Bismarck

"Redl really didn't recommend the wrong person this time. Lütjens is really good at scientific research!"

Looking at the big red line rising all the way on the scientific research progress report, the man with a mustache was in a good mood and made a very happy sound.

He was even smiling a little.

After all, in just two months, breakthroughs were made in radar technology, electronics industry, missile technology and even computers - although the results were not immediate, at least there were no technical bottlenecks.

Even though Hitler was just a veteran of World War I who hadn't even graduated from junior high school and was a middle-aged literary man, he was very good at science and technology, but in order to rule the country well, the mustache man had been trying to read a lot of books for more than a decade and even built a private library. Therefore, even if he didn't understand the specifics of these technologies, he could intuitively feel that if Germany could break through these technologies first, the Third Reich, which had an absolute advantage in weapons technology, might have a chance to balance the enemy with an absolute advantage in numbers in the future.

Especially for the Soviet Union, which currently "drags down" almost 90% of the Third Reich's industrial and weapons production capacity! You know, in Hitler's mind, the gap between this country and the "Greater German Nation" is not just as simple as racism!

Despite this, Hitler once again realized how terrifying and difficult the other side was!

Even though they were not satisfied with the quality of their opponent's weapons, after having destroyed more than 70% of the opponent's fertile farmland, coal mines, iron ore, bauxite and other large resources, and under the premise that Britain and the United States, which were already unable to take care of themselves, were simply unable to provide large-scale assistance to the opponent, those red Russians were still able to rely on their extremely strong social organization, and the organized old, weak, women and children in the rear, using a method almost like slash-and-burn farming, to tenaciously restore production, and to open up new land bit by bit and re-accumulate strength!

The Soviet Union was vast and rich in resources. According to the existing intelligence, the Ural Industrial Zone must be occupied to prevent the Russians from turning over. The problem was that the Ural Industrial Zone was terrifyingly large, judging from the data on Soviet-German cooperation since the 1920s and 1930s. The industrial zone was thousands of kilometers long and wide! And this was only the scale ten years ago!

Ever since his visit to Leningrad, Hitler had always had a hunch: the other side's real trump card is precisely this spirit of tenacious struggle and fighting against heaven and earth - after all, if people cannot even conquer the endless winter of the legendary ice world, what else can defeat them?

Maybe, maybe, it's possible... I'm afraid the only way is to blow up the earth before they develop a space battleship...

And what about your own side?

Obviously, he was thinking about reviving the Germanic nation and establishing the Greater German Empire, but...

These Junkers are against me all the time!

They clearly had advanced technology, strong production capacity, and a well-trained army, but for some reason, the performance of these people was always far from what Hitler expected!

Moreover, when Hitler, who was originally smiling, thought of these things, his good mood suddenly disappeared.

The current Soviet-German battlefield is a complete mess.

Although an army of two million was mobilized, the 2000-kilometer-wide front line from Velikiy Luki through the Great Bend of the Don River to Stalingrad at the beginning of the "Typhon" plan, as well as the fortresses scattered all over the front line, forced the German army, which always liked to concentrate its forces to break through key points and then spread out its forces on a large scale to advance in depth, encircle and annihilate the enemy, to split up into ten armies and play a game of divide and conquer on such a wide front. Otherwise, on such a vast front where the enemy was already on high alert, if the steady advancement of the entire front could not be guaranteed, the result of any isolated troop advancing deep into the enemy's territory would only be to be surrounded!

After all, the Soviets on the other side have fought hard, and all kinds of fortifications have been dug everywhere! A village, an intersection, and even an independent house are all strongholds of resistance! Soviet soldiers and even Soviet militias who fought to the last man, shot, and bullet can be found everywhere! The traditional blitzkrieg, which is to break through a little and then drive straight in, relying on strategic situation and psychological deterrence to force the enemy to retreat and finally collapse, is now completely unworkable in front of the fighting nation, the bear people!

Although they had completely captured the Soviet Union's front-line positions and had generally advanced more than 100 to 200 kilometers, the two million troops suffered heavy losses in the face of the enemy's tenacious defense. Even now, many troops have been crippled - and the lack of reserve forces has forced these crippled troops to stand on the front line and defend the flanks for the breakthrough actions of the troops that are still capable of fighting...

