Chapter 828

Such a map is similar to the actual situation drawn up by German spies. If we use the map in the hands of the Soviet Union, the German can walk 20 kilometers on the wilderness a day, which is estimated to be fast,

The speed of German advance was not slow. With the cooperation of Soviet troops under the command of Zhukov, German troops advanced several hundred kilometers in just 15 days, and even surrounded Smolensk, which Stalin claimed he did not want to lose. But along the way, the German transport situation fell into a "disaster".

The first is the old problem that the railway standards of the Soviet Union are different from those of Europe. Although Germany helped the Soviet Union improve some railway construction standards in the early days, it did not solve all the problems. At least in Moscow, where the railways are relatively dense, the Soviets still used their own standards because of the cost problem, which made the German army in the vicinity of Smolensk unable to use the railway.

Then there are the roads in the Soviet Union, which are also not the asphalt roads in the eyes of the Germans. Most of the roads in the Soviet Union are paved with soil, which is completely temporary according to the German standards. These roads, together with snowfall, have reduced the efficiency of German road transportation by almost half.

Because of the problem of production capacity, Germany's team has made do with the use of vans: vans from the British, French and Belgian allied forces, and civil vehicles from their own countries. The better situation is that Germany uses off-road vehicles. The performance of these vehicles from different sources in dealing with the mud is not the same, which seriously affects the German army's propulsion speed.

Horses and mules became the main means of transportation for the German army to transport supplies to the front line. This efficiency made the a group army, which had the highest degree of mechanization in the central front line, miserable. Tiger king tanks, Tiger tanks, a large number of leopard tanks and armored vehicles have become real oil tigers, making it extremely difficult for lundstedt to go further.

The current situation is not how fierce the Soviet resistance is, but looking at the seemingly endless road, which makes the German army lose the courage to take another step forward. Because every step forward, they lose more cans, more fuel, more ammunition, which sounds desperate.

"And we need time to get rid of the guerrillas, the resisters, the pro Soviet civilians behind us." "These people will try their best to destroy our transportation system, attack our transportation team, blow up bridges, destroy railways. We must remove our troops to drive out and suppress these enemies," lundstedt continued helplessly to akado

"All kinds of things involved our experience. In fact, the arrival of the SS armed forces relieved some of our pressure, at least in my army." Lundstedt did not forget to support akado at this time: "but these troops need better training, which is the best way to reduce their casualties."

"I agree that the army can train these SS armed forces and make them better at fulfilling their combat tasks." Akado nodded, giving the marshal enough face to support himself.

Lundstedt saw that akado agreed with his own view, which was also enough to give his face, and quickly continued to complain. After all, the real war can't be fought by the commander on the map, where the troops want to fight: "my head of state, another problem is the flank security of the southern cluster and the central cluster."

As he spoke, he pointed to a vast area on the map and said to akado, "with the continuous advance of the war, our army's southern cluster is advancing too fast. As a result, our army's strength is seriously insufficient on such a long front extending from the West Bank of the Volga River to the periphery of Smolensk."

"Along such a long line of defense, in the middle of the southern cluster and the central cluster, in turn, is Ukraine's first group army, which lost a lot in the battle of occupying Kharkov." Rundstedt pointed to the northern part of the M group army in Manstein and said to akado, "next to this group army is general modle's D group army."

Then he pointed to the flank of the F group army, and then he said, "the flank of general Kluger's F group army is also insufficient. There is a Romanian group army, and further south is the Italian expeditionary army."

At present, the German army's force division is like this, the northernmost is a group army of Finland, and then Liszt's E group army. The two groups formed the northern group of the German army, and the main attack direction was Leningrad, the northern important town of the Soviet Union.

In the middle is marshal lundstete's a group army, and to the south is general Kluger's F group army, plus Romania's first group army, and the Italian expeditionary army. These troops have just formed a central group to attack Smolensk and Moscow.

