"What did you say?" Rokossovsky asked loudly, pulling the collar of the messenger who had come to tell the news. He felt that his deceptive tactics in the Don Valley could deceive the German army in 3 days anyway, but he never expected that the German army would break through this line of defense in only 2 hours.

"You mean, the Germans on the Don line did not make a tentative offensive at all, and then they began to cross the river in one go?" Rokossovsky frowned and snatched the telegram from the direction of the Don, and the desperation of the defenders could be seen between the lines.

That line of defense did exist, but there were not so many troops, and the Germans actually collided with it, without caring about any losses. This made Rokossovsky, who had studied German tactics for a long time, a little baffled, and he could not believe that the Germans could easily see through their deception.

Someone leaked his plan? Rokossovsky immediately thought of this possibility, but he used the fastest time to deny his own speculation. After all, it was an impossible task to be able to see through his entire plan in such a short period of time, and then send some key information to the German army.

Since it was not the Germans who relied on spies to obtain the information in advance, it was the German commanders who possessed astonishing intelligence. Rokossovsky thought this was more likely - the commander of the other side was one of the German duo that Zhukov was quite afraid of, and it was not surprising that the famous tank monster Gey Guderian was able to see through this deception.

But Rokossovsky still couldn't figure out how the other party saw through his elaborate deception. He thinks that he has designed every link very cleverly, and every link of the whole plan should be impeccable.

"How did he see through my plan?" Rokossovsky asked, letting go of his men's collars, walking to the front of the map, looking at the large German army group that was approaching him.

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"Do you still need to see through this a scam?" Guderian smiled and looked at his assistant: "My troops have been fighting for almost two years, as long as the other side opens fire and exposes the configuration of firepower, I can know whether the other party is a battalion or a regiment by the commander of a reconnaissance company!"

Rokossovsky did use a lot of smoke bombs for his deception, first of all, his troops had been retreating a few days ago, and the Germans had not been able to find the exact movement of the main Soviet army, all of which increased the possibility that the main Soviet army would appear on the Don River defense line, and it would indeed make people suspicious and dare not easily launch an attack on the Don River.

But there are exceptions to everything, Guderian proudly pointed to the troops he was crossing the river, and then was full of confidence: "And I don't plan to prepare anything in front of the Don defense line." These troops have been preparing for a whole month in order to quickly cross the Don River here today and go straight to Stalingrad!"

"If the Soviet defense line on the Don River is fake, then we just need to attack, and it only takes one punch to break the deception, isn't it?" he said what he thought in his heart: "And if the Soviet defense line on the Don River is real, then the same attack will do, don't we think all day long, how to eat the main force of the Soviet army in the field?"

His assistant looked at Guderian, at the German armored vehicles and trucks that kept passing by him, and at the Leopard tanks one after another. Suddenly I understood this simple truth: The main reason why any deception can succeed is that the opponent does not have sufficient strength! When the attacking side has sufficient combat determination and the combat ability to absolutely surpass the opponent, they will only use their attack to smash everything in the face of any deception, and they will reduce everything with one force.

One of the main reasons why Guderian ordered his troops to attack immediately was that he did not believe that the Soviets would engage the Germans in the field, and based on this assumption, he would find that the existence of the Don Line was very advantageous for Germany, and the existence of the Don Line did not exist, and there was no need to waste time to confirm - this did not require hesitation at all, so Rokossovsky's deception was doomed to be a futile trick from the beginning.

"Send a telegram to General Kuchler, who is behind, and tell him that we have successfully broken through the Don line and are attacking the two flanks of Stalingrad. Guderian instructed his assistants to quickly contact the commander of Army Group N in the rear and let his troops catch up to take over the front line of Army Group G.