After such a war of attrition, both Hitler and the General Staff were shouting that they could not bear it. More importantly, this approach allowed the Russians on the other side to fully utilize their huge size advantage to fight against themselves. Up to now, the two million troops have suffered more than 200,000 casualties, but the Russian army on the other side is obviously "planned" to fight and retreat! From the statistical data, although there are many battles, basically no army on the other side has been annihilated in an organized manner! Even if the number of enemies annihilated is counted together with armed civilians, there are only about 500,000 people, that's all!

And it was obvious that the Russians on the opposite side were also fighting with their lives. Not only were they fighting to the death and delaying the enemy by holding out in the front, but their fortifications in the rear were becoming increasingly solid. Even the Russian civilians took up guns and fought side by side with the Russian regular army, doing everything they could to oppose the Imperial Army!

What’s worse is that even in the occupied areas, the Soviet guerrillas were fighting fiercely behind the front lines. Soviet stragglers and civilians organized guerrillas, and even organized divisions to defend their bases - the so-called "guerrilla republic". Even though up to three million garrison troops and vassal troops were deployed in the "security war" - a full half more than the main force of the frontal attack, and "arson teams" were sent everywhere to play the "three-light policy" and "extermination", and sometimes even the main force had to be withdrawn to "mop up", the "security in the occupied areas" was still a problem of suppressing one problem but causing another, and the erosion was so severe that it could be called a severe ulcer...

Such Soviet people made Hitler so angry that he kept thinking of two lines of poetry, both of which came from ancient Chinese poetry:

As an inferior **, why didn't you just work in the meat processing factory and make soap instead of jumping out to try to stop a chariot?

(Original poem: I will not be content to starve to death, but rather to be a praying mantis with its arms stretched out - by Yang Sichang, an important official of the Chongzhen reign of the Ming Dynasty, the proposer of the "Ten-Sided Net" plan, the executor of the "pacify the country before resisting foreign aggression" policy, with the courtesy name Wenruo, the nickname Feiweng, and the later name Ku'an Jushi, the military supervisor, assistant minister, and Minister of War)

Now even the domestic reserve troops have been pulled up to the "Typhon Plan"! In other words, the Third Reich can no longer spare any reserve troops!

Even...even if it is pulled out, what can happen?

The real foundation of the Soviet Union is the Ural Industrial Zone, which stretches over thousands of kilometers. According to some intelligence, they even built five or six new industrial zones behind the Ural Industrial Zone! As for Moscow? A glance at the globe shows that although Moscow is the transportation center of all of Russia, in terms of the depth of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that stretches across Eurasia, even if Moscow is captured, it can only be said to open the gateway to the Ural Industrial Zone! The Soviets on the other side, their seemingly bottomless potential, has not yet seen its limit...

Moreover, Germany’s enemies are far more than just the Soviet Union!

In addition to that sinister empire with colonies all over the world and a lean camel that is bigger than a horse, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, there is another superpower that is quietly and gradually showing its fangs!

........................

The Soviet-German War had completely bid farewell to a quick decision and fell into the kind of war of attrition that the Germans least wanted to see, a war that tested the country's potential!

In the face of war, everything turned into a bloody and cruel fight where it was either you or me! There was no place for tricks or luck!

Two giants fight to the death, only one can survive!

"...either we will step on their corpses to get there, or they will step on our corpses to get there. Everything in this world is fighting for living space. If we can't win, then we will surely perish...No! In order to revive the great German nation, I must not be defeated by the Russians!"

After turning around a few times, Hitler sat down at the edge of his desk again, tapped the table with trembling fingers, and muttered a few words to himself.

As an out-and-out extreme nationalist, he certainly knew very well that survival of the fittest was his life motto.

but……

Is Germany really doing its best now?

Hitler lowered his head and looked at the document he had lit - on the cover of the document were the words "E-50 Tank Technical Review Report (Third Edition)" written in a Gothic font that was a bit too gorgeous.

This review report has been sent to me for the third time, but no matter how I look at it, I still feel unsatisfied.

After all, the design here is advanced, but...

The complicated design that could drive the workers to death and anger the maintenance team so much made Hitler really want to grab the stack of reports and smash them into the trash can.

"We can't go on like this! Losers don't have any human rights! ...Asshole!"

The more Hitler thought about it, the angrier he became.

All my life I have considered myself a thoroughgoing nationalist, and I have always believed that I was fighting for the revival of Germany.

But what about those people?

The war has been going on like this, but they are still the same as before! Those who should be living a life of drunkenness and debauchery continue to live a life of drunkenness and debauchery, those who should be delaying work continue to delay work, and those who should be shirking responsibility continue to shirk responsibility - it's okay for civilians, but the army and military industry, all day long, they pretend to obey their orders and requirements, but secretly disobey them!

