The Third Reich in Desperation

Of course, the Colonel would not say these words.Otherwise, he really didn't know whether de Gaulle would continue to use his villainous heart to save his own belly, put a name on himself for some crime or bad intention, and arrest him.

However, the colonel really disdainful of de Gaulle's slander of Gott's character.

Others Gort helped Free France move its capital to the Isle of Man, and I don’t know how much more helpful it was than his previous Prime Minister Churchill.

Gott arranged for the British transport fleet to transfer the personnel and troops of the Free France, vacated the territory of the United Kingdom, and made the cornerstone of the restoration of the Free France, and borrowed an independent and complete Isle of Man for the use of the Free French government.

Isn't such kindness worthy of gratitude!

Besides, Gott's character is obvious to all.In this war, perhaps many people abused Churchill and other politicians for their short-sightedness, and perhaps many people accused the British soldiers of being incompetent.But no one ever said anything wrong about Gott.

It is true that Gott was completely unable to compete with those famous German generals in terms of military quality, and the battles he commanded were also mediocre.

But, everyone knows, Gott is trying his best!

Perhaps, the climate and soil of the British army is not suitable for the birth of famous generals.Otherwise, dignified Great Britain, why can't you find a general who can fight.

In the British military, there is a very popular saying: "If Rommel served in the British army, it is estimated that he would be at most a corporal when the war started."

In other words, the British military is also aware of the lack of capabilities of its own command.

Among the British generals, Gott is somewhat similar to filling a tall man with a short man, and he is better than many of his colleagues.

There was really nothing to blame for Gott.

It's a pity that de Gaulle didn't think so, or rather, he didn't want to think so: "Tell Gort, I won't choose to surrender like him! I will resist, in the name of France, in the name of the Axis group! "

Text 693 Aggrieved Zhukov

"Don't relax! The great Soviet Red Army soldiers will not stand still because of the enemy's tenacity! The battle must continue, and let those capitalist waste know that our soldiers with firm beliefs will definitely win the final victory!"

Just after Zhukov sent Moscow the request to suspend the offensive, Stalin quickly sent his instruction telegram.

Holding this telegram, Zhukov was stunned for a long time with an ugly face.

He knew that Stalin's old problem of love for struggle was repeated.Stalin, who firmly believed that willpower and faith could solve all problems, stubbornly rejected Zhukov's suggestion to reorganize the army before reorganizing the offensive, and in the opposite direction issued an order for a further onslaught.

Although he knew that Stalin was directing blindly, Zhukov couldn't open his mouth to refute.

To be honest, he has clearly pointed out that the battle situation of the frontline troops is very unsatisfactory, the battle situation is deadlocked, and the battle loss ratio is seriously out of balance.

On the surface, the Soviet-German campaign looked like a bland attack and defense, with the Soviet army aggressively attacking and the German army defending across the board. Other than that, there were no other features at all.

The Soviet army has been attacking in this way, and the German army has also been unswervingly defending.Both sides are fighting, but there is nothing commendable in the means. It is nothing more than fighting idle warfare, fighting positional warfare, and trench warfare.

The last two giants of Europe have been fighting for nearly a month. Except for the initial partial advance in the southern provinces of Germany, the Soviet army has not made any substantive progress.

If there is no progress, there will be heavy losses.If you kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred, then Zhukov will admit it.But in fact, the situation he faced was that killing one thousand enemies would cost him eight thousand!

Even the German army, which had long been prepared for the attack, was psychologically prepared to pay huge losses for the attack on the enemy's complete fortifications.Moreover, Zhukov admits that he is not a general who loves loss.

There is no victory without sacrifice!This is the principle of war that Zhukov believes most firmly.

But the battle has been fought to this day, and continuing to attack is simply a sacrifice for the sake of sacrifice.The fighting of the soldiers is meaningless, even accelerating their own demise!

True, there was nothing commendable about this battle.If I have to describe it, it is that the German army used the pre-set defense line to send up the Soviet officers and soldiers who were looking for death in an efficient and continuous massacre.

Compared with when they fought against the Finns, the Soviet army is now facing a powerful enemy with stronger combat effectiveness, more advanced weapons, richer training and combat experience, and premeditated.

Especially after Reinhardt announced a comprehensive counterattack a few days ago, the Su-Finnish army and the German army in the north have joined forces to counterattack and rushed to the Vyborg area in one breath.

In the south, the German Wehrmacht and the SS joined forces, and together with the Romanian army of no less than 40 divisions, they almost ate up the two most elite collective armies in Zhukov's hands.If Zhukov hadn't put the reserve team into the southern front to stabilize the battle in time, maybe the southern front would have collapsed now!

In order to stabilize the situation, Zhukov almost transferred most of the reserve divisions to the south.This also indirectly led to the fact that the Soviet army on the center line now has little reinforcements to count on.

