"General Model! The large-scale artillery coverage of the Soviet army has begun! Our losses are gradually increasing. Should we withdraw our troops now?"

Chief of Staff Everfert, who had just finished the meeting, followed Model again to the defensive front line near the front line position, observed the Soviet bombardment with a telescope, and said heartbrokenly.

"Go! Retreat all our tanks that have not been destroyed and soldiers who have not died in battle and engage in defensive battles! Wait until the Soviet artillery fire is covered, then start a large-scale attack to lure the enemy into deep combat!"

Model agreed without hesitation.

"Yes! General Model! I'll go right now!"

Chief of Staff Everfert immediately responded.

"By the way, John! Are our fake targets from the second and third defensive fronts deployed?"

When Chief of Staff Everfert turned and left, Moder immediately turned his head and stared at the Chief Operations Staff Officer John and asked.

"We are all ready. We have deployed more than 400 tank models and more than 650 artillery models on each key point, so that the Soviet artillery team can see clearly!"

Chief Operations Staff Officer John nodded and replied.

"Okay! Well done! As long as the Soviet army wastes all their firepower on our fake model targets, we will be less suppressed by their artillery fire when we counterattack!"

Model praised happily.

"Although that's the case, the No. 3 and No. 4 tanks we sent out now were destroyed by hundreds of them at once, and there are more than ten Tiger tanks and Leopard medium tanks! Such tank consumption is not very good for us!"

"It takes 100,000 Imperial Mark to make a No. 4 tank, and for each of the raw materials required to make a No. 4 tank, it costs more than 30,000 kilograms of iron, more than 100 kilograms of rubber, more than 200 kilograms of aluminum; more than 60 kilograms of lead, 200 kilograms of copper, more than 60 kilograms of zinc, and more than 1 kilogram of tin."

"And now we have lost almost 200 No. 4 tanks at one time in the past two days, and this quantity is expensive! And the raw materials we need are becoming increasingly short of as the war is unfavorable! And this time there are more expensive Leopard medium tanks and Tiger tanks, so I feel that we should try our best to avoid actively attacking the indestructible defensive positions of the Soviet army?"

Hearing Model's admiration, Chief Operations Staff Officer John was not happy at all, but instead became worried.

"The Soviet generals are not fools! They are smart! Since our goal this time is to annihilate an enemy army, such a small fortune still has to be paid. Otherwise, how could the Soviet army easily believe that our pretended defeat is real? In short, I will be able to be sensible. I will not waste the lives of our precious soldiers in the empire on a meaningless battlefield at will! Even if I want, the head of state will not!"

In response, Model suddenly curled his smile and replied seriously.

"Then I'm relieved! By the way, I don't understand a little bit. Why do our troops often pretend to retreat in the attack wars of various Soviet positions in the past two days? Will this make the Soviet army get used to our behavior and not be fooled by our temptation of the enemy?"

Chief Operations Staff Officer John suddenly asked in confusion.

"Do you still remember the key points of the tactical knowledge of oneself and enemy in Sun Tzu's Art of War that the Head of War told us?"

Model once again turned his eyes back to the front line and said.

"I still remember it! But what does it have to do with our current combat methods? Haven't we already entered a lot of intelligence officers and entered the Soviet army's camp?"

Chief Operations Staff Officer John asked in confusion.

"The Head of State once told me what if two armies meet and we don't know the ability and strength of the other generals?"

"When I heard this question from the Head of State, I was speechless for a moment. My answer later was similar to what you just said. We all answered our intelligence officers as the main way to understand the enemy!"

"But the head of state gave me a good method. I heard that this method was from an ancient Chinese country called Wu Qi. He said that if we don't know the ability of the enemy generals, we can first send a small group of elite soldiers to attack the opponent, and then immediately pretend to be defeated and flee after a short battle. At the same time, we must observe the enemy's every move. If the enemy takes advantage of the victory and pretends not to catch up; at the same time, we see the weapons, equipment, money and flags we discarded, then the opponent's general is a wise general."

"On the contrary, if they spend all their troops to pursue, without any military discipline, combat queues, and forbidden ways to pick up the spoils we discarded, then the opponent's general is a mediocre person, and then we can fight back against the enemy without any scruples and wipe them out with one blow!"

"And in the past two days, or even more than half a month, we often use this method to fight against the Soviet army. I discovered that the Soviet generals who fought head-on with us were not mediocre people, but a wise general!"

"In addition, they also played Marshal Manstein's elastic defense tactics very smoothly! As long as a certain combat area on our defense line collapses, the Soviet army will gather their powerful troops, powerful artillery fire, a large number of tank groups, and their increasingly powerful air force to attack our weak defense point with a breach of lightning speed! Just like the tactics they are doing now!"

Model explained patiently and in detail.

"General Model, you are so wise! You have learned and used Sun Tzu's Art of War so quickly! I really admire you!"

Upon hearing this, Chief Operations Staff Officer John immediately gave a thumbs up and slapped the horse and echoed.

"Hey! Don't flatter me, let's fight this battle well! The Soviet generals are all shrewd and cunning old foxes! After experiencing these years of cruel battle, the combat experience they have accumulated will never be lost to those of the generals who were cleaned by Stalin before the war!"

Model smiled at the other party's behavior and reminded him.

"General Model is right! I think so too!"

Chief Operations Staff Officer John immediately agreed with a smile.

Seeing this, Model smiled bitterly, shook his head slightly, and was about to ignore the flattery of the Chief Operations Staff Officer John.

"Ah! By the way, General Moder, please don't go to the 2nd Armored Army to integrate the troops there first, and to run in with those officers?"
Chapter completed!