The Third Reich in Desperation

Third Reich Episode 224

The armored forces in the rear have already turned on their horsepower again, and began to send an armored army chaser to Dunkirk.

Cyric understood that all it needed was for the 13th Motorized Infantry Division to break through this blocking line, and their mission would be complete.As for the task of continuing to advance rapidly, it will be handed over to the 19th Armored Corps, which came immediately after.

In other words, the task of the 13th Motorized Infantry Division is to clear the British blocking force in front of the 19th Armored Army that is about to arrive, to bear the loss of the 19th Armored Army's capture of blocking points, and to make room for the 19th Armored Army. The time spent attacking the choke point.

Cyric waved his hand, and instructed from the combat staff officer with the rank of major in front of him: "Pass my order, let the troops at the front not care too much about losses, go ahead and attack boldly. Before the arrival of the armored troops, let the group in front of you Clean up the enemies blocking the way. After the battle in front of me is over, I will give them time to rest!"

"Yes! As ordered!" The major quickly stood at attention and saluted, then turned and left.

Watching the staff officer walk out of the command post and run to convey his order, Cyric took a deep breath, walked back to the topographic map spread out on the table, and continued to study the terrain of this low hill .

Judging from the geographical distribution of this generation, there are not many areas left for the British to fight blocking battles, and there will be no more than 10 blocking points.And among them, there are only 7 effective blocking points!

Judging from the several sniper points conquered before, Cyric admitted that the British generals who arranged the defense were indeed somewhat level.He did not disperse his insufficient troops into a straight line and use continuous line positions to resist the German army. Instead, he chose a hill as the center and expanded outwards to deploy point positions one after another.

If the British general chooses the former, that is, adopts a line position, Cyric is confident that he can make a breakthrough at any point, and then completely defeat this group of British remnants who are weak in fighting will.

However, the current situation is that the British soldiers were scattered and scattered in many villages and among the woods.Although Cyric can lay down any of these positions, he has to spend a lot of time for each position.

The British army on this position was beaten and surrendered, and the British army on the next position had to be cleaned up before surrendering.When the British troops on the next position were cleared up, the next position had to be sent to fight again.

Fortunately, these British people had been scared in the previous battles, and no one could hold their positions with courage. As a result, the German sniper points were relatively easy to fight, almost winning with one blow.

Moreover, these annoying sniper spots will soon be stripped away.According to the information received by Cyric, the vanguard of the 19th Panzer Corps should arrive in this area tonight.At that time, it happened that the 13th Motorized Infantry Division should also end all breakthrough warfare and hand over a cleared forward path to the armored forces.

"Schiller, how many reserves are left in the division that can be dispatched?" Cyric suddenly thought of something, and asked his adjutant, Major General Schiller.

Hearing Cyric's question, Schiller immediately stepped up and replied: "Among the remaining combat troops of the division headquarters, apart from the guard company, there is only one new barracks in the division's supply department. As for the motorized military police company, the motorized military supply company , as well as non-combat units such as motorized maintenance companies, are still intact."

After listening to the adjutant's words, Cyric nodded thoughtfully, then stretched out two fingers with his right hand and said: "In this case, I have two ideas, you can help me see if it is suitable."

Cyric first pulled back a finger with his left hand, and at the same time said to the adjutant: "First, send the guard company to the front to fight. After all, the guard company has not been engaged in combat yet, and it is full of energy. It is just right to use it for combat at this time."

Major General Schiller looked at Cyric in surprise: "Master, what should we do with the security work of the division headquarters when the guard company is transferred to fight?"

"The division doesn't need a guard force at all." Cyric waved his hand firmly, and said confidently: "Now we are attacking the British defense line, and they are exhausted to maintain the defense, let alone find our division and initiate Fight back."

"Besides," Cyric said, pulling back his second finger: "Don't we still have the various logistics units of the division's supply department and the division's supply department? My second plan is to let the military police company take the lead and put the The security work is handed over to the logistics unit to take over. In this way, even if the security company is transferred, the division headquarters does not have to worry about security matters.”