Especially the military industry!

The nuclear program is demanding and requires a large investment, so it's fine that research needs to start from scratch, but...

Because these people have been working idle, new weapons have not been produced. On the contrary, the Russians have replaced the T-34 tank with a large 85mm turret, and the air force on the Eastern Front reported that the Russians have also begun to equip some new fighters. It is conceivable that the more advanced tanks and aircraft on the other side must be under development!

Thinking of that, and then looking at the thick E50 review report on the table, Hitler couldn't help but get angrier and angrier. He even grabbed the report and smashed it to the ground!

After all, the Soviet Union is a big country with a territory of 30 million square kilometers. Its potential is simply incomparable to that of Germany, which has not even completely integrated the European continent!

If we cannot gain an advantage in science and technology and weapon performance again, and at the same time enter the Ural Industrial Zone as soon as possible, the empire will be destroyed...

No! I have to do something!

After losing his temper, Hitler sat at the table and racked his brains for a while. He slammed the table, and immediately the female secretary who had been on standby outside rushed in.

"Prime Minister, what do you want?"

"Someone, come here! Give me a meeting schedule!"

Looking at the female secretary who had opened her notebook, Hitler thought for a moment and gave the order:

"Tell the military that the 'Typhon' plan must be more efficient! In the name of the Commander-in-Chief of the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht (OKW), summon the Army Command (OKH) and the General Staff to a meeting! I want to adjust the deployment while there is still time!

In addition, I also need to adjust the research and development and organization of military industry! - Let Goering, Raeder, Speer, Lütjens, and the heads of the key projects... Oh, and Himmler too - organize the information for me! I want to integrate military industry and scientific research!"

"Yes, Führer." The female secretary gave a quick Nazi salute and turned to walk out.

Picture: Returning from the Ocean

I have always wanted to post this picture, but I always forget it. My memory is terrible.

I will post a single chapter today to show you the paintings that the friends in the group drew for Bismarck. To be honest, they are really great.

Mmp, it still needs to be 100 words, otherwise I can't post it, hurry up, hurry up... 100 words, 100 words

Chapter 754: Split

In the conference room, beside the map table, the heads of state and the generals were exchanging sharp words...

"I don't agree with you, Führer!"

"I don't agree either! Our goal should continue to focus on Moscow, rather than dispersing our forces to attack Saratov!"

"Me too……"

What Hitler never expected was that the proposed modification of the battle plan would turn into a war in the conference room...

In the face of opposition from many generals, Hitler bit his lip, sat in a chair with his arms folded, trembling with anger, but said nothing.

There was a word MMP in his mind, and Hitler really wanted to say it!

From mid-May to early August, the first phase of the "Typhon" operation has ended.

In order to capture Moscow, according to the plan submitted by the General Staff, Hitler mobilized the entire country's military strength, assembled a total of ten army groups with 208 million troops and 6200 tanks. The three army groups, commanded by Field Marshal von Bock, Field Marshal Rundstedt, and Field Marshal List, advanced in parallel on a 9600-kilometer front under the cover of 2000 aircraft of the Eastern Front Air Force.

However, despite this, after spending a full three months, paying the price of losing 1200 people and 1600 tanks, this seemingly safe, but very costly, and almost impossible to encircle and annihilate the enemy's main force in an organized manner under the enemy's tenacious resistance, the front-line push-up tactics finally advanced from the Bolshevik-Kursk-Stalingrad line at the beginning of the battle to the Kamisin-Borisoglebsk-Oka River-Kaluga-Vyazma-Rzhev line. Although the width of the front line was successfully reduced to 100 kilometers under the military geometry law of "the closer to the center of the circle, the shorter the chord length, and the more concentrated the troops", the average advancement distance in depth was only a terrible 200 to kilometers!

Moreover, judging from the reports from various army groups, the second-line defense fortifications set up by the Soviet army along the river are much stronger than the previous first-line fortifications!

If the front-line positions were mainly based on rivers and towns, with minefields, barbed wire, log-based anti-tank obstacles and earthworks as the backbone, then the situation reports of the second-line positions that appeared in front of the German army now showed that at least in the key positions along the main traffic lines controlled by the enemy, fortresses with semi-permanent concrete bunkers as the core support points were already quite common! - You know, Vyazma, the closest point to Moscow on the entire front, is 250 kilometers away from Moscow!

