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Text 103. Waiting

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    After months of careful preparation, the time was finally ripe for the large-scale strategic counterattack planned by Zhukov and Vasilevsky.  The German 6th Army under the command of Paulus lost all its vigor in Zhuyashvili on the Volga River, and gradually showed that it was at the end of its war effort and weak in follow-up.

    In fact, starting in November, there were more and more signs that the Soviet army was about to launch a large-scale counterattack in Zhuyashviligrad. Russia¡¯s large-scale military mobilization of more than one million people could not be done without success.  "Trace" "Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!"  Hitler's "purge" of the General Staff strengthened his control over the Army, but it also led to the General Staff's lack of judgment and inefficiency. A large number of outstanding army generals who dared to challenge Hitler were dismissed from their posts.  What remains is a large number of yes-men who obey Hitler's orders.

    In fact, at the end of October, Hitler received various reports that Soviet troops were massing in the Zhuyashviligrad area. He also recognized the dangers posed by the lack of protection on the flanks of the 6th Army, but he wishfully believed that in Zhuyashviligrad  The Soviet troops in Viligrad were mobilized for defense or to cooperate with the offensive in Erzhev.  He did not believe that the Soviets had the ability and courage to launch a large-scale counterattack.

    With the exception of General Zeitzler, the new Chief of General Staff, Hitler has become more stubborn since 1942 and began to doubt the judgment and courage of his army generals.  After Field Marshal Halder resigned, Hitler carefully selected General Zeitzler to replace Halder as Chief of General Staff, overcoming a group of army generals with more seniority than him.  Hitler hoped that he would be promoted to chief of general staff because of his unusual circumstances.  Making him the youngest general in the army, Zeitzler would be grateful to him and obey him.

    Hitler was increasingly unable to listen to the advice of his subordinates, and even hated other people's different opinions. This also caused him to make errors in analysis and judgment, and thus made a series of wrong decisions, which led to the collapse of the entire German army.

    When the Soviet army began a large-scale counterattack, Paulus, who was preparing to retreat from Zhuyashviligrad, unexpectedly received an order from Hitler, requiring him to stay in Zhuyashviligrad and the areas along the Volga River. Hitler hoped to reappear  The miracle of turning the tide after losing in Moscow last year and turning defeat into victory.  But this time his wrong decision ruined the most elite unit of the German army.  The 6th Army has 320,000 troops.

    Hitler appointed Marshal Manstein, who had outstanding performance in the Eastern Front, as the commander of the newly formed Don Army to rescue the 6th Army besieged in Stalingrad.

    "Dear Head of State, we need to ask for help from the Chinese and Italians. Marshal Manstein does not have enough troops. It is impossible to break through the enemy's encirclement. The Ruguo 6th Army is stuck on the Volga River line. It will inevitably be annihilated.  Sex Blow!" in the war room of Wolf's Lair.  Zeitzler continued to talk to Hitler about the need to ask for help from the Allied countries, and repeatedly tried to persuade Hitler to order the Paulus Group to break out in the direction of Manstein's reinforcements.

    "We must not consider retreating, ruguo, we leave there. We will never go back!" Hitler Tur¨¢n was furious without warning, "You should be very happy, once we retreat, don't even think about going back there. All our efforts this summer have been lost."  In vain, the lives of hundreds of thousands of heroic German soldiers were sacrificed in vain! We will not leave the Volga River for a step, nor bow to the Chinese!"

    Zeitzler was stunned. He didn't understand why the head of state was so angry.

    There was a reason for Hitler's f¨¨nnu. In fact, after returning to the "Wolf's Lair", he realized the danger of the war situation on the Eastern Front. He immediately called Ribbentrop and asked the Foreign Minister to meet with the Chinese representative and asked the Republican Army to cross  The Ural River attacks Soviet Russia.

    The Ambassador to Germany, General Yang Jie, rejected the German request without hesitation. The Republic's excuse was that the Republican Army could not violate the neutrality treaty and cross the territory of Siberia, Kazakhstan and the Khiva Khanate to attack Soviet Russia.  And it was proposed that only if Germany accepts the Republic's proposal to cease war with Soviet Russia, can China provide necessary assistance and even military support to Germany.

