"If the SS is subordinate to the Army and is under the command of the Army, then these excellent soldiers should not be sent to the front line to die in vain. One of the generals peeked at Accardo, who was sitting in the first place, as he spoke, "They need complete training and equipment that is truly adapted to the battlefield. ”

"The SS always had a way of encouraging young people to join the army, and their means of recruitment were better than those of the Wehrmacht. They are better than we are at stirring up people who do not know anything but want to die for the Führer into the army. Another general lamented: "We do not bother to use such topics as the Greater German Party and faith to incite people who are not fit for age." ”

The reason why the SS was able to quickly sort out a full 15 divisions of troops from the remaining crowd after the Wehrmacht was recruited was by the instigation of faith that all ages can be eaten, and they were not jealous, they liked to recruit 17-year-old and 18-year-old children to play the game of law, and they also liked to absorb some middle-aged uncles who were over 35 years old. This allowed them to expand their forces more quickly than the picky Wehrmacht.

"I have personally read the reports of these troops, and I have carefully read them with an attitude of non-discrimination and non-denial. Brauchitsch wanted to be reconciled in this matter, so he was more careful with his tone and embellishment: "Many of these units are not suitable for combat, and they can be filled into the local policing units, or they can be used in more advanced concentration camps and the like, but they are not very suitable to go to the front." ”

He paused, then stood up and said to Accardo: "My Führer, these people have joined the Waffen-SS because of their loyalty to you, and there is no need for us to send them to their senseless deaths. The troops on the front line have not yet reached the predicament of urgent replenishment, and their eager conscription will panic the people. ”

"I know all this, but the front line does need two full army groups, which you and I discussed at the last recruitment meeting, and we need troops to fill the expanding defensive line in the north and center. Accardo looked at Brauchitsch, who stood up, and said, "The land of the Soviet Union is too vast, even bigger than we imagined. ”

After he finished speaking, he motioned to Brauchitsch, who was slightly excited, to sit down, and then continued: "My marshal, the progress of the three newly formed armies of the Wehrmacht is too slow, and the candidates we have selected together for the formation of the armies are all very good commanders, but they obviously lack knowledge of how to quickly prepare for a group army. ”

A few months ago, after completing the reorganization of Army Group A, the German army began to organize three new army groups, one was Army Group N, which was formed and commanded by Army General Quchler, one was Army Group O under Army General Reichenau, and the other was Army Group P, which was formed and commanded by General Borke, the former chief of the General Staff of the Army.

These three armies were to be thrown into the northern and central part of the German campaign as a follow-up force for operations against Moscow and other regions - but unfortunately it now seemed that these armies would probably not be able to catch up with the decisive battle between Moscow and near Leningrad.

"Since the SS recruits faster than the Wehrmacht, and there is indeed a shortage of troops at the front, why are these young soldiers who are loyal to me and to this empire forced to fight against the most powerful enemy in black uniforms that are not suitable for the battlefield environment and with outdated weapons that no one wants?" Acardo looked at the army general who had just opened his mouth and said coldly: "Are these SS soldiers enemies of the Reich? Are they dangerous elements that the Reich needs to be guarded against?"

Asked this, Accardo's tone had become a little grim: "If it's not, then why should these soldiers who are willing to die for me and sacrifice for this country, why should they be suspected, ostracized, and then die on the battlefield where they shouldn't die?"

Without waiting for the generals to defend themselves, Accardo quickly said: "Generals, we have become so strong that we have become so powerful that we have harmed our own people in infighting? We can already win the battle? This kind of mutual tilting and tearing down each other, if it happens again next time, it will be punished as treason! This is what I said, is anyone against it?"

...... "You've said that, who would dare to object? At this time, if you cough, you will probably be dragged out and hanged, right?" All the generals stopped talking, bowing their heads and waiting for Accardo to continue to say what he thought. The Führer is, after all, the Führer, and all those present have sworn allegiance to this great man in front of the flag to the end of the world.

"I repeat once again that the SS is not a substitute for the Wehrmacht. Accardo looked at the silent generals and said in a loud voice: "The Third Reich has, and there is only one legal armed group, and that is the Wehrmacht. The SS will always be just an appendage of the Wehrmacht, understand?"

