Chapter 13: Encounters Across Time and Space

"As an army decision-maker, indecency is the most terrible!" Suddenly a loud voice sounded behind Paulus, and he turned around sharply and reached for the pistol at his waist, but when he saw the appearance of the person behind him, he couldn't help but be stunned on the spot, and his hand stopped in mid-air and was dazed.

Opposite was an old man with two striking beards on his mouth, and although his face was full of weather, Paulus immediately recognized him at the first sight of the old man's face, and couldn't help but spit out a name: Otto? Feng? Bismarck!

Otto? Feng? Bismarck, a pivotal figure in modern German history! He was born on April 1, 1815 in a small Prussian town called Shingösen. On September 23, 1862, Bismarck was appointed Prussian Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and in his first speech to the Prussian Parliament, he loudly declared: "What Germany needs is not Prussian liberalism, but power." Prussia had to gather its strength for a favorable opportunity, which we have missed several times. The major problems of our time cannot be solved by discussion and majority voting, and sometimes it is inevitable that they must be solved through a struggle, a struggle of iron and blood. After he had finished his speech, the king said to Bismarck: "I know the end, they will cut off your head at my window at the opera square, and then I will cut off my head later." Bismarck responded: "If sooner or later you are going to die, why die undignifiedly?" …… There is no difference between dying on the gallows or dying on the battlefield...... We must fight to the end! From then on, a very special and strong relationship was formed between the king and his prime minister.

He waged wars against Denmark, Austria, and France, defeating Austria in 1866 to unify Germany, and defeating France in 1870 to bring the German Empire to the continent. Since the reunification of Germany, Bismarck did not want any more foreign wars, so that Germany could recuperate and cultivate national strength. Therefore, he did not plunder the colonies in large quantities like other European countries. Until 1888, when Wilhelm II succeeded to the throne at the age of 29. The young and vigorous young emperor was unwilling to be subject to Bismarck, so he and Bismarck disagreed on many issues. At that time, Bismarck was 73 years old and had been in power for 26 years. As a result, in the midst of a series of power struggles, Bismarck became disheartened and formally stepped down on March 18, 1890, submitting his resignation to Wilhelm II. After Bismarck's resignation, he went to the grave of Wilhelm I to lay three roses, met with Frederick III's widow, and resigned Wilhelm II's newly canonized title of "Duke of Lauenburg" and the title of Field Marshal and Admiral. On March 29, 1890, Bismarck and his family, surrounded by thousands of Berlin citizens, took a train to the music of "Friendship Lasts Forever", and left Berlin, where he had fought for 28 years. After his retirement, Bismarck lived in the Friedrichslu estate near Hamburg and wrote his memoir "Thoughts and Memories". Finally, on July 30, 1898, Bismarck, the world-famous iron-blooded prime minister, quietly passed away at the age of 83. Wilhelm II originally wanted to give Bismarck a state funeral, but Bismarck's family had already buried him in an open space in the Friedrichslu estate according to his will. On Bismarck's tombstone, this line is inscribed: "Von? Marquis Bismarck, a faithful German servant of Emperor Wilhelm I. ”

Paulus's generation almost grew up listening to the deeds of the "iron-blooded prime minister", and his legendary life has always been praised and admired by the German people! So when he saw the already ancient Chancellor Bismarck standing alive in front of him, he couldn't help but be stunned on the spot.

"I'm not Bismarck, but I do look like him!" Wang Fan, who turned foreign trade into Bismarck, replied shamelessly, "Of course, it is also because of his imagination that I will show up, and I don't want to see the Germany he built up face the danger of overturning!" ”

"Who is Your Excellency?" Paulus, who regained his composure, asked, "Where did you come from?" Why is it here? Paulus did not shout out to the soldiers and officers outside, because he subconsciously felt that this "Bismarck" would not harm him.

