After Manstein finished speaking, he handed over the intelligence materials in his hand to Guderian. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info200,000 Soviet troops defended the fortified city of Odessa, and Guderian was indeed surprised.

According to Guderian's understanding of Timoshenko, this person's campaign command ability is not very good, but Timoshenko is very good at defensive warfare, otherwise it would not be possible to get mixed into the position of marshal.

After Guderian read the information of Jun, he couldn't help but spare his head and said:

"Timoshenko is good at defensive warfare, he has so many Soviet troops in his hands, if he wants to storm Odessa, there will be a lot of casualties!"

"General Guderian, how many six-barreled rocket launchers and artillery can your Army Group South concentrate now?"

Without even thinking about it, Guderian immediately replied:

"Two regiments have 300 six-barrel rocket launchers, and more than 500 large-caliber artillery pieces."

"Where's the ammunition?"

"Five cardinal ammunition."

"How's our shipping going?"

"The railway is being repaired urgently, and it will take seven days to fully repair it, and we are now saying that we can rely on trucks."

The total strength of Army Group South was nearly one million, but the trucks of Army Group South were a little short, and there were only more than 50,000 trucks in Army Group South, and these 50,000 trucks still needed to support the German supply mission in the northern sector.

There was no shortage of artillery in Germany, and it can be said that the largest number of artillery remaining in Germany's national arsenal was also artillery, and Guderian's Army Group South, a million-strong army, was completely fully equipped with artillery.

Even so, Guderian only had more than 300 six-barrel rocket launchers and more than 500 large-caliber artillery pieces in his hands, and it was obviously unrealistic to use these artillery pieces to crush the Soviet army in Odessa.

"Commander-in-chief, I also want to use artillery to eliminate the Soviet army in Odessa as much as possible, but the number of cannons I have on hand is not enough!"

"General Guderian, don't worry, I'll transfer you 3 German artillery divisions, and 20,000 trucks to assist you, but I want to send two heavy tank divisions to reinforce the northern assault group, and use the No. 4 tank to fight street battles, which is really easy to be destroyed by the Soviets, it's better to transfer it, I won't move your Leopard tank."

"Commander-in-chief, then there will only be 6 armored divisions left in the attack on Odessa! In the face of 200,000 Soviet troops, will there be no problems? ”

Instead of answering Guderian's question directly, Manstein went to a huge color photographic map, picked up a command pole and pointed to three places above Odessa: Vorog and Rostov-on-Don and Baku.

"General Guderian, if you look at these two places, our second stage is to occupy Rostov-on-Don, the main railway hub of the Soviet Union, which is the meeting point of the three railways.

Material and military transport from the Soviet Far East would pass through here to reach Moscow, and another important reason was that Baku's oil could be transported to Moscow by two railway lines, one through Rostov and the other through Stalingrad.

As soon as we took Rostov-on-Don, we used its railway system to cut off the railway from Moscow to the oil-producing area of Baku and cut off the oil supply from Baku to Moscow, which was the key to the success or failure of the second phase of our Barbarossa plan, and we made a choice in order to achieve this strategic plan.

Now that 60 percent of the strength of your Army Group South is being dragged in Odessa, and your total strength in the northern sector is more than 400,000, and to accomplish these two arduous tasks, this point of strength is obviously insufficient, so I must not only transfer two armored divisions to go, but also transfer 200,000 infantry to support our in-depth assault plan.

And the number of troops we use to attack Odessa is about 350,000, I think it is completely enough, and you can also draw more than 300,000 Axis troops at will, you see, my deputy commander. ”

The Barbarossa plan of the German army divided the five hundred and fifty German army and its Axis forces into three attack groups, the northernmost was Army Group North, and the offensive line was the Leningrad Line, but Army Group North did not attack Leningrad, but did the German left hook, and the strategic intermediate target was the left side of Moscow.

In the center was Army Group Center, which had the largest number of troops, more than two million in total, and he was attacking Moscow from the front.

The southernmost attack position was Army Group South commanded by Guderian, this attack group had the least number of troops, only one hundred and fifty thousand, and their offensive defense line was Stalingrad, but they did not really attack Stalingrad, but attacked Moscow from the right side, which was equivalent to an uppercut.

The three heavy armies of the German army, the traces of the target of the attack are all Moscow, which is completely different in history, in history the German army in the north went to attack Leningrad for a few days, and the southern army group attacked Stalingrad, the German army used to attack Moscow, only the center army group.

Now the German army is concentrating all its forces and attacking Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union, from three directions, and the German army at the behest of Rommel, after the middle period, will not be dividing the troops, if the German army is defeated in this way, then Rommel the traverser has nothing to say.

Guderian understood what Manstein meant, Baku's Soviet oil-producing area, because the German army now has an African oil source, and the German army will not divide its troops for Baku's oil fields, although the German army is not eager to get Baku's oil, but it can't let the Soviet army in Moscow get Baku's oil.

The success of this mission is a sign of the success of Army Group South's offensive plan, and once Moscow does not get Baku's oil, Moscow will definitely face a short-term oil panic, and their tank sea will also be greatly limited.

In 1940, 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.

"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 second phase because of Odessa."

Manstein walked to Guderian's side, stretched out his hand, and held Guderian tightly, brothers in unison, breaking gold together.

Paul? Hausser's SS Reich Division and Theodore? Ike's SS skeleton divisions were all drawn to the northern sector to serve as the main offensive task, Paul and Ike were appointed as deputy commanders of the northern sector of Army Group South, coordinating the actions of various departments, they were still under Army Group South, and the strategic task of the northern sector was to take Volrog and Rostov.

[Falling leaves ask the brothers for monthly tickets, ask to see, and ask for a chapter. (To be continued.) )