"Reich Marshal, having deciphered the telegrams sent by the Soviet High Command to the Caucasian Front and the Steppe Front. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Zhukov has just been appointed commander of the Caucasian Front, and the Steppe Front will be reorganized into the North Caucasus Front. It seems that Stalin intended to use the Caucasus as his last hiding place. ”

Lieutenant General Geiger, the head of military intelligence, walked briskly into Hersman's office, a smug smile on his tired face. After saluting, he reported to Hersman a Soviet telegram that had just been intercepted and deciphered by military intelligence.

Incidentally, because there were so many traitors in the ranks of the Soviet revolution during this time, German intelligence gained access to a large number of secrets that would otherwise be impossible to grasp. Many of them were information about Soviet ciphers, so now the German military intelligence can basically decipher most of the ciphers of the Soviet high command.

Although the information displayed on the telegram of the Soviet High Command that was deciphered this time was a bit unexpected, Hersman thought about it carefully and felt that it was reasonable. Because the "Battle of Moscow Periphery" (the Kalinin-Tver Campaign, the Triangle Campaign, the Moscow Perimeter Campaign on the Western Front, and the Outflanking of Moscow on the Southern Front) was now at an end and the Soviet front was shaken more violently than the Wehrmacht General Staff had imagined.

Because the Soviet army adopted the active strategy of counterattacking and luring the enemy to seek a decisive battle in the "Battle of Moscow Periphery", it also gave the Germans a large number of opportunities to annihilate the enemy. As of yesterday afternoon, that is, on the afternoon of May 13, 1944, more than 3,500 Soviet tanks, assault guns and armored vehicles had been destroyed and captured in the "Triangle Battlefield" that had just ended the fighting! The entire battlefield was littered with twisted and burned metal wreckage. More than 150,000 Soviet officers and soldiers were killed or captured!

The two "front-level" armored clusters of the Soviet army, after several days and nights of repeated hard fighting, have been basically shattered and have lost their combat capability. Among them, the remnants of the armored cluster of the Soviet army on the northern front withdrew to the city of Kalinin on the night of the 12th, while the remnants of the armored cluster of the Soviet army on the southern front retreated to the city of Moscow.

At the same time, the Western Front cluster of the Central Front of the Soviet Army, under the joint pressure of the main forces of the 4th Panzer Army and the 48th Panzer Army of General Hort, hastily retreated and returned to the city of Moscow.

And the remnants of the Soviet 62nd Army, which was defending along the Kalinin-Moscow railway, also retreated to the east, fleeing to the territory of the Vladimir region and to the reserve front divisions under the command of Konev.

After the retreat of the Soviet 62nd Army, a section of the German 48th Panzer Army also crossed the Red October railway line and joined forces with the vanguard of the German 1st Panzer Army at Fryazino, east of Moscow, at noon on May 13. Thus completing the Great Siege of Moscow!

At the same time as the Soviets and Germans were engaged in a general battle around Moscow, the battle of Kalinin-Tver also reached its climax on May 10. Morder and Paulus, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, made an earth-shattering move. Paulus's 6th Panzer Army and Tiperskish's 5th Panzer Army first combined on May 10 to capture the town of May Day, which was occupied by the 8th Soviet Guards Division, and then launched a series of onslaughts on May 11, 12, and 13 May, recovering Kuvshinovo, Torzhok, and Likuslavl.

After recovering Likuslavl, Paulus also detached an armored corps to attack in a southeasterly direction, trying to bypass the city of Kalinin and advance all the way to the north bank of the Volga. Thus, together with Army Group Center, cut off the road for the retreat of the Kalinin Front of the Soviet Army to the Yaroslavl region. Although this armored corps has not yet reached the banks of the Volga River, according to the analysis of the current situation of air force reconnaissance, it is not difficult to accomplish this task.

That is, both the Central Front of the Soviet Army and the main forces of the Kalinin Front were already or were about to be surrounded by the Germans. And these two fronts are still surrounded by heavy losses!

According to the statistical reports of the German Army Group Center and Army Group North, in the more than a month since the Soviet army launched a counterattack operation on the Kalinin front on April 5, the number of Soviet officers and soldiers who have been captured or surrendered has exceeded 250,000 (this figure is difficult to falsify), and if you count the Soviet officers and soldiers killed and wounded, the Soviet losses are likely to have been successful by 1 million (this figure is estimated to be somewhat watery).

In more than a month's battle, the number of Soviet tanks, tank destroyers, assault guns, and armored vehicles completely destroyed or captured by the Germans exceeded 5,000, and more than 400 planes were shot down or destroyed on the ground.

