Rommel stayed with Zhang Zuolin for so long, but unfortunately he did not understand Chinese, otherwise he should have heard the saying that the arrogant army will be defeated. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Rommel was a proud man, he was a commoner, but he was more proud than the nobles, because he was a commoner, so he was more proud than the nobles.

Before he could get off the plane, news came from the front that the two tank brigades he sent were all wiped out, and they had been ambushed.

Rommel couldn't believe it, but he quickly figured out the truth, it was a serial strategy, and the other party did expect him to guess the ambush, but the other party used this to set up a game for him.

Obviously, the calm in front is a bureau, and some tanks in the back hastily flee from the forest under shelling, which is also a bureau.

The main forces of the Soviet army, which were in ambush in the forest, did not leave from beginning to end, and since they could take advantage of the autumn to dig a dense underground tunnel outside the port of Angara, there was no reason why the same fortifications could not be built in the forest.

"Who is the commander of the Soviet troops?"

Rommel suffered a small loss and was curious to know who the Soviet officer who ambushed him was.

It is a pity that the intelligence system of the tsarist regime has not been able to do this, and there is no one in the world who can do this, because it is too difficult to develop an intelligence system for the closed Soviet Russia.

However, he soon learned that because the offensive on the first day was contained by the Soviet army, and then the Soviet Russians carried out extensive propaganda, Rommel did not think of how to deal with such a strong position on the outskirts of the port of Angara, but he knew the name of the officer who was ambushed by the Soviet army.

Zhukov!

Commander of the 4th Cavalry Division of the Soviet Army.

is just a division commander, compared with Rommel at this time, it is only a small role, and it is just a small victory.

Rommel told himself that it was not worth taking the other party seriously, in fact, it was not about the size of the victory or defeat, but about the identity of the other party, if it was a senior Soviet commander like Yegorov who presided over the ambush, Rommel might care a lot, but was defeated by a nobody. Rommel was somewhat indifferent.

Briefing Zhang Zuolin on the situation of the battle, Rommel said that the Fourth Army was fully capable of capturing the port of Angara and did not need any reinforcements.

He soon returned to the front line. But against the solid defense line of the Soviet army, Rommel was indeed at a loss.

Indeed, as he expected, the gasoline incendiary bombs and poison gas bombs dropped by the plane had little effect on this kind of three-dimensional position, after all, the poison gas bombs had been fought for so long. Both sides have a way to deal with it, although not everyone in the Soviet army has gas masks, but their tunnels can be sealed, and when the other side fires gas bombs, they hide in the tunnels, seal the doors, and only leave a few masked observation posts outside.

They can also use this method when throwing petrol incendiary bombs, which are not very effective in underground tunnels strung with cobwebs. Neither can burn each other, nor drain oxygen. Apparently this was designed by professional engineers of the Soviet army.

In fact, there is really no good way to this kind of fortified position, only to let the tanks protect the infantry and rush directly to capture it, but Rommel is not very happy to do this, according to several months of reconnaissance, he judged that there are only about 50,000 Soviet troops in Angara Port, and the strength is only half of his strength, if this will have to pay heavy sacrifices to capture the opponent's position, it will be a failure.

After the First World War. In the field of German military theory, a kind of low-casualty warfare has begun to appear, and some people have already proposed that the enemy can be annihilated on a large scale through movement warfare under the condition that aircraft, tanks, artillery, and other heavy firepower are fully superior.

The blitzkrieg wasn't a flash of inspiration either. Rather, it was supported by systematic theories, the earliest being the theory of tank warfare written by the British, which was developed by the Germans, resulting in well-arranged, precise blitzkrieg tactics. If it was just the commander's whim, there was a blitzkrieg. That's too much to underestimate other countries, and it's too underestimating blitzkrieg tactics.

In World War II, only the Germans were using lightning tactics from beginning to end, Soviet Russia emphasized heavy firepower and strong attack, and the US military even developed heavy firepower flat push tactics to the extreme, don't they know the theory of blitzkrieg? It's because they don't have the supporting theoretical reserves and tactical experience, and they haven't even conducted exercises, so how can they get from squad infantry to tank clusters together?

Therefore, lightning tactics must have a well-trained, well-coordinated and capable army to cooperate with each other, just like a sophisticated machine, in order to play a miraculous effect, otherwise it will only blindly emphasize the assault, and the enemy will be in chaos, and I am afraid that I should also be in chaos.

However, at this time, the theory of blitzkrieg was not mature, Rommel's experience was not rich enough, and the army in his hand was not so elite, so even if there was a theory, he could not apply it, but Rommel wanted to try.

Try it, this is the biggest task given to him by Adolf Hitler, to test the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army with 100,000 lives, this is simply the opportunity that Adolf dreamed of.

Therefore, in addition to allowing the air force and artillery to maintain their superiority over the port of Angara, and at the same time cutting off the connection between the port of Angara and Usolije in the rear, Rommel has always repeatedly formulated and revised his methods of warfare.

It's a pity that he underestimated the division commander of the Soviet army, Zhukov, and he received another blow that night.

Taking advantage of the small victory on the first day, Zhukov's cavalry division, under the cover of several hundred tanks, pierced the simple defense line of the Fourth Army from a joint, went around to the rear and destroyed the artillery positions of the Koreans, and then calmly withdrew from the encirclement and returned safely to the port of Angara.

Zhukov taught Rommel a good lesson this time, telling him how to use the tank.

Rommel thought about various uses of tanks, but he never thought that tanks could be used for night attacks, especially the tanks of the Soviet army, which he had never looked down on, and the kind of tanks that could destroy even large-caliber machine guns were really nothing to care about.

But he didn't expect that this light and fast small tank could be directly used as a war horse, and was used by the Soviet army to fight a counterattack.

Without the artillery fire suppression of the North Koreans, it would only be more difficult for them to storm the frontal positions of the Soviet troops.

And to restore the artillery units, it is not possible to do it in a moment and a half, even if it is withdrawn from the rear or other friendly and neighboring troops, it will take a day or two, this is probably what the Soviet army wants, to postpone the offensive of the tsarist army, and drag the war into the middle of winter little by little.

It's not that easy.

Rommel was, after all, a military general with a very high IQ.

"Ask for plane support, and ask them to burn the forest south of the harbor to me with gasoline cocktails tomorrow morning. Get your tank troops ready to launch a general offensive at any time! ”

Although Rommel did not want to attack head-on, he knew that the Soviets did not dare to bet that he would not attack head-on, and the attack always took the initiative. (To be continued.) )