The 392nd and 394th Infantry Divisions of the Soviet Army could not stop the attack of the German 11th Army at all.

This was also partly due to the fact that the German 7th Airborne Division was airborne in the Caucasus in the rear of the Soviet army...... This can almost be said to have cut off the logistics of these two divisions of the Soviet army, and if they do not retreat, they are afraid that they will face the same situation of being surrounded and annihilated as the previous four divisions.

As a result, the 11th Army entered a no-man's land, passed through Tuapse, Sochi and then entered the more open Transcaucasia.

Qin Chuan rode an American-style Willis jeep and marched with the troops.

The jeep was captured on the road to Sochi when it overturned in the mud on the side of the road, and perhaps in a hurry to escape, the Soviet officer who owned it abandoned it.

The German soldiers dragged it out of the mud and fired it without any problems...... The quality of the Yankees' stuff in World War II, especially the equipment used in the military, is nothing to say.

The German soldiers who towed the jeep did not take it for themselves...... This was clearly stipulated in the German military discipline, and the spoils of war must be handed over and distributed by the superiors.

In fact, this rule is not so strict, especially when fighting the enemy or pursuing the enemy, can it be said that if you have snatched a rifle from the enemy, you must hand it in and then return to fight? So a lot of times it's a matter of turning a blind eye.

These German soldiers were of the more "law-abiding" kind, and they didn't know what to do with the car, and just as Manstein's jeep passed in front of them, one of them stepped forward and asked: "Marshal, we have captured a jeep, but none of us are officers!" ”

"Good!" Manstein replied, then asked, "Do you know the 'legendary sergeant'?" ”

"Yes, Marshal!"

"He's not far behind me!" Manstein said, "You can give him this car!" ”

"Yes, Marshal!"

So Qin Chuan got a Jeep, an American Willis Jeep.

In the imagination of Qin Chuan, a "person who has come over", the United States and the Soviet Union should be two mortal enemies, so it is very awkward to see American equipment, especially American jeeps, on the battlefield of the Soviet Union, but he owns one, if he wears a pair of sunglasses on the bridge of his nose and holds a cigar in his mouth, it is no different from what he sees in the movie.

But Qin Chuan didn't think about that.

Perhaps because he got from the car to the jeep and had a better vision, Qin Chuan saw people with horror and resentment in his eyes along the way...... Georgia is Stalin's homeland, and most of the people here are proud of this, and the vast majority of them are firmly on the side of the Soviet Union, unlike Latvia, Poland, and Ukraine, which were occupied by the Germans.

The results of the German army should be said to be quite good, they attacked cities and captured cities along the way, and three days later they joined forces with the 7th Airborne Division, and the battle with the Soviet army almost became a kind of march.

But everyone knew that the battle would not be and that it would not end so easily, because the retreat of the Soviets was clearly planned...... The people who could be evacuated were evacuated with them, the materials that could be moved were removed, and those who could not be moved were blown up and burned, and they were never left to the German army.

This made it difficult for the Germans to capture anything for the rest of the year.

"They want to drag us down!" Eberhard, who was sitting next to Qinchuan, looked at the map and said: "The Caucasus Mountains are more than 1,200 kilometers from west to east, that is, our supply line will exceed more than 1,000 kilometers, in fact, we can even say that there is no supply line!" ”

Qin Chuan understood Eberhard's words.

It was true that the German 11th Army had no supply lines, since it had to enter Transcaucasia from the Kerch Peninsula through the Taman Peninsula and then via Novorossiysk.

However, due to the lack of troops, the Germans had actually abandoned the Taman Peninsula and went all out to attack Transcaucasia. As a result, the German supply lines from Kerch to Transcaucasia were practically cut off.

It should be said that the Germans still had two supply lines, one was transported from the Black Sea by ports, but this did not work, because the Germans had almost no large transport ships in the Black Sea, and at the same time the Black Sea was full of Soviet ships and submarines, which would attack German transport ships at any time.

The other is to transport ...... by air This was also the main supply method of the German army at this time, occupying the airfield wherever it went, and then using strong air superiority to protect the transport planes to deliver supplies.

It's just that the capacity of the transport plane is very limited, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a drop in the bucket.

Therefore, the main source of supply for the German 11th Army was actually the Soviet supplies captured in several cities such as Novorossiysk and the port of Sochi.

"We're playing a different kind of game!" Qin Chuan replied: "Do we defeat them first, or do they drag us until we have no supplies!" ”

"You thought this would happen from the beginning?" Eberhard looked at Qin Chuan suspiciously.

Qin Chuan acquiesced.

"And you're going to do it anyway?" Eberhard asked: "I mean, Manstein is advised to attack Transcaucasia!" ”

"What else can we do?" Qin Chuan asked rhetorically.

Eberhard rolled his eyes, he couldn't understand the thoughts of the young major sitting next to him...... This battle was actually risking the entire 11th Army, including himself.

But what Eberhard didn't know was that it wasn't surprising that Qin Chuan would take such a risk, because in his thoughts...... If things were left unchecked, the Germans were assured of a crushing defeat in both the Caucasus and Stalingrad.

And the fiasco in these two directions determined that the German army would no longer have the strength to compete with the Soviet army, because the German army lost 1.5 million men in these defeats, and a considerable part of it was still a well-quality and combat-ready unit. From then on, the defeat of the German army was already doomed.

(Note: It is also believed that the turning point of the Soviet-German war was the Battle of Kursk later)

Therefore, Qin Chuan thinks that even if he takes a big risk, it is worth it, otherwise he is afraid that no matter what he does, he will not be able to reverse the situation.

Eberhard was right, and General Tyulenev on the other side intended it that way.

Because Stalin gave him a death order to keep Baku.

In fact, Stalin's order was not given to Tyulenev alone, and not only to Baku.

Because at this time, in the other direction, that is, Kharkiv, the Soviet army also suffered a crushing defeat, and the German army had launched a counteroffensive on the Soviet army on all fronts.

In order to be able to stop the German offensive, Stalin issued the well-known Order No. 227: not a single step back, whoever retreats is considered a traitor to the motherland, and the Soviet mother will not take in traitors!