On November 8, 1941, in the war room of the "Wolf's Den", the headquarters of the German Eastern Front in East Prussia, Hitler had just finished listening to Goering's report on the air raid on Moscow with a gloomy face. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Among the heavyweights in this workshop were Field Marshal ****** von Brauchitsch, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of Staff of the Wehrmacht High Command, and Alfred Jodl, Chief of Operations of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces.

The generals of the three armies are not "one line", but they will be completely united in the future, because everyone will understand that Goering, the fat man who has no one in his eyes, should be unlucky!

As expected, Hitler "bombed" Goering for 10 minutes with his standardized hysterical roar! As an army general, although everyone understands that Hitler's anger does not solve the actual problem, it is a great pleasure to be able to witness Goering, a fat man with no one in his eyes, eat deflated!

Of course, no one should put their thoughts on their faces—Keitel bowed his head slightly, as if studying the large sand table in the middle of the war room; Yodel would focus on the angry Hitler, and then on the map on the wall beside him; The commander-in-chief of the army is even more simply: his eyes are in a daze, God knows where his mind flies!?

It was an operational meeting, but Goering had to report to the Führer about the failure of yesterday's air raid, because Hitler already knew that the Condors were a complete defeat!

Alfred Yod, in August 1939, was exceptionally promoted to head of the Operations Department of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces of the Third Reich (with the rank of major general). From then on, Jodel became one of Hitler's main advisers on military operations, directly involved in planning the various plans and actions of the German army for aggression and expansion. In the Nazi wars against Norway, Denmark and Yugoslavia, Jodel played an irreplaceable role for others. From 1940 to 1941, he was one of the main concoctors of the battle plan for attacking the Soviet Union, codenamed "Barbarossa Plan", and issued it. So far, he has issued military orders for the massacre of Soviet prisoners of war, which has further contributed to the atrocities of the German army's pre-existing massacre of prisoners of war.

Wilhelm Keitel, who would have been nicknamed a "lackey" among the senior German generals, was named after his close proximity to Hitler.

After the start of the Soviet-German war, Keitel's command structure regarded the temporary measures of the success of individual generals in some battles as a panacea, replacing flexible and responsible command with Hitler's formula of advancing and not retreating, and the dynamic and ingenious actions of the original Army General Staff in the use of space and alternating offensive and defensive operations, and increasingly embraced this formula.

Keitel's almost total denial of the retreat of the army as a means of warfare in order to restore freedom of action or to conserve troops, his strategic views were simply tinged with the pathological character of Hitler, he had grown accustomed to the myth that the Führer would never make mistakes, he believed in the Führer's instincts, he was desperate to maintain his trust in the Führer, and he felt in his heart that Hitler was "the greatest commander-in-chief of all time", that this was not ordinary flattery, that he had been subdued by Hitler's magic - and that was why, He is now one of the main "enemies" of the inattentive ****** von Brauchitsch in the army!

- von Brauchitsch, who never dared to question Hitler's determination to invade the USSR, even though an invasion would lead to a terrible two-front war. When Hitler instructed the Army to wage a "ruthless race war" and demanded the summonitious execution of Soviet political cadres, several officers demanded that Hiraušić protest, but Brauchitsch refused to risk provoking the Führer.

In fact, as early as this spring, there was a difference of opinion between Brauchitsch and Hitler on the question of attacking the Soviet Union: as a result, the marshal had to fight not only the Red Army, but also Hitler's paranoia! It is a pity that Brauchitsch's eloquence was not at all as good as his military prowess, and he was not at all an opponent of Hitler, which dictated that he could only listen to the Führer.

It turned out that Brauchitsch's plan for the Soviet Union was to take Moscow as the primary goal of the war -- to occupy Moscow would not only destroy the Soviet Union's determination to resist, but also occupy the most important railway junction of the Soviet Union.

He and his generals believed that the main purpose of the war against the Soviet Union was to destroy the armed forces of the Soviet Union, and that the fastest and most reliable way to achieve this goal was to advance to Moscow!

But Hitler had his own considerations: at the very beginning of the war, he first wanted to win a decisive victory in the north and south! Even when the border battle was blocked, he did not change his determination. Germany had limited resources, and Hitler considered the seizure of grain-rich Ukraine and the oil-producing regions of the Crimea and Caucasus more important than a military victory, at least at the time (oil was running out!). ）。

Army Group North's first mission was to capture Leningrad, which Hitler considered to be the center of communist organization; The capture of Leningrad was followed by the occupation of Ukraine and other regions, and then Moscow.

It was a pity that Army Group North was blocked in Latvia by the Baltic Front under the command of Tukhachevsky, and the "Red God of War" reimbursed Hitler's first plan with only two-thirds of the strength of Army Group North, and even Lithuania did not eat it all.

The Germans did not expect the Red Army to be so strong in combat, and when a temporary stalemate reached Belarus, Hitler had to revisit his decision to draw troops from both flanks to support Army Group Center. If Bock had been supported by both flanks when he approached the "Stalin Line", then Zhukov would not have enough troops to hold Minsk. By the time the two wings were withdrawn, the Western Front was replenished in a steady stream, and Minsk, and even the entire Belarusian front, became an out-and-out meat grinder!

Romania's oil supply has been largely restored, and now the oil fields of the Caucasus are the second target, and the combat map on the wall is the Belarusian front!

Hitler was not only paranoid, he also had reason: he could not push Goering too much, and stopped the "indiscriminate bombardment" at the right time when Goering's face began to turn red. "My Commander-in-Chief, what do you propose next?"

Brauchitsch's attention was pulled back from Siberia, but what good advice could he have? - Not for nothing, Hitler wouldn't have agreed to it!

Belarus is already in a stalemate, and the most feasible way is to retreat on its own initiative, because the harsh winter in Russia has already arrived, and it is impossible to take Minsk before the real cold arrives. At present, the logistical supply and morale of the troops are no longer the ideal of two months ago, and there is no point in fighting with the Soviets in Minsk again, and the consumption of the troops is not worth the loss: the army retreats voluntarily in order to restore freedom of movement or to save troops, and wait for the beginning of the next spring to attack Moscow, but Hitler will never agree!

Brauchitsch, the commander-in-chief of the army, will not be able to be! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )