Chapter 897: Hitler Cannot Live without the Soviet Union

The sound of leather boots hitting the granite floor interrupted Hitler's thoughts, and then he saw the door to the office being pushed open. Hersmann, wearing the uniform of the Imperial Marshal, strode in and saluted Hitler. Ceremony - Although the authority of the German Chief of Staff was not under the Chancellor, Hersmann was still nominally a subordinate of Hitler.

"Ludwig, come here quickly." Hitler waved politely to Hersmann and called the latter to the battlefield situation map hanging on one wall.

"Look at this, is it correct?" Hitler asked Herschmann, pointing to the map.

This map was made by Hitler's military adjutant general, Lieutenant General Keitel, and several other adjutants based on reports from the General Staff, and also marked with dotted lines their predicted battlefield development trends.

Their predictions were very optimistic, and the two big arrows composed of dotted lines had already met east of Moscow.

"It's not that optimistic. How is this possible?" Hessman looked at the map drawn by Keitel and shook his head. "How is it possible to go north from Kharkov to Moscow? It's more than 600 kilometers in a straight line, and there are more than 400 kilometers behind it. How can there be so much gasoline in the road transportation line? "This is impossible."

Fortunately... Hitler breathed a sigh of relief and was pleased that the Soviet Union had temporarily escaped disaster. But Hersman's next words made his heart rise to his throat.

"So the General Staff plans to launch a single-line assault, starting from Lyuban, southeast of Petrograd. There is a railway line there that leads directly to the Baltic states and is still running, so supplies and troops can be hoarded quickly. We plan to concentrate on 10 Armored divisions, 10 Panzergrenadier divisions, 20 motorized infantry divisions, and 20 ordinary infantry or cavalry divisions launched an offensive in August this year."

The expression on Hitler's face immediately became very anxious, "10 armored divisions plus 10 panzergrenadier divisions? How many tanks do you need?"

Hessmann slapped him in the face: "About 5,000 cars!"

"5,000?" Hitler gasped, "By the way, do we have those 10 armored divisions near Petrograd?"

"No." Hessmann replied, "Currently there are 2 German armored divisions, 3 French armored divisions, and 1 Hungarian armored division near Petrograd. In addition, 4 armored divisions are being transferred from the battlefields of Belarus and Little Russia. personnel.”

"Four armored division personnel?"

"Only the personnel, tanks and all the equipment are called from the inventory," Hersman explained. "In fact, it is equivalent to the creation of four new armored divisions."

Today's Germany is really rich compared to history. The No. 4 tanks, Tiger tanks and Rhino anti-tank destroyers stored in the warehouse alone are enough to equip 5 armored divisions.

"Is there enough gasoline?" Hitler asked quickly, "Do we have that much gasoline?"

Hessman shook his head and said: "It's not enough, but the quota can be deducted from other places... With 500,000 tons of extra gasoline, we can launch an assault on Moscow."

The plan to attack Moscow - the plan for an attack in the direction of Stalingrad stipulated by Hersman in the "Purple Plan" - is still in the preparation stage, because of the accident in Leningrad and the fuel consumption of the front line troops (the Battle of Junction and after The maneuvered outflank burned too much gasoline) and was too large and had to be cancelled.

However, Guderian and the people in the Operations Bureau of the General Staff Headquarters are now very excited and want to end the Soviet Union in 1943. So after there was not enough fuel to fight Stalingrad, a more fuel-efficient offensive route was adopted. Assault on Moscow from near Petrograd, because the railway lines there were repaired after the siege of Leningrad, so there was a railway available from the Baltic States to Lyuban. What really needs to burn gasoline is the more than 500 kilometers from Lyuban to Moscow. The Tiger G tank can cover the distance with two fills of oil.

Even people who know nothing about military politics know the strategic significance of capturing Moscow.

Now it is no longer a war between the Soviet Union and Germany, but a war between White Russia and Red Russia! To the majority of Russians, this was a civil war in which the White Russian Empress borrowed soldiers from reactionaries from various European countries.

The political economy of the Soviet Union or Russia has always revolved around the "two capitals". If Leningrad and Moscow were lost, the general trend of Red Russia would be lost.

In this way, the more than one million Red Army troops currently surrounded will definitely defect, and with these more than one million troops, the Soviet-Russian Civil War will most likely become a real civil war - the White Russian government will not need too many German troops and The French army came to the aid.

"No, this won't work!" Hitler shook his head like a rattle, "This is a completely ignorant plan! Now is not the time to eliminate the Soviet Union! We need the Soviet Union now!"

Hessmann laughed when he heard this. He actually understood some of Hitler's thoughts. Hitler only wanted the land of the Soviet Union and not the people of the Soviet Union. Now, although Olga has trapped her and she has to bite the bullet and fuse with Russia, it would be good to have one less Russian to fuse with her.

As Olga said in "******", population is power! If the Soviet Union disappears in a few months, and the 100 million Soviet people have become European people, what will the Germans do? The Germans are now said to have 100 million people. In fact, the authentic number is more than 90 million, which is almost half of the Russians!

If all these are integrated, the Germans will not be able to keep up with the number of Russians even if they stop fighting and go home to have children.

Thinking of the population, Hitler looked at Herssmann with admiration - Herssmann was the "glorious father" and had seven children with Chloe, all of whom were blond and blue-eyed supermen! But Hitler himself was ashamed of the German nation. He didn't even have a child for a long time.

Fortunately, Eva was still young. Hitler thought that when the world war was won, he and Eva would give birth to more little Hitlers for the German nation...

Seeing that Hitler's expression was a little strange, Hersman thought he was worrying about how to help 100 million Russians to get rich together, so he smiled and comforted Hitler and said: "Mr. Prime Minister, the Soviet Union is not that fragile, and Moscow is not that fragile." Not that easy to fight.

According to our investigation, Moscow has been fully prepared for war since mid-June. Millions of people are busy building fortifications every day. It is estimated that a lot of supplies will be stored. Therefore, it is impossible for us to capture Moscow before the autumn mud season.

Therefore, in the finalized plan, the attack on Moscow was merely an intimidation operation aimed at shaking the morale of the Soviet Red Army who were still fighting in Warsaw, Minsk, Kharkov, Crimea and Petrograd. . "

The urban area of ​​Moscow is larger than Petrograd, and as the first capital of the Soviet Union, it is not a border city. It is a key city for construction in the three five-year plans of the Soviet Union. So there are more solid buildings to fall back on than in Petrograd!

In addition, based on the lessons learned from starvation in Leningrad, Moscow's material reserves will be very sufficient to cope with a long-term siege.

Therefore, it is very difficult to capture Moscow through raids and sieges. The attack being planned by the Wehrmacht is just to create the illusion that Moscow is about to fall, prompting Petrograd, Minsk, and Kharkov (this city also has no Completely occupied), Crimea and Warsaw surrendered.

Hitler understood the idea of ​​the Wehrmacht General Staff, but he still said to Hersmann in a very serious tone: "Reichsmarschall, we didn't even think about capturing Leningrad when we besieged it, did we?"

Hersman nodded. He didn't know whether Guderian and Kuechler ever thought about taking Petrograd, but he certainly didn't think about it himself.

"But Leningrad still became Petrograd!" Hitler suddenly shouted loudly, "So I don't want to see Moscow become the second Petrograd! We must give Stalin enough time to transfer the population... …Central Asia, Siberia and the Far East are very empty places and are good places to build a communist paradise, do you understand?”

Hitler wanted to drive the Russians as far as possible to Siberia, Central Asia and the Far East.

In the original history, when the Soviet Union collapsed, the five Central Asian countries had a population of more than 50 million, Siberia had a population of more than 40 million, and the Far East had a population of several million. There are about 100 million people in the three places combined.

In other words, there is still great potential to be tapped in Central Asia, Siberia and the Far East when it comes to hosting the Russian population.

"I understand!" Hersman also put away his smile and replied seriously, "There will be tens of millions of Russians going to Central Asia, Siberia and the Far East to build socialism, I guarantee it."

"In 1943, our troops cannot get too close to Moscow!" Hitler made another request. "They should stay 50 kilometers away from the Kremlin."

"Okay." Hersmann agreed to Hitler's request. Because he was afraid of Stalin's escape, he actually did not dare to let his troops get too close to Moscow.

"Replace Küchler!" Hitler continued, "and replace him with someone who will listen to you."

Hessmann had already had this plan. He said: "I will let General Paulus command the attack on Moscow. He is a very reliable general."

In order to ensure that the Battle of Moscow was foolproof, Hessmann decided to use the unlucky Paulus. Paulus was promoted to general of infantry after the surrender of the British mainland in early 1943. He is now the director of the Army Armament Bureau of the Wehrmacht. He has been busy finalizing the E-50 tank in the past few months.

"Very good, Paulus should be a suitable candidate." Hitler knew that Paulus had always been Hessmann's confidant, and he was not a general who was good at fighting, which was more reassuring - if it were Mansch Strong men like Stein and Model, Hitler and Hessmann would probably not be able to sleep.