Chapter 325: Strategic Duel
"What's the matter, you guys are talking, don't think of any solution, don't think it's okay if you don't speak, if you can't think of any more solutions, your fate will still be the same as them. The least certain thing in my German Empire is people, and after you waste, when the time comes, I will raise a group of officers, who can lead troops to fight and help me dominate the world. "Hitler was really crazy at the moment, and he actually said such a thing in the face of so many officers at all levels. This could not help but make everyone's faces very ugly, and even some young officers already had a strong dissatisfaction with Hitler in their hearts.
De Gaulle seemed to sense the strange atmosphere in the room. He coughed dryly and said to Hitler: "Your Excellency, I have an idea that I might as well give it a try." ”
Hitler's face softened a little, and he said with a smile: "De Gaulle, I knew that you would have a way, so you can talk about it and see if there is any way to solve the dilemma in front of you." ”
De Gaulle said: "Now the Soviet army uses a small group of personnel as the attack unit, and adopts guerrilla tactics against our army, I don't know if the president still remembers the guerrilla tactics created by the Chinese [***] leaders, and the sparrow warfare they adopted, the raiding warfare, and the Chinese army on the battlefield was exhausted." Now the tactics adopted by the Soviet army against us are very similar to the tactics of the Chinese [***] against Yue himself, and I feel that the commander who commanded this battle is no longer Stalin, but Zhang Dongbei of the Wolf Tooth Special Operations Brigade. ”
Hitler frowned: "You mean that we are now fighting with the Soviet army using Chinese tactics?" So what exactly did you think of to solve it? ”
De Gaulle said: "Judging from the current methods of attack by the Soviet army against our soldiers, it seems that the Soviet army does not want to fight us to the death, but plays a war of attrition and a protracted war with us. And they attacked us mainly in small groups, and our troops were also small in number, while our large forces were rarely attacked. So I thought ......"
Before he could say anything, Hitler had already taken over: "So you want to regroup the forces that are now scattered in the city, and then redistribute them again into larger forces, and then clear the Soviet troops in Leningrad." Since the Soviet army is now adopting guerrilla tactics, if we use a large force to search and clear, then if the Soviet army wants to have any more thieves, then they must gather forces to fight a positional war with us, otherwise they will not dare to do it again. Although victory will come later, it is a good way to do it. Okay, that's it. De Gaulle, I now appoint you Chief of Staff for this operation, which is primarily responsible for the planning and execution of this operation, and I will ensure that this time all the Soviet troops in Leningrad will be wiped out in one fell swoop. ”
Since the Germans adopted a large-scale search strategy, the casualties of the German army have really decreased a lot, and the Soviet army cannot find a suitable opportunity at all, so many times they can only watch the Germans slip away from under their noses. Sometimes some Soviet troops were eager to rush and fight the Germans. But they couldn't do anything without orders from above. This is war, and war is about strategy, and from time to time it is simply a hero.
At this time, in a very hidden basement, Stalin, Zhang Dongbei, Zhukov, and some other major military cadres of both sides of China and the Soviet Union gathered, and they were certainly not having dinner together. For five days in a row since the Germans changed their tactics, Stalin had not received any encouraging news, and apart from the occasional annihilation of a part of the German army from Zhang Dongbei, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command had not reported any good news to him. This made Stalin very depressed. The Soviet Union, which once regarded itself as its big brother, did not know when it had to look at the Chinese soldiers with a desperate posture of looking up.
"Bringing everyone together today, I want to tell you that our gains in the past few days have been so small, and since the Germans changed their tactics, we have been almost fruitless every day. Let us not forget that the German army that has invaded Leningrad now has nearly a million men, and if we can only kill a few dozen or several hundred people a day, then we will be able to drive out the enemies who invaded our country and invaded our cities. So now I want to ask you, now that the Germans have changed their tactics, have you thought of a tactic that can be used against them? As the saying goes, if the enemy does not change, I will not change, and if the enemy changes, I will change. That's how you can overcome the win. Now let's think about it, if there is any good opinion, put it forward, and if you get everyone's consent, then we will follow his method.
