In order to save oil, Li Mo only brought 100,000 trucks to follow the troops, and 50,000 trucks actually transported ammunition supplies, while Paul took away 40,000 trucks of ammunition supplies at one time, and Li Mo's remaining 6,700,000 troops had to stop because of supply problems and wait for the follow-up materials to arrive. ／／

At this time, the Wehrmacht Army Group Center was still fighting the Kiev Campaign, and they were already far behind Army Group South, anyway, Army Group South had already advanced 900 kilometers into the territory of the Soviet Union, and Li Mo would definitely not attack the huge army of the Soviet Union when the supplies were not sufficient.

Well, now, as long as the train is passed, Li Mo's logistics will have no pressure at all, and it will take a day and a night to transport materials from the border to Rostov, so Li Mo thought of a way to crack it.

"Commander-in-Chief, have you thought of a way?"

"Of course, my Mr. Bock, now give me the task of gathering together all our boat-bridge troops and river-crossing troops, the more the better."

"Are we going to ......?"

"Of course, why not!!"

Bock was busy mobilizing the Zhouqiao troops, because when Li Mo formulated the Barbarossa plan, he thought that there would be a force that would go deep into the Soviet Union's Asia-Europe dividing line, and along the way, crossing the river was necessary, so Li Mo's Southern Army Group had a large number of boat-bridge troops, and the river-crossing equipment was relatively complete, and almost every division had a Zhouqiao battalion.

"Herald, order General Vincent, commander of the Italian SS, to come to the General Headquarters at once."

"Yes"

……

It was Vincent's own choice to go to the "Dead Place-Orsk", when Vincent received an order from the deputy commander-in-chief to mobilize the boat-bridge troops. Vincent knew that it was time for him to appear, and hurriedly combed his hair with the palm of his hand, and soon received an order from the commander-in-chief to summon him.

"Report, the commander of the Italian SS, Vincent, came to receive the combat mission."

"Hehe, you kid, you love to sell foreigners, can't you wait? When you get to Orsk and face embattled. I don't think so. ”

"No, it won't. I promise. ”

"Well, I hope so, Vincent, come here, and I'll tell you more about it."

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief."

Vincent hurriedly ran to Li Mo's side. Li Mo pointed with the command pole in his hand at two hundred kilometers north of Stalingrad. Beginning says:

"Here. This is where your troops will cross, and we will use eight armored divisions to open the way for you and escort you to the crossing of the Volga. There are 3 infantry divisions and a supplementary division to follow you, and 10,000 trucks of material are also on the road with you, when you cross the Volga River, you must think that the fastest speed to reach Orsk, on the way to never attack the enemy's city, this area is all plains, there are roads and no roads for your convoy, are passable.

When you arrive at Orsk, immediately go all out to attack it, there are basically no Soviet troops there, after occupying the city, immediately clear out the central square of the city, the central square of Orsk is very huge, more than 2,000 meters long from east to west, more than 1,000 meters wide from north to south, you clean up a little, as our air base, I will immediately send two aviation regiments and 328 planes there, the air force in addition to supporting the operation, also need to bomb all the Soviet railway and road hubs.

In this case, you are alone, I have to send you reinforcements except for the airlift point to supply you, Vincent, you tell me plainly, can you complete the task victoriously and successfully? ”

"Hey! Hitler, Commander-in-Chief Vincent had absolute confidence in the task, but ...... But ......"

"But what, you kid shouldn't have a bad idea again, and !! my landlord's old wealth"

"Hehe, the commander-in-chief still understands me!! Can the commander-in-chief give five thousand more truckloads of substance? ”

"No, at most 12,000 will be given to you, and we will fight to the death in Baku."

"Okay, Commander-in-Chief, you just need me to go out, it's a long way to go, so there are a lot of places where the tanks and trucks go wrong, and you and I have more to repair the troops and spare parts. In addition, we are surrounded by the Soviets, and the wounded soldiers must be treated, so I need more medicine and doctors. ”

"I can satisfy you with this, and give you three repair battalions and a field hospital, as well as double the accessories and medicines."

"Thank you, Commander-in-Chief, when are we going to do it."

"Tomorrow morning 5; 30 Leave on time, you will go and prepare now. ”

"Hey! Hitler. ”

Why did Li Mo insist on letting Vincent go to the death of the Soviet Union when he knew that Baku had a major enemy, in fact, Vincent was like a nail in the heart of the Soviet Union, as long as Vincent stood on his feet, the painful days of the Soviet Union came, of course, Vincent They were also in extreme danger, Li Mo's move of running thousands of miles came from later generations - leaping thousands of miles into Dabie Mountain, directly opening the prelude to the strategic counteroffensive.

This is basically the same way for Li Mo's move, cutting off the Soviet roads and railways, so that the Soviet Union has no chance to retreat Moscow's factories to the Ural industrial zone, and at the same time cutting off the connection between the Asian part of the Soviet Union and the European part. If this strategy is achieved, it is not known how long the Soviet Union will be able to hold out.

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May 17 at 5 a.m.; At 30 minutes, the most elite armored units of Army Group South of more than 200,000 people, 11 armored divisions, 4 infantry divisions, and more than 10,000 trucks gathered outside Rostov began to start, and they went not towards Stalingrad, but towards the upper reaches of Stalingrad.

The commander of this escort all-mechanized corps was Steiner, and on the way to Stalingrad, there was basically no Soviet defensive line, and more than 600,000 Soviet troops completely relied on the city of Stalingrad and established numerous defensive positions, the farthest position was no more than 15 kilometers from the city of Stalingrad, and the commander of Stalingrad was Timoshenko, who had fled from Odessa.

In Odessa, Timoshenko's defeat was inexplicable, and the Ukrainian Front under his command actually surrendered without a fight, although Timoshenko ran away in a submarine at the last time, but he was also severely criticized by Stalin, Stalin asked Timoshenko to go to Stalingrad to make meritorious contributions, and Timoshenko is now commanding not the Ukrainians, but the regular Soviet Red Army, which makes Timoshenko feel a lot more relieved.

Timoshenko learned the lesson of the last time in Odessa, of course he would not put all the troops in the city, and besides, there would be no more than 600,000 troops in the city. Timoshenko had his troops arrange defensive positions around the city, and these positions were not linear defensive positions, but composed of numerous circular positions, a company in small circular defensive positions, more than a regiment, and if you look at it from the air, the surroundings of Stalingrad were completely surrounded by various large and small circular trenches and fortifications. (To be continued.) )u