Nowadays, the German Infantry Day is not as good as imagined. These soldiers have a boring journey behind the armored forces every day and are responsible for transporting a lot of other military supplies.
"Pile those tents into wagons! Yeah, pile it up! Fix the rope and don’t fall halfway! " A company commander of the trench battalion is asking soldiers to put their tents in carriages. For infantry, the equipment of cars is still too extravagant. Only the main mechanized regiment in the division is equipped with cars.
Most troops also use war horses as the original equipment. Some troops and donkeys rely on these livestock to pull carts to complete the terminal transportation of most materials of German troops. Don’t underestimate these carriages and mules. They can be said to be the most reliable "Mercedes-Benz cars" of German transport troops.
German tanks are killing all the way forward and behind the road. German infantry can keep chasing and chasing on their own legs. These soldiers are carrying rifles and riding boots and stepping on muddy land. They have to make way for cars. In most cases, they can stumble along both sides of the road.
Unlike armored forces, which can pile up the trench, most of them rely on their own raincoats, sappers’ shovels, gas masks, ammunition and socks. It is definitely not an easy job to carry a pile of junk on the vast plains. More soldiers are used to throwing away some unimportant things to reduce their load.
In order to save these waves, a good carriage went along with the soldiers, and a company was equipped with a carriage to load tents, sappers shovels and other materials. Later, this method gradually became popular, so that each carriage of infantry troops had to help the artillery units of their subordinate units transport several shells, which could be regarded as making up for the confusion, and the types of shells brought disaster to logistics supply.
"Is it true that he is fooling around and we will retreat with an order?" A veteran was carrying a g43 rifle and smoking a cigarette, cursing "How long have you worked so hard to get to this position?"
Another young soldier nodded with a smile as he piled up the machine gun ammunition boxes in the carriage beside him. "Yeah, it took us ten days to get here and dug trenches here for several days. As a result, we were ordered to go back to the place where we started a few days ago. It was really nothing."
With the order, the long infantry team set off, and several trucks rumbled across the dirt road, rolling up the dust all over the sky. German soldiers hurled abuse at the end of the distant road, and more infantry scattered on both sides of the road, heading in groups of three or five.
There are soldiers sitting around in wagons, and they have consumed a lot of arms and materials because of the fighting for several days. All the surplus wagons are used as tools to transport wounded soldiers. Of course, some thick-skinned soldiers also squeeze into holding many rifles and look at the soldiers around them with a smile.
The soldiers around put all their weapons in the car with their hands in their hands, but they still carry heavy bags and travel hard on both sides of the road. For them, this war seems to have nothing to do with fighting, except traveling.
"The 44th Division is retreating. They are the closest troops to Kharkov. The Soviet troops didn’t pursue them. It seems that they didn’t expect our troops to retreat at this time." The staff took the frontline documents and handed them to guderian. His troops were retreating from Kharkov and gave up many occupied Ukrainian areas.
According to the requirements of the general staff’s operational deployment, his G regiment must take back its outstretched tentacles and deploy defensive positions along the Dnieper River to shorten the defensive front. Although such a decision almost gave up a third of Ukraine, it can steadily deploy troops along the river and save limited troops.
"Our troops in Belarus have also shrunk to give up positions near Tusk, and the Soviet troops have not pursued Poland’s defensive counterattack, which has beaten the Soviets out of temper. In the short term, they dare not take the initiative to launch a counterattack." guderian nodded his head. He has every reason to believe that the Soviet troops will not fight back in the short term.
It is impossible for a general to launch a counterattack when the enemy actively retreats with more than 20,000 soldiers on his back in the short term-in case another German lays a trap, the Soviet Union will be completely doomed. The Germans will restore their vitality when they need it. Obviously, the Soviets also need time to make up for the trauma caused by the war.
The German army laid out a wide range of elastic defensive positions in Poland, and in the later period, the ambush counterattack method was adopted, which left too many nightmares for Soviet generals. Many Soviet soldiers thought of the painful process of retreating from eastern Poland for hundreds of kilometers, and they all felt chilling. The German armored forces unexpectedly covered up and killed Kiev, which was a classic defensive counterattack tactic. This process can be directly written into military education.
During more than a month on the eastern front, 110,000 German soldiers were killed and 20,000 wounded, and 70,000 Soviet soldiers were killed and 150,000 captured at the same time, which was almost half of the troops deployed in the western part of the Soviet Union. This brilliant achievement inspired some German generals to talk privately that the Fuehrer was too conservative about the Soviet war strategy, and Germany was able to capture the Soviet capital Moscow before winter came.
This sound was deliberately ignored by the Fuehrer, and the guidelines of the German high command always adopted the suggestion that Meinster ignored the large-scale invasion of the Soviet military because of the formulation of the "New Barbarossa" plan.
Arcado, the head of state’s residence in Berlin, looks more and more old, and Augustus’s heart is filled with a feeling that time waits for no one. "Prime Minister, I know that those generals are whispering in front of you all day about expanding the scale of the Eastern War, but you know that we plan to invade the Soviet Union."
Germany is really not ready to enter the face war. Although it has won a brilliant victory on the western front, there is also a problem. Germany won the whole war too fast, which led to the gradual accumulation of materials in some wars, and the actual quantity was very limited.