Zhukov said: "Now the German army has begun to use large forces to search and advance in the city, and if we really want to give the German army a fatal blow, I think from now on, we must also organize our forces, and then build fortifications and fight positional warfare with the German army." Although the Soviet Union has not taken much advantage of positional warfare since the start of the Soviet-German war, I think everyone understands that this was deliberately done by the President in order to paralyze the German army and create a false impression for the German army. In fact, we will definitely not be worse than the Germans in terms of positional warfare, on the contrary, we are now in the city, and the geographical conditions are very favorable to us. We can lay ambushes and snipers in the buildings on both sides of the position, and when the Germans think that we only have defenders on the position, our ambushed soldiers rush out from everywhere and form an encirclement of the German army, which will definitely inflict heavy losses on the German army. ”
"That's right, just fight a positional war with the Germans, and many soldiers below have complained that this kind of fight is too unrequiting, and they want to fight a positional war with the Germans, and now everyone is holding back a lot of energy in their hearts, and when the time comes, the positional battle will definitely be able to block ten with one, I agree with General Zhukov's proposal." Said an officer with the rank of major general.
As soon as the major general spoke, it didn't take long for many officers to agree. It can also be seen from this how much influence Zhukov had in the Soviet Union. Of course, this is also because the plan proposed by Zhukov is indeed the best way to do it now.
Stalin looked at everyone and had no objections, and he felt that this plan could indeed be tried. But when he saw that Zhang Dongbei hadn't expressed his position until now, he couldn't help but be stunned: Does this kid have other ideas in his heart? What's more, if you have an idea, you don't say it directly, I don't want Lao Tzu to beg you.
Stalin thought very unhappily in his heart, but on the surface, he said to Zhang Dongbei with a smile on his face: "Brigade Commander Zhang, I don't know what you think of Zhukov's opinion?" ”
Zhang Dongbei said with a smile: "The opinion put forward by General Zhukov is indeed a good way according to the current situation. It's just that once the two sides start a street fight, then the casualties will definitely be very large, and I am now thinking about how to minimize our casualties. ”
Stalin laughed: "Oh? Did the brigade commander come up with any way to come out at this time? ”
Zhang Dongbei said with a smile: "In the past few days, I have also observed the streets of Leningrad, where four tanks can be driven at the same time on the main road, but tanks cannot be walked in the narrow alleys. Of course, if we were to engage in positional warfare with the Germans, then of course we would not choose to be in a narrow alley. So I wondered if it would be possible to ambush four tanks near each position, and when the Germans were engaged in street fighting with us, the tanks would suddenly appear behind the Germans, and then they would run over side by side, and the Germans would surely suffer heavy casualties. ”
Stalin's eyes lit up, and he laughed and said, "Brigade Commander Zhang, it's really amazing." Even this solution has been thought of. Okay, just do as you say. In each position it is necessary to ambush not only soldiers, but also tanks. ”
Zhang Dongbei said: "Your Excellency, I actually have another suggestion. ”
The smile on Stalin's face became even stronger, and he asked: "Brigade Commander Zhang, tell me all the clever ideas you have." ”
Zhang Dongbei said: "Blow up Leningrad." ”
"What do you say? You said you were going to blow up people Leningrad. What do you mean by this, even the Germans did not bomb Leningrad, are you going to let us blow up our own cities with our own hands? Do you know what the city means to players? Stalin's face instantly turned a little ugly.
"Your Excellency, of course I know what this city means to the Soviet people, but this is a time of war, and sometimes it is necessary to use some extraordinary means. Moreover, I don't mean blowing up the whole of Leningrad in ruins, but a targeted bombing. ”
"Targeted blow-up, what do you mean, you make it clear." Zhukov frowned on the side.
Zhang Dongbei said: "Now Leningrad has to build positions and fortifications everywhere to fight to the death with the German army, but the number of our tanks is not much, and the captured German tanks are only a few hundred, and if we want to hold the huge city of Leningrad, we can't just set up a few positions, we need too many positions, and our tanks will not be able to allocate at all." So what I mean is that we plant explosives in the buildings around some positions, and once the Germans enter the positions and fight us, we will fight and retreat, as long as we attract the attention of the Germans, and then blow up the surrounding buildings to deal a fatal blow to the Germans. President, if the city is blown up, we can build again, but if the soldiers die, it will never be there. So I would like to ask the President to consider my suggestion carefully. ”
Stalin was silent, and after a long time, he finally slapped the table and decided: "Okay, let's arrange the position according to what Brigade Commander Zhang said." Hopefully, this time we can completely drive the German army out of Leningrad, no, completely wipe out Leningrad. ”