Text 3 Take it together with the sixty chapters

"What?! You want us to launch an attack on the grove in front immediately!" Cyric said helplessly, the commander of the 13nd Regiment of the 222th Motorized Infantry Division of the German Army.

His troops had just captured a small village and captured more than 400 British soldiers there.And just when the head of the regiment was about to let the troops recuperate on the spot and have a delicious lunch, a strict order from the division headquarters came.

"Sir, the troops below are already overwhelmed. I don't know about other battalions, but our battalion has been involved in three village battles today. It is already exhausted and needs to be repaired." The speaker was the battalion of the main battalion under the 3 regiment. Long, Captain Kuhn.

Kuhn's battalion is the battalion with the highest combat effectiveness of the 222 regiment, and it is also the main battalion of the regiment.On weekdays, their training is the hardest in the whole group, and their physical performance is also the highest in the group.Ordinarily, in high-intensity combat, their performance is the best in the whole regiment.

Now, even the battalion commanded by Kuhn is starting to complain, which means that the lower-level troops are indeed exhausted to the extreme, and the remaining physical strength of the soldiers has reached zero.

"Let the troops cope with the compressed convenience food now," the head of the regiment waved his hand involuntarily: "The order of the division is that we send troops to the target forest as soon as possible and occupy it. And the division gave this' As soon as possible, the deadline set is to leave in an hour."

Leaving in an hour? !

The troops had just finished a high-intensity battle, and one hour was not enough for the soldiers to rest.Kuhn couldn't understand why the division headquarters interfered with the specific command of the forward troops, and to such an extent.

You must know that the first essentials that every commander in Germany learned in the military academy is that commanders at all levels should issue as few specific and binding orders as possible, and issue more clear-cut and concise instructions. As for how to achieve The goals and specific implementation procedures can be handled flexibly by the subordinates according to the specific situation, so as to give the subordinates greater freedom.

This is a unique tradition that the German army has always had, and was first constructed by famous German historical generals such as Scharnhorst and Clausewitz.Every officer in the German army believes that this method of command can give subordinates full freedom, mobilize their subjective initiative and creativity, and better achieve campaign goals.

In later generations, this command method has a nice name called "mission command method".As the name suggests, it is to only issue tasks and let the lower-level troops handle tasks flexibly according to the actual situation.

There is a saying that one of the reasons for the failure of the famous Battle of Kursk in World War II was directly related to Hitler's inappropriate excessive intervention on the frontline commanders.

When that battle reached a critical stage, the German front-line commander Manstein had a powerful strategic reserve force with the 17th Panzer Division and the Norman SS Division as the main force, which had not yet been used, while the southern Soviet defense line was already in use. Start to shake.At the same time, although the front-line German army has experienced fierce fighting, it still has strong combat strength. In the next few days of fighting, it has made considerable progress, surrounded several infantry positions of the Soviet army, and occupied some high grounds of great strategic value. .

But just when Manstein thought the German army was on the brink of victory, Hitler intervened inappropriately in his command.Due to a wrong judgment on the battle situation, Hitler decided to abandon Kursk, and transferred the reserve team that could have determined the outcome of the battle to the Western Front in advance. The results of the tactical battle are completely discarded.

In addition to often making wrong interventions in strategic and operational command, Hitler in history even frequently leapfrogged to command tactical-level combat operations.According to Manstein's "The Art of Throwing the Blame" .... No, according to "The Lost Victory", Hitler even directly intervened in the transfer of the army's battalion-level combat units, making The talents of many German commanders could not be displayed due to Hitler's intervention, which eventually made the German army unable to win.

Of course, whether it was Manstein’s accusation in the Battle of Kursk that Hitler cheated him and intervened in the deployment of troops, or accusing Hitler of interfering in the command of grassroots troops at other times, which made him unable to win every battle, all these statements were given to Hitler. suspected.However, it is undeniable that this kind of specific intervention from top to bottom is indeed not very popular among German military officers.