It is now absolutely certain that the Soviet Central Front, the Kalinin Front and the Reserve Front have suffered heavy losses in the fighting for more than a month. It is difficult to say whether the Central Front still has the strength to defend Moscow, and it is conceivable that Stalin would consider leaving Moscow under such circumstances.

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"What? What the? Is it possible that Stalin is leaving Moscow? ”

Adolph. Hitler heard this in one of the offices of the German Ministry of Defense (the meetings of the German High Command were now held in the Ministry of Defense building, so both Hitler and Hersmann had offices in the Ministry of Defense building...... When there was good news, there was not a hint of a smile on a pale face.

"It's possible." Hersmann was sitting in Hitler's office, cup of coffee in hand, and a triumphant smile on his face.

The Soviet Union really looks like it's going to be finished! As soon as the Soviet Union ended, Germany was invincible, and even if the arrogance of US imperialism could not be completely defeated, Germany would be able to maintain its position as the number one power in the world.

Hitler, on the other hand, looked at Hersmann and asked, "Will there be a Caucasian GC fortress?" ”

The so-called "Caucasian GC bastion" was advocated by TASS in the past two days, saying that the people of all nationalities in the Caucasus region are firmly opposed to the Tsarist Russia and the German aggressors, and are ready to closely follow the Bolshevik Party and the great leader Stalin, relying on the terrain of the mountainous area, to fight the invading enemy to the end.

However, this set of propaganda is to fool Hitler, who has half a bottle of water, and Hersmann, who has studied military affairs for half his life, will not believe it.

"At the moment, the Caucasus is not a critical region that can determine the outcome of a war." "Because our troops are only six or seven hundred kilometers away from Ulyanovsk and Kuibyshev, and less than 1,100 kilometers from Ufa," Hesman said. As soon as the encirclement of Moscow and Kalinin is completed, the Central Front will advance towards Ulyanovsk, Kuibyshev and Ufa. Before the arrival of autumn, the tricolor of Russia will definitely fly over the city of Ufa! ”

"Can you take the Volga-Ural industrial zone before autumn?" Hitler's face became even more ugly.

He, of course, knew that the Volga-Ural industrial region was now the lifeline of the USSR! Once it is occupied by Belarus, it is very likely that the Soviet Union will completely collapse in the short term.

And given the national cohesion of the Russians, the collapse of the USSR could well mean a complete revival of the Russian Empire. All Soviet territories east of the Ural Mountains will become part of Russia.

That is, to be part of the European Community!

Tens of millions of Slavs live there!

Hersmann did not pay attention to Hitler's expression, he nodded with a smile and said: "It is estimated that the encirclement of Moscow and Kalinin will be completed by the end of May." In June, Army Group Center was allowed to rest and replenish ammunition and fuel, and in July it advanced to Ulyanovsk, Kuibyshev and Ufa. If it goes well, Ufa will definitely be taken by the end of September. ”

It's going to be going well! Hitler said in his heart: how could it not go well? Army Group Center is so capable of fighting, and with the legitimate banner of Empress Olga of Russia, Leningrad has become Petrograd, and Moscow is surrounded. How many Russians in this situation will go to the funeral of the USSR and Stalin?

The 1,000 kilometers from Moscow to Ufa may have been taken over by walking......

"No, it can't be like this!" Hitler shook his head again and again, and finally couldn't help but meddle in military affairs, "Reich Marshal, the General Staff cannot think only about the military and not about politics and economics!" ”

Hitler got up from his chair and walked around the office with some anxiety.

"Military problems are never isolated," Hitler said as he walked, "and military, political, and economic issues have always been intimately linked." Marshal of the Reich, I know that you are an expert in politics and economics, and I think you understand that the problem in Europe now is not the USSR, but Russia! ”

Speaking of this, Hitler was a little excited, and he waved his arms: "Half of Europe is in ruins, and there are still 100 million lazy Slavs who have no work, no good land, and not much to eat." Some of them turned into refugees, wandering around Central and Western Europe, and some even ran to Syria. These inferior human beings are now a problem, a burden to Europe and Germany......"

What the? Hersmann was shocked when he heard this, and thought to himself, "Hitler didn't want to put the Slavs in concentration camps, right?"

"We're ......" Hitler glanced at Hersmann, the big leader of the "Junker Knights", and took a breath, as if swallowing something back. "We can't make 100 million Slavs 200 million or 150 million, not even 110 million! This is the firmest position of the National Socialist Workers' Party, and the economies of Europe and Germany cannot bear it, we can't feed so many Russians, do you understand? ”

Hersmann understood that Hitler was still struggling with the Russian masters, although he was now in power, he was not the head of state in history after all, and many things could not be done by his own temperament......