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Once again, there was an unspeakable silence in the room. After a moment, it was the old Loeb who broke the deadlock in a deep voice: "We are indeed following the orders of His Excellency the Prime Minister. However, the premise is that His Excellency is the Prime Minister of Germany! ”

Old Loeb slowly stood up, looked around at the many colleagues around him, and said in a deep voice: "As the German Prime Minister, His Excellency the Prime Minister should now be in the homeland commanding the people and the army to resist the invasion of the Ming army!" But where is the Prime Minister now? He has already gone to London with his government, to another country to form some kind of government-in-exile! ”

Old Loeb waved his arm and slammed the table in front of him, "What qualifications does he have to claim to be the Prime Minister of Germany!" If he is not in Germany at a time when he is most needed in Germany, what right does such a person have to call himself the German Chancellor? What other qualifications do you have to give orders to those of us who are fighting to the death for the Motherland?! ”

Old Loeb's words caused many officers in the conference room to nod. Indeed, what does a prime minister who is not in his own country fight to ask the servicemen to continue to dive his orders?

"Ladies and gentlemen." A moment later, when many generals in the conference room were talking, Rommel was only a small character here in terms of age, but the position was nominally the supreme commander of the German army in the entire Stuttgart area, and slowly stood up.

After taking a deep breath, Rommel said in a deep voice, "I don't want to say any more nonsense now." I would like to ask you just one thing: are you willing to obey the orders of His Excellency the Prime Minister? ”

"What about obedience, and what about disobedience?" General Loeb, who was very old, was very unhappy with a young man like Rommel.

These little guys, who started with armored forces, are all arrogant and think that armored forces are everything. Infantry commanders were never taken into account. The credit for winning the battle is all for the armored forces, and when the battle is lost, it is the infantry that does not cover in place.

And the main culprit of all this is His Excellency the Prime Minister. By now, the dissatisfaction of generals like Loeb Sr. with the prime minister who had gone to London to form some kind of government-in-exile had long since reached its peak.

"If you are willing to obey the order of His Excellency the Prime Minister, retreat to the other side of the Rhine and continue to fight, please stay and discuss the battle plan." Rommel glanced indifferently at the generals around him, and said coldly, "If you don't want to stay, please leave here." We need to negotiate the battle plan. ”

"Humph!" As soon as Rommel had finished speaking, the elder Loeb was the first to take the lead, took up his military cap, put it on his head, and turned and walked to the door of the church. Then, many German generals got up and followed in the footsteps of the elder Loeb and left.

"Isn't that good?" Dietrich on the side frowned and said, "They are the commanders of most armies, without them." How are we going to take the troops across the Rhine? ”

These generals who have just left have a large number of troops in their hands, and they are all real powerful generals. And the people who stayed were basically the people promoted by the German prime minister. Most of them were commanders of armored units. Although the combat effectiveness of the armored forces is very strong, they are not numerous.

Moreover, if it really becomes a divisive situation, it will be a terrible end for the entire army. The morale of the army will collapse immediately.

"It's okay." Rommel's eyes were full of coldness: "They have no chance of destroying the German army." ”

As soon as Rommel's words fell, a dense burst of gunfire and shouts of personnel was heard outside the church gates. The German officers in the church all looked at Rommel in amazement, with a look of disbelief on their faces. They really couldn't believe that Rommel had done such a thing!

"Alright." A sneer curled into the corner of Rommel's mouth, and after slowly sitting down, he said, "Let's discuss the combat operation of the breakthrough now." ”

Immediately after Rommel eliminated his opponents by force, the German Chancellor, who was far away in London, issued a new order, promoting Rommel to field marshal and taking command of all German troops in Germany.

Because for hundreds of years, all countries in the world have been deeply influenced by the Ming Dynasty in all aspects, especially after being defeated by the Ming army one after another, the fear and worship of the Ming army by the armies of European countries has reached a kind of follower. The Ming army pursued the unit commander system all year round, so the armies of all countries in the world basically implemented the unit commander system.

Rommel's promotion to field marshal meant that he became commander-in-chief. The former commander-in-chief of the German army, Field Marshal Brauchitsch, had already been a prisoner of war of the Ming army during the battle in Berlin.

On August 11, 1943, Army Group G, which had been improvised by the German army near Stuttgart, began a breakthrough operation under the command of Rommel. Their target was directly to the Karlsruhe region to the northwest, where several important bridges across the Rhine were also in German hands. And on the other side of the river, there were German troops preparing to meet them.

