Yes, this is the bridge that Accardo came up with, using the idea of referring to the 200 flags of the German army during the military parade after the victory of the Soviet Union in 1945 in another time and space. The idea was born in 1815, when the Russian army threw the invader's flag at the feet of the Tsar after defeating Napoleon's invasion.

In another time and space, the Soviet Red Army carried 200 German military flags upside down and finally threw them in front of Lenin's tomb, and the military flags inside came from various famous German army groups, which was really shocking to the extreme. The most important of these is the flag of Adolf Hitler's guard flag, and Accardo also has his own guard flag team, but the flag of this honor guard is now flying next to the Führer's flag.

There is no memorable cemetery in the Third Reich, after all, the founder of this empire, Accardo, is still sitting on the viewing platform, enjoying the cheers and applause of countless people. So in the end these flags of the Soviet army were thrown into flames and burned by the raging flames.

"General Manstein, our starting point is now near the originally expected victory line, what do you think will be the odds of victory if we launch an assault now?" Accardo asked Manstein beside him as he watched the German infantry phalanx majestically walk down the long street.

Manstein pondered it carefully for a moment, and then replied with some hesitation: "My Führer, I suggest that the second phase of the New Barbarossa Plan be postponed, once a large-scale assault begins, the pressure on the tank troops will surge, but at that time there is no turning back, the risk is too great for us." ”

Accardo sighed and said helplessly: "My general, the Soviet Union is also growing stronger with the help of the United States, and we have already defended and counterattacked twice. ”

Of course, Manstein knew the reason why Accardo was in a hurry, and Germany had already stepped on the threshold of victory with one foot, and at this time, as long as they did not make mistakes, they could maintain their advantage. But the more times like this, the more Annai can't help but be in a state of urgency, this is a human psychological problem, and Accardo can still listen and understand at this time, which is already very rational.

Thinking of this, Manstein slowly replied: "The armored forces will be constantly consumed in the process of long-distance advances, and even the Soviets can consume our elite armored forces as long as they use mines and some ambush sneak attacks. Launching an offensive at this time, even if Moscow is encircled, our armored forces will lose at least half of it. ”

The Soviet Union's terrible strategic depth was their best line of defense, and even without the constant interference and sniping of the defenders, countless tracks and thousands of engines and transmissions would have to be scrapped. This terrible distance could make the Germans exhausted from each other, and their sharpest attacks would eventually turn into a frustrated march.

"What do you mean, to consume the living forces of the Soviet troops one more time before continuing to attack in the direction of Moscow?" said Accardo frowned and thought about it, and finally asked unwillingly.

In fact, before he came to participate in this grand victory parade, the General Staff of the Army gave a similar answer to Manstein, and Brauchitsch personally reviewed it with Accardo and admitted that the General Staff of the Army had made a mistake in underestimating the combat readiness of the Soviet Union.

Before the attack on the USSR, the Supreme High Command expected that the USSR had only a small number of troops worthy of attention, and that the mobilized forces would not exceed 5 million people. Such an optimistic estimate made the generals of the General Staff think that defeating the Soviet Union was a matter of easy grasp, and even assessed by the strength of the army a few months ago, and the Soviet Union did not even need to be mobilized at home.

However, the assessment made by the Supreme High Command, which was personally under Führer Accardo, proved to be more accurate, and combined with the intelligence of the Army and the SS intelligence from everywhere, the Germans had an outrageously accurate assessment of the Soviet army's mobilization capability. How detailed is this assessment report? It is accurate to the number of troops that the Soviet Union can mobilize to the thousandth unit.

With this exhaustive assessment of strength, Accardo was prepared for the worst to annihilate between 15 million and 18 million Soviet soldiers before the war broke out. However, this assessment adjusted the mobilization capacity of the Soviet Union downward when Ukraine changed hands after the start of the war, and now the mobilization capacity of the Soviet Union is still almost 10 million people.

But even though the Germans had won so many battles, they still did not have the ability to swallow the Soviet Union in one gulp. The Supreme Command conservatively estimated that it would be necessary to annihilate 2 million to 4 million Soviet troops before it was possible to win the war against Moscow and the destruction of the Soviet Union.