"My name is very long, so according to your European habit of naming names, I gave myself a name, called John? Ewing, it doesn't matter where I'm from, it's important that I can help the 6th Army break through the existing encirclement and win the entire Battle of Stalingrad. As he spoke, this "Bismarck" was on his right hand, and saw a beam of blue light emitted from his right hand, and soon changed from one to four, evolving into a blue laser sphere above the heads of the two, with a twist and turn on it, forming a real 4D map that was 10,000 times smaller (one of the functions of the ring, 4D imaging, enough for World War II soldiers to blow up their glasses!). Hey hey~~)

"Look, this is an instantaneous battlefield map within 100 kilometers in diameter, the red is the Soviet army, the blue is the 6th Group and other nearby German troops, now your situation is very dangerous, if you don't take the line again, the 6th Army will be in danger of annihilation!"

"But we're short of fuel, and..."

"The order of the Supreme Commander to hold out until Easter, to re-attack when reinforcements arrive, and to completely occupy Stalingrad makes it difficult for you, right? In fact, there is no contradiction between the breakout and the occupation of Stalingrad, it is only necessary to break through the siege and join forces with the rescue forces, change the entire battlefield form, gain strategic local advantages, and then form a mobile cluster to form a powerful fist, so as to annihilate the Soviet army. With a wave of Ewing's other hand, several black tin canisters suddenly appeared, with the words "gasoline" written on them in German.

At 10 o'clock in the morning of December 20, 1942, in the Battle of Stalingrad, a subtle atmosphere spread in the area where the German Sixth Army was located. The obedience of the German ** team began to show, and although the battle situation was dangerous, and many people had not eaten for many days, they still followed the order and went to the target location.

A few hours later, when they returned, the various means of transport carried all kinds of supplies: steamed buns, bread, ham, sausages, jams, pastries, canned food; fodder for military horses; the winter cotton clothes that soldiers want to wear; Morphine, the most desired medicine for medical soldiers and the wounded; And, of course, the most important petrol and munitions!

"Jack, I'm not mistaken, where did you get so much to eat!"

"Oh! What I saw, it was ham! Oh my God, is Santa Claus coming? ”

"Oh my God, how come there are so many machine guns and artillery!"

After the war, historians were extremely curious about what happened during this period, and the following letters from a German official to his wife in Berlin on December 15 and 20, 1942, respectively, show the great difference, as he wrote on December 15:

I looked at the map and was terrified. We were completely isolated, and Hitler had left us alone. Whether this letter can be sent depends on whether the airport is still in our hands. Our location was north of the city, and the officers and men of my artillery company had doubts about the truth, but they did not know the truth as well as I did. It seems that this is the end for us.

Hannes and I didn't want to be prisoners. Yesterday I saw with my own eyes that four soldiers were captured before our infantry reoccupied a support point. No, we are not going to be captured.

When Stalingrad fell, you would hear or read from the newspapers. Then you will know that I will not go back. Needless to say, hundreds of thousands of other officers and soldiers also had no idea of escaping. However, it can be regarded as a rare little comfort that a person can be destroyed with others.

This shows the officer's extremely sad state of mind, but on December 20 he wrote in another letter:

I can't use any words or adjectives to describe how I'm feeling right now, you know, today we suddenly received a very, very large amount of supplies, countless breads and sausages, and coffee and kerosene stoves, clean and warm winter clothes, and more importantly, I saw a lot of new rifles, not single shots, but new rifles that could shoot 10 times in a row, and the logistics people said they were called semi-automatic rifles, and they were really cute guys, and I fell in love with them at first sight. These are not the most important, the key is that a lot of artillery and piles of shells were transported, all of which were of more than 150mm caliber, and the logistics army closed the door and said that it was 155mm large-caliber artillery. New models of cannons that I have never seen before, I swear to God, I didn't lie, they are so beautiful, you don't know, many of our cannons have scrapped barrels, or there are no shells, but now our firepower has been restored, even more than before a lot, a lot !! 2 days ago I thought I wouldn't be able to go back, but now I'm full of energy and waiting for me, dear, I will definitely come back to you!!

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