The Third Reich: The Return of the King

In response to this shocking news in Eastern Europe, Mainz's first reaction after hearing it was disbelief.

During World War I, it was unreliable to surround 100,000 enemies on a large plain without such a highly mobile unit as the Panzer Army!

So, he gathered all the main generals of the German army and discussed the situation of the first battle of Jifu.

For the German army, this time the Battle of Jifu is a rare object of learning and reference!

After all, compared to the battles of the First World War, which were confined to a small area, such as the current Battle of Jifu, a large-scale battle covering hundreds of kilometers and involving millions of square kilometers is the real situation of the future world war.

And the Germans lacked the experience of such a big war!

"Do you think the Entente's military operation will succeed this time?"

The information obtained by Mainz is that the Entente has not sent a large number of troops, about 25-350,000 troops from the sunset, 15-250,000 troops from the Gauls, 10-200,000 people from Eagle Sauce, and if you count the three Baltic countries plus Pineapple and other countries, the size of the Entente's intervention army is about 1.20-1.6 million.

According to the information provided by the agents who infiltrated the woolly bear, the size of the woolly bear's combat force at this time has expanded to 4.5 million people!

If Mao Xiong had thrown all his troops on the Western Front against the Entente interventionists, they might have a chance to defeat the Entente forces.

However, at this time, the threat posed by the Entente intervention forces was far less great than that posed by the remaining White armies at home.

Although the intervention forces of the Entente are menacing, they are still far away in Eastern Europe after all, and they are still far away from the core areas such as the capital of the woolly bear, and they cannot threaten the capital of the woolly bear in a short time!

Moreover, the armies of the Entente countries were all regular armies, and they needed perfect support and logistics to operate.

This makes them enter the territory of Mao Xiong, because the logistics supply line is very long, which makes it very difficult to supply logistics, so their offensive speed has dropped very much, and the Entente has sent troops for almost a year, and now they have only hit Jifu and other places, which is still far from Mosco!

Moreover, these Allied armies are foreign intervention forces, and it is difficult to get the support of the woolly bears in the occupied areas, which makes the red hairy bears not too worried about anything!

And what about the White Army?

The White Army is the bear's own people, they are the same species as the red bear, and they are inside the bear, as long as the bear relaxes its blow to them, they can quickly pull up an army from the local area to fight the bear.

This makes the hairy bear have to pay attention to these guys, because as long as they are left alone, they will grow rapidly, and then bring more threats to the hairy bear!

If you go outside, you must first settle inside, at least at this time, that's what the hairy bear thinks in his heart!

As a result, Mao Xiong spent 70 of his 4.5 million troops on the domestic battlefield against the scattered White Army.

The remaining 30% was used against the Entente intervention forces, which numbered about 1.4 million men.

At this time, the Soviet army was surrounded by 1.2 million people by the Entente on the Great Plain of Eastern Europe, which was basically equal to their entire strength against the Entente intervention army!

Therefore, as long as the Entente eats this one, then the western gate of the woolly bear will be completely opened, and under the internal and external attacks, the probability of the woolly bear destroying the country is extremely great!

"I don't think it's likely!"

Manstein studied it carefully and made his own judgment.

During this period of time, after Manshi was transferred to the General Staff, his progress was very fast, and he began to gradually stand out from many generals, at this time he was the first to speak, and everyone immediately brought him into his role, and began to think along his train of thought.

"Why?"

Mainz was pleasantly surprised by his brother's progress, but did not give him any special treatment because of this.

On the contrary, it is precisely because we know how strong Manstein is in history, so Mainz's attitude towards Manstein is particularly harsh!

He hopes that Manstein can surpass him in history, change his bad mistakes, and make himself stronger!

The German army needs a strong general, the empire needs a strong marshal, and Manstein is undoubtedly the one who was born for this!

Mainz's sternness made Manstein feel Alexander, although the other party was his own brother, ten years younger than himself, but I don't know why, in front of Mainz, Manstein always felt that he was inferior to him, and the deeper the contact, the bigger the gap between the two, Mainz was far more powerful than he looked!

With this awe, Manstein did not have any conceit as he did in history, and he was tirelessly seeking new knowledge, hoping to arm himself with it and catch up with his brother as soon as possible!

Faced with Mainz's question, Manstein thought for a moment, took the baton, walked to the front of the large map hanging in front of everyone, pointed to a position with the baton, and said to everyone: "The reason is here, if the Entente army can't occupy this place before January, I think this Soviet army will definitely break through and succeed!"

Following the direction of Manstein's baton, everyone saw a name on the map - Kursk!

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At this time, thousands of kilometers away, in the territory of the woolly bear, Tukhachevsky, who was in danger, did not know that someone in Hans wanted to go with him!

At this time, Tukhachevsky was very anxious, he rode on his horse, looked at the army marching in the mud with difficulty, and his heart was very anxious!

The four seasons of the woolly bear are very distinct, the winter is cold to death, the summer is hot to death, and autumn and spring are long rainy seasons!

In 1920, the woolly bear encountered a warm winter, the winter came very late, and the autumn went very late, which made the rainy season of the woolly bear extended by more than a month!

This was an extra month of rainy season than planned, which not only completely disrupted the Soviet army's battle plan, but also made the Soviet army on the Western Front trapped in the eastern part of Ermao Country in the Great Plain of Eastern Europe for a long time due to limited mobility and extremely difficult logistical supply!

Although the rainy season has also brought adverse effects to the people of the Allied countries, their logistics support system is far from being comparable to the Soviet army, and the Allied armies, who have rich combat experience, have already stockpiled war materials in advance, and they can also transport supplies from Pineapple and other places by sea and rail.

As a result, the Soviet army, which lost its mobility and lacked supplies, was seized by the Entente troops to make a dumpling because it had not been mobilized for a long time!

A full 1.2 million troops were surrounded, and this news directly shook the entire woolly bear!

After the crushing defeat of Budyonny's army, the woolly bear was already on the defensive strategically, and if the entire 1.2 million men of the entire Western Front army were eaten at this time, the woolly bear would collapse!

Even if there are more than 300,000 troops in the country, but in the face of the dilemma of leaking wind everywhere, these troops may not help!

Therefore, after urgent consultations within the Mao Bear, it was decided to let Tukhachevsky lead the First and Third Armies to rush south to aid the Western Front Corps!

In any case, they cannot sit idly by and watch the legions of the Western Front be eaten and leave it alone!

In the face of this extremely arduous crisis, which is even directly related to the life and death of the woolly bear, Tukhachevsky is unusually calm!

He found a loophole in the Entente defense line, which is Kursk in the Orel region, which is one of the few hilly areas in the southern region, and by taking here, they can rely on the terrain to form a natural defense line to block the enemy, and tear through the enemy's defense line, so that the Soviet troops in the encirclement have a chance to escape!

In Tukhachevsky's style, as long as he finds the right opportunity, he will destroy the enemy with the power of thunder and solve the battle in the shortest possible time.

However, this rainy season put Tukhachevsky's plans in vain!

Even with the fastest cavalry units, the Soviets could only struggle in the mud!

They can only advance 50 kilometers a day at most, the infantry advance is even slower, not even 20 kilometers, as for the logistics baggage troops, because of the lack of cars, the transport troops of the woolly bear are almost all wheelbarrows, stuck in the mud and can hardly get out, they can advance 10 kilometers a day, thank God!

This speed was far from the speed of thunder he had imagined!

Seeing this desperate scene, Tukhachevsky almost looked up to the sky and shouted: Is the sky going to kill my hairy bear?_

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