Then he thought about it again and issued a second order: "By the way, send a telegram to the Führer's High Command and tell them that we have successfully broken through the Don line of defense." ”

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"Führer! Our army has successfully broken through the defense line of the Don River, annihilated more than 20,000 defenders, captured more than 40,000 people, and General Guderian's forward reconnaissance force is already less than ten kilometers away from Stalingrad. Sindra quickly passed on the latest developments at the front to Accardo, who at this time was analyzing the state of engagement at the front with Field Marshal Brauchitsch.

"There is still no main force capable of annihilating the Soviet army...... The Soviets were determined to turn all the cities into ruins. Accardo said with a helpless sigh.

Unlike Westerners' understanding of warfare, Russians like to use cities to defend against their enemies. In contrast to the West, which generally did not like to hold on to the city, it would leave their homeland in ruins, while the Soviets liked to hold on to the city and preferred to burn it rather than give it to others – the more obvious being that Paris would surrender without a fight, while Leningrad and Stalingrad were doomed to ruins.

"Even if the Soviets cower at Stalingrad, we are sure to annihilate them!" Marshal Brauchitsch said to Accardo: "My Führer, what I need to worry about now is the longer and longer supply lines, which makes me more and more worried. These supply lines were very unstable, and many of them passed through areas where Soviet partisans were active, which did not bode well. ”

Accardo nodded, this was also his concern, in fact, the German army on the front line was not insufficient, but because of the different order of attack, the frontal battlefield expanded and lengthened the defensive line. As long as the Caucasus is taken, all unfavorable factors will be solved.

On the contrary, the vast occupied area was full of enemy partisans and saboteurs, which involved a large number of German forces and had a very negative impact on transportation and the resumption of production. Army Group O has been transferred to Belarus in the process of formation, and while it is being organized and trained, it is responsible for the extermination of Soviet partisans in Belarus.

"Another piece of news has to be taken with caution. After nodding, Accardo handed a report to Brauchitsch with some concern: "My marshal, news from the beehives that some officers of the Soviet Far East have appeared in Chelyabinsk, and have also received some new tanks and other equipment. ”

"Did the Soviets transfer troops from the Far East?" Brauchitsch took the report and looked at it carefully, this news was not good news for the German army, because once more troops appeared in their front, it meant that the Soviet army was even more difficult to deal with.

"Our opponents are not blindly beaten. Accardo lamented: "They are trying their best to deal with us, Chelyabinsk has recently received a large number of fine machining lathes from the United States, expanded the scale of production, the armored forces of the Soviets are being strengthened, and the various weapons advantages we now have are being neutralized by the adversary." ”

This kind of thing is not new, the Germans lost almost no tank troops in the Polish campaign, and only a few dozen tanks seem to have been destroyed in the entire Polish battlefield, and this result became a little terrible by the time of the French campaign, the Germans lost hundreds of tanks, although these losses were still insignificant compared to their opponents, but the victory was not so easy.

Since the beginning of the Soviet-German battlefield, the number of German tank losses has skyrocketed, and now it is approaching the 1,000 mark. These losses were insignificant in the face of the huge production capacity of the German army, but for the German armored forces, they were already heavy losses.

If you compare it with when Germany was just preparing for the construction of armored forces, these 1,000 tanks were already the total number of equipment of the three German armored divisions. In other words, it also meant that about three German panzer divisions were completely wiped out - and before they knew it, the Germans had lost almost one of their main panzer corps.

However, it is debatable that most of these lost tanks are new crews that have recently entered service, because the German armored forces are rapidly expanding, so they are seriously undertrained and equipped with older tanks, so they were annihilated by the Soviets in brutal battles. Although the losses were considerable, they did not affect the speed of the expansion of the German army, nor did it affect the quality of the German armored forces.

It should be noted that the increase in firepower and armor of Soviet tanks is also one of the reasons for the increase in German tank losses. When the electronic tank has not yet improved the performance of the tank, firepower and armor protection can often quickly close the gap between the two sides in the quality of the tank.

"In any case, everything will not be known until the battle of Stalingrad is over!" Accardo stared at the map with his hands behind his back, not knowing whether he said this to himself or to Marshal Brauchitsch.

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