Chapter 823: The Truth of the Order
Da Da Da ...... Da Da Da ......
Thundered! Thundered!
"Rush!"
"Ahhh......h
Bi Buckle! Bi Buckle!
About 60 kilometers outside Moscow, a desperate battle between Germany and Soviet Russia was taking place.
There were gunshots everywhere, explosions everywhere, and the roar of the cannonballs was shivering, but here, you can't retreat!
It is impossible for the Soviet army to retreat, behind it is Moscow, which is the heart of the country, and retreating means the fall of Soviet power!
And the German army could not retreat, and if it retreated, then the momentum of the German army would be affected, you know, the German army has been invincible so far!
So......
"God, for the first time, I'm tired of war!"
Fritz Erich Manstein, he was currently the youngest division commander in Germany, because his troops were not ordinary, they were airborne troops, but they did not play much role in such a big war.
This is Russia, this is not one of those small countries in Europe, so when they were airdropped their airborne division, by the way, now Manstein is the mayor of Germany's first airborne division, and they were not thrown into Moscow.
Because it's useless, it won't be useful at all, Moscow is heavily defended, so a division, even if it is thrown in, it is estimated that it will be a sheep's mouth, and a division is nothing at all.
Therefore, Manstein did not play a key role, and now, he is caught in a tough battle!
At this time, at the end of November 1912, the damn weather in Russia was already very cold, and the snow was falling all over the place. But though, the snowflakes are better, because the temperature can be higher when it snows, and when it snows, it's cold.
It has been several months since he entered the Russian war, and Manstein has finally felt the cruelty of the war. It was very normal that his division could not play a greater role, and it was okay at first, the advance of the German army was very fast, and with their help, it was incredibly fast.
But now......
Russians everywhere, everywhere!
The current state of war is that it seems that the Russians can't be killed at all, and if you kill one, two more will come out immediately. It's a headache.
When there are too many people, when there are too many people, and then everyone fills the war with human flesh, then a lot of tactical tactics are meaningless.
Manstein was very excited before, because a young man like him was lucky enough to see an army of more than 5 million people in military action. How exciting it is!
That's right, more than 5 million people indeed. Everyone knows that Russia is not easy to deal with, and how many times Europe wants to be unified is because there are Russians who do it, or they also want to unify Europe, and then they fail, so. This time, Germany carried out the largest mobilization with the strongest national strength, and itself marched more than 2 million men, and then the other vassal countries. Italy, France, Austria, and later, places like Estonia, all had 70,000 people joining.
It's a bit mixed, but it's better than the numbers, but ...... Manstein now just thinks that it would have been better if we had known that we should not take the Italians with us.
Well, everyone knows how difficult the Italians are, these guys are a complete burden, and my German army would have been much better without them......
But you can't throw the Italians away, because isn't that even a new Holy Roman Empire built?
You know, the original Holy Roman Empire included Italy......
Forget it, let's not talk about Italy, Manstein is really powerless to complain about them, and now, he was originally an airborne division, but he was going to follow the ordinary army to attack the city step by step, which is really depressing.
There are too many people to ......
On the German side, there were more than 500 troops, and they were divided into three routes, all the way to St. Petersburg, all the way to Moscow, and all the way to Volgograd.
Actually, this is an obvious tactic, anyone who wants to come from Europe to fight Russia will choose this way, of course, this time it was Marshal Mackensen, Marshal Ludendorff, and Chief of Staff Falkingham who formulated the tactics......
They shouldn't be wrong, but it's a bit hard to move now!
There are 5 million people in Germany, so how many people are there in the Soviets?
It doesn't feel like it's clean at all...... This is Manstein's direct perception.
In fact, Soviet Russia has now mobilized more than 10 million soldiers, of course, there are many who cannot go to war now, but there should be 6-7 million.
There are too many people on both sides, but there is no way, because everyone seems to have reached a point where if you don't work hard, then you will destroy the country and extinct the species!
It is said that the maximum mobilization capacity of the Russians can reach 30 million people......
Maninstein feels that the Russians are all crazy, are they going to drive all the men into battle?
However, this time......
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Bang! Bang!
It's still important to fight!
Another wave of attack, at this time the Russians are constantly attacking the German defense line, yes, now the German side is doing the defense, of course, this is just a small battlefield situation, that's all, but at this time, the pressure is getting heavier and heavier......
Bang! Bang!
Boom la la la......
Just when Manstein felt that his defense line was about to be untenable, a tank drove behind him, and the tank's artillery hit very accurately, destroying the Russian tank in front of him!
"Oooo
"Great!"
It is quite normal that after destroying the opponent's tanks, the attack of the Russians was once again repulsed, and then Maninstein's side, of course, had to celebrate, but ......
"Hahaha...... Maninstein, Lao Tzu saved your life! ”
"You bastard! I didn't want you to save it! ”
It was none other than Rommel who drove the tank, this guy was also on the battlefield in Russia at this time, and he was with this Manstein.
"You bastard!"
"You're the bastard!"
"That's you!"
"It's you!"
It's a little speechless, these two guys are always fighting.
The reason is relatively simple, that is, both of them are young talents, and they don't show signs of each other, but they are not ......
"Erich, I've heard that the current command is arguing."
"Quarrel?"
Faced with what Rommel said, Manstein was a little stunned.
What the hell is going on to make the command quarrel?
"This order is absolutely fake! Fake! ”
"Don't play with children! Now that the order of the High Command has come down, then we have to carry it out! ”
The order is fake?
At this time, in the front-line headquarters, Rundstedt was quarreling with many young officers, these young people, because the previous combat exploits were accumulated too quickly, this promotion was very fast, so these guys felt a little unseen in their eyes, and they didn't look down on the old guy Rundstedt......
Actually, Rundstedt is not old, really, but there is no way, with the changes in the war, he is considered an old qualification.
And now, what is this order?
Fall back!
That's right, it's the retreat, it's the high command that lets the front, these German troops who have penetrated deep into the territory of Russia, everyone come to retreat!
It's simply ......
No wonder these young officers thought the order was fake!
Because it's really hard to imagine, with the current situation, isn't it too demoralizing to retreat?
This is really too strange, aren't you afraid that in such a battlefield state, once you retreat, you will lose everything?
In fact, in the order, it is said that you should not go back immediately, but to formulate some retreat plans, and withdraw in an orderly and elaborate manner.
Moreover, the high command still has to allocate a large number of bombers, and these bombers will help the Germans retreat, and they will cover you.
At this time, the Soviets, their air power was still quite average, after all, there were not many years of real communism, and when the tsar was there before, he was not too interested in the development of this kind of technology.
Therefore, this is actually a huge withdrawal plan, and it was not achieved overnight, but even so, many people still can't understand it, and a quarrel is of course.
In the end, of course, Rundstedt still solved the group of young people, after all, this is a military order, let's study how to retreat together, then......
Why retreat?
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