The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Hearing Tukhachevsky's words, Colonel Mainz was somewhat speechless.

Tsarist Russia was indeed very large, and after hundreds of years of expansion, Tsarist Russia successfully built a huge empire across the Eurasian continent, driven by the fanaticism of the woolly bear people for the perversion of the land.

At its peak, the empire covered more than 25 million square kilometers, like a furry bear lying on the top of the Eurasian continent, and the nickname of the furry bear spread around the world.

Compared with Tsarist Russia, the Second Empire, with an area of only more than 500,000 square kilometers, was like a small point, and this small point lost more than 90,000 square kilometers of land after the First World War, and the area was further reduced.

Tukhachevsky's words speak of the arrogance of great-power chauvinism, but Mainz is not offended.

Although the other party seems a little arrogant and even proud, he does have this proud capital, and compared with the huge Tsarist Russia, Europe does seem a little small.

"The battlefields of the First World War in Europe were mainly concentrated on the borders of your country with Gaul and the Billish countries, and the border between Italy and Gaul in the south was located in the southern foothills of the Alps, which was not suitable for large-scale battles, so the battlefield of the First World War was quite small!"

Tukhachevsky further explained, "Unlike our country, in addition to the Great Plain of Eastern Europe, we have battlefields in places such as the Great Plain of Siberia and the Caucasus Mountains, and these battles span almost the entire empire, and the length of the battle line is thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers. "

Mainz nodded, he certainly knew what that meant.

The layman's understanding of war is probably all kinds of aircraft, tanks, artillery, warships, and the like, but for those who really know how to do it, war is actually mainly about logistics, and logistics depends on a country's advanced system and strong comprehensive strength.

It is precisely because of this that many people think that the war is fought by national strength.

Of course, this point of view cannot be wrong, but it is somewhat inaccurate, national strength is of course important for war, and it is very important, but accidental factors in war can not be ignored either, an accidental factor is very likely to change a battle, and a battle will determine a battle, the success or failure of a battle will determine the victory or defeat of the war, this kind of complex thing can not be explained by fighting national strength.

The reason why famous generals can go down in history and make future generations talk about it is because a decision they made in battle, or even a good idea in a flash of inspiration, may directly determine the outcome of the entire war

However, since the outbreak of the Civil War in Eagle Sauce, the wars in the world have gradually developed in the direction of general warfare, in which the national strength of each country has become a decisive force, and the influence of the generals' flash of inspiration on the war has begun to weaken, and it no longer has the decisive role as before.

However, even in this case, there are still many famous generals who were decisive in World War II, which shows that the importance of generals in the war is still prominent!

Waging a war across thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers is a completely different concept from the requirement of only a few hundred kilometers.

After all, the tactics of the armies of various countries must be as close as possible to their own actual conditions

"So, General Tukhachevsky, what do you think the war is like in Europe?".

Mainz didn't ask about the Woolly Bear's civil war, which made Tukhachevsky's favorability of him much better.

After all, as the commander of a group army, it is really inconvenient for him to divulge his country's military secrets to foreign personnel.

But there are no scruples about the war in Europe, and from the perspective of a bystander, Tukhachevsky's approach to the problem is noticeably more novel without involving vital interests.

"I think that the war in Europe has gone out of the original category of war, and has become a meaningless meat grinder war, such a war has rendered the previous tactics ineffective, and under the small terrain and dense population of Europe, trench warfare is almost the best choice for all countries, and it is also the worst option, because it destroys creativity and puts all countries under the same pattern!"

Tukhachevsky's expression was very serious, and he himself couldn't help frowning when he said this.

"I think that if we can't find a way to crack the trench warfare, the future war in Europe will directly turn into a simple war of manpower and artillery caliber!"

Tukhachevsky naturally experienced the hardships of trench warfare, and it was precisely because he had experienced it that he hated such a war, and any normal person, as long as he was damp or even muddy, full of rats and dead corpses, and from time to time had to be coldly shot by enemy snipers, and had to face the conscious strafing of enemy machine guns and mortar strikes against the trenches for a year or two, this person would probably have a nervous breakdown!

Tukhachevsky couldn't help but feel a little gloating about the possibility that Europeans would fall into such a quagmire of war in the future, of course, such emotions were not suitable for a German officer, it would be too impolite.

Mainz's expression was originally very serious, but after hearing Tukhachevsky's words, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

This guy has not yet found a way to crack trench warfare, at least for the time being, and his thinking seems to be limited to how to crack trench warfare, and does not involve new tactics to replace trench warfare, which makes Colonel Mainz breathe a sigh of relief.

If this guy had come up with a new tactic to solve trench warfare based on tanks right now, he would have been surprised!

Tukhachevsky's use of cavalry tactics was actually quite good, and fighting in the vast territory of the woolly bear, if there were no cavalry, it would certainly not work.

Therefore, among the senior generals of the Soviet army, people with cavalry experience accounted for the majority.

However, Tukhachevsky did not think of using the speed advantage of cavalry tactics to crack trench warfare, because this tactic was used by the British army in the Battle of the Somme, those British cavalry with the glorious tradition of knights, bravely rushed to the German position, under the German machine-gun fire and artillery bombardment, all were torn to pieces, the British army with 60,000 heavy casualties, set up a negative teaching material for future generations, telling them what the consequences would be if they used cavalry to assault the trenches! !

It was precisely because of this terrible consequence that Tukhachevsky did not think at all about using cavalry to solve trench warfare.

This is not because Tukhachevsky is incompetent, but because the Russian army, which lacks experience in the use of tanks and armored vehicles, cannot accumulate combat experience with such weapons and equipment without them.

Thinking of this, Colonel Mainz wiped his sweat, it seems that the previously envisaged cooperation with the Furry Bears on tanks can be terminated, no matter what, the Woolly Bears can't be allowed to get the tank so easily, at least not from Hans's hands!