    The Republic took the opportunity to threaten, intending to force Hitler to bow his head. This was the main reason why the F¨¹hrer was particularly frustrated. Just now, Zeitzler proposed asking China for help, which made Hitler furious.  The "best" Aryan nation in the world has been reduced to the point where it has to seek help from the "inferior people" in the East, no, never!

    "Contrary to the German generals on the Russian front who were worried about the situation on the Eastern Front, at this time in Alexandria, Egypt, Zhang Yi'an, who had just been promoted to Army General, was much more leisurely.  In order to provide support to the German army at any time, the 3rd, 9th, 13th, 18th, 32nd, 37th, 38th and 54th Army Groups of the Republican Army, which were mobilized from the Northeast and Northwest theaters, gradually began to arrive in the Mediterranean.? area.  Among them, the 9th, 13th and 32nd armies that were preparing to participate in the war were resting in Greece and Italy respectively, while a large number of military supplies were mainly concentrated in Alexandria and Port Said.

    After receiving the news that more than 300,000 people of the German 6th Army were besieged in Zhuyashviligrad, General Zhang Yi'an thought that his troops would soon be sent to the front line.  His mood was not very calm. According to the plan, he would become the first Eastern general to lead an army on European territory after the Mongolian cavalry, hundreds of years apart.

    This symbolizes that after hundreds of years of white rule, the Chinese nation, which represents Asian civilization, has risen again and once again stands at the top of the world.  This will definitely become a scene that will be recorded in history, and he will become one of the main characters in this moment, enough to make him famous in history.

    However, more than a month has passed, and as the New Year is approaching, there is no intention of taking action in the country.  According to notification from the General Staff, the entire campaign plan was postponed until after the spring of 1943.

    "Damn it, what is Hitler thinking about? Even if we start taking action now, we still won't be able to rescue the besieged 6th Army. Does he want Germany to perish?" At the Ukrainian Front Army Headquarters at the port, Zhang Yi'an asked almost every day  I ran to the war room and studied the Russian battlefield situation with the staff.

    Manstein's rescue operation failed completely. Paulus's more than 300,000 men were besieged by more than 1.2 million Soviet troops. They lacked supplies and would soon be wiped out.  But at this time, Hitler still did not accept the conditions proposed by the Republic, and thus watched Paulus's troops struggling in a desperate situation, but there was nothing they could do.

    "The Germans don't want us to interfere in European affairs, so why should we be troublesome? Our soldiers are going to bleed for the Germans for no reason. The Germans refuse to give in. I believe that the country would rather watch them fail than  Will lend a helping hand!" His chief of staff Yue Chengzong stood beside him and said leisurely: "Before arriving in Germany, I always thought they were very strong, but the actual situation is very disappointing. The Germans are known as the only ones in the world.  The third largest industrial country after us and the United States, but in fact their military manufacturing capabilities are not even as good as the Russians. Taking tank manufacturing as an example, Germany only produces more than 3,000 tanks per year, which cannot make up for the losses on the front line.  , while Russia can produce 23,000 tanks and 30,000 aircraft every year. Although a considerable part of this comes from the assistance of the United States, from this aspect, the Germans will undoubtedly lose."

    Yue Chengzong has worked as an embassy attach¨¦ and armored adviser in Germany for more than three years. He has a very in-depth study of German issues. German industrial production is ruled by a group of Nazi bureaucrats who do not understand management at all. Its production chaos is simply unreasonable.  G?ring, who was in charge of industrial production, ignored the needs of the army and navy and always gave priority to supplying materials to the air force. There was an endless supply of materials for manufacturing aircraft, but the supply of raw materials for tanks that the army urgently needed was often interrupted.  The Germans produce more than 30 million tons of steel per year, but their armored equipment production is equivalent to Italy, which only produces 3 million tons of steel per year.

    The bureaucracy and inefficiency under a high degree of centralization have been fully reflected in Germany. Because top Nazis, including Hitler, often intervened in military production and issued unrealistic instructions from time to time, this made the originally fragile German military production even more difficult.  Adding insult to injury.

    If the Germans don¡¯t change this situation, they will become weaker and weaker.  (To be continued.)
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