artillery arc

Chapter 650: Overwatch Diber Plan
Facing the Marshal's roar, the colonel was silent for a few seconds before answering, "What happened after that? You should know what the Asgard Knights and the Military Police, as well as the Imperial Household Ministry in charge of supervision, did in Orachi, right?

"These people massacred the people of Ant in order to cover up the truth. Imagine what they will do when they are defeated!"

Marshal Goron's expression froze.

The colonel continued, "We have people all over the war mobilization department, so we know that if the war situation continues to deteriorate, they will continue to set up the Volkssturm and arrest children and the elderly into the barracks!"

"It hasn't happened yet!" Marshal Goron interrupted the colonel. "The situation is not so hopeless right now. The battle line is still in Ant, more than 700 kilometers away from the border of the empire! I mean the southern frontier."

Because the terrain on the northern line was too bad, with only woods and swamps, Proson did not go too far into Ant's territory.

The greatest progress was made at Plossen on the southern front, where the main steppes were very suitable for the maneuvering of armored units.

Colonel: "But Khazaria is a grassland, with basically no strategic location to defend. We can annex the entire Khazaria in half a year, and the Ants will be able to fight back!
"After all, we built a highway! When we attacked, Ante's 'highway' was just a dirt road, which would only be considered a village road in the developed areas of Yoroba! But now the grasslands of Kosalia are all high-standard highways!"

Marshal Goron: "Don't pick on this. Without these roads, we simply can't maintain such a large-scale force on the southern front. Without these roads, Rokossov's troop advantage will be even greater, and we will lose even more miserably!"

After expressing his opinion fiercely, the marshal sighed: "Don't try to convince me anymore. My war is over."

Colonel: "Don't you want to save Plossom?"

Marshal Goron: "What can I do? When I arrive at the Eagle's Nest, my military power will be stripped, and I will be just an ordinary old man. You might as well go find the troops stationed near the Eagle's Nest, mobilize them, and ask them to send troops to surround the Eagle's Nest!"

Colonel: "The commanders of these armies are all your students or old subordinates!"

"Ha!" Marshal Goron laughed. "You came to me for this! Unfortunately, my students will not betray the empire just because of a word from their teacher. No, they won't. Your plot is doomed to fail."

Colonel: "What about the Empire?"

Marshal Goron was silent for a moment, then said, "We started the war first. Now that we have failed, we can't blame others, right?"

The colonel said after a brief silence: "You can no longer protect yourself. After we are exposed, they will definitely find you. After all, all the people on this plane are ours. Even if the Imperial Household Ministry is a loser, they will find out!"

"What?" Marshal Goron was shocked. "You are plotting against me!"

Colonel: "We can't help it. I personally believe in your character, but there are still many people among us who don't know you well."

Marshal Goron leaned back in his chair, pondered for a moment and said, “33 kilometers west of Eagle’s Nest, the Fifth Infantry Training Battalion is stationed. Its commander is a die-hard opponent, so he was demoted to the left a long time ago. I took great pains to keep him here.

"He will be willing to join your operation. One training brigade is enough to suppress the defenders of Eagle's Nest."

Colonel: "But the nearby armored training division..."

"The armored forces are supervised by the Armored Corps. They are a new technology branch. We old Junkers have no say. Do you think His Majesty is not on guard against you? Of course he is!" Marshal Goron looked at the colonel, "You pulled me into your chariot, but unfortunately, this can't save Prosen. The coup d'état, the emperor's detention, and the truce with the Allies will not go smoothly no matter how you look at it."

The colonel was completely silent.

Marshal Goron stared at him for a few seconds and said, "There is a less perfect plan. You can assassinate His Majesty and kill all of His Majesty's confidants who are responsible for propaganda. After that, someone who holds military power may judge the situation and join you."

Colonel: "We have no assassination plan."

"No? Or are you worried that I will inform the emperor and escape punishment, so you don't plan to tell me?" Marshal Goron asked.

Colonel: "Do you think you can clear yourself of suspicion by informing on others?"

The marshal didn't say anything, but just turned his head to look at the sea of ​​clouds outside the window.

The cabin fell silent, save for the noise of the engine.

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The Prime Minister's Office in the capital of the United Kingdom.

Prime Minister Leonard Spencer asked the plenipotentiary representative of the Ants who had returned home to report on his work with a serious expression: "You mean that the Ants are likely to recapture Khazaria this winter?"

"Yes, when I left, the Prosens had already abandoned their positions and retreated to Shepetovka. And with the current situation of the Prosens, Shepetovka is difficult to defend. Rokossov's heavy troops only need to attack the Orachi line to cut off their retreat.