Most of the more than 30 German division-level troops were remnants after being continuously attacked by the Ming army. The total number of troops is only about 200,000. Rommel decisively left part of the infantry behind as a broken force and ordered them to hold out in the Stuttgart area for three days anyway. After three days, they can choose to surrender.

Rommel, on the other hand, personally commanded more than 700 tanks from ten armored divisions as the main force of the breakout to launch a breakthrough operation towards the Karlsruhe area.

The reason why the Germans were able to assemble so many armored divisions here was because these armored units fled relatively quickly under the constant pursuit of the Ming army. And the slow-running troops have all fallen into the encirclement of the Ming army at this moment and have been eaten up. It's like it was in Munich before. Only a small number of the hundreds of thousands of German troops escaped, and the infantry were basically surrounded in the Munich area, and were eventually annihilated by the Ming army.

Ten German Panzer Divisions, under normal circumstances, would be a very terrifying force. Because the German armored divisions were the same large as the Ming army, each division had more than 200 tanks of various types at full strength. And ten armored divisions are more than 2,000 tanks. Under normal circumstances, this force was enough to confront the armored corps of the Ming army.

However, by this time most of Germany had already fallen into the hands of the Ming army. The supply of both personnel and materials has been cut off. After being constantly attacked by the pursuing forces of the Ming army, their strength was much less than before. Many tanks had to be disassembled for spare parts for other tanks due to a lack of various spare parts. They are also desperately short of oil and other supplies. They are now largely deprived of any replenishment.

In order to be able to supply the armored forces with as much fuel as possible, Rommel ordered that all the car fuel used by the infantry units be concentrated in the armored units for the supply of tanks. This greatly reduced the speed of the infantry's march. It also means reducing the time and chances of them fleeing.

That is, the discipline and obedience of the German soldiers were better, and if it were the armies of other countries, it is estimated that the infantry would have mutinied long ago.

In fact, Rommel had no choice but to make such a decision. Although the Ming army's encirclement near Stuttgart was not very tight at this time, the only way for the Germans to successfully break through was to use armored forces to force the attack. And if the armored forces could not be provided with enough fuel, then the more than 200,000 German troops might have to be accounted for here.

In the early hours of 11 August, Rommel ordered the artillery units to fire all the shells, then blew up the artillery and took up arms and went into battle as infantry. Hundreds of tanks of various types rumbled towards the town of Diechingen, northwest of Stuttgart. That was the point of breakthrough that Rommel had chosen.

The defense of Dychingen was a vassal infantry division from Korea, and the main forces of the Ming army in southern Germany were still rushing from the Munich area towards the vicinity of Stuttgart, especially the nearest armored unit of the Ming army was more than 100 kilometers away from Ulm.

The road from Ulm to Stuttgart is mostly in the mountains, and the roads here are difficult to navigate, and it will take at least a day for the Ming army to rush over. Until then, the forces surrounding Stuttgart were mostly troops from vassal states and troops from the colonies.

Because of the wealth of the Ming Dynasty, these armies were also fully mechanized troops, and they marched very fast. They had previously arrived from Nuremberg and the Frankfurt am Main area. The main purpose of letting these armies take the lead is to consume them.

Garrisoned at Dychingen was the 19th Infantry Division of the Kingdom of Korea, which had the same strength as the Ming army, but with a slightly smaller number of officers and soldiers. As for the heavy weaponry, it was only about half to one-third of the Ming army. The only ones that had enough were trucks and jeeps, which were too many of the Ming army to use up.

From the early hours of the morning, chaos reigned in the town of Dichingen, which was heavily bombarded by German saturation shelling. Nearly 14,000 officers and men of the 19th Infantry Division of the Kingdom of Korea stationed here were panicked by the sudden attack of the German army. While desperately calling for reinforcements from the Ming army, they organized forces to resist.

The North Korean soldiers had not been in Dichingen for a short time, and they had not built up any strong defenses. In their minds, the German battle was essentially over. The German forces in many of the previous encirclements surrendered without much fierce resistance, which caused the North Korean soldiers to let their guard down.

The 19th Infantry Division was equipped with a tank battalion equipped with more than 20 No. 4 tanks. When this tank battalion received an order to hurriedly drive out of its position to counterattack, it was dumbfounded. In front of them were hundreds of German tank units!

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