The Third Reich: The Return of the King

After the end of the First Battle of Jifu, Manstein and others completely changed their stereotype of the Soviet army!

Originally, according to their speculation, it would be very good for the Soviet army to have a 40% chance of winning, but they didn't expect that the Soviet army, under the leadership of Tukhachevsky, would really rescue the 1.2 million Soviet troops who were surrounded!

Moreover, what Tukhachevsky did did not seem to be a particularly remarkable thing, he used a trick to blow the east and west, and turn the tiger away from the mountain!

He successfully deceived the army of the Entente, and then took advantage of the opportunity of the other party's division of troops to immediately launch an attack on the enemy's key areas, and finally succeeded in opening up the strategic location of Sumy, holding both Sumy and Kursk in his hands, thus ensuring the smooth withdrawal of the Soviet troops in the encirclement.

In the first few days, Manstein didn't think Tukhachevsky was very powerful, he felt that Tukhachevsky was nothing more than that, and the tactics he used even for students who had just graduated from the military academy would be able to do it, which didn't seem to be remarkable!

But as time passed, Manstein thought about the whole process of the battle, and finally his mind wavered.

He had to admit that Tukhachevsky still had two brushes!

"The performance of the French army is really bad, I have seen the terrain of Sumy, that place was originally located on a mountainous area, they only need to occupy the commanding heights, hold a few high grounds, and then condescendingly build a fire blockade area, you can block the attack of the Soviet army, even if the Soviet army is no longer afraid of death, it is not a body of steel, they can only rush up to the French army as a live target and be killed alive by machine gun fire!"

Molde believes that the key reason for the success of the Soviet army this time is that the Entente, especially the Gauls, have dropped their chains at a critical moment!

In his opinion, if the Gauls did not flee, the defense line of the Entente army would hold out for at least a while!

The Pinelanders around the Gauls were much worse armed than them, and they didn't run away, but the Gauls with better weapons and equipment ran away, which is really a bit surprising!

"I heard that many soldiers in the Gaul army are homesick and don't want to continue to fight a senseless war with the woolly bear army in this foreign land, so they choose to flee, which seems to me to be a normal thing!"

Kesselring was the oldest and knew the Gauls well, so he tried to analyze the reasons for the Gauls' escape from the internal factors.

"Hehe, they have been fighting for several years before, and they should have stopped the war three years ago, but they still stubbornly fought everywhere, if I were those soldiers, I am afraid that I would have been tired of war a long time ago!"

Guderian didn't have a good impression of the Gauls, he thought that the Gauls were not worthy of the status of the victorious country in the First World War, and if it weren't for the help of the sun and eagle sauce, Gaul would have been pressed to the ground by the Germans and rubbed repeatedly!

Everyone had experienced war, so it was clear how much war-weariness Guderian spoke of had an effect on the army's will to fight.

For soldiers, it is their duty to obey orders, and in the early days of the war, the soldiers will probably have a nervous and a little anticipation for the war, but when the battle reaches a stalemate and there are heavy casualties, the atmosphere of the army will change, and as time goes by, the soldiers will become more and more opposed to the war.

During the First World War, many of the soldiers who participated in the war were devastated, and many soldiers ended their lives with their own guns, and he killed them to escape this nightmarish life.

The battlefield on the Western Front of World War I was the most brutal battlefield in human history, with trenches more than one meter deep and nearly two meters deep, stinky urine and mud everywhere, and the humid environment allowed parasites to breed wildly, and almost every soldier was infested with hundreds of lice.

Moreover, there were the corpses of the fallen soldiers everywhere inside and outside the crowded trenches, and under the blockade of the enemy's machine guns, these corpses did not dare to be cleaned up at all, so a large number of rats living underground crawled out one after another, fed the corpses of these dead soldiers, and gnawed on these corpses in front of the surviving soldiers day and night.

Moreover, rats not only gnaw on corpses, but sometimes even live people!

Soldiers have to endure enemy machine guns and snipers on the one hand, and on the other hand, they have to contend with filthy environments, annoying parasites and terrible rats!

Ordinary people can't stay in this environment for an hour, but soldiers from all countries need to persist in this environment for more than four years!

How can this not make them war-weary?

According to the words of several people, it seems that the reasons for the defeat of the French army can already be found from external and internal factors.

However, Manstein did not easily close the coffin.

"I think that we still underestimate the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army, whether the French army retreats or not, the Soviet army can win this battle, after all, the strategic advantage is already big enough when the Soviet army is under the city of Sumy!"

Manstein was the first to elevate this victory to a strategic level, so as soon as he spoke, everyone stopped the meaningless ridicule and looked at him in unison, wanting to hear what he was saying.

"From the perspective of God in hindsight, we may think that Tukhachevsky and the Soviet army just made some very ordinary decisions, but if we look at the problem from the perspective of the Soviet army, we may get a different answer!"

Manstein's words aroused everyone's thoughts, and everyone may not agree with his point of view, but at least they feel that what he said has some truth, and if you think about it, it seems that this is indeed the case.

The Soviets did not know the deployment of the Allied troops in advance, and Tukhachevsky was able to take the lead in attacking the area held by the British according to the composition of the enemy and mobilizing the Allied troops to support, which in itself was a manifestation of his ability!

Just imagine, if the Kharkov attacked by Tukhachevsky was not garrisoned by the army of the Entente, the boss of the Entente, would the Entente still pay so much attention to the life and death of the army stationed in Kharkov?

I'm afraid not, after all, when Belgorod was attacked, the Entente failed to react and send reinforcements in the first place.

And when the British army was attacked, in a very short period of time, the Entente mobilized two groups of troops to rescue, and even after the first army was ambushed by the encirclement and reinforcements, it still sent a second army, this kind of treatment is obviously not what the Pineland army or other Eastern European servant armies can have!

The fact that the Soviet commander was able to anticipate this situation in advance and keenly seize the opportunity showed that the Soviet commander was very clever in his strategy.

Moreover, the attack on Sumy was carried out very suddenly, and with the strength of the two armies that had been crippled in Tukhachevsky's hands, it should be impossible to capture Sumy, an important town heavily guarded by the Entente!

However, Tukhachevsky was able to contact the Soviet troops in the encirclement at the same time as launching the offensive, flanking the north and south, and jointly launching a blow against the enemy, thus completely solving the problem of insufficient troops, and also causing the panicked French troops to have a scandal of desertion.

Being able to accurately calculate everything and make the right choice at every step, this seemingly simple thing, brought into the role of the commander of the Soviet army, standing in his position, Manstein found that it was extremely difficult!

At least, he can't do it now!

No wonder my brother is so jealous of this Tukhachevsky, it seems that he really has some ability!

Thinking of this, Manstein suddenly became a little curious: Mainz, who was favored by Tukhachevsky, what about his real strength?

If this battle were given to him to command, how would he fight?_

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