Even if we successfully resist the Soviet attack, I’m afraid we will still feel stretched in terms of strength when the real strategic counterattack begins! "Logan changed the subject as usual.
"that may be when spring comes!" Richthofen is stirring a cup of coffee with his silver spoon. With the Soviet Union losing a large number of troops and equipment on the German border defense line, the strategic counterattack has become a topic that German high-level officials have talked about in recent days. Considering that the Soviet attack in Romania also tends to come to a standstill, many generals are confident to recognize Germany. The team will regroup in one month and fight back, and Adolf Hitler has put forward a grand strategic framework with great interest, that is, the left wing will attack from East Prussia and the right wing will attack from Romania, and the Soviet troops will break into Poland and Slovakia in this unprecedented huge dumpling and annihilate the Soviet effectives in one fell swoop. Once the Germans get in the way, they will almost defeat their number one opponent once and for all, and then March straight into Soviet Russia.
"A spring?" At this point, Logan’s first reaction was that a year’s war would mean a staggering number of casualties. You know, in the past half month alone, both sides have lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and the number of people killed every day is increasing horribly. However, in one year, the grand strategy will be adjusted adequately. If we can get away from northern Britain and win decisive victories in Africa and West Asia, the German army will be able to go to the ground and fight the Soviet Union. Considering that the Axis camp has gradually controlled the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the entire Mediterranean production resources, It is no longer the key factor that restricts Germany’s strategic exhibition. The more frequent the huge long-range bomber group will go deep into the hinterland of the Soviet Union, and the continuous large-scale bombing will weaken the Soviet war potential, just as the Allied forces did to Germany in another history!
"This speculation is based on the strategic main line has not changed! Early Soviet Union and Russia made peace.
"I think it is possible to make peace unless the ideological opposition changes!" Logan is not surprised. After all, it is not the first time that this statement has appeared. In fact, it takes Xiao Huyuan a day in Germany to end this war peacefully.
"Well, ideological opposition!" Richthofen nodded. "Those people may lack confidence in completely defeating the Soviet Union-they think there will be an unexpected collapse on the long front, and millions of Soviet troops will cross the border like a flood. What a terrible sight!"
"When the war spreads to the soil, we will fight for every inch of land, which is completely different from that in Poland!"
Logan said that "fighting for every inch of land" was Adolf Hitler’s strategy when he laid out his strategy a day ago. Although this border defense line is very stable, it is always necessary to make psychological and material preparations in case everything is possible.
Richthofen is also a soldier who is far away from politics, but this does not mean that he lacks a political stance. He said without worry, "The more people support this argument in the land war, the more likely there will be some extreme figures and events!"
Logan is well aware of the meaning of this last sentence. If the war continues in a direction that is not conducive to Germany, there will be more and more assassinations of Hitler. In the original history, Xiao Hu escaped assassination again and again like a cat that was specially favored by fate. Now many factors have changed. Logan is not sure whether Yuan is still so lucky, but he will never let himself get involved in such an incident easily until he is fully sure.
After all, plan seven is a plan. "It will never change. When the special military train line in Prenzlau is located in a city o kilometers north of Xianglin, Rogan officially took over the Eastern Army. Marshal Kesselring met with him. This new life is that Rogan left the army with his chief of staff. brogan himself means to continue to be in charge of the Eastern Army with a huge force, so that he has strong assets no matter how he advances or retreats. However, Kesselring was once suspected of Goering’s death, and his experience and control ability were obviously valued by Xiao Hu." Just got the news that the deputy commander of the army was seriously injured when he visited the factory in Messerschmidt, and "
After seeing Kesselring, the first sentence Logan sent was the news from Mi Erxi. According to the normal channels, I’m afraid it will take some time for this information to be delivered to and directly sent to the Eastern Army Command.
"What a pity!" Kesselring coldly replied that in Himmler’s case, the identity of Rogan’s "secret member" of the Socialist Party was well known at the top of the army. With the consolidation and deepening of Hitler’s government, the iron law that soldiers were forbidden to participate in politics had already been broken, especially in Goering’s era, when some German army officers took a stand and joined the Socialist Party, there were also many high-level generals who had obvious political tendencies, but the SS was not so tight-lipped. It was not an accident that Mi Erxi’s "accident" and Rogan climbed up the military strength at this time. Layer nature can’t attract colleagues speculation and estrangement-and this is exactly Himmler’s insidious trick-in his view, he lost his colleagues’ letter and supported the army chief of staff, "and he must rely on himself to gain strength consolidation."
Knowing that Logan also intended to put on a false face, he said calmly, "I hope our production plan will not be affected!" "
"The key to the impact is whether it is good or bad for the German army!" Kesselring said in a meaningful way that immediately after his status as commander of the Eastern Army, he introduced to the Chief of Staff of the New Army that the war was deployed in a stable defensive base, and he was prepared to cooperate with the Sixth Army to take an active defensive strategy, that is, the medium bomber quickly raided the Soviet airport, which was kilometers away from the German border, in order to win the main war zone system.
Such a strategy is not without consideration. He cautiously raised an objection. "Although our Cox and henkel bombers have high navigation, they still need a large number of fighters to cover such a fast assault, otherwise they will suffer great losses in the interception of Soviet fighters. Although we can bear some losses, it is not conducive to our one-step action in the long run!"
"You can’t win the war if you think twice! You probably don’t know that we lost more planes in the week before the French campaign than the Polish campaign and more in the British campaign than the French campaign, but what was the result? The stronger our army is in constant fighting and losses! " Kesselring’s elder attitude taught that Logan, who was a paratrooper lieutenant at the beginning of the French campaign, was really nothing compared with Kesselring, who was in charge of a whole large air fleet in the Isle of Wight War Army, even though his command was limited to the early days of the British campaign.