It is a pity that it is no longer realistic to expect the Soviet Union to launch another hasty attack and bury such a large number of troops, the Soviet front-line combat forces have been brutally tested in war, and their tactical quality has been terribly improved, and more importantly, a large number of terrible and powerful characters have been born among the Soviet front-line commanders, these people are not so much like fools who will suddenly make stupid mistakes or have a hot head, but geniuses who are enough to compete with the front-line generals of the German army.

"I think, Führer, now that the plan has been decided, it should not be changed lightly. In this way, on the one hand, we don't have to rush, and on the other hand, we have traces to follow when we do anything. Manstein replied with some slow replies, looking at the Soviet flags that had been thrown into the flames and burned.

Accardo smiled, relieved: "It's me who is too entangled." But if it were Field Marshal Rommel sitting next to me today, he would have said to me, attack as soon as possible, tear through the enemy's lines, and fight to the farthest possible point. ”

"My Führer, I am indeed not as creative as Marshal Rommel in organizing the offensive, or rather organizing it with all my might, and I am more suited to fighting in a disciplined manner, and to strive for victory in a disciplined manner. Manstein said to Accardo with a smile.

Accardo nodded: "I have only one Rommel, and I only have one Manstein, and I also have only one Guderian, one Liszt, one Weix, and one Keitel...... That's good, I think you'll understand what I mean, right?"

Everyone is different, everyone is unique, Rommel fought and became famous in the vast desert, he Manstein has no regrets, because there is an equally vast Caucasus region, waiting for him to gallop around, this is what Accardo means, of course he Manstein understands.

"Soon, the whole of Donetsk will fall into our hands, Kharkov will also be occupied, Stalingrad ...... Stalingrad...... Are you sure that you will completely remove this Caucasus nail?" Accardo remembered the scene of Khrushchev roaring at his subordinates in the movie he had seen, and he still remembered the line: "This is not Kursk, not Minsk, not Kiev...... This is Stalingrad, it's Stalin-Grad! It's named after the leader, it's a symbol. ”

"The city was really just an important city in the Soviet Union, but its name gave it infinite political significance, and the capture of the city would undoubtedly be a huge blow to Stalin's personal prestige in the Soviet Union. Manstein thought for a moment before replying: "But it is more in our interest to use it as a bait to destroy the living forces of the Soviet Union than to rush to capture it." ”

Accardo nodded, agreeing with Manstein's words. He knew that once the second phase of the Neo-Barbarossa plan was implemented, the whole world war would be different, Finland and Turkey would flank the Soviet Union from the north and south, and the Germans would be firing all the way to Moscow. At that time, it was the situation where Germany's hole cards were exhausted, and whether it was a victory or a loss, you could only passively watch the opponent's reaction.

And the war against the Caucasus was not a private duel, not a personal vendetta between Accardo and Stalin. He was not Hitler, he was not obsessed with destroying the city called Stalingrad, and he was even unwilling to face the city that seemed to never fall, because the street fighting there really hurt the German elite.

Therefore, Accardo was very much in favor of Manstein's idea, and it was a good way to deal with the city if necessary, and he even felt that he could bypass it if necessary, and finally come back and find a way to capture it.

Looking at the burning flames in front of the viewing platform, which contained various military flags of hundreds of thousands of Crimean troops, at this time there were hundreds of thousands of people in the Donetsk region waiting to be surrounded and annihilated by the German army, and the southern victories of the entire Eastern Front were one after another, which was really gratifying. In the north, Rundstedt was already on the front line, and the elite under his command was pressuring the Soviet army day and night, and it was almost a matter of time before Minsk changed hands, and everything was being implemented step by step according to the German script.

The flames were burning, the flags were reduced to ashes in the flames, and Accardo did not know how many more Soviet flags he would have to burn before he could get to the negotiating table with Stalin. But he longed for that day more than ever, after all, the war had been long enough, and there was enough to lose.

"You're right!" Accardo looked at Manstein: "Send Stalin back to the negotiating table!"

Manstein smiled, and smiled so naturally: "Yes, my Führer!