"So far in the summer campaign, Ant has suffered a lot of casualties, but Plossen's casualties are also heavy. We all know that one of the characteristics of Plossen's troops is that the training time for new recruits is very long and the replenishment is very slow. "This is due to their military tradition, which is a set of traditions that are not well adapted to modern total war. Of course, tradition has endowed Plossen with higher individual quality, but the current situation on the Eastern Front, the significance of individual quality is getting smaller and smaller. "

Prime Minister Leonard picked up his pipe, took two deep puffs, and said, "So we need to open up a second battlefield as soon as possible."

The army general sitting opposite the prime minister immediately said: "But the Plosson Empire's troops in North Africa have not been completely defeated. They may still attack the Mamluks and cut off the canal!"

Leonard: "Come on! Actually, after we drove the Desert Fox away from the canal, we all knew that North Africa was just an excuse for us to delay Ant.

"Once we land in the Apennines, all the Plossom troops in North Africa will lose their supplies. We just don't want to threaten Plossom's homeland so quickly."

The commander of the Aegean Fleet nodded: "In fact, we have cut off the supply of the Desert Fox. Although the Prosen people have invested in anti-ship missiles and remote-controlled bombs, these new weapons have low reliability and have not helped them regain control of the sea.

"Now Plosson's North African troops should worry about how they will return to their homeland."

Leonard: "I was once First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Cunningham, and I know what it's like there."

"That was my fault."

Leonard pursed his lips, thought for a moment and said, "I think it's time to land in Sicily. This island is separated from the mainland of Europa by the sea, and Plosson's power cannot be exerted. At the same time, this island can attract Plosson's attention and let them deploy more troops on the peninsula.

"This way we can shut up the Ants and say that if we don't land in Sicily, more Plossen troops will be transferred to the Eastern Front, and they will be under greater pressure."

The Army General asked, "Don't we need to inform the United States? General George Jr. of the United States is still fighting the Desert Fox."

"Never mind! I'll call Teddy (nickname of the President of the United States) myself, and he'll agree!"

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December 7th, Eagle's Nest, the heart of the Proson Empire.

As soon as Marshal Goron entered the operations room, he subconsciously looked for unfamiliar faces in the operations room.

Because that could be the assassin sent by the Valkyrie Club.

He sincerely hoped that the blood would not splatter on himself during the stabbing.

As for His Majesty, considering what His Majesty might do after escaping the assassination, Marshal Goron hoped from the bottom of his heart that His Majesty would die, and it would be best if he could die with those bastards from the Valkyrie Club, so that the chances of his family surviving the war would be greatly increased.

"Marshal Goron!" His Majesty stood up, "Congratulations on withdrawing most of the troops from Rokossov's encirclement."

Marshal Goron was very surprised. After a moment's thought, he decided to blame himself: "I'm sorry, there are still about 150,000 troops who haven't escaped. In addition, the loss of technical equipment is also quite large. Some armored divisions only have ten tanks left."

His Majesty the Emperor waved his hand: "No, no, I misjudged the enemy's strength. Given the current strength of the Ants, it is too dangerous to attack rashly. The good news is that we can still inflict heavy damage on them in a defensive battle!

"I plan to withdraw all the troops in Shepetovka to the west of the Tiber River and rely on the river for defense. I named this action plan "Watching the Tiber River!"
"In order to realize this plan, we need to deceive Rokossov. Let Marshal Celtic introduce you to it!"

Marshal Celtic nodded: "We estimate that it will take 20 days to evacuate all the troops and auxiliary personnel from Shepetovka. During the retreat, the enemy's pursuit will cause us huge losses.

"So we need to show that we are standing firm in Shepetovka. As part of the overall plan to deceive the enemy, the propaganda minister has begun to portray Shepetovka as the 'city that will never fall'..."

"Did I hear correctly?" Marshal Goron interrupted Marshal Celtic, "We are deceiving the enemy?"

"Yes." The emperor nodded. "We are going to deceive the enemy. In fact, we often deceive the enemy. For example, in the Battle of Melania, we sent a visiting fleet to create a false impression of peace and deceived Melania's top leaders. In the Carolingian Campaign, we also made a gesture of breaking through the Maginot Line head-on, but in fact the main force passed through the Ardennes Forest."

The emperor stood up and paced in front of the map: "The Prosen are the smartest people. The enemy can deceive, and so can we! We will prove it!"

Marshal Goron: "But... on average, each of my armored divisions has only ten tanks in combat readiness. If Rokossov outflanks Shepetovka, we will have no armored forces to fight him."

"He doesn't have any armored units either." The emperor said confidently, "In fact, Rokossov's armored units are not enough to launch an outflanking attack. He can only use cavalry. Are you still unable to defeat the cavalry?"

Marshal Goron hesitated to speak.

(End of this chapter)