At this rate, even if we can reach Moscow as we wish, it will probably be the coldest time of the year!

It's easy to guess that Stalin is definitely using the fortified areas of Moscow to buy time, while the Soviet Union's factory areas in the Ural are certainly working hard to produce arms and train troops - and now there is an old and sinister man named Roosevelt who is also making preparations for dumplings on the other side of the Atlantic!

When I was writing "My Struggle" in prison, I knew clearly that Germany had limited potential and could not fight two great powers at the same time! But the current situation is that if Germany cannot enter the Ural Industrial Zone before the summer of 43 to destroy the Soviet Union's ability to launch a large-scale counterattack, the only result for me is that when the whole country's strength is trapped in Russia and cannot be extricated, Roosevelt with a sly smile will come over and give me a "BOY♂NEXT♂DOOR"?

Therefore, if he really wanted to fight a war of attrition in the fortress areas around Moscow, he might as well command a considerable number of troops to leave the city of Moscow, whose defenses were becoming increasingly strong, and threaten the Ural industrial area directly from the middle reaches of the Volga River!

The Soviet Union built such a wide range of fortifications around Moscow, which obviously affected the defense of the Saratov-Kazan-Urals industrial zone behind Moscow. Although this area also has a dense network of waterways and the natural barrier of the Volga River, the largest river in Europe, the defense strength here is far less than that of Moscow. Moreover, if we go north along the river from here, we can not only surround Moscow from a long distance, but also directly threaten the Ural region!

If Stalin did not want to lose the Urals, this "fundamental place", he would either have to withdraw a considerable number of main forces from Moscow - and judging from the road conditions in the Soviet Union, even if troops were withdrawn from Moscow, it would be likely that the initiative would be lost; or he would force Stalin to mobilize the reserve forces he had established in the rear in advance - the training and equipment of these troops might not have reached the standards to be able to fight on the battlefield, and the end of them being reluctantly sent to the battlefield without the support of a complete defense line would only be a complete massacre by the elite of the empire!

And in fact, if he wanted to threaten the Saratov-Penza area, he didn't need to withdraw too many troops. According to the situation on the battlefield, it would be enough to withdraw the three armies heading towards Stalingrad. If he participated in the battle nearby, he could directly delay the Soviet troops and put them in a dilemma.

In addition, the remaining seven armies were not idle. In Hitler's conception, now that the front line had been initially shortened, the remaining troops should change the previous "too safe" approach of dividing the forces equally and concentrate the forces on several key points for assault! In addition to continuing to put pressure on Moscow, if there was a chance to capture Moscow in the end, they should first surround it and then attack it, rather than playing a rigid split-force push in front of the enemy's fortress.

The effect of concentrated assault and encirclement and annihilation is much higher than that of flat attack!

but……

Seeing the generals in front of him expressing their opposition to his actions and their remarks that they could celebrate Christmas after conquering Moscow, Hitler became more and more angry. When he was so angry that he could no longer bear it, the man with a mustache sat up from his chair, threw the pencil in his hand hard on the map table, waved his fingers, stamped his feet and roared at the generals in front of him:

"Moscow, Moscow, you only know Moscow! Before you say that, why don't you take a look at what kind of war you are fighting?! It took you more than two and a half months to advance a mere 12 kilometers, and the loss of troops exceeded 20%, and the loss of tanks was close to %! After such a fight, you still have the nerve to say that you will continue to fight Moscow?!"

The officers stopped talking, but all of them looked at the man with a bad face. Seeing the attitude of the officers, the man with a mustache became even more angry, and his voice became a few degrees higher, and even his hand gestures became faster.

"Don't look at me. You know yourselves that the Russians are capable of building fortifications, and their defense strength is getting more and more abnormal! With your turtle-like attack speed, if you reach the outskirts of Moscow, won't we have to face reinforced settlements, solid factory areas, and steel-concrete fortresses that can withstand heavy artillery bombardment and even aircraft bombing?! - Oh, yes, there will most likely be quagmires and freezing weather in the coldest days of winter! Don't just look at me! I went to Moscow once in the winter two years ago and even went to see Stalin! What kind of weather is Moscow in winter? I definitely have more say than you!"

"Our war situation requires you to deal with the Soviet Union within a year, and then you can turn around and fight the Americans without any worries! So I ask that our "C" Army Group on the southern front turn around and attack Saratov, threaten the Urals, and force Stalin to make a choice! This is strategy and war economics! You should think more about how to do the most in a limited time! God only gave the Third Reich two years, and now one year has been reimbursed! The Third Reich can't afford to delay now, do you understand?!"

