Since the general plan for the attack has been determined, the rest is the matter of the General Staff of the Army and various armies. Akado hopes to understand the specific matters of the attack on Stalingrad, after all, this is the basis for the subsequent Battle of Kursk and Baku.

"Our army has crossed the Karitva River on the front. Because the bridge is well preserved, our army's crossing speed is not slow." Guderian reported to Akado about the location of his attack on the G Army: "Although the Soviet defenders were closely guarded, our army still quickly captured the Chil River and occupied a large area in the northern part of Rostov Prefecture."

He pointed to a vast area on the map, then looked at Bolauchic and other generals, and spoke: "The important towns on the Chil River, Bokovskaya and Sovietskaya have been controlled by our army. Our vanguard troops have arrived. "Almost Surovikino, the Soviet army has resisted step by step, but did not invest any decent troops."

The main force of the German army, G Army, was advancing towards the Don River, and was advancing in a devastating manner. The carefully arranged defensive positions of the Soviet army were easily crossed by German special forces and paratroopers, which instantly caught the Soviet commanders and troops off guard. They had no way to stop the collapse of the front line, nor could they organize an effective counterattack when the German army advanced rapidly.

Rokosovsky is worthy of being a famous Soviet general. While ordering his two armored divisions to retreat to Karachi, he increased his troops along the Don River, hoping to use the wider Don River to defend the German attack. Surovikino was already within the scope of his abandonment and was abandoned neatly.

Although the supply conditions of the German army on the southern line were better than those of the central cluster, it was only better. In fact, Guderian only had a transportation trunk line, which was connected from Donetsk to Surovikino in one breath. Because the German army ensured the smooth flow of this transportation line during the attack, it was able to use railways to ensure the transportation of materials of the front-line troops when mud came.

Guderian pointed to this important and fragile transportation line with his finger and said to Akado: "My head of state, at present, there is no problem with transportation. Within three days, our army will raid Karachi under the cover of the air force and break through the Don defense line of the Soviet defenders."

In fact, because of careful preparation and because Manstein's troops were better at fighting under the conditions of dense water nets, Manstein's troops have now captured various important strongholds along the Don River. He first led his army to capture Batsque, which gave the Soviet army that defended the Caucasus a heavy blow. Then he did not rush to go south, but went east and ate many areas with serious shortages of Soviet defenders.

First, he set out from Aksai and captured the important cities along the Don River, Bagaevsky, Semikalayersky, Konstantinovsk, Ustidonetsky. The 13th Armored Army, the main force under Manstein, had threatened Volgadonsk and Zimryonsk.

The Manstein Army, who was heading south, was unstoppable all the way, and successively captured Azov, an important port near the Sea of ​​Azov, and then captured another port, Yesk, controlling all areas of the Yeya River Basin. The southernmost troops had already entered Salisk, completely disrupting the Soviet army's strategic deployment near the Caucasus.

Before the meeting began, the M Group Army, which had not stopped, launched an attack on Voshoud, and after more than an hour of fierce fighting, it occupied the place. The Soviet army defeated south to Yujine, and as a result, the German grenadiers followed. At this moment, the German army had occupied Yujine, and without wasting a shot and shot, they took down the Great Orlovka and the Great Martnovka.

The Soviet Red Flag Black Sea Fleet had almost no place to live. If the German army continued to move south and could not stop these Soviet combat ships deployed in the Black Sea would be made by the German army on the land, and they would not escape the final destruction.

After Guderian finished all the offensive plans of the G Army and sat back on his chair, Manstein stood up and briefly talked about his troops' offensive plans. He walked to the front of the map and pointed to the Kerchi Strait and said: "My head of state, the next offensive plan of the M Army will be to open the Kerchi Strait to shorten the supply line of our army. Once the sea rapid line of the Kerchi Strait is opened, my army will shorten the supply line by hundreds of kilometers, which will make the next action plan easier to unfold."