For example, the German team lacks cotton-padded clothes. German high-level officials have been trying to solve the problem. The logistics department officers have tried their best to hoard cotton and transport it into the western part of Ukraine as winter clothes, but it is still not enough to meet the needs of a large number of Wehrmacht soldiers.
It’s very easy not to prepare cotton-padded clothes for 350,000 troops. Everyone in the school has led their own school. It’s a five-person clothing distribution project for a battalion. If the scale is expanded by nearly 10,000 times and the area is hundreds of kilometers wide, does anyone still think it’s too much to give the head of the logistics department the rank of general?
Winter in the wild is definitely a very test of logistics. The German Soviet Union has not yet established a perfect logistics support system. If we attack Moscow all the way eastward, it will be to take out the German elite troops to gamble, and arcado knows that success is still a gamble of blood.
It is foolish to lengthen your own supply lines and shorten your opponent’s supply lines when you are not sure. All the way to attack is to lengthen the distance behind your troops. It will become more and more difficult for the wounded to retreat, replenish personnel, transport materials and maintain weapons and equipment. Moscow is the end point, not the end point of victory, but the end point of the troops leading to hell.
"I know what the Fuehrer means." Augustus nodded his head. This year’s hard work made his health worse and worse. Although Berlin’s medical environment can be said to be the best in the world, there is still a way to prevent the Prime Minister from getting old. "So I called back Blauchich and others to Berlin for an analysis meeting on the situation on the eastern front, so that the military people knew that they were far from ready for a huge war."
Augustus sighed that even arcado didn’t know what he was thinking. His heart lamented that in 1914, there was no one in Germany who could see the situation like arcado. If there was such a person at that time, Germany might go further …
Chapter 541 541 Meeting
The military meeting was held as scheduled, and the generals at the front line and the generals of the Army General Staff were filled with a small conference room. arcado knew what could make these generals bend him. At this time, he had to take out Hitler’s housekeeping and lead a group of generals to talk about economics and politics.
There are many means of Hitler’s position in history, but there are two ways to support his communication with the military. He feels that talking nonsense to generals and those who don’t support him has better results than expected. The former method has excavated guderian Rommel and other commanding talents, and the latter method has impressed many generals.
Do you know how many people Hitler said to join his regiment? He talked to the French company Bos about the importance of synthetic rubber and synthetic gasoline to Germany, so the German chemical industry giant talked to his assistant Hitler, "He is smarter than I thought."
He talked to his general about the importance of occupying the enemy’s economic center and industrial center, and hoped that the blitzkrieg would change the war mode-which moved more than half of the German generals at the top of the military to think that "this man knows the military". If Zhaoshan Xiaoli is a "big fool", Hitler successfully "fooled" a country in reality.
Talking about political science and economics to an officer in Prussia made this general feel that you are very knowledgeable. Hitler has done this trick several times, and now arcado is going to come here this time to show his generals how profound his head of state is.
Arcado’s trick this time is to expect the meeting to receive miraculous results. After all, he is not "the scholar" but a former all-powerful senior general of the National Defence Force. Borlausch secretly told himself that if the Fuehrer had not left the army, the first marshal of the army would probably be named arcado.
At present, all the German armed forces are carrying out the basic tactics formulated by arcado two years ago, and it turns out that the Fuehrer developed his military theory two years ago. Two years later, he still leads the German team to victory step by step. There is no doubt about the Fuehrer’s military talents … Well, no one can question it.
The head of the army personally took part in the finalization and commissioning of the aircraft and tried his best to train tens of thousands of pilots in German military training. Catherine and Dick, two senior generals of the army, were both heads of state. Who would question the contribution of the head of state in building the army?
The head of the navy determined the plan to strengthen the core of the aircraft carrier fleet, which gave the German high seas fleet an advantage in several battles and wiped out the number one enemy in the German Sea in one fell swoop. The British navy completed the dream of the German navy for generations. Now Lei Deer, Gunther Lutjens and Deng Nici, the heads of the navy, are as good as doping. arcado farted and they all said it was fragrant.
The strongest fortress of German nobles in the army has now completely knelt before arcado. These generals have never been so grovelled before the German emperor. However, the great achievements of sweeping France, defeating English and driving away the Soviets have made them feel more fulfilled than their predecessors. Now guderian Rommel and others represent the new generals and rundstedt, who represents the results of aristocratic differentiation, have taken arcado’s side, and Brauchy represents the military forces. There is no reason to oppose arcado.
At this meeting, arcado didn’t make such a great military contribution to oppress these generals, but showed military economics and politics to teach these soldiers a lesson. At this time, some generals were more impressed by the greatness of the Fuehrer. They believed that the Fuehrer could lead them to victory-they just had to obey.
"At this time, when attacking the hinterland of the Soviet Union, it will catch rain in the month, and the Soviet soil road surface will immediately become muddy. Our army will fall into the middle of the road depending on cars and tanks, which will lead to a slow attack speed," said arcado, pointing to the photos of Soviet highways sent back by spies.
There are several roads in the hinterland of the Soviet Union in the photo. These roads are really not European-oriented roads. They are all "Soviet standards". Most of these roads are paved with soil and are full of ruts. In the rainy season, when large troops pass through, they will face difficulties. If they are not stupid, they can imagine.