Then, to the south, the D group army of modle, the first group army of Ukraine, the M group army of Manstein, and the G group army of goodrian formed the southern cluster with such strong forces, in order to attack the Caucasus oil production base of the Soviet Union without fail.

The original idea was very simple. Modle, who was the best at defense, was placed among several axis allies who were not very reliable. He relied on the D group army to reinforce an unstable short board on the whole defense line. However, with the war going on, the German attack continued to move forward, leading to the extension of the whole front, so that the D group army could not effectively cover the flanks of each cluster.

Acardo no longer has military talent, but also understands marshal lundstedt's worries. He has to admit that this defense line is fragile, and with the progress of the war, it can not be effectively compensated and strengthened even in a short period of time. Once the Red Army of the Soviet Union launched a counterattack against these areas, even if several German army groups in the southern cluster were not encircled, leading to the total annihilation of the army, they would be forced to withdraw and end the battle for Caucasus, giving up a good situation. Fortunately, the Soviet Union is in a hurry to shrink its defense line, and there are not so many troops involved in the counterattack. In other words, the whole Soviet high-level is fooled by the victorious German army. They have not yet correctly analyzed their position and considered counterattack. Therefore, this defense line is still safe at present, but once Zhukov takes out his hand, it is better to expect these allies to hold on to the defense line than other miracles. Sometimes, akado really feel very helpless. There is such a country in the world. Its territory is so vast that people are surprised. The invincible tanks, planes and cannons are as small as a worm in front of it. The blitz that defeated France in one blow had to be used in this country several times, but it still can't end the war“ For this kind of thing, we need to ask the relevant person in charge of the army logistics department when the N group army, O group army and P group army can be put into operation. We urgently need to strengthen our forces in several directions. This is not a joke. " Akkado looked at several generals who were sitting far away. They were officers in charge of German logistics equipment. One general is taking out a handkerchief to wipe sweat, and another is desperately wiping his monocle. Obviously, they don't want to answer the question of the head of state akado. After all, the timetable they gave is really embarrassing. But when it comes to the end, it's hard to say“ My head of state, it's not the logistics department that is delaying. It's the equipment and personnel that these army groups need. It's too much. " A general finally replied in a mournful voice: "when general Holt's J group army was established, the weapon production was almost unable to keep up, so we had to transfer some assault rifles and G43 and other weapons that should have been given to other troops, and then we used the stock of Mauser 98K rifles to make up for it."“ It's just a gap in rifles, cannons, iron fisted anti tank rockets, cars, armored vehicles... "As he said it, he began to cry. It seems that he has been tortured and crazy by the people who came to urge all kinds of supplies from the various group armies:" I'm not complaining. In fact, there are so many weapons and equipment provided by the industrial sector that our logistics department has been surprised, But the speed of our military expansion is too fast. Two years ago, we only had less than one million troops, but now we have to arrange weapons, ammunition and food equipment for seven million troops. " In fact, the German army does not have 7 million troops, but some of the security forces of the SS need to be armed with weapons. German allies also import weapons from Germany from time to time to improve their military strength. This back and forth leads to the difficulty in the distribution of German weapons. The group armies formed later are basically searching for German stocks. Most of Manstein's troops are using Mauser rifles. Although his troops have a large number of cannons, they have the calibres and models of several countries in Britain, France and Germany. In fact, the logistics pressure is very huge. On the surface, the German armored forces made a rapid attack on the front line, but behind the scenes, the logistics departments pieced together, and the thousands of tons of oil that they had managed to accumulate disappeared like evaporation. Now the production capacity of Romanian oil fields is not enough for the German army to squander. Now the attack has begun to consume Germany's domestic strategic inventory. The German Navy has stopped large-scale going out to sea for the problem of fuel. Only submarines are still active in the waters near Iceland, and even the routine patrol of reconnaissance aircraft has been cancelled on a large scale. The German garrison in France only keeps 60% of the strategic oil reserves, and less than 70% in Germany. Akado knows all these data.