What kind of war does the German Army like to fight the most? This question seems worth studying. Even if the answer to this question is worth controversial, it is undoubtedly true that the German army likes to adopt large-scale roundabout encirclement in places without fortifications in the wilderness to solve the opponent's heavy army cluster.

In the Battle of Poland, Germany completely smashed the Polish defensive cluster with several classic clamp-shaped offensives, ended the Polish battle at a speed that everyone expected, and achieved a speed of destruction that shocked the whole world.

Then in France, Germany completed the sickle swing operation with an effective flanking breakthrough, and wiped out all the elite forces of the British and French coalition forces in Dunkirk. These troops were also chased and destroyed by the main German forces without any preparation in the wilderness.

Immediately afterwards, in eastern Poland, in Ukraine, and in Belarus, a series of "German-style annihilation wars" made the Soviet Union lose its armor. In the end, the Soviet Union began to use fortifications on a large scale to delay the German offensive, and this kind of battle of encircling the opponents in rapid maneuvers gradually disappeared.

Instead, there are seemingly endless trench defense wars, city battles, and large-scale tank encounters on the Eastern Front. All of these tactics are carried out based on mutual consumption. For a certain defense node or a certain strategic goal, the two sides often invested nearly one million people to compete repeatedly, so that the front line did not move for several weeks.

But north of Moscow, the Germans seized the opportunity again, where they surrounded 50,000 Soviet infantry from Leningrad, and surrounded by armored troops and elite mechanized infantry, which made Lundstedt very comfortable because this was a typical German rhythm.

"Did the messenger bring back any news?" At this moment, the German field marshal was in a very good mood. Although his troops were alone, the enemy did not have any counterattack power. So he could easily pull his teeth at the tiger's mouth, and his clamp-shaped offensive seemed to have laid a victory for Germany on the Eastern Front.

The Soviet Union obviously had no reserve force to launch a counterattack against the German army. In the area south of Moscow, Zhukov's southward cluster suffered heavy losses and still struggled to support it. All the troops north of Moscow were surrounded by the A-Group Army, the E-Group Army and the Finnish Corps in the area north of Tver.

Although the German army expected that several bridges near the Ivankov reservoir would break out in fierce battles, in fact, they did not. This fully demonstrated that the Soviet army was rushing to shrink its troops and did not even intend to rescue the Leningrad cluster.

In the defensive positions around Moscow, the Soviet Red Army organized a defensive army of more than 10,000, but this number obviously has an exaggeration. In fact, everyone knows the actual situation.

In another time and space, Germany claimed to have millions of troops when defending Berlin. Unfortunately, the troops with actual combat effectiveness may not even be able to get together 30,000 people. The old, weak, sick and disabled mobilized by the Soviet Union are actually similar to the famous national divisions in another time and space, all of which are civilians with only rifles. These troops have no combat effectiveness at all. Facing the long-standing German elites, they will collapse if they can't hold on for a few minutes.

It was barely enough to expect such a unit to find some food in the ruins and to maintain the total number of troops on the position without any means, but it was still hard to expect these units to fight back and regain the lost bridge under the tracks of German tanks. Even Stalin himself felt that he was joking.

"Marson! The messengers sent to the enemy Leningrad cluster did not see their commander General Gorov! The Soviet generals who received our messenger refused our persuasion to surrender, saying that Gorov was determined to live and die with his motherland." Marshal Lundstedt's deputy reported regretfully.

They were ordered to send messengers to persuade the Soviet army to surrender. After all, it takes time and sacrifice to wipe out all the troops of more than 50,000 in the field. In view of saving, the German General Staff decided to arrange messengers to persuade the Soviet army first and try to make the Soviet army in the encirclement surrender itself.

It seems that this plan failed, and Govorov had no intention of surrender. Although the Soviet army was surrounded by the German army in the wilderness, it was unfortunately not as good as the ammunition and food were exhausted. However, the German army had calculated that the Soviet army's supplies could last for about a week at most.

"Is it a week? I would rather let hundreds of thousands of people starve to death on the position than surrender..." Marshal Lundstedt looked at the map, a circular sign completely surrounded by the blue arrow representing himself: "I am more concerned about now than the dead man Govorov, what I am more concerned about now is how the head of state arranges the next battle on the Eastern Front."

It is not just Lundstedt, there are too many people who care about this issue. Several major attack directions of the German army, including northern Moscow, south of Moscow to Kursk, south of Kursk, and Baku. Except for the Northern Moscow Theater Command, which Lundstedt personally commanded, any direction may give birth to a new marshal in the Army.

Guderian, Manstein, and Klug are all powerful competitors of this marshal. However, in Lundstetter's eyes, these generals are labeled as "the head of state" behind them, just like another Field Marshal Rommel.

Once this marshal is born, the power of the head faction in the composition of the Imperial Army will completely overwhelm the original noble officers of the General Staff Headquarters. This is also the most painful fact that there are too many capable people in the head faction. It is not an exaggeration to pick one out and get the rank of the Army Marshal.

The situation where these veterans maintain balance openly and secretly will be broken at a certain point. The generals of the head of state faction will eventually stand at a key position in the German affairs department and become important pawns for the head of state to control the entire Germany. Thinking of this, Lundstedt smiled bitterly, and then shook his head helplessly: Isn’t he also promoted the head of state all the way? In the eyes of outsiders, he is also a complete head of state faction, right?

The opinion within the army was to promote the m-south army commanded by General Manstein to seize the close-kick Baku oil field as much as possible, so that this "head of state" with a noble status would be promoted to marshal first, so as to check and balance the forces within the army.

Another voice is the nomination of General Kettle and General Liszt, who have no credit and worked hard. After all, these two generals, including General Model in the rear, are both respected veterans, and they should also be rewarded for guarding one side.

For this matter, Blauchcina, he also sought the meaning of Marshal Lundstedt and Marshal Rommel. Lundstedt did not call back immediately, and the latter called back concisely: "I am only responsible for fighting for the head of state and Germany. Other matters have nothing to do with me!"

The head of state was even more confused. He let Blauxichi ask, but Akado didn't seem to want to answer directly. The wise head of state smiled and said, "The promotion of the marshal must be cautious, and I am also considering it." It made people confused, making people wonder what he was thinking about in his heart.

"General Liszt called! He launched a new round of artillery bombardment on the position west of the encirclement, throwing the key attack 6 behind his head. He looked carefully at the position where Liszt was attacking, then clicked on the map, and deployed his own orders to his subordinates: "Let the grenadiers on the flank of the 2nd Armored Army advance 5 kilometers and support General Liszt who is attacking!"

"As for orders! Marshal!" The deputy stood attentively and saluted, then turned around and walked out of the Marshal's office. It was a very wise choice to set up a command center in Tver. After all, there are many buildings here that can be used as temporary residences for officers and temporary command centers for various troops.

As soon as the deputy walked out of the house, another officer from the telegraph room walked into the room with a new telegram: "Long live the head of state! The Marshal, the Air Force has heard that Norway was attacked by Allied bombers taken off in Iceland, and suffered heavy losses."

"What?" Lundstedt was stunned, then took the message and read it carefully. He saw the losses and the results of the Air Force's counterattack against Iceland. After a while, he closed the document and fell into thinking.

Just now, he was thinking about personnel appointments and balancing forces in his mind. But his enemy reminded him at this moment: the war is far from over and Germany has not yet reached the end of victory. Now is not the time to divide the fruits of victory, because the enemy still has the ability to defeat the entire Third Reich.
Chapter completed!