The speed of the mustache man's roar and waving his fingers became faster and faster, as if he was getting more and more anxious about the battle situation. But... no matter how anxious he was and how much he talked, the generals and marshals below him - even a few legion commanders who had abandoned their troops and ran back from the front line and had heavy troops - looked at him with increasingly cold expressions amid the roar.

Even the generals with different purposes looked at each other with all kinds of obscure looks.

Even the "Roaring Fuhrer" with the roar skill EX will eventually get tired. And just when Hitler took a break to drink a sip of water after his last round of cursing, the German Army Chief of Staff, General Franz Halder, who held the rank of general, stood up silently among the generals who exchanged glances with the general.

The man with a mustache glared at Halder fiercely without even taking a sip of his tea.

But Halder had a blank expression on his face. He just straightened his monocle and said in a serious tone:

"Führer, you can't say that about us. We are also fighting for the victory of the Empire..."

"Then you can let List's Army Group C capture Saratov for me - don't take Moscow too seriously, Moscow is just a foothold for the capture of the Urals! The key is to enter the Urals and destroy their most important industrial areas! I still say that if you can't capture the Urals before the autumn of 43, you will all be finished!"

"But if we attack Saratov, our battle line will be stretched again, and our forces will be dispersed in two directions, and our logistical forces will also be dispersed, which are all unfavorable factors..."

"How can there be so many unfavorable factors! You have to know that we are advancing centripetally... Look carefully at the map. If we really want to attack Saratov, we can also advance to the Tver-Tula-Ryazan-Penza line in the direction of Moscow! In other words, the original curved part in the middle of our country will be straightened!... With such a battle line, the width is at most 1300 kilometers, or even less!"

Hitler pointed to the center of the battlefield on the desktop map, south of Tula along the Oka River and the Don River, all the way to a bend in Tambov, and spoke breathlessly.

"No, Führer, I still think you are making a fuss... Moscow is the capital and transportation hub of the Russians, and capturing the capital must be the top priority. I admit that it is reasonable for you to reorganize Army Groups A and B and concentrate the assault, but attacking Saratov would extend the front line and waste manpower. Please don't be so stubborn."

"What do you mean by stubbornness? Think about it yourself. If we don't attack Saratov, our flanks will have no support! Look for yourself. Saratov is next to the Volga River. With support here, our frontline defense can be greatly enhanced! Stalin is definitely training the army on a large scale now. Our front line is thousands of kilometers wide and we don't have any reserves. If you don't find support on your flank, what if they counterattack from the flank? A single breakthrough will lead to the collapse of the entire line! Halder, you are the Chief of the General Staff and a general, and you don't even know this basic common sense!"

Hitler, with a dry mouth, became angrier the more he spoke.

"Führer, if we concentrate our forces to capture Moscow, and then rely on Moscow's transportation to deploy troops, we can stabilize the situation." Halder had no expression on his face, but his tone was becoming increasingly agitated.

"The problem is that the Russians have so many fortresses in Moscow. Can you guarantee that you can take them down before winter? If you can't, you might as well develop in the direction of Saratov!"

"My Führer, fighting a war is not that simple. Perhaps we can indeed capture Moscow before winter, but I cannot guarantee that the Saratov route is not a waste of manpower."

"What are you talking about! The defense strength in the Saratov direction is not as good as that in Moscow! Don't tell me that you can't take down the easy ones, but you can guarantee the difficult ones!"

"However, in the direction of Stalingrad, List's Army Group C's attack preparations are all towards Moscow. If this deployment is to be changed, every soldier in our army will be troubled."

"The position of your troops in the direction of Stalingrad can only follow behind Rundstedt's Army Group B and eat dust!" Looking at the List Army Group which was basically located on the side and rear of Rundstedt's Army Group on the map, Hitler complained with gritted teeth.

"Halder, take a look for yourself. Lister is actually located to the rear of Rundstedt! You're wasting manpower by sending both him and Rund to Moscow. With 1200 soldiers and tanks, there's no battle to fight, and the defense is not enough to cover such a wide flank! Rather than leaving them there to rot, I'd rather have them turn around and attack Saratov! That's a good place where they can attack or defend, and threaten the Russians' vital areas!"

"Führer, you are dividing our forces! If our forces and logistics are dispersed, we will not be able to destroy their main force - as long as we occupy Moscow and destroy some of their troops, all problems can be solved!"