The decisive battle against the Third Reich

Early the next morning, a jeep was waiting outside Qinchuan's dormitory.

What surprised Qin Chuan was that the staff officer who came to pick him up did not ask anyone to wake Qin Chuan up. Instead, he waited until Qin Chuan woke up. While he was eating millet porridge and roasted potatoes, the staff officer followed the guidance of the guard. Entered the dormitory.

"Major!" The staff officer's rank was also a major, but he still saluted Qin Chuan and said respectfully: "General Paulus asked you to come to the headquarters!"

Qin Chuan took two sips of porridge, gnawed some potatoes, took the equipment next to him, and asked casually: "Have you been waiting for a long time?"

"Two hours, Major!" the staff officer replied.

Qin Chuan turned around in shock when he heard this: "Why didn't you wake me up?"

"General Paulus has given special instructions!" the staff officer replied: "The most urgent moment has passed, and we should not disturb your rest for irrelevant meetings!"

Qin Chuan shrugged, he seemed to be used to all this.

The itinerary was the same as before, first to the airport, and then take a plane to Karachi... Because the German army had occupied Stalingrad, Paulus moved his headquarters to Karachi.

The advantage of this is that you are almost at the headquarters as soon as you get off the plane.

What surprised Qin Chuan was that as soon as Qin Chuan walked into the headquarters, he saw a familiar figure... Rommel.

"General!" Qin Chuan stood up and saluted in front of Rommel.

"Oh, our hero!" Rommel looked up and saw Qin Chuan and laughed: "We were talking about you just now. What a beautiful battle, Major! Although I know you will give us an unexpected surprise. We were mentally prepared, but you still gave us a surprise!”

The generals burst into laughter.

Alexander served Qin Chuan a glass of wine, held Qin Chuan's hand and said, "Congratulations, Major! You succeeded!"

Paulus raised his glass and shouted around: "For our heroes, for the legendary staff sergeant, for Stalingrad!"

"For Stalingrad!" the generals raised their glasses and cheered.

"Generals!" Paulus continued: "Although this is not surprising, we have already won Stalingrad. However, we all know that the battle is far from ending so quickly..."

"We know!" Rommel continued: "We should be shivering in Siberia by the end of the battle!"

The generals burst into laughter again.

"Many people thought that this battle would be the same as Moscow!" Paulus said: "This may be because of the shadow left by the previous attack on Moscow, or because of the Soviets' tenacious resistance in Stalingrad, and more importantly, the winter It is approaching us step by step but there is no progress in the war, but thank God, we have proved to the world with facts that we have done it, this is not another Moscow, this is Stalingrad, and we will turn Moscow into! Stalingrad!"

"Hey!" the generals cheered again.

After everything calmed down, Qin Chuan suggested to the map: "General, I wonder if you have noticed that our defense line is too weak? For example, the left wing of the Don River defense line and the right wing of the Volga River defense line. I noticed them All defended by Romanian and Italian troops!”

Qinchuan said this because the Soviet army launched a counterattack from these locations after the river froze in winter.

Although the German army has now won the Battle of Stalingrad, these weak wings have not changed. In other words, the Soviet Union can still make a breakthrough from these two wings.

"Of course!" Paulus replied: "But you don't have to worry about that, Major. We have already made up for the gaps!"

"Yes!" Rommel responded: "Otherwise what do you think we are doing here, Major?"

Hearing this, Qin Chuan's worried heart was half relieved, because from Rommel's tone, this defense was deployed by Rommel... Qin Chuan had seen Rommel's skills in Africa. He was not only good at attacking but also Good at defense, especially Rommel's mobile defense.

Qinchuan's guess was correct. The defense was indeed deployed by Rommel, and it was a mobile defense... The Don River Defense Line and the Volga River Defense Line were lines of defense that were very suitable for mobile defense, or it could be said to be suitable for the German army.

On the one hand, the reason is that the German army is insufficient in strength.

As mentioned before, insufficient troops can be supplemented by mobility and quality. Just like firefighters, arrange these mobile troops on the second line. Wherever they are attacked by the enemy or broken through, they can launch a counterattack and defeat the enemy. After returning, go back to the second line and prepare to attack, so this mobile force is everywhere within a certain range. It is almost like making several copies of it and placing them on the defense line.

On the other hand, the German army had full control of the air on the Eastern Front.

This is the basis of mobile defense... If there is no air superiority, enemy fighter planes will conduct reconnaissance on the mobile department at any time and blockade it with bombers and fighter jets, or cooperate with artillery to block it. This will definitely limit the mobile force.

But the German army does not have to worry about this at all. It is simply a waste not to use mobile defense when they have control of the air.

To this end, Rommel and Paulus also formulated a series of plans, such as troop deployment points, road maintenance, and the impact of winter on roads and tanks.

In these aspects, the German army should be said to be very experienced. As long as they have time to prepare, they will naturally know what to prepare.

"And reinforcements will be sent to us from Berlin!" Paulus added: "The head of state is very satisfied with our victory. And..."

Paulus pointed to the map and said: "Going north from Stalingrad, Army Group South and Army Group Center will form a pincer attack on Moscow. The Supreme Command believes that we need more troops as the main offensive force!"

Qin Chuan nodded.

This idea is indeed feasible. If the two German army groups advance towards Moscow at the same time...then Moscow will be really in danger.

Even if this is not possible, Army Group South has Rommel organizing mobile defenses, and there are also supplementary troops from Berlin... Qinchuan thought that this way, there should be no need to worry about the German army being defeated like in history.

However, Qin Chuan had a vague feeling that the situation would not be so smooth.

"Major!" Alexander noticed the worried look on Qin Chuan's face and asked, "Do you think there is a problem with this deployment?"

"No, I don't think there is any problem!" Qin Chuan replied: "It's just... I believe the Soviets won't sit back and wait for death like this!"

"So what do you think the Soviets will do?" Alexander asked.

"I don't know, Colonel!" Qin Chuan replied: "I don't know!"