Great crises have emerged on both the northern and southern lines, which in itself is something worthy of high vigilance.However, Stalin still believed that the Soviet army maintained a regular offensive on the center line where the most troops were deployed on both sides, which meant that the Soviet army had an advantage in at least the most critical center line operations and should continue to expand this advantage Step up the attack.

But in fact, when it comes to the battle situation on the center line, this is precisely what hurts Zhukov the most!

Stalin only knew that the Soviet army on the center line had been maintaining his orders and maintaining a stable attack frequency.But he didn't understand that these attacks were basically the same as giving away a head!Even if it continues, it will only increase unnecessary casualties.

"The general secretary asked us to further strengthen the offensive in the central area, but if we really do this, it will be tantamount to reducing the pressure on the German army to counterattack on the central line in the future, allowing them to use more defensive positions to kill our soldiers." Commander In the Ministry, Zhukov sighed with a headache.

After hearing this, Marshal Voroshilov, who was standing beside Zhukov, was also very moved: "Yes, there is nothing wrong with the Mars operation you proposed. We also agree with the strategy of the Thunderstorm Project. It's just that the combat effectiveness of the frontline troops is really high. Unsatisfactory, the military literacy of many middle and senior officers is even worse than that of a low-ranking officer in the German army."

Sighing, Voroshilov laughed a little self-deprecatingly: "Who would have thought that in this battle, our most commendable logistics was established with the help of the German railway and road systems. "

Hearing this, Zhukov's face became even uglier.

Regarding Germany's assistance in building roads and railways, Zhukov has never believed that the Germans kindly helped the Soviet Union optimize its transportation and logistics capabilities.Although, on the surface it looks right.

However, if Germany is really willing to help, why did they cut corners and shoddy in industrial machine tools, weapon data, etc. in the years of transactions with the Soviet Union, but only worked diligently in cooperation with the road system.

This is clearly problematic!It's just that Zhukov still can't figure out what's going on here for a while.

However, when talking about the railway system, Zhukov was not angry at all: "Speaking of which, this guy Pavlov is not the first time to seize supplies and equipment belonging to our command sequence troops?"

General Pavlov, as the commander of the Soviet Army's Western Front, is in charge of the national elite strategic reserve force under Stalin's direct jurisdiction.These days, Pavlov led his troops to stay in the rear to watch the excitement. He also held a military parade that embarrassed Zhukov, and has repeatedly seized and extracted materials and equipment that were transported to the front line to supply the front line troops.

Pavlov, who commanded the national elite strategic reserve force in the rear, was obviously more convenient to control the army's transportation system than Zhukov, who commanded operations at the front line.Although this guy didn't blatantly withhold all the supplies Zhukov needed, he had privately withheld and taken away a lot of key supplies and equipment, and used them to arm his Western Front Army.

Relying on reducing the supply of front-line troops and strengthening the troops under his command, Pavlov's selfish method regardless of the overall situation is really disgusting to Zhukov.

In the front, there is a strong enemy defending against danger, and gradually counterattacks in an orderly manner, and in the back, there are pig teammates who are holding back, intermittently adding to their own obstacles.Zhukov, the deputy commander-in-chief, was really aggrieved when he did it.

Text 694 The Curse of "3"

"The Soviets are still attacking. Doesn't anyone in their command see that this attack is having side effects?"

Unlike the embarrassment of the Soviet frontline headquarters, in the headquarters of the German Central Army Group, Marshal Bock commanded and dispatched operations without pressure.

As the second batch of field marshals, Bock was promoted to field marshal only one step later than Bolohich. This was not only because Reinhardt wanted to suppress Bolohich to prevent him from becoming the only field marshal in the army, but also to Awarded for Bock's outstanding performance on the battlefields of Poland and France.

"It's good for us, too."

The person who answered was the commander of the 2nd Armored Corps under the command of Marshal Bock of the Central Army, the well-known former academic general, Guderian!

These days Guderian can be said to be suffocated. He has not been able to lead the armored forces to carry out a large-scale attack. He only mobilized the armored forces of the large-scale troops to quickly encircle and suppress them when he strangled the leading Soviet army that broke in.

This kind of battle is not thrilling at all, but it is extremely easy.

After nearly a month of combat, Guderian has used the entire central defense line of the Eastern Fortress to cooperate with the German infantry division occupying the fortifications to strangle more than 30 Soviet offensive troops.Guderian's 2nd Armored Corps directly lost only 72 tanks.

Because it was fighting on its own defensive territory, and successfully defended every round of Soviet attack.Therefore, among the tanks that were damaged and lost, many of them were not particularly damaged, and they could be dragged back to the rear for repair and remodeling, and they could be put into battle again soon.

Such an easy and low-loss battle, let alone how comfortable it is to fight.

"Let the Soviets continue to fight. Anyway, we are about to launch a counterattack. Now they want to consume more of their own strength, which is a good thing for us." Guderian, who is already an admiral, is not at this time Worry about what's wrong with the Soviet offensive.