But now, what Cyric issued to the 222 regiment was exactly this annoying and rigid requirement, and even the time for the troops to attack was given!

Not only the head of the 222 regiment, but other officers including Captain Kuhn also held an unreasonable attitude.

What is the reason for the division headquarters of the 13th Motorized Infantry Division to abandon the fine traditions of the German army and force the lower-level troops to fight regardless of their fatigue? !

The doubts of Kuhn and others were quickly answered.In his own name, Mr. Cyric personally sent a supplementary telegram explaining the situation.

In this telegram, Kuhn and others learned that the vanguard of the 19th Armored Army under the command of General Guderian will definitely arrive here tonight.If the 13th Motorized Infantry Division cannot take down all the enemy blocking troops in front of them before the armored troops arrive, the armored troops that should have rushed to Dunkirk as soon as possible will have to stop and fight against the enemy. During the sniping, bear the losses before the war.

This is detrimental to the next operations of the 19th Armored Army, and may even affect the overall situation!

"General Cyric of the Division Headquarters has sent a telegram," Kuhn's commander handed the telegram in front of him and said, "Let's see, the division commander is also under a lot of pressure. And after today's battle, General Cyric promised to It’s a whole day’s rest for the whole teacher.”

"Let's not talk about tomorrow's rest time. What I value more is a new guard company promised by the division commander." Kuhn squeezed out a smile: "If there is an energetic company as a striker, our people can still Follow this company and continue fighting."

"What I'm waiting for is your words!" The regiment leader patted Kuhn on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Your battalion is the best for the entire regiment. I can only shoot you for this attack."

This is also the reason why Kuhn was called here by the team leader, because the leader wanted him to do something.

"Don't be so sad," the team leader comforted Kuhn, "Those who can do more work, this is the honor of your main camp."

Glancing at the unmoved Kuhn, the head of the regiment made another substantive promise: "Well, although the guard company of the regiment headquarters is also very tired, they have participated in relatively few combat missions before, so you will join us." Take it."

One battalion and two guard companies, this is all the troops that Kuhn will use for his next mission.

Text Chapter 361 Surprised or not?

The situation on the front lines of the German army was excellent, which also allowed the transfer of power in the rear to proceed smoothly.

After all, the more successful the fight ahead, the wiser the head of state who revised the "Yellow Plan" is, which means that the prestige of the head of state will become higher and higher.

Under such circumstances, Borahiche, who has been downgraded from the commander-in-chief of the army to the chief of the army's general staff, is quite sensible now. After a day of silence, he went to the residence of the head of state to report on his duties in person.It is said that it is a debriefing, but it is actually a disguised expression of attitude, obeying the head of state's practice of downgrading him to the chief of the general staff.

Reinhard looked radiant when he saw Burrahitch.Although staying up late for a long time recently made Reinhard always sleepy during the day.But now, on this fine sunny day, it was his time to groan.

Looking at Bolohich, who was demoted by himself and came to report on his work, Reinhard really wanted to step forward and pat him on the shoulder and said, "Surprised or unexpected, you had a short-circuited head and violated the law." When I ordered, I must have never thought of today, right?"

Not enough, once such words are uttered, it will be cool, but people will also be offended, and it will be difficult to get along with each other in the future...

Therefore, Reinhard actually looked like he was beating his chest in front of Borasich: "Borasich, my general... you say, this SS Division 0 and the Berlin Garrison Why are people so reckless, they just led troops and surrounded the Army General Headquarters."

I saw Reinhardt said in a melodious manner, "Let's encircle it, let's encircle it. Lieutenant General Jack actually killed those disobedient Junker officers. The 23 people are all from some wealthy families. He is too Don't talk about etiquette anymore. When I have time later, I will definitely scold him!"

Seeing Reinhardt who kept talking to himself, Bolohich's face kept twitching.Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the SS and the Berlin Garrison were sent by you. Is it really okay for you to be talking nonsense now? !