After emphasizing it, he looked at Brauchitsch: "My field marshal, find a way to make your cranky generals treat the SS armed forces equally, and use them to accomplish their tasks, destroy the enemy, and establish their own merits on the battlefield! Because all of them are Germans, they are all people of the Third Reich, everyone has a goal, everyone is their own people in the same boat!"

"There is no need for your own people to exclude your own people!" said Accardo, "I can legislate, I can sign orders, and disband these troops when the Reich does not need them after the war, but don't let me hear about your expulsion of the SS again, for they, like you, are soldiers who want to fight for their country, and are my most loyal people!"

"Yes, my Führer, the Wehrmacht is willing to accept these soldiers and use them normally. Brauchitsch stood up again, and said: "With the exception of a few divisions that I think are unfit for the front, we will treat the rest of the troops as if they were Wehrmacht units." ”

"Thank you very much, my marshal. Accardo nodded, then stood up, walked to the map behind him, and looked at Marshal Rundstedt: "Since you have returned from the front, let's talk to the generals here about the situation on the central front." ”

Hearing that the Führer wanted to hear the battle report of the Central Front, Rundstedt's face became solemn: "My Führer, the battle situation in the central part of the Eastern Front seems to be very favorable to us, but in fact, because the southern front is advancing too fast, it is not as optimistic as it seems. ”

He walked to the front of the map and explained in detail: "Since we captured Minsk, there has only been one large-scale battle with the Soviet troops on the Orsha front, and the Soviet troops have rushed to the battle and suffered considerable losses. However, we were not able to capture Zhukov's main forces, but because of the entanglement with the second-line troops of the Soviet Union, a large amount of ammunition and fuel were consumed. ”

The Germans fought fiercely with the Soviet Red Army in the central part of the Eastern Front, and the Orsha Heights became the focus of fierce battles between the two sides. Here, a King Tiger tank was destroyed by a Soviet tank group, which also set a precedent for the destruction of a new German tank.

"After our bitter battle at Orsha, the Soviets seemed to have given up on their intention to stop our advance towards Smolensk, and they began to delay our offensive with small forces, and then, after deploying about 100,000 troops in Smolensk to hold the isolated city, the main forces retreated to 70 kilometers west of Moscow. General Rundstedt said, pointing to the map.

After a detailed analysis of the battle, the situation between the two sides in the central region changed: "It seems that we have been singing all the way, capturing Minsk and encircling Smolensk. But in fact, our line of defense has advanced by hundreds of kilometers, and we have also stretched our supply lines by hundreds of kilometers. ”

"These places need the army to maintain law and order, starting from Minsk, most of the railways in the Soviet Union are somewhat different from our standards, there are problems with maintenance and use, and supplies on the front line are basically transported by cars and mules and horses. Pointing to the road and rail line between Minsk and Smolensk, Rundstedt said: "The infrastructure of the USSR was simply poor. ”

"The railways are simply unusable, the construction standards are so poor that this kind of thing will not be improved in a short period of time. A general in charge of coordinating the transportation department chimed in: "The roads are even worse, except for a few pilot projects that we helped the Soviet Union build in the early days, most of the roads they marked are dirt roads at all, and they are almost impossible to find when it snows." ”

"So in fact after we eat Smolensk, the plan to attack Moscow cannot be carried out immediately at all, the supply lines of the USSR are getting shorter and shorter, and ours is already more than twice as long. Rundstedt said: "At least in the spring, when the supply of the troops has decreased, we will not be able to attack." ”

Different from the construction of roads and railways in the southern region, during the honeymoon period between the Soviet Union and Germany, especially in the early days, the transportation of Caucasian oil fields to Germany in Europe was a key project of cooperation between the two sides, so the road and railway in the southern Caucasus region of the Soviet Union was quite perfect, but the construction of the railway line connecting Moscow and other places in the north was seriously lagging behind, which made the German army encounter many unexpected difficulties when advancing.

The railway lines marked on the map are not usable at all, and the high-grade roads marked on the map are in fact just ordinary roads, and some of the ordinary roads on the map are even just potholed dirt roads, and some do not even have roads, and they are completely deserted jungles.

I forgot to set a schedule to send it before I went out, and as a result, everyone waited for a long time, and Long Ling apologized to the book friends here......