"The army needs war to hone this is not false! But if you think that the war can be lost, it will be the end! " Logan said tit for tat H.
Chapter 69 foothold
The funeral of Mi Erxi, the deputy commander of the army, was held in the middle of the month. "Where the German army was established and exhibited in Port William, Germany, the meritorious person who made many contributions was finally buried in his birthplace, second only to the state funeral specifications, which was an affirmation to him. Even though he was not likable before his death, many senior generals and officers attended the funeral, and even Yuan symbolically came to express his condolences.
The deputy commander of the army, who once belonged to Logan, also appeared in the farewell procession with a black veil. It was a sad atmosphere, and it was sunny on a sunny day. Even the grass in the cemetery was full of vitality. From here, you can see two German warships cruising on the blue sea.
"Now you are working on the shoulders of giants. Why do you look so bitter?"
In the front row of the crowd, when the priest read the prayer devoutly, Logan told Udet that on the second day after the accident, the former military weapons technical director was appointed to be in charge of the military logistics production. Although it can’t be deployed in an era like the frontline commander, it is also an enviable "fat job"!
Dressed up, Udet replied slowly in a deep voice, "My burden is too heavy. Sometimes I want to lie in this elegant place like him! Life is always too much burden and too tired! What did you get in the end? "
After a brief reflection, Logan gave his own answer, "Dreams are born with dreams!"
"Do you dream of flying freely in a corner of the world?" Udet asked quietly.
This question once again made Logan fall into a state of thinking. He shook his head. "My dream is to see Germany win this war, but I never expect to build a world empire! History has long proved that no nation can rule the whole world! "
Staring at the chair where the coffin is about to be buried, Ude sighed, "How cruel it is for us to send millions of young people to the front after winning a war!" Logan made some unexpected personal friends. He asked half jokingly, "Have you joined the war-weary group?"
"no! No! " Udet immediately replied, "I am a pure soldier, but sometimes I get tired of stopping killing! End it early! "
"Do I want to taste it?" Logan looked at the row of ceremonial soldiers across the street and neatly raised their rifles, pointing obliquely at the blue sky.
"End it early!" Udet muttered to himself, and then a bang of a gun broke the tranquility of the cemetery-ironically, Mi Erxi has long been in an elite aircraft that didn’t need a gun, but he led the production and killed tens of millions of people, including the most innocent civilians.
"If you want to end this killing as soon as possible!" Logan said, "We will be able to win this war!"
Udet silently watched Mi Erxi’s coffin hanging and being put into the cemetery. The humble tombstone wrote his life and energy, but not a word about his controversial birth.
Followed by a burst of guns …
On this day, the first mass-produced Yamaru long-range bomber in the No.1 production line of the Cox factory was formally assembled. The era of pure tactical army did not end there, but it was a very important one. It seems that it is still far away when the war distance ends!
After the funeral, the generals visited the German naval base in Port William, where they not only saw the Bismarck-class battleship "Erpitz" which was put into service just two months ago, but also saw the George V-class battleship "Prince of Wales" seized from the British navy. Logan couldn’t help but sigh with emotion when he saw two warships with the same size docked at the nearby berth.
"This is unbelievable!"
Indeed, in the historical time he knew, these two battleships never docked in a port to experience the fact that they were born with short encounters with their opponents in the battlefield, but they did not directly separate the heights, but they had the same result.
"But when I first saw them quietly moored together, I also had a wonderful feeling in my heart! They seem to come from completely different worlds but they are all so powerful! " Although the imperial Admiral of the fleet Lei Deer did not attend Mi Erxi’s funeral, his military origin was promoted in the British war, and the German bombers and soldiers were both important in the Belfast battle.
"Are you going to put these two warships into the Soviet war?" Logan asked curiously, although the Soviet navy’s naval power in Baltic is very weak, the German navy is still under great pressure at present. They are sending troops and materials to East Prussia day and night. In addition to the escort of transport ships, some warships are also directly approaching the coast to bombard the Soviet troops attacking the German fortress, which is also an important factor that the fortress area of Kohuangsburg is still controlled by the Germans.
"It’s this Kawaguchi direct command! We must never be happy to lose the strategic location of the Ten Blocks in Dongpu. Del said naively that "Soviet bombers and torpedo planes are our enemies, and it is impossible to protect these warships completely by taking pictures of the USS Lin by Gravzi!"
Logan nodded, and the appearance of the aircraft carrier has greatly improved the German navy’s ocean warfare capability, but it is extremely unwise for it to come to the Soviet 6-base air force to confront it.
"What is the progress of transforming British ships into aircraft carriers?"
"It’s relatively smooth. The ship’s aircraft and pilots are in place, and 10% of the hull reconstruction is nearing completion, but I don’t think it’s time to let them fight!" Lei Deer said very frankly, "They still lack practical training and we noticed that some submarines originally belonging to Britain are currently operating in Soviet-controlled waters!"
"Englishman" Reagan bit his lip. "We should completely eliminate this hidden danger!"
"According to the theory, after two years, the British team stranded in the Scottish Highlands will be vulnerable-they will be buried in front of our elite troops!" Lei Deer refers to the German navy’s tight blockade of the northern part of Britain. Although the main ships have been repatriated to help the eastern defense, Deng Nici submarine forces and German naval cruisers have been able to deal with British ships trying to cross the sea blockade.
"We can’t wait that long!" Logan said calmly, "I think we should solve the problem of the northern line once and for all when the war on the eastern front is eased. It should not be a problem for the 6 th Army of Hai to jointly take the Scottish Highland Iceland!"
"Iceland?" Lei Deer thought, "that’s a very cold place!"