Without thinking about it, Rommel immediately replied:

"Two regiments have 600 six-barrel rocket launchers, and more than 2,500 artillery pieces."

"Where's the ammunition?"

"Three 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 can still rely on our trucks."

Although the strength of Army Group South was small enough this time, Zhang Jun took advantage of his convenience as the German armament department to get 400,000 taels of trucks for the entire Army Group South, while the other two Army Group only had 600,000 trucks, and Odessa was also 190 kilometers away from the German-Soviet border, Zhang Jun could draw at least 200,000 trucks to support Rommel's attack on Odessa, and those 200,000 vehicles needed to support the SS supply mission in the northern sector.

There is no shortage of artillery in Germany, and it can be said that the largest number of artillery remaining in the German national weapons reserve is also artillery, and Zhang Jun's SS army of 1.05 million can be equipped with about 500 large-caliber artillery pieces according to the regular establishment, and there are countless mortars and small-caliber artillery.

Didn't Zhang Jun form 12 new SS infantry divisions? Each division is 16,800 people, Zhang Jun directly ordered to empty most of the artillery of Germany's national weapons reserve, and formed 6 SS artillery divisions, each division is equipped with more than 120 cannons and 1,000 artillery divisions, and a super artillery division, so that the large-caliber artillery of the entire Southern Army Group has reached more than 6,500 guns and more than 1,200 rocket artillery.

Zhang Jun's idea is that Lao Tzu is not as large as the group army group above you, but Lao Tzu's artillery must not be less than you, and there is no shortage of German artillery, and the SS moving artillery from the German national weapons reserve will not make them have too much resistance, after all, it is the Wehrmacht who is not righteous first.

"My deputy commander, don't worry, I'll send you 5 SS artillery divisions, and at the same time there are 200,000 trucks to assist you, but I want to send two heavy tank divisions to reinforce our assault group, this medium tank is fighting in the streets, it is really easy to be destroyed by the Soviets, it is better to take it away."

"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? ”

Zhang Jun did not directly answer Rommel's question, but went to the huge color photo map, picked up a command pole and pointed to the three places above Odessa, Vorog and Rostov-on-Don and Baku.

"My brother, you look at these three places, our first stage is to occupy Rostov, the main railway hub of the Soviet Union, here is the convergence point of the three railways, from the depth of the Soviet Union material and military forces will pass through here to Moscow, and there is another important reason, that is, Baku's oil has two railway lines that can be transported to Moscow, one is through Rostov-on-Don, the other is through Stalingrad, we will immediately use its railway system to occupy the Soviet Union's Baku oil-producing area, This Baku region is the key to the success or failure of the first phase of our Barbarossa plan, and in order to achieve this strategic plan, we have given up some offensive objectives to complete our operation to occupy Baku.

Now 60% of the strength of our Army Group South is being dragged in Odessa, and 40% of the total strength is needed to complete this task, which is a bit insufficient, because I not only have to transfer two armored divisions, but also 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 transfer more than 300,000 EU troops at will, you see how it is, Your Excellency my deputy commander. ”

Rommel understood what Zhang Jun meant, Baku's Soviet oil-producing area is what Zhang Jun is most concerned about in front of him, and 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 1940, Baku's oil production peaked, accounting for 71.5% of the Soviet Union's production 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. 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 SSR, and in 1922 the capital of Azerbaijan became Tbilisi due to the accession of Azerbaijan to the Transcaucasian Federation, which in turn joined the Soviet Union. After 1936 it became the capital of Azerbaijan again.

As long as Zhang Jun 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 SS 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 this place in Odessa."

Zhang Jun walked to Rommel's side, stretched out his hand, and held Rommel tightly.

Paul? Hausser Di**, Theodore? Ike-Skeleton Army was drawn to the Northern Sector to take up the main attack mission, and Paul and Ike were appointed as Deputy Commanders of the Northern Sector to coordinate the actions of the various departments. Their position as deputy commander-in-chief of the northern sector could only be temporarily held by Paul and Ike when the SS took Baku and Zhang Jun ordered the abolition of the northern sector attack cluster.

In order to meet the needs of artillery shells, Zhang Jun ordered 200,000 taels of trucks carrying shells of various calibers 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, 1940, Stalin received a call from the front, saying that Germany had concentrated more than 5 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 start attacking 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 1940, Chief of the General Staff, People's Commissar of Defense, Dean of the Military Academy of the General Staff

Kulik Marshal of the USSR 1940 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 is not helpless, otherwise, with Stalin's character, he will come to ask you, you are good Budyonny, what you say is equivalent to not saying, Stalin is of course 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...... (To be continued.) )