Then his hand drew east along the Kerch Strait and continued: "Our army will occupy the Krasnodar Krai fully, and then sweep the entire Caucasus along central Georgia. Finally, it will start attacking Baku and complete the entire Caucasus strategic battle."

The railway line entering the Caucasus crossed the entire Georgia from the middle and was an important supply line running through the Caucasus. Manstein had studied countless methods of occupying Baku, and as a result, a rapid attack along the railway line became his preferred method.

There are two routes, one is to walk along the north and then head south, and the other is to enter Georgia, cross the entire area and then attack Baku. Because of its sufficient troops, Manstein adopted a two-pronged attack method to advance in unison.

This arrangement is based on the fact that the German army has strong military strength and combat quality are significantly higher than that of the Soviet army. Manstein's M-group Army has more than 400,000 troops, and 70% are veterans who fought the Battle of the Crim Peninsula. He believes that these troops can defeat more than his own Soviet army, and the intelligence department also supports his views.

The Soviet army had a total of 330,000 troops in the southern Caucasus, which was not as strong as the troops under Manstein. Most of these troops were recruits, and more than half of them had not fired guns. What was even more desperate was that almost 100,000 of these troops were deployed along the Kerch Strait in order to prevent the German army from landing from Kerch.

Then there are no more than 250,000 Soviet troops standing in front of Manstein, which can be said to be no match for the German M Army. No matter which Soviet army is in any way, it is a fantasy to stop the attack of almost 200,000 German troops. Of course, in fact, the Soviet army still has an elite reinforcement force, and the German army was not aware of it at this time.

"Although our army's attack speed is very fast, the Caucasus region is too big. What I am worried about is that even if the Soviet army cannot defend the Caucasus, it will have time to destroy the oil depot and destroy the oil production equipment." Manstein pointed to the distant Baku and said: "I think if I want to supplement the domestic crude oil consumption, at least we must start preparing emergency repair personnel and equipment from now on."

"People and equipment have started preparations a few months ago. In fact, you were still in Krim at that time, and Guderian was still in Ukraine." Akado glanced at Manstein and said in a gentle tone: "This emergency repair unit can be drawn at any time, with more than 3,000 people and many large equipment. If the railway line is not problematic and the Baku oil field is not completely damaged, then we are confident that it will be repaired within half a year to a year."

"My head of state, at such a long distance, I really can't guarantee anything. I can only say that if I were Rokosovsky, then as long as my troops had a forward crossing Yevrah, I would order the bombing of the Baku oil field." Manstein said helplessly: "As long as I have some shells and **, I can destroy the entire Baku in a few days. At that time, my troops could only advance to the Ujare area as soon as possible."

"I don't know what changes will happen in the actual situation. I just want to ask, if, I mean, if, when your troops advance to Yevrah, paratroopers near Baku and occupy Baku, can we better change the situation and reduce the losses of the oil field?" Akado looked at the map, then wrapped his hands in front of his chest, as if he was considering something.

"Improve it, relying solely on paratroopers and even special forces and helicopters, raiding Baku is impossible. If it is an assault and destruction, then the Air Force can do it, but occupying and protecting is not the paratrooper's strength." Air Force General Catherine, who was sitting next to him, said: "General Student's troops will be wiped out, and the Baku oil fields will be turned into ruins by war. This is not the ending we hope to see."

"Even if the paratroopers were successfully airborne, I did not have the strength to attack continuously. They pushed the infantry to Baku within two days and let the paratroopers stand alone behind the enemy for a week... I think you can know what this means, Head of State." Manstein also persuaded.

Akado nodded. He did develop a large number of ultra-modern troops for the German army and also developed and enlightened many new combat ideas. However, he could not change the limitations of technology in this era to war, nor could he force a certain army to do things that are not good at.

If the paratroopers are thrown into a certain area and simply defend for a few days or even more than ten days, Student may be able to do so regardless of the losses, but even if it is done, the area will become a ruin during the battle between his paratroopers and the enemy. This is the inevitable result of the paratroopers holding their positions. They will destroy the city into ruins and then leave nowhere in the ruins.
Chapter completed!