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Chapter 294
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“All of Europe?”
“This is not true, is it?”
“Yes, there are so many countries in Europe, how can we defeat them all with just one country?”
“That’s right, the British Empire, the Russian Bear and the three countries in Northern Europe are all European countries, and even the native chickens in the east are also European countries. To occupy so many countries, at least tens of millions of troops are needed, and we don’t have so many troops!”
Mainz’s words caused a sensation among the crowd.
Everyone was shocked by Mainz’s grand goal!
Conquering the whole of Europe, this kind of thing has been tried before, but all failed!
The ones who came closest to achieving this goal were Caesar and Napoleon. The former was blocked by the Germans when he advanced to Hans’s territory, and the latter, although he fought to the city of Moscow, suffered a defeat in Moscow and lost 500,000 elite troops, and never recovered from it!
With these two failed examples, everyone became conservative about conquering the whole of Europe.
“Do you really think this is impossible?”
Mainz asked them with a smile on his face, looking at the shocked people.
Among the senior cadres of the Forward Party below, some nodded, some shook their heads, and some remained silent.
If we look at the past history and the current conditions, then Mainz’s idea is really wishful thinking. It is impossible to conquer the whole of Europe and tens of millions of lands with just the infantry and cavalry army!
Europe is too big, the population is too large, and the terrain is too complicated!
There are large tracts of desert in the south, and the three Nordic countries in the north have snow that never melts all year round. The dense forests and swamps of the Balkan Peninsula are daunting, the plains of Eastern Europe are the nightmare of the infantry, and the cold waters of the North Atlantic are also the shackles of the continental countries.
These are all extremely unfavorable conditions for Hans!
Moreover, Europe is also connected with Africa and Bordering on Asia, the enemy can easily launch attacks on Europe from these two places. Conquering the whole of Europe does not mean the end of the war, on the contrary, it may just be the starting point of the war!
In the First World War, various countries mobilized tens of millions of troops, but in the end they only fought on some local battlefields in Europe. For several years, the battle lines of both sides have hardly changed!
If the next war is the same as the First World War, then the German advance will be easily blocked. Even if they pay the price of tens of millions of casualties, they may not be able to achieve Mainz’s goal!
For this point of view, Mainz can only say that their vision is still stuck in the past and is not adapted to this era!
Fortunately, the generals brought up by him do not have such problems
“Guderian, tell me, is it possible for us to conquer the whole of Europe?”
Guderian stood up and said loudly and confidently:”Yes, of course, and it will be very easy!”
Wow!
Guderian’s”big talk” immediately attracted the attention of the crowd. After he finished speaking, a chaotic discussion broke out below. From the chaotic noise, it can be seen that his opinions are not unified.
Mainz glanced at the people below, and Guderian gave him an encouraging look, indicating that he should boldly speak out his true thoughts.
“Tell me, what is your basis?”
Guderian was a carefree person. Even if Mainz did not encourage him, he would speak out his inner thoughts without reservation.
“My basis is our previous performance in the German-Polish War. Our greatest achievement in this war is not that we annihilated 1 million Polish troops, but that we defeated the enemy in an unprecedented way. This is something to be proud of!”
Guderian shined in the German-Polish War because of the blitzkrieg proposed by General Mainz. His First Army performed very well in the war and achieved brilliant results. After the war, Guderian was promoted to major general because of his military exploits and officially became a general.
This greatly encouraged him. After the war, he has been studying the tactic of blitzkrieg, wanting to improve and tap the potential of this tactic to the maximum extent, so that the German army can use this tactic to the extreme in the next war!
The German-Polish War was the largest war fought by Hans after the end of World War I. This war has greatly improved Hans’ national self-confidence and international status. When mentioning this war, Hans people will feel very proud. They mobilized quickly with inferior forces when they were attacked, and then annihilated all the invading enemies. It took only one and a half months to end the war!
This can be called the highlight moment of Hans after the war, so when people heard Guderian mention this war, they couldn’t help but be shocked, and their mood became curious. They all wanted to know what Guderian’s next step was.
“During the German-Polish War, our army deployed armored units for the first time, and combined tanks, armored vehicles, trucks and motorcycles to form a number of extremely fast armored divisions. These units could quickly tear through the enemy’s defenses, penetrate the enemy’s rear, completely disrupt the enemy’s defenses and assist the front-line troops to wipe out the enemy in one fell swoop!”
“This tactic is called blitzkrieg!”
It was the first time that the word blitzkrieg appeared in their minds. Although these three words were already well known within the German army, Mainz had mentioned the concept of blitzkrieg a long time ago.
“You have all seen the power of blitzkrieg. When we are at a disadvantage in terms of troop strength, we can rely on this tactic to quickly reverse the situation. And when we are at an advantage in terms of troop strength, we can easily surround and annihilate the enemy’s heavy troops deployed on the front battlefield. Therefore, traditional trench warfare has no effect on blitzkrieg. Instead, it will become an excellent opportunity for us to achieve major results!”
“On the Polish front, we advanced 350 kilometers in two days, successfully cut off the enemy’s retreat, and completed the encirclement of the enemy. Moreover, when facing the enemy who was stubbornly resisting in the encirclement, we were able to annihilate millions of enemy troops within five days. I think this should prove the power of the blitzkrieg tactics!”
Everyone nodded when they heard Guderian’s words.
Advancing 350 kilometers in two days and annihilating one million enemy main forces within five days, if this kind of thing had not really happened in the German-Polish War, I’m afraid no one would believe it!
“So, my point is that as long as we have enough and strong enough armored forces, our troops will get rid of the shackles of the old tactics in the past.
We don’t have to attack the enemy’s solid defense line little by little like before.
We can use armored forces to concentrate superior forces to attack a node of the enemy’s defense line, and then quickly launch an assault from here, send a large number of armored forces, and completely tear up the enemy’s defense line and completely disrupt the enemy’s defense!
Please see, this is the terrain of Borland, this is the terrain of Eastern Europe, and this is the terrain of Western Europe!
These places are very suitable for the assault of our armored group.
As long as we can tear a hole in the enemy’s defense line, the enemy’s defense line will collapse.
Our armored forces will quickly tear a hole at a speed far exceeding the enemy, so that more friendly forces behind can catch up with us.
After the friendly forces behind catch up, our armored forces can immediately cut off the enemy’s retreat, surround the enemy on the front line in an extremely narrow area, and then let the main force of our army behind annihilate it!
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Guderian described it while drawing several diagrams on the map. On the map in his hand, Poland, the imaginary enemy, had been completely cut off by three German armies from south to north, divided and surrounded in four places. There was at least one Polish army in each place, and the German army surrounding them had more than twice their number!
Even without seeing the outcome of these surrounded troops, everyone present could imagine how their entire army would be annihilated!
“You guys may not believe it, but according to my calculations, it will only take 15 days at most for our army to wipe out Bolivia!”
“What about Gaul?”
The mustache man was not interested in spinach. He was more concerned about his old enemy Gaul in the west.
“It only takes one month to defeat Gaul!”_To read the ununderlined version of the novel, please download