The Third Reich: The Return of the King

The Italians rushed out of their country, thinking that it would be a light and pleasant march, but they did not expect that just as they crossed the Alps and were about to enter Odili to harvest the land, they ran into an impregnable line of defense!

Mainz did not have a lot of troops in his hands, so he only gave Moder 10,000 troops.

Moreover, most of these 10,000 people are not German troops, but Odilli troops, so Moder has to train and integrate these soldiers while fighting, and gradually transform them into regular German troops, which is extremely difficult to complete in a short time, but Moder did not complain at all that he was tired, on the contrary, he was still enthusiastic and gladly accepted this task!

As for Moder, he had never led his own troops to fight alone before this, so he was very eager to lead troops to fight.

The position of regimental staff officer provided Moder with a lot of work experience in combat planning, which made his strategic vision surpass that of other generals of the same age at this time.

Moder in 1919, if not as strong as in 1942, was at least half as strong as it was later.

On the other hand, although they have an advantage in strength, they are paralyzed and careless before the war, and they underestimate the enemy's strength too much, so that there is a serious psychology of underestimating the enemy.

As in this military campaign, the ambition of the Italians was to devour the Odili region, especially the large area bordering the northeastern part of the country, so that the Itali would be able to monopolize the Alps and turn it into a commanding height in their own country.

And with this commanding height, they will never have to worry about being invaded by foreign enemies in the future!

On the other hand, when they were condescending, the whole of Europe was within their reach, and the fantastical desire to recreate the glory of the Roman Empire could become a reality!

The dream of the Italians is quite good, but it completely ignores the reality that the Alps can be the commanding heights overlooking the whole of Europe, but the Italians who march from the Italian mainland to Odili are themselves in the disadvantageous position of being overlooked by the Odili people on the top of the mountain!

They knew that occupying the commanding heights would make it more convenient to attack the enemy, but they didn't think about what kind of pain they would suffer after the enemy occupied the commanding heights!

Moder was one step ahead of the Italians and went to the battlefield, and after a field trip, he immediately began to devise tactics.

In 194, on the Soviet-German battlefield, because of the battle of Mosco, the German army began to fall into fatigue, and the relieved Soviet army began to attack the German army frequently, and during this time, the German army developed a new defensive tactic, that is, elastic defense.

The details of this tactic: Taking advantage of the high mobility characteristics of the German army's armored units and motorized troops, we have changed the previous tactics of placing troops in the front line to defend to the death, and concentrated the troops, and only a small number of troops were deployed on the front line, and then flexibly responded according to the enemy's offensive direction.

This tactic is a positive strategy of mobile warfare in a defensive form, and it makes full use of the space and time factors of the battlefield; once the enemy's attack focus is discovered, it immediately directs the troops to quickly maneuver and concentrate troops; during the offensive, it also uses the armored units as an assault group, taking advantage of the enemy's indecision and confusion, risking the danger of exposing the flanks and rear, boldly interspersing and detouring, attacking the enemy's flanks and rear, and thus disintegrating the enemy's entire defense.

The main reason why this kind of defense will catch the enemy off guard is that those who are on the defensive side should only be able to defend passively, while the attacker can safely and boldly put all their forces into the attack when they have no worries.

But the elastic defense has changed this situation, the German army in a defensive state can still launch a counteroffensive, and if it does not move, it is enough to gather superior forces to hit the back of the Soviet army, once the Soviet army's flank defense line is penetrated, the Soviet army on the front line will easily fall into the enemy's encirclement!

Since June 22, 1941, the Soviet army has been surrounded by the German army countless times in the war, and once it is surrounded, the Soviet army caught in the encirclement is basically more than lucky, except for a small number of Soviet troops during the Battle of Jifu who retreated proudly, the Soviet army in other encirclement battles was almost completely annihilated!

Therefore, after seeing the counterattack of the German army, the Soviet army immediately panicked, and did not dare to continue the offensive at all, so it could only immediately shrink its forces to strengthen the defense of the flanks, and in this process, the large-scale transfer of Soviet troops will expose a large number of loopholes, and once this loophole is caught, the Soviet army will suffer heavy casualties!

In the Battle of Mars, in the face of the attack of the 2 million elite woolly bear army led by Zhukov, the most famous general of the woolly bear, Moder not only thwarted the enemy's counterattack, but also caused heavy casualties of up to 500,000 to the Soviet army with the absolute inferior force of 250,000 in his hands.

The victory of the Battle of Mars gave the German army a new life for the German army, which was already in a disadvantageous situation on the battlefield, which gave the Führer the opportunity to launch the Battle of Stalingrad, but the Battle of Stalingrad, which gathered a large number of elite troops and a large amount of materials and the expectations of the people of the whole country, ended in the defeat of the German army, and the surrender of General Paulus, the commander of the Sixth Army, made the German army even more demoralized!

The reason why this battle is called the turning point of World War II is because after this battle, the German army was no longer able to launch such a large-scale active offensive as the Battle of Stalingrad, and even if the subsequent Battle of Kursk was extremely fierce, its scale was far less magnificent than the Battle of Stalingrad!

The passive situation on the battlefield made the defensive Moder begin to become famous, and his reputation as a defensive master also became famous after constantly thwarting the Soviet army's attacks.

In 1919, Moder, who had not yet proven his abilities on the battlefield and had not yet won the title of Imperial Shield, looked extremely young, but when facing the paralyzing and careless Italian army, the young German captain's eyes lit up, and he was ready to show his strength and talent in this war!

And the Italian people will be an excellent stepping stone for him!_

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