks carried radio stations that had direct contact with Moscow and the General Staff of the Red Army, and they were everywhere: Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux, Brussels, The Hague, Berlin, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, Copenhagen, Oslo, Hammerfest, Bucharest, Belgrade, Sofia, Athens, Istanbul and Cairo.

"Dora" is a pseudonym for the head of a Soviet spy network based in Switzerland, whose real name is Alexander Rado, a Soviet spy of Hungarian origin. His spy organization included a number of fanatical communists and well-trained professional spies. Among them was Rudolf Lesler, a German refugee codenamed "Lucy". Lesler was a true ace of Soviet military spies against Germany, on a par with spy star Dr. Sorge, who had been providing vital intelligence to Stalin from the German embassy in Tokyo until the winter of 1941.

His main source of information was "Werther". The man who bears the pseudonym of Goethe's tragic figure was a Soviet military spy planted by the Soviets in the German hierarchy.

"Witte" was also a provider of top-secret intelligence from the Wehrmacht High Command and the Führer's stronghold, which was available only to those closest to it.

If Moscow wanted to know something particularly important, some top secret of the German leadership, they would have asked for "Werther" in a telegram. "Werther" has to do this, "Werther" has to do that, always "Werther".

Therefore, the Soviet army soon knew all the detailed information about the production of the German military industry, the strength and equipment of the German army on the Eastern Front, the new weapons, and the strategic intentions, plans of action, and preparations of the German high command.

Therefore, it is often said on the Internet that a battle, in addition to the careful planning of the commander, still depends to a large extent on certain uncertain factors: such as the insight of a senior general, the willingness to make unconventional decisions, and the courage at critical moments, the bravery of the troops he leads, and the courage of the commander to disobey orders.

And among these factors, the most important one is the leakage of military operations!

And this is the key role in its decision to play a special and significant success or failure in Operation "Bastion", that is, (the Battle of Kursk).

"O Werther! Victor! Who are you? Could it really be the Martin Bowman rumored on the Internet in later generations! ”

As soon as he recalled this, Chen Yanlong muttered irritably.

At the same time, he gently closed his eyes and continued to remember.

According to later online historical sources: "Pulitzer Prize-winning Louis Kirzer, in his Hitler Betrayer: Martin Baumann and the Fall of the Third Reich, suggests that Werther may have been Baumann, the most important Nazi of the Third Reich."

Bowman was Hitler's personal secretary and one of Hitler's most trusted men. He once boldly hired a man to secretly record all of Hitler's conversations, and finally assembled a book: "Hitler's Banquet Conversations".

When the war on the Eastern Front was not going well, there was a conspiracy at the top of Germany to overthrow Hitler. It was at a time when Hitler was depressed that Baumann and Hitler came closer. Beginning in September 1942, Bowman openly recorded Hitler's speeches, and he also recruited a group of stenographers to help. At the same time, the intelligence that Moscow received from the "Werther" became more and more accurate. Moscow sometimes simply sent his questions directly to Bauman, and Bauman answered them one by one. In the Battle of Kursk (the largest tank battle in World War II), Germany's strategy and tactics were all known to the Soviet Union, and how to fight this battle!

On July 20, 1944, a group of senior German generals, under the leadership of Colonel Klaus von Stauffenberg, launched a shocking assassination operation against Hitler.

After this, Bauman had almost no influence on Hitler, which drew criticism from many other Nazi Party leaders. Spear (then Minister of Armaments) declared that Bauman was a Stalinist admirer, and other Nazis began to suspect that Bauman was a Soviet spy, and one of Baumman's mistresses was discovered by the Nazis to be an underground party of the KPD.

The Allies began to suggest that Moscow should get Bauman out of danger as soon as possible, but Bauman had already planned a way out, and he hid in Switzerland before the end of the war. There he had a house of his own. After the war, Bauman lived in the Soviet Union.

In 1971, Major General Galen (head of the West German Federal Intelligence Service from 1956~1968) announced that Bauman was a Soviet spy. But what was Bowman's motive for providing intelligence to Moscow? According to Kirzer, Baumann was a passionate socialist who did not want to see the defeat of the socialist Soviet Union, but wanted to see Germany sign a treaty with the Soviet Union to jointly bring down the Western countries.

"Whew! Martin Bowman! It doesn't matter if you are a Soviet intelligence officer or not, Witt! I'd rather kill a thousand wrong than spare one! I still remember that in later generations, the secretary of German Chancellor Brandt seemed to be an East German spy! And he was forced to step down because of the exposure of this incident! So if I want to live, and do something good for the people of this country, which was divided into four military occupation zones of Britain, the United States, France, and the Soviet Union after the defeat of the war in the later generations! Let it re-embark on the path of a peacefully rising great power! Then I can't keep Martin Bowman by my side. ”

"And the most important point is that now I am Chen Yanlong, not Hitler! So one more Martin Bowman, or one less Martin Bowman! No problems at all! ”

After recalling the historical information on Baidu in later generations, Chen Yanlong suddenly opened his eyes suddenly, his gaze was cold, and he made up his mind.

Then he called Kenneth Branagh, the captain of the guard in the Chancellery.

Because he was going to capture and imprison Martin Bowman before he left for the Eastern Front.

At the same time, he had to call Hillam and ask him to get rid of Rudolf Lesler, Werther's connector.