Bock understood what Li Mo meant, Baku's Soviet oil-producing area is the most concerned thing in front of Li Mo, the success of this mission is also a sign of the success of Army Group South's offensive plan, once the Soviet Union loses the Baku area, it will lose a large amount of oil sources, although the Soviet Union has many oil-producing areas, but the loss of the Baku area, the blow is also very obvious. It is likely that the Soviet Union will also face a short-lived oil scare.

In 1941, Baku's oil production peaked, accounting for 71.5% of the total production of the USSR at that time. As long as Germany occupies Baku, it will take at least some time for the Soviet Union to increase its oil production to meet its own strategic needs, which shows the importance of Baku to Germany and the Soviet Union.

The Baku region was also not a traditional territory of the Soviet Union, and in the 18th century it was the capital of the Baku Khanate. Since then, there has been a war connection with Tsarist Russia. In 1803, an agreement was signed with the Baku Khan, who had made a compromise, but it was quickly annulled. On February 8, 1806, Baku Khan was stabbed to death by the Russians in front of the city gates, after which Baku surrendered and was annexed to Russia. In 1813, Russia signed the Treaty of Gulistan with Persia, which formally incorporated the Caucasus, including Baku.

In the 70s of the 19th century, Baku began industrial oil extraction, and at the end of the 19th century, it became the industrial center of Transcaucasia and a world-famous oil base, with 22 major oil refining bases and a developed oil industry. In 1917, the Baku Commune of a socialist character was founded. In 1920 it became the capital of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, and in 1922 it became the result of Azerbaijan's accession to the Transcaucasian Federation. The accession of the Federation to the Soviet Union led to the transformation of the capital of the country into Tbilisi during this period. After 1936 it became the capital of Azerbaijan again.

As long as Li Mo can take Baku and implement a divisive and disintegrated and relaxed ethnic policy, the local people will soon abandon the Soviet Union and throw themselves into the arms of the European Union.

"Okay, I agree with the commander-in-chief's plan, let's keep 350,000 German troops in Odessa, and at the same time use more artillery, we can't delay our main strategic task in the first stage because of Odessa."

Li Mo walked to Bock's side, stretched out his hand, and held it tightly with Bock. Brothers together. Break the gold together.

Paul? Haussel - Imperial Division, Theodore? Ike Skull Division was assigned to the Northern Sector as the main attacker, and Paul and Ike were appointed Deputy Commanders of the Northern Sector. Unified coordination of the actions of all ministries. They were going until the Germans took Baku. It will not be over until Li Mo orders the withdrawal of the northern section of the attack cluster. Paul and Ike were appointed deputy commanders of the northern sector only temporarily.

Li Mo in the northern section is settled, and now Li Mo plans to work with Bock, and the two brothers will work together to destroy the 200,000 Soviet troops in Jiancheng with 350,000 German troops. In order to meet the needs of artillery shells, Li Mo ordered 200,000 taels of artillery shells of various calibers to be transported to the front line in Odessa overnight, a distance of 190 kilometers, which could be arrived in the middle of the night, and the attack could be launched just tomorrow morning.

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At half past six on April 20, 1941, Stalin received a call from the front, saying that Germany had concentrated more than 7 million troops to start a full-scale attack on the great Soviet Union, which made Stalin a little unbelievable, Germany was not in trouble with Britain and France, how could Germany be entangled in the EU troops to attack the Soviet Union in a blink of an eye, Stalin still did not believe such information, and immediately ordered to continue the investigation and report.

Stalin was about to shoot the officer who reported this false information to him, Stalin's second urgent telegram came like snowflakes, and now Stalin had to believe it if he didn't believe it, Germany and the Soviet Union had just signed the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact" In the blink of an eye, Germany entangled some rogue countries to attack the great and sacred Soviet Union, which made Stalin unable to accept such a reality anyway, but Stalin was a ruthless tyrant after all, and quickly adjusted his mentality and urgently convened a high-level military meeting.

Attendees were:

Marshal of the Soviet Union 1935 Deputy People's Commissar of Defense, Commander-in-Chief of the Direction, Commander of the Cavalry, Director of the General Supervision Group of the Ministry of Defense

Shaposhnikov, Marshal of the Soviet Union, 1941 Chief of the General Staff, People's Commissar of Defense, Dean of the Military Academy of the General Staff

Kulik Marshal of the USSR 1941 Deputy People's Commissar of Defense, Head of the General Ordnance Department, Deputy Head of the Department of Formation and Replenishment of Soviet Troops

People's Minister of Internal Affairs, General Beria

Georgi? Konstantinovich? General Zhukov

Vassili? Ivanovic? General Chuikov

Ivan? Stepanovich? General Konev......

The first two veteran marshals were more trusted by Stalin, so they were not purged, and there was another marshal Timoshenko in Odessa, and there was no way to come to the meeting today, and the next few generals were the new generation of commanders promoted by Stalin himself, and I have to say that although Stalin was ruthless, he had his own unique sensitivity in the selection and cognition of military talents, and he was quite accurate in employing and recognizing people, and history has also proved that Stalin promoted a few generals, which will be the optimus pillar of the Soviet Union in the future, Otherwise, the USSR would have collapsed long ago.

It was almost 12 noon when all the personnel arrived, and now the situation at the front line was almost understood, and the huge Soviet military map behind the conference room was full of various arrows, and on it were all kinds of huge red arrows pointing to various important places in the Soviet Union.

"Ahem...... Everyone talks about their opinions, the German fascists have entangled 5 million to 8 million troops to launch an all-out attack on the great and sacred Soviet Union, and now the situation is very critical. ”

When Stalin finished asking with a gloomy face, everyone fell silent, because everyone could not tell what Stalin was planning, and in the end it was Marshal Budyonny who made an ambiguous suggestion:

"Comrade Stalin, if you have any instructions, we will definitely defeat the invading German invaders under your wise leadership, and if you have any instructions, give orders, and we promise to carry them out to the letter."

Stalin's didn't have no choice, otherwise with Stalin's character, he would come to ask you, are you good as Budyonny, and if you say it, you don't say it, of course Stalin is not satisfied with Budyonny's suggestion, but Stalin did not have an angry face on the surface, but began to name Zhukov to say his opinion.

Zhukov had already shown his outstanding command skills in the Far East, beating the hundreds of thousands of troops of small Japan all over the ground, and if it were not for Stalin's haste to build an eastern defense line, Zhukov would have almost waved his army into the three northeastern provinces......

Because Stalin built an eastern defense line in order to prepare for a possible German attack, and arranged three lines of defense and 3.9 million troops on the German-Soviet border, the Soviet army and navy had a total of 170 divisions and 2 brigades, a total of 3.9 million people; 1800 heavy and medium tanks, 1540 new and a large number of old aircraft, 34965 artillery pieces and mortars, 269 surface ships, 127 submarines.